Reader Girls Blog

We love to read anthologies because they offer readers a sample of a writer's style of storytelling. Many times we have found out about authors simply from reading an anthology. This Sunday we host a very special tour. Two and Twenty Dark Tales: Dark Retellings of Mother Goose Rhymes is the very first book published by Month9Books and it is an anthology featuring many of the top writers in the Young Adult genre today. Read on to discover all about this company and the collection. We have a guest post written by author C. Lee McKenzie as well as a giveaway. Thanks for stopping by! TWO AND TWENTY DARK TALES: DARK RETELLINGS OF MOTHER GOOSE RHYMES. THIS AIN’T YOUR TODDLER’S MOTHER GOOSE BOOK! Fairy tales sung sweetly can take us back to childhood, but just beneath those same sweet tales, is a hint of something dark… Month9Books, a new publisher of speculative fiction for teens and tweens launches in October 2012, with the release of TWO AND TWENTY DARK TALES: DARK RE...

The final novel in Heather McCorkle’s channeler series, Rise of a Rector , has released! To celebrate, and in the spirit of October, Heather is here to tell us about a scary moment in her life. Take it away Heather! For the first part of the story about the day my horse kicked me in the face, stop by YA Book Diva   if you haven't read it already, then be sure to come back here for the rest of the story! Heather: My one good eye on the white landscape outside, I calmly asked my husband how fast we were going. He said seventy. I told him I was okay, I was conscious, talking, and that most people who are conscious and talking after such a trauma survive. I told him go ahead and slow down because I was fine. He did but then said his vision was going black around the edges. I told him not to worry about me, I was fine, it didn’t even hurt. I told him to take a few slow, deep breathes to open up the tunnel vision that was closing in on him. He did. I kept his up the 25 miles to...