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Why I Like to Emotionally Destroy My Readers (And Four Thrillers that Emotionally Destroyed Me)

By Courtney Summers

February 1, 2021

When Wednesday Books and I began to finesse the messaging that would frame the promotion of my new novel, The Project, “COURTNEY SUMMERS WILL DESTROY YOU” seemed like the most obvious choice. For over a decade, I’ve built a brand around my utter delight in emotionally traumatizing my readers with hard-hitting books about young women…

5 Stand-Out Unreliable Narrators in Young Adult Lit

By Kate A. Boorman

February 26, 2019

I have a thing for unreliable narrators. I’m suspicious of polarities, of the black and white, and I tend to gravitate toward the grey area where, ironically, not-completely-trustworthy characters reside. I think I’m drawn to them because I see myself there. Not because I’m hiding bodies (or am I?) or because I lie compulsively (or…