One of my favorite things about the Internet is the fact that there are always new and wonderful things to run across.
I did just that recently when I visited Anna over at Nerdy Alerty and read about the short film and webseries, I Ship It.
You don't have to be a college basketball fan to take part in Forever Young Adult's version of March Madness—this year, the theme is OTPs, and the best of the best of pop culture's teen couples are battling it out to become Teen OTP Madness champions.
If this week wasn't already hard enough with the passing of David Bowie on Monday, my heart broke even more when I saw the news this morning of Alan Rickman's passing.
Yesterday, it was announced that Sarah J. Maas' YA fantasy Throne of Glass series has been optioned for TV. As a huge fan of the series, I'm super excited about the possibilities, but also totally frightened that the adaptation will turn out to be terrible.
If you've never read the series, and you're a fan of fantasy stories led by strong female characters, you really should. Here's a synopsis of the first book:
After serving out a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, 18-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien is dragged before the Crown Prince. Prince Dorian offers her her freedom on one condition: she must act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin.There are three additional novels in the series, with two more planned, and a handful of short stories.
Her opponents are men-thieves and assassins and warriors from across the empire, each sponsored by a member of the king's council. If she beats her opponents in a series of eliminations, she'll serve the kingdom for three years and then be granted her freedom. Celaena finds her training sessions with the captain of the guard, Westfall, challenging and exhilarating. But she's bored stiff by court life. Things get a little more interesting when the prince starts to show interest in her ... but it's the gruff Captain Westfall who seems to understand her best.
Then one of the other contestants turns up dead ... quickly followed by another. Can Celaena figure out who the killer is before she becomes a victim? As the young assassin investigates, her search leads her to discover a greater destiny than she could possibly have imagined.
In addition to writing for my day job, writing for this blog, and writing for the occasional other site/publication, I also write for Forever Young Adult (FYA), "a site for Young Adult (YA) readers who are a little less Y and a bit more A."
Each week, I write various posts for the site, from reviews of YA books to recaps of TV shows to responses to various pop culture news items.
I recently co-wrote a post for about my favorite video game boyfriends, and, if you're into that sort of thing,* I think you should check it out. (Click the image below to go directly to the post.)
