We have a couple of great School Library Journals reviews to dish out today. Leah Cypess's NIGHTSPELL was reviewed in a discussion of books about sisters (together with Imaginary Girls, Entwined, Warped, and Chime!) They said: "Tense family drama, courtly intrigue, and a cast of complex characters mark this tale of horror, played out against a ( Read more... )

We had an avalanche of Shameless news over the last two weeks: trailers, covers, appearances. Holy crap. Let's get to it!

We're going to start with Kiki Hamilton's trailer for THE FAERIE RING which she just debuted a couple of days ago.

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But Kiki's not the only one with a brand new book trailer. Dawn Metcalf's trailer for LUMINOUS is ( Read more... )

Well, Shameless Saturday went on a little impromptu vacation when yours truly here forgot not once, but TWO weekends in a row that I needed to post. I have no excuse. Other than that my brain is broken.

That said, we've got a backlog of shameless news! Ready? ROCK IT!

Anne Nesbet has a brand spanking new book deal. HarperCollins has bought ( Read more... )

I know, it's your favorite time of the week. Shameless Saturday is upon us!

Starting with a bang today. Grace Lin's LING AND TING is a 2011 Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Award winner! As if WHERE THE MOUNTAIN MEETS THE MOON didn't do well enough, Grace is now tearing it up with her new book. Way to go!

Speaking of awards, Kate Milford has one to ( Read more... )

Apologies for the week off from the Shamelessness but we are back with a BANG this Saturday!

Grace Lin is racking up more award nominations, this time it's the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. Wow. Not to be outdone, Kate Milford won an honorable mention for the Speculative Literature Foundation's Gulliver Travel Grant, along with Nalo Hopkinson, ( Read more... )

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You can tell summer's practically over, just by the variety of shameless news we have this weekend!

Dawn Metcalf's debut novel has not only a new title, but a publication date and pre-order links! LUMINOUS (Dutton) will be available July 2011! But if you just can't wait that long, you can preorder it in the UK, Japan and Germany! Sehr aufregend!!! ( Read more... )

Who said that nothing happens in publishing in July? Liars.

We'll start today with yet another award for Grace Lin who won the Mythopoeic Award for Children's Literature for WHERE THE MOUNTAIN MEETS THE MOON. Congratulations yet again, Grace!


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We've got a Saturday chock full of shamelessness today, so keep your arms and legs inside the vehicle at all times. Here we go!

Kate Coomb's THE RUNAWAY PRINCESS will be getting a new translation - Japanese! (The Japanese rights have just sold.) Domo arigato!

SHADOW by Jenny Moss got a fantastic review in the School Library Journal. To quote:

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I know we JUST did a Shameless post last weekend, but when there's good news, there's good news! WE CAN'T PUT GOOD NEWS ON A BI-MONTHLY SCHEDULE!!!

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Here we go...

We at the Inkpot are epically thrilled to announce that Ellen Oh has just signed with Joe Monti of the Barry Goldblatt Literary Agency. We're so excited for Ellen we could squee. ( Read more... )