We don't usually get overtly political over here, but there are times when it's unavoidable. Times when something is so unconscionab...

Between early-summer travel, summer school class prep, copious novel rewriting, and some much-needed down time, it's been quiet here on ...

This was pretty typical of me at a certain age (by which I mean all the ages including now...). I believe that is a Sweet Valley High boo...

It's hard to believe, but I don't think we've posted about this yet--the next Kidlitosphere Conference is already well into the ...

Source: Mental Health America May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and we've reviewed a number of titles over the years that we th...

...I'll leave you to decide which are the bits, which are the bobs, and which are the whatnot. Firstly, I don't want anyone to mis...

Words of wisdom from Lawrence Ferlinghetti's typewriter in the Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., augmented with a few e...

Hey, it's November, and that means it's National Novel Writing Month! As per usual for me lately, I don't even have a wisp of ...

I admit I've been a bit quiet lately, but I thought I'd emerge momentarily to put up a little photo comparison that I assembled a wh...

Book lovers! It is that time of year! The time when we all hustle over to the Cybils website to nominate our favorite children's and...

I guess it's time I admitted it to you all--there are times when I'm not actually reading YA books. Surprise! Over the past few week...

The call for 2017 Cybils Awards judges is open ! Bloggers, vloggers, Goodreads reviewers--any or all of those are welcome, as long as you ...

A new Cybils year is already ramping up and getting ready to launch! And with a new year comes a new (well, refreshed) logo with nifty ne...

Social media continues to find new ways of invading our time and brain space and making our lives more complicated and annoying, so I though...

Just popping my head up from my imminent deadline to remind you that the Kidlitosphere Conference has released its official Call for Prese...

Attention, bloggers! The 2017 Kidlitosphere Conference is going to be held November 3rd and 4th in Hershey, PA! The Land of Chocolate! Wh...

I found this delightful post via Scholastic talking about where and how their bloggers organize their bookshelves: alphabetically, by c...

...I don't know if it's "redux" so much as "rerun," but oh well. I'm going to a writing retreat this weekend...

While we were all celebrating Valentine's Day/not celebrating Valentine's Day/lamenting the latest political news, there was anoth...

I was reading today's YA newsletter from Book Riot , which contains an article with a selection of YA titles from 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50...