This book is being reviewed as a part of Tracey Neithercott’s YA Book Club. This month we’re talking about INSURGENT, which picks up right where DIVERGENT left off. Here’s the summary from the inside jacket: Tris’s initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with...Continue Reading
If you follow me on twitter, you may have noticed a long bout of silence these last two weeks. Well, I was off in Europe with the Engineer, traversing through Paris and rural Germany and then wrapping things up in Amsterdam. It was a blast, filled with delicious pastries, coffee, beer, wine, cheeses, sight-seeing, hiking,...Continue Reading
I spent most of this month revising book two based on my critique partner’s brilliant feedback. But somehow, I still managed to plow my way through a pretty solid stack of books. Let’s get to it! Books I read this April: After the killer cliffhanger at the end of Robison Well’s VARIANT, I’ve been super...Continue Reading
The experience of completing my first draft of TAKEN’s sequel has come with many ups and downs. The simplest thing I can say is this: Book Twos are strange beasts. Strange, strange beasts. My experience is not universal, but I do know a handful of writers that faced some of the same struggles (and epiphanies)...Continue Reading
