All Blog Posts Tagged 'ya' (4)

Review: Diary of a Witness (YA)

After hearing about it at FiveAwesomeYAFans, I read Catherine Ryan Hyde’s Diary of a Witness. The cover is really nice (you can see it here), simple and foreboding, which made me hope that maybe this was a mystery. It was not. It was a real page-turner all the same though, so I thought I would tell you what this book is all about. Our main character is Ernie, who i… Continue

Added by Fleur Bradley on October 9, 2009 at 10:24am — No Comments

Friday Links from the YA Sleuth Blog

Friday links (a.k.a. time-wastery) come early, since I’m actually hoping to get some writing done tomorrow. So here you go: It’s a book! It’s a movie! It’s a website! No, it’s a digi-novel. When the TV writers strike was going on (last year, was it?), apparently CSI creator Anthony Zuiker (along with Duane Zwierczynski) came up with this hybrid entertainmen… Continue

Added by Fleur Bradley on September 11, 2009 at 11:21am — No Comments

Edgar Nominee: Bog Child

Last week on my blog, I talked about Siobhan Dowd, who died far too soon, and left two manuscripts behind. I read one of them: Bog Child, Edgar nominee this year. I was careful not to let the fact that Ms. Dowd was no more cloud my opinion of this book. The point of my reading all the YA Edgar nominees was, after all, to take an honest look at YA mysteries. Heartbreaking stories aside. So I cleared my head and began reading.… Continue

Added by Fleur Bradley on September 9, 2009 at 1:45am — No Comments

YA draft is done

I'm kinda jazzed. The draft for my first Young Adult novel is done (only took a month to write). It's 20,000 words, but I'm not too worried. A lot of my drafts are underwritten. The first rewrite is where I start fleshing shit out, doing more showing and less telling. I'll probably wind up trying to sell this novel, since I have no idea how to reach the YA audience. Though, I may put out a limited hardcover version on my small press. We'll see. . . . Continue

Added by Johnny Ostentatious on June 23, 2008 at 5:34am — No Comments