Seth, in chapter one of The Zones, the first book of the All We Ever Wanted (Was Everything) series, is twenty. He is skinny, both because that’s the way he is and because he’s a fairy dust addict. (Fairy dust is a drug engineered to keep people addicted but also alive and pretty — [...]
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In chapter one The Zones, the first book of All We Ever Wanted (Was Everything) Luna is seventeen and six months pregnant. She’s blonde, blue-eyed, fair-skinned, round-figured. Whenever I picture her clothes, they are always long dresses. Luna is something of an innocent, and her style is somewhat bohemian. She thinks of going to the [...] One thing I envy comic book artists is that they get to draw their characters — and their characters’ clothes. I’ve just started rewriting All We Ever Wanted Was Everything, and because it’s dystopian science fiction, the clothes my characters wear is important. It’s part of the world-building. Because the characters live in the [...]
"Comics reading" by JR Paris. Used under Creative Commons License. There’s a term in baseball, “manufacturing runs,” that refers to using methods other than powering the ball out of the park to score — taking walks, stealing bases, getting singles, bunting, sacrifice flies. It’s especially useful if a team, like my poor beleaguered Oakland [...] Yet again, someone is wringing their hands about the content of young adult fiction. This time it’s Meghan Cox Gurdon in the Wall Street Journal. I responded to a similar article ten months ago. The arguments were a little different, but the main concern was the same — that the subjects of YA fiction are [...] |
My Opium Den
After some thinking, I realized why I didn't finish this book (even as I racked up late fees from the library): I found the subject matter, the history of the region of England called Sunderland, interesting, but there was nothing about the...
Lovely art by Camilla D'Errico (who should be listed as a co-author) provide mood and texture for this story of a troubled young girl whose fantasy life becomes a bit too real when she visits a website called Make5wishes.com. The authors ar...
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