At this point, celebrating International Women’s Day with a list of ten kickass YA heroines is basically tradition for me. (You can find 2018’s list here and 2017’s list here.) Let’s get right to it, shall we? Here’s this year’s picks for the strong, the righteous, the brave, and the spirited. Zélie Adebola from Children […]

My favourite part of YALC 2018, aside from the stacks of £5 books and catching a fleeting glimpse of Tomi Adeyemi, was the publishers’ corner. I took a LOT of notes there, especially during the panel about how to query a novel. Because let’s face it: I’m an uneducated peanut. I don’t know how to […]

You all know me by now. Ya girl has the best of intentions and she is paving the road to hell with them. I really, really, reeeeaaaallllyyyyy meant to read more fiction in 2018. But then I went and did a master’s degree and suddenly I was only reading academic papers about legislation concerning the […]

I actually remember when Fangirl (Rainbow Rowell) came out, although it didn’t really register on my radar at the time. I’ve never really been one for slice-of-life stories, nor am I all that fond of NA; but Noelle Stevenson had done the cover art, and you all know that I love Noelle Stevenson. It wasn’t […]