A very special release today – Poison by Bridget Zinn
Today, at your local bookstore and all the online sources, a YA book called Poison releases. This is special because it is a debut by an Apocalypsie who is no longer with us. Bridget Zinn was a librarian and a writer and just looking at her photo, she’s someone IRead More →
For Con members, Nomination deadline is today for Hugo Awards
Today is the last day to nominate Starters for the Hugo Award in the best novel category and the John Campbell New Writer category. You have to be eligible to nominate for the Hugo Awards by having been to Chicon or registered to go to Lonestarcon. You do not have toRead More →
SCLC YA Workshop
I will be on an author panel at the SCLC YA Workshop at the Civic Center Library this Tuesday. This is for librarians only and you can see from the poster that registration was mandatory. But if you are a school librarian in California, you might contact them andRead More →
Poll on Random Buzzers
Random Buzzers has a poll and Starters is up for Best Debut Novel. Voting closes midnight Saturday (that’s tomorrow), so please head over there. You’ll have to register but you don’t have to vote in every category. Start here and register: http://www.randombuzzers.com/ Then, to get to the Random Buzzies pollRead More →
Nebulas Nomination Deadline!
For anyone who is eligible to vote for these awards, the nominations are due tomorrow! I would like to submit my first novel, STARTERS, a YA dystopian (Random House Children’s Book, Delacorte, 2012), for your 2012 awards consideration. If you are a SFWA member, I would be honored if youRead More →
Auction Link for Mega Starters Pack including the UK edition (special)
Teenreads (see post below) has a deadline of Feb 13th, noon EST, so please get your nomination in if you haven’t yet. I went nutty an donated a mega pack of STARTERS goodies to a great cause. So any winning bid is tax deductible. One Starters first edition hardback, personalizedRead More →
Easy vote for Starters for TeenReads – Do it Now
TeenReads tweeted today that Starters almost has enough votes to make the official nomination list! Please follow the link below to nominate Starters for the contest. You can nominate up to 5 of your favorite YA books of 2012. You can name any number between 1 and 5, so don’tRead More →
Meet a New Debut YA Author and Win – ALTERED by Jennifer Rush
I plan on presenting you with some wonderful new authors this year, as well as some sequels by known YA authors. Jennifer Rush’s YA futuristic thriller Altered is something I think many of you will be interested in. There’s a strong female main character as well as secrets, lies andRead More →
Starters in Pulp Fiction Format! Zowie!
Thanks to Janni Lee Simner and Beth Revis for turning me onto this. If you want to go create your own version of a pulpy Starters cover, please send it to me and I’ll post it on tumblr or here.Read More →
Callie & Felicia – Win a signed Copy of Level 2!
This is a guest post by the lovely Lenore Appelhans! STARTERS was one of my favorite reads last year, and even though it is a very different book than LEVEL 2, the main characters Callie and Felicia do have some things in common. They are motivated by their compassion CallieRead More →