Ricochet Reviews

1. What works have you released? What are they about? The Next Door Boys came out last October about a girl who goes to college after a year home fighting cancer. Her goals are to find some independence and not fall in love – she’s half successful. Night Sky is about Jameson whose senior year is falling apart around him, but he’s saved by the very nice distraction of a Native American girl named Sky. 2. How did you get the idea for your work? What lured you to your topics? I got the idea when my husband and I were talking eighties movies in the Taco Bell drive-through. They’re a little before our time, but fun just the same. We were talking Pretty in Pink, and I always wondered what happened to the poor guy who was in love, but didn’t get the girl. That’s the jumping off point for Night Sky. 3. What scene, topic, or section was the most intense (or visual) for you to write? The first scene with jameson and Sky in the swimming pool. And the other was the...

Rapture by Phillip W. Simpson has been nominated for Best Youth Novel by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Association of New Zealand Inc.! Check out the nomination info here: http://sffanz.sf.org.nz/sjv/sjvNominations-2012.html And the nominees are... Best Youth Novel Nominees Battle Of The Birds Lee Murray Taramea Publishing Space Race Glynne MacLean Pearson Education Fosterling Emma Neale Vintage Wings Raymond Huber Walker Books Rapture Phillip W. Simpson Pear Jam Books Read RR's review of the novel here or order it on Amazon here !

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Monica Leonelle of Social Punk for the latest release! (At the bottom of the post you will find a Rafflecopter giveaway form hosted by the book tour host - enter for a chance to win an iPad 3, a Kindle Fire, or one of 25 autographed hardcovers!) Hey, Monica! Welcome to Ricochet Reviews. First off, can you tell us a little about The Socialpunk Trilogy? Socialpunk is a bit like The Truman Show meets The Terminator, except Mark Zuckerburg is president of the world. I wanted to do a cyberpunk and Socialpunk is classically cyberpunk, down to its roots. I loved the idea of being trapped in a virtual reality, and then acclimating to the real world. It sounds wonderful! What kind of reader would you recommend your novel to? Adults and mature teens 14+ who enjoy dystopian or science fiction. The book series is being compared to The Hunger Games, the Divergent series, and the Uglies series. So, if it became a screenplay, who woul...

Happy Earth Day, Bookies! In celebration of our planet, why not go green? Here's some ways to help out Mother Earth, today! Recycle a few dust-collectors on an overstuffed shelf! It'll only sting for a second, and just think of the room your making for new ones! Opt to buy the eBook instead of the hardcover. Save money, time, AND trees! eReaders are Eco-Chic! You know you want one - so invest in a Kindle! Sure, they require electricity to charge. However, many of them are  recycled via refurbished parts! And the rest applies for Nook Tablet, Augen, Kindle - even Kindle for PC: it saves the paper of printing every hardcover on that shelf! (You know it's is running out of room anyway!) Turn off the computer and read a book! Save electricity and enjoy yourself - now you have a reason to relax! Shut off the TV and walk the family to the park.  Grab a picnic blanket and a book, read...

If you're an avid YA book blog follower, there's no doubt you saw the blog tour for "Until Next Time" flying around the web. If you missed it, here's an awesome chance to check it out! Here's an event announcement-invite to readers, from the author: Twitter Party Tuesday, May 8, 2012 8 p.m. Eastern Follow hashtag #UntilNextTime as author Amy Lignor answers your questions for 90 minutes live on Twitter. A $50 cash prize will be given to the person who has a receipt confirming an ebook purchase of Until Next Time and tweets at least once during the Twitter Party. We'll also be giving away a variety of ebooks and print books throughout the event. Let us know if you are planning to attend by tweeting @TributeBooks or @HelloWritersAmy to RSVP. Or better yet, read all about it on the lovely series' blog here or on the event's Facebook page here  and get a head-start on the tweets with the hashtag here !

I've shown this graphic before to mention a temporary leave, but I haven't gotten to apply it to why was created! Today I've got a more suitable application. Ricochet Reviews is changing - not leaving, but changing. Let me explain. Firstly, I'm going away to school this fall. This means a lot less time for emailing back and forth, and definitely no time to organize blog tours and author correspondence. Which translates into: I'm now reviewing the random books I'm recreationally reading, rather than accepting oodles of requests and dealing with my odd little notification processes. You'll still see plenty for the latest releases, but whether or not I'm accepting requests is going to vary by the week. Secondly, Ricochet Reviews is expanding beyond YA lit -- and dabbling in some other age groups, expecially while tending to a new classics and contemporary literary fiction exploration I've planned. You'll see what I mean in the conte...

Please enjoy this guest post by Justin Ordoñez, author of the YA novel (for 18+ readers), Sykosa . Then read on to learn how you can win huge prizes as part of this blog tour, including $550 in Amazon gift cards, a Kindle Fire, and 5 autographed copies of the book. Marketing, Or How I Proved the Existence of Hell. Self-publishing requires either A) no skills and being totally deluded as to the reality of success in the book market, or B) no skills and the reality you’re going to have to learn a lot. And that’s a simple fact. Between writing, editing, formatting, choosing a printer, choosing retailers, web development, content generation, typesetting, book trailers and the fifty other things I’m forgetting, you’re certain to encounter a challenge for which you are in no way prepared, and not only are you not prepared, your desire to become prepared hovers somewhere near the axis of zero. I discovered mine on January 11, 2012--Marketing. Marketing’s an entirely deceptive term. W...

Title: Eve Series: The Eve Trilogy Author: Anna Carey Publisher: Harper Format: Hardcover , 318 pages  Description: Where do you go when nowhere is safe? Sixteen years after a deadly virus wiped out most of Earth's population, the world is a perilous place. Eighteen-year-old Eve has never been beyond the heavily guarded perimeter of her school, where she and two hundred other orphaned girls have been promised a future as the teachers and artists of the New America. But the night before graduation, Eve learns the shocking truth about her school's real purpose--and the horrifying fate that awaits her. Fleeing the only home she's ever known, Eve sets off on a long, treacherous journey, searching for a place she can survive. Along the way she encounters Arden, her former rival from school, and Caleb, a rough, rebellious boy living in the wild. Separated from men her whole life, Eve has been taught to fear them, but Caleb slowly wins her t...