Feb 5, 2010

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Eternal

Eternal

So angel books are turning into the Big New Thing in YA – when will patupaiarehe and taniwha books be the big new thing, that’s what I want to know – and I read one of the forerunners yesterday, Cynthia Leitich Smith’s Eternal, which is about a fallen guardian angel and the girl he was supposed to be guarding who becomes… a VAMPIRE. Oh my lord I loved...

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Feb 3, 2010

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Bones: I Love It So

Bones: I Love It So

Internets, I love Bones. It replaced Criminal Minds as my favourite crime show right about the time CM did an episode about evil child-stealing gypsies, and bonus, there’s generally only one victim! I love many, many things about this show, including interesting and improbable crimes, gender role trope inversion, the presence of women of colour (men of colour, not so much,...

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Cover Talk

Cover Talk

Recently there has been a lot of talk, and quite rightly, about the publishing...

They Made Cake!

They Made Cake!

Dear internets, as you may know, because I mention it every ten minutes, my...

Books Coming Out This Year That I Kn...

Books Coming Out This Year That I Know Are Awesome (Because I Have Read Them)

One of the perks of being about-to-be published that I didn’t know...

Juvenilia

Juvenilia

The winner of last time’s juvenilia extension project was undoubtedly...

Good News Day

Good News Day

Things You Want to Hear From Your Editor About Your Latest Manuscript: So you...