I believe we live in possibly the most narcissistic age of human history. No generation has been photographed or filmed more than this one. We have cameras everywhere. On our phones, on our laptops, on our desktop computers and the truth of the matter is, our teens are so used to documenting everything they do on film, [...]
The internet is rife at the moment with passionate debate over the Wall Street Journal Article on YA Fiction. I myself have been infuriated for the better part of the day, since having been made aware of it by the wonderful Courtney Summers. You can read the article here Yet my frustration has prevented me [...]
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I am always fascinated to hear the ‘story behind the story’, especially when its the back story for a novel that I loved. Recently, at the Text Novel Presentation Evening, Lia Hills, Author of The Beginners Guide To Living, spoke about her inspiration for writing her [...]
Good girls don’t take drugs. They don’t stare in the mirror and loathe the reflection gazing back at them. They don’t have negative self- dialogue that makes them feel useless, substandard and worthless. They don’t get drunk and have coerced experimental sex in gritty, filthy public bathrooms and they certainly don’t lie to their best [...]
9780312573805 Macmillan Distribution Services 01 Mar 2010 I am nothing short of thrilled to have to present to you all my very first Author Interview, especially since it happens to be with a Young Adult Author I greatly admire. I have often talked about Courtney’s books and what I believe, is the important [...]
Rare. Rare that I read a book and feel as though I have been punched in the stomach. Never before. Never before have a I read a book that made me feel as though I had been mentally eviscerated. Some Girls Are is the latest release from notable Young Adult author Courtney Summers. There is [...]
There are so many books that I have the privilege of placing in a students hands, knowing that for them as readers, I may have potentially just handed them a story that will stay with them for the rest of their lives. A story that may, in a small way or a big way, work itself into the fabric of that child’s life. The stories we read in those formative years of childhood and adolescence can often be the most powerful.
