Monthly Archives: September 2013
We are a collective of YA authors who have come together to spread the word about the newest, bold, gritty fiction. Our genres include realistic, contemporary, historical, magical realism, and paranormal–with a healthy dose of suspense woven through all of them.
Uncommon YA features not only the latest titles from the above montage but it has heaps of other features…..
Devolution by Peter Clenott
RED CITY REVIEW
This action packed novel is a thriller from beginning to end, tackling diverse subjects that include seemingly unrelated things such as chimpanzees, teenage angst, war, and racism with unparalleled ease. Devolution by Peter Clenott is an enthralling book about a young girl named Chiku Flynn who has the ability to communicate with apes. She spends her first years of life as part of an experiment, raised in the rainforest…..
Alison Ashley Formento
Twigs (Merit Press, Sept. 2013): “Twigs is a unique coming-of-age story with a vivd cast of truly unforgettable characters.” — Kieran Scott, The New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the He’s So/She’s So Trilogy Website Facebook Twitter Bio: ALISON ASHLEY FORMENTO is the author of a multi-award-winning nature picture book series: This Tree Counts!, This Tree, 1, 2, 3, These Bees Count!, These…..
Devolution by Peter Clenott
This action packed novel is a thriller from beginning to end, tackling diverse subjects that include seemingly unrelated things such as chimpanzees, teenage angst, war, and racism with unparalleled ease. Devolution by Peter Clenott is an enthralling book about a young girl named Chiku Flynn who has the ability to communicate with apes. She spends her first years of life as part of…..
One of the perks of becoming an author is the opportunity to join with other writers in a community of people who share common interests and goals. Thanks the author and friend Beth Fehlbaum, the group UncommonYA has been founded. T he group consists of 25 authors whose works have been imed specifically at the you ng adult YA audience. Every now and then this site will host one of those authors. This week Julie Lindsey is launching her novel…..
Review
ABOUT MAGGIES FALL: Maggie McClellan is a single and single-minded woman whose sole purpose in life is to protect the M-Bar Ranch and the M-Bar Ranch family: her son, T.J.; Martha and Jonah (who have lived on the ranch as long as Maggie), the M-Bar horses, and one stray dog who knows all of Maggie’s sorrows. Maggie is smart. She knows how to run a ranch and how to keep her guests happy; she knows to stay out of…..
My YA novel THE HUNTED just received the following review from SCBWI reviewer Judith Nasse. Ms. Nasse’s reviews focus on novels that are appropriate fro young readers. THE HUNTED is also aimed, as ms. Masse notes, for an adult audience, uniquely bridging the two audiences.
In The Hunted the young reader is in for surprise, mystery, and scary thrills. It quickly becomes a page-turner as Suyape, an adopted teen from the Brazilian rainforest, discovers she has unusual communicative and psychic…..
Back in the old days when I started to write, there were no computers (at least no workable ones for writers). There was no social media, there was no Amazon, no eBooks, no Create Space. The books I enjoyed you could actually hold in your hand, turn the pages, and when you were done you could find the proper place on your book shelf. By author. In alphabetical order. By genre. Whatever. It was always there, my growing…..