Antarctica is the coldest, driest, windiest, and emptiest place on our planet. Over 97% of its surface is covered in ice that at it’s thickest is almost three miles deep and averages one and a third miles. While there’s been a lot of news about the arctic ice sheet or… Read more“Map Monday, Antarctica – What’s under all that ice?”
Category: Science
Map Monday, The Migration of Monarch Butterflies
As long-time readers of this blog may recall, Monarch butterflies and their migration have always fascinated me. I even worked them into my YA fantasy series Misaligned, which I featured in an earlier blog post. Despite all of their wonderful attributes Monarchs cannot survive cold winters. Their solution is to… Read more“Map Monday, The Migration of Monarch Butterflies”
Why is Seven so prominent in YA Fantasy?
Have you ever noticed how prominent seven is in YA fantasy? Almost everything you read in the genre manages to incorporate it. Here are seven instances in the most popular YA fantasy series ever written, Harry Potter. The number of books in the series, years of study at Hogwarts, horcruxes… Read more“Why is Seven so prominent in YA Fantasy?”