Young Adult

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Cover Reveal: McGrave's Hotel by Steve Bryant with Giveaway

  Heyo peoples! Welcome to the cover reveal for… McGrave’s Hotel by Steve Bryant presented by Month9Books!   It’s 1936, and nearly twelve-year-old JAMES ELLIOTT is a bellhop at McGrave’s Hotel, there a year since the night his parents died while on a spy mission into Nazi Germany. JAMES craves a goodbye message from his

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18 Ways to Give Your Character a Killer Name

In honor of NaNoWriMo and understanding how hard it is to come up with a character name that will be memorable enough to stand out in the ocean of character names (because is it just me or do I feel like I’m seeing the same names over and over?), I have decided to compile a

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I'm Totally Not Participating in NaNoWriMo

A lot of you probably don’t know that way back in yesteryear I wrote a blog about writing. Me. Writing. With nothing to show to prove why anyone should listen to my thoughts on the matter. But as a fourteen year old with a 40,000 word “novel” full of unicorn crap, I thought I was

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Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool

Hello everyone, Alexa here! Today, I get to review another historical set around the same time as last week’s,but taking place on the east coast, in Maine, instead of Hollywood Description From Inside Cover: After his mother’s death at the end of World War II, Jack Baker is suddenly uprooted from his home in Kansas

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Thank you all for making Fangirl Week and the relaunch of The Fangirl Initiative a success! We’ve had many great posts over the past week and I’ve really enjoyed seeing all of the comments and participation! As a little recap. . . Fangirl Week Posts: To start off, Jaime told us 5 Ways to Fangirl in

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So. . .you want to be a fangirl. Ah, and not just any fangirl–a fangirl of the literary niche, lover of the written word, having a fiery passion against every love-triangle you come across. Sounds nice, doesn’t it? Now for $9.99 plus shipping and handling you can order your very own (Literary) Fangirl Starter Pack!

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Ever wished you could have a charming fangirl to be your partner throughout your life? Well, look no further as this little tutorial tells you the best ways to find fangirls and sweep them off their feet in true fairy-tale happily ever after style. Finding Fangirl: Outside of the fancy online communities like Pinterest and

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As it’s been a rather new thing, most of you probably don’t know that I’ve been helping out my friend Sky @ The Fangirl Initiative with the social media aspect of her blog. We were talking a couple weeks ago and thought for her blog relaunch, we ought to link up and do something a

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Thea’s overprotective parents are driving her insane. They invade her privacy, ask too many questions, and restrict her online time so severely that Thea feels she has no life at all. When she discovers a new role-playing game online, Thea breaks the rules by staying up late to play. She’s living a double life: on

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It’s been quite a few weeks since I told you that I was in the process of getting Verbosity back up and running better. I know I still have not been as present as usual on the blog or social media (I need finals month to end already), but I didn’t lie about working behind