Malinda Lo

Over the last month, I was involved in an email-facilitated roundtable discussion about the state of young adult science fiction. Hosted by Charles Tan, the roundtable includes comments from Australian publisher Tehani Wessely, Cheryl Morgan, Gwenda Bond, and Tarie Sabido. We discuss all sorts of things, from memorable YA science fiction and fantasy of 2011 ... More→

Tripping to Somewhere by Kristopher Reisz is a novel about two girls who run off to find the Witches’ Carnival. “A band of gypsies tramped across the earth, sweeping the bonds and boundaries of the modern world away with a brush of a hand. Nobody knew where they came from. Nobody knew where they’d turn ... 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→