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 [...]
70/365 by Amy Loves Yah. Used under Creative Commons License. Young writers have to have a certain reckless confidence if they’re going to turn into experienced writers. You have to believe in yourself so much to keep writing — in all but a very few cases, it is an endeavor without great reward, especially [...] At The New Yorker, Laura Miller reviews The Hunger Games, a series of young adult novels set in a society in which teenagers are annually drafted to take part in a gladiator-like contest. But more broadly, Miller explores the genre of dystopian fiction and its appeal to teenagers. She attributes it partially to teenagers’ ability [...] |
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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