Random News: Teen Literature Day

Did you know April 16 was Teen Literature Day? Me neither.
Read more about it here.

Random News: Charles de Lint & YA

A great interview with fantasy writer and YA writer Charles de Lint appeared today. Here’s a quote from it:
“I don’t write differently for different age groups,” he says. “In fact, I never even thought I was writing Young Adult stories until I was approached by Viking. They wanted to do a collection of my Young [...]

Random News: Auctioning Off Stephenie Meyer

This past weekend, a dear acquaintance of mine, Faith Hochhalter, ran Project Book Babe, where authors such as YA authors Stephenie Meyer and Janette Rallison attended. Tickets–at a cost of $300 in some cases–were sold out in minutes. At the event, the epilogue to Meyer’s never-published Forever Dawn was auctioned ($5,100), as well as lunch [...]

Random News: Two YA Books Being Petitioned

In the April 6 Orlando Sentinel, a mom of a 13-year-old girl is petitioning to get Maureen Johnson’s The Bermudez Triangle and Cecily von Ziegesar’s Only in Your Dreams: A Gossip Girl Novel yanked from the Leesburg Public Library.
The mom told the Sentinel: “I’m optimistic because it’s such common sense,” she said. “It’s not a [...]

Random News: What I Saw and How I Lied

There’s a new review out for What I Saw and How I Lied. In a time when reviews are scarce, it was great to see the Seattle Books Examiner doing its part to support the literary arts. Here’s a great quote from that review:
“It kind of reminds me of Judy Blume’s Starring Sally J. Freedman [...]