Emily Rachelle Writes

The Kindling Muse by Chelsea Guy Addie just wants answers. Little does she know that she is about to receive them. Amazon Page GoodReads Page Author Website Amazon Summary: Sixteen-year-old Addie Flamma has normal goals for a sixteen-year-old: graduate from high school at the top of her class and attend the perfect college, despite growing up under less than ideal conditions. As a minor living in foster care, however, Addie wants more than that; she wants to find out who her parents are and why she has been cursed with serious health problems. During the middle of a presentation in chemistry class, Addie suffers a major seizure. In the hospital, she is given a rare African plant extract in her IV drip known to help adolescents with her type of medical conditions. Miraculously cured by the unique plant, only known as “ashes of life,” Addie returns to school and resumes her job at a shelter for the needy. But when she is drawn to a mysterious boy seeking a hot meal, he changes...

What's Left of Me and Once We Were by Kat Zhang {Books One and Two of the Hybrid Chronicles} Amazon Page: What's Left of Me Amazon Page: Once We Were GoodReads Page: What's Left of Me GoodReads Page: Once We Were LibraryThing Page: What's Left of Me LibraryThing: Once We Were Author Website Amazon Summary - What's Left of Me: What's Left of Me , the first book of the Hybrid Chronicles, is set in an alternate reality where everyone is born with two souls. But one soul is naturally dominant, and in early childhood, the other soul fades away. That didn't happen for Addie and Eva. Now fifteen, Eva clings to life inside the body she shares with Addie, although she can no longer speak or even move. Addie does everything she can to hide the presence of her sister soul. Eva's very existence is illegal. If their secret is revealed, it could mean death for both of them.

As I mentioned before, I won a ticket to the Crossroads Writing Conference! (Pause here for that crazy statement to sink in.) Therefore, I spent last weekend having a lot of fun and a lot more secret inner going-crazy that I was meeting a bunch of famous book-deal-and-agent-having writers all in two days. (Also, I spent last weekend not sharing the next episode of my adventures with Rykel. Again, sorry! Working on that... anyway.) It was my first conference, located about thirty minutes from where I live, and totally awesome. I ate lunch on Saturday using this little $10 voucher thing that came with my ticket, at a little Mexican place that makes ah-maz-ing cheesy beef nachos. Oh, did I forget to mention - I ate lunch with the best speakers? All of them?! There's Lauren Morril , the newest star on the young adult book scene... and also the woman who ran the entire conference this year. Her reading at the Author's Avenue was perfect with the vocal inflec...