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The Young Adult Writers Journey comes out November 23 and will fill every need-to-kn ow about writing books for young adults. Written by an award-winning young adult author and the squiring editor for Tell-Tale Publishing, this book will take you through all the ins and outs of writing for that mysterious person, a teenager. Finally, an all-inclusive book on young adult fiction must-do, don’t do and how-to. If you want to write a young adult novel, you need to read this book first. Coauthored by an award-winning YA author and an acquisitions editor, both experts on kids and what they like to read, this encyclopedia contains all you need to start or improve a career as a YA fiction author. From an examination of the market, genre and its sub-genres, to mechanics and the business, everything is at your fingertips. This amazing writer’s resource is written in a relaxed and interesting style, with plenty of contemporary references and examples for clear understanding and easier application. Praise: “The trouble with “how to” books on creativity is that they usurp creativity. Not so with this very insightful guide for YA writing. If it doesn’t become a standard or even a classic among reference Page | 2 books, it will be an oversight. Janet Schrader-Post and Elizabeth Fortin-Hinds have all the marinated smarts and credentialed experience to pull this off, and they do! No dictated wisdom from on high here, no grafted creativity, THE YOUNG ADULT WRITER’S JOURNEY is accessible, motivational and a clear map that leaves plenty of room to discover for anyone wanting to explore their creative side.”-Thomas Sullivan, Pulitzer-nominated author of THE PHASES OF HARRY MOON

My BFF is an Alien is a humor-filled young adult science fiction novel My BFF is an Alien Arthur Rhodes knows he’s a freak. Between his OCD and his family life, his only friend is Emilio Luna who has Tourette Syndrome. When Arthur’s military father forces him to go camping, Emilio accompanies him. A space life boat crashes in the deep woods on Mt. Shasta and the two fifteen-year old boys discover an alien. They take the alien home, defrost him, and enroll him in school. Overnight, the boys become popular as the alien known as Tone, takes Valley High by storm. But Tone wants to go home. They take him to Arthur’s father’s job at the Ames Research Facility which conducts experiments in conjunction with NASA. Tone tries to transmit, but they get caught and run. Now NASA knows someone tried to send a message to another galaxy. Arthur’s love interest, Ashley Green dumps her boyfriend Roscoe. When Ashley shows an interest in Tone, Roscoe decides to find out his secrets and expose him, while Arthur questions his decision to bring the alien home. Tone’s unique properties, symbiotic life forms that pass as hair, are able to reprogram human brains and act to protect Tone when he’s threatened. The programming turns out to be temporary and when the boys sneak out of Prom to return to Ames to see if Tone’s parents answered his call, all hell breaks loose. The boys have to meet Tone’s parents on top of the research center’s largest satellite dish. The only problem is they’re being chased by base security, Arthur’s father and Ashley’s ex boyfriend. Will Arthur and Emilio get Tone to his parent’s space ship in time or will NASA catch Tone and haul him off to Area 51?

Voodoo Child is Mid Grade published by Tell-Tale Publishing Voodoo Child blurb Left alone and homeless after the Haitian earthquake, Jean Benoit lives with foster parents in New Orleans. Oscar is an overweight underachiever whose mother abandoned him in Wal-Mart. He lives in the store hoping she will come back for him. Bella lives with her adoptive parents. Her parents are dead but they left her an ability she has yet to discover. Bella is a shapeshifter. Explore the mysteries of the French Quarter through the eyes of three seventh graders as they search to reconnect with their parents and avoid a nasty set of bad guys. A voodoo witch named Odette, her brother Bocor and Odette’s son, Natas, are searching for a magic amulet sent to Jean by his mother. He has no idea how to use it. He has to learn on the fly. The bad guys are after him and he needs to find his mother. Received three five-star reviews from readers favorites Reviewed By Jack Magnus for Readers’ Favorite Voodoo Child is an urban fantasy novel for young adults written by Janet Post and Gabe Thompson. Jean Benoit’s foster parents seemed to think of him as their personal manservant -- and little more. He lived in their basement with a furnace that pumped out smoke and fumes, and spent his afternoons down there doing the family’s laundry. Sad thing was, Jean didn’t mind being in the basement so much as it meant spending less time with people who didn’t seem to care about him at all. His best friends, Oscar Delgado and Bella Morgan, also had issues with their family situations. Oscar’s mom had left him in Walmart some months ago, and he was living in the store while waiting for her to come back for him. She had done this before, so Oscar was determined to stay where she could find him. Bella seemed to have it best of the three friends -- her fosters were well-to-do and gave her everything she could possibly want, except their company. They were just too busy to notice or even care about her. Jean couldn’t believe that the Paynes had actually thrown away a package addressed to him. He had noticed it that morning as he took the trash out. Getting mail would have been such a big thing for him, as it had never happened. His dad had disappeared some years ago, and he had been living with his mother’s friends when the earthquake wrecked and destabilized Haiti, where they all lived. Jean had ended up in an orphanage until the Paynes fostered him. He wondered what had happened to his parents, and how they would ever find him again. So this package represented a tie to his past that was irresistible indeed. He didn’t have time to open it on the school bus, so he put it in his backpack for safekeeping until he had some time to himself. But when bullies started to give the three friends a hard time outside the school, Jean noticed that his backpack seemed warmer than it should be. He looked inside and saw a light coming from the package. Jean’s life, and that of his friends, was about to change. There would be danger from terrifying sources and even a way to interact with his dad, but his surviving the near future was anything but guaranteed. Voodoo Child is an engrossing and beautifully written story about three kids whose bonds are tighter than those they have with the adults in their lives. I loved seeing the support system Jean, Bella and Oscar have built together, and had a grand time experiencing New Orleans through their eyes. The characters have zing and appeal, and the reader quickly begins to feel as though they are friends; and the plot is filled with action, adventure, terrifying beings and magic. Voodoo Child is hard to put down, and finishing it was both satisfying and sad. I’d love to see a sequel as these characters have too much going for them to be limited to one book. Voodoo Child is most highly recommended. The following are comments from your reviewer and do NOT appear in your final review. Usually these are concerns your reviewer had that they did not want to put in your final review. Wow!

Award winning Young Adult Science Fiction Vagrant. First book in a three book series, Vagrant is a Finalist for the International Best Book Award and won the Seal of Excellence from Apple Awards. Logan Hall is a Vagrant, one of the disenfranchised living beneath the mega city of New Washington. The Vagrants have to hide from the Company who is rounding all of them up and shipping them to newly discovered planets to work in the mines. That’s what happened to Logan’s father. Shayna is one of the privileged. She has a chip, a credit disc and lives in a shiny stainless steel and glass highrise above ground. Shayna is allergic to corn so she is one of the few above ground people who is not stoned on Sopore. Sopore is a drug found in genetically altered corn. It’s in almost all food. The Vagrants know about Sopore and avoid it. These two teens from wildly differing environments meet by accident and fall in love. Logan will stop at nothing to rescue his friend Raj, captured and sent to the moon. Together, he and Shayna will follow his dream of finding his father who was sent to work in the mines of Gliess 67. In a future where everyone is stoned on genetically altered food and being sent to work in the mines of newly discovered worlds, one boy will save his friends and escape to start a new life.