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Problem with Writing Trends

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This is my weekly post about writing! And believe me I think in terms of what I am reading on literary agents blogs, and what's been going on with the Big 6 Publishers this will begin to show their particular tastes and how writing a trend is dangerous to a person's writing career. Trends. It seems like on every shelf you look at in the bookstore, particularly in the Young Adult/ Teens sections, there are tons of shelves and cases  filled with every single book that was written and published during the popularity of tat particular trend. We as authors and the big New York publishers can't deny it, as soon as there is something new that is selling faster than the publisher can get the printed book on the shelves and makes the bestseller lists, they think to themselves, "I can write this. All publishers want the same thing; what's selling, and how can we get our well known authors to write this to make us more money. Every publisher wants to get their books sold, an...

Lone Wolf by Jodi Picoult

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On an icy winter night, a terrible accident forces a family divided to come together and make a fateful decision. Cara, once protected by her father, Luke, is tormented by a secret that nobody knows. Her brother, Edward, has secrets of his own. He has kept them hidden, but now they may come to light, and if they do, Cara will be devastated. Their mother, Georgie, was never able to compete with her ex-husband’s obsessions, and now, his fate hangs in the balance and in the hands of her children. With conflicting motivations and emotions, what will this family decide? And will they be able to live with that decision, after the truth has been revealed? What happens when the hope that should sustain a family is the very thing tearing it apart? This was a really interesting book, I chose to read it because I love Jodi Picoult's writing and her books, but mostly because I have a fetish for books about werewolves, I will read wolves any day. Edward Warren left his home when he was eighteen...

Want by Stephanie Lawton

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Today I have the pleasure to announce an amazing book for a blog tour. It will be released on June 7th, by an amazing publisher Inkspell Publishing. The company logo is to Be Enchanted  by their books, and from the few I have had the pleasure of purchasing and reading, I was not disappointed. They have published some of the most amazing books, and more releasing this summer.  Want is a Young Adult Contemporary novel. It really is a wonderful contemporary read. If you or your daughter is a fan of Sarah Dessen, Sarah Mlynowski, or Maureen Johnson, you will find yourself going through the pages of this book and never putting it down, that is how amazing this book is and the author did such an amazing job writing this. Author Bio After collecting a couple English degrees in the Midwest, Stephanie Lawton suddenly awoke in the deepest reaches of the Deep South. Culture shock inspired her to write about Mobile, Alabama, her adopted city, and all the ways Southern culture, history an...