I was drawn to comic books as a child (Spider-man in particular) and would beg my mom to buy them off the convenience store rack even before I fully grasped the English language. My journey to publication began with a radioactive spider bite. On this 8th day of February, The Brown Bookshelf is honored to highlight young adult author, Lamar Giles. From the blurbs sited on his website, he also has a flair for writing dark fantasy thrillers! Although his debut, FAKE ID (Harper Collins) is the first book he published through traditional methods, this is not his first novel. Giles later moved to Chesapeake, Virginia, another city rich with history and natural wonders, where he currently resides with his wife.Ī love for comic book heroes and sci-fi novels started Mr. Like most towns in the Commonwealth of Virginia, Hopewell is highly decorated with American history. It is a diverse community known for its busy ports. Lamar Giles grew up in a small, riverfront city in Virginia called Hopewell. Please enjoy today’s Throwback Thursday spotlight on 28 Days Later honoree, Lamar Giles. Giles is also a founding member of We Need Diverse Books. Another YA novel with HarperCollins, as yet untitled, is forthcoming. Since our original feature on Giles and his first traditionally published YA novel, Fake ID (HarperCollins, 2014), Giles has gone on to publish Endangered(HarperCollins, 2015), and the soon to be released Overturned (Scholastic Press, March 28, 2017). The beginning of Lamar Giles‘ career as a critically-acclaimed YA author was that good thing, and we at the The Brown Bookshelf are happy to have been there to celebrate it. There is something extremely satisfying about being present at the start of a good thing.
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