Hey bookworms, Welcome back to MYABL! Today, I am happy to reveal the cover of a upcoming YA read, Spark by author Holly Schindler! Check it out! All of the juicy details about this novel, as well as the author, are posted below. Keep reading for more. SPARK comes out next year (May 2016)! Make sure you add it to your Goodreads if you'd like to read it. Links for Goodreads and pre-orders are at the end of this post. I'm excited because it has the most amazing elements of Romeo and Juliet wound into it's blurb. Description: Holly Schindler’s Spark: When the right hearts come to the Avery Theater—at the right time—the magic will return. The Avery will come back from the dead. Or so Quin’s great-grandmother predicted many years ago on Verona, Missouri’s most tragic night, when Nick and Emma, two star-crossed teenage lovers, died on the stage. It was the night that the Avery’s marquee lights went out forever. It sounds like urban legend, but one that high school senior Quin is ...
Welcome to day 3 of the Euterpe YA Event, which we will be hosting all week!
I hope you guys have enjoyed the posts, giveaways, and all around awesomeness so far!
Today, we have author Jennifer Mason-Black here to talk with us about our favorite topic: Reading!
Keep reading for Jennifer's post (which I love)!
Would you recognize hope if you looked into its eyes?
At sixteen, Tucker has nothing but the clothes on his back, the bruises on his ribs, and the truth about what happened between him and the band teacher. He left home looking to escape his memories, but all he’s found on the road are new bad ones to take their place.
Then he meets Gabriel, a beautiful hustler, and Kelsey, a fire-obsessed girl with a head full of fairy tales. After Gabriel rescues him from a pair of drunks looking for a fight, Tucker’s happy to join him in the abandoned factory he calls home. All he must do in return is help keep Kelsey safe.
But Kelsey’s not what Tucker thinks she is, and safety isn’t what she needs from him. To help her, he’ll have to face the secret he’s been running from, and the flames she’s running to find.
I hope you guys have enjoyed the posts, giveaways, and all around awesomeness so far!
Today, we have author Jennifer Mason-Black here to talk with us about our favorite topic: Reading!
Keep reading for Jennifer's post (which I love)!
I read a lot when I was young.
I started with The Little Red Hen, and moved on to anything that had words and was in the house: picture books, chapter books, Narnia, Middle Earth, vampires, tearjerkers, cereal boxes, medical encyclopedias, newspapers… I read things I found in boxes labeled free and left next to the washing machines in the basement of our apartment complex. Everything. Anything.
I went to the library. Lots. I worked my way through the children’s section, and burst free into the adult as soon as I could. I had this idea that anything I took out I had to read in its entirety, so I slogged my way through as many lackluster books as I burned through really wonderful ones.
I read. That’s what I did. It’s who I was. It still is.
All those things with words, everything I read at the kitchen table, and in bed, and secreted away in the closet with the light on, they all seemed important at the time. And they were, even the not very good ones. Because all that reading was an apprenticeship for me, as a writer, yes, but even more importantly, as a person.
Reading a little of everything lets you explore life. It teaches you not to box yourself in—to genre, to career, to life goals. It reminds you that there are people sharing the world with you who may seem nothing like you, and yet are, in all the most important ways. It helps in that endless quest to figure out what’s important to you, and who you really are. Even when you’re adult, and have been for many (too many) years.
Try the world on for size. Read.
Jennifer Mason-Black lives in the woods of Massachusetts, surrounded by her human family and a menagerie of elderly animals. Her young adult novelette, Phoenix, was published by Musa Publishing in May 2012. Additional information about her work can be found at cosmicdriftwood.wordpress.com.
At sixteen, Tucker has nothing but the clothes on his back, the bruises on his ribs, and the truth about what happened between him and the band teacher. He left home looking to escape his memories, but all he’s found on the road are new bad ones to take their place.
Then he meets Gabriel, a beautiful hustler, and Kelsey, a fire-obsessed girl with a head full of fairy tales. After Gabriel rescues him from a pair of drunks looking for a fight, Tucker’s happy to join him in the abandoned factory he calls home. All he must do in return is help keep Kelsey safe.
But Kelsey’s not what Tucker thinks she is, and safety isn’t what she needs from him. To help her, he’ll have to face the secret he’s been running from, and the flames she’s running to find.
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