Friday, November 30, 2012

The End (of the week) Is Nigh!

Happy Friday! Here's our latest news:


Events:
See seven Apocalypsies tonight in Chicago and Saturday in Madison, Wisconsin

New releases:
Corrine Jackson's TOUCHED

New deals:
Two new YA novels for Diana Renn, LATITUDE ZERO (2014) and BLUE VOYAGE (2015), mysteries featuring globetrotting teens, action, and international intrigue with Viking/Penguin

Foreign rights:
Tamara Ireland Stone's TIME BETWEEN US and the upcoming sequel - Taiwan

Film rights:
Diana Renn's TOKYO HEIST, to the production company Anonymous Content

Contests:
Enter to win an advance copy of Jodi Meadow's ASUNDER in her Reviewer Appreciation Giveaway
Suggest a song for the playlist of Hemlock 3 by Kathleen Peacock for a chance to be included in book three's acknowledgements

Other awesomeness:
Congratulations to all our members on YALSA's best of young adult literature list
Anne Nesbet's THE CABINET OF EARTHS is featured in School Library Journal's article on middle grade fantasy, and J. Anderson Coats' THE WICKED AND THE JUST, Veronica Rossi's UNDER THE NEVER SKY, and Emily Danforth's THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST are on SLJ's Best Books of 2012 list
Starters by Lissa Price won the Crimezone Award in the Netherlands for Best YA Thriller of 2012 (non-Netherlands) and the ist Eselsohr Award in Germany for Best YA 2012. Barnes & Noble picked Starters as one of the Best Teen Books of 2012
Fans of LIES BENEATH can now read extra scenes on Anne Greenwood Brown's blog

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