Author by night!

California Mom, Wife, Teacher, Fangirl, Book nerd, and aspiring Author. My Website Fandoms blog: divergentfaults

[daughter-of-blood-and-starlight]

[epicreads]

Happy 4th of July! Read your way across the USA with our map of YA books set in every state! Get the full list here.

[bibliolectors]

[ralittle]

Miles Hyman

[speaklivewrite]

Some books are so familiar that reading them is like returning home again.

Louisa May Alcott, Little Women  (via mercurieux)

[sosuperawesome]

Book sculptures by Jodi Harvey-Brown

Shop (Commissions welcome)

[bookriot]

Pumpin’ It Bookworm Style

[boundwithwords-blog]

[ralittle]

New blog post :)

[penguinteen]

Happy Independence Day, book lovers! Celebrate fREADom this 4th of July!

[ralittle]

Confidence or Lack Thereof...

Writers are a rare breed who can simultaneously think we have the most amazing ideas that simply must be shared with the world, while also feeling crippling self doubt. How can such a huge group of...

[paperbackd]

A masterpost of YA books (and a few crossover MG titles) to be released in June 2014.  Check out this month’s new releases below.  Feel free to use this as a guide to this month’s releases, but please do not repost it in its entirety elsewhere.  If you found this masterpost helpful, a like, reblog, or link back to Paperback’d would be much appreciated! If you know of a YA book to be released this month that isn’t on the list, drop me a message and I’ll update it!

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[slightlyignorant]

Closet turned book nook!

[ralittle]

Writing First Loves

In both my completed manuscript and WIP, my characters start to fall in love for the first time. They're both YA, what do you expect? Your teen years are for experiencing new things, and falling in...

New blog post for Monday Blogs!

[listentothestories]

[writingquotes-deactivated201509]

I tell aspiring writers that you have to find what you MUST write. When you find it, you will know, because the subject matter won’t let you go. It’s not enough to write simply because you think it would be neat to be published. You have to be compelled to write. If you’re not, nothing else that you do matters.

Rick Riordan (via writingquotes)

[afaerytalelife]

Well, you know, old stories are rather like old friends. Every so often, you have to drop in on them again. Just to see how they’re doing. — Masques, Beauty & The Beast [1987], by George R. R. Martin. Artwork by Natasha Tabatchikova.

[the-manila-institute]

till the release of City of Heavenly Fire

[everythingisbetterwithabook]

So jealous of people in like Australia or the Philippines who are already in CoHF release day right now.