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By: Vince Scarsella

Vince Scarsella — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:32:48 +0000

How do I get my YA thriller, “Within A Dream,” about lucid dreaming, comas, demons, and cartoon characters reviewed?

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Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:20:09 +0000

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By: Shatha D

Shatha D — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:24:31 +0000

I am in heart with this blog. I echo the sentiments of Lula: where have you been all of my life? I thought I’d have to go underground to the mean streets of some big city to find others like me who enjoy YA. That scientific method to grade books is genius. Thank you!

By: Lindsay Loves » Kaboom! (Review: “Beauty Queens”)

Lindsay Loves » Kaboom! (Review: “Beauty Queens”) — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 03:46:04 +0000

[...] made me want to reread it or recommend it, but I did throw back my head and laugh a few times. In FYA terms, I might give this book my BFF charm, but I would never wear my half, and I’d be okay with [...]

By: Elyse Wilk

Elyse Wilk — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:46:17 +0000

I’m so happy I finally found you, I love this website! To me the best vampire writer is still Anne Rice, but as a writer I feel that vampires are way past their expiration date and zombies are a bore when in comes to a good conversation. We’re living in an age where we’ve finally discovered planets in other solar systems, isn’t it about time to allow our imaginations to go there.

By: Bonnie Rozanski

Bonnie Rozanski — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:46:29 +0000

Dear Sarah,

I am the New Jersey author of two highly reviewed novels, both published by a small but fine literary press in Canada where I last lived. However, due to their high price point and Canadian origin, neither quite caught on in the US the way it should have. This is a shame, particularly for BORDERLINE, the story of a boy, his
autistic brother and a wolf. It was shortlisted for Foreword’s YA Book of the Year Award in 2008 and received a silver medal at the Independent Publishers’ Book Awards in the same year.

I recently decided to add an e-book option to its listing on Amazon.com at a much more reasonable price. Because of this, I have decided to try to promote it once more, this time eliciting reviews online from book bloggers. Can I interest you in reviewing BORDERLINE?

If any of the above intrigues you, I would be happy to email on a DOC or PDF file of the book.

Many thanks,
Bonnie Rozanski

By: Kristen B

Kristen B — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:07:40 +0000

I am so with you on Birthmarked! I know first hand that she finished the sequel and we’ll be reading it sometime in 2011. You’ll have to try Ship Breakers by Paolo Bacigalupi; it’s got the same energy and strong characters!

By: Lula

Lula — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:19:05 +0000

Where have y’all been all of my life? No. Really. ‘Cause I’m a lifelong lover of YA, yet I’m 35 (i.e. OLD), and outside of Twilight (which I read & loved before it was cheapened by tweens, Cougars, Hot Topic, and Stephenie Meyer, for selling out & allowing her characters to be used on Burger King crowns) and a few other novels, I only have a handful of friends on board my Young Adult Fiction Train of Good Times.

Yes, we take these books seriously…please love me through that admission.

Y’all must know that I read The Hunger Games before it was the shiz. That my 2 best friends and I planned a cruise around the release of Catching Fire last September, which we then read while on said cruise. Upon finishing that brilliance, we sat on our cabin’s balcony, discussing Katniss and Peeta and how Chapter 4 reduced us to tears, and how we loved CF even better than HG…all while watching the water pass us by.

I’ve just spent the past hour getting lost in your site…were it not 10 am, I’d crack open a bottle of wine and spend another hour here. Alas, I have my child to take care of, and wine at 10 am is just one step short of knocking on Betty Ford’s door. So…I’ll be back…

*Oh! Best YA book I’ve read this summer: Birthmarked, by Caragh M. O’Brien. I highly recommend.

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forever young (adult) i want to be forever young (adult) « — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 00:58:46 +0000

[...] Hello. Seriously. Let’s first start with how they evaluate books. [...]

By: Poshdeluxe

Poshdeluxe — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:23:43 +0000

hi bonnie! yes we do! go to our home page and look on the top right under “stalking options.” click on “pass us a note” to send us an email! cos, you know, we couldn’t just write “send us an email” because we have to be too clever for our own good.