F.T. Bradley's Blog – October 2009 Archive (3)

Money, Money, Money

It ain’t easy being a writer. And I’m not talking about the hard work, the solitude, the craft—that’s a post for someone else’s blog. I’m talking about the money we want to spend wisely. Namely, the money most of us don’t have.

And this isn’t about the not-enough-to-live-on advances either, or the… Continue

Added by F.T. Bradley on October 14, 2009 at 11:30am — 4 Comments

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… Continue

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

From the YA Sleuth Blog: Friday Links

As always, here are your Friday YA-related links, and some sundry items I felt like adding:

You can nominate your favorite (recent) YA book for the Cybils—check it out here.

At Teenreads, there are several contests to win books (you have to scroll down a bit to get to that part). Penguin also has a contest where you can win some classic books, more on that… Continue

Added by F.T. Bradley on October 9, 2009 at 10:00am — No Comments