What do you get when you toss together a bunch of the most brilliant, talented, and creeptastic authors of YA and put them in a single volume of short stories that begs to be read with the lights on? The answer is this summer’s hottest anthology, Slasher Girls & Monster Boys, which features stories by […]
Alright, alright, we get it. NaNoWriMo—that caffeine- and adrenaline-fueled daze that is November for writerly types—has hardly begun, and already you’re pondering giving up (or not even starting). After all, what good has ever come out of spitting out 50,000 incoherent words with no filter? Plenty, I tell you! In fact, some of your favorite YA reads […]
Though I’ve never lived near the ocean, I’ve had a long and personal relationship with the rocky shores of Lake Superior. Though it may not have tides, as North America’s largest body of fresh water, it has the moods and rages of an ocean: playful and quiet one day, murderous the next. My grandparents’ small […]
We decided to do something a bit different this month—instead of just one Mind Meld at the end of the month, we’re doing four, covering four times as many of our favorite scary reads. We’ve asked our bookish friends near and far about their current favorite horror favorites, and are breaking them out by the […]
I have always been intrigued with characters matriculating in the midst of an apocalypse. They often grow up with very different ethical and social senses than their parents (or other adults acting in loco parentis), which can be a very real source of conflict. The differences between the boy Carl of the comic version of The […]