Jody is the bestselling author of over 30 historical novels for both adults and teens and is the winner of numerous awards, including the Christy, Carol, and Christian Book Awards. She shares about her new time travel novel Come Back to Me, her love of cats, and the fun of writing. Le...
She dropped that ball on him and then, like adults, they figure it out. Their relationship isn’t perfect. It’s messy and rough around the edges but I adored it. It reminded me how much I love parents in YA literature and how I think there needs to be more of it in YA ...
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It was set around the time of Rodney and Cassandra’s wedding, with Del meeting Raquel and telling her a lot of tall stories to try to impress her, and also borrowing money from the Driscoll brothers to give to Rodney for a deposit on a flat. And it also worked in Del falling through...
Having written several celebrated YA novels, The Mercies was her first novel for adults, and it made waves upon its publication. Inspired by true events, The Mercies is set in 1617 Norway — specifically the island of Vardo. The book begins with a freak winter storm taking the lives of ...
Isaac announces to the reader that he is a ghost, and he foresees the tragedy to come. Yet, Tingle uses humor in surprising and effective ways. I highly recommend reading it aloud or alongside with your child, as adults will enjoy it, and kids will surely have many insightful questions. ...
It sounds a bit arrogant to be thinking about how to write your break-out novel when you’re still on your first, but this book is actually surprisingly good for the beginner. Maas uses his experience as a literary agent to analyse what ‘break-out’ books – where an established writer...
respectable adults who nonetheless find themselves caught up in a whirlwind of shenanigans. Sir Gareth Ludlow, at age 35, is fashionable, well-off, and after losing his fiancée in a tragic accident many years earlier, still single. It’s time for him to take a wife and start producing hei...
The student riots of May ’68 had an impact on the nation and caused both fear and admiration in these adults trying to figure out how to parent their daughters, growing up surrounded by influences they could not control. As the lives of the daughters changes, so too does the outside wor...
I’ll upload them at the top of this very page for general consumption so bookmark this page. After that, I hope to get them published as physical copies and to try to get them into places like school libraries so children and young adults may learn about these lesser-known historical fi...