Saturday, April 25, 2009

This Week in YA- April 25, 2009

Random:
  • Sarah Rees Brennan posted the US and AUS covers of The Eternal Kiss, an anthology with vampire short stories by her, Libba Bray, Melissa De La Cruz, Holly Black, Cassandra Clare, Kelley Armstrong, Cecil Castellucci, Nancy Holder & Debbie Viguie, Dina James, Karen Mahoney, Maria V. Snyder and Lili St. Crow.
  • Shannon Hale posted the letter she wrote for the ARCs of Forest Born.
  • Maureen Johnson posted some of the songs on her Suite Scarlett playlist. In other Maureen news, since the paperback of Suite Scarlett got to under 1,000 on Amazon, she has to go to Trapeze school. The story is here.
  • Carrie Jones made a list of a few things that are cool about being a writer.
  • Lauren Myracle is having a Peace, Love & Baby Ducks contest. More details on the contest page here.
  • Sarah Ockler annouced some of the sekrit projects she's been working on her blog. We'll be doing the Flip it Friday, should be exciting!
  • Melissa Walker posted the selection of covers Elizabeth Scott chose from for Something, Maybe and is having a contest to win a signed copy of Elizabeth Scott's Perfect You. She is also having a contest for One Wish by Leigh Brescia.
  • Robin Wasserman posted the summary for Crashed, coming out in September, on her blog.
Books that came out last week:
  • Why I Fight by J. Adams Oaks
  • Fairest of Them All by Jan Blazanin
  • Bad Girls Don't Die by Katie Alender
  • Fragile Eternity by Melissa Marr



Books that come out this week:
  • April 27- Funny How Things Change by Melissa Wyatt
  • April 27- Jack Tumor by Anthony McGowan
  • April 27- Deep in the Heart of High School by Veronica Goldbach
  • April 28- Den of Thieves by Julia Golding
  • April 28- The Eternal Smile: Three Stories by Gene Luen Yang and Derek Kirk Kim
  • April 28- The Heights by Brian James
  • April 28- Timbuktu: A Novel by Paul Auster
  • April 28- The White Witch by Janet Graber
  • April 28- The Young Inferno by John Agard and Satoshi Kitamura
  • April 28- Here's How I See It--Here's How It Is by Heather Henson
  • April 28- The Last Thing I Remember by Andrew Klavan
  • April 28- A Certain Strain of Peculiar by Gigi Amateau
  • April 30- Wishes on the Moon by Michael O. Tunnell
  • April 30- The Reluctant Heiress by Eva Ibbotson
-The YAthenaeum Team

2 comments:

Karen Mahoney said...

Hi, I found your blog thru Google Alerts, when you mentioned THE ETERNAL KISS. Nice blog! I love the header image. Definitely adding you to my blog reader, and look forward to your posts. :)

Cheers,
Karen

YAthenaeum said...

Thanks so much! We really appreciate it. :)