Category: Books
Totuga Bay makes final round of FAPA President’s Awards!
Fresh off her success in the Eric Hoffer Book Awards, where Tortuga Bay was a category…
Dystopian literature and the reality of apocalypse
I recently spent some time at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. This is a transformative…
Tris Prior is more than just a buff, kick-butt character
I know that books typically have more depth than films, but YA fiction has tended…
Where do good female characters come from?
While recently researching blog posts about the Divergent film series, I ran across a 2011 blog post…
Katniss vs. Tris: Who is the stronger character?
As the DC Comics superhero clash movie Superman Vs. Batman hits the theaters this weekend,…
10 elements of a high-performing anti-sexual assault program
After spending years researching and writing the content for a book on college sexual assault–Unsafe…
Is Katniss Everdeen a strong female character?
I have now seen all four Hunger Games movies and read all three books, and…
RPLA win raises visibility of little people in mainstream society
One of the more gratifying aspects of winning 2nd place in the Royal Palm Literary…
Will Tracy Lawson’s novels become this generation’s Ayn Rand substitute?
By SR Staley Resist, the second novel in Tracy Lawson’s Resistance Series, picks up right…
Tracy Lawson’s dystopian “Resist” challenges, engages
When Tracy Lawson published Counteract, her first novel in the Resistance Series (now with 41…
