Book Review Mammoth is a forthoming YA contemporary novel by Jill Baguchinsky (from Turner Publishing). The publisher was kind enough to send me an advanced copy for review. The story…
Chasing Eveline Release Celebration (July 11, 2017) My YA debut Chasing Eveline introduces the world to fictional band Chasing Eveline. The four members originally got together in Ireland (Kilkenny) in…
After that, I pretty much gave up. Each Friday, I continued to write and erase, but I let go of my dreams of beating Susie Sloan, seeing my paper on…
I think I peaked in sixth grade. As a writer, that is. Maybe romantically, too, considering that was the year of my epic first kiss with Collin Crosby, the boy…
Welcome to Tuesday! Top Ten Tuesday is on hiatus, so I decided to rerun one of my all-time favorite TTT posts. Enjoy! **** Time for another Top Ten Tuesday. Top…
Book covers are the best! Especially when they are for your very own debut novel! I’ve chosen a cover for CHASING EVELINE, and I want you to join in on…
Thanks for tuning in here for another Literary Battle. I know there’s really nothing more common, more mundane, more ho-hum than pitting one book against another. We readers are always…
If you’ve been around this blog and feel as though you’ve heard this one before, please don’t stop me (who got that Smiths reference???) but instead go here probably because…
Music. Two cute boys. An absent mother. And a leprechaun. (Yes, a leprechaun.) My novel drops on November 10!
Title: Chasing Eveline Author: Leslie Hauser Genre: YA Contemporary Word Count: 61,000 Synopsis/Query: Sixteen-year-old Ivy Higgins is the only student at Carmel Heights High School who listens to cassettes. And…
I wordled my new YA Contemporary manuscript THE MARY KENNEDYS. I’m finished! And yes, wordle can be used as a verb. Because I said so. Introducing….The Mary Kennedys brought to…