This week Road Trip Wednesday asks ” In honor of this month’s Bookmobile book, Marissa Meyer’s CINDER, name a fable or story you’d like to see a retelling of. If you’re feeling creative, come up with a premise of your own!” In general, women get the short end of the magic wand in fairy-tales. We’ve all … More ROAD TRIP WEDNESDAY: How to Correct a Fairy-Tale
For this week’s Road Trip Wednesday, YA Highway asks “what was the best book you read in April?”. I’ve been having a huge reading month (and a crap writing month but that’s often how it goes). With nearly a week left I have already read fifteen books. There were definitely some standouts and some that didn’t work … More ROAD TRIP WEDNESDAY – APRIL BOOKS
For this week’s Road Trip Wednesday, YA Highway asks what is your favorite literary moment? So I think it will come as no surprise that I am a huge Harry Potter fan, not just as a reader, but also as a writer. The whole Harry Potter experience has colored and shaped the young readers’ book industry … More How JK and HP Changed MG and YA
For this week’s Road Trip Wednesday, YA Highway asks If you could wander anywhere in the world, where would it be, and why? I have to ask: does it have to be in this world? Today? Let me go back a bit. I write middle grade, I write YA. I write fantasy and sci fi and YA … More ROAD TRIP WEDNESDAY : Leaving Earth
When I meet new people and we have that awkward “So, what do you do?” moment and I tell them “I’m a writer” am usually then faced with one of a small selection of follow up questions. Many of them are described very well by Wendy over at YAtopia, along with a few others added in … More ROAD TRIP WEDNESDAY: My Memoir or My Life
For this week’s Road Trip Wednesday, YA Highway asks Who is your favorite African American author or fictional character? I’m pretty excited by this question, because I’m been thinking a lot about writers and characters of color, and what they mean to me, a white writer. I’m very conflicted about writing characters of color myself, which … More Road Trip Wednesday – African American Authors and Characters
For this week’s Road Trip Wednesday, YA Highway asks what words do you absolutely hate? A couple of years ago I started a thread on Agentquery.com called ‘Words that Should never Be In Queries’. A great deal of hilarity ensued about such phrases as ‘fiction novel’ and ‘the next Twilight’ (although I said this to my … More Road Trip Wednesday – Words That Don’t Belong in Queries
I’ve been kidding with people for a while that “Troll-Love” is going to be the next big thing. I mean we’ve had vampire-love, werewolf-love, angel-love, devil-love, faerie-love (the spelling is critical here), immortal-love (which is always weird because usually the guy is about a thousand years old and the girl is 16 – ick) and … More Road Trip Wednesday – Shiny New Ideas
For this week’s Road Trip Wednesday, YA Highway asks what was our favorite book to read in January. Well, I’ve had quite the month. Including finishing A DANCE WITH DRAGONS I have read 20 books. The book-tweets are below, but I have the say the winner is BOY TOY by Barry Lyga. This book completely slayed … More Road Trip Wednesday – January Books
For this week’s Road Trip Wednesday, YA Highway asks about names. Not character names, writers’ names. Pseudonyms, in other words. First I should point out that my sister browsed my blog the other day and complained that on the Why Angelhorn page I didn’t give some background as to my own name, Gabrielle. You can … More Road Trip Wednesday – Gabrielle by Any Other Name
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