Young adult literature
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https://youtu.be/Xgg6UxlaJ7s I don't know if video book trailers sell more books; I rather doubt it. The real value of making a book trailer is for the writer herself. The [...]
Young adult literature
https://youtu.be/Xgg6UxlaJ7s I don't know if video book trailers sell more books; I rather doubt it. The real value of making a book trailer is for the writer herself. The [...]
Water Ghosts Copyright © Linda Collison 2015 Published by Old Salt Press, LLC ISBN: 9781943404001 LCCN: 2015941395 Publisher's Note: This is a work of fiction. Certain characters and [...]
Foreword Reviews Finalist -- Water Ghosts Today, Old Salt Press is pleased to announce Water Ghosts has been recognized as a finalist in the 18th annual Foreword Reviews’ INDIEFAB Book [...]
"Linda Collison’s Young Adult novel, Water Ghosts, is the story of fifteen-year-old James McCafferty, whose parents have signed him up for an adventure-therapy cruise for teens on a traditional Chinese [...]
Chinese ghosts... I have an abiding fascination in the long history and culture of China. My mother had a lacquer tri-fold screen with small shelves on which she kept some [...]
Water Ghosts took a long time to write, mostly because I got side-tracked with historical research, including Chinese maritime navigational techniques, Asian gods, goddesses, and ghosts -- and court eunuchs [...]
Welcome aboard the Good Fortune, a traditional Chinese junk bound for a summer adventure (or, misadventure) cruise in the equatorial Pacific, with seven disaffected, troubled teens aboard (and a number [...]
Storytelling isn't just for bedtime and this ain't Mom reading Good Night Moon. This is Aaron Landon bringing to life Ramie, Chas, LaRoux, and the many characters they meet on [...]
Coming of age is a term that for me encompasses those years, those days, that moment in time when we realize we are alive -- that we are sentient beings [...]
Characters hook us, plot compels us to turn the pages, but the theme of a story is what stays with us long after we’ve forgotten the details. Theme answers the [...]