Today I’m celebrating another great review of Trish Doller‘s forthcoming debut Something Like Normal, this one from Voya. I love particularly love this part: This is a compelling look at the aftermath of a tour of duty in a war zone. The nervous awkwardness his family feels around him makes […]
Suite Scarlett
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There’s been a lot of talk on the blogosphere lately about the US cover for Justine Larbalestier‘s Liar, which comes out from Bloomsbury this fall. Justine herself wrote a fantastic post about the issues of race in cover design, which has been picked up by Publishers Weekly and Jezebel, among […]
Multiple straps on a metallic shoe (available in grape!) for Karen, who writes: My question is about having multiple agents. Is it common for an author to have another agent to handle foreign rights and if so, would we have to query them in the same manner as with the […]
About Suite Scarlett, while sitting in a hotel. I was there for part of the taping of this, but I had to leave when I kept laughing out loud at some of her answers.
The good people over at Indie Bound have declared today, May 1st, “Buy Indie Day!” Now, I’m all about a day specifically dedicated to buying books, and this one, in particular, urges you to get out and support your local independent bookstore. My two favorites? Books of Wonder in NYC […]
Maureen Johnson is getting ready for the May release of the paperback of Suite Scarlett, keeping busy with BEDA and her new ning, but in the meantime, I’m thrilled to share that the Horn Book recently published a special list of Funny Books, and Suite Scarlett was one of only […]
So, as I’ve been twittering lately, later this week I head to NYC, and then on to Italy for the Bologna Book Fair. And while, yes, it’s Italy in the Spring, with all the good food, great scenery, nice weather and such that that implies, but it’s also a lot […]
More good news to share this week -- Ellen Booraem's The Unnameables wins an Honorable Mention in the Children's/Young Adult category for the Maine Literary Awards.
When I'm sneezing and achy and tired and coughing, it makes my head hurt to be at the computer all day, so I'm hoping to get some reading done instead. And besides the submissions I have to get to, there's this whole wonderful list of YALSA's best books for young adults, including Maureen Johnson's Suite Scarlett. Whee!