By aTeenzfaith on Jan 3, 2009 in Advice You Can Use, Featured | 0 Comments
A few years ago I finally decided to make resolutions that I could keep so I wouldn’t be so hard on myself. So 2009 is the year of eating more Oreos. I think I can do it too. I have faith in myself.
By aTeenzfaith on Jan 5, 2009 in Meet Authors | 1 Comment
Check out details about a contest at end of this interview!
Terry, describe yourself for our visitors.
I’m a fifth generation Irish storyteller that is a fourth generation Texas Teller of Tall Tales, telling stories is as natural as breathing. Learning to write them down in a credible manner is the best way of getting the stories in front of people. I enjoy getting books out that people will enjoy and I enjoy helping other people get their works out in my capacity as a literary agent. Usually my work and the authors I represent have some degree of their faith present in their work.
I also grew up watching Roy Rogers and Gene Autry in Saturday morning matinees and love the old west stories that is America’s strongest period of action and adventure. Our new generation doesn’t seem to have discovered this period, seems to think it’s lame or something. I’d love to introduce them to the period of America’s ‘Camelot.’
By aTeenzfaith on Jan 5, 2009 in Book Reviews, Girls | 0 Comments
I’m SO excited to watch the explosion of top quality YA Christian fiction! If I was forced to pick my top five authors to watch, Shelley Adina would most definitely make her way onto that list:-)
"Be Strong and Curvaceous" is the third installment in the "All About Us" YA series, and it’s an explosive storyline. Meet Carolina Isabella Aragon Velasquez…but you can call her Carly!
She’s part of a trio of friends attending Spencer Academy, a high end prep school reminiscient of Nickolodeon’s "Zoey 101". On a full ride scholarship, Carly has always felt she has something to prove her worth, not wanting anyone to know she’s a scholarship kid.
By Laura on Jan 3, 2009 in Book Reviews | 0 Comments
A NOT-SO-SIMPLE LIFE
A Diary of a Teenage Girl: Maya, Book 1
by Melody Carlson
To the casual observer, Maya Stark would appear to live an enviable life. A mansion in Beverly Hills, a Mom who lets her do whatever, and a Dad who is a star. But appearances are deceiving. The house has been mortgaged so much, it’s unclear who owns it. Maya’s parents are divorced. And money? Well, what little there is funds Maya’s mother’s drug addiction.
Out of self-desperation, Maya goes “green.” She grows her own garden. It beats starving! And she takes a job to pay for the items she must buy. But when Maya’s mother vanishes for several days on end, it paves the way for Maya suddenly finding herself living with relatives. A biracial child, Maya is struggling with identity problems anyway. Will living with relatives help her find the answers she’s desperately seeking?
By aTeenzfaith on Dec 29, 2008 in Featured, Sneak Peek! | 0 Comments
The Sword and the Flute (Matterhorn the Brave Series #1)
by Mike Hamel
Emerald Isle
Aaron the Baron hit the ground like a paratrooper, bending his knees, keeping his balance.
Matterhorn landed like a 210-pound sack of dirt.
His stomach arrived a few seconds later.
He straightened his six-foot-four frame into a sitting position. In the noonday sun he saw they were near the edge of a sloping meadow. The velvet grass was dotted with purple and yellow flowers. Azaleas bloomed in rainbows around the green expanse. The black-faced sheep mowing the far end of the field paid no attention to the new arrivals.