E.M. Kokie
Author of young adult fiction, including PERSONAL EFFECTS (Candlewick, 2012) and RADICAL (Candlewick Press, Fall 2016). Often opinionated. Sometimes Sarcastic.
Reflecting Today's World in YA & MG Fiction
I'm guest blogging today over at The Hate-Mongering Tart on reflecting today's world in YA & MG fiction with LGBTQ characters (and highlighting some YA & MG novels that get it right). Come on over and check out my post, and the guest posts celebrating pride week.
Missing the Point…before any reader ever can
If you haven’t already, go read this fantastic post by author Sarah Ockler about how the NYT Book Review of two recent YA novels completely missed the point. Sarah’s post eloquently discusses the reviewer’s misunderstanding of the purpose and intent of YA literature, and why it dooms her review. (And really, if you haven’t read the post, go read it….
Fall Round-up
I have been buried this fall under work, and writing (and struggling with writing the work-in-progress that is fighting me every step of the way), and those final steps in moving Personal Effects from a story to a book. These last few steps in the process were so overwhelming at times that I would start a post and then shy…
Almost later (revelations observed while working on line edits)
It’s almost later. Or, revelations observed while working on line edits.
Get POSSESSed
Want to get POSSESSed? Of course you do… Our first Apocalypsie book debuts August 23, 2011 – POSSESS, by Gretchen McNeil (Balzer and Bray for HarperCollins). Fifteen-year-old Bridget Liu just wants to be left alone: by her mom, but the cute son of a local police sergeant, and by the eerie voices she can suddenly and inexplicably hear. Unfortunately for…