It’s summer. We’re all stressed out, overheated, and failing to extract a sufficient amount of leisure from this allegedly leisure-full season. And so I propose a little mind candy for the group. This month we’re reading Spoiled, the newly released young adult novel by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan, authors of the stellar GoFugYourself blog. In fact, they are so awesome, that they once and very graciously submitted to a brief interview by yours truly.
If you don’t know Heather and Jessica, you don’t know what you’re missing. Their blog is pretty great and a reading staple for me. As a writer, I get to chalk up any amount of enjoyable reading to “research,” and “filling the well,” which is one of the best perks of the job. Actually, I can’t describe it as a perk. My irresistible compulsion to commit acts of enjoyable reading made this profession pretty much my only option. If this weren’t my job, I wouldn’t have time to do my job.
But back to this month’s selection. Spoiled was released on June 1st to great fanfare.
- The LA Times describes it as “Not just for kids.” In the headline, no less.
- This Associated Press piece says that Heather and Jessica have the right formula.
- And here’s a really lovely interview with the authors in The Atlantic. This piece also notes that they’re writing a sequel!
So, let’s read this one by mid-July?
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