Dear Alison, There I’ve said it. We’ve said it. Rainbow Rowell is the Queen of Contemporary Fiction. I use the generic Contemporary Fiction because she writes both young adult and adult contemporary fiction better than anyone else. Sure, I’ve read a wheelbarrow load of contemporary fiction that one could argue rivals any of one of Rainbow Rowell’s single titles, but taken as an entire collection? There is no one. NO ONE who beats her. Rainbow writes about love. She writes about kissing. She writes about relationships. What I love about Rainbow is that her books don’t teach lessons. She reaches out her hand and asks the reader to follow her on a journey, and we do. We always follow. I’ve read several interviews and blogposts featuring Rainbow. Heck, I wrote a post about her #NY16SCBWI Breakout Session: Creating a Teen Voice. You wrote about her in The Value of Rainbow and Scones. But it wasn’t until the Lackawanna Country Library System Lecture Series ...