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Continuing on from yesterday’s post: ME:  So Alex, what should we expect from Book 2 in the Halo series? AA: A lot more action and drama! As you can tell from the title (Hades) Book II is a bit darker in terms of themes and part of it takes place in Hell. There will also [...]

This girl really needs no introduction, but I’ll give her one anyway. Way back in 2006, publishing giant HarperCollins took to the ‘slushpile’, gave some attention to a 14 year old’s unsolicited manuscript – and the rest is history. My, how things have changed … they grow up so fast, don’t they? Now, with the Strangest Adventures series [...]

You may remember me discussing author Alexandra Adornetto’s new YA book Halo in an older post – and now Halo is released in Australia! Whoohoo! Check it out here.  Since Halo signifies a rather grand departure from her Strangest Adventures days, I thought it might be nice to have Alex’s thoughts on the celestial beings occupying [...]

One thing I love about Charlotte, writer of the Strangers of Paragor series, is that she doesn’t shy away from being totally girly and romantic. Book 2 of the series was released just last month, I was fortunate enough to read it, and I came away dreaming about faraway lands and dashing princes. But for [...]

An article in The Guardian, published April 2010, discusses Philip Pullman as a possible trendsetter for the current onslaught of angels in YA fiction. One of the voices of the article claims that “on the ladder that goes up from the mushroom to God, angels are one rung above us”- angels are seen as superior [...]