Including me, so help us:

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Maggie Stiefvater says my "sinister" part in this video did her in. (But what became of her new straw hat, what should have come to me? Somebody pinched it. And what I say is, them as pinched it done her in. *nods emphatically*)

If you have a deep-seated yearning to read a YA novel version of Hamlet with Horatio as a cynical, scruffy teen detective with a buried idealistic streak, AND I THINK YOU DO*, you should know that Alan Gratz is offering his first book Something Rotten online for free until November 30th ( Read more... )

jenlynb, who knows whereof she speaks, has written an absolutely splendid post about why YA books are awesome, and why having a YA category in the bookstore is useful and worthwhile regardless of what age you are as a reader. I heartily agree.

Though I'd extend that to MG too, of course (says the woman who is currently in the middle of reading Starcross, ( Read more... )

With regard to my previous post, I should have explained that I love and respect a great many "children's" and "young adult" books (not to mention having a large personal collection of them!) and that my resistance to the idea that Knife might be YA wasn't due to any lack of respect for that genre. It was more to do with my original ideas and ( Read more... )

In case you missed it, Fit the First, which explains a lot of the background to this post, is here (though I've had to screen some of the comments because they were spoilery -- wonderful, but spoilery ( Read more... )