Tag Archives: YA

Bookshelf: The Never Prayer

Posted on August 12, 2016 by David

Lena’s parents are dead, gunned down in the act of trying to help a stranded motorist. She lives for her younger brother Jozey, and most of the time things go all right. At school, Lena manages to walk the line … Continue reading →

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Bookshelf: Dispocalypse

Posted on August 9, 2016 by David

Five hundred years after a nuclear war, the American northeast is an area called the Forbidding. Ruled by the evil Lord Tan, the Forbidding regularly sends stalkers (eyeless, toxin-spitting former humans), werebits (perhaps a Monty Python nod — like rabbits, … Continue reading →

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Bookshelf: The Seer

Posted on April 13, 2016 by David

The Seer is a gripping epic fantasy novel about the curse of talent and the overreaching of power. Sonia Orin Lyris’s debut novel The Seer follows young Amarta, who has a limited ability to see the future. The future is … Continue reading →

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Bookshelf: Dandelion Iron

Posted on April 11, 2016 by David

YA literature has been exploding in recent years, but in all its eccentric fecundity, it’s never seen this before: post-apocalyptic all-girl cattle drive. In 2058, the Juniper—that part of North America that used to be Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, … Continue reading →

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Bookshelf: Beat

Posted on October 2, 2015 by David

Nik Granjer doesn’t believe in the Bug. The Bug is the disease that wiped everyone else out a century ago. And it’s not that Nik doesn’t believe that the Bug once existed, but viruses just don’t live that long without … Continue reading →

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Salt Lake Comic Con, Here I Come!

Posted on September 23, 2015 by David

Salt Lake Comic Con is one of my favorite cons, and I say that as a guy who goes to a fair number of them. It’s a huge event, the organizers treat writers like the attraction they are, the green room … Continue reading →

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Bookshelf: Partials

Posted on August 17, 2015 by David

The backstory of Dan Wells’ biopunk epic is that America genetically engineers a bunch of semi-human “Partials” as supersoldiers — tough, unfeeling, regenerating killing machines. Who turn around and overthrow civilization. At the same time, a plague, called the RM … Continue reading →

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Exacting Essence

Posted on June 12, 2014 by David

My friend James Wymore has a new book out. It’s called Exacting Essence, and it’s a YA adventure-horror tale in which James tackles the most evil force the universe has ever known. That’s right: clowns. To celebrate Exacting Essence, James, … Continue reading →