Samantha Kemi comes from a long line of skilled alchemists, gifted in concocting potions together to cure all sorts of ailments. In The Potion Diaries, Sam finds herself racing to find a list of obscure items (everything from merpearls to pink jasmine) in order to create a cure for Princess Evelyn, who has accidentally fallen in […]
Is it possible to have too much fan art? I don’t think so! Last week, I shared some of my favorite fan art based on Cassandra Clare’s The Infernal Devices series, and the week before I rounded up some of my favorites for The Mortal Instruments. Now it’s time for The Dark Artifices! With the latest release in Cassandra Clare’s […]
A Day in the Life of Sandhya Menon: 8 AM: Awake. Puppy’s staring at me. Better let him out of kennel before Puppy Dog Eyes slay me to ribbons. 9 AM: Ivories have been brushed. Tea and/or coffee has been made. PJs have been traded for comfy jeans. 9:30 AM: Stare at Twitter. Write something […]
“If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.” There are a few reasons why I chose to open my YA novel Tash Hearts Tolstoy with this quote. First, it’s by Leo Tolstoy, the literary love of Tash’s […]
It wouldn’t be the Summer of Love without the perfect book list of summer romances! There’s something about summer that makes you crave a good contemporary romance. Maybe it’s the weather, unlimited access to ice cream, or lounging in the sun, but whatever it is, we’re not complaining! What can be tricky, however, is picking the […]
There are two things that I love more than anything else when it comes to reading: romance and adventure. I love them so much, I literally put them in my bio. Why? Because romance is guaranteed to make me feel everything all at once: anticipation, wonder, anger (at the inevitable misunderstandings), and, of course, the heart bursting overload of happiness! Meanwhile, […]
All of my novels have had different origins. Something Like Normal began with the voice of a Marine who wouldn’t go away until I wrote his story. Where the Stars Still Shine came about after I visited Tarpon Springs, a place so interesting and strange that I knew I needed to drop a character into […]
Every once in a while, a debut novel defies the odds, hits us all right in the feels, and finds it way onto all the lists! Such is the case with a little book called When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon. Heard of it? Course you have, it’s everywhere! We’re so excited and pleased […]
Here are the songs that either inspired the idea behind The Potion Diaries or helped me while I was writing it! These songs are near and dear to my heart— ‘Black Magic,’ especially, because it was released by Little Mix about the same time that The Potion Diaries launched. It seemed like serendipity! I mean, just look at […]
Now that the Riveted Summer of Love is in full swing, I think it’s safe to announce that I myself am in love…..with Kathryn Ormsbee’s Tash Hearts Tolstoy, my new favorite book! Tash Hearts Tolstoy was one of my most anticipated books of the season. I mean, the description sounded so fun: After a shout-out […]
