This Week in YA- May 30, 2009

BEA (Book Expo America):

• Note Since many authors are at BEA and have been since Thursday this constituted for the lack of news this week...
• Join Laurie Halse Anderson's BEA pout-a-thon party all weekend, if you missed out like her (and us) on getting to go to BEA.
  
• Mitali Perkins and a few others are having an event Sunday, May 31st in the Boston area for those in the area that did not go to BEA.
• Carrie Jones posted some advice about going to BEA and what happened to her...

Random:

• Holly Black compiled a list of all her future books and projects on her blog.
• Sarah Rees Brennan posted her Ireland/UK events on her blog and a sample from The Demon's Lexicon audiobook on her site.
• Scott Westerfeld posted one of the pages of artwork inside his new book coming out in October, Leviathan.
• Heather Brewer posted two events she's having in the coming weeks. You can even getTenth Grade Bleeds early at one!
• Linda Gerber is giving away 5 signed copies of Death by Denim for her Freebie Friday. Go to her blog for how to enter.
• John Scalzi posted the cover of his new book, The God Engines, and is having a contest based on the cover to win an ARC. Details here.
• Stacey Jay posted her Summer Reads and Tees Contest. Details for how to enter can be found on her blog here.
• Sarah Ockler is having a "Twenty Tweet Summer" party next Friday in honor of her book,Twenty Boy Summer, being released. Details can be found on her blog here.
• The Miles Between Road Trip has begun! Mary E. Pearson posted their starting point, her hometown, here. We are lucky enough to have one of the ARCs first and it arrived today! Stay tune for photos of where we bring it in Miami.

Books that came out last week:

• Hunger: A Gone Novel by Michael Grant
• Undercover by Beth Kephart
• Gorgeous by Rachel Vail
• The Deep by Helen Dunmore
• Love You Hate You Miss You by Elizabeth Scott
• Vacations from Hell by Libba Bray, Cassandra Clare, Claudia Gray, Maureen Johnson, and Sarah Mlynowski
• Fortune Cookie by Heather Wood
• Sprout by Dale Peck
• The Sorceress by Michael Scott
• Slept Away by Julie Kraut
• See No Evil by Jamila Gavin
• Peril on the Sea by Michael Cadnum
• One Lonely Degree by C. K. Kelly Martin
• Nation by Terry Pratchett
• Killer Pizza by Greg Taylor

Books that come out this week:

• June 1- Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler
• June 1- Sheep Can't Fly by The Students of Garfield High School, Father Greg Boyle S.J., and 826LA
• June 1- Sea Change by Aimee Friedman
• June 1- The It Girl #8: Adored by Cecily von Ziegesar
• June 1- I don't know what I want but I want to be happy by Kimberly Kirberger and Jesse Kirberger
• June 1- Desiderata by Judy Ferro
• June 1- Deal With It (Kimani Tru) by Monica McKayhan
• June 2- The Waters & the Wild by Francesca Lia Block
• June 2-Someone Like Summer by M. E. Kerr
• June 2-Beautiful World by Anastasia Hollings
• June 2-Lunatic (The Lost Books) by Ted Dekker and Kaci Hill
• June 2-Intensely Alice by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
• June 2-Girl Stays in the Picture by Melissa de la Cruz
• June 2-Entr@pment: A High School Comedy in Chat by M. Spooner
• June 2-Elyon (The Lost Books) by Ted Dekker and Kaci Hill
• June 2-The Diamond Secret (Once Upon a Time) by Suzanne Weyn
• June 2-The Demon's Lexicon by Sarah Rees Brennan
• June 2-Carpe Corpus (Morganville Vampires, Book 6) by Rachel Caine
• June 2-Beautiful Disaster (Privilege)by Kate Brian and Andrea C Uva

-The YAthenaeum Team

In the Line Up Contest!

Think your band is ready for the Teen Band Jam Night lineup?

Then, enter our In the Lineup Contest!

On June 26th, none other than Sarah Dessen will be at the Books & Books in Coral Gables in honor of her new book Along for the Ride. And we thought, what better way to make this event the best than to have a Teen Band Jam Night? So, we're having one. (There will be more details about the event in the weeks ahead, stay tuned!)

But there's more! There's a spot left in our Teen Band line up and it could be yours!

.:Rules:.

• E-mail an audio link of your band performing to yathenaeum@yahoo.com.
• The band members must be 18 years old or younger.
• Your band must be able to perform on June 26th. The event starts at 8, but plan you may need to get there early. Exact time will be given if/when you win.
• Deadline for entries is Sunday, June 21st at 7:00 p.m. Eastern.
• Winning band will be picked, based on the link provided, by Books & Books and The YAthenaeum Team.

.:Prizes:

• One lucky band will be chosen to perform at Teen Band Jam Night.

-The YAthenaeum Team

This(ese) Week(s) in YA- May 23(and 16), 2009

(Note: So you may have noticed we didn't have one last week and we're sorry. There were exams all this week and Erika got back home from ISEF at 11 last Saturday after a week of being away. So instead we give you an extra long two weeks in YA this week.)

Random:

• Gail Carson Levine now has a blog.
• YA author/teen librarian, Bridget Zinn, has cancer and many authors have donated books and other items to auction off to help with her medical costs. To find out more information go here.
  
• E. Lockhart needs help thinking of movies for the fourth Ruby Oliver book. If you think you can help, go to her blog post here.
  
• Megan McCafferty announced on her blog the next book she's working on.
• After winning the Edgar Award, John Green made a video about "What Could You Do with a Poe Bust?". You can watch it here.
• Strange Horizons published Cecil Castellucci's first sci-fi/non YA short story on their site. You can read it here.
• Ally Carter answered some frequently asked questions here.
• Kristin Cashore answered some frequently asked questions about writing and publishing.
• Melissa de la Cruz is going to be answering book related questions on Wednesdays and writing related questions on Fridays, you can find details here. The first ones are up on her blog.
  

Contests:

• Mary E. Pearson's new book The Miles Between ARC is going on a road trip! Basically they start with her and will end with her publisher on publication day and go around the country in between. To find out more information on how to participate go to her blog post here.
  
• Diana Peterfreud is having a contest for copies of Dull Boy by Sarah Cross. Moreinformation here.
• Cynthia Leitich Smith is currently having a few giveaways on her blog for Pure, The Chosen One, and Sacajawea. More details here.
• Sarah Dessen posted the winners of the Lock and Key paperback release contest.
  

Covers:

• Holly Black posted the cover of The Wyrm King, the final Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles and last Spiderwick book in general, on her blog.
  
• Lisa Schroeder posted the cover of her new mid-grade novel It's Raining Cupcakes.
• Scott Westerfeld posted the US cover and the UK cover(ignore the US cover in this link) of Leviathan.
• Sarah Rees Brennan posted the covers of the 4 editions of The Demon's Lexicon she has (one being the secret cover under the US edition).
  
• Stacey Jay posted the as-of-now cover to her book Undead Much? on her blog.

New Book Sites/Section on Sites/Excerpts:

• Cassandra Clare's new trilogy's, The Internal Devices, site is up here.
• Shannon Hale put up The Actor and the Housewife section on her site, including the first 10 pages and more.
• Alyson Noel put up the Blue Moon section on her site, including an excerpt.
• Justine Larbalestier posted a short sneak peek of Liar on her blog.
  
• Rhonda Stapleton posted chapter one of her book Stupid Cupid to be released in December.

Tours:

• Sarah Dessen posted her tour dates for Along for the Ride. (We can't wait for June 26!)
• Claudia Gray posted her upcoming appearances on her blog.
• Ally Carter put up her Don't Judge a Girl by her Cover tour dates.

Books that came out last week:

• City Boy by Jan Michael
• After the Moment by Garret Freymann-Weyr
• You Are Here by Jennifer E. Smith
• Swoon by Nina Malkin
• New World by Chris Priestley
• It's a Curl Thing (Divine & Friends) by Jacquelin Thomas
• How To Get Famous by Pete Johnson
• The Geek Girl's Guide to Cheerleading by Charity Tahmaseb and Darcy Vance
• Bad Company by Mike Walker

Books that come out this week:

• May 26- Hunger: A Gone Novel by Michael Grant
• May 26- Undercover by Beth Kephart
• May 26- Gorgeous by Rachel Vail
• May 26- The Deep by Helen Dunmore
• May 26- Love You Hate You Miss You by Elizabeth Scott
• May 26- Vacations from Hell by Libba Bray, Cassandra Clare, Claudia Gray, Maureen Johnson, and Sarah Mlynowski
• May 26- Fortune Cookie by Heather Wood
• May 26- Sprout by Dale Peck
• May 26- The Sorceress by Michael Scott
• May 26- Slept Away by Julie Kraut
• May 26- See No Evil by Jamila Gavin
• May 26- Peril on the Sea by Michael Cadnum
• May 26- One Lonely Degree by C. K. Kelly Martin
• May 26- Nation by Terry Pratchett
• May 26- Killer Pizza by Greg Taylor
  

-The YAthenaeum Team