A belated, but VERY happy congratulations to Lili Wilkinson, whose novel Pink won a Stonewall Honor at yesterday’s Youth Media Awards given out by the American Library Association! I was in the audience when it was announced, and I will not lie, I did my happy dance. The Stonewall Award is “given annually to English-language [...]
Matthew Cody‘s The Dead Gentleman continues to earn some fantastic reviews since its initial publication just before the holidays, like this one, from the February 1st issue of Booklist: Two young New Yorkers from different eras unite to save the world from an invasion of zombies led by an elegant, corpse-wearing darkling. Shuttling among worlds, [...]
Congratulations to all the authors on the Winter 2011 Kids’ Indie Next List, but especially to kt literary clients Maureen Johnson, Matthew Cody, and Stephanie Perkins! Maureen’s The Name of the Star is #8 on the Top Ten list, with this great blurb: Louisiana teen Rory Deveaux arrives in London to attend Wexford Academy just [...]
If you follow me on Twitter, you may have already seen this, but I’m thrilled to share the official trailer for The Dead Gentleman by Matthew Cody, which comes out tomorrow. Enjoy!
There’s a great interview over at Mother Reader with Matthew Cody and Aaron Starmler about their upcoming middle grade titles, and I have to say, I love Matt’s answer about what influenced him to write The Dead Gentleman: It came out of my love of a certain kind of fiction (see above) but it also [...]
