This week over on Book Riot…

 

• I talked about why I’d like to see more quitters in YA fiction. There was a piece floating around the YA world a few weeks ago that attempted to define “clean YA” and one of the bullet points was that the characters never give up in the face of challenges. It gave me a lot of pause — why isn’t it okay for teenagers to quit? And why don’t we see more quitters in fiction?

 

• A request from a reader for pirate themed YA books lead to this week’s “3 On A YA Theme” post, which is all about pirates.

 

 

In exciting book-related updates, I’ve seen sample interiors and the cover for Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World and I honestly could not be happier. The book has a new publication date of February 28, 2017, meaning you can have it in your hot little hands for Women’s History Month next year. I cannot wait to share more with you all because I am wildly proud of and excited about this book.

If you haven’t yet, you can add the book to your Goodreads “to read” shelves. Once it hits 1,000 “to read” adds, which we are not far from (!!), I’ll do a giveaway for a preorder of the book.