Pub Day (x2!)

Congrats to Josie Bloss and Maureen Johnson, whose latest novels — Albatross and Scarlett Fever, respectively — were released today. To celebrate, I’m having another contest!
As you may have read in Josie’s interview on the Flux website, music plays a part in Albatross, just as it did in Band Geek Love and Band Geeked [...]

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Scarlett Fever is “uproariously funny”

I was going to do a recap of last night’s #askAgent session on Twitter, but there’s already a transcript posted here, so I will just tell you to go check it out!
In other news, though, Kirkus reviewed Maureen Johnson’s Scarlett Fever, and they loved it! I quote:
The sequel measures well above its predecessor in this [...]

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A Thursday Linkapalooza!

Before I get to the winner of a copy of either Scarlett Fever by Maureen Johnson or Albatross by Josie Bloss (both out on February 1st! Pre-order today at your favorite bookstore!), I though I’d share some great recent links for those, and other kt literary titles.
Bookshelves of Doom has a few words for Maureen [...]

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Ask Daphne’s Readers (Yes, That’s You!)

With our recollections of last year posted, we’re all ready to look ahead to the year to come! And for this I’d like to ask you a few questions, if you don’t mind. To keep things exciting, I will choose one random commenter below as the winner of a free book of their [...]

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Ask Daphne! About race and descriptions

Today’s question comes from Anne B., who writes:
This is one of those politically correct questions. Recently I’ve read a few books where a character is introduced a few chapters into the story and the narrator/main character describes her as “black” or “Asian” or “Hispanic.” It always jolts me because the rest of the characters in [...]

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