May 20
2009
Your Summer Blog Blast Tour Schedule for Day 3!
Barbara O'Conner at Mother Reader: "But the best “life experience” that is reflected in the book is a little boat made out of a Yoo-hoo chocolate drink carton."
James Kennedy at Fuse Number 8: "I mean, there are so many terrible YA covers out there. I don’t want to name names, but I think you know what I mean: a slack-jawed, clumsily drawn boy staring vacantly into the middle distance, while some lumpy orc galumphs around in the background. Terrible, terrible."
Maggie Stiefvater at Writing & Ruminating: However, in a lot of urban fantasy, the female lead has to become a super kick-butt leather-bodice-wearing chick in order to have the same level of coolness as her supernatural hero. I didn’t want Grace to be that girl. I wanted her to be a strong, level-headed character who was cool without leather and rivets and Taekwondo."
Rosemary Clement-Moore at Little Willow: "This is why the prom features in so many books and movies: It a single event that focuses all the social aspects -- good, bad and hellish -- of the rest of the school year: the social hierarchy, the fashion police, the kids that drink, the boy/girl drama, the money angst, the putting up a front pressure... all those things that are going on all year sort of get distilled to this one night."
Jo Knowles at lectitans: "Well, like Lucky, my own pony, Smoky, was ornery, old, small and sort of embarrassing. But he was mine and I adored him. "
Melissa Wyatt at Chasing Ray: "Is Remy a hero, with his greasy coveralls and his trailer where the plumbing doesn’t work half the time? I think he is. He tries, he cares and he thinks, and isn’t that what we hope for any teen? Or any adult, for that matter."
See the whole schedule here and don't forget the Guys Lit Wire Book Fair for Boys!
[Post quote from James Kennedy]
