Tag: YA fiction

  • C is for … Cor, I liked this one!

    Another random find this week. For my ‘C’ read I picked Madeline Freeman’s Crystal Magic from the whole of Amazon. This merged things I like with things I often don’t. It’s got magic in it – big tick from me, and unexplained eerie powers – now you’re talking! It also has a US High School…

  • Rising Tides

    Release blitz: Rising Tides My new YA novel, Rising Tides, came out on Friday, so there’s no chance I’ll be able to focus on anything else at present. Read on for more information – and a giveaway! About the book: The truth won’t stay submerged forever City is the last civilised place left on a drowned Earth,…

  • The End of the World?

    I read a thought-provoking blog this week (http://mumpsimus.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/ending-world-with-hope-and-comfort.html?m=1) which has been nagging at me ever since.  I’m paraphrasing enormously for the purpose of summary, but the basic gist was that the post-apocalyptic fiction so popular at present offers a cosily comforting picture of survival after catastrophe that is so at odds with what an apocalypse…