Marianne here. Just wanted to wish you all a wonderful Christmas from all of us at Burn Bright and MDPWeb. We’ve tried hard to bring you interesting fresh content over the course of the year – lots of reviews and interviews and some fun blogs as well. Really hope you’ve enjoyed reading and being part of our community.

I want to thank all my amazing staff (Bel, Lisa, Krista, Bec, Mandy, Phil, Renee, Joelene, Diana, Holly and Jamie) for their wonderful and consistent contributions. They have been fantastic and innovative and always there when I needed something. But a particular thank you to Belinda Hamilton who’s really become my right hand and who works extremely hard for this site. Thanks Bel!

Thanks also to all the publishers who have supported us with books and arranging interviews, and to The Spotlight Report, out new content partner in the entertainment area! We love Jorge and Sandra!

We’d love to hear your thoughts about the site and any ideas for things you’d like to see us do more or less of in 2013. We’re going to have a break between Christmas and New Year – our one week of the year without fresh content. I think the staff all deserve a little time off.

Then we’ll be back with a brand new series interviewing bloggers about their sites, and a bunch of other goodies for you.

For those of you who have bought SHINE LIGHT and The Night Creatures series – thank you from the bottom of my heart. Let’s hope 2013 is a great year for the world.

Burn Bright!

Marianne x

And seemingly, as soon as it starts, it’s over!

Yesterday I talked about Lenoir at The RestIsStillUnwritten and today of course it is Naif is the final part over at BadAssBookie. I hope you enjoyed reading my personal thoughts on the characters, and that it gave you even deeper insight into what I was trying to achieve.

I’ve loved every minute of writing this series, and have so many people to thank for helping me make it a success;  including my agent, Tara, all the WONDERFUL Random House Australia staff, with special shout outs to Zoe, Kimberley, Dot, Sarana, Peri and Adiba. What a pleasure working with you all!

I also want to thank my own team. We started working on this site before Burn Bright was published and have written endlessly to bring you good, current content. To my team, this is definitely as much your series as it is mine. Love you!

Finally, to all the amazing YA bloggers (too numerous to name) out there, in Australia and overseas. You’ve been so supportive and interested, I hope that the series is its own reward – but thank you from the bottom of my heart anyway.

So what next??? Well we still have plans for wider release of the series (German edition next), so the site will continue as is, and in time when I have more YA/Children’s books published, they will be connected to this site. Burn Bright is forever … or at least for the duration of this writer’s career.

I have some other plans for the site further down the track, which I will tell you about in time. In the mean time, sit back and continue to enjoy our reviews and blogs that celebrate the wonders of YA literature.

Marianne xx