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Heart shattering, honest and ultimately hopeful, Alyson Derrick's new YA novel, Forget Me Not, is a stunning story of the true strength of love and finding your way back to someone you thought lost. Forget Me Not belongs to that special…

To celebrate the release of their magical, romantic and brilliantly unique new YA novel, Spell Bound, we had the pleasure of talking to author F.T. Lukens about writing inspiration, the importance of seeing yourself in books to LGBTQIA+…

This post is sponsored by Harper360. Following a small town teen as she experiences the world of dating for the first time with the son of Satan, Ann Dávila Cardinal's supernatural YA coming-of-age romance, Breakup From Hell, is a witty…

This post was written by Ream Shukairy, author of The Next New Syrian Girl. So what is halal romance anyway? It’s the bashful courtship and painful boundaries in a Jane Austen novel. Or it’s the romantic tension between two main…

This post was written by Sarah Lyu, author of I Will Find You Again Content warning: depression, suicidal ideation In the summer of 2014, I was driving from New York City to a small town in northeastern PA almost every week, and a…

Her Dark Wings is a modern day YA retelling of the story of Persephone, in a world where Greek gods are still very much around.

"Our anger is constantly forced downwards, away from our mouths and fists, pressed deep into our bellies, a pressure valve with no release. And we wonder why it so often spills over. We wonder why we feel so evil when it does."

Sal hates standing out. But he lives in a haunted house - and everybody knows it. His oldest friend, Dirk, tries to help... but he wants to stay popular, and Sal isn't helping. Elsie was popular - until recently. Now she's on the outcast's…

All My Rage is an absolutely beautiful story - that took 15 years to complete.

VAMPS: Fresh Blood has everything you want from a vampire novel

"However these moments, whether they're reflective, elegiac, romantic, epic, or a father-son interlude, are all incredibly important to me."

Following James, the first Black king of England, after his boyfriend goes missing and royal secrets only he knew about the royal family begin to leak to the public, Benjamin Dean's YA debut, The King is Dead, is a thrilling royal read rife…

We had the honour of chatting with Natasha Bowen on her West African mythology-inspired story Skin of the Sea.

"Some think the grandfather paradox forbids it (i.e. you could go back in time and kill your grandad, he wouldn't have slept with your nan, which means you wouldn't have been born, which means you wouldn't have gone back to kill your…

This post was written by Grace K. Shim, author of The Noh Family. I just took a DNA test, turns out I’m 100% that RICH…No, these are not the lyrics to a remix of Lizzo’s Truth Hurts. But I couldn’t help parody the song when I noticed the…