This Week in YA- January 17, 2009

Contest Info:

• Holly Black and Cecil Castellucci edited an anthology called Geektastic and are having a contest to give out ARCs of it. More details here and here.
• Meg Cabot posted the winners of her book trailer contest for Forever Princess on her blog.

Random:

• Melissa de la Cruz' short story that had been exclusively for Target with the purchase of Revelations, is now available for everyone. Details on her blog.
• Meg Cabot will be having a live chat on her site tomorrow, Sun. 1/18 at 2pm est and on blogtalkradio 1/22 at 2pm est.
• Neil Gaiman was on blogtalkradio on Thursday. You can hear the entire show here.

Books that came out last week:

• Puppet by Eva Wiseman
• Kisses and Lies by Lauren Henderson
• The Black Stallion and the Shape-shifter by Steven Farley
• The Devil's Paintbox by Victoria Mckernan
• The ABC's of Kissing Boys by Tina Ferraro
• 3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows by Ann Brashares

Books that come out this week:

• January 19- Doom Lake Holiday by Tom Henighan
  
• January 22- Flygirl by Sherri L.Smith
• January 22- You Are So Undead to Me by Stacey Jay
• January 22- Trippe Show Berrys in Love by Jody Gehrman
  

-The Yathenaeum Team

This Week in YA- November 15, 2008

Random things:

• Melissa De La Cruz made the New York Times bestseller list for the first time with Revelations at number 4! Here's her blog on the subject. Congrats Melissa!
• There was a feud between John Green and Maureen Johnson, where they would cross out each others names in Let It Snow. This has apparently been resolved according to John's blog. On the same note, the third author of Let It Snow, Lauren Myracle, posted how she disagrees with both John and Maureen on the Zombie vs Unicorn topic to which Maureen responded.

Books that came out last week:

• Babylonne by Catherine Jinks
• Darkness Under the Water by Beth Kanell
• Drop by Lisa Papademetriou
• The Long Weekend by Savita Kalhan
• The American by Justin Allen
• Almost Famous, A Talent novel by Zoey Dean
• Gamer Girl by Mari Mancusi
• Shadow Kiss by Richelle Mead
• Simon's Secret by Pat Matuszak
• The Way of the Warrior by Andrew Matthews

Books that come out this week:

• November 18- Trouble in My Way by Michelle Stimpson
• November 18- Night World No. 2 by L.J. Smith
• November 20- Eclipse: Book Twelve (Sweep) by Cate Tiernan

-The YAthenaeum Team