POSTED ON: July 3, 2017
FILED UNDER: Books, Fun Stuff
TAGS: Callie Bates, Fantasy, Mushrooms, The Waking Land, Young Adult
By Callie Bates
I love fungi, as anyone who’s read my novel The Waking Land has probably guessed. Not only are many colourful and slightly bizarre, they have the most fantastical names – like miniature novels filled with magic and whimsy. Here are a few of my favourites, along with the stories they could tell.
MOREPOSTED ON: April 6, 2016
FILED UNDER: Books
TAGS: Science Fiction, Young Adult
By Kate Griffith
Growing up is tough. And growing up in space? Well, it poses some interesting challenges. Getting on with aliens. Starting space rebellions. Life aboard a spaceship at war with itself. It’s difficult, and it’s fun as hell. From dystopian space societies to space battles to space prom, here are 13 young adult adventures that’ll catapult you right into space.
MOREPOSTED ON: November 3, 2015
FILED UNDER: Books, Fun Stuff
TAGS: Horror, Point Horror, Young Adult
By Cynthia Murphy
I’ve been feeling a little nostalgic for my youth recently. Perhaps it’s the fact nineties fashion is back with a vengeance (yes, I wore those slip dresses and tattoo chokers first time around, thank you very much). Or maybe it’s the endless Buffy re-runs I’ve been treating myself to. Chiefly though, I think it was the discovery of some old Point Horrors on a dusty shelf at my parents’ house.
Ah, Point Horror – my sole means of entertainment in the early nineties.
MOREPOSTED ON: July 29, 2015
FILED UNDER: Books, Fun Stuff
TAGS: Events and exhibitions, Young Adult
By Anne Perry
We came, we saw, we YALC’d.
MOREPOSTED ON: July 14, 2015
FILED UNDER: Books, News
TAGS: Book Covers, James P. Smythe, Young Adult
By Fleur Clarke
We’re delighted to reveal the cover for J.P Smythe’s Long Dark Dusk, the action-packed sequel to Way Down Dark and the second book in the Australia Trilogy.
MOREPOSTED ON: June 11, 2015
FILED UNDER: Books
TAGS: Jennifer L. Armentrout, Paranormal Romance, Young Adult
By Emily Kitchin
Here at Hodderscape we can’t get enough of Jennifer L. Armentrout, so we’re delighted to announce that we’ve just acquired two stonking paranormal novels, each a continuation of two of her most popular series.
MOREPOSTED ON: April 23, 2015
FILED UNDER: Books
TAGS: Writing Advice, Young Adult
By Sarah Clare
At this year’s London Book Fair I went along to the panel on Writing Fantasy and Horror for Young Adults. In a discussion chaired by Total Film magazine’s acting editor Rosie Fletcher, fantasy authors Sally Green (Half Bad), Joshua Winning (The Sentinel Trilogy), Liz de Jäger (Banished), Tom Huddlestone (The Waking World) and Zoe Marriott (The Swan Kingdom) explored the complexities of writing for young adults and why teen issues go hand in hand with darkly magical stories. Here’s what I learnt:
MOREPOSTED ON: August 28, 2014
FILED UNDER: Books
TAGS: Divergent, The Hunger Games, Young Adult
By Jess Henshall
With the increasing pressure on teenagers to look and act a certain way, it makes it near to impossible to stand up to the current trends and say no. The real world doesn’t seem to hold much for young women, but what does the literary world (specifically that of YA dystopian novels) have to offer teens and young women in terms of female role models? Do the likes of Katniss and Tris offer genuine positive examples to aspire to?
MOREPOSTED ON: July 14, 2014
FILED UNDER: Books
TAGS: Events and exhibitions, Young Adult
By Anne Perry
We went to the UK’s first YA Lit Con!
MOREPOSTED ON: July 10, 2014
FILED UNDER: Books, News
TAGS: Book Covers, Science Fiction, Scott K. Andrews, Young Adult
By Anne Perry
We’re delighted to bring you an incredible new cover today! TimeBomb is the first in Scott K. Andrews‘ forthcoming YA timetravel trilogy. So without further ado…
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