But her worst fears are realized when she discovers she is being groomed by the abbess as a Seeress, to be forever sequestered in the rock and stone womb of the convent. Mortain, patiently awaiting her own turn to serve Death. Genre: Fantasy, Historical, Fiction, Romance, YAĪnnith has watched her gifted sisters at the convent come and go, carrying out their dark dealings in the name of St. “Mortal Heart” (His Fair Assassin #3) by Robin LaFevers (2014) But I am now pulling a dark, older YA into the mix and it kind of tipped me over in terms of understanding who my audience is, what my relationship to my readers is, how I pull all of those various wildly different parts of the authorial me together.Book Review: Mortal Heart (His Fair Assassin #3) by Robin LaFevers I was able to straddle a young middle grade and an older middle grade series fairly well.

Part of this was brought about by the fact that I am having a teensy bit of an identity crisis, genre-wise. So instead I thought I’d talk about something that’s been occupying quite a lot of my mental space lately, namely themes. I was going to come back here and tell you all how I’ve been so busy that I haven’t had two seconds to rub together, let alone time to blog, but you know what? You all are smart cookies.

So that’s the plan! Until then I will be posting any non-middle grade book related stuff (like thoughts on writing, marketing, or human nature studies) over at Shrinking Violets, and I will be sure to post a link to the YA site when it is ready. LaFevers website and be a place mostly for updates, news, and appearances. This blog will now become attached to my R.L.

Because the YA is so much older and darker than my middle grade, it seemed easier to have two separate websites. LaFevers, so I am building a second website and will post that link here when it is done. In related news, as it stands now, I will be publishing my YA, GRAVE MERCY, under Robin LaFevers rather than R. I actually love this new look quite a lot, with all the little literary sidekicks smiling at me from the fringes. That’s because my poor author website was so old and outdated that it was WAY past time to update it. Hello! You’ve probably noticed all the remodeling going on here.

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