Young adult literature
Let’s make a book trailer!
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 — Read First Chapter here
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 [...]
Water Ghosts a Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Finalist
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 [...]
Water Ghosts: Featured in Literary Fiction Book Reviews
"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 [...]
Water Ghosts
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 [...]
Teenaged eunuchs
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 [...]
Water Ghosts Summer Give-Away on Amazon
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 [...]
Listening for Redfeather – free audio download
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 On the Road
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 [...]
It’s all about Theme
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 [...]