Malinda Lo

The third of the four novels I resolved to read this year is The IHOP Papers by Ali Liebegott. I admit I chose it for the cover, which I love, but as soon as I read the first paragraph, I was hooked: “First of all, I’m twenty and I’ve never slept with anyone. I’ve been ... More→

Since my next novel is science fiction, I’ve been really interested in what young adult science fiction covers look like these days. So I started skimming through publishers’ catalogs for Fall 2011 and Winter/Spring 2012 to see what’s out there right now and what’s coming up in the near future.1 I started out with a ... More→

This has been a rough week for people of color and women. First, there was the whole thing where people forgot that yes, there are black people in The Hunger Games. Then I watched the most recent episode of Once Upon a Time (that TV show on ABC), in which there was a black fairy ... More→

Here are three YA novels I read and adored recently … just in time to recommend to you during the spookiest time of the year. Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake Cas Lowood is a ghost hunter with a twist: He actually kills ghosts who are harming humans. He moves to Thunder Bay, Ontario, ... More→

With startling regularity these days, the mainstream media publishes essays on young adult fiction, generally debating the question of whether or not YA is too mature or “dark” to be read by young adults. Recently, two more essays joined this growing body of opinion: Maria Tatar’s piece in the New York Times, “No More Adventures ... More→

On Monday I noted that in light of this post from two authors who were asked by an agent to de-gay their book, I was planning to do some statistics wrangling and see if I could quantify some of what’s happening in LGBT YA publishing. Apparently my latent economics major is raring to go (or ... More→