Powerful women are everywhere…we just don’t always hear about them. Take a moment and learn about these five women who changed the course of history. 5 Under-the-Radar Female Role Models We Learned About from Limitless Gilda Radner – American Comedian Despite battling multiple disorders during her lifetime, Gilda quickly became an extremely influential woman in […]
The Last True Love Story, the latest from Brendan Kiely, critically acclaimed author of The Gospel of Winter and co-author of All American Boys, is finally available in paperback! A classic teen love story following two teens on a cross-country journey of the heart and soul, thematically The Last True Love Story is a departure […]
When I was a senior in high school, I had some decisions to make: Where should I go to college? Do I stay close to home, or say bye to Mommy forever? And forget Mommy, what about my girlfriend? We’ve been together for years—should we pick the same school? Can we try long distance? Should […]
The newly released, Two Roads from Here by Teddy Steinkellner follows five high school seniors, through two different roads, and one life-changing decision. Teddy stopped by today to discuss some hard decision he, like his characters, had to make in his life. Stop by next week because Two Roads from Here might be an upcoming featured […]
Micah Holland was just fifteen years old, and had not yet reached puberty, when life as he knew it changed forever. Curled up in a sleeping bag on the floor at his friend Brandon’s house, he was jarred awake at three in the morning by a group of police officers waving guns in his face. […]
A never ending amount of work goes into each aspect of a book before publication. Just settling on the right title can take months of discussion, as it did for Our Story Begins: Your Favorite Authors and Illustrators Share Fun, Inspiring and Occasionally Ridiculous Things They Wrote and Drew as Kids. Read on to hear from […]
The title for my upcoming book, First We Were IV, came to me almost as soon as the first impulse of “I want to write a book about four best friends who start a secret society to play vigilante-pranks, but it ratchets way out of control and twists into a weapon of revenge, costing all […]
I have a friend I was especially close to in college and in my early twenties. I was in a band when we first met, the only band on our college campus who dared to write their own songs and be part of the Punk/New Wave movement of that time. We were terrible of course, […]
“It’s almost like being good is the perfect alibi for being bad.” – Riley Stone, Such a Good Girl First of all, I want to say this: I am so incredibly lucky to be able to write a character like Riley. A smart, complicated character who is able to make complicated decisions and have a […]
When I first came across the true story that inspired my second novel Here Lies Daniel Tate, I knew instantly that I wanted to adapt it into a YA novel. I say “adapt” because I knew there were lots of elements of the true story I would never be able to use. They were simply […]
