by RR Ewart It is a terrible thing To look at oneself in the mirror And not recognize the person Staring back at you. But that is what happened to me. I believed I would not change. I thought I would look the same and might not Even realize that…
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The Penmen Profile: Bestseller Robin Wasserman
by Rebecca LeBoeuf “Girls on Fire,” Robin Wasserman’s first adult novel, was named an NPR and a BuzzFeed Best Book of the Year in 2016. The book also received praise from the New York Times, the Associated Press, Booklist and Cosmopolitan, among many other positive reviews. A faculty member of…
The Penmen Profile: YA Sci-fi Author Ryan Dalton
by Rebecca LeBoeuf Ryan Dalton’s second book from the “Time Shift Trilogy” hits shelves in April, so there’s still time to read his debut novel and book one, “The Year of Lightning.” This young adult science fiction trilogy follows not-so-normal teenage twins as they encounter and solve mysteries and often…
The Penmen Profile: YA and Historical Fiction Author Han Nolan
by Rebecca LeBoeuf Han Nolan is the author of nine young adult fiction and historical fiction novels. Her first novel, “If I Should Die Before I Wake,” published in 2003, achieved the International Reading Association/Children’s Book Council Book Award. In this book, Nolan unites the present with a dark part of history,…
The Penmen Profile: Award-Winning YA Novelist Jo Knowles
by Rebecca LeBoeuf Jo Knowles is an award-winning author of young adult and middle grade fiction novels. Her first novel, “Lessons From a Dead Girl” (2007), was presented with The Pen New England Children’s Book Discovery Award and named A New York Library Book for the Teen Age. Knowles’ middle grade fiction novel,…
Meet Meg Cabot
Meet Meg Cabot, the wildly popular, #1 New York Times bestselling author of adult, teen and tween fiction, in Barnes & Noble’s “Meet the Writers” interview series.