Yours truly has a cool new gig over at Examiner.com -- as the new The Hunger Games Examiner! (Yes, this is a shameless self-promotional post. My apologies.) I'll be keeping track of all things related to The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins -- as well as the movie adaptations based on the series. Check... Continue Reading →

All this month we're celebrating the debut novel from Heidi R. Kling, Sea ... which tells the story of a 15-year-old girl who travels to Indonesia 6 months after the 2004 tsunami to work at an orphanage with her father. One of the crucial elements of this novel is the element of travel -- and... Continue Reading →

All this month we're celebrating the debut novel from Heidi R. Kling, Sea ... which tells the story of a 15-year-old girl who travels to Indonesia 6 months after the 2004 tsunami to work at an orphanage with her father. One of the crucial elements of this novel is the element of travel -- and... Continue Reading →

We are really excited today to kick off our June Book of the Month, Sea by Heidi R. Kling -- and besides the fact that this book is beautifully written and tells an incredible story, it's also the perfect book for the beginning of Summer -- since that's exactly when it takes place. To get... Continue Reading →

We are really excited today to kick off our June Book of the Month, Sea by Heidi R. Kling -- and besides the fact that this book is beautifully written and tells an incredible story, it's also the perfect book for the beginning of Summer -- since that's exactly when it takes place. To get... Continue Reading →

Today marks the end of May -- and the end of our May Book of the Month, featuring the Sucks to Be Me series by Kimberly Pauley. We've had so much fun featuring this whimsical, coming of age vampire stories -- and getting to explore other vampire stories & legends, plus finding ways to incorporate... Continue Reading →

Today marks the end of May -- and the end of our May Book of the Month, featuring the Sucks to Be Me series by Kimberly Pauley. We've had so much fun featuring this whimsical, coming of age vampire stories -- and getting to explore other vampire stories & legends, plus finding ways to incorporate... Continue Reading →

Rick Riordan's The Red Pyramid holds the top spot for the third week in a row onThe New York Times best sellers list, followed by The Carrie Diaries -- now in its fourth week -- by Candace Bushnell. And it's clear that readers are gearing up for Suzanne Collins' Mockingjay by reading the first two books... Continue Reading →

Just a quick reminder, folks -- tomorrow is your last day to enter our Sucks to Be Me contest! Three winners will get a set of hardback copies of Sucks to Be Me and Still Sucks to Be Me by Kimberly Pauley -- and Kimberly has just told us she'll send signed bookplates, temporary tattoos... Continue Reading →

Recently, Novel Novice was featured on a couple of local news programs here in Portland -- and here's the video: (Okay, yes, this is from the TV station where I work -- but I promise you, Stephanie -- the reporter -- put this piece together without my influence. Special thanks to Darryl M. for converting... Continue Reading →