Writing Young Adult Fantasy: The Challenge of Darkness
How dark is too dark for young adult readers? How dark is too dark for a young adult character? Not long ago, I responded to a Wall Street Journal post by Meghan Cox Gurdon which argued that YA fiction has become exceedingly dark. I didn’t agree with the author’s assessment, largely because it was a “conservative” […]
The Haul of Books 2.0: Books Received Vol. 1 (Special Reboot Edition)
I haven’t done a Haul of Books thing in a long time. The result? A pile of books I’ve received for review which I haven’t told you all about, with a smaller pile of things I’ve purchased for myself that I also haven’t told you about. Well, I can’t let them sit there without at […]