Stop the Presses! A Writer is Blogging!
Yes, that’s right. One week from today I will be launching my new blog right here at lenacoakley.com. Because what the world needs is another author blogging. My first post is called How I Gave Up True Love with the Mailman to Become a Published Author, and, if I do say so myself, it made me laugh. Hope to see you back here on March 2nd.
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...
Read MoreSeasons in Fantasy
Check out this week’s Enchanted Inkpot where my book is mentioned! http://tinyurl.com/2947gve
Read MoreThe Speech
When I told people I was working on a new website, a few people asked me to be sure I kept up this speech I gave at the launch of my first picture book. It’s about what reading means to me: My cousins and I had a grandfather we never knew. Somehow, even though he died before we were born, he was still the great patriarch of our family. He was “The Fa”—according to our parents a wise and gentle man. A perfect father. But how could that be right? Our grandfather was abandoned by his parents not long after he was born and lived in the tuberculosis ward of an orphanage until he was 9 years old....
Read MoreGreetings!
This website is under construction. Come back in a few weeks for a whole new...
Read MoreAbout Me
Hi! I'm Lena, a young adult fantasy author from Toronto.