The Forest of Hands and Teeth (Forest of Hands and Teeth Series #1)

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

It takes a lot of books to make a book, and you can safely bet your favorite fantasy author grew up on a steady diet of other authors’ incredible words and worlds. We asked the writers behind 17 of our most anticipated fantasy books to hit shelves January through June to book chat a fantasy […]