I write YA Supernatural Thrillers. HIGH: The Way of an Eagle (available on Amazon and first of )
Tim and I trekked down to the Young Adult section of our local Barnes and Noble–where we perused book covers to determine which one(s) we liked best. Many covers grabbed for our attention: Tim really liked Ally Condie’s series, Matched, Crossed, and Reached. I have to admit the brunette in a bubble idea is pretty … More Do you ♥ the Cover of HIGH: The Way of an Eagle?
The first title sounds like a post on the many uses of medicinal marijuana, the second like it takes place in the heavens. All to announce “The Publication Date for my first book, HIGH: THE WAY OF AN EAGLE, is September 10, 2013.” I’ve acquired Verona’s prescience with a list of PFAQs (Predicted Frequently Asked Questions): What’s … More HIGH NEWS! or NEWS ON HIGH?
ASK A Young Adult: Do you love change? You’ll probably hear something like: It depends on if it’s good or bad… If we’re honest, most of us feel this way. We set our preferences from an early age. On the + side: Exciting new job = good. New car = good. New girlfriend = good. … More YA ♥ CHANGE
The Thanksgiving turkey’s been stuffed, cooked, and eaten, the Christmas presents have been bought, wrapped, and opened, and New Years came and went with the traditional raised champagne flutes and the Quiram traditional banging of the pots and pans and our five young adults who returned home from near and far places, as near as … More I ♥ It When YA’all Come Home
Are you a female between the ages of twelve and twenty? If not, do you know a Young Adult female—daughter, granddaughter, niece, girlfriend, or son’s girlfriend? If you are or you do–and, unless you’re shackled in the solitary confines of a Turkmenistan prison, vacationing at the tea house at the Everest Base camp in Tibet, … More I ♥ YA because “YA CAN’T WAIT!”
YA School Spirit is everywhere this fall. At Virginia Tech, school spirit borders on freaky. From the nosebleed section where I sit for band parents weekend, I’m floating in a maroon lagoon. The swell surges when a key play is made and the crowd rushes to its feet. The play is over and its calm … More I ♥ YA because YA have Spirit!
★★★★★ This 2012 YA book is a short, fast, realistic read—only 277 pages. But it’s long on emotion. Joyce Carol Oates, Two or Three Things I Forgot to Tell You, forces you to think and feel deeply about family and friendship—for me, I was touched more by this story than by any of the vampire, … More I ♥ Two or Three Things I Forgot to Tell You, by Joyce Carol Oates
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