Tag: young adult

• Writing Exercise

  This week in a writing class, we have a fun assignment. Try it yourself! *It needs to be one paragraph, exactly seven sentences. No dialogue. *It should be the first paragraph or the last paragraph of a Young Adult novel, meaning the main character should be a teenager. *It can be in first person, but…

  Linda Ulleseit

  February 27, 2016

  narrative, ulleseit, writing, young adult

• Author-Go-Round: Connie Peck

  Connie is the author of some of my very favorite horse books for Young Adults. Welcome, Connie! Thank you for inviting me to your blog. I’m Connie Peck and the stories I write are loosely based on a pony I owned when I was young. Do horses really talk? Can a rider actually understand the…

  Linda Ulleseit

  February 2, 2016

  Guest post/Interview

  author interview, horse books, YA novels, young adult

• Author-go-Round: Tracy Lawson

  Hi! I’m Tracy Lawson, and I’m so excited to be featured on Week 2 of this Author Interview-go-Round! I’m the author of Counteract and Resist, the first two volumes of the YA dystopian Resistance Series. Ignite, the third book in the series, is slated for release in summer 2016! Here’s a quick summary of the…

  Linda Ulleseit

  January 17, 2016

  Guest post/Interview

  author interview, authors, book review, YA novels, young adult

• Meet My Characters

  Today I’m being hosted on Apryl Baker’s Blogfest! I like doing these events because it gives me an opportunity to show a different side of my characters, to do something different. In this post, a fictional patroness interviews the key characters of my three flying horse novels to see who might be the best barn leader.…

  Linda Ulleseit

  August 28, 2015

  Apryl Baker, blogfest, flying horses, YA novels, young adult

• The Wolf and the Sorceress

  The Wolf and the Sorceress; The King’s Magician by Brian Pemberton The sorceress, Nemeila, crash landed in the woods as baby–in a spaceship. She is rescued by a wolf. Now if that doesn’t hook your interest right away, I don’t know what will. Nemeila is taken in by a woodsman and his wife and is…

  Linda Ulleseit

  January 25, 2015

  book review, brian pemberton, middle grade fiction, sorceress, wolf, young adult