![]() ![]() You can find links to my academic work and other articles here. I have an MA in in Writing for Young People from Bath Spa University, an MPhil in Children’s Literature and a BA (hons) in English. I am also an Associate Lecturer on the MA in Writing for Young People at Bath Spa, and speak on the BBC about children’s literature. It was also shortlisted for the Bath Children's Novel Award in 2019 and came highly commended in the United Agents/Bath Spa Prize in 2018. ![]() BLOOD MOON was nominated for the 2021 CILIP Carnegie Medal, shortlisted for the 2021 Amazing Book Awards, and featured on the Reading Agency's #WonderWomenBooklist. My debut novel BLOOD MOON (published by Walker Books), is a YA verse novel about periods, sex and online shaming. I am the author of over thirty books for children. ![]()
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![]() ![]() How to Love Thine Enemy is a star-crossed lovers/Romeo and Juliet trope set in Alaska. Are the boys fated for tragedy? Or will their love find a way? When a series of events brings Taq back into his life, the feelings of protectiveness and joy awakened in his dog’s heart tell him that Taq is his soul’s mate.īut neither the Qimmig nor the Inuit are prepared to accept this bond. But it is forbidden for the Qimmig to have anything to do with one-skinned Inupiat. ![]() Could the Qimmig really exist? And could they have anything to do with the special, golden-eyed boy he’d played with as a child?Ĭupun has missed his old friend, Taq. But when he witnesses two guys survive a polar bear attack by shifting into dogs, he has to rethink everything. ![]() Taq figured that was just another story elders told around the campfire. The Qimmig and the People lived together happily until one of the Inuit betrayed the dog-men. Legend says that, centuries ago, the sled dogs and the Inuit were so deeply bonded that the dogs rose up on two legs and became men. ![]() How to LOVE THINE ENEMY (hOWL AT THE MOON #6)Ĭan a forbidden love heal the rift between two enemy tribes? ![]() ![]() ![]() Here's what to expect, according to the publisher: In this contemporary romance with a bit of magic, chronic overachiever Prudence Daniels is always quick to cast judgment on the lazy, rude, and arrogant residents of her coastal town. Scheduled to be released in November 2020, Instant Karma is Meyer's first contemporary romance. ![]() Now, you get to find out if she can bring that same magic to the real world. Let's just say that she definitely knows what she's doing when it comes to fairytale retellings and SFF novels. After that series came to a close, she released a standalone Queen of Hearts retelling, Heartless, as well as the sci-fi/fantasy Renegades trilogy. ![]() That book was a New York Times bestseller and became the first installment in The Lunar Chronicles series, which now consists of four books, one prequel, and a number of novellas. If you're not familiar with the work of Marissa Meyer, here's what you need to know: After years of writing fanfiction, she launched her writing career in 2012 with the release of Cinder, a sci-fi/fantasy retelling of the story of Cinderella. But if you're a diehard fan of the author, you have no reason to worry about what comes next: Bustle is excited to announce that Marissa Meyer has four new books - two contemporary romances and two retellings - being published by Feiwel & Friends between now and 2023. Later this year, Marissa Meyer's Renegades trilogy will come to an end with the release of the final installment, Supernova, on Nov. ![]() ![]() Tickets are available for purchase now at DATESĬBS has set premiere dates for its summer slate of reality television programming, including three returning and one new series. The workshops include “The Climate Reality: Rescripting Unscripted TV,” “Scroll to End the Climate Crisis: How Social Media Creates Change,” “Not A Future Generations Problem: Intergenerational Conversations Around Climate” and “Our Probable Futures.” The panels will be accompanied by several workshops that will unite filmmakers, artists, activists, climate organizations to scientists to discuss climate activism. ![]() The summit’s panels include “Hollywood Takes on Big Oil and Gas,” “Reframing Our Way of Being,” “How Hollywood Sets Climate Fashion Trends,” “From Script to Sustainability: Story’s Connection to Green Production,” “Decolonizing Climate Storytelling: From Hip Hop 50 to Land Back” and many more. The event will also include programming to encourage climate change activism, from panels to workshops and keynote speakers. The summit will feature two conference days at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater. 2023 Hollywood Climate Summit is set to take place from June 21-24, with extensive programming and appearances from Jane Fonda, Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Jonathan Wang, Etienne Maurice and several more speakers, announced YEA! Impact on May 18. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Designing Regenerative Cultures by Daniel Wahl.Nowadays, solarpunk embodies a whole range of politics, activism, design and art but at its heart it encompasses positive, grassroots community action and innovation as a way to prevent ecological crises. It originated as a genre of creative writing and artwork, but it quickly began to be implemented into decentralised left-wing spaces. Solarpunk as a concept emerged from the imagination of authors and creators in the early 2000′s, and was shared freely throughout the internet. “Solarpunk is a literary movement, a hashtag, a flag, and a statement of intent about the future we hope to create” - Ben Valentine A recognition that economic, social, and ecological injustices are all deeply inter-connected.”.A focus on decentralisation, community activism, social justice and civic empowerment.A demand for technology and society to re-centre around sustainability, longevity, and balance.An emphasis on renewable energy, especially solar power. ![]() It can be described as a literary genre, an aesthetic, or a movement. They believe in a world that is green, colourful, and bright. “Solarpunks cherish nature, progress and science the individual and the community. Artwork by Molly Costello ( instagram) what is solarpunk? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Book request titles must contain details about the kind of book you’re looking for.Inflammatory titles like Does Anyone Else, Unpopular Opinion, or similar are not allowed.Gush and critique posts should contain the book title/author if applicable. Reviews and screenshots of book excerpts must contain the book title/author in the post title.Book request titles must contain details about the kind of book you’re looking for and/or keywords that will inform future searches.Rules Post titles must be clear and informative For updated information regarding ongoing community features includings upcoming AMAs, please visit 'new' Reddit. Resource links will direct you to Wiki pages, which we are maintaining. Please be aware that the sidebar in 'old' Reddit is no longer being updated with informative links about Book Clubs, AMAs, etc. Home of the magic search button and endless book recommendations as well as discussions about tropes and characters, Author AMAs, book clubs, and more. R/RomanceBooks is a discussion sub for readers of romance novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() He hunts her, not expecting that one so small could be so hard to kill. But when she makes off with his sword and the key he has been searching for she demands his attention. ![]() When the little human female attempts to save his life, he doesn't think much of it. In doing so, Abel unlocks forgotten emotions of a world long past – things she never thought to experience. ![]() What she doesn't expect is to survive her encounter with this brutish, cocky alien, or that she might just have to band together with him to fight against even more dangerous predators. Abel won't give up either so easily, because these are the only clues she has to where aliens have taken her little sister. She thought he was dead, but now he's back to recover what she's stolen and maybe take her life. His corpse, though huge and glowing, had been mangled and left for the scavengers. Shock is what she feels when the alien she robbed hunts her down. Figures.Įleven years after the sky opened up and aliens descended to ravage the world, Abel thought she had seen and experienced everything that this savage new land – Population – had to offer. ![]() Turns out that my alien overlord may be my only shot in this post-apocalyptic nightmare. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak's only novel, is set between the early 1900s and World War II and contains complex plot lines and themes, including criticisms of the role of the government in the lives of citizens, and criticisms of the October Revolution and its aftermath. The poems he writes constitute some of the most beautiful writing featured in the novel. His artistic nature makes him vulnerable to the brutality and harshness of the Bolsheviks. Yury Zhivago, Pasternak's alter ego, is a poet, philosopher, and physician whose life is disrupted by the war and by his love for Lara, the wife of a revolutionary. The book quickly became an international best-seller.ĭr. One of the results of its publication in the West was Pasternak's complete rejection by Soviet authorities when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958 he was compelled to decline it. This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family was not published in the Soviet Union until 1987. ![]() ![]() Of his novel Palisades Park, People Magazine said: “Brennert writes his valentine to the New Jersey playground of his youth in Ragtime-style, mixing fact and fiction. His next novel, Honolulu, won First Prize in Elle Magazine’s Literary Grand Prix for Fiction and was named one of the best books of 2009 by The Washington Post. It also received the Bookies Award, sponsored by the Contra Costa Library, for the 2006 Book Club Book of the Year. ![]() His novel Moloka’i was a national bestseller and a One Book, One San Diego selection for 2012. ![]() He grew up in New Jersey but moved to California in 1973. ![]() Available for Pre-Order from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, IndieBound, Powell’sĪbout the Author: (From the Publishers Author Page):Īlan Brennert is a novelist, screenwriter, and playwright. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Three years later, Jude is out and needs work. There is no contact between them the entire time Jude is away. She writes and writes to Jude in prison asking why Gavin was in the car and for any explanation, but the letters are all returned unopened. Sophie is devastated over losing her brother and her lover all in one night. Jude’s body was full of drugs, and he gets convicted of vehicular manslaughter and sent to prison for three years. Her brother, Gavin, also gets in Jude’s face to make it clear he doesn’t approve – so when Jude crashes his car into a tree, killing the only passenger – Sophie’s brother – no one understands why Gavin would be in the car to begin with. Sophie’s father is the chief of police and does not approve of their relationship. They fall in love, much to the dismay of Sophie’s family. He works in his father’s auto repair shop and woos Sophie with his flirty charm. Jude is more of the bad boy, with an alcoholic father and no mother. Even when I was snorting an unsustainable quantity of oxy, I was still functional in the garage and still a good lover. I used to be so proud of the way I kept my two loves separate from one another – the drugs and the girlfriend. ![]() Jude became addicted to opiates (pills, heroine) and was able to hide that part of himself from his steady girlfriend, Sophie for a long time. You meet Jude in the first book, Bittersweet but this can be read as a stand alone. Oh Sarina Bowen – you know how to break my heart, fill it with angst and then patch it all back up. Steadfast by Sarina Bowen (True North #2) ![]() |