Over on Book Riot this week…

 

• How to reframe your thinking in order to overcome your biggest reading fears.

 

• In honor of Lucille Ball’s birthday, a roundup of books about Lucy, Desi, and I Love Lucy.

 

• The latest episode of Hey YA is a fun one! Tirzah Price guest hosts and we’re talking about queer YA from 2019, as well as YA books featuring full names in the title.

 

Elsewhere…

• My tips and tricks for doing yoga in a bigger body is up on Bust’s website (in addition to the latest print edition!).

 

This is the last week off from Stacked, and I’m super excited about what we’ve got coming your way soon. In the mean time, here’s what I was talking about over on Book Riot this week:

• Over 50 awesome bookish stickers for your laptop, water bottle, notebooks, wherever.

 

• I dug into Norma Klein’s No More Saturday Nights for this week’s Hey YA: Extra Credit podcast. It wasn’t my favorite read, but it was a nice reminder how few books are out there about teen fathers in YA.

 

Kimberly and I are enjoying one more week of vacation before we’re back here to our normal schedule. In the mean time, you can catch me over at Book Riot this week with these pieces:

 

• The most popular under-the-radar books in US libraries so far this year.

 

• Zaria and Hailey Willard are two sisters sharing bedtime stories on Facebook every night. Get to know them and why they do this.

 

• How listening to a graphic memoir on audio changed my relationship with my own reading habits.

 

Eric and I have a full episode of Hey YA up this week, wherein we talk about the kinds of vacations you don’t want to take in YA, and then we offer up great ghost books for reading while you’re on various vacations from hell.

 

Writing STACKED is such a joy, but I won’t lie: this break has meant a significant amount of work has been done on a novel I’m toying with. I will be so fired up to blog when August rolls around, of course, but in the meantime, here’s what else I’ve written lately:

• You’ll want every one of these awesome YA book necklaces.

 

• I recently updated my list of books like The Hate U Give, so I’ll reshare it for those looking either for themselves or young readers.

 

There’s also a new Hey YA: Extra Credit podcast episode. I talked with YA author Tom Ryan about Norma Klein’s Breaking Up, which was a wonderful surprise of a book.

 

I had a super busy week over on Book Riot:

 

• 200+ excellent literary cat names.

 

• A peek at the books and formats that brought in tremendous revenue for publishers in 2018.

 

• A guide for how to become a book editor.

 

And then there were the podcasts. As in multiple. As in…three!

• I cohosted “All The Books” with Liberty this week and talked about some of the best releases this week.

 

• This week’s episode of “Hey YA” is a full episode. Eric and I dig into what we’re seeing in YA, both as forthcoming staples in the category as well as trends, and then we offer up some HOT books for cold days and some COLD books for hot days.

 

• Last, I cohosted “Get Booked” with Jenn and offered recommendations for great cookbooks, transhuman fiction, classroom reads, and more.

 

One more fun thing:

 

 

You can read my guide to crafting an anthology proposal in the August issue of The Writer.