“Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their…well, Inspirations and Influences. The best part about I&I posts? Writers are given free rein so they can go wild and write about anything they want: their new book, series or career as a whole. Today we are thrilled to host YA author Alexandra Bracken! Ana read and loved Alexandra’s romantic fantasy debut novel Brightly Woven, so when we learned that she was coming out with a new book (a dystopian SF book with hints of superpowers in the mix!), we were thrilled. Today, Alexandra is our guest to talk about her new novel, The Darkest Minds. Please give a warm welcome to Alexandra, everyone! Over the past few months, I’ve had a number of brave souls ask me for a quick elevator pitch of what my new book is about. I say brave, because I cannot, for the life of me, ever really pitch my books in a coherent way. (This is especially ironic when you consider the fact that, for my day job, I spend weeks pitching books to librarians and educators.) Even with Brightly Woven, I almost always […]