As promised, in honor of National Day On Writing, the BBS family shares why we write for the kiddies and teens. WHY I WRITE by Tameka Fryer Brown Author of Around Our Way (PB) I write to express my thoughts, my feelings, my beliefs— Poignant or not, Sleeve-worn or not, Endorsed by the general masses [ Read the full article… ]
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TRW: The Queen Of Water Review
Queen of water by Laura Resau Every book has its place and its audience. Although The Queen of Water is fiction, it’s based on a true story and it read like a biography. I think readers who enjoy biographies and those who have an interest in learning about different cultures will be most drawn to [ Read the full article… ]
Teen Read Week: Clean Review
In honor of Teen Read Week, I’ll try and post a review of some of the Cybils noms I’m reading. Cybils YA noms have topped out at a little over 180 submissions. *swoons* Two weeks into it and being a first round judge is all that it’s cracked up to be. All YA, all the [ Read the full article… ]
National Day On Writing 2011
There’s a day for everything. Literally. Some days it’s exhausting. I mean I can barely keep up with whether it’s Monday versus Wednesday…well actually that’s not true. Mondays vibe is way different. Still, from National Ice Cream day to Kiss a Pig in Purple, there seems to be a day to honor every possible human [ Read the full article… ]
Leverage(ing) Teen Boy Readers
When I sold So Not The Drama in 2006, among YA’s hot topics were not enough books featuring African American teens outside of the historical fiction or inner city blues realm and never enough “boy” books. I’m glad to say that based on this year’s Cybil nominations things are (have?) taking a turn. Leverage, by [ Read the full article… ]
Cybils YA Brown Books
I may have to hurt my library system because they don’t seem to have (m)any of the Cybils books by brown authors. I will not rant about it. I will not rant about it. I will not… Some of these books are new and I understand that procuring them isn’t as easy as me walking [ Read the full article… ]
Madame Judge, If you Please…
Okay, by show of hands, how many bought my YA Bootcamp challenge post yesterday? Up until now, I couldn’t reveal that in fact I’ll be judging the YA category for the Cybil’s this year. I’m really excited about this. Not only is YA a competitive category, but I’ve always felt strongly that you have to [ Read the full article… ]
Pee’s YA Bootcamp – Day 1
As the resident YA chick here (shout out to the resident YA Dude, Varian Johnson) I’m left to uphold the banner for all things YA. See, our compatriots here at BBS are legit children’s writers. They write for children. While V and I write for those elusive creatures who are not quite adults but lest [ Read the full article… ]