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The Nightmare Academy is a series of YA fantasy novels by American novelist Dean Lorey. The series follows Charlie Benjamin and his friends Theodore Dagget and Violet Sweet. The antagonists of the series are called the Named, who are the most powerful creatures of the Netherworld. The film rights of the first book in the […]
Dean Lorey is an American author and screenwriter. Aside from his Nightmare Academy YA book series, Lorey has written screenplays that have included Major Payne, Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday and My Boyfriend’s Back and worked on the TV shows Arrested Development and My Wife and Kids. Dean lives in Calabasas, California with […]
Virals is a series of YA sci-fi/suspense novels by American author Kathy Reichs. The featured character is Tory Brennan, the niece of Temperance Brennan. Tory is the leader of a gang of “sci-philes” who live off the coast of South Carolina. When they rescue a dog from a medical testing lab, they become exposed to […]
The Drake Chronicles is a series of YA urban fantasy novels by Canadian novelist Alyxandra Harvey. The series follows a teenage vampire named Solange and her best friend Lucy (a human).
Alyxandra Harvey is a Canadian author of YA urban fantasy novels. She is the author of the Drake Chronicles series. Her inspirations are the Bronte sisters and Jane Austen. She has been accused multiple times of being born in the wrong century. Alyxandra lives in a stone Victorian house in Ontario, Canada with her husband, […]
The Mythos Academy is a series of YA urban fantasy novels by American author Jennifer Estep. The protagonist of the series is a 17 year-old Gypsy girl named Gwen Frost. Gwen possesses the gift of psychometry – the power to know an object’s history simply by touch. After a “minor” mishap, Gwen is sent to […]
The Squire’s Tales is a series of young adult fantasy novels by American author Gerald Morris. The series is a re-telling of Arthurian myths with new stories behind them. The books start out focusing on Sir Gawain’s squire Terence, but eventually move on to other characters, although they are still present.
Gerald Morris is an American author of fantasy novels for young adults and children. He is the author of The Squire’s Tales and The Knights’ Tales series. As a child of Baptist missionaries, Gerald spent much of his time in Singapore. When he isn’t writing, Gerald teaches theology and is a pastor. He has three […]
Christopher Paolini is an American author of young adult fantasy novels. His series is called the Inheritance Cycle. Christopher was home-schooled by his parents growing up. After graduation, he began writing. His break came when Carl Hiaasen‘s stepson read his novel Eragon and Hiaasen brought it to the publisher Knopf’s attention. Christopher considers several authors, […]
The Lorien Legacies is a series of YA sci-fi/fantasy novels by Pittacus Lore (James Frey & Jobie Hughes). The series follows nine aliens who appear to be human that were brought to Earth when they were six year-olds. Their purpose is to allow their powers to develop and then return home to their home planet, […]