The Ultimate Updated Guide to YA Short Stories

What short stories have your favorite YA writers published? This guide will help you find them. Continue reading at 'Book Riot'

[ Book Riot | 2024-05-21 11:30:00 UTC ]
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Film adaptation for Nordic YA Snow White Trilogy

Nordic young adult series, The Snow White Trilogy by Salla Simukka (Hot Keys Books) is to be adapted for the silver screen by Zero Gravity Management in association with Elina Ahlback Literary Agency. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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How to turn down a prestigious literary prize – a winner’s guide to etiquette

Following Joseph Andras’s surprise decision to turn down the Goncourt first novel prize, it’s time to weigh up the pros and cons of rejecting a literary awardTwo days after Joseph Andras’s De Nos Frères Blessés (which had not been on the shortlist of four) was astonishingly announced as the... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2016-05-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Former BBC Africa correspondent pens 'dramatic' Somalia story

Hurst Publishers has signed The Mayor of Mogadishu: The Story of Chaos and Redemption in the Ruins of Somalia by Andrew Harding, a former BBC Africa correspondent. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Costa winner Penney's love story to Quercus

Quercus has acquired a new historical novel and "epic love story" by Costa winner Stef Penney. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Picador to publish 'inside story' of AIDS epidemic

Picador is publishing an "epoch-making" history and inside story of the AIDS epidemic on World AIDS Day 2016. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Dan Brown to release YA version of The Da Vinci Code

Dan Brown is set to release an abridged version of his hit book The Da Vinci Code aimed at the Young Adult market. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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YA take on Da Vinci Code to be released

An abridged version of Dan Brown's best-selling book The Da Vinci Code is to be published for young adults, his publisher announces. Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2016-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BookCon 2016: YA Authors Take Center Stage at Literary Fan Fest

YA authors who were most feted at the annual mashup of literature and popular culture, which took place in Chicago on May 14. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BookCon 2016: Too Short for Readers, Just Right for Publishers

Publishers and attendees were pleased with the venue and the programming for BookCon 2016. While attendees were disappointed that the show was for only one day this year, publishers expressed relief. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BEA 2016: Reeling In Readers: Three YA Authors Tell How It’s Done

If there’s one characteristic that fans of Sarah Maas’s Throne of Glass series, Victoria Aveyard’s Red Queen series, and Laini Taylor’s Daughter of Smoke & Bone series share, it’s this: they can’t read each installment fast enough. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BEA 2016: Plucking Stories from Personal Experience

Authors are basically storytellers who do their thing on the printed page (or on your favorite electronic device), instead of around the kitchen table or wherever people gather to swap stories. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BEA 2016: Shining a Light on Good and Evil in YA Fiction

When it comes to filling their worlds with characters positioned along the spectrum of good and evil, Veronica Roth, Melissa de la Cruz, Lauren Oliver, and relative newcomer Sabaa Tahir have it down. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bookshop to give Harry Potter 'eighth story' profits to schools

The Big Green Bookshop is to donate all profits from the sales of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Little, Brown) to local schools to enable them to buy books for their libraries. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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43 percent of Facebook users don’t know where the stories they read originally appeared

With publishers under pressure to distribute their content directly onto social media platforms, the nagging question for many is whether their brands are diluted by being disconnected from their source. New research from Digital Content Next found that 57 percent of the time, people are aware... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2016-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BEA 2016: Catch the Buzz from YA Editors

A select handful of children’s book editors have arrived at BEA eager to spread word of forthcoming first novels for which they have have high expectations. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BEA 2016: Christine Sneed: Stories Living a New Life

Christine Sneed’s new story collection, The Virginity of Famous Men (Bloomsbury, Sept.), has been with her for a while. She first wrote a (different) story with that title about 12 years ago, but decided it wasn’t good enough. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BEA 2016: 'Strange Disease Books' and Other YA Trends

For the Thursday morning panel called Current Trends in YA, author Daniel Kraus rattled off a few crops of recent strains he’s observed, including books about “body parts, agoraphobia, and strange disease books.” Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BEA 2016: Beth Macy: An Untold Story

Beth Macy, the author of the New York Times bestseller Factory Man, is known for writing about marginalized people and outsiders. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Authors and booktubers team up for YA anthology

Bloomsbury is partnering YA authors with booktubers (vloggers who talk about books on YouTube) for a new anthology. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers to tell Hillsborough disaster victims' stories

Publishers Amberley, Faber & Faber and Ebury are bringing out titles on the Hillsborough disaster after justice prevailed for the victims and their families 27 years on.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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