Review: Hearts at Stake, by Alyxandra Harvey (2010)
~ By Elle Filz By most accounts, Solange Drake is a normal fifteen year old girl. She’s got loving parents, seven older brothers, and a best friend who accepts her for who she is. A vampire. Well, she will be once she hits sixteen. And since Solange is the first vampire daughter to have actually […]
Top Five Reasons to Read or Write YA
~ By Charity Tahmaseb Dear Readers, Today, RWA Chick Lit Chapter member Charity Tahmaseb is giving us her top five reasons to love YA. Read on! 1. The best kept secret of writing YA: It’s fun. Writing YA can be a blast. Take, for instance, virtual dress shopping. I’m not much of a girly-girl […]
YA Saves: Another Response
~ By M-E Girard This might almost be old news by now, seeing as it’s been all over Twitter, the blogosphere—the Wall Street Journal—for over a week now. If you don’t know what I’m referring to, then allow me to explain… On June 4th, the Wall Street Journal posted an article to explore the “dark” […]
Wanted: More Queer Characters in YA Fiction
~ By M-E Girard When I was in high school, reading could be awesome—as long as there were “awesome” books for me to read out there. Back then, it was horror tales by R.L. Stine and Christopher Pike that kept me flipping pages. There was something so riveting about reading of characters my age (or […]
