Eric Nylund has been interviewed here at BSC before by our esteemed editor and owner of the site, Jay Tomio, answering questions about his first novel in his YA series about the half-Immortal, half-Infernal twins, Eliot and Fiona Post, in Mortal Coils. Eric also answered questions about his involvement writing several Halo...

Do you ever get into reading a book so much that you practically want to devour it? How about this question: Does looking at some books fill you with a perverse hunger for their authors’ delicious figures of speech, ironic sense of humor, edge-of-your-seat suspense, heart-rending romance, or delectable mystery so much...

Selena Gomez has been very busy but she took some time out to chat with Girls Life Magazine as well as make the cover of the issue.  Inside the magazine you get Selena talking about Joey and Joey talking about Selena in the Ramona and Beezus promotion piece.  Ther eis a piece...

Justin Bieber is getting the comic book treatment from Bluewater Comics. He will join Lady Gaga, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, David Beckham, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Swift in the Fame line of books.  As all of the Fame line of comic books this book will detail Justin Bieber’s life story. How did the...

What happens when wizardry stops working? Can the end of the world as we know it be far behind? The young teen wizards Nita and her younger sister, Dairine, fellow wizard Christopher (Kit) Rodriguez, and his dog, Ponch find out in the eighth novel in Diane Duane’s “Young Wizards” series, Wizards At War....

Demi Lovato and Camp Rock 2:The Final Jam costar Joe Jonas pose together for Teen Vogue. They will be on the August issue cover in promotion of the new Disney Channel original movie. The photos and video from the shoot is at the bottom of this post as they always are. I...

Emily Windsnap is no ordinary girl.  Sure, she has problems with her parents and often has to deal with a mean girl at school, but neither of those troubles makes her any different from other girls.  What makes Emily’s adventures exciting to follow is her ability to change into a mermaid when...

Adam Rex is an amazing illustrator and writer.  His first picture book, THE DIRTY COWBOY by Amy Timberlake, was published by FSG in 2003. His picture book FRANKENSTEIN MAKES A SANDWICH, a collection of stories about monsters and their problems, was a New York Times Bestseller. 2007 saw the release of his...

It is a rare privilege and an honor that one of today’s rising stars of YA literature, Kate Milford, author of The Boneshaker, has agreed to do an interview with me discussing her novel, some of her inspirations, and her life and philosophy in general. The Boneshaker is about thirteen-year-old Natalie Minks...

I have to say that I love when cool stuff just shows up in my mailbox.  Well this is one of those times where I get to share a bit of that fun with the readers of BSCkids.  Listen, I already read the first book, Sound Off!, and I give it the...

Eleven-year-old Darryl is many things for being one so young.  He is a wizard undergoing an interminable Ordeal against the Satanic Lone One.  He is an abdal or Pillar, from whom power flows for all the other wizards of Earth, like from out of a reservoir or a well.  He is a...

Obviously if you get Justin Bieber on the cover of your magazine you can make it a special collector’s issue.  Well the issue of Seventeen Magazine is filled up with all sorts of Justin Bieber fun, plus it seems you can even win tickets to see Justin in concert.  Put that with some...

Wow!  The meaning and the purpose of life?  Was Aristotle exaggerating the importance of happiness?  Maybe.  But there’s no denying happiness is very, very important.  After all, the framers of the Declaration of Independence only listed three unalienable rights: life, liberty, and well . . . the pursuit of happiness. Everyone wants...