Recently, there was a bit of online outcry when it was announced that Simon & Schuster had decided not to continue Rick Yancey’s Printz-Honor winning series The Monstrumologist. After much protest from fans, word came down that there would be a fourth book in the series, huzzah, good work fandom! BUT! Fandom must never rest! …
Yesterday was my blog’s first birthday! Happy birthday, blog! It’s been a really great year, even though I am the world’s slack-iest blogger. (my excuse for not being more present in May is that I was moving. Yeah, that’s it.) I couldn’t even begin to list the highlights, there were just too many to list. …
Cole is a nice guy. And Alex is lucky to have him for a boyfriend. He’s a sports star and charming and likable; he encourages Alex’s poetry and thinks she’s special and he’s not afraid to pursue her or embarrassed to let her know how much he likes being with her. Loves being with her,…
After our teen group meeting, a group of boys split off and starting playing Super Smash Brothers Brawl and a group of teen volunteers came into the room and started eating leftover cake and ice cream. It was a fun atmosphere. One of the teen’s boyfriend arrived and looked around. “Um,” he said slowly, pointing…
I use fiction as a way to interpret my life and survive my hurts I was going to try to get to that, like, eventually. I was going to make a bunch of big grand allusions and metaphors and then, ta-dah, I would reveal it all cryptic-like. Ooooh, everyone would marvel I see what she…
Flash Burnout by L.K. Madigan won the 2010 Morris Award. As most of you reading this blog probably already know, the Morris Award is, and always will be, dearly close to my heart, as I just finished my first ever selection committee work on the 2011 Morris Award Committee. I heard, first-hand, the way the…
This was life in Gentry — going to school every day, blending into a world where everyone was happier to ignore the things that didn’t fit, always willing to look away as long as you did your part. Otherwise, how could they go on living near their neat suburban lives? When I was little, all…
“We’re the kind of popular that parents like to pretend doesn’t exist so they can sleep at night, and we’re the kind of popular that makes our peers unable to sleep at night. Everyone hates us, but they’re afraid of us too.” At least, that’s the kind of popular Regina Afton used to be. But…
