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Middle Grade Ninja: An Afterword for ALL TOGETHER NOW: A ZOMBIE STORY Part One: How and Why I Wrote It

WARNING: This Young ADULT novel is mean and nasty and intended for a mature audience. It is absolutely not appropriate for younger readers. It is a gruesome, repugnant tale sure to warp young minds. Seriously. The following is a three-part Afterword for All Together Now: A Zombie Story (you could probably read the actual book […]

Middle Grade Ninja: Book of the Week: BUNNICULA by Deborah and James Howe

Happy Halloween, Esteemed Reader! I know it’s not actually Halloween just yet, but it will be soon enough and it’s time to get in the spirit. Nothing’s better for that than a little classic middle grade. I’m all for these newbie authors we’ve been chatting with and the new books we’ve been reading, but I’m […]

Middle Grade Ninja: Book Review: DOUBLE VISION by F.T. Bradley

Shameless Plug: Just in time for Halloween, the Ninja’s scary young ADULT novel All Together Now: A Zombie Story is available today only for free download on Amazon until midnight. But seriously, that story’s messed up, so don’t let little kids read it.  First Paragraph: IT ALL STARTED WITH A FIELD TRIP. AND BEFORE you […]

Middle Grade Ninja: Book Review: THE GIRL WHO REMEMBERED HORSES by Linda Benson

First Paragraph: Sahara awoke to a pounding inside her head. Thundering. Loud. Was it rain against the tent? Rain would bring relief from the dust and the smothering heat. She blinked, rubbing sleep from her eyes. She heard nothing. The sound must have been from the dream, the dream she had again and again. Oh, […]

Middle Grade Ninja: Book Review: LOOKING FOR JACK KEROUAC by Barbara Shoup

WARNING: This week’s book is actually edgy YA and is filled with adult content. It’s absolutely not appropriate for younger readers and adults should view it as the equivalent of an ‘R’ rated movie. First Paragraph(s): IT WASN’T DUKE WALCZAK’S FAULT that I took off for Florida, like Kathy thought. The truth is, we started getting […]

Middle Grade Ninja: Book Review: THE SHADOWS (BOOKS OF ELSEWHERE VOLUME ONE) by Jacqueline West

FIRST PARAGRAPH: MS. MCMARTIN WAS definitely dead. It had taken some time for the neighbors to grow suspicious, since no one ever went in or came out of the old stone house on Linden Street anyway. However, there were several notable clues that things in the McMartin house were not as they should have been. […]

Middle Grade Ninja: Book of the Week: WHAT HAPPENED ON FOX STREET by Tricia Springstubb

You know how agents and editors and writing guides like to say that the setting should be a character in your story? No? Well, gee, this is awkward:) But if you have heard that, and I’d guess you have and you wondered what it meant, read What Happened on Fox Street. Fox Street is a […]

Middle Grade Ninja: God Help Me, I’ve Been Inspired By Ayn Rand (cold shiver)

Dear Esteemed Reader, Pray for me in my time of wanton depravity. I have been inspired by none other than Satan herself, Ayn Rand. I am unclean. First, I should mention for anyone unfamiliar that Ayn Rand, aside from her duties as the Princess of Darkness, is also the author of several books considered by […]