Six years after the release of For Holly, and after a period where she swore she would never write again, Tanya Byrne is publishing a new YA novel about love, death and what makes life worth living. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-04-30 08:35:56 UTC ]
Allan Wolf talks about why he wrote 'The Snow Fell Three Graves Deep,' a finalist for the Times Book Prize, and ponders the best way to eat people. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-04-06 14:00:07 UTC ]
Melvin Burgess’ Three Bullets, which interrogates themes of brainwashing and the far-right, will be released this summer alongside a 25th-anniversary edition of the author’s pioneering YA novel Junk. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-11 21:15:24 UTC ]
Sevastian Volkov has won this year’s Impress Prize for New Writers, for his YA novel Orris and the Shadow Maiden. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-14 11:33:47 UTC ]
Penguin Random House Children’s Books has scooped Lies Like Wildfire, the “compulsive and explosive” debut YA novel from Jennifer Lynn Alvarez. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-07 03:46:12 UTC ]
“GUYS ARE LIKE school admissions,” Claire Wang’s mom tells Claire in Parachutes, a new YA novel by Kelly Yang. “Get in first. Then worry if you like them back.” The analogy is cheeky yet revealing: colleges and boyfriends function on a model of scarcity, and thus attainment is far more important... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-12-26 16:00:45 UTC ]
HarperCollins buys a YA novel composed of interlinked stories by some of the biggest names in the genre, Terry McMillan sells a novel to Ballantine, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-11-20 05:00:00 UTC ]
Faber has triumphed in a four-way auction for Felix Ever After, Kacen Callender's "voice-driven" YA novel about a transgender teen grappling with identity and self-discovery while falling in love for the first time. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-28 08:59:47 UTC ]
Hachette Children’s Group has acquired two YA novels from debut author Adiba Jaigirdar, including two "heart-warming" queer romances based in Dublin featuring Bengali protagonists. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-26 05:52:10 UTC ]
An awesome daily roundup of the most interesting bookish links from around the web. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-09-30 10:30:00 UTC ]
K-pop has become an undeniable force, but what’s behind those sticky tracks and intricate dance moves? Author Stephan Lee gives a peek behind the curtain. For many Western audiences, their first taste of K-pop’s impact came in 2012 when Psy’s video “Gangnam Style” went viral.Read Full Story Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2020-09-19 07:00:56 UTC ]
‘The Kissing Booth’ started as an online novel and blew up into one of Netflix’s most popular films. Here’s why author Beth Reekles thinks that is. Back when she was just 15, Beth Reekles couldn’t find the kind of YA novel that appealed to her.Read Full Story Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2020-07-24 06:00:21 UTC ]
Answer these ten TWILIGHT quiiz questions to find out which character from Stephenie Meyer's YA novel you are most similar to. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-05-18 10:34:32 UTC ]
Andersen Press will publish Sally Nicholls' The Silent Stars Go By in November. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-04-27 07:51:23 UTC ]
Holly Bourne answers our questions about her YA novel tackling toxic relationships, The Places I've Cried in Public (Usborne), which has been shortlisted for the YA Book Prize 2020. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-04-23 08:58:47 UTC ]
Andersen Press has acquired I, Ada, a new YA novel based on the early life of Victorian computer programmer Ada Lovelace, written by Julia Gray. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-04-07 13:54:37 UTC ]
You've read Nic Stone's YA novel Dear Martin and are looking to read more like it? These are a few great books like Dear Martin out there in the world. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-03-31 10:41:39 UTC ]
Among the big deals this week are a middle grade “biographical novel” about Muhammad Ali by James Patterson and Kwame Alexander and a YA novel by one of the Central Park Five. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-20 04:00:00 UTC ]
Naomi Gibson’s debut YA novel has been pre-empted in Germany and Russia, two weeks after being sent out by Chicken House. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-17 04:24:57 UTC ]
Author Myron Levoy, whose acclaimed YA novel ‘Alan and Naomi’ was a National Book Award finalist, has died at age 89. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-02-27 05:00:00 UTC ]