I’m totally stealing the idea for this post from Maureen at By Singing Light, but Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. The topic for this week is “Top Ten Things On My Reading Wishlist.” Or, to clarify: “if you could make authors write about these things you […]
Browsing the archives for the Young adult category
29 Jun 13
Aquae excerpt #5
Because I’m too lazy to write a real blog post. We didn’t speak of it again. The days slid past—the Calends of February, then the Nones, then the Ides. I kept track by means of the moon and by notching each day on the underside of the fallen oak tree some distance below the cleft, […]
17 Jun 13
Aquae excerpt #4
If there’s an upside to my blogging hardly at all in the past month, it’s that all most of my blogging time has been devoted to my WIP (the rest to summer classes and the Stanley Cup playoffs). The second draft of Aquae is now over 30,000 words long. Here’s another excerpt for your enjoyment—at […]
16 Feb 13
7/7 blog challenge
My fellow historical-fiction writer C.P. Lesley has tagged me in the 7/7 challenge, which means I get to give you a brief snippet from my WIP—the first seven lines of the seventh page, to be precise—and then tag seven more writers to carry on the challenge. First, though, be sure to check out C.P.’s website! […]
17 Jan 13
Calling it what it is
As most of you bookish types probably already know, a couple of weeks ago the Daily Mail ran a piece opining that young-adult literature is morbid and exploitative and do young adults really need to read stuff like that—the article calls it “sick lit”—after all? (John Green’s novel The Fault in Our Stars, with a […]
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I'm an amateur military historian, a drinker of coffee and dry red wine, a cinephile, a hockey fan, a cat lady, and an all-around nerd. I like to travel. I also like books, philosophy, and political theory. I write historical fiction and fantasy, most of which deals with combat and conflict in the individual experience. My debut YA historical fantasy novel His Own Good Sword was released on 7 May 2013.
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