Check out what I've been working on this year, my take on how to make #YAFiction more accessible for young people, and my #authors / #BookRecommendations.
Thanks British Fantasy Society for featuring me.
https://britishfantasysociety.org/meet-mark-kielty/
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My Partner's graphic novel APOCALYPSE BABY just had its official press release which means
I'M ALLOWED TO GUSH ABOUT IT
and tell you all to GO PREORDER IT!!!
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
If you like:
ZOMBIES
GAYNESS
AUTISM
ROMANCE
FUN
COMEDY
EPIC FIGHT SCENES
AMAZING ARTWORK
CUTENESS
this book is for YOU!
Available from all good bookstores!
Including this one!
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/apocalypse-baby-anna-penn/56fe6b983b125c6c?ean=9780702340482&next=t
#books #bookstodon #graphicnovels #comics #zombies #novels #autism #lgbtq #horror #romance #fiction #yafiction
Aaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!
Apocalypse Baby (my girlfriend's graphic novel) just went up for preorder on Amazon!!!!
"Heartstopper meets The Walking Dead"
🧟♀️🧟♂️
I am SO proud of Her
#books #bookstodon #lgbtqia #horror #yafiction #youngadult #zombies #comics
For a limited time, I'm offering FREE edits and beta reads for single chapters and short stories under ten pages.
What you'll get:
📚 A 2-5 page analysis of your writing with notes, suggestions, and tips to enhance your writing
📚 A PDF copy of your original sample document with Track Changes turned on
📚 A PDF copy of your edited sample document, to use as a comparison with your original document
Drop "Interested" below for more details.
Do I dig #YA #fiction? Not what I've seen of it thus far & it's because I think #YA can handle more. They already do, we just need fiction that permits that: https://boldly.blue/ya-dystopian-fiction-dark-themes/
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https://boldly.blue/ya-dystopian-fiction-dark-themes/

The Hunger Games is built on the premise of children murdering children on live television. The Giver depicts infanticide as routine civic procedure. Divergent packages totalitarian body-sorting as a personality quiz. YA dystopia is wildly popular and systematically defanged — and the gap between its premises and its execution tells us something important about how we talk to young readers about the darkness they already live inside.
The Inheritance Games has everything I should love:
A mysterious billionaire inheritance.
A house full of secrets and puzzles.
A girl thrown into a world she doesn’t belong in.
And yet… it never fully hooked me.
Maybe it was the pacing. Maybe it was the romance. Maybe it just wasn’t the right read at the right time.
#bookreview #yafiction #mysterybooks #inheritancegames
I wrote a full (very honest) review about it:
http://wornoutspines.com/2026/01/28/the-inheritance-games-jennifer-lynn-barnes-book-review/

Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. But her fortunes change in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtu…