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Not a Drop to Drink

August 28, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS

The #SVYALit Project: The Specter of Rape in Not a Drop to Drink, a guest post by author Mindy McGinnis

A lot of people ask me about the specter of rape in NOT A DROP TO DRINK. While you’ll never find the actual word anywhere in the text, it hangs over the whole like a storm about to break. Lynn, Mother and Neva all express their fears in different ways, but each one of them […]

September 17, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

2013 Debut Author Bash: Meet Mindy McGinnis, author of Not a Drop to Drink (GIVEAWAY)

Like many readers, I am obsessed with the apocalypse in any form.  I’m pretty sure my obsession began way back when I read The Stand by Stephen King.  Earlier this year, I was introduced to Not a Drop to Drink by Mindy McGinnis, a post-apocalyptic thriller that asks us to imagine a world where water […]

May 13, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

What Will You Do to Survive the Future?

There was a time when NUCLEAR WAR was the thing we feared most.  People built bomb shelters outside their homes and prepared for the day when THE BIG ONE would be dropped.  As a kid, I remember begging to stay up one school night and watch a TV movie called The Day After.  Whatever you […]

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