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Are you an aspiring author? Check out our "Articles for Writers" section. Some topics include: writing skill, social media, marketing, literary agents, and publishing. Here's our complete list: Articles for Writers)
Interviews with NYT Bestselling YA Fantasy Authors: Robin Hobb, Lauren Kate, Syrie James, Cassandra Clare, Holly Black, Jonathan Maberry, Alyson Noel, Ellen Schreiber, Tamora Pierce, Bruce Coville, Melissa Marr, Gena Showalter, Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl and more! Interviews with Fantasy Authors
New Interview with a Literary Agent: Louise Fury - Louise believes in the power of marketing and is constantly on the lookout for authors who know how to promote themselves. Read the Interview here
Featured Interviews for December:
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Lia Habel Lia Habel was born in Jamestown, NY, and has lived there the majority of her life. Her first book, Dearly, Departed is a sweeping tale of zombie-living romance set in a cyber-Victorian/steampunk future. |
Kelly Creagh Kelly is the YA Paranormal author of Nevermore and the upcoming Enshadowed! If you're a fan of paranormal or Edgar Allan Poe, then you must check out this series! We gave it 5 Stars!!!
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Trisha Wolfe Trisha is the debut author of the YA Steampunk novel, Destiny's Fire. Fans of YA, Science Fiction, Steampunk, and/or Fantasy should give this one a try.
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Fantasy Shows You Should Check Out
I love fantasy novels and the next best thing is a fantasy based television show. Lucky for us, TV is catching up on the movie trends and offering shows that fill our fantasy needs. Here's a list of mostly new shows that are worth your time. Read More here
New: Stacey Goes to Baltimore Comic Con 2011. That isn't Stacey in the picture! But she did have a lot of fun at the Con. Check out more pics and read more information about it here: Baltimore Comic Con 2011
And here is an article you might like: Vampires! We love to hate them. A look at six popular vampires in books over the past hundred years.
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New Book Reviews:
Review of Shade by Jeri Ready-Smith
Love ties them together. Death can't tear them apart.
Best. Birthday. Ever. At least, it was supposed to be. With Logan's band playing a critical gig and Aura's plans for an intimate after-party, Aura knows it will be the most memorable night of her boyfriend's life. She never thought it would be his last.
Logan's sudden death leaves Aura devastated. He's gone. Well, sort of. Read the Review here
Can there truly be love after death?
Drifting in the dark waters of a mysterious river, the only thing Amelia knows for sure is that she's dead. With no recollection of her past life-or her actual death-she's trapped alone in a nightmarish existence.
Read the review and more info here
WITHER - Thanks to modern science, every human being has become a ticking genetic time bomb-males only live to age twenty-five, and females only live to age twenty. In this bleak landscape, young girls are kidnapped and forced into polygamous marriages to keep the population from dying out. Read Stacey's Review here
The Art of Steampunk: Extraordinary Devices and Ingenious Contraptions from the Leading Artists of the Steampunk Movement
New: Amazon.com announces award winning books for 2010 and 2011. These include Caldecott, Nebula, Hugo and more. Award winning Books
New Young Adult Fantasy Guide:
The Young Adult Fantasy Guide to Protecting yourself from Creatures!
Would you know what to do if you stumbled across a zombie? What about a werewolf or a vampire? There are lots of evil creatures out there that can be hard to handle - unless you have the right information! We have all the guides that will help you protect yourself from the Creatures that go bump in the night!
New Section: Stacey's Quick Takes - Looking for a quick review or opinion about a novel, series or author? Read Stacey's quick opinions here and get an idea if you want to check out a book or series more.
Stacey Goes to Mythic Faire 2011 and meets some fantastic people including best-selling author and artist Jenny Wurts . Read all about it here.
The Latest Book Reviews (Click on the cover to go to the review )
More New YA Book reviews:
- Hourglass (Evernight)
by Myra McEntire (review by Camille Morales) Read the review here
- Angelfire - Review by Camille Morales
- Lost Voice by Sarah Porter - Review by Michelle D.
- The Left Hand of God by Paul Hoffman - Review by Tim Kershaw
- NightShade by Andrea Cremer
- The Circle Cast by Alex Epstein
- Hush Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
- 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher
- Torn: (Trylle Trilogy #2) written by Amanda Hocking
- Nightshade by Andrea Cremer - also includes an interesting and mysterious video series. We have the first video here too.
- The Dark Divine by Bree Dispain
- Torment by Lauren Kate
New Section: Dystopian Fantasy - Dark and with a dash of paranoia - a dystopia is often perceived to be a utopia but if you dig down just a little bit dark things can be found. Check out these terrific Dystopian fantasy books
New Section: Viking and Norse Novels for Young Adults
With the success of the movie "How to Train your Dragon" comes a renewed interest in Norse and Viking Books and stories. We have opened up a new Fantasy Guide with some great information and recommendations for the best books in this sub genre of fantasy. Put on your horned helmet, jump into your Viking boat and check it out here: Viking and Norse books for Young Adults
ALSO in the Genre of Viking Novels is Rebecca's Guide to the top three best Viking Historical Novels
Recent Articles for Writers:
- What to AVOID While Writing Dialogue - Stacey gives us some great advice on dialogue writing
- The Simplification of Facebook for Authors and Newbies by Brianne Villano
- My Beef with High Fantasy Novels - Stacey Gives us her take on how the High Fantasy Market has declined
- Identifying Your Fantasy Novel's Genre - by Stacey Before you can submit a query letter to an agent, you need to know what kind of fantasy you've written. Most literary agents. . .
- How to put together a media kit for your novel - by Will
- The Responsibility of Young Adult Writers - by Guest Writer Maria Goodson
- The Meyer Effect - Stacey Gives her opinion on the impact Stephanie Meyer has had.
- Creative ways to market your book both traditionally and online - Get the word out about your writing!
- Creating Great Story Lines - They can come from anywhere. Stacey takes a look at how she comes up with great story lines for her writing
- Writing Believable Characters - Your novel will live or die by the believability of your characters.
- Reflections from my writing career - Stacey looks back on the past year and the ups and downs of trying to get a fantasy novel written and published
- What does a rejection letter say about my novel? - A rejecton letter can be a difficult thing; here is some advice for you
- Look at an old genre in a fresh new way - This is what Stephenie Meyer has done in her twilight series and you should do it too!
- Blurring the lines between good and evil - In fantasy it is too easy to make it all either good or bad but there is some wonderful and exciting fantasy to be had when the two are not so clear
- I Want Perfection! What It Takes to be Sexy in Fiction. Stacey takes a look at some of the sexiest leading men in YA Fantasy.
- An Introduction to Social Media for Authors by Brianne Villano You can harness the power of social media to market yourself and your writing more effectively
- Writing for your Young Adult audience. What do Young Adults really want in their reading?
- Sex in Young Adult Fantasy novels - Stacey gives us some food for thought when it comes to sex and writing for young adults.
- How to create interesting creatures for your fantasy writing. Some imaginitive help when it comes to populating the world you are writing.
More Articles for writers here
Amazon has announced it's best books of the year so far and three of them are Young Adult/teen fantasy books. Check them out here: Amazon's best of 2010 so far
New from Will: How to find a great Young Adult Fantasy Novel. There are so many choices and so many options. So, how do you find a great book in the genre? Will Gives you the best resources to find something you or a young adult will really enjoy.
Looking for some free fantasy stuff? How about a graphic novel that is a cut above the rest? The artist and writer is Luis Peres and he is creating a series of fantasy novels. You can download "The adventures of Prince Ziph" for free. He also designed the banner and dragon graphics for this website. Ziph Comics
The Greyfriar (Vampire Empire, Book 1)
In the year 1870, a horrible plague of vampires swept over the northern regions of the world. Millions of humans were killed outright. Millions more died of disease and famine due to the havoc that followed. Within two years, once great cities were shrouded by the grey empire of the vampire clans. Human refugees fled south to the tropics because vampires could not tolerate the constant heat there. They brought technology and a feverish drive to reestablish their shattered societies of steam and iron amid the mosques of Alexandria, the torrid quietude of Panama, or the green temples of Malaya.
It is now 2020 and a bloody reckoning is coming. Read more here
Halith presents the fantastical world of Aessyra where prophesy tells of an evil brewing and only 'the One' can stop it. Halith's journey begins when she steals away from an impending marriage, deemed by her uncle to be a good match. in a fit of passion, she runs away in the deep of night, with nothing to her name, and is soon transformed from a scared 16 year old girl to a young warrior ready to answer her fate. In the beginning, Halith embraces her new adventurous lifestyle focusing on fighting battles, learning the trades of the Dwarves, and drinking and making merriment in local taverns. Read more here
New: Book Review (Armageddon's Children) by guest reviewer and Fantasy Author: ML. Hamilton. In this, the first of a new fantasy series Brooks melds the World fo Shannana and the post apocalypic world of his Word and Void series. Read the review here
The Necromancer, which is the fourth book in the Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series has just been released and it comes with some very unique and mysterious materials that come with it. Michael Scott, the author, has released a series of video clues. Pretty cool huh? Watch the Clues here
