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- Goodreads Choice Awards 2012
  
  Posted at 10:08 am by Laura, on October 29, 2012
  It’s that time of year! Goodreads will be hosting the annual Goodreads Choice Awards starting Tuesday, October 30.
  
  The Categories
  
  Fifteen books will be nominated in twenty categories, which include Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Paranormal Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror, Romance, Memoir & Autobiography, History & Biography, Nonfiction, Food & Cookbooks, Humor, Graphic Novels & Comics, Poetry, Young Adult Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction, Middle Grade & Children’s Books, Picture Books, and Goodreads Author.
  
  The Voting Rounds
  1. Round One — October 30 – November 11 — Voting will be open to the fifteen books across the twenty categories, as well as write-in votes.
  2. Round Two — November 12 – November 18 — The top five write-in votes will join the original fifteen, making 20 options across 20 categories. Additional write-ins no longer accepted.
  3. Round Three — November 19 – November 27 — Slashed in half, voters will choose from ten books across twenty categories. Make your vote count!
  Winners will be announced December 4.
  
  Which Books I Predict Will Be Nominated
  
  I’m not a prolific reader, but I’m basing my predictions (in a handful of categories) for the nominations based on what I enjoyed and what I saw, as a bookseller, flying off the shelves.
  1. Fiction: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
  2. Romance: Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James (I really don’t want this to happen, but I predict it will)
  3. Memoir & Autobiography: No Easy Day by Mark Owen
  4. Young Adult Fiction: The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
  5. Young Adult Fantasy and Science Fiction: City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare
  6. Middle Grade & Children’s Books: The Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan
  Log on tomorrow and start voting!!!
  
  Which books do you hope to see? Which books do you predict will be nominated?
  Posted in books, Update Post | 2 Comments | Tagged awards, goodreads, personal
- NPR’s Best YA Novels
  
  Posted at 8:33 pm by Laura, on August 7, 2012
  
  I’ve moved into my teeny tiny studio apartment on the east coast, started my new (semi-new…I’m a transfer) job yesterday, and looking forward to graduate school beginning in a month!
  
  Enough about me – on with the book news!
  
  Your Favorites: 100 Best-Ever Teen Novels – NPR
  
  It’s almost a cliche at this point to say that teen fiction isn’t just for teens anymore. Just last year, the Association of American Publishers ranked Children’s/Young Adult books as the single fastest-growing publishing category.
  
  Which is why we were only a little surprised to see the tremendous response that came in for this summer’s Best-Ever Teen Fiction poll. A whopping 75,220 of you voted for your favorite young adult novels, blasting past the total for last year’s science fiction and fantasy poll at, dare we say it, warp speed.
  
  And now, the final results are in. While it’s no surprise to see Harry Potter and the Hunger Games trilogy on top, this year’s list also highlights some writers we weren’t as familiar with. For example, John Green, author of the 2012 hit The Fault in Our Stars, appears five times in the top 100.
  
  I was one of the thousands that participated in this poll, and I’m very pleased to see that all the ones I voted for had made the list! Check this out! Add them to your to-read list on Goodreads!
  
  Posted in books, Link, publishing | 1 Comment | Tagged awards, genre: young adult, news, publishing
- ALA Hands Out First Adult Prizes – PW
  
  Posted at 10:30 pm by Laura, on June 27, 2012
  
  ALA Hands Out First Adult Prizes – Publisher’s Weekly – Andrew Albanese
  
  A committee of librarians has done what Pulitzer Prize officials could not do this year: they selected a winning work of fiction, giving the first-ever Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction to Irish novelist Anne Enright for her book The Forgotten Waltz (W.W. Norton). Robert K. Massie, meanwhile, took home top honors for nonfiction for Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (Random House).
  
  Thank you, American Library Association! Click to find out more about the awards and the runners-up!
  
  Posted in books, library, Link | 0 Comments | Tagged awards, books, news
- Liebster Blog Award
  
  Posted at 8:08 pm by Laura, on May 15, 2012
  
  Back in early April, A Novel Place nominated this blog for the Liebster Blog Award (liebster, as I already knew from living in a German family, means “beloved”)! This award recognizes blogs that have less than 200 followers, acknowledging “the best kept secrets” in the blogosphere. I can’t even begin to thank Lauren enough for the nomination – definitely check out her bibliophile posts!
  
  As a nominee, I have to nominate five blogs I believe are “the best kept secrets.” I don’t follow too many blogs on WordPress, although I will point out my absolute favorites here and on Tumblr that I think will also shed light on my character 😉
  
  1. appazoogle – This blog was created by Boston’s Emerson College’s publishing graduate program, and focuses its work on understanding the publishing industry of yesterday and combining it with the latest tools and technologies of today. It’s an effort to work with instead of against the changing tides in publishing. Fun fact: the name derives from Apple + Amazon + Google. I thought that was pretty neat.
  
  2. Jane Austen’s World – I’m sure they have more than 200 followers, but I find this blog to be a gem anyway. It contains lots of historical information (door knockers, bicycles, latest fashion trends) on Austen’s lifetime, as well as information on the Austen family. If you like 18th-19th centuries and/or Austen, this is the blog for you!
  
  3. Savory Simple – A fantastic resource for fun, new recipes! There have been quite a few cookies and smoothies I’ve wanted to try. Just need to get over my fear of the oven and all things cookware…
  
  4. Pretty Books – Stacey is a phenomenal blogger! I follow her on Tumblr, Goodreads, and Twitter as well (phooo, I sound like a stalker…I’m sorry, Stacey!). She has excellent book reviews, and is definitely a resource for YA literature and dystopian literature. I’d go so far to say she’s an expert, with the amount she’s read, but maybe this is just my awe shining through. Seriously, check out this blog. I bow to her skill.
  
  5. AnglophilesAnon – Ah, a Tumblr! Yes, although this is mostly photos, Laura will reblog anything related to the UK, adding in locations and dates and naming the people in the photos. I’ve considered myself an anglophile but after following this blog for several months I have to say I definitely wasn’t much of one until I stumbled on here. Check it out!
  
  Posted in Update Post | 2 Comments | Tagged awards
- Edgar Award winners announced! – PubLunch
  
  Posted at 3:22 pm by Laura, on April 29, 2012
  
  Publisher’s Lunch sent out a notification stating the Edgar Award winners were announced. The link will take you to The Edgar page, and winners are written in red. Check them out!
  
  Posted in publishing | 0 Comments | Tagged awards, news, publishing
- 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced – NYT
  
  Posted at 2:28 pm by Laura, on April 16, 2012
  
  2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced – New York Times
  
  The 2012 Pulitzer Prizes, celebrating achievement in newspaper and online journalism, literature, nonfiction and musical composition, were announced Monday afternoon at Columbia University in New York. The prizes, given annually since 1917, are awarded in 21 categories.
  
  No fiction winner, but there is a nonfiction winner, poetry winner, and a biography winner. Even better: the poetry winner came from an independent press!
  
  Posted in books, Link, publishing | 0 Comments | Tagged awards, books, genre: nonfiction, genre: poetry, news, newspaper, publishing
- Upcoming Books! [13]
  
  Posted at 7:19 pm by Laura, on April 15, 2012
  
  Title: Let’s Pretend This Never Happened
  Author: Jenny Lawson / The Bloggess
  Genre: nonfiction
  Publisher: Amy Einhorn Putnam
  Publishing Date: April 17
  Summary: For fans of Tina Fey and David Sedaris-Internet star Jenny Lawson, aka The Bloggess, makes her literary debut.
  When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father (a professional taxidermist who created dead-animal hand puppets) and a childhood of wearing winter shoes made out of used bread sacks. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humor in the strange shame spiral that is her life, and we are all the better for it.
  Lawson’s long-suffering husband and sweet daughter are the perfect comedic foils to her absurdities, and help her to uncover the surprising discovery that the most terribly human moments-the ones we want to pretend never happened-are the very same moments that make us the people we are today.
  
  ~
  
  Title: White Horse
  Author: Alex Adams
  Genre: fiction, post-apocalyptic
  Publisher: Atria / Emily Bestler Books
  Publishing Date: April17
  Summary: Thirty-year-old Zoe leads an ordinary life until the end of the world arrives. She is cleaning cages and floors at Pope Pharmaceuticals when the President of the United States announces that human beings are no longer a viable species. When Zoe realizes that everyone she loves is disappearing, she starts running. Scared and alone in a shockingly changed world, she embarks on a remarkable journey of survival and redemption. Along the way, Zoe comes to see that humans are not defined by their genetic code, but rather by their actions and choices. White Horse offers hope for a broken world, where love can lead to the most unexpected places.
  
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  Title: The Innocent
  Author: David Baldacci
  Genre: mystery
  Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
  Publishing Date: April 17
  Summary: It begins with a hit gone wrong. Robie is dispatched to eliminate a target unusually close to home in Washington, D.C. But something about this mission doesn’t seem right to Robie, and he does the unthinkable. He refuses to kill. Now, Robie becomes a target himself and must escape from his own people.
  Fleeing the scene, Robie crosses paths with a wayward teenage girl, a fourteen-year-old runaway from a foster home. But she isn’t an ordinary runaway-her parents were murdered, and her own life is in danger. Against all of his professional habits, Robie rescues her and finds he can’t walk away. He needs to help her.
  Even worse, the more Robie learns about the girl, the more he’s convinced she is at the center of a vast cover-up, one that may explain her parents’ deaths and stretch to unimaginable levels of power.
  Now, Robie may have to step out of the shadows in order to save this girl’s life . . . and perhaps his own.
  
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  Remember to vote for me in the Independent Book Blogger Awards!
  
  Anyone getting ready to pick up their World Book Night books? I’m looking forward to the event!
  
  Happy reading!
  
  Posted in Upcoming Books | 0 Comments | Tagged awards, books, genre: fiction, genre: mystery, genre: nonfiction, goodreads, upcoming books, world book night
- Independent Book Bloggers Awards!
  
  Posted at 10:37 am by Laura, on April 10, 2012
  
  Vote for me here and here (on my homepage!) to win in the Publishing Industry category! Voting ends April 23 at midnight ET!
  
  Thank you, everyone.
  
  Posted in Update Post | 0 Comments | Tagged awards, books, publishing
- The Hans Christian Andersen Award Announces the 2012 Short List – Pitch Engine
  
  Posted at 8:22 am by Laura, on March 14, 2012
  
  The Hans Christian Andersen Award Jury of IBBY Announces the 2012 Short List -Pitch Engine – Raab Associates
  
  Five authors and five illustrators have been selected from 57 candidates submitted by 32 national sections of IBBY for the 2012 Hans Christian Andersen Award. The award, considered the most prestigious in international children’s literature, is given biennially by the International Board on Books for Young People to a living author and illustrator whose complete works have made lasting contributions to children’s literature. The winners will be announced on Monday, March 19^th at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair.
  
  Check out the five authors and five illustrators that made the list. Congratulations!
  
  Posted in books, Link | 0 Comments | Tagged awards, books, genre: children, news
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