If you are (also) suffering from Royal Wedding fever, Rachel Hawkins’ new young adult novel is your next drug. I must admit to reading an article or 20 on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s upcoming wedding, so when Hawkins’ new…
Lady Renegades Blog Tour: Author Rachel Hawkins shares how pop culture influences her writing
Last summer at San Diego Comic Con, I attended a panel called “The Buffy Effect,” where a group of young adult authors, including Rebel Belle author Rachel Hawkins, discussed how the show influenced the teen heroines in their novels. It was…
Book Review: ‘Lady Renegades’ (Rebel Belle #3) by Rachel Hawkins
As author Rachel Hawkins states in her acknowledgments for Lady Renegades, the final book in the Rebel Belle series, she writes books about “Ladies Getting It Done.” That is a theme I can always get behind. It’s also the driving…
Comic-Con 2015: The Buffy Effect – Teen Heroines Then & Now
If you’re a Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan and haven’t read some recent young adult lit, or if you’re a big YA fan but have yet to check out Joss Whedon’s brilliant teen series, you are missing out. Seriously. I…
Interview: Penguin Teen on Tour
I had the pleasure of interviewing the 2015 Penguin Teen on Tour authors at the NOVA Teen Book Festival. The five wonderful authors are: Morgan Rhodes (Gathering Darkness, book 3 of the Falling Kingdoms series), Rachel Hawkins (Miss Mayhem, sequel…