Did you know? This post went out first to our wonderful Light Letter subscribers. Sign up here to stay up to date with The Light Trilogy, and catch up on any newsletters you’ve missed here! I am thrilled to announce that the Renegade Red Audiobook is officially available! It’s finally [...]
THE LIGHT TRILOGY’S BOOKCON BONANZA! Did you know? This post went out as a newsletter to all our beloved Light Letter readers. You can sign up here and read any newsletters you may have missed here! What a crazy BEA and BookCon for The Light Trilogy! Not only did we SELL OUT of [...]
the wolves within There are wolves in my jaws My teeth grow to fangs to cage them: long and curved, stalactite white ridged enamel-sharp inside. My gums were pink, but now they’re black, seeping silenced howls, growls deadened. Spiny yellow sees the chasm: tooth-bellies rent by claws that cannot breathe. I’d thought to [...]
NATIONAL POETRY MONTH: IMPOSTER Two of my favorite book bloggers, AJ and Abbie completely blew me away by teaching me the most beautiful Filipino words. I absolutely had to write a poem, and since both amazing women are firmly on Team Judah (#JudahsRebels) I decided to rewrite a version of the ‘Imposter’ poem Noa writes [...]
The following poem was written for my amazing Girl-Beast Zoe Cope, the creative designer of Renegade Red’s covers, artist behind The Light Trilogy Jewelry line, and soul sister. Each image in this poem was inspired by her personal jewelry line “birds n bones.” After the poem, I show the pieces that inspired each [...]
RENEGADE Release Day! I can’t believe it’s FINALLY here—the book birthday of RENEGADE RED! RR has been such a whirlwind of a project for me. Just like Noa, I’ve had to make the Renegade voyage (as shown on our three limited-edition covers) and go from Poet to Warrior, in order to Travel [...]
I want to give thanks to the quiet nerdy girl I once was (and still am), and to the benevolent employees of my neighborhood Mecca growing up, Kepler’s Books, who pretended they didn’t see me curled up in their stacks, devouring the books gleaming brightly from their shelves. Below is a list of my favorite [...]
As a writer, I love meeting the characters, and especially heroines, other writers have given the world. The following are some of my favorite chicas from TV and film, whose various awesomeness helped inspire the female characters Noa, Olivia, Isla, Sasha, and Hilo from my debut YA novel Shattered Blue, book one of The [...]
1) NOTHING SAYS LOVE AS SWEETLY AS TREATS In my debut novel, Shattered Blue, the heroine Noa and the mysterious Callum bond over, among other things, a delicious game involving salt-water taffy. Inspired by Ninja’s love for all things yum-related (we all know those pleading doggy eyes!) 2) BIG SISTERS AND LITTLE SISTERS ARE [...]
In honor of Veterans’ Day, I wanted to do a little post about my late grandfather, Leonard Wisnyi. Although he died young before I had a chance to meet him, he was a remarkable man, and a dedicated veteran of the US Navy who served in both World War II and in the Korean War. [...]