If you haven’t read The Potion Diaries by Amy Alward, you should. It’s kind of amazing (it’s also a free read until June 19th so you should get on it ASAP). The first time I read it I couldn’t stop talking about it! It reads like a fairy tale that’s fun, magical, and full of adventure, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Our Summer of Love is rolling along! We hope you’ve had a chance to dig in to all of our great love-themed reads so far, particularly the extended excerpt of Sandhya Menon’s When Dimple Met Rishi! We’ve been talking a LOT about this much-buzzed book (which incidentally, recently added New York Times bestseller to its […]
There were still a few more metres to go to reach the top of the Villaricca volcano in Pucon, Chile, but I was done. Four hours of climbing straight up over loose rock, snow and glacier ice had knackered my muscles; altitude and sulphurous air made it hard to breathe; and I was carrying a […]
Philippa Gregory’s written MANY a bestselling novel and been proclaimed “the queen of royal fiction” by USA Today. You might be familiar with The Other Boleyn Girl which has been adapted into a movie, or perhaps with The White Queen, the inspiration for the critically acclaimed miniseries now airing on Starz. But what many people […]
There is something timeless and romantic about piratical behavior in fiction. Who were these men and women leading a lawless life, stealing from the rich and sailing the open seas? Pirates were outlaws, the bad guys. They created a crisis in world trade during the Golden Age of Piracy by capturing and plundering more than 2,400 ships on […]
Hi all! I’m Andi from Andi’s ABCs. I’ve been running my blog since January of 2013 as a way to share my love of accessories, books and clothes. I focus mostly on young adult books with a few new adult and adult romances mixed in. On occasion you will come across a clothing or accessory […]
Essential Maps for the Lost is about Madison Murray, who takes a swim one morning in a lake and collides with a woman’s dead body in the water. The woman, who leapt from a Seattle bridge, was the mother of Billy Youngwolf Floyd, and as Billy and Mads’ lives begin to intertwine, we discover their […]
