A Boy Like Me Revisited
I wrote and revised A Boy Like Me during the first year of Grub Street’s Novel Incubator program. Two years later, on September 4, 2014, the book was published by 215 Ink. During the summer of 2024, Mike Perkins approached…
Tag: YA
Des Hall on the Darker Side of Jamaica, Story Structure, and his Second YA Novel, Better Must Come
Desmond Hall’s second novel, Better Must Come, is a gritty, action-packed, YA thriller that reveals the darker side of sunny Jamaica and how a tragedy and missing drug money entangle the lives of two teens who desperately want to change…
Meet Kasey LeBlanc, Author of Flyboy
“No one knows where the Midnight Circus comes from—when it began or how…It comes for those who need it.” So opens Kasey LeBlanc’s debut novel, Flyboy, beckoning those who need a magical refuge as much as does the novel’s fierce…
Meet Crissa-Jean Chappell, Author of Sun Don’t Shine
Crissa-Jean Chappell‘s new YA novel, Sun Don’t Shine, is at once a lyrical coming of age story and mesmerizing thriller that will leave you breathless as it follows Reece, a resilient sixteen-year-old girl who’s been on the run with her…
Meet Patricia Park, Author of Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim
Building upon the success of her debut adult literary novel Re Jane, Brooklyn-based author and Novel Incubator alum Patricia Park has taken a turn toward Young Adult with her latest release, Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim. Patricia’s…
Emiko Jean Discusses AANHPI Princess Stories and Her New Sequel, Tokyo Dreaming
In Emiko Jean’s Tokyo Ever After—a Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick and New York Times bestseller—main character Izumi Tanaka is a high school teen turned Japanese royalty overnight. After learning her father is the Crown Prince of Japan, she’s dropped…