Indigenous writer Cherie Dimaline’s timely and chilling speculative YA novel, THE MARROW THIEVES, has just won a 2017 Governor General’s Award, Canada’s most prestigious literary award! And today, the book won the Kirkus Prize for Young Readers’ Literature! Read the Publishing Perspectives interview with the author here.
Category: YA fiction
CITY OF SAINTS AND THIEVES Film News
French rightsFilm rights to Natalie C. Anderson’s thriller, CITY OF SAINTS AND THIEVES, have gone to Universal Pictures. Read all about it here. Variously billed as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo meets Gone Girl or The Hunger Games meets The Thief Lord, this enthralling murder mystery sdet in Kenya will keep you on the edge of your seat…
ONE WOULD THINK THE DEEP Is a CBCA Book of the Year!
The beautiful YA novel ONE WOULD THINK THE DEEP by Claire Zorn (UQP) has won the 2017 Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Award in the Older Readers category. Sam has always had things going on in his head that no one else understands, even his mum. And now she’s dead, it’s worse…
Stay Away from THE HAZELWOOD (If You Can!)
The cover of the UK edition of Melissa Albert’s THE HAZELWOOD has just been revealed, and it’s a beauty! (This image doesn’t nearly do it justice!) Coming from Penguin on 8 February 2018.
Do not miss JANE, UNLIMITED!
This fantastic review of Kristin Cashore’s upcoming new book, JANE, UNLIMITED, is just too good not to share! ” Jane, Unlimited isn’t just completely different from what Cashore has done before, it’s unlike anything I’ve read—mysterious, precise, and possessed of a pure, clear mood that stays intact even through the genre shifts. It’s a wild gift for…
The HAZEL WOOD Galleys Are Here!
These just came! The advance book proofs of the US and UK editions. THE HAZEL WOOD will be published in North America on 30 January 2018 and in the UK on 8 February 2018. (So these aren’t necessarily the final covers.) It will come out in Holland in early February 2018, and later in 2018 in France, Italy, Spain…
Erin McCahan Interview from PW
(Images from Publishers Weekly) Erin McCahan (LOVE AND OTHER FOREIGN WORDS) is interviewed in this week’s Publishers Weekly about her new book THE LAKE EFFECT. Read the interview here.
Planeta Acquires Spanish Rights to CITY OF SAINTS AND THIEVES
Natalie C. Anderson’s YA thriller, CITY OF SAINTS AND THIEVES, will be published in Spanish by Planeta, thus joining the growing list of publishers who have already bought rights.
TRANSFERRAL in France
The French edition of TRANSFERRAL by Kate Blair will be published on 13 April by Editions Michel Lafon. Here’s a sneak peek at their gorgeous cover: And the catalogue page:
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