Title: The Thief’s Covenant Author: Ari Marmell Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult Publisher: Pyr Publication date: February 14 2012 Hardcover: 240 pages Once she was Adrienne Satti. An orphan of Davillon, she had somehow escaped destitution and climbed to the…
“Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their…well, Inspirations and Influences. The cool thing is that the writers are given free rein so they can go wild…
Title: The Knife and the Butterfly Author: Ashley Hope Pérez Genre: Contemporary, Magic Realism, Young Adult Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group Publication date: February 1 2011 Hardcover: 216 pages After a marijuana-addled brawl with a rival gang, 16-year-old Azael wakes…
Title: Incarnate Author: Jodi Meadows Genre: Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Dystopian, Paranormal, Romance, Young Adult Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books (HarperCollins) Publication Date: February 2012 Hardcover: 384 pages New soul Ana is new. For thousands of years in Range, a million…
Our movie reviewing Smuggler, Lavanya Narasimhan, is back with the scoop on The Amazing Spiderman Sneak Peek Fan Event. Give it up for Lavanya, folks! A few days ago, my friend invited me to go to a “sneak peak”…
Title: Pure Author: Julianna Baggott Genre: Dystopian, Post-Apocalyptic, Speculative Fiction, Horror Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Publication Date: February 2012 Hardcover: 448 pages We know you are here, our brothers and sisters . . . Pressia barely remembers the Detonations…
Title: When We Were Executioners Author: J. M. McDermott Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Night Shade Books Publication date: February 7 2012 Paperback: 246 pages J. M. McDermott returns to Dogsland in the stunning novel When We Were Executioners, book two…
Hello everyone, and Happy Superbowl Sunday! Just a short stash today, before diving back into pre-game preparations. World Book Night: As you may have heard, World Book Night has extended the book giver sign-up deadline to Monday, February 6,…
“On The Smugglers’ Radar” is a new feature for books that have caught our eye: books we have heard of via other bloggers, directly from publishers, and/or from our regular incursions into the Amazon jungle. Thus, the Smugglers’ Radar…
Today we are thrilled to be a part of Julianna Baggott’s blog tour, celebrating the release of her new novel. Pure is the much-buzzed about post-apocalyptic coming of age novel that has garnered praise from the varied likes of…
Title: The Mighty Miss Malone Author: Christopher Paul Curtis Genre: Historical, Young Adult, PoC Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books Publication date: January 10 2012 Hardcover: 224 pages We are a family on a journey to a place called wonderful” is…
“Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their…well, Inspirations and Influences. The cool thing is that the writers are given free rein so they can go wild…
Hello everybody and welcome to another giveaway which we are running in conjunction with Paper Lantern Lit, a boutique literary development company committed to quality fiction and fresh voices. Today we are giving away a signed copy of YA…
Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle In Time – rejected by countless publishers before finally finding a home with FSG in 1962 – was a formative novel for me as a young girl. With its sympathetic heroine, the socially awkward (but…