In Which Jordyn Lies and Apologizes

Remember how I was like I WILL SEND OUT EMAILS ABOUT THE WRITING GROUP MONDAY! OR TUESDAY! PS. I AM A BIG FAT LIAR!
Yeah… about that…
I’m kind of going out of town today (because my mom and sister are and they said JOIN US, WON’T YOU?) but don’t worry. I haven’t forgotten about anything, and [...]

Messages of Morality. And Twilight. And John Green.

So yesterday at Starbucks there were some priests. Or bishops. Or pastors. I don’t really know what they were, but that’s pretty much the whole story. It just segues nicely into what I want to talk about -
books and religion. Or, more precisely, books and the author’s religion.
The following comment, left on a Jezebel article [...]

Retrospective: June 21-27

Hey, remember how last week I forgot to post the Retrospective? Um, yeah. Sorry.
But this week! Was exciting!
To start off with, I interviewed Cheryl Renee Herbsman, debut author of Breathing. Read part one and part two! (That’s right, author interviews now come in two parts.)
I asked you guys why you like YA and discussed the [...]

Review: TTYL

Review in Short: Told entirely through IM, this is the story of best friends Zoe, Maddie, and Angela’s sophomore year of high school. It involves mean girls, drama, infighting, too-friendly teachers, and a surplus of drama. On the whole this book felt like a superficial look at high school friendships. I’d call it mediocre. 72/100 = C
Premise: Told [...]

YA Boys of Win (and Fail)

I swear I’m not boy crazy. Really. But because of Khy and Kelsey (and Trish Doller), I’m doing this thing.
Top five fictional YA boys, anyone? These are the guys made of WIN.
(These aren’t all crush YA boys. I just like them. A lot.)
1. Todd, from The Geek Girl’s Guide to Cheerleading
I. Love. Todd. Maybe in [...]

NEWS.

I…. think I finished my novel.
Now to start the next one.
In related news: if you’re interested in the (mostly YA) online writing group, click this. I’ll be sending out emails to all interested persons within the next few days.

The Mostly YA Writing Group

So some of you may have got this tweet earlier today:
RT: @ninjajordyn OPEN CALL: who wants to join a MOSTLY YA online writing group?
Here’s the deal, in case you find yourself being interested in this strange venture.
What is it?
It’s called The Word Collectors.
A mostly YA online writing group. Mostly YA means that many of the blog [...]

Why We Like YA

So I couple days back I asked you guys why you like YA, and though many of the answers (“I can relate to it/am a teenager”) were expected, I still found it very interesting since the topic of YA – how it is defined, what it is, and why someone would choose to read it [...]

FYI: A Contest

THIS IS JUST TO LET YOU KNOW THAT A CONTEST IS COMING. A CONTEST I THINK WILL BE AWESOME, AND THAT THE LOVELY HAD THE IDEA FOR.
Get ready.

Signed Books

So today I received back the books I’d sent to Kori in our book swap. One of them (Two-Way Street), she’d gotten signed at the Teen Author Carnival. And in honor of that, today’s post is all about THE SIGNED BOOKS I HAVE (the number of which has exploded since Ten Cent Notes began).
Before this [...]