Anniversary Week - Best of the YA Muses: Thumbprints into Their Brain
Happy FOUR years, y'all. I had a hard time picking my favorite post from this year (9/27/13) and while this one brings up some pa...
BOOMERANG!
What a sweet treat to get to spend this week introducing y'all Noelle August's BOOMERANG. I mean, the authors -- Veronica and Lorin ...
From the Archives: Levels of "Done-ness"
On three... one, two... a one, two, three... Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear U.S.A... ...
Crying in Paradise
March 2013. The jungles near Quepos, Costa Rica. A young man lounged on the dark hardwood deck of a cabin overlooking the converted pl...
A Blast from the Past
Well, HELLO there, everybody. It's me: Bret. Bret...Bret Ballou. Tall, dark, handsome, talented, witty...c'mon, you remember. ...
From the Archives--Bret Ballou's The Novel Relationship
An oldie but goodie from the archives. One of the things I love best about Bret's writing is his wry sense of humor, and how it takes ...
From the Archives--Scare-ine
We've been talking about raising the stakes this week, so I figured I'd share with you this post from 2012. Bret takes apart the p...
From the Archives--Book Blog--FEED by MT Anderson
As we're book blogging this week (and Bret is still wrapped up in that newborn baby, sleep-deprived glow), I thought I'd reblog thi...
From the Archives: 1 (900) HLP-D-CRZY
Our Bret is still on paternity leave, so I'm filling in with a post from the archives. And since we're talking about "fando...
From the Archives--Mental Revision Tools
Our dear Bret Ballou is on paternity leave for a few weeks, so I'm filling in every other Friday with some of my favorite Bret posts ...
Slipping Sideways into Your World (from the archives)
Hello, all! I'd love to write something original this week, BUT I'm not. And I'd say I have a very good 7 lbs. 11 oz, 19...
BOOK BLOG: The Golem & the Jinni by Helene Wecker
Up until reading THE GOLEM & THE JINNI, I'd been on a YA Contemporary kick. Looking back, I'm not 100% sure what made me dow...
Writing "Metrics"
Happy Hallmark...I mean, er, Happy Valentine's Day! So in a "real" job, such as my "day" job, we spend a signifi...
You've had Since Tuesday!
So what did y'all think of Katherine's MANOR OF SECRETS and Veronica's INTO THE STILL BLUE? I bet you loved them as much as th...
The Country Bumpkin
When I first read the topic this week, I had a similar reaction to Katherine. "What? Inner voices, again?" Who scheduled THAT topi...
