Christina Makes the Bookish Rounds (58)

Christina Makes the Bookish Rounds is a feature that will let you know about recent MG/YA/NA book related news. I'll post about articles from the publishing industry, cover reveals, discussions from fellow bloggers, the latest tv/movie news, and giveaways that you're hosting. If you would like to follow along with cover reveals during the week, see my Pinterest.

Publishing:
Rights Report 1, 2:

Timber Creek Station - Ali Lewis (2011 debut YA novel titled Everybody Jam in the U.K. ... In his review for the Guardian, Mal Peet called the novel, which is set at a remote cattle station in Australia, “an engrossing, edgy, fast-paced book and an extremely promising debut.” Carolrhoda Lab, fall 2015).
Wireman - Sashi Kaufman (YA novel focuses on the complicated and longstanding friendship between two teenage boys, one of whom is hearing-impaired. Publication is scheduled for 2016; Carolrhoda Lab).
Zero Day - Jan Gangsei (In the YA debut, the daughter of a rising politician goes missing; eight years later, with her father now President of the United States, the teenager reappears. What happened to her over the past eight years, and where do her loyalties lie? Publication is scheduled for spring 2015; Carolrhoda Lab).
The Quiet Ones - Ellen Goodlett (YA debut: a reimagining of a Hawaiian myth. It features a narcoleptic teenager trying to reconstruct the events that occurred during one of her blackouts in order to solve her ex-girlfriend's murder. Publication is scheduled for fall 2016; Egmont USA).
A Clatter of Jars - Lisa Graff (A MG companion novel to A Tangle of Knots; it's scheduled for summer 2016, Philomel).
Winnie on Wednesdays - Lisa Graff (MG about a girl who lives in a treehouse on Wednesdays because of a custody agreement from her parents' messy divorce; it's slated for summer 2017. Philomel).
21 Kisses - Daisy Whitney (Lauren Blakely) (A New Adult novel due in spring 2015, Bloomsbury Spark).
An untitled crossover novella with a holiday theme - Daisy Whitney (Lauren Blakely) (coming in fall 2015. Both books will be part of the new Wrapped Up in Love series that is a spinoff of Lauren Blakely's Caught Up in Love series. Bloomsbury Spark).
Mistletoe and Mr. Right - Trisha Leigh (Lyla Payne) (A New Adult Christmas novella, in which a 19-year-old is thrilled to accompany her boyfriend home to Ireland for the holidays, only to find that his family disapproves of her, and the family's sexy farmhand happens to witness every mistake she makes; it will publish in December 2014, Bloomsbury Spark).
The Historians - Trisha Leigh (Lyla Payne) (a YA novel due in spring 2015. Bloomsbury Spark).
Rules for 50/50 Chances - Kate McGovern (A high school senior and ballet dancer named Rose discovers that she has a 50/50 shot at inheriting her family's genetic curse – Huntington's disease – and must decide if she wants to get the test. But when she meets a boy from a similar genetic pool, Rose begins to question her carefully plotted-out life. Publication is planned for fall 2015; Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
Grandma Jo's Guide to Prim & Proper Pilfering - Alison Cherry (In the MG debut, 12-year-old AJ's summer stay with her grandmother takes an unexpected turn when she discovers that Grandma's bridge club is actually a cover for a septuagenarian heist ring. In exchange for keeping her grandmother's secret, AJ gets to join the team, but must decide for herself what it means to be one of the good guys. It's slated for 2016; S&S's Aladdin Books).
Bull - David Elliot (a contemporary retelling of Theseus and the Minotaur in verse for teens; in the story, a bull asks readers to ally their sympathies with the Minotaur rather than Theseus. It's scheduled for fall 2016; HMH).

Nothing from last week.

Eliza West's THE CRESWELL PLOT, in the backwoods of Upstate New York, the six remaining Creswell children live under the strict rule of their father and his terrifying religious dogma...someone needs to save them, and THE BLACK RIBBON, to Disney-Hyperion for publication in April 2016.

Book Trailers: Blue Lily, Lily Blue - Maggie Stiefvater, Warp - Eoin Colfer, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul - Jeff Kinney, In a Handful of Dust - Mindy McGinnis, Whatever Life Throws at You - Julie Cross

Interviews: The Geography of Me and You - Jennifer E. Smith, Meg Wolitzer on reading and writing YA novels, Salt and Storm - Kendall Kulper, Survival Colony Nine - Joshua Bellin

Awards: Military Writers Society of America award. The Bookseller is coming out with a YA prize. The 18 Finalists for the first ever Kirkus Prize were announced.

Excerpts: A Hard Day’s Night - Elizabeth Eulberg, Afterworlds - Scott Westerfeld, Schizo - Nic Sheff, Snow Like Ashes - Sara Raasch

James Dashner is writing a prequel to the Maze Runner called “The Fever Code.” Read more about The Fever Code here.

Carrie Ryan is also coming out with a new book: Daughter of Deep Silence.

And and and Maggie Stiefvater will be debuting as an illustrator in her new MG series written with Jackson Pearce, Pip Bartlett's Guide to Magical Creatures.

Jay Asher has started his 50 States Against Bullying tour in honor of Thirteen Reasons Why.

What. James Frey is offering readers a chance to win $500,000 if they figure out where a key from his book Endgame is?

If you’re a Selection Fan, you got some exciting news last week.

Interesting new way of marketing a book. Famous in Love by Rebecca Serle features an author character; Rebecca Serle wrote a fantasy novel, Locked, under a pen name aka the author character’s name. And that novel has been building a fanbase on Wattpad. Book-within-a-book. Read more for that marketing strategy.

Several publishers have tried their hand at young adult imprints. Here’s a round-up feature on the latest of those.

YA book sales keep jumping… more and more articles are being written about it, more awareness… love it! And did you know that nearly three quarters of young people prefer print books and that when parents are buying kids books, they have a preference for print too. An exciting future for the children’s lit industry.

Hachette UK is creating a single children’s division.

A brief summary of author & industry events this week.

NAIBA 2014: Discovering Children's Books& along that line, a speech at the NAIBA: A.S. King on Community and Passing on the Gift of Hope.

Have you ever been curious about which books receive the most starred reviews from the literary magazines? And this is why I definitely want to read Brown Girl Dreaming. (I wonder if they could pull more statistics and see whether there’s a correlation between publishers & imprints and the number of starred reviews.)

Here was a plea to stop celebrating banned books week. (“While it may seem like it’s a small quibble, it’s not. The way we use and apply language is important, and when it comes to talking about the issue of censorship, the way we focus our attention matters significantly. Celebrating banned books week is a marketing opportunity in many corners of the book world, and not without reason. These books are important. They deserve to be talked about. Talking about these books matters because it’s how we talk about reading, about the sharing of ideas, and about why books and words are tools for growth. // But there’s a fine line between celebrating banned books week and marketing books because they’ve been censored. This isn’t a week about profits or how to sell these banned books.”)

John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars was banned at a middle school because representatives in Riverside, CA didn’t “think the sex and talk of “mortality” and “terminal illness” was appropriate for the 11-13 age group.”

And if you’re a woman in publishing, you’re probably still getting paid less than your male counterparts. Not to mention the lack of awareness about the lack of diversity within the industry. Definitely an article to check out.

While we’re talking about the sexism in publishing, you can check out an interview with an author at The Toast about her book and a critical review she received (“At its best her prose is vivid, especially when she writes about battles and the terrible costs they exact, while at its less-than-best it seems (dare I say it?) to have been borrowed from the pages of a woman’s magazine.”).

Anne Ursu: On Poisoned Apples, the “Great YA Debate,” and the Death of the Patriarchy. I vaguely remember linking to the A.O. Scott article on YA and the infantilization of American culture a few weeks back, and now I wish I’d read that article more fully because there have been a LOT of articles discussing what he wrote.

……….. A conservative Christian is rewriting Harry Potter as if the kids were not witches.

D’aww: Emma Thompson opened a new Peter Rabbit library in Manchester.

Did you know that… there’s a book collecting contest?

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