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Kelly Barnhill, Newbery Award winning author of The Girl Who Drank the Moon
Read MoreMy Interview with BOG author Karen Krossing
Today my interview with Karen Krossing posted on the Enchanted Inkpot blog. Karen’s written an amazing book called BOG, a middle-grade fantasy about a grouchy troll on a great quest. I liked so much that I blurbed it, which I hardly ever do. Here’s an excerpt from today’s interview: BOG took ten years to conceive, write and publish, and it certainly was a labour of love. I stopped writing BOG several times during those years because the story needed more time to mature. Some books just take longer to develop in the writer’s subconscious, I think. So I researched my...
Read MoreWitchlanders
Witchlanders Published by Atheneum (S&S), Fall 2011 Hardcover, 416 pages ISBN-10: 1442420049 ISBN-13: 9781442420045 Grades: 7 and up x High in their mountain covens, red witches pray to the Goddess, protecting the Witchlands by throwing the bones and foretelling the future. It’s all a fake. At least, that’s what Ryder thinks. He doubts the witches really deserve their tithes—one quarter of all the crops his village can produce. And even if they can predict the future, what danger is there to foretell, now that his people’s old enemy, the Baen, has been defeated? But...
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Hi! I'm Lena, a young adult fantasy author from Toronto.