Book Review: ‘Daughter of Deep Silence’ by Carrie Ryan

Elegant, rich prose does not a phenomenal book make. That sentence is unfortunately the only thing I remember from English class, along with the accompanying showing, not telling does a phenomenal book make. A phenomenal book is one without sentences like, “Everything about…

BookExpo America 2015

Last week, I attended BookExpo America (BEA) and BookCon for the first time. In case you aren’t familiar, BEA is a publishing business event focused on raising publicity for upcoming releases. BookCon is a more fan-oriented book focused event, similar…

Books to Movies: Which of Your Favorite YA Reads Might/Will Hit the Big Screen?

  Hollywood is gobbling up movie rights to almost every best-selling Young Adult novel to hit book stands in the past few years. Can you blame them? Every studio is looking for the new Harry Potter, Twilight and now Hunger…