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Book Review: Sister of the Bollywood Bride
by Nandini Bajpai publisher’s synopsis: Mini’s big sister, Vinnie, is getting married. Their mom passed away seven years ago and between Dad’s new start-up and Vinnie’s medical residency, there’s no one but Mini to plan the wedding. Dad raised her to know more about computers, calculus, and cars than desi weddings but from the moment…
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Surrender Your Dreams
It’s hard to watch someone else live your dream. Maybe it’s a book contract, an agent, an opportunity, a job. It can be so hard to watch someone else get what you’ve longed and strived for. I know—I’ve wrestled with those flashes of envy and the accompanying discouragement. But you are exactly where you are…
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Book Review: Chromatic
by Ashley Bustamante publisher’s synopsis Light is Found in Every Hue Magus is dying from the inside out, and only the destruction of the barrier can save it. Even color magic can’t defend against earthquakes, strange weather patterns, and erratic wildlife behavior. After discovering hundreds of captive Yellow magic-users, Ava and Elm fight to set…
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Fight for Your Story
Sometimes the person you have to fight with hardest for your writing is yourself. If there’s one thing I’ve learned from my current WIP, it’s how to fight for my writing with myself. A year ago, I was literally *this* close to shelving this project and possibly giving up on writing altogether. I was burned…
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Book Review: Everything Sad Is Untrue
by Daniel Nayeri publisher’s synopsis At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls “Daniel”) stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny;…
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Book Review: Gretchen and the Bear
by Carrie Anne Noble publisher’s synopsis Sixteen-year-old Gretchen has been waiting forever to trade life on a dreary orbiting station for life on gloriously regenerated Earth. Still, visiting faerie-infested Britannia is not on her agenda—especially since no human who’s ventured there has ever returned. But when her stepsister sneaks off to the island to meet…
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Book Review: The Chaos Grid
by Lyndsey Lewellen publisher’s synopsis Cross the grid. Survive the storms. Let your destiny burn. When mankind’s attempts to control nature backfire, Texas descends into a wasteland. Storms rage and ravenous beasts roam the Outer Grid. The only safe havens rest inside the tech-obsessed domed cities. But when her parents are murdered inside the Plex…
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Book Review: Hearts Overboard
by Becky Dean publisher’s synopsis After a very public breakup where her ex, Caleb, told her she is both, a.) boring, and b.) stuck in her ways, Savannah Moore decides her mom’s company cruise to Alaska is the perfect opportunity to show people that she can be fun. One new thing a day should be…
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Book Review: A Game Most Foul
by Alison Gervais publisher’s synopsis Attending the prestigious Ashford College’s writing seminar is a dream come true for Jules Montgomery, but the summer isn’t unfolding as she hoped. Navigating London with her recent hearing loss is difficult, and hiding it from her classmates is a challenge. Even worse, she can’t seem to shake a case…
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Book Review: Water’s Break
by Sophia L. Hansen publisher’s synopsis What if fear itself is the deadliest undercurrent of all? Nica would do anything to avoid the hassles of her sister’s bonding ceremony—the wrap fittings, hairstyles, and braided fire coral—but she never imagined that the waters covering her planet would be broken. As the heavens rained fire and stone,…
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