My New Love Afair...

I've been avoiding Pinterest for years. I just couldn't handle any more social media distractions commitments. Then I read this MASHABLE ARTICLE, did some research, and decided to take a swing at "P."

I have three boards: One for THE SOUND OF LETTING GO (images that relate to the novel, including some of my own research photos); one for TSoLG fantasy casting; and a FAVORITE AUTHORS FAN BOARD in which I shamelessly fangirl book stuff.

http://www.pinterest.com/stasiakehoe/the-sound-of-letting-go/

http://www.pinterest.com/stasiakehoe/fantasy-casting-for-the-sound-of-letting-go/

http://www.pinterest.com/stasiakehoe/favorite-authors-fan-board/

 

So far? FUN. Will keep you posted.

Do you "pinterest"? (And is that how you ask?)

Care to follow me or my boards http://www.pinterest.com/stasiakehoe/boards/?

I'll follow back :)

Have I mentioned that I don’t write YA?

I write novels. Why do the protagonists tend to be teenagers? I really don’t know. I sometimes wish I could write humorous or action-packed middle-grade stuff like the amazing Barbara Park’s JUNIE B. JONES series or Mary Pope Osborne’s MAGIC TREEHOUSE. I can’t get enough of the gorgeous art of folks like Wendy Wahman and Paul Schmid. Heck, I kind of wish I’d been born Agatha Christie or Arthur Conan Doyle if you really want the truth. But I can’t. I don’t. I wasn’t.

I’m me.

Maybe someday I’ll write about protagonists who are older or younger. Maybe someday I’ll write in third person (or maybe even second). Maybe someday, I’ll be done exploring that fascinating, immediate, joyful, tragic, terrifying, limitless epoch that is being a teenager…

• WITHIN a family and a community including CHARACTERS who happen to be parents, teachers, siblings
• WHILE TESTING identities that may or may not fit

• AND EXPLORING friendships and romances for right and wrong reasons
• AND TRYING TO FIGURE out WHAT YOU MIGHT BE GOOD AT and WHO YOU ARE and WHO YOU WANT TO BECOME…and WHY

Actually, I’m still doing all of that. And I’m learning through the medium that, right now, frees my voice and lets me dive deep (albeit sometimes fearfully) into memory, curiosity and hope.

So, no, I don’t write "YA." I write the books I can write in the strongest, most expressive way I can. And I honestly hope that curious people of all ages will read them.

Happy Book Birthday to THE VOW by Jessica Martinez

Jessica is a wonderfully talented writer and an amazing person. I had the pleasure of getting to know her when we presented together at Stages on Pages book tour stops. Her third YA novel, THE VOW, pubs today. After adoring her debut novel, VIRTUOSITY (my review here), I cannot wait to read this one! For more about Jessica, you can also visit her lovely website here.

It's TEEN READ WEEK!

Here's the LINK to the page at the YALSA site.

If you want to enjoy the fun via Facebook, click HERE.

 

Now, about this year's tag line, SEEK THE UNKNOWN...what does that mean to me in terms of novels? What books would I put on a reading list for this week? Some titles old, and some titles new...

Outer space, closed societies.

Death versus life, and the internal mysteries of oneself.

 

 Book-wise, what does THE UNKNOWN mean to you?