Can we read all the Throne of Glass books in time for Kingdom of Ash? WE THINK SO.
“you’re a writer, right?” Me, staring at the one sentence ive managed to add in the last hour: In theory
Top 10 Diverse YA Books:
Closing out 2017 with a list of some of the wonderful YA sci-fi and fantasy books I read this year:
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo The Reader by Traci Chee Warcross by Marie Lu Theonite by M. L. Wang The Library of Fates by Aditi Khorana Flame in the Mist by Renee Ahdieh Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
“Someone with sharp enough eyes might see the instant where one wounded heart begins to rot while the other starts to heal.” ― Seanan McGuire, Down Among the Sticks and Bones
I read Every Heart a Doorway, I knew this would be a cautionary tale, but ouch my heart!
Oh my gosh.
Oh my GOSH.
OH MY GOSH!!!!!!!!!!
“Cool ideas for stories? They’re frickin’ everywhere. They live in science journals and history books. They’re written on sidewalks and subway cars and the faces of people waiting at crosswalks…”
“Before I read Watership Down, I knew personally how utterly alien animals were, but I had no idea anyone else could quantify it. You know that moment when a friend voices an opinion you’ve been certain was uniquely and utterly your own and you leap out of your seat shrieking HOLY SHITSNACKS, ME TOO and startle the cat? It was that moment, in novel format.“
“You, new girl,” she had said. “Angela tells me you were a mermaid. Is that so?”
Cora had sputtered and stammered and somehow signaled her agreement. Nadya had smirked and taken Cora’s arm in hers.
“Good,” she’d said. “I’ve been ordered to make more friends, and you seem to fit the bill. We damp girls have to stick together.”
Please love yourself and read Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire and read about mermaids and drowned girls being best friends.
when the story is just not working, but you keep writing anyway
Current mood…
Reminder that she actually wins that season, so keep your head up.
Reminder that she constantly had trouble believing that she deserved to be there and her first few could best be described as ‘not the worst’.
And she won. She stayed positive, cried when she needed to, and kept going.
^^^^
I was just about to say that… I almost cried when she won
IC 4603: Reflection Nebula in Ophiuchius
I just finished Beneath the Sugar Sky (and it was amazing, as I knew it would be, as your stuff always is) and being a fat girl who loves to swim, I wanted to thank you for Cora. Just... everything about her. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
The truth of me is somewhere between Jack and Cora. Thank you so much for trusting me to give her to you.