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Review: My Zombie Dog
Originally posted on Saturday Night's Alright for Writing:
Title: My Zombie Dog Series: Sequel: Undead Kev Author: Charmaine Clancy Published by: Self-published (Hot Doggy Digital Press) in 2012 Genre: YA, middle-school, horror Length: 148 pages Rating: 4 stars Goodreads | Amazon | Bookworld “Can I still have a dog? You know, for my birthday?”…
DON’T LOOK BACK: Thrilling and Dark
Originally posted on BookPeople:
Don’t Look Back by Jennifer Armentrout ~post by Katie P. The first rule of good Young Adult fiction is this: Never underestimate your audience. It’s immediately apparent when an author breaks this rule, and dilutes plot, censors reactions, or clarifies all ethical ambiguities so that the reader doesn’t have to. It’s…
Get More Book Reviews: 5 FREE Ways to Get Your Book Reviewed
Originally posted on readers+writers journal:
DIY Book Promotion: Reviews Before we get to how to get more book reviews, we should stop and consider: do book reviews matter? Ask an established author, a publisher and a self-published author and you’ll probably get 3 very different answers. The subject of user reviews is a controversial…
Review of Second Chances: Sammy’s Story
Originally posted on I Love Romance Blog:
I finally got around to reviewing Second Chances: Sammy’s Story. I don’t normally do official reviews, but I promised Annie Edmonds that I would do this so long ago (back when we were in the MARSocial Author of the Year Competition together) and I try to keep my…
Alysha Kaye’s The Waiting Room Blog Tour Stop
Originally posted on Joe's Geek Fest:
I’m delighted to host the lovely Alysha Kaye on her blog tour for The Waiting Room. We have a lot going on for her stop on Joe’s Geek Fest: The Waiting Room reviewed Q&A on her life as an author An excerpt from the book An informal interview…
Teen Thursday
Originally posted on BookPeople:
It’s YA lucky day! It’s Teen Thursday! Where we bring you YA news from around the globe and highlights from the BookPeople Teen Press Corps! July Buzz Book: Conversion We are buzzing about Conversion by Katherine Howe. Seventeenth-century Salem witch paranoia and modern-day high school life collide in this suspenseful and…
Better than Perfect by Tricia Drammeh- Book Review Thursday
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THE LOST ART OF DRESS: Compelling & Timely
Originally posted on BookPeople:
The Lost Art of Dress: The Women Who Once Made America Stylish by Linda Przybyszewski ~post by Katie P. Linda Przybyszewski is worried about American women. More specifically, what they’re wearing. It’s one thing for women to have largely lost the desire or skills to make their own clothes, but it’s…
Review: City by James Roy
Originally posted on Saturday Night's Alright for Writing:
Title: City Series: None, companion to Town Author: James Roy Published by: University of Queensland Press 2012 Genre: YA, contemporary, short stories Length: 312 pages Rating: 4 stars Goodreads | Amazon | Bookworld Everyone has a story The people in City aren’t special. They’re the young…
Nicky NoFace and the Face Critters, by Vimal Vaz
Originally posted on readers+writers journal:
The illustrations in Nicky NoFace and the Face Critters: The boy who lost his senses, are the first things that make this book a standout. They are of the caliber of Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild Things Are” and Margaret Wise Brown’s “Goodnight Moon.” They’re quirky, colorful and funny…
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