Chatting with Joelle Sterling, author of Midnight Cravings
Joelle Sterling is the author of Midnight Cravings , the first in a trilogy. Her next novel in the series is Forbidden Feast . She lives in Philadelphia. Sterling is a new voice in urban fantasy fiction and she talked to me about her new novel. The first book in a new trilogy is a supernatural fest with witches, vampires, and zombies in an urban setting. Holland Manning has discarded the nerdy girl image for a bold and edgy look. This is the year that she’s finally going to fit in with the popular kids and snag her long-time crush, football star Jarrett Sloan. Holland’s mom claims to be a witch, but her spells often go awry and sometimes even backfire. When Holland asks her mother to cast a spell for her, strange things begin to occur, and Holland suspects that her mother may have mistakenly opened a portal that has unleashed menacing, dark forces. Desperate to find a better life in America, seventeen-year-old Jonas embarks on a perilous voyage from Haiti to Mia...