NOTE: This is not a full review of Carve the Mark, it is only a response to the general perception that the book is somehow racist. If you want my actual review, see my previous post. OTHER NOTE: This post will contain many spoilers. If you haven’t read the book, and plan on doing so, …
NOTE: I’ve included as few spoilers as I can. In the interest of doing this, I will be writing a separate post regarding the fallacious accusations that Carve the Mark is racist. Perhaps the most anticipated YA book of 2017, Carve the Mark reminds us why we were swept away by Veronica Roth’s first novel, Divergent. Before I get …
Today I’ll reintroduce what I’ve taken to calling “Deep Thoughts Thursday” (DTT) where I talk in-depth about something related to my writing that I’ve been thinking a lot about lately. So here goes: Let’s talk about YA. If ever someone asks me what genre I write, and I reply that I write YA, the asker …
I hate clickbait with a burning passion. Clickbait sites themselves are garbage, but its the titles of the “articles” that really get to me. They eliminate any sort of sensible decision making from a reader’s ability to choose what kind of media they want to consume, giving way to the mindless clicking that everyone seems …
So it turns out that I couldn’t really get anything done over the holidays, or since. Maybe this was foreseeable. However, today I finally sat down in my little closet/office and actually wrote words. Like, Words. (*Angels sing.*) Hopefully this marks the beginning of a pattern. I want to be able to write a little bit every …