Masciola
Carol Masciola The Yearbook is Carol Masciola’s first published novel. The idea for the book came to her while leafing through her grandmother’s 1924 Charleston (W.Va) High School annual. Carol grew up in Vermilion, Ohio, an historic town on the banks of Lake Erie, with four sisters and a lot of woods and fields and […]
Schorr
Melissa Schorr A native New Yorker, Melissa Robin Schorr grew up loving to read, write in her diaries, and dream of someday publishing books of her own. After graduating from the Bronx High School of Science, she studied journalism at Northwestern University to purse writing full-time for newspapers and magazines. In the course of her […]
THE YEARBOOK by Carol Masciola
A young-adult debut novel about a troubled teenage girl who falls asleep in the school library and wakes up in the 1920’s. Just as she begins to shed her past and starts to believe she might have found a real home and true happiness (and love), she is snapped back to her hopeless present day […]
Guest Post from Debut YA Novelist L. Tam Holland
We invited Lindsay Tam Holland, author of The Counterfeit Family Tree of Vee Crawford-Wong, (July 2013 publication, Simon & Schuster)to share what inspired her first novel. Please also check out her website, www.lindsaytamholland.com. “I grew up in Hawaii, a white kid in a predominantly Asian community. Most of my friends through high school were of mixed […]
LIES BENEATH, Anne Greenwood Brown
Anne Greenwood Brown grew up sailing the Apostle Islands on Lake Superior, leaning over the rail and wondering, with a lake that big, that ancient, what amazing thing might flash by. What happens when a family of murderous mermaids seeks revenge? Now she knows. Lies Beneath is her first novel.