Originally published at Grasping for the Wind. Please leave any comments there.


Every couple of years there seems to be an outbreak of new book trends all featured in one genre or sub-genre. In the young adult fiction world, vampires and werewolves have been an extremely popular pick of the last year or two, but now in 2011, a fresh wave of trends ( Read more... )

Originally published at Grasping for the Wind. Please leave any comments there.


or no matter how pessimistic you are, YA writers are way more so.

I’m a pessimistic person.  I’ve been preparing for the Zombie Apocalypse since I was seven and could swing a moderately sized shovel.  Now I’m nowhere near the level of mental that Max Brooks is (though ( Read more... )