middle grade

REVIEW:  The Secret of the Midnight Tunnel by Angie Frazier

REVIEW: The Secret of the Midnight Tunnel by Angie Frazier

Dear Ms. Frazier, After I admittedly adored your YA debut novel of last year, Everlasting, I have been looking forward to this book.   Middle grade books have started to appeal to this reviewer, and it pleased me to see an author of historical novels taking them into the middle school aged audience.   YA is said(…)

REVIEW: Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin

Dear Ms. Lin: I don’t review many non romance books here at Dear Author because it’s a) a romance oriented blog and b) I rarely read anything that isn’t romance except for the books I read to my daughter. For the most part, the books I’ve read to my five year old are mainly old(…)

Random House Author to Change Language in Bestsellling Children’s Book

There’s some strange goings-on at Random House. First, it canceled the publication of the Jewel of Medina on the grounds that it would stir up some terrorist action. After sending out advance editions of the novel THE JEWEL OF MEDINA, we received in response, from credible and unrelated sources, cautionary advice not only that the(…)