Posted Mar 30 2012 in author, bullying, cyber-bullying, Dan's Blog, fiction, Patty Blount, Send, suicide, teens, violence, YA
SQUEE! ! ! ! Please forgive the abuse of exclamation points but SEND HAS A COVER AND IT’S THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING EVAH! Behold… Do you love it?!? Tell me you love it. Lie to me if you must. It’s really happening. My precious is A REAL BOOK! *happy dance* I um… *coughs*… went a […]
Read More...Posted Mar 29 2012 in Book Hungry, dystopian, Hunger Games, Miscellany, movie, teens, violence
My Bookhungry book club formed over a year ago around The Hunger Games book – in fact, it was our first book review. So, what better tribute (ha ha, pun intended) than to review the movie? Warning! Spoilers ahead. We saw the movie during its opening weekend and discussed it. I took my son even […]
Read More...Posted Feb 23 2012 in book club, Book Hungry, fiction, teens, What I'm Reading, YA
This month, Bookhungry chose Veronica Roth’s DIVERGENT four – er, I mean for our discussion. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, the first in a series I’m enormously excited to finish. Before my review, let me first summarize the plot. Beatrice Prior is sixteen years old. She and her brother, Caleb, are just eleven months apart, […]
Read More...Posted Feb 16 2012 in author, eating disorders, Patty Blount, social networking, teens, YA
For my day job as a software technical writer, I’ve had to learn all about social networking – weigh the risks, know the benefits, tell the trends from the fads. It was this research that spurred my novel, SEND (August, 2012, Sourcebooks, Inc.), a story about a teen who exploits technology in the worst […]
Read More...Posted Feb 9 2012 in author, bullying, parenting, Patty Blount, suicide, teens, violence, YA
We’re six months away from the release of my novel, SEND, a story about a former bully learning to cope with the suicide he caused when he was thirteen. When I began writing SEND, the plot was made up — born partly from my own fears as a mother of teens and partly from an […]
Read More...Posted Jan 3 2012 in author, Patty Blount, teens, YA
One of the things I love most about writing fiction is creating compelling characters… people who feel as real to you, the reader, as they do to me, the poor sap forced to listen to their voices in her head. I love writing YA because I enjoy writing atypical teens – teens who bust out […]
Read More...Posted Dec 27 2011 in teens
I drove my high school junior to school last week, noting all the kids not wearing coats. Yes, it’s been unseasonably warm for a New York December, but not only were some kids sans coats, they were also wearing shorts and flip-flops. My own sons never wear coats and it drives me crackers. I got […]
Read More...Posted Oct 13 2011 in author, Compelling Stories, Patty Blount, teens
My blog is depressing me. Lately, the posts I’ve been writing have a common theme – sad and alarming teen trends like bullying, sexting, sexual molestation, and homelessness. Coming from someone whose novel is about sexting gone bad, this is really saying something. So… How about we focus on the positive? Being a teen today […]
Read More...Posted Oct 7 2011 in author, homeless, Patty Blount, Sachem, teens
Author Bill Cameron posted this link to a story about a homeless teen in Oregon. I am upset by it but even more than that, I wonder how isolated an occurrence teen homelessness is? Ironically, Bill told me last night that his school district is using Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs as their theme for the year. I wonder, […]
Read More...Posted Sep 24 2011 in bullying, cyber-bullying, Jamie Rodemeyer, Patty Blount, social networking, suicide, teens, violence
The following blog post was written by my oldest son, Rob, and pre-empts this weekend’s usual chocolate post because the subject is too important to trivialize. I warn you – this is not easy to read and as Rob’s mother, I promise you, it’s even harder to bear because each time I read it, I […]
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