Our series of interviews conducted by Carrie at the 2013 Nebula Awards continues. I had the great pleasure of interviewing Leah Bobet and Sarah Beth Durst at the Nebula Awards weekend. They were both up for the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy. Durst was up for her book, Vessel ( A | BN | K | S | iB ), and Bobet was up for Above ( A | BN | … Continue reading An Interview with Leah Bobet and Sarah Beth Durst
This book is the perfect example of a well-done, bittersweet story. It's not a romance in a happy ever after sense, but despite the pain in the story, it left me feeling uplifted, not depressed, and it left me with a wonderful image of truly selfless love. Above is about a teenager, named Matthew, who lives in an underground, secret settlement of people who have strange mutations (the place is called 'Safe'). He has a … Continue reading Above by Leah Bobet
This is the first of many interviews conducted at the Nebula Awards Alethea is the author of Enchanted, a Young Adult fairytale that was nominated for the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy. I can't begin to tell you how nice Alethea was to me during the weekend. I'm a little shy but I knew that I could count on Alethea, at any gathering, to draw me into a conversation and … Continue reading An Interview With Alethea Kontis
