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• Goodreads Choice Awards, NaNoWriMo, and Secret Santas

  Posted at 8:27 pm by Laura, on November 3, 2014

  

  It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Goodreads Choice Awards 2014: Opening Round! And let me tell you, there are some fantastic books up on the ballot! I’ve reviewed several of them this year, so hop on over to my 2014 Reviews and check them out.

  

  You may have noticed I haven’t blogged an Advance Excitement at a Glance post for November. While I like to think I planned out the following situation, I regret to say I did not. It was just a happy coincidence.

  There are many great books coming out in November, and a few of them I was lucky enough to receive ARCs. Unfortunately I haven’t had the time to get around to reading them properly for review, so there will be no November ARC updates. (However, there’s a book coming out in December whose review will be posted mid-November — look out for that!). I’m also busy this month for a completely different reason: NaNoWriMo. Academic papers? Got it. Critiquing and editing creative works? No problem. Coming up with plot ideas and characters and the whole world? Fine. But actually completing a novel-length creative piece? Wow. So I’m a bit frightened, but my writer friends have rallied around me and so far I’m doing pretty well with this whole NaNoWriMo thing!

  

  Um, book bloggers? Sign up for this now. The Broke and the Bookish is hosting a Secret Santa, and it looks like so much fun. Sign-ups end November 14th, so hurry on over and fill out your form to give to and receive bookish goodies from another book blogger this holiday season!

   

  Did you vote for your favorite books of 2014?
  Are you participating in NaNoWriMo?
  Have you signed up for #TBTBSanta?

   

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• ALA Midwinter’s Youth Media Awards

  Posted at 3:27 pm by Laura, on January 27, 2014

  Little publishing nerd and bookworm freaked out this morning when the ALAYMA awards — Caldecott, Newbery, Printz, and several others — were announced. I did my best to tone down the fangirl when I posted the information over on my graduate program’s publishing blog, so if you want to see just the facts, hop over there. If you’re in for the fangirling, read on.

  HOLLY BLACK. YES.

  RAINBOW ROWELL. OMGOMGOMG YES.

  KATE DICAMILLO. AGAIN. YES.

  LOOK AT ALL THE PRETTY CALDECOTTS!

  HOW MANY MORE BOOKS MUST I ADD TO MY TO-READ LIST?!

   

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• Goodreads Choice Awards 2013

  Posted at 9:06 am by Laura, on November 1, 2013

  

  Get ready to cast your votes Monday, November 4th!

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• A Quick Update

  Posted at 6:43 pm by Laura, on March 19, 2013

  Apologies for the radio silence. Here are some snippets as to why I’ve been quiet lately.

  1. AWP Boston 2013 — I was extremely lucky to attend several panels at AWP this year. I met Jane Yolen, Arthur A. Levine (editor of Harry Potter!), David Levithan, Lucy Christopher, and many others. Because of this unique opportunity I was able to ask them for their definitions of the YA genre. Yolen paused, Levine was silent, and Levithan and Christopher took a beat before answering. All essentially said the same thing: a novel about a young adult protagonist experiencing first encounters on an amplified level.
  2. Fine-tuning my graduate thesis idea — I’ve finally narrowed down my thesis idea and my program director loves it. It’s a very unique idea, with probably very little research in the field, so it’ll be fresh and new (and hopefully published!). I won’t go into details, but it’ll involve: YA, gothic, and classic literature.
     
  3. Distracted by movie/TV casting — Did you hear?! Delirium, Divergent, and The Fault in Our Stars have been cast!
  4. Distracted by publications — CASSANDRA. CLARE’S. CLOCKWORK. PRINCESS.
  5. Graduate coursework in general — It’s quite consuming.

  You have a lot to look forward to once I get some down time. Are you interested in learning what panelists had to say about the publishing industry, agents, and YA literature at the AWP conference? News on the industry (independent bookstores on the rise, chapter books, ALA awards, etc) will be up soon as well, and some book reviews too.

  I’m not dead. 🙂

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• Awards, Bestsellers, and E-books, Oh My!

  Posted at 7:34 pm by Laura, on January 16, 2013

  Apologies for the lack of posts. I’ve since taken a trip to NYC and adopted a kitty from a shelter.

  On to some book news!

  1. NBCC Finalists Announced — 2012 National Book Critics Circle finalists were announced Monday. There are 30 finalists across 6 categories, including Adam Johnson’s The Orphan Master’s Son, Katherine Boo’s Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Tom Reiss’s The Black Count, and Allan Peterson’s Fragile Acts.
  2. Wanna know which titles dominated in 2012? I’m sure you can guess quite a few of them. Big Names Dominated Bestsellers in 2012 contains all the sales information as well as the lists of the Top 10 Books within 10 categories.
  3. Prepare to be launched into a literary Italy with Dan Brown’s Inferno on May 14! Make all the jokes you want — I’m really looking forward to this one. Lost Symbol was ehhh for me, but the other Robert Langdon books were intriguing. Probably because it was set in Europe. And now we’re looking into Dante’s Inferno? Yes, please!
  4. Scholastic Report Finds More E-book Reading Among Children — This is to be expected, as the current generation is growing up with easy-access technology. However, the stats are incredibly fascinating. More boys are reading, and more teenagers are making the switch from print to digital.
  5. 2013 Edgar Nominations Announced — Check out the selections from the Mystery Writers of America, with Best Book, Best First, Best Fact Crime, and many more!
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• John Green’s “The Fault in Our Stars” Named Best Fiction

  Posted at 3:26 pm by Laura, on December 4, 2012

  Time Magazine named YA author John Green’s book The Fault in Our Stars the number one best work of fiction in 2012!

  If you’re wondering why sales of young-adult books are up, even with all the challenges the publishing industry is facing, it’s because of novels like this one.

  …The Fault in Our Stars is a love story, one of the most genuine and moving ones in recent American fiction, but it’s also an existential tragedy of tremendous intelligence and courage and sadness.

  He was ranked ahead of JK Rowling, Junot Diaz, Zadie Smith, and the Booker Award winner Hilary Mantel! Congratulations, John Green!

  DFTBA, Nerdfighters!

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• Goodreads Choice Awards Winners 2012

  Posted at 11:06 am by Laura, on December 4, 2012

  They’ve been announced!!! Congratulations!!!

  Best Fiction was JK Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy — no surprise there. Gillian Flynn’s best-seller Gone Girl won Best Mystery & Thriller. Of course, Fifty Shades Freed by EL James won for Romance, and Veronica Roth defended her title by winning both Goodreads Author and Best Young Adult Fantasy for Insurgent. The winners for Best Young Adult and Best Paranormal Fantasy makes my heart flutter: John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars and Deborah Harkness’s Shadow of Night!

  I have a few predictions for next year! Is it too early? Regardless, I’m sending out my opinion.

  Although not every author posts about a book they have due out in the following year, especially a first-time author, I do believe that Cassandra Clare and Lauren Oliver will have to fight for “Young Adult Fantasy” (since apparently dystopians are also called fantasy). Clare will publish her final in the Infernal Devices series, Clockwork Princess, and with the upcoming movie for her Mortal Instruments series there will be plenty of talk about her Shadowhunter world throughout 2013. Oliver is quite successful as well, and her final book in the Delirium trilogy, Requiem, is due out in March.

  And I bet, in the Children’s category, some version of Diary of a Wimpy Kid will appear. It just has to. That series is through the roof with children.

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• Final Goodreads Choice Awards Round!

  Posted at 4:15 pm by Laura, on November 19, 2012

  Place your final votes for the best books of 2012 at the Goodreads Choice Awards!

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• Goodreads Choice Awards Round 2

  Posted at 4:08 pm by Laura, on November 12, 2012

  Popping out from the Cave of Overworked Graduate Student to remind you to vote!

  Semifinals are underway!

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• Goodreads Choice Awards Now Open for Voting!

  Posted at 11:10 am by Laura, on October 30, 2012

  Go here to vote! Some of my predictions were correct, too!

  Prepare to feel torn in the various categories. It was difficult to decide between books.

  Also, to any of my fellow east coasters, are you okay? Philly experienced near black-outs (thankfully I still have power) and hundreds of fallen trees from the winds, but the most damage is in NJ, NC and NY. Check in! Let loved ones know you’re okay!

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