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Mar
03
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BEEPnews is a feature I post ever Sunday to keep you up to date on any book, event, entertainment, publishing, or other news that you may have missed in the past week.

COVER REVEALS

By clicking on the covers you will be taken to that book’s Goodreads page.

  
  
  
  
  
 
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CLOCKWORK PRINCESS FIRST CHAPTER PEAK

The past few weeks saw Cassandra Clare and The Infernal Devices fans tweeting, posting, and sharing via various social medias to reveal the complete first chapter of the third and final book of the Infernal Devices, Clockwork PrincessClockwork Princess comes out on March 19th, so there’s not much more time until we get to see how this prequel trilogy to the Mortal Instruments series concludes, and if Tessa, Will, and Jem make it out alive.

There was a total of 569, 117 tweets with the hashtag #ClockworkPrincess to help with this chapter reveal.

To read the first chapter of Clockwork Princess visit here.

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BURN BRIGHT AMAZON PRICES

Recently it has been announced that Marianne de Pierre’s young adult Burn Bright trilogy, originally published by Random House Australia, will be having an international release through Amazon. On Friday I helped Marianne reveal the new covers and you can check them out here.

There has been mixed responses to the new covers and their comparison to the original covers. I have to agree that the original covers are incredibly beautiful and some of the best. But Marianne says that “the Australian covers were truly magnificent but the cost of re-using them was way out of my price range. The new covers might not be as amazing but they do speak to the content.” But it doesn’t quite matter on the cover, right, if you’re purchasing it in ebook form? The new covers still suit the books, possibly more in the gothic-sense.

Marianne has also said that ebooks will be priced at $3.99 and $8.99 for paperback.

Release date at end of March will be confirmed soon.

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MUSICIANS AND AUTHORS AT ONE PLACE?

If you’re a Dallas resident or live in Texas or surrounding states, why don’t you go to the 23rd Edgefest on the 27th of April (buy tickets)? A number of young adult/teen authors will be vacating the author tent for the day including Brigid Kemmerer, Kendare Blake, Brodi Ashton, Mary Lindsey, Erin Bowman, Rachel Vincent, Susan Dennard, Victoria Scott, C.C. Hunter, and Mindee Arnett. So why don’t you go along and meet your favourite author? An extensive lineup of musicians, singers, and bands will be performing as well.

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MEET MAGNUS BANE a.k.a GODFREY GAO

MTV.com and Joshua Horowitz meets Godfrey Gao on the set of The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones as he answers some questions and discusses the film, his first American film role, and his first scene wearing no pants in the freezing cold.

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TEEN WOLF‘S DEREK HALE: A DISTRICT 3 HUNGER GAMES TRIBUTE IN THE PAST

Ian Nelson, best known for his role as the district 3 male tribute in the Hunger Games film who had his neck/spine snapped by Alexander Ludwig’s Cato, has nabbed a role in MTV’s Teen Wolf as Young Derek Hale in the tv show’s third season. This role may just make him even more well known within the Teen Wolf fandom, even it is only for one episode. Ian Nelson will portray Young Derek Hale in the flashback episode, which is the eighth episode of the season.

The article on E Online says:

…don’t expect to see  the same intense and broody Derek we all know and love today as Nelson plays Derek at 15 years old, when he was a  popular and charming star athlete; this is Derek before disaster struck his family, turning him into a lone werewolf always in search of a new pack.

In the same episode, viewers will also be meeting Derek’s mother Talia, who is a strong and deadly alpha werewolf, and his older sister Laura, a beautiful beta who has the potential to become an alpha.

That flashback episode is one to definitely be excited for. It’s about time we get flashback episodes or scenes in the season sharing events from the characters’ pasts. But I know that it was impossible to do that in addition to telling the story plot in 12 episodes. Now that the new season is 24 episodes we can hopefully expect more backstory and flashbacks for each of the characters.

Derek Hale is played by Tyler Hoechlin – do you see a resemblance between the two actors?

Photo Credit: Collin Stark // article source

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PERSONAL DEMONS BEING ADAPTED FOR TV

Lisa Desrochers’s YA paranormal trilogy including Personal Demons, Original Sin and Last Rite has been optioned by Ineffable Pictures to adapt for television. John Travis, who wrote The Haunting of Molly Hartley and The New Daughter, will be adapting.

This trilogy centres on a teen girl with a special ability, and is caught between an angel and a demon, each of whom are competing to “tag” her soul for heaven and hell, respectively.

It doesn’t quite entice me with the basic description and since there’s a love triangle between an angel and a demon, I don’t know what to make of it. We don’t need anymore love triangles on our screens to be honest.

If Personal Demons succeeds it will be competing against another angel TV adaptation of Jessica Shirvington’s Embrace, which will be on the CW channel.

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EXCITING NEW DEALS AND ACQUISITIONS

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers has acquired A.S. King’s Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future…

…in which a graduating senior struggles with growing apart from her two best friends as all three of them begin having strange and powerful visions of divergent, infinite futures.

Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future has been schedule for fall of 2014. A.S. King is a Printz Honouree and author of Ask the PassengersPlease Ignore Vera Dietz, and Everybody Sees the AntsSource.

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Lee & Low Books has acquired rights to the YA fantasy Drift by debut author M.K. Hutchins.

Tenjat decides to save his family from poverty by joining the island’s Handlers, who have the dangerous job of protecting their island – a giant turtle – from the “naga” monsters that surround them.

Publication is set for spring 2014. This sounds like something inspired from World of Warcraft with the nagas and Terry Brooks’s Discworld books with the giant title island. Sounds fun though. Source.

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Penguin’s Kathy Dawson Books has bought rights to Django Wexler’s The Forbidden Library. It’s the first in a three-book children’s fantasy series…

…in which books open new worlds for Alice – literally – when she enters her uncle’s off-limits library.

Publication is scheduled for winter 2014. This sounds like an adventurous read. Source.

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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers has acquired two middle grade books by Emma Trevayne, author of the upcoming young adult science fiction novels Coda and Chorus, which were recently given deals as well. In the first book, Gearwing…

…a boy accidentally travels from his home in Victorian London to an alternate, fairy-populated, steam-clogged version of the city, and is caught in a web of dangerous politics; his only hope of returning home lies with the legend of an enormous, wish-granting clockwork bird.

Gearwing is being published in summer 2014. Source.

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Scholastic Press has the rights to debut author Sara B. Larson’s Defy, a YA adventure romance pitched as in the vein of Kristin Cashore and Leigh Bardugo.

…the fiercest member of a prince’s elite guard is actually a girl disguised as a boy, who gets embroiled in a deadly game of thrones while keeping her secret, and realizes she has far deeper feelings for the prince than she thought.

Spring 2014 is Defy‘s publication date. Source.

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And that’s the end of this week’s BEEPnews. Return next Sunday and every Sunday after that for more bookish news!


Feb
24
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A bit of an update first:

The past week was the first week that I did not have anything posted on everyday from Monday to Friday. I feel like I have failed in attempting to schedule, to be prepared, to be organised. It was one of my goals for the new year. But I guess I can blame my choice to change a few things and what I post on the blog.

I have decided to not participate or post an Owl Post/In My Mailbox/Haul yadda yadda… anymore. It’s a personal decision to change the way I blog. I see no reason for me to do them anymore. I know they’re basically the most popular posts and readers such as yourself love to see what books I get, and I’m sorry that I won’t be sharing on the blog, but I will still be posting a photo on the Facebook page of what I get. Hauls were also really the only thing I have been posting on my YouTube channel and it sucks to upload anything less and less as my priorities change. I will try to videos of other things though.

In addition to the Haul meme, I have cut out some other memes/features I had begun this year such as the tumblr one. There was no reason for that either. I want to give you quality content and I believe half the features and memes make it easier on blogging but also poorer in content.

BEEPnews will be posted every Sunday now to fill that empty void where the Haul posts would have been.

Thanks for understanding.

CLOCKWORK PRINCESS TRAILER REVEAL!

Cassandra Clare’s Clockwork Princess releases in twenty-three days time on the 19th of March, 2013, and so many readers are anticipating this beauty of a book – proof was in my Anticipating 2013 event where Clockwork Princess was the most anticipated book from all the guests I had on the blog.

To entice fans that little bit more before the book is available, Simon & Schuster via Entertainment Weekly revealed the trailer for Clockwork Princess and I LOVED it! Cassandra Clare wrote the script for the trailer herself and I thought it worked perfectly. Also the girl who plays Tessa in the trailer is also the one on the cover of the book.

If you’re after a little more news about Clockwork Princess, Mundie Moms recently posted a collection of news in regards to the book in which you can check out here.

Click on the image below to be directed to the Clockwork Princess trailer on Entertainment Weekly (there was no embed thingie  :( ).

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ALLY CARTER TALKS ON PODCAST

Ally Carter, the author of The Gallagher Girls series, discusses her latest novel Perfect Scoundrels, the third in the Heist Society books, as well as what Gallagher Girls fans can expect next in the series. Listen to the podcast here.

Perfect Scoundrels was published on February 5th, 2013 from Hyperion Books for Children. Visit the Goodreads page here. 

I’ve been hearing a lot of great things about these books and I need to push these books up my reading pile.

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TRAILER FOR TOM CLEMPSON’S SECOND BOOK

I saw Tom Clempson tweet the trailer for his new book One Seriously Messed Up Weekend and it’s pretty funny. It doesn’t involve anything about what the book is about but rather what’s in the book. Haha!

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EPIC FANTASY CATFIGHT

Patrick Rothfuss and Brandon Sanderson are two acclaimed fantasy authors who seem to get along with each other very well as most authors usually do. But what made my week was seeing a signature/inscription brawl between these two grown men, more so about their books, and since they’re fantasy there’s quite a bit to push and shove over. Who’s the better writer, the better world builder, the better creator? Well, it’s your decision to answer these if you’ve read both authors’ works. Who’s better? Maybe we can answer that with their inscriptions that have been produced from this literary brawl.

Check out the short article hereImage from there.

In The Wise Man’s Fear, Patrick Rothfuss wrote:

More majestic than The Way of Kings.

Then scribble.

Brandon Sanderson then signed The Way of Kings with:

1000% less sex with random goddesses than Wise Man’s Fear.

Then more of a scribble.

It continued until Patrick Rothfuss decided enough was enough by posting on Facebook:

Well played, Sanderson… Well played…

It’s my dream to be in a literary brawl someday. Someday…

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WHICH JAZZA KAGS FANS ARE HAPPY NOW?

I was on NetGalley days ago and noticed that Harlequin Teen Australia replaced the uncorrected proof cover of Julie Kagawa’s The Eternity Cure with the official cover that they will be using. At first I was all excited because they’ve kept with the same design as the original cover for The Immortal Rules, but thought crept over as well as that critic side of me and although I like how Harlequin Teen Australia kept with the previous cover I just don’t like the purple colours used – and also the model is a bit… odd-looking. Comparing the two I would go with the American cover since I like simplicity and cleanliness.

What are your thoughts? Which cover would you get for your shelf?

Now there is an advantage with the Australian cover. A lot of readers dislike when covers are changed as the next books won’t match the covers they have. So what I believe will happen is that readers outside of Australia will try to get their hands on an Australian edition just to have at least something to match, even if they have pay so many dollars in shipping and postage. Therefore, the sales of the Australian edition may be greater than the American one if readers want to keep their book OCD from going rampant and wild (like many have with that recent cover change for Beth Revis Across the Universe books, in particular with Shades of Earth).

There are definitely pros and cons with this cover. Do you agree?

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LORIEN LEGACIES BOOK FOUR TITLE

HarperTeen revealed the title for the fourth book in the Lorien Legacies series by Pittacus Lore, coming out on August 27th, 2013. This book is within my top 5 most anticipated books of 2013 and I can’t wait for it to come out. Ahhhhh! The title is pretty unnerving.

Get ready…

BANG!

Thoughts? It sure does keep in line with the ‘number in the title’ thing. Would book six be called “One on One”? We’ll just have to see…

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There has been A LOT more cover reveals in the past week and I guess it’s that time of year where publishers are promoting the new books that will be coming out in say Fall and Spring in the US. HarperTeen’s Pitch Dark blog has shared some covers on their reveal roundup here but I will share those among others below. Click on the cover to be taken to the Goodreads page for you to add it to your shelves.

   
   

   

   

   

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I’ll quickly highlight a few exciting events that have been announced in which I have come across recently:

• On the day Clockwork Princess goes on sale is the day Cassandra Clare will hop on a bus for her first bus tour. Entertainment Weekly says: “…if you happen to see a fancy bus wrapped in graphics from Princess and the City of Bones movie, it’s not just an evil act of Sebastian. It’s definitely Cassandra Clare.” For a list of tour dates and locations check out CC’s site here.

• For the release of Requiem Lauren Oliver will be touring and you can check out where she will be heading to for signings on her tumblr page here.

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SEASON 3 IS NEARLY HERE! AHHHHHHH!

Season 3 of HBO’s Game of Thrones hits TV on March 31st. As a teaser – and it’s a HUGE teaser, those bastards – HBO has revealed the trailer for the season and I am jumping up and down in anticipation because it looks extraordinary already.

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JELLICOE FILM NEWS

A blogger friend Danielle Binks from Alpha Reader recently interviewed Melina Marchetta about the film adaptation of On the Jellicoe Road on the blog Kill Your Darlings Journals here. A few important snippets are below:

We’ve also got US producers involved so it’s definitely happening, but there’s a lot of waiting for the right people and we’re not interested in making this film without the right people.

What will be unavoidable is disappointing readers who have a set idea of what Taylor and Jonah and everyone look like.  What I discovered from Alibrandi was that it didn’t matter what I imagined everyone looking like.  It mattered that we cast the right actors and in Alibrandi, we certainly did. Nothing is certain in the casting of this film except that Chaz Santangelo who is Italian and indigenous will be played by an indigenous actor.

I think an On The Jellicoe Road reread is in order.

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THE STARS OF THE FAULT IN OUR STARS

Well, it’s not in concrete yet but Shailene Woodly, who will be gracing the big screen as Tris Prior in the Divergent film adaptation in 2014, is under consideration to play Hazel in the film adaptation of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars. Read the article here.

In other related news, Josh Boone will be directing The Fault in Out Stars. Josh Boone tells The Hollywood Reporter:

“John’s book came along just when I needed it … It pierced my heart and helped me deal with my grief. I laughed and cried and was left with an overwhelming feeling of hope. That our lives matter, that the love and kindness we share with others reverberates long after we’re gone.  ”

Read the rest of the article here.

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NEW HOST TRAILER

The second trailer for Stephenie Meyer’s The Host, which is in cinemas at the end of March, was made available and it makes the film that much more exciting – and even I haven’t even read the book.

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FLASH FILM NEWS

I say flash because this is going to move fast…

• Lily Collins is interviewed by Hollywood.com about the City of Bones film.
DELIRIUM TV NEWS: Gregg Sulkin (of Pretty Little Liars) has been cast as Julian. Corey Reynolds (of The Closer) has been cast as Lawrence Task, who is the leader of the Resistance movement against The Cure (this character is not in the book… but I haven’t yet read Requiem so he could be in there.)
The whole cast of the CW’s The Selection is going to be recast – all except one. Another hit for the producers of the show. Another win to me since I love CW and they don’t need The Selection as a show to grace its screen (my opinion talking here).
Danny Strong has been given permission from Lionsgate to begin work on the script for Mockingjay – Part 2.
Lionsgate attempts to make distinguishable differences between The Hunger Games and Divergent.
James Dashner’s The Maze Runner has a release date for the film adaptation: February 14th, 2014. The same day as Blood Sisters, the film adaptation of Vampire Academy.
Universal picked up Josin L McQuein’s debut science fiction novel Arclight, out on April 23rd, 2013 from Greenwillow Books (HarperCollins).
• The Madman’s Daughter by Megan Shepherd has been optioned by Fake Empire and things seems to be coming along quite nicely in production. Megan Shepherd answer some questions on Entertainment Weekly.
Jenny Han’s contemporary YA Summer trilogy has been optioned as a TV show by Lionsgate TV.

In final film news, Beautiful Creatures had struck cinemas all over the world. I LOVED it! Have you seen it yet? Do you love it as much as I did?


Image courtesy of Penguin Teen Australia.

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As an extra, I will shared some posts that I’ve come across that deserve to be read:

• David James, author of The Light of the Moon, wrote a post on the multiculturalism and diversity that is evident in Marie Lu’s Legend and Prodigy. Read that post here. It’s fantastic written with great words.

• Julie Kagawa was interviewed by RT Book Reviews about movie news, new book deal, and the next book she’s writing. Read that here.

That wraps up this week’s BEEPnews.


Feb
14


Last year I attempted a news sort of post through video format called The YA Broadcast. That failed miserably as I hadn’t the experience, the patience, and time to sit there collecting, filming, and editing. That feature covered new book cover and trailer reveals, film and TV news, publishing deals, as well as other exciting news in the book world for mainly YA and MG. However, I did have some competition with This Week in YA, which if you haven’t already done so please go subscribe to that channel. Jeffrey and I began our individual news features at practically the same time – me just a week ahead – but he had all the equipment, the support, the professionalism that I didn’t have. So I stopped. I quit. Because, honestly, I sucked.

But I love sharing bookish news as I can share the excitement with other readers like you. Only you get what the excitement is about. It’s what makes this community so engaging, this community of readers, bloggers, authors, and publishers, where things keep happening, keep building the excitement levels to extreme heights. Everyday I wake up hoping that there’s buzz worthy news. Everyday I wake up anticipating news to make me giddy over. Everyday I wake up looking forward to discovering what has been shared or revealed overnight so that I can share it with my readers and followers, mostly on my blog’s Facebook page here. So I thought I’d do a post every now and then, maybe every fortnight, possibly once a month, sharing all the news that has thrilled me.

Therefore, it is with excitement that I introduce to you BEEPnews, a feature where I share books, event, entertainment, and publishing news to keep you updated – all in the one place! I hope I can keep with it. I hope I can do myself proud. And I hope you enjoy these posts. What do you think? Tell me what you think. Tell me how I can do things such as this better. Please. And thank you.

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In the last few weeks there have been numerous cover reveals and I plan to share most of them with you… now. Below might look more like a collage (click on the cover to be taken to the book’s Goodreads page), but I will spotlight some books that have just sprung up out of no where or deserve special recognition and attention.

There’s quite a bit for this post.

HAS IT REALLY BEEN 15 YEARS?

Well, Bloomsbury celebrated 15 years last year in Australia, New Zealand, and the UK, so what I say now should’ve been said back then. But to round it off, has it really been 15 years since Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone went from having one writer, Jo Rowling, to millions of readers?

I remember being 5 or 6 and receiving a package from my Godmother with Philosopher’s Stone and Chamber of Secrets inside. That was when I entered the world of Harry Potter. I was a strong reader when I was young, but my understanding and insight of these books, especially of those first two, has changed exponentially. What Harry Potter gave me when I was young though was a sense of adventure, the knowledge that there really is magic. The books opened my mind to the unseen, to worlds behind brick walls and fireplaces and toilet bowls as a means for transport.

It’s been nearly 15 years since U.S. readers first met Harry Potter and traveled with him to Hogwarts via J.K. Rowling’s now-classic series. To mark this milestone, Scholastic will be publishing seven all-new covers on its U.S. trade paperbacks editions this September and today reveals the first one, forHarry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.

Read more of this article at Publisher’s Weekly.

I understand these are the US covers and, yes, by Scholastic. But to honour Jo Rowling I thought it’d be good for them to revert back to the original Commonwealth title Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Nonetheless, I will be getting myself copies of these editions just because I love the illustrations by Kazu Kabuishi. I’m looking forward to seeing the covers for the rest of the series.

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DAHL REDESIGNED

The Puffin imprint of Penguin in both the US and the UK are coming out with these slick and fun new covers for the entire Roald Dahl collection. They should be in stores now.

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MOAR CASSANDRA CLARE – HOW MUCH MORE IS THERE?

MTV’s Hollywood Crush revealed the cover and a description on Cassandra Clare’s and Joshua Lewis’s (CC’s husband) The Shadowhunter’s Codex. I think it’s a pretty stunning cover. Raziel looks completely possessed and HUUGEEE!

Fans will surely recognize the winged figure as Raziel (creator of the Shadowhunter race), pictured here with the infamous mortal instruments. The Codex, referenced in both “The Mortal Instruments” and “The Internal Devices” is the official guidebook to the world of Shadowhunters. Through Clary’s copy, readers will become privy to the warriors’ history, demon taxonomy, rune catalog and training manual, among many other tidbits. Clary’s drawings and notes are also included!

Read more of this article at Hollywood Crush.

The Shadowhunter’s Codex will be published in October, 2013.

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MOAR ANDREA CREMER – I NEED MORE!

Just today, when I woke up actually, Bookish.com revealed the cover, title, and description for the fourth book in Andrea Cremer’s Nightshade “series”. Yes, it was originally a trilogy, in addition to the prequels, but who says that we have enough Andrea Cremer anyway? Certainly not I. This was a big surprise.
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The fourth book, Snakeroot, will be told from Adne’s point of view after the events of Bloodrose, and I’m pretty excited for it to come out in December. I love Andrea Cremer’s Nightshade world.
“‘Snakeroot’ focuses on Adne’s struggles to adjust to the post-Witches War world of the Searchers. She’s plagued by disturbing dreams and visions, all of which draw her to the gardens of Rowan Estate. The cover image perfectly depicts the way in which Adne has become entangled by her own turbulent emotions and an encroaching dark magic.”
Read more of this article at Bookish.com.
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OTHER RECENTLY REVEALED COVERS

                            
  

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ANZ COVER FOR AMY TINTERA’S ‘REBOOT’

Reboot by Amy Tintera.
Published by Allen & Unwin in ANZ June, 2013.

Five years ago, Wren Connolly was shot three times in the chest. After 178 minutes she came back as a Reboot: stronger, faster, able to heal, and less emotional. The longer Reboots are dead, the less human they are when they return. Wren 178 is the deadliest Reboot in the Republic of Texas. Now seventeen years old, she serves as a soldier for HARC (Human Advancement and Repopulation Corporation).

Wren’s favorite part of the job is training new Reboots, but her latest newbie is the worst she’s ever seen. As a 22, Callum Reyes is practically human. His reflexes are too slow, he’s always asking questions, and his ever-present smile is freaking her out. Yet there’s something about him she can’t ignore. When Callum refuses to follow an order, Wren is given one last chance to get him in line—or she’ll have to eliminate him. Wren has never disobeyed before and knows if she does, she’ll be eliminated, too. But she has also never felt as alive as she does around Callum.

The perfect soldier is done taking orders.

I have this thanks to HarperCollins on Edelweiss and I’m looking forward to reading it but I will get this ANZ cover.
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TRAILER FOR ELSIE CHAPMAN’S ‘DUALED’

So I read this book called Dualed last month. I have my review scheduled for tomorrow. I have an interview with its author, Elsie Chapman, next week. And it releases on February 26th from Random House Books for Young Readers. The trailer was recently exclusively released by MTV.com not long ago and here it is below:

Source: MTV.com
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This trailer is pretty awesome with the effects of the surroundings being a key feature in the world of Dualed.

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CARRIGER TALKS ON PODCAST

Gail Carriger, the author of Etiquette & Espionage, discusses her foray into YA literature, archeology, and silly character names the most recent episode of PW Kidscast, which you can listen to through here.

Etiquette & Espionage was published on February 5th, 2013 from Little Brown Books for Young Readers and it is about a 14 year old girl as she learns to be a lady as well as a spy in a steampunk backdrop. Visit the Goodreads page here.

It’s one thing to learn to curtsy properly. It’s quite another to learn to curtsy and throw a knife at the same time. Welcome to Finishing School.

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CONFUSING DEMIGODS THE WORLD OVER

So… you know how Rick Riordan has been incredibly successful with his Percy Jackson and the Olympians and The Heroes of Olympus series and then the not so huge The Kane Chronicles? Well, he answered to fans’ and readers’ emails and wrote a short story, a short story that makes the two mythological worlds collide and the characters of Percy and Kane. This short story is titled The Son of Sobek.

From Publisher’s Weekly:

The never-before-published story will appear as a bonus in the paperback edition of The Kane Chronicles, Book Three: The Serpent’s Shadow (Disney-Hyperion), which is due out May 7, 2013. (Click here to read an excerpt from the story.)

Now, I haven’t yet finished The Kane Chronicles – I have only read the first book – so I’m not impressed with myself that I won’t be able to read this short story until I finish Riordan’s Egyptian trilogy.

Riordan says he’s pleased with how the experiment turned out, and hopes his legion of devoted readers enjoys reading it. “I imagine they’ll want more and start asking ‘Where’s the rest? It’s only a short story?’ ” But Riordan has not yet decided on whether Carter and Percy will appear together in other projects. “It’s possible,” he says. “I’d love to play around with that idea, and I always like to leave some room to create other adventures for my characters. My problem is never ideas. I’ve got more than I’ll ever have time to write. It’s all about how many I can get to, and which ones readers want to see the most.”

Read the rest of the article at Publisher’s Weekly.

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There has also been LOTS of exciting film and TV news recently. I should really just get stuck into refreshing your memory of what was made known recently.

THE BOOK THIEF IS FINALLY BECOMING A FILM!

Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson, and young French-Canadian actress Sophie Nelisse have been reported by Hollywood Reporter to be headlining the film adaptation of Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief as Liesel and her foster parents. I mean, FINALLY! Ben Schnetzer and Nico Liersch have also been cast. The Book Thief will be directed by the Downton Abbey director Brian Percival.

Read more of the article at Hollywood Reporter. Source of the image: Hollywood Reporter.

I have A LOT of hope in the outcome of this film with the director and cast so far. I have a feeling this film will be beautiful. I am also incredibly proud to be Australian once again that a book written here in Oz will also star an actor such as Geoffrey Rush. There’s no words to describe my excitement.

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DELIRIUM ON TV

A big announcement that has sort of confused the YA community was that Lauren Oliver’s Delirium trilogy will be heading to the TV screen as a FOX series. Lauren Oliver announced it on Tumblr and gave her thoughts on the changes that the adaptation will have in the pilot here

I admit, I was really worried at first.Yes, the TV series will probably change many plot elements of the book. But the truth is, my book, translated 100 percent faithfully, would not MAKE for very good small- (or even big- ) screen entertainment. It is meditative and quiet and fairly slow-moving. Characters critical to the overall series arc don’t appear until Book 3—and some critical characters drop out for all of Book 2. Any intelligent, creative person preparing to launch a series based on Delirium, a series that might potentially last for years on TV, would make changes to the structure of my books, to the romantic entanglements and the pace at which we learn information. I would, if I were a TV writer.

The changes you can expect have been compiled together in a post on the Zap2It blog, involving Julian Fineman, Lena’s mother, Ren, and the “pacing”. Read here.

Delirium as a book was fantastic. But I’m actually quite intrigued by the changes that they have made to progress and develop the story in the trilogy further. Many fans are frustrated. Many fans are disappointed. I’m not. I take adaptations as adaptations; if they’re done well and the changes are vital to making it live long and prosperous then I say go ahead. I love TV adaptations as there’s much more character and plot development and arcs to be invested and intrigued in. I’m content. You don’t have to be, but I am.

There have also been two castings for the TV pilot.

Emma Roberts as been cast in the role of Lena from Delirium.

Emma Roberts has been tapped as the lead of DeliriumFox‘s drama pilot from Karyn Usher, 20th TV and Chernin Entertainment. Based on Lauren Oliver’s bestselling book trilogy about a world where love is deemed illegal and can be eradicated with a special procedure. With 95 days to go until her scheduled treatment, Lena Holoway (Roberts) does the unthinkable: she falls in love. Usher executive produces the pilot with Peter Chernin, Katherine Pope and Paula Mazur.

Read more of the article here.

I don’t really see Emma Roberts, but I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt and make judgement after I see the pilot.

Deadline has also reported that Billy Campbell (The Killing) will be playing Thomas Fineman:

With laser-white teeth and a John Boehner tan, he is the head of a lobbying organization called Deliria Free America who supports the use of the brain modification that prevents citizens from falling in love and leads to a peaceful, ordered society.

Read the rest of the article at Headline.

Delirium joins the ranks of other young adult series being adapted for the TV, alongside Jessica Shirvington’s Embrace and the second pilot of Kiera Cass’s The Selection on the CW.

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FALLEN HAS DIRECTOR; SMOKE AND BONE HAS SCREENWRITER

The film adaptation of Lauren Kate’s Fallen has a director. And he’s Australian. Hollywood Reporter reports:

Australian filmmaker Scott Hicks – who earned Oscar nominations for writing and directing 1996′s Shine – is in final negotiations to direct Fallen for Mark Ciardi and Gordon Gray’s Mayhem Pictures and IF Entertainment, Bill Johnson’s new financing and sales entity.

Read more of this article here.

As for the screenwriter for the film adaptation of Leigh Bardugo’s Smoke and Bone, that honour goes to:

Christopher Kyle is in negotiations to adapt Shadow and Bone, DreamWorks’ adaptation of the YA fantasy from Leigh Bardugo.

Read more of this article here.

Pretty exciting to know that Dreamworks will be adapting this book. However, I have yet to read the book so I better get on it.

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MORE JAZZA KAGS FOR ME!

Publisher’s Weekly had just announced in its January 28th, 2013 Rights Report that Harlequin Teen acquired the rights to Julie Kagawa’s new urban fantasy series, set to begin in 2015.

The supernatural story is set in a present-day coastal town where mythical creatures hide amongst us cloaked as humans. Slayers belonging to an order that dates back to St. George infiltrate the town disguised as out-of-town kids, setting up a confrontation and, as is the case with YA books, a love triangle.

The 104-page proposal was described as strong in execution. The deal went down late Thursday.

Harlequin TEEN– in a seven-figure, five-book deal — picked up book rights in January for its young-adult imprint. The first book is to be released in 2015.

Firstly, SEVEN-FIGURE DEAL, HOLY FUCKTACULAR, JAZZA KAGS IS A BEAST! And five books too.. SQUEEEEE! But it was only shortly after that Hollywood Reporter announced that Universal had bought the rights to the series… BEFORE IT HAS EVEN BEEN WRITTEN. It is being produced by he of The Fast and the Furious, Chris Morgan. (source)

LIKE SERIOUS WTF? BUT LIKE SERIOUS PAWNAGE ON JAZZA KAGS’S BEHALF. Yeah, I’m a bit too crazy.

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VAMPS AND DHAMPS 

Richelle Mead’s best-selling Vampire Academy series is being adapted to film, with the first instalment, Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters, currently in production. Headline (source) announced that:

Zoey Deutch (Beautiful Creatures) and Australian newcomer Lucy Fry … will play lead characters Rose and Lissa alongside Russian star Danila Kozlovski (We Are From The Future,) who will play the role of Dimitri.

Daniel Waters has written the script and his brother Mark Waters (Mean Girls) will direct.

Pretty exciting to hear that Lucy Fry has snagged the role of Lissa. Australians are doing it proudly in Hollywood and Lucy will add herself to that list proudly too.

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CITY OF BONES MOVIE STILLS

Sony and http://instagram.com/mortalmovie have shared exclusive stills from the City of Bones film adaptation. Cassandra Clare has shared and reblogged them on her tumblr. The latest is of Godfrey Gao as Magnus Bane:

Uhh… yeah… that’s pretty… uhh… yeah… I like… Magnus.

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BURN BRIGHT, WORLD!

Something that I have to share with you first is that Marienne de Pierre’s young adult trilogy – Burn BrightAngel Arias, and Shine Light – will be available through Amazon for everyone to purchase. (source)

As of mid 2013 the NIGHT CREATURES series will be available in paperback and e-book worldwide through Amazon (so far it only been available in Australia and New Zealand from the wonderful Random House Aus Teens).

The first piece of news I can share with you is that the series will have new covers. Now I know you LOVE these ones(and so do I!), but AUSTIN DESIGNWORKS will be doing the new covers…

The trilogy will be available through Amazon from the end of March.

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NEW DEALS

Farrin Jacobs at the Poppy imprint of Little, Brown Books for Young Readers has acquired Wildlife by Fiona Wood. It’s the story of two teen girls – one still reeling from the death of her boyfriend, and the other, the reluctant model for a new ad campaign who is trying to figure out who she is and who she wants to be; they meet during a semester in the wilderness and learn about friendship, loyalty and love. Jacobs acquired it plus an untitled novel, as well as the author’s first novel, Six Impossible Things, which was first published in Australia. Wildlife is scheduled for summer 2014; Cheryl Pientka at Jill Grinberg Literary Management brokered the deal for North American rights.

YAY FOR AUSSIES BREAKING INTO THE US! So happy for Fiona!

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The author of Clarity and its sequel as well as The Dead and Buried and middle-grade Sleuth or Dare, Kim Harrington, has announced that Penguin’s Children will be publishing her contemporary YA thriller under the name K.A. Harrington with the title Forget Me.

From Publishers Marketplace:

K.A. Harrington’s FORGET ME, set in a dying town full of abandoned places, in which a 17-year-old uploads a photo of her dead boyfriend to a social media site and the facial recognition software tags him with someone else’s name: a boy who lives two towns away and looks just like him, but is very much alive, to Shauna Rossano at Penguin Children’s, by Scott Miller at Trident Media Group.

I’m still waiting for that book that I’m in. Read more about the deal here.

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Delacorte will publish two untitled books by the author of Tiger’s Curse series, Colleen Houck, with the first book scheduled for mid-2015. (source)

The story follows teenager Lilliana Young, whose visit to an Egyptian exhibit brings her face to face with a recently awakened mummy-turned-handsome-sun-god.

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Tor Starscape has acquired Tobias S. Buckell’s (Halo: The Cole Protocol) debut YA novel The Island in the Sky, as well as its sequel. It is set to be published at the end of 2014. (source)

The book follows a Caribbean boy, Kadie, who gets the opportunity to travel to the stars when a starship arrives on Earth offering lottery slots to volunteers in exchange for leaving alien diplomats behind.

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Lauren DeStefano, author of the dystopian Chemical Garden trilogy, has been signed on with Simon & Schuster to write a utopian series called The Internment Chronicles, with the first book titled Perfect Ruin and is slated to release on February 11th, 2014. (source)

On Internment, the floating island in the clouds where 15-year-old Morgan Stockhour lives, getting too close to the edge can lead to madness. Even though Morgan’s older brother, Lex, was a Jumper, Morgan vows never to end up like him. She tries her best not to mind that her life is orderly and boring, and if she ever wonders about the ground, and why it is forbidden, she takes solace in best friend Pen and her betrothed, Basil.

Then a murder, the first in a generation, rocks the city. With whispers swirling and fear on the wind, Morgan can no longer stop herself from investigating, especially when she meets Judas. He is the boy being blamed for the murder — betrothed to the victim — but Morgan is convinced of his innocence. Secrets lay at the heart of Internment, but nothing can prepare Morgan for what she will find — or who she will lose.

I still have yet to read Fever or Sever, but this new utopian series sounds extremely intriguing and I’m looking forward more to the covers actually. Haha!

Read about some other publishing deals on this PW’s Rights Report.

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Lastly, Tim Federle’s debut novel Better Nate Than Ever was published recently. Tim drank coke at Sardi’s with some Broadway Kids to celebrate the release of his book via Playbill.

Man, that was A LOT of news. Next time there probably won’t be as much… I can only hope.

I hope you enjoyed this post, despite its length, and if you enjoy it I will continue to do it. Maybe I’ll continue to do it even if you didn’t. But it was fun… and time-consuming again… but the more I get used to it compiling it as I go the easier it will become.

Hope you’re excited about as much of the above as I am.


Feb
05

Links:

April’s post on book blogging professionalism.
Anna’s “There is no such thing as a free book” post.
The latest “negative review” debacle.
The Sydney Morning Herald article on teens reading raunchy novels instead.

Books coming out this week (February 6th – 12th):

Note: If you plan to purchase/pre-order through the Book Depository any of these titles, please use my link on the right for affiliates so that I can hold giveaways in the futureThank you.

[US]

Monday 6th:
• The Rivals by Daisy Whitney (sequel/companion to The Mockingbirds)

Tuesday 7th:
• Born Wicked by Jessica Spotswood (debut)
• The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth (debut) 
• Dead To You by Lisa McMann
• OnceBefore Midnight; Golden; Wild Orchid by Cameron Dokey

Wednesday 8th:
• The Wood Queen by Karen Mahoney (sequel to The Iron Witch)
• Pure by Julianna Baggott

[AUS]

Tuesday 7th:
• Under The Never Sky by Veronica Rossi (debut)

Sarah Alderson’s Catching Suki short story can be downloaded from the Girltank’s Facebook page.

Here is what Sarah has to say about it:

I was asked by a charity called Girltank that supports young girl change makers across the globe  if I might be able to support them in some way and, because kick ass girls are my favourite sort of girl, and because I’m passionate about social change and empowering young women I jumped at the chance.
We came up with the idea of using Catching Suki to help raise awareness of their goal – which is to find 10,000 young women social entrepreneurs, innovators and heroes in 100 days.
So to download your free copy of  CATCHING SUKI (a short story from Suki’s POV) for FREE (for a limited time only) all you need to do is go here and sign up to nominate either yourself or someone you know who is making change happen in the world (could be a school project, could be something they’re doing in their community to make life better for other people).
The director of Girltank said, ’We want to show the world that young women from every region of the planet are making powerful contributions to society and leading social change. We want to tell your stories! So send us the names of the best examples of young women innovators from Chicago to Hong Kong to Capetown to Buenos Aires. Then spread the word to your networks! As a thank you, each entry will receive a copy of “Catching Suki,” a short story by U.K.-based author Sarah Alderson (Hunting Lila and Fated).’

Please go and show your support for this wonderful cause!

Lisa from Read Me. Bookmark Me. Love Me. and Brodie at Eleusinian Mysteries have joined up for an event in this month of love. Click on the image below to find out more about this event, what prizes you can win, and the schedule for it. A fabulous month FILLED with content from your favourite YA authors. Character interviews, deleted scenes, sneak peeks, author interviews, MASSIVE giveaways and more? What’s not to like?

Head on over and check out the launch post, where you can look at our packed schedule and immediately enter our Comment Giveaway. The Scavenger Hunt has also opened but prepare for even more giveaways to begin throughout the month! Authors such as Maria V. Snyder, Marissa Meyer, Brodi Ashton, Julie Kagawa, Jennifer L. Armentrout and loads more will be joining us. You’ll surely find at least one you love! Enjoy, squeal, spread the word!

Sneak peek of Gabrielle Williams’s The Reluctant Hallelujah over at Penguin’s Between The Lines blog, here.
Book Cover Reveals
(Click on covers for Goodreads or more information about that book.)

Which of these covers do you like?


Recent Book Trailers
• The trailer for Bewitching by Alex Flinn:

The Hunger Pains by Harvard Lampoon trailer (THIS IS HILARIOUS!):

Wonder by R.J. Palacio trailer (this is cute):

• Holly Black’s Black Heart trailer and glimpses of new covers (not thrilled with the new covers at all):


YA Movie News

• If you haven’t watched the new The Hunger Games trailer then WHAT ARE YOU FREAKING WAITING FOR?! Only under two months until the movie and I am OHHHHH! AHHHHH!! so excited. What about you? Here’s the trailer for your pleasure again:

• In other movie news, Viola Davis has been cast as Amma for the Beautiful Creatures films adaptation. What are your thoughts on this? I think it’s a perfect choice. Now let’s just see Logan Lerman be cast as Ethan.

That’s all for this week’s YA Broadcast.

What was your favourite part about this week?

Also, have anything to share please email me.

And, got any suggestions on how I can improve this? Should I break it up over the week?

Cheers.
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