INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING AND DMCA ABUSE, OR “HOW A SCAMMER GOT MY BOOK BLOCKED WITH VERY LITTLE EFFORT” – A pretty chilling tale about how author Becca Mills had her book removed from Smashwords and Amazon via a fraudulent DMCA takedown notice, filed by someone who then reached out to the ... more >
Dear Ms. Carr: Zoey Emerson and Robbie Granger have been best friends for twenty five years and roommates for the last several year. She and three other women who live in the same townhome association make New Year’s resolutions. Zoey’s is to reveal to Robbie that she loves him and ... more >
Dear Mr. Green, The narrator of your novel, The Fault in Our Stars is Hazel, a sixteen year old with stage four thyroid cancer “with an impressive and long-settled satellite colony” in her lungs. Thanks to a drug treatment she calls “the Miracle” Hazel’s cancer has been kept from spreading ... more >
Dear Ms. Patrick, I’ve been on a sci-fi YA kick lately. It’s a result of my wanting to love the dystopian sub-genre but continually being disappointed by its offerings time and time again. I know these are just marketing labels and can shift based on current trends. (With the success ... more >
Dear Mr. Ness, I feel like quite the scrooge because while I liked your YA novel, A Monster Calls, I didn’t love it the way everyone else I’ve seen reviewing it seems to have done. The book has a powerful and moving story of how it came to be. The ... more >
Dear Ms. Carter, The Hades and Persephone story is my favorite Greek myth, and I can never get enough of it. Sometimes I feel like all you need to do is mention that a story is a Hades and Persephone retelling and I’m there. So the premise for your debut ... more >