No one romantic comedy can give you the truth about love. They all follow formulas to some degree: the meet-cute, the inevitable misunderstandings that sabotage a fledgling love, the cheesy love song soundtrack. But looking at the genre—which has been parodied and celebrated—as a whole, you get something more valuable: a multifaceted look at how we talk […]
Writing my new book, Trust, required a slight shift in genre and thinking for me. It’s not only my first Indie release, but it’s my first ever Young Adult book as well. While the story is still first and foremost a romance, it is set firmly within a YA world. The hero and heroine are […]
The Romantic Comedy tends to feel a bit like a lost art these days, with the box office dominated by superheroes and the bookshelves tending more strongly toward epic fantasies and contemporaries that crush your heart in an entirely different way. But YA authors have been quietly stacking the shelves with some great ones this […]
JT gets it: May is going to be a ridiculously great month for YA! The May release stack is so thrillingly extensive I had to take out accident insurance on my desk, but it’s aaaall worth it (if you get trapped by a falling book pile, just read your way out!). Read on for proud geekery, dark thrills, every kind of […]