News
- ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011
- Bank Street Best Children's Books of the Year
- Cybils Awards Finalist 2010
- Oregon Spirit Book Award Winner
You can now order Harmonic Feedback on Indiebound, Amazon, Borders and Barnes & Noble!
Harmonic Feedback is a Cybils finalist!
I'm thrilled to announce that Harmonic Feedback was included on this year's shortlist for the Cybils, children and young adult bloggers' literary awards. Check it out here! Drea is in great company.
HARMONIC FEEDBACK is a YALSA'S Best Fiction for Young Adults nominee! It was also one of ALAN'S Picks for July 2010.
Harmonic Feedback has received some great reviews in the last few months as well:
"The novel's strength lies in Drea's dynamic personality: a combination of surprising immaturity, childish wonder, and profound insight. Her search for stability and need to escape being labeled is poignant and convincing."
-Publishers Weekly
"Fans of Rachel Cohn and David Levithan's Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2006) will recognize similarities in the dialogue and romance between music insiders, but this title leads to a sobering, tragic ending that underscores the message that all teens, regardless of how theyÕre wired, struggle to find connection, meaning, love, and purpose."
-Booklist
"It is a brilliant first-published novel that brims with optimism and glee as we watch a teen define herself by her good deeds and not her social illness."
-ALAN
"The music that brings them together adds dimensionality to Drea's disorder, with her ability to maintain single-minded focus enabling her to be quite successful in manipulating sound design, and an unexpected plot turn makes this story about much more than Drea's disability. This joins books like Beverly Brenna's Wild Orchid (BCCB 6/06) in presenting complex portraits of characters who are successfully navigating their lives with spectrum disorders."
-BCCB
Enter to win a signed copy of HARMONIC FEEDBACK on Goodreads!
Go HERE to win a signed copy of Harmonic Feedback. Contest ends May 8th!
Harmonic Feedback gets a review from Kirkus and praise from best-selling author Ellen Hopkins!
"Complex and multifaceted characters give this story warmth, heart and maturity. Drea's diagnosis informs her experiences and behaviors but refreshingly does not define her character..."
-Kirkus Reviews
"Alternately heartwarming and heartbreaking, Harmonic Feedback is a book about acceptance, exclusion, joy, pain, loss, and finding your way in a world that makes no sense to you. In short, it is a very real view of what it means to be a teen today and a fine first novel for Tara Kelly."
-Ellen Hopkins, New York Times Bestselling Author of Crank, Burned, Glass, Impulse, and Tricks.
Harmonic Feedback got its first review!
The talented Stephanie Kuehnert, author of Ballads of Suburbia and I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone, gave Harmonic Feedback a GLOWING review on YaReads.com. Stephanie is one of my favorite YA authors, so I can't even express how over the moon I was to read what she had to say about HF. Check out the review!
HarmonicFeedback.com is live!
Read a little about the characters or check out what Harmonic Feedback is about and what readers are saying. There will be more features added to the site in the coming months, including a soundtrack, character blogs, Q & A and more!
To celebrate harmonicfeedback.com going live, I will be holding another contest where you will have a chance to win an ARC of Harmonic Feedback as well as signed bookmarks and guitar picks! Stay tuned.
Harmonic Feedback is now available for pre-order at Amazon. It's due for release May 25, 2010. Click on the book cover to pre-order.
My First Blurb
"Harmonic Feedback is an impossible to put down, must-read book. Brilliantly written and filled with music, but even more so with emotional truth. Anyone who felt like an outsider will relate to Drea's story, which is not just about Aspergers, but finding love and true friendship and trying to hold on to it. We've all been there, but you get a fresh and honest take on teenage life through Drea's eyes."
Stephanie Kuehnert
Ballads of Suburbia and
I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone
Bookmarks have arrived! I am quite pleased with how these turned out. They are higher quality than I was expecting. See them here.
I got a surprise package today. I opened the mystery box to find ARCs. Harmonic Feedback ARCs. Contests will be announced shortly.
