The Hunger Games

A Surprising “Hunger Games” Movie Prequel Thrills Fans in “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes”

In 2019, Suzanne Collins, author of the blockbuster trilogy, The Hunger Games, picked up the phone and called Director Frances Lawrence to tell them “Surprise! I’ve written another book.” This shocked him and the producers because after the Mockingjay films Collins had affirmed “there were no plans for any other…

Jodé MillmanNovember 21, 2023

Young Adult

Special Edition of “A Wrinkle in Time” on Author’s 100th

Any lover of young adult literature no doubt is familiar with the unforgettable Meg Murry, who must confront her fears and self-doubt to rescue her scientist father experimenting with mysterious tesseracts capable of bending the fabric of space and time. Meg gets help from her little brother Charles Wallace, her…

BookTribOctober 1, 2018

Thrillers

Ten’s Gretchen McNeil: How to Make Serial Killers Fun

Gretchen McNeil is not only an incredibly talented author, she's also a professionally trained opera singer, a natural performer, and one of the nicest people we've ever met. The hit YA author is probably best known for her book Ten, which won numerous awards before being turned into a Lifetime original…

Rachel Fogle De SouzaJuly 12, 2018

Thrillers

The Magnificant Seven: Pop Culture’s Strongest Women

The success of Wonder Woman has set off a feeding frenzy of sorts in New York and Hollywood for strongest women heroes. Well, way back in 2008 I conceived Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong, hero of soon-to-be nine thrillers with the publication of Strong to the Bone this December, as a…

Jon LandJuly 20, 2017

Miscellany

QUIZ! Which Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland Do You Have the Best Chance of Surviving?

Katie HiresOctober 19, 2015

Miscellany

11 Ways to book your Christmas tree

If you’re anything like my mother, you’ll be busy decorating your Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving. Can you really blame her? With stores blaring holiday music in October, it’s no wonder she’s ready for her tree before the turkey has totally cooled. This year I’m hoping to talk her…

Rachel CarterDecember 3, 2014

Miscellany

10 literary tattoos that are out of this world

A few months ago, we brought you our favorite literary tattoos, but this time we’re tackling a genre that’s (quite literally) out of this world. Here are the very best sci-fi tattoos inspired by your favorite movies, shows and books:

Rachel CarterAugust 10, 2014

Miscellany

Ten awesome literary-themed wedding cakes

Now that summer is in full swing, so is wedding season. You can’t even open up Facebook these days without getting bombarded by pictures of white dresses and perfectly tiered cakes. Well—maybe not totally perfect. Because why would you pick a traditional wedding cake when you can have one with…

BookTribAugust 1, 2014

Nonfiction

Jon’s Picks: ‘Proud Mary’ and the Strongest, Kick Ass Women in Film and Pop Culture

Today, Proud Mary, starring Taraji P. Henson (Empire, Hidden Figures) opens in theaters across America. Henson plays an assassin for the Boston mafia ordered to kill the parents of a young boy. This latest assignment prompts Mary to want to protect him instead and leave the belly of the underworld…

Aisha K. StaggersJanuary 12, 2018

Fiction Young Adult

Coriolanus Snow Lands on Top in “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes”

In Suzanne Collins’s blockbuster trilogy, “The Hunger Games,” Panem President Coriolanus Snow is presented as a calculating, ruthless dictator bent on destroying the Mockingjay heroine, Katniss Everdeen. In Collin’s new novel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (Scholastic), we are introduced to an angst-ridden teenage Snow, forty years before the…

Jodé MillmanJune 9, 2020

Fiction

Coriolanus Snow Plays the Unlikely Protagonist in “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes”

—∞— For years, readers have speculated whether author Suzanne Collins would revisit the world of The Hunger Games, and to the delight of her fans, she’s returned to the Republic of Panem with a surprising twist. Her newest novel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (Scholastic), is a prequel to…

Jodé MillmanMay 19, 2020

BooksToScreen Fiction

Your Hunger Games: Mockingjay cheat sheet

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 opens November 21, and we can’t wait to watch Katniss kick some serious Capital ass. To where was she mysteriously whisked away at the end of Catching Fire? What, exactly, is District 13? When is she finally going to suck face with Gale? Those…

Rachel CarterNovember 22, 2014

Listicles Young Adult Young Adult - Featured

Strong Like a Girl: 6 Stories of Female YA Characters for International Day of the Girl Child

The young adult genre sits at a precipice. Stretching between middle grade and new adult books, it serves as a transitional phase for an age group that’s full of changes. But YA is far more than just a placeholder; after all, there’s a reason that this genre is so ubiquitous.…

Cameron KimballOctober 11, 2021

A Surprising “Hunger Games” Movie Prequel Thrills Fans in “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes”

Special Edition of “A Wrinkle in Time” on Author’s 100th

The Magnificant Seven: Pop Culture’s Strongest Women

QUIZ! Which Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland Do You Have the Best Chance of Surviving?

11 Ways to book your Christmas tree

10 literary tattoos that are out of this world

Ten awesome literary-themed wedding cakes

Jon’s Picks: ‘Proud Mary’ and the Strongest, Kick Ass Women in Film and Pop Culture

Coriolanus Snow Lands on Top in “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes”

Coriolanus Snow Plays the Unlikely Protagonist in “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes”

Your Hunger Games: Mockingjay cheat sheet

Strong Like a Girl: 6 Stories of Female YA Characters for International Day of the Girl Child

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