Beth Revis is the auteur of Across the Universe and its sequel A Million Suns (just released this January!).I haven't read either of these boeken yet (mostly because they are never on the shelves in my library--Good for Beth, bad for Small!), but they're on my TBR and I've spent meer time than I should probably admit to oogling their gorgeous covers. I've also managed to sneak a peek at the first chapter and WOW, talk about dramatic!

Beth was kind enough to stop door today and answer some of my very important vragen (you know, about kissing and stuff).





Q: Which one of your characters would you...

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Recommended. For readers of young adult fiction, whether you're a teenager yourself of just like the genre, there have never been meer choices. Dystopian YA fiction is a particularly trendy category these days. Science fiction writers have always imagined dystopias, of futuristic societies ruled door oppressive governments, where the freedoms we enjoy today have vanished. recent series, such as Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games and Scott Westerfield's Uglies, have brought the concept to a younger audience.


Across the Universe door Beth Revis also presents a dystopia, but with a twist....

Synopsis: A love out of time. A spaceship built of secrets and murder.

Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a spaceship that lives door its own rules.

Amy quickly realizes that her awakening was no mere computer malfunction. Someone-one of the few thousand inhabitants of the spaceship-tried to kill her. And if Amy doesn’t...

On the “Release Eve” of her debut novel, Across the Universe, we’d like to introduce u to Beth Revis.
Beth has a great website, so it was hard to find vragen that she hadn’t already answered. After putting on my thinking cap, I managed to come up with some things to ask that hadn’t already been answered. Beth is a former English teacher who left that profession in June of 2010 in order to pursue writing full time. Here’s what Beth had to say:
Eve’s fan Garden: How did u come up with the idea for Across the Universe?

Beth Revis: It all came from an idea for the twist at the...