More news for you - including some beautiful covers!
Firstly, Once Upon a Bookcase now has a Facebook page! Please "like" the page to be kept up to date with all posts on Once Upon a Bookcase from Facebook. Cheers!
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To celebrate the release of The Land of Painted Caves by Jean M. Auel, the sixth book in the Earth's Children's series - released 30 years after the first book was published - Hodder and Stoughton have launched a competition in which fans can win tickets to an exclusive event to help bring the character Ayla to life for a special 3D augmented reality cover. Head to the Facebook page for more info!
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Books to check out:
The Girl who Leapt Through Time by Yasutaka Tsutsui - released: 16th May 2011 - One of Tsutsui's best-known and most popular works in his native Japan, The Girl Who Leapt through Time is the story of fifteen-year-old schoolgirl Kazuko, who accidentally discovers that she can leap back and forth in time. In her quest to uncover the identity of the mysterious figure that she believes to be responsible for her paranormal abilities, she'll constantly have to push the boundaries of space and time, and challenge the notions of dream and reality. From Amazon UK
Timeless by Alexandra Monir - released: 11th January 2011 - When tragedy strikes Michele Windsor’s world, she is forced to uproot her life and move across the country to New York City, to live with the wealthy, aristocratic grandparents she’s never met. In their old Fifth Avenue mansion filled with a century’s worth of family secrets, Michele discovers a diary that hurtles her back in time to the year 1910. There, in the midst of the glamorous Gilded Age, Michele meets the young man with striking blue eyes who has haunted her dreams all her life – a man she always wished was real, but never imagined could actually exist. And she finds herself falling for him, into an otherworldly, time-crossed romance.
Michele is soon leading a double life, struggling to balance her contemporary high school world with her escapes into the past. But when she stumbles upon a terrible discovery, she is propelled on a race through history to save the boy she loves – a quest that will determine the fate of both of their lives. From Amazon US
Further info: "In a unique and exciting development, Alexandra has integrated original music into her debut novel's pages, writing two songs for the YA Novel. The songs play a crucial role in the story's plot. Alexandra recorded the songs with producer and musical virtuoso Michael Bearden (musical director of Michael Jackson's last concert, "This Is It") and an all-star 10-piece band. The tracks were written by Alexandra Monir, her songwriting partner Heather Holley (of Christina Aguilera success), and Michael Bearden. The tracks incorporate musical sounds from the historical eras featured in the story. The songs are currently available on iTunes for $1.29 each or $0.99/song if you buy both."
Grace by Morris Gleitzman - released: 3rd February 2011 - Grace (9+) is a fabulous, thought-provoking novel, encompassing themes of tolerance, family, authority, closed-mindedness and freedom.
Eleven-year-old Grace only knows one world - the world of her mum and dad and twin brothers, and the strict religious community they belong to. Grace is completely devoted to God, but has a highly inquisitive mind thanks to her father who teaches her the importance and the power of question. But when her dad is expelled from their church for asking too many questions, Grace is torn. She blames herself for interrupting prayer at school, mixing with ‘outsiders’ and for asking too many questions.
Setting out on a mission to find her dad and bring him home, Grace begins to understand the manipulative hold the men of her church, and particularly her grandfather, has over her family and she realises the truth behind her father’s expulsion. From press release
Big, big news, guys! Once Upon a Bookcase is collaborating with Random House Children's Books UK to bring you...
A PARANORMAL ROMANCE VIRTUAL PANEL EVENT WITH LAUREN KATE, KAREN MAHONEY, AND AMY MEREDITH!
Yes, you read that right! On 4th February at 5.00pm GMT for one hour, with the help of Chatroll, you will get the chance to have a live chat event with the authors of Fallen, The Iron Witch, and Shadows about writing YA paranormal romance - their writing, their influences, their reading, etc!
Why am I telling you so early? Because these things need to be organised! If you want to be involved, there are somethings you need to do.
Fill in the form below with one question you would like to ask the authors by 28th February - only one because there are bound to be so many of you who want to take part, and we would like the authors to bounce off each other. The authors will get through as many of the questions sent in as possible in the one hour.
Also include the username you will go by. You do not have to be registered with Chatroll to take part, they allow guests - and as a guest, you can choose your own username. I suggest, if you're a blogger, your username is something others will recognise you as, either your name_blog, or something along those lines. Please no weird confusing names! BoOkFan877542 just isn't necessary. If you don't want to use your real name, feel free to use a fake one.
EDIT: The date to submit questions has been extended for a few days so more questions can come in. Please get those questions in ASAP!
Why do I need all this? Because it's going to be a live chat with lots of people chatting at once, and the authors won't know who to answer. This way, with the questions in advance, they can have some idea what they'll be talking about, and there can be some sort of order over the chat as I or Lauren, Senior Press Officer Extraodinaire at RHCB, who will also be a moderator, can direct each person to ask their question and when, i.e "Our fifth question comes from Sam" - Sam then asks question. Make sense?
Because we're getting questions in in advance, does that mean you can't ask questions during the actual event? No it doesn't. Sure, people are bound to want to bounce off other people - blogger and author alike - as this will be a discussion, you just not might have your question answered as the advanced questions will take priority to keep things moving. This may seem harsh, but it's to prevent any confusion and make it interesting!
If there are any questions about all of this, please leave them in the comments, and I will get back to you with an answer, or as soon as I have an answer!
I look forward to seeing you there! Please feel free to spread the word! Let's make it a really great event! If you can post the banner below on your blog, with a link to this post, I would be extremely, grateful!
No longer accepting any more questions! Panel is over!
Since I posted a few weeks back about all the new red UK covers for the whole Vampire Academy Series by Richelle Mead, I have had a few people come to me asking where they can get them. Everyone seemed to be saying the same thing; either online or in actual shops, they could only find either Frostbite or Last Sacrifice with the new covers.
I emailed my contact at Puffin about this and found out some information. It turns out that the novels with the new covers will become available once the novels with the old covers sell out, and a reprint is needed. Then the new covers will be available to buy. Last Sacrifice has only been released with this one cover, and Frostbite has been reprinted, hence the red cover. The other novels in the series are yet to need reprinting, which is why we can't find them anywhere. Apparently, it could take a couple of months before we see the new red covers on our bookshops' shelves or on online stores. It's just a case of waiting, I'm afraid. Hope this helps some of you!
Keep your eyes peeled from 10th January to see some brilliant posts across several UK book blogs to celebrate the release of Rules of Attraction by Simone Elkeles!
Visit my blog on the 11th to see a guest post from Simone about how she gets into the minds of teenage boys so well! Check out the other blogs for some other brilliant posts!
I will be the sixteenth stop in the up coming Wereworld: Rise of the Wolf by Curtis Jobling 2011 blog tour! This tour will also include a ‘Were-Creation Competition Challenge’ on some blogs, where an A3 drawing, started by Curtis Jobling, is sent from blogger to blogger - those that are involved - with each person adding to it each time, which you will have a chance to win at the end of the tour, so keep an eye on the tour posts!
- 26th December - I Was A Teenage Book Geek - synopsis & trailer post - 27th December - Madhouse Madhouse Family Reviews - review - 28th December - Writing from the Tub - Review, trailer post & book giveaway - 29th December - Fluttering Butterflies - Trailer post - 30th December - Daisy Chain Book Reviews - Extract, trailer post & book giveaway - 31st December - The Overflowing Library - Review & trailer post - 1st January - Funky Book Stop - review - 2nd January - Wondrous Reads – introductory post about the competition (to win the signed drawing and copy of the book) and highlighting the blogs involved and the running order - 3rd January - Nayu’s Reading Corner - Were-creation post & review - 4th January - The Slowest Bookworm - review - 5th January - Mountains of Instead - Review, trailer & guest author post - 6th January - So Many Books, So Little Time - Were-creation post & review - 7th January - Books of Amber - Review and giveaway
- 8th January - Portrait of a Woman - Review - 9th January - Cem’s Book Hideout - Review & trailer post - 10th January - Once Upon a Bookcase - Were-creation post & first chapter. - 11th January - As A Mum Booktopia - Review, trailer & guest post on reading inspiration - 12th January - BookZone4Boys - Author q&a - 13th January - Madhouse Family Reviews - Were-creation post & review. - 14th January - Sarah's Book Reviews - Review & guest post - 15th January - Mostly Reading YA - Review - 16th January - 5 Minutes Peace - Review - 18th January - I Want to Read That - Review & trailer post - 19th January - Gripped into Books - Review - 20th January - My Favourite Books Blog - Were-creation post & review. - 27th January - Girls Without a Bookshelf - Were-creation post & review - 31st January - Wondrous Reads - Announces the winner, shows finished drawing.
Sounds pretty good, huh? I'm looking forward to it!
The tour stops for the Nightshade by Andrea Cremer UK Blog Tour! I'm stop four, but make sure you check all the others out! There'll be a lot going on! Click on the poster below to see a larger version!
First of all, I'm going to ask for some help. A story has been made from one of my prompts! Holly Schindler, author of A Blue So Dark and forthcoming Playing Hurt, has been holding a Flash Fiction Challenge! Basically, readers emailed her with prompts - anything from a string of words, a phrase, a subject an idea, etc - and she chose the one she liked best each month, starting in September and wrote a piece of flash fiction from it. For December, she chose my prompt and used it as her title, "What the Eyes Don't See"! Oooh, I am sooo chuffed!
Now all the stories are finished, each reader can vote for their favourite one, and the person whose prompt wins gets a prize! So please vote for mine! Unless you prefer one of the others of course. Fortunately, my story, links to the other stories and the voting form are all in one blog post on Holly's blog, here. Go check it out. Even if you don't vote for mine, be sure to read the stories, they're all awesome! Voting closes on 15th Dec!
The 2010 Goodreads Choice Awards are running now! There are so many brilliant novels up for nomination, based on popularity of Goodreads and reader ratings, so go check it out. Whether you're a YA fan or not, there is something everyone will want to vote for! Even if you're only a YA fan, make sure to check out the other catagories too. Sometimes a YA book may fall into another catagory as well! Go get voting!
Socially Responsible Online Bookseller Launches UK Retail Website Hundreds of Thousands of New and Used Titles Available Online Socially responsible online bookseller Better World Books, which collects and sells books to generate funds for literacy causes, unveils on 8th Dec its highly anticipated UK e-commerce website. The new site offers free shipping in the UK and over 1 million new and used books for purchase, soon to expand to 8 million. The company, which has operated an e-commerce site in the U.S. since 2003, has already generated over £5.5M (USD $8.5M) for global literacy causes through its online book sales.
On 14th December there will be a live webchat with Carrie Jones, author of Need, Captivate, and Entice, on the Need Facebook Page discussion board. If you would like to pick Carrie’s brains about writing, reading, Entice, Captivate, Need or anything else, make sure you're there!
Do you know any teens between the ages of 12 and 18? Are they fans of romantic vampire books, boy-sy zombie adventures or just interested in reading the next big thing before anyone else?
Well, why don’t you tell them about:
Atom, the young adult fiction imprint of Little, Brown, is delighted to announce the creation of The Atomics – a brand new young reviewers programme for readers aged twelve to eighteen.
Atom has been busy expanding their list to include a wide-range of young adult titles, including mystery, adventure and humour alongside their more well-known paranormal series. And now they want to share it with everyone else!
Anyone who joins The Atomics will get the chance to receive pre-publication copies of new titles to review. The reviewers for each month will have their reviews posted in a new, dedicated section of the Atom website where they can be seen and commented on by anyone else who is interested in Atom’s books.
Atom is committed to making sure that every Atomic will get the opportunity to review a title they like the sound of, but hope that many more people will join in the conversation!
The intention of The Atomics is to provide a safe, dedicated space for under-eighteens to discuss books and hone their review skills, as well as giving our fans the chance to read books before they’re published!
Great news for Malorie Blakman fans an iPhone users from Random House!
We have some exciting news about a brand new App created especially for the release of Boys Don’t Cry – it is out now to download from the Apple store, the press release below explains all:
"Random House Children’s Books has commissioned leading digital production company Somethin’ Else to create My CriBaby, an iPhone and iPod Touch app to coincide with the publication of Malorie Blackman’s new book Boys Don’t Cry, a powerful novel about teenage fatherhood. This app marks a first for both companies; it is Random House Children’s Books’ first iPhone app and the first iPhone app Somethin’ Else has produced for a publisher.
In a recent survey of teenage boys aged 13-19 published by Random House Group and children’s charity Coram, 77% of respondents admitted they would not know what to do if a baby cried; nearly half said they would struggle to change a nappy, and a third said that they would find it difficult to feed a baby. Dressing and bathing the baby were other areas of concern for teenage boys.
My CriBaby puts these skills to the test, challenging the user to look after a baby, doing everything from feeding and burping to playing, rocking and whispering to it. The game gets progressively harder and at the end of three (virtual) years the player is given a score. Facebook integration means this can be shared with friends.
The app will be available in two versions. A lite version will give users a 24-hour experience of the game, whilst a full version will offer virtual parenthood for up to three “virtual” years (12 weeks). Both versions will include the book’s first chapter and a link to Malorie’s re- launched website.
The app is designed to reflect the main theme of Boys Don’t Cry: teenage parenthood. The novel is the latest book from Malorie Blackman, the acclaimed young adult author of the bestselling Noughts and Crosses sequence. It focuses on seventeen year old Dante, whose ex-girlfriend turns up at his house and leaves him with the baby daughter he didn’t know he had. The book follows Dante as he comes to terms with fatherhood and how drastically it will affect his life. The hard hitting novel gives a voice to a group largely ignored by society.
Get ready to do a happy dance with me, ok? Be prepared to squee. Get your jaw ready to drop.
Ready?
Really? Are you sure?
Ok, ok, here it comes...
SIMONE ELKLES' THIRD PERFECT CHEMISTRY BOOK IS...
Chain Reaction by Simone Elkeles - Luis Fuentes is a good boy who doesn't live with the angst that his big brothers, Alex and Carlos, have always lived with. Luis is smart, funny, and has big dreams of becoming an astronaut. But when he falls for the wrong girl, Luis enters a dark world he's never known, and just when he thinks he's got life all figured out, learns some disturbing news about his family that destroys his positive outlook on life. Will that Fuentes bad boy streak come out with a vengeance and lure Luis to live on the edge like his new girlfriend and his own father?
Continuing all the steamy romance of the first two books, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Simone Elkeles gives fans one more satisfying taste of the irresistible Fuentes boys. From Goodreads
Can you give me a OMG!? Hello shower! Is this YA? Really, is it? Because... wow. I guess they kind of got a bit... hot. EEE I LOVE IT! And I love the switch of roles with this book! Oooh, I am dyyyying to read it! But what is he holding in his hand?
The only thing that worries me about this cover is what those people who like to have fun by ruining our fun by banning books might think. This doesn't look like a cover that will go under their radar. And this worries me. But I loooove it! I am sooo excited!
Some news from Random House UK regarding Malorie Blackman and her novel Boys Don't Cry.
On Saturday she will be on BBC London’s Vanessa Feltz show at 10.30am discussing her new book Boys Don’t Cry and talking about the survey we recently ran asking teenage boys their opinions about parenting.
On Sunday she will be on BBC 4’s Open Book with Mariella Frostrup at 4pm (repeated the following Thursday, 4pm) for a YA books special! Malorie will be joined by Marcus Sedgwick and Gemma Malley who will be discussing what distinguishes teen novels today and what challenges and possibilities they present for the writer.
Lookie lookie! Here's the book trailer for Night Star, the sixth and final book in the Immortal series by Alyson Noël!
Night Star continues the epic love story that has enchanted readers across the world. In this installment, Ever and Damen face down bitter rivals, jealous friends and their own worst fears—all in the hope of being together forever. Night Star is guaranteed to mesmerize fans and leave them breathlessly awaiting the sixth and final book! From ImmortalsSeries.com
Night Star will be released on 16th November in the US from St. Martin's Press, and on 4th March 2011 in the UK from Macmillan Children's Books
BLOOMSBURY CONJURES UP A NEW WEBSITE FOR HARRY POTTER
On 1st November Bloomsbury officially launched the ‘signature’ editions of the bestselling Harry Potter series. To celebrate this stunning new look Bloomsbury has simultaneously released a brand new Harry Potter book website – www.bloomsbury.com/harrypotter
The website has been designed to complement the new book livery and for the first time the website has games especially designed for online play. Visitors to the site can play Magical Matches and Harry Potter Connection.
The website also features everything you need to know about the Harry Potter book series. You can read interviews with the author, find out more on the individual titles, watch videos of J.K. Rowling and download posters, bookmarks and desktop wallpapers.
The website will be regularly updated and is a brilliant way to introduce new readers to the magical world of Harry Potter and his adventures at Hogwarts.
Ella of A Clockwork Monkey has created a new fan page blog for all things Lauren Oliver. This is something I'm pretty excited about, seeing as I only just finished reading Before I Fall yesterday - which is amazing! The fan page blog is still being set up, but it's looking pretty good at the moment. Check it out - or read the About Me page for more info.
Caroline of Portrait of a Woman had the brilliant idea of raising awareness of AIDs and HIV for World AIDs Day for a week of reading YA novels that deal with the illnesses from 28th November - 5th December. Check out her page on her blog for more info! And check out the bibliography for a list of books you can read.
And Emma of Asamum Booktopia is hosting an Anti-Bullying Week from 15th - 19th November to raise awareness of the anti-bullying campaign. She has a list of books you can read for the week, and welcomes suggestions.
Class is out! The Class of 2k11 is a group of 19 debut middle grade and young adult authors working as a team to promote our books and reading in general. As our novels make their way into the world throughout 2011, this website will keep you up on our activities and bring you along on what’s sure to be a wild ride. We’ll host some off-the-wall contests (with amazing prizes), put out a monthly newsletter and a weekly blog, appear at conferences and book signings around the country and share what we’ve learned about writing and publishing with you.
Best of all, we’ll tell you all about our books and how to get your hands on them. Like any team worth it’s salt, we each bring something unique to the table (or bookshelf). Whether you’re into dystopian, paranormal, realistic, fantasy or historical fiction, there’s a story here for you. Promise.
So come on in and poke around, enter our contests, win some stuff, visit our blog, ask us questions and read some great books. We’re glad to have you on our Team!
I received a pretty interesting email from Scholastic today...
Scholastic launched You Are What You Read (http://www.youarewhatyouread.com/), a new social networking site for readers around the world. Users log on to http://www.youarewhatyouread.com/, list the five books that had the biggest impact on their lives, and connect with other readers through these shared “Bookprints.” The site also contains the Bookprints of more than 130 “Names You Know” – notable people from entertainment, academia, business, media, publishing, and more – including Taylor Swift, Bill Gates, Scarlett Johansson, Tony Hawk, Venus Williams, Tommy Hilfiger, Jodi Picoult, Philippa Gregory, Rick Riordan, James Patterson, Jim Parsons, Ann M. Martin, Eva Mendes, Judy Blume, Sanjay Gupta, and two former Presidents.
After logging into You Are What You Read via Facebook or Scholastic.com accounts, users can:
Discover new books through an interactive web that shows how users’ Bookprints are connected
Find and connect with users across generations and from around the world to see the books in their Bookprints
Compare their Bookprints to those of the participating “Names You Know,” and find out if they share a book in their Bookprint with famous athletes, award-winning entertainers, world-renowned scientists, or iconic business leaders
“Favorite” other books they like and check out what similar users enjoy reading
See which books have been chosen as Favorites from around the world
Share a book in the real word through Pass It On, which encourages users to give a favorite book to a family member, a friend, or even a complete stranger.
You Are What You Read also features a separate community for young readers that provides kid friendly information about books and other activities. I encourage you to check out the site, add your Bookprint, and see what connections you make. You can also find downloadables – including screenshots and blog widgets – on our media room.
PS: The site is part of our 90th anniversary global literacy campaign, Read Every Day. Lead a Better Life, which celebrates the importance of literacy in the 21st Century.
Ivy has left home because Lilsis has done the dirty on her and she's no longer sure who her friends are.
For a week she'll tell you **everything** but can she trust you and what will you tell her?
Ivy4Evr is an SMS drama for teenagers created by the BAFTA-nominated interactive artists’ group Blast Theory, written by Tony White author of novels including Foxy-T (Faber and Faber) and commissioned by Channel 4 Education.
Ivy4Evr uses SMS to go places that other dramas can’t go - onto your phone and into your pocket. Ivy becomes part of your life over seven days, getting ever more intimate with you. Ivy wriggles into your life, sending you messages on the way to school, college or last thing at night. Ivy’s life is parallel to yours: she sends boozy updates late on Saturday night and sarcastic chat on a boring Sunday afternoon. And if you send her messages she will chat with you about sex, music and everything else that really matters to a teenager growing up in Britain today.
For seven days starting on 10th OCTOBER you will receive SMS messages from Ivy, you can send messages back and give her advice on the burning issues in her life.
Ivy4Evr is entirely SMS based. To sign up to participate is free, messages you receive from Ivy are free, SMS messages that you send to Ivy are sent to a standard mobile phone number and will be charged at your normal rate.
To register for the pilot episode please go to www.ivy4evr.co.uk. Everyone who registers and verifies by midnight on 9th OCTOBER goes into the running to win an iPad.
We had Taken by Storm, we now have Unbroken Connection. Now Angela Morrison is going to give us Cayman Summer - as she writes it! I'll let her tell you in her own words...
I'm trying a huge experiment with this novel. I'm going to blog it as I write it. You'll get to see all my messy rough drafts, half-baked poems, and help me revise! The CAYMAN SUMMER Blog will officially launch October 15th. I'll let you know when the site goes live. This is going to be a great creative adventure for me. I hope you join in.
I think this is such an AWESOME idea! I still need to get my hands on a copy of Unbroken Connection, so I may not read it when the blog starts, but how cool to actually see an author write, and the process she goes through? I think it's going to be awesome.
And check out that swanky new cover! Her son Rob designed it! Nifty, huh? A very talented family!
As soon as I know when the blog for Cayman Summer is live, you'll know!
I'm a little late in posting about this, but on Thursday I received a fantastic email from Cision, a global media intelligence provider, to tell me that I was listed in this week's Top 10 UK Teenage Literature Blogs.
As was kindly explained by Usborne on Twitter, which Becky of The Bookette passed on to me, Cision are the company that run Media Disk, which is a media contacts database. Which I remember being mentioned while on work experience at Orion Books. Basically, being listed by them is a pretty big deal! I'm pretty exstatic!
Here is the list of bloggers who join me on the list, in order:
Congratulations, ladies! I'm thrilled mine is among such fantastic blogs! If you don't know these blogs, go and check them out, they're amazing! All of us, and our details, are now listed free of charge on CisionPoint, an online database provided by Cision for PR, marketing and communication professionals, which is just awesome if you ask me!
Writers, take note! Inside Out Festival 2010 will be taking place next month - 25th -30th October 2010. From the press release:
The Inside Out Festival celebrates the exciting and often unexpected contribution made by London universities to the literary and cultural life of the capital. Festival-goers can hear from some of today’s most successful writers and learn from some of London’s most eminent literary scholars.
Goldsmiths, City University London, Birkbeck, Queen Mary, University of London and Royal Holloway, University of London are amongst the nine university institutions throwing open their doors for the week of public events which will include film screenings, music and theatre performances, art and fashion exhibitions, and talks with well-known academics and high-profile commentators. The events will take place all over London at cultural venues such as the Barbican, the National Portrait Gallery and Somerset House, and in rarely-seen spaces in the universities.
Sally Taylor, Inside Out Festival Director, said: “London universities are nurturing some of the best new literary talent through their world-class creative writing courses. We’re thrilled to have some of the major players in the literary world today – many of them alumni and academics from these courses – sharing their insights, expertise and experiences in this year’s Inside Out Festival.”
ALSO - the Publishing a First Novel event is holding a competition for those who have finished a book:
Publishing a first novel competition: Have you completed a novel? If so, and if you are looking for an agent, registration and attendance at this event will qualify you to enter our competition.
Submit your first chapter (maximum 3,000 words), plus a synopsis (maximum 2 sides of A4, double-spaced), to festivalcomp@city.ac.uk and your entry will be considered for recommendation to the two agents on the panel. Please read the competition terms and conditions before submitting your entry.
To find out more, and for details of the events and locations, check out the press release here. You can also find out more on www.insideoutfestival.org.uk
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The Girl who Leapt Through Time by Yasutaka Tsutsui - released: 16th May 2011 - One of Tsutsui's best-known and most popular works in his native Japan, The Girl Who Leapt through Time is the story of fifteen-year-old schoolgirl Kazuko, who accidentally discovers that she can leap back and forth in time. In her quest to uncover the identity of the mysterious figure that she believes to be responsible for her paranormal abilities, she'll constantly have to push the boundaries of space and time, and challenge the notions of dream and reality. From Amazon UK
Timeless by Alexandra Monir - released: 11th January 2011 - When tragedy strikes Michele Windsor’s world, she is forced to uproot her life and move across the country to New York City, to live with the wealthy, aristocratic grandparents she’s never met. In their old Fifth Avenue mansion filled with a century’s worth of family secrets, Michele discovers a diary that hurtles her back in time to the year 1910. There, in the midst of the glamorous Gilded Age, Michele meets the young man with striking blue eyes who has haunted her dreams all her life – a man she always wished was real, but never imagined could actually exist. And she finds herself falling for him, into an otherworldly, time-crossed romance.
Grace by Morris Gleitzman - released: 3rd February 2011 - Grace (9+) is a fabulous, thought-provoking novel, encompassing themes of tolerance, family, authority, closed-mindedness and freedom.
Since I posted a few weeks back about all the new red UK covers for the whole Vampire Academy Series by Richelle Mead, I have had a few people come to me asking where they can get them. Everyone seemed to be saying the same thing; either online or in actual shops, they could only find either Frostbite or Last Sacrifice with the new covers.
I will be the sixteenth stop in the up coming Wereworld: Rise of the Wolf by Curtis Jobling 2011 blog tour! This tour will also include a ‘Were-Creation Competition Challenge’ on some blogs, where an A3 drawing, started by Curtis Jobling, is sent from blogger to blogger - those that are involved - with each person adding to it each time, which you will have a chance to win at the end of the tour, so keep an eye on the tour posts!
We have some exciting news about a brand new App created especially for the release of Boys Don’t Cry – it is out now to download from the Apple store, the press release below explains all:Chain Reaction by Simone Elkeles - Luis Fuentes is a good boy who doesn't live with the angst that his big brothers, Alex and Carlos, have always lived with. Luis is smart, funny, and has big dreams of becoming an astronaut. But when he falls for the wrong girl, Luis enters a dark world he's never known, and just when he thinks he's got life all figured out, learns some disturbing news about his family that destroys his positive outlook on life. Will that Fuentes bad boy streak come out with a vengeance and lure Luis to live on the edge like his new girlfriend and his own father?
Night Star continues the epic love story that has enchanted readers across the world. In this installment, Ever and Damen face down bitter rivals, jealous friends and their own worst fears—all in the hope of being together forever. Night Star is guaranteed to mesmerize fans and leave them breathlessly awaiting the sixth and final book! From ImmortalsSeries.com
Caroline of Portrait of a Woman had the brilliant idea of raising awareness of AIDs and HIV for World AIDs Day for a week of reading YA novels that deal with the illnesses from 28th November - 5th December. Check out her page on her blog for more info! And check out the bibliography for a list of books you can read.
And Emma of Asamum Booktopia is hosting an Anti-Bullying Week from 15th - 19th November to raise awareness of the anti-bullying campaign. She has a list of books you can read for the week, and welcomes suggestions.I'm trying a huge experiment with this novel. I'm going to blog it as I write it. You'll get to see all my messy rough drafts, half-baked poems, and help me revise! The CAYMAN SUMMER Blog will officially launch October 15th. I'll let you know when the site goes live. This is going to be a great creative adventure for me. I hope you join in.
I'm a little late in posting about this, but on Thursday I received a fantastic email from Cision, a global media intelligence provider, to tell me that I was listed in this week's Top 10 UK Teenage Literature Blogs.
