In the SLJ Teen newsletter, I found out that the The William C. Morris YA Debut Award finalists have been announced. According the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) website: "The William C. Morris YA Debut Award, first awarded in 2009, honors a debut book published by a first-time author writing for teens and celebrating impressive new voices in young adult literature." Ash by Malinda Lo, published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Beautiful Creatures by … [Read more...]
If you've been following the latest publishing news, you know that Kirkus Reviews is closing its doors. This is yet another result of the economy more or less. I've always known Kirkus to review all types of books from both small and big publishing houses. I also remember how some of my writer friends had a love/hate relationship with the publication. A good review was great. But a bad review? No one could do it like Kirkus. It was almost like a rite of passage. But it's what Kirkus is … [Read more...]
I just got out of meeting at the day job, but before I delve into all things techy geeky, I wanted to drop a quick post about some interesting articles I've found about YA audiences. With the first article, I got the heads up from writer friend,Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich, author of the forthcoming, Eight Grade SuperZero (which I can't wait to get my hands on). It comes from Publisher's Weekly, What Do Teens Want? Here's an excerpt: "Although it's impossible to completely break out … [Read more...]
I usually don't blog on the weekends, but here I am at the fabulous Main Library up the street from my house. I'm working on creating a spreadsheet to help me with my revision process (I'll share that in an upcoming post). Anyway, of course the library has Internet access and so I felt the need to "ease" in to my revision process (i.e,. provide myself with a procrastination tactic). I read some blogs, including the latest This Week in Publishing post on agent Nathan Bransford's blog. He … [Read more...]
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