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Review: Eleanor and Grey by Brittainy C. Cherry

Eleanor & Grey, an all-new beautiful and emotional standalone from Brittainy C. Cherry is available now! Greyson East left his mark on me. As the young girl who first fell for him, I didn’t know much about life. I did know about his smiles, though, and his laughs, and the strange way my stomach flipped when he was near. Life was perfect…until it wasn’t, and when we were forced to go our separate ways, I held on to our memories, let go of my first crush, and wished for the day I’d find him again. When my wish came true, it was nothing like I imagined. I couldn’t have known when I took the nanny position that it would be his children I looked after, that my new boss would be that boy I used to know, that boy who was now a man—a cold, lonely, detached man. The smile and laugh I had loved so much were gone, now distant memories. Every part of him was covered in a fresh pain. When he realized who I was, he made me promise to do my job and my job only. He made me promise not to try to ge...

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Saving Hamlet by Molly Booth

Top 10 things or places that remind you of your book Shakespeare’s Globe! The recreated theatre in London. It’s magical. Pretty much any well-worn high school theatre auditorium. Trapdoors. I see any trapdoor now and automatically assume it’s a time travel portal. All black, high top sneakers! Emma’s favorite shoes. Theatre tehcies wear all black, so you can’t seeing them moving and working backstage. Skulls. Alas, poor Yorick. Cannons. The Globe playhouse caught on fire in 1613 because of a special effects cannon misfiring during a production of Henry VIII . Then it had to be rebuilt! There’s a reference to this fire in SAVING HAMLET. Pixie hair cuts. Emma’s story starts with a super short hair cut. Outer space themed cafes. There’s a special spot in the fictional town of Belleport, MA, where my main SAVING HAMLET characters go to rehearse and gossip about their play. The smell of garlic. Elizabethan England really smelled. 10. Hamlet . There are two productions of Hamlet happe...

The Gauntlet by Eoin Colfer

And now for some of Eoin Colfer's top 10 favorites: 1. Top 10 fictional characters you would have over for dinner: Mycroft Holmes. Doctor Jeckyll (not Mister Hyde.  Harley Quinn. Commissioner Gordon. Aunt May. Doctor Watson. Caesar (Planet of the Apes) Tony Stark, The Wizard of Oz, The wicked Witch of the West. 2. Top 10 things you can’t live without: Macbook, beard trimmer, nice trainers, anti-magnetic field bracelet, electric toothbrush, water bottle, Barocca, white t-shirts, comic book, novel. 3. Top 10 things or places that remind you of your book: Dublin, Wexford, Saltee Islands, Malibu, Sam Beckett Bridge, bookstores, inside my head, my office, in the the car on the sidelines of my son’s training pitch. 4. Top 10 favorite reasons to be an author - own boss, meeting the fans, travel, meet cool writers, never growing up, book gifts, collaborations with other writers, taking over franchises, merchandise of your own characters, book people. 5. Top 10 must-haves while writing: P...

Blog Tour: Pushing Perfect

Top 10 fictional characters you would have over for dinner 1.             Turtle Wexler from The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (I know, she’s T.R. Wexler now, but she’d still be fun to talk to) 2.            Mrs. de Winter from Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (and maybe she’ll finally tell me her actual name!) 3.            Sula from Sula by Toni Morrison (she would definitely stir things up) 4.            Merricat Blackwood from We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (but I’d definitely have a food taster handy) 5.            Meg O’Keefe nee Wallace from A Wrinkle in Time, etc. by Madeleine L’Engle (I’d take her at any age, really) 6.            Will ...

Blog Tour: AS I DESCENDED by Robin Talley

I'm so excited to welcome Robin Talley, fellow YADCer and an all around phenomenal woman and author to chat about what she considered the most important LGBTQ books for teens! Top 10 LGBTQ Books Every Teen Should Read This list was incredibly difficult to put together. I recommend my personal favorite LGBTQ YA titles all the time, but to make a list of books every teen should read? That’s a lot of pressure! But, after much debate, I narrowed it down to the titles below. In addition to YA books, I’ve included two classic adult titles as well as two middle grade books, but I think all of the books listed will appeal to teen readers. Here we go, in alphabetical order: ·          5, 6, 7, Nate by Tim Federle. This middle-grade title is the sequel to Better Nate Than Ever , and really, you should read them both. But 5, 6, 7, Nate is the book that starts to explore the romantic life of 13-year-old aspiring Broadway sensation Nate, and it’s hilarious...

Blog Tour: Phantom Limbs by Paula Garner

Top 10 things or places that remind you of your book 1.        Magnolias. The magnolia tree on what used to be Meg’s property (but drops all its blossoms onto Otis’s) is a recurring motif in Phantom Limbs and a reminder of Meg and how much he loved—and still loves—her. Their first kiss happened beneath the magnolia tree, and each spring when it blooms, it leaves him with more feelings than he can comfortably manage. “On the branches above me, I could just make out the fat magnolia buds. Any day now they would explode into a fucking carnival of white and pink flowers—a spectacle that had kicked me in the nuts for the last three years. But now? Now I didn’t know how to feel about it.” 2.        Swimming pools. Swimming factors heavily into Phantom Limbs —it is just an everyday fact of life for both Otis and Dara. Dara, whose arm amputation means she can never be the Olympian she aspired to be, and Otis, whom Dara expects to carr...

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