to crafting novels with her own characters, Rose has always been drawn to broody protectors and plucky, no-nonsense women ready to fight for what they believe in.
First: we have to address the fact that the similarities to the Harry Potter franchise are too strong to ignore. Since HP took the world by storm some 20 years ago we’ve certainly had a lot of YA fantasy trying to capitalize on readers’ interest, but this feels so much as if author...
More excellent world-building, strong characters to root for, and a lot of action (and violence – like,Hunger Gameslevels of violence). I could have sworn I took notes on this event – I take notes oneverything– but I can’t find them anywhere. However, I can recommend these books,...
You’ll fall in love with the characters of each new book and root passionately for their victories, just as you would for any intricate medieval fantasy. And no matter how old you are, you’ll feel like a child again as you ride the highs and lows of this heartfelt series, which ...
Then it was an overwhelm- ing phenomenon, bringing young people to the joy of reading as Harry Potter would 30 years later. Another seminal work that began publication in 1968 was Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea trilogy. In the next decade, a few writers like H. M. Hoover wrote science ...
Posted infamily issuesfemale charactershorrormystery Authors We Love: Patrick Ness Patrick Ness at arrivals for A MONSTER CALLS Premiere at Toronto International Film Festival 2016, Roy Thomson Hall, Toronto, ON September 10, 2016. Photo By: James Atoa ...
which really is a strange world all its own. A programmer by day, Ms. Davis lives in Dallas, Texas, with her husband, two kids and a pair of hedgehogs with nerdy names. Ms. Davis is an amateur photographer, runs the 3rd largest Harry Potter meet-up group in the U.S. and is an...
RW: So let’s start this off from the beginning,I read that your husband gave you this idea for a female wizard spying for the Allies in WWII against the Nazis and basically said, see what you can do with it and you did. And you did it quite well if I may say so. Now where ...
Before Harry Potter the big market for YA books was schools and public libraries. The trade market (bookstores) was relatively small. That meant that for a YA book to do well it had to sell to adult gatekeepers. Which mostly meant YA couldn’t have sex or too much swearing or be too...
1. Young adult dystopias Created by the 14-year-old blogger at Feed Me Books Now, this chart analyzes most popular dystopias. The protagonist is a female, dystopian societies are split into smaller communities (“district”, “faction”), most YA dystopias are trilogies. Is this a rule or ...