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Beware the Return of Point Horror
Scholastic has heard your pleas for more horror and is in the midst of releasing some cool, easy and very accessible horror with the Point Horror line. This relaunched line combines technology with horror to create some fun, fast reads. I was able to read these titles quickly and, being a horror fan, I found […]
New Adult: A Broken Promise, Now a Rose by Any Other Name (by Chrisite G)
I have been following with waxing and waning interest for the last few months the chatter about the “New Adult” trend that publishers have been introducing. You can trace it back to St. Martin Press back in 2009, when they wanted to market books as coming-of-age stories with characters in their twenties. You can actually trace it […]
What do I call that? Genre 101 with Georgia McBride
I love speculative fiction so much that when I started Month9Books, I added the commonly misunderstood term to our tagline: “speculative fiction for teens and tweens where nothing is as it seems.” Those of you who are genre fiction fans, and in particular speculative fiction fans, may already know what it means. But for those […]
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Thursday Throw Down: Teen Read Week Genres
So, this week on TLT we’re talking about Teen Read Week and different genres… and we want to know WHICH genre is your favorite and why? Is it…. PARANORMAL ROMANCE that gets your heart aflutter? OR VAMPIRES that you can sink your teeth into? OR ALIENS that send you into orbit? OR BIOENGINEERING that tweaks your genes? Share […]
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