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YA Readers Debut Author Bash 2017 : Kristen Orlando

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  Review: You Don't Know My Name - Book#1 The Black Angel Chronicles - Kristen Orlando - January 2017 Every couple of years Reagan and her family move from place to place, and they are constantly changing their identities. Her parents are part of a secret spy agency called The Black Angel. They are the group of people who are called in to help save the situations when the CIA or FBI can't help. The Black Angel is the top of the spy world, and for Reagan, it is common knowledge that she has been trained since birth to take her parent's place and join the agency. She is the poster child for the agency. What happens though when Reagan finally has good friends, a boyfriend and decides that maybe the spy life isn't for her and she wants to head to college and experience a normal life. The type of life with a picket fence, a husband, and two kids. What will happen though when her parents head away on a mission, and the mission goes wrong? Now...

YA Reads Readers' Bash 2016 - Julie Leung

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For the past few years,  I have participated in the YA Reads Debut Authors Bash . Normally I have hosted several authors, but one of the authors wanted a different blog so I only have one author this year.  I now present you : Julie Leung 4 Must-Read Rodent-as-Hero Tales for Beginner Adventurers Greetings! My name is Julie Leung, debut author of the middle-grade fantasy series, Mice of The Round Table. As you may infer, this is the story of Camelot’s humblest creatures and their secret roles in helping King Arthur’s knights accomplish their legendary feats. Book One, A Tail of Camelot, goes on sale October 4th—which is why I’m here on this lovely blog as part YARead’s debut authors bash. Ten thousand cheese wheels to The Phantom Paragrapher for hosting me, and letting me geek out about the grand tradition of rodent adventures that inspired my own tale. Redwall series by Brian Jacques Mice of the Round Table follows the antics of one C...

2014 Debut Authors Bash : Lisa Doan Interview

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1)   Tell us about your book series “Jack The Castaway? Jack the Castaway is the first book in The Berenson Schemes series. The series’ premise is that a cautious boy is continually lost in the wilderness of foreign countries by his irresponsible, globe-trotting parents. So, in Jack the Castaway , Jack has to learn how to survive on a deserted Caribbean island. In the second, Jack and the Wildlife , Jack is lost on the Masai Mara of Kenya and forced to homestead in a tree. In the third, Jack at the Helm , Jack is lost in the wilds of Nepal and forced to white water raft to try to catch up with his parents. Instead of helicopter parents, Jack is a helicopter kid with supremely anti -helicopter parents. 2)      What was your favorite children’s book growing up? The Little Princess was the first real novel I owned. I read it through, then started over, and just kept re-reading it. Finally my mom asked me why I hadn’t finished it yet. I tol...