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HELLO! Since I am currently away for the week in California (WOOP!) I have decided to use this week to feature some smaller authors and bloggers. Today’s spotlight is featuring an author by the name of Misa Sugiura! Her book It’s Not Like It’s A Secret recently came out, you can learn more about her and her novel HERE ! For those of us who have not read It’s Not Like It’s A Secret , introduce it to us in one sentence? When a Japanese American girl (Sana) discovers her father’s affair and falls for a Mexican American girl (Jamie), she has to choose between silently enduring difficult situations, and making herself vulnerable by speaking up. I have to ask the most cliché question of them all, but how did you come up with the idea for It’s Not Like It’s A Secret ? I used to teach high school, and I didn’t see my students or their communities represented in young adult literature. I decided that I wanted to write a story where an LGBTQ couple’s queerness wasn’t the defining c...

HELLO! Since I am currently away for the week in California (WOOP!) I have decided to use this week to feature some smaller authors and bloggers. Today’s spotlight is featuring an author by the name of Katie Nelson! Her book   The Duke of Bannerman Prep   recently came out, you can learn more about her and her novel   HERE ! For those of us who have not read The Duke of Bannerman Prep , introduce it to us in one sentence? The Duke of Bannerman Prep is The Great Gatsby meets a prep school debate team. What was your favorite part of writing The Duke of Bannerman Prep ? I loved being back in the world of high school debate. I competed when I was in high school and coached when I was teaching. It was fun to live through a season with these characters! Is the finished version of The Duke of Bannerman Prep how you always imagined the book? Or did the plot and characters change a lot over the course of the writing process? The plot changed A LOT. At first ...

HELLO! Since I am currently away for the week in California (WOOP!) I have decided to use this week to feature some smaller authors and bloggers. Today’s spotlight is featuring an author by the name of Christina June! Her book It Started with Goodbye recently came out, you can learn more about her and her novel   HERE ! For those of us who have not read It Started with Goodbye , introduce it to us in one sentence? My elevator pitch is “modern Cinderella with no magic.”  Basically, it’s about a girl on house arrest who does her best to make lemons into lemonade.  Plus, secrets and flirting.  And, the Golden Girls.  Sorry, that was more than one sentence. I have to ask the most cliché question of them all, but how did you come up with the idea for It Started with Goodbye ? I saw an abandoned shoe on the side of the road after the Homecoming dance at the school where I day job and knew I needed to write a Cinderella-inspired story. What was your fa...

Hello! Many of you may know that I recently read and loved If You’re Gone by Brittany Goodwin (if you haven’t seen the review you can see it HERE ). But now I am here with an amazing interview with the author of If You’re Gone , Brittany Goodwin! For anyone who has not read If You’re Gone , can you describe it in one sentence? “If You’re Gone is a realistic mystery about love and loss that will keep you thinking long after you close the book.” I have to ask the most cliché question of them all, but how did you come up with the idea for If You’re Gone ? That’s not a cliché question at all! In fact, I have to figure out exactly how to answer it! I created the characters of Lillian and Brad when I was not even in high school. Brad was that heartthrob guy that I was dreaming about and Lillian was a fictionalized version of myself. (Very original, huh?!) I began by writing a story about their relationship, but as I got older and began following missing persons c...

I’m still alive, I promise… There is no chosen one in this story. She was just in the wrong place at the wrong time and happened to make a decision that altered her future forever. It happens to all of us every day. Avery Gray is a size twelve university student with a penchant for dry humour, and she’s as normal as they come. Up until now, the biggest choice she’s had to make was glasses or contacts? At the moment, it’s stay and save, or leave and be saved. Allow me to explain. One rainy afternoon, Avery had to make a choice: go through the alleyway or around it. Two possible options. One would have had her future continue on as planned, the other would ensure that her future never remained the same again. She unknowingly went with the latter. But change is not always bad. Avery meets Theodore-James Connors, an enigmatic young man who takes her to Hayven, a city separated from the rest of the world, where only gifters – ordinary people with extra-ordinary gifts ...

Hey guys it’s Meagan and today I’m here to review Minutes Before Sunset by Shannon A. Thompson, a book about the light, the dark, and great characters! She was undoubtedly a shade, but I didn’t know her. Eric Welborn isn’t completely human, but he isn’t the only shade in the small Midwest town of Hayworth. With one year left before his eighteenth birthday, Eric is destined to win a long-raging war for his kind. But then she happens. In the middle of the night, Eric meets a nameless shade, and she’s powerful—too powerful—and his beliefs are altered. The Dark has lied to him, and he’s determined to figure out exactly what lies were told, even if the secrets protect his survival. … He had gotten so close to me—and I couldn’t move—I couldn’t get away. Jessica Taylor moves to Hayworth, and her only goal is to find more information on her deceased biological family. Her adoptive parents agree to help on one condition: perfect grades. And Jessica is distraught when she’s assig...