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Sharada Keats chats why she prefers grey characters and how her background in economics helps the worldbuilding in These Stolen Lives.
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Jonny Garza Villa on their new YA novel, Canto Contigo
"It’s been an honor to share my community and my culture with readers, and I think Canto Contigo is so specifically…
June CL Tan on her new YA urban fantasy novel, Darker By Four
"With the lack of control and feeling of helplessness and also the need for some fun escapism, something just…
Jenna Voris on her new country music inspired YA novel, Every Time You Hear That…
"when I think back to the music of my childhood, a lot of it is country"
Gabe Cole Novoa on his new YA fantasy novel, The Diablo’s Curse
"It’s been so exciting to see more and more books come out with trans protagonists, and I am so proud to add to…
"There are tales from all over the world, from a variety of different cultures that share many of the same elements of the typical Faust narrative."
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Read an exclusive extract of Sami Ellis’s debut YA horror, Dead Girls…
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Sophie Gonzales on her new YA rom-com, The Perfect Guy Doesn’t Exist
"I do, however, continue to write fanfiction in some different fandoms these days, and I will never admit to anyone…
"Part of fear is the unknown, and so that’s a balance I consider a lot."
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Bonus content in Alice Oseman’s novels
Harper Fire reprinted Alice Oseman's novels and we are here to dissect all the bonus content in the new editions.
New covers for YA classics
In recent years many YA books we grew up loving have gotten new covers -- today let's discuss three authors whose…
"We’ve been tricked into thinking that as adults, we should have the answers to those questions. We should have it all figured out by now. And we don’t. Or at least very, very few of us do. Almost none of us, to be honest."
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Reading the bonus stories in The Dark Artifices’ anniversary edition
The first book to The Dark Artifices, Lady Midnight, was first published in March 2016. As we approach the 8th…
Tanya Byrne on her emotional new YA novel, In the Shallows
"That got me thinking about the fallibility of memory and how reliant we are on other people to tell us the stuff…