YAthenaeum: This Week in YA- February 14, 2009

Random:

ALA posted a video with the 2009 Media Award Winners calls and the authors' reactions.
Ally Carter will be chatting with Sarah Mlynowski tomorrow, Feb. 15 at 5:00pm est. You can go to Ally's diary to get the password and link a few minutes prior to it.
10 YA authors are renting a castle in Ireland for a week. Intrigued? You can find out more about how it was planned and who's going here, here, here, and here.
Sarah Dessen posted a video of her reading an excerpt of Along for the Ride on her new YouTube channel.
ALA put up their list of 2009 Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults.
The 2008 Cybils Winners were posted. Congrats to the winners!
Lauren Myracle discussed her new book Peace, Love, and Baby Ducks in a video here.

Contests:

Carrie Jones is having a contest. Technically 4 contests( twisting an existing picture book, explain the hotness, creating categories of hot picture or YA books, and telling about the contest). More details on her blog.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes is giving away swag that she got from Comic Con. More details on her blog.
Lauren Myracle is giving away a copy of her sister's new book Bound South. More details on her blog.

Covers:

Cecil Castellucci posted the new paperback cover for Beige coming out in March on her blog.
E. Lockhart posted the new Fly on the Wall cover on her blog.

Books that came out last week:

Books that come out this week:

-The YAthenaeum Team

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