As a writer, I sometimes fall into “geek-out mode” about my own book. As in, “it rivals the geekery I had about Lord of the Rings during my teenage years.” That kind of geek mode. I think about it all day. My characters are constantly on my mind. I am going squeeee! over random details that nobody […]
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6 Favorite Brother-Sister Relationships in Fiction
Posted in Fandoms and Geekery, Literature, tagged brother, character, Dickens, family, fiction, films, Firefly, genres, love, movies, relationships, siblings, sister, tolkien, TV on December 8, 2014 | 22 Comments »
Romance. Parent and child. Sisterhood. Brotherhood. Sibling groups. Friendships. Partners. Mentor and student. Master and servant. Leader and followers. Personally, although I enjoy reading about many different kinds of relationships, I’m a big sucker for a strong brother-sister friendship, mostly because the trilogy I’ve been writing for almost 10 years, The Kraesinia Trilogy, centers around […]
Why Katniss Everdeen Has No Hope – But We Do
Posted in Fandoms and Geekery, Literature, Movie Reviews, Philosophy and Worldviews, Reviews, tagged films, hunger games, katniss, mockingjay, movies on November 26, 2014 | 7 Comments »
A common beef Christians have with dystopian stories is that they are hopeless. It’s common because it can be very true – dystopias are designed to display a reality where all feels lost, where people feel crushed and hopeless, and evil has all the power. So it makes sense that books and movies in this […]
Book Review: “A Time to Die” by Nadine Brandes (and GIVEAWAY!)
Posted in Blog Hops, Book Reviews, Literature, Reviews on October 16, 2014 | 2 Comments »
As soon as I heard about this book, I wanted it. A Time to Die (first in a trilogy) is a dystopian book – like The Hunger Games, Divergent, or The Giver – but by a Christian author and woven through with themes of faith. Nadine Brandes’s desire is that A Time to Die will spur readers on to live life more intentionally, […]
5 Reasons Writing YA (Sci-Fi and Fantasy) Is Awesome
Posted in Encouragement, Inspiration, Literature, Writing on August 27, 2014 | 6 Comments »
I like to say that despite aging into my twenties, part of my soul got stuck at sixteen. I loved my teen years. They were awkward, complicated, and emotional, like anyone’s teen years, but they were also chock-full of joy, adventure, good friendship, and new knowledge. During my mid-teens I moved from California to New […]
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Bethany A. Jennings is a YA speculative fiction and poetry author, a freelance editor, and a lover of artisan sandwiches. Born in SoCal, with a heart and soul raised in many different worlds, she now lives happily in New England with her husband, four children, zero pets, and a large and growing collection of tiny houseplants. She is a firm believer in the power of words to reach hurting hearts, uplift the weary, and pierce the darkness.
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