As a kid, I liked jumping from high places. Walls, trees, quarry ledges – all perfect platforms for a leap. Doing it into water was easy; hard ground not so much. I was good at picking the right spot where I could land and roll without getting hurt. Much. Usually.

Synopsis: Each of the world’s 336 million readers in the 15-18 age bracket has a different idea of what makes a good story. Isn’t it time we gave YA readers – and readers of every age – the tech power to search a more diverse universe of books to find the story they want?

Synopsis: Whether the message I find in a blog is what I need to hear or just more noise depends on what I’m listening for. At a young age I listened for what I needed and made the rest of the world go quiet. If all we hear is everyone else’s noise, we go deaf to our own voice.