Posted on September 16, 2009 by toniwhitmont
First it was The Hunger Games, now it is Catching Fire. I haven’t seen this month young adult enthusiasm since the early days of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight phenomenon. In fact, Ms Meyer herself is a big fun of Suzanne Collins’ nail-biters.
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Posted on August 5, 2009 by toniwhitmont
I hereby give to you today, the title of the final volume of the Chaos Walking trilogy:
Monsters of Men.
Filed under: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult | Tagged: Chaos Walking, Monsters of Men, Patrick Ness, The Ask and the Answer, The Knife of Never Letting Go | 5 Comments »
Posted on June 6, 2009 by toniwhitmont
Richard Harland took the time to talk to Booktopia’s SF & Fantasy editor, Richard Bilkey, about his new book Worldshaker and share his thoughts on steampunk in general.
Filed under: Fantasy, Fiction, Writing tips, Young Adult | Tagged: about writing, Richard Bilkey, Richard Harland, speculative fiction, steampunk, Worldshaker | Leave a Comment »
Posted on June 1, 2009 by toniwhitmont
Posted on May 12, 2009 by toniwhitmont
Categorising books can be the kiss of death especially when it comes to so called young adult fiction. So many terrific books get ignored just because people get into a mind set of only reading in a certain category. So let me get it out there.
Mal Peet’s books are generally categorised as young adult fiction.
Don’t [...]
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Posted on May 12, 2009 by toniwhitmont
You’d have to be living under a rock (in a coffin?) to have missed the tsunami that is Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight saga. Starting out a few years ago with a teenage girl cult following, this has since developed into a publishing phenomenon and it seems neither gender nor age is a barrier to its appeal. [...]
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