Young Adult Fantasy Author
Welcome to my website. My name is Lena Coakley and my first novel, a YA high fantasy called Witchlanders is now out From Atheneum Books for Young Readers. Witchlanders has just won the 2012 SCBWI...
Hey! Witchlanders is out in paperback today! Thank goodness for a tweet by IndigoTeenBlog because…I sort of forgot. I still haven’t seen the pb’s in the wild and I haven’t gotten any author copies yet, so anyone who’d like to send me a pic will receive…my eternal gratitude? A signed bookmark? Yes, that’s it, a signed bookmark. (Actually I’ll mail a signed bookmark to anyone who wants one.)
Happy book birthday to me!
My first interview as Canadian corruspondant for Cynthia Leitich... read more
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Last week I wrote about backstory, worldbuilding as an element of character,... read more
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Haha, you can’t keep track of everything, right? Anyhoo, congrats on the pb release!
Thanks Anna!
Congrats!
Thank you!
Congrats on the paperback release! I know some of my friends have been waiting for it.
I’m not a young adult anymore, but I fell in love with Witchlanders anyway. Do you have plans to write a sequel? Sorry, I guess people ask that all the time!
Thanks so much, Ann! Someday I would like to write another book in the Witchlanders world, but it’s not what I’m working on right now.
Aww.
Well, I hope one day you will. 
My daughter, Bella loved your book. She is waiting patiently for the next one. In the mean time she would live to get one of your autograph bookmarks to go in her hardback Witchlanders novel.
I’d love to send one! Just email me a mailing address to send it out to you. I’m at lena(at symbol)lenacoakley.com