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Title: Pulse Point Author: Colleen Nelson & Nancy Chappell-Pollack Genre: Fantasy/YA Publisher: Yellow Dog Release Date: May 8, 2018 Summary ( Goodreads ) Pulse Point is set in a future where the climate has made the world inhospitable to humans. In order to survive, people live in self-sustaining domed cities. The City that Kaia and her family live in is run by Overseers, guards that ensure all the Citizens follow the guidelines so the City can maintain its ‘Energy In = Energy Out’ policy. Citizens are only allowed to use the energy they create. Energy production is calculated and displayed on their pulse point, a transmitter embedded in a person’s finger. When a Citizen is no longer able to produce energy, they are Balanced, or killed. Guest Post Top 5 things We Learned Writing Dystopian 1) Be Specific and Research - The end of the world has occurred so how do these characters survive?  The world building has to be logical and ...

The Songs of Defying Gravity I can’t write in silence, so I have to have a playlist specific to each book I write, complete with songs that the major characters. Zoey and Parker had some trouble finding their way in the beginning, so I turned back to the music again and again to help me define their characters and shape their story. Here are some of my favorites from the Defying Gravity playlist: 1.       “Can’t Pretend” by Tom Odell 2.       “Stay” by Rihanna, feat. Mikky Ekko 3.        “Do or Die” by Thirty Seconds to Mars 4.       “A Head Full of Dreams” by Coldplay 5.       “Dream” by Imagine Dragons 6.       “Light It Up” by One Republic 7.       “Unstoppable” by Sia 8.       “She Is Rising” by INXS 9.       “Look What You’ve Done...

This is the Story if You By Beth Kephart Chronicle Books YA Fiction On Haven, a six-mile long, half-mile-wide stretch of barrier island, Mira Banul and her Year-Rounder friends have proudly risen to every challenge. But then a superstorm defies all predictions and devastates the island, upending all logic and stranding Mira’s mother and brother on the mainland. Nothing will ever be the same. A stranger appears in the wreck of Mira’s home. A friend obsessed with vanishing disappears. As the mysteries deepen, Mira must find the strength to carry on—to somehow hold her memories in place while learning to trust a radically reinvented future. Gripping and poetic,  This Is the Story of You  is about the beauty of nature and the power of family, about finding hope in the wake of tragedy and recovery in the face of overwhelming loss. About the Author:  Beth Kephart is the award-winning author of nineteen books, including Going Over, Handling the Truth: On th...

Title: Inspire (Muse #1)  Author: Cora Carmack Pages: 284 Genre: New Adult/Paranormal Release Date: December 15, 2014 Buy: Amazon | Kobo |  Summary ( Goodreads ) Kalliope lives with one purpose. To inspire. As an immortal muse, she doesn’t have any other choice. It’s part of how she was made. Musicians, artists, actors—they use her to advance their art, and she uses them to survive. She moves from one artist to the next, never staying long enough to get attached. But all she wants is a different life— a normal one. She’s spent thousands of years living lie after lie, and now she’s ready for something real. Sweet, sexy, and steady, Wilder Bell feels more real than anything else in her long existence. And most importantly… he’s not an artist. He doesn’t want her for her ability. But she can’t turn off the way she influences people, not even to save a man she might love. Because in small doses, she can help make something beautiful, but her ability has just as muc...