Have you ever felt as though you were born in the wrong century? Or yearned for the elegance and manners of time gone by? I'm willing to bet that, on reflection, your reverie ended with the realization that there are some conveniences of modern life you'd miss if you could really go back in time.

But what if you could reinvent the past and go back ( Read more... )

My first experience with Chris Moriarty’s books happened last Thanksgiving, during a road trip from Brooklyn to Kansas City and back. Because I love to drive and because my husband is constantly annoyed that I don’t fast-track the books he recommends to the top of my TBR pile as quickly as he would like, we keep ourselves occupied on long drives in ( Read more... )

We have a couple of Inkies with debuts coming out in the next two weeks... But more on that later.

First up, speaking of new books, Kate Milford's second book, THE BROKEN LANDS, a prequel to THE BONESHAKER, set in Brooklyn, just showed up as available for preorder on Amazon! It hits shelves in May 2012.

Ellen Booraem's SMALL PERSONS WITH WINGS ( Read more... )

At a party recently, someone asked me about the book I was writing--one question led to another, and soon I was babbling about great rivers of magical energy flowing through the surface of the world, which could be affected by...well, I talked a lot. After a while the person I was talking to asked me, "Do you believe this? I mean, do you think it ( Read more... )

It's a holiday weekend. I'm entitled to get the Shameless post up a day late.

(Hee. Oops.)

Here's our lineup today!

THe BONESHAKER by Kate Milford is a "Top of the Top Shelf" pick by VOYA magazine, along with some very impressive company.

In foreign rights news, THE FAERIE RING by Kiki Hamilton sold to Hungary! Which makes me hungary...to read it ( Read more... )

It's BEA week and several Inkies (myself included) will be on hand in New York City for the festivities. But more on that later. We've got SHAMELESS NEWS TO PROMOTE!!!

I'm going to start out with Anna Staniszewski's amazing cover reveal for MY VERY UN-FAIRY TALE LIFE. I totally love this one.


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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... )

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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... )

Another year gone. Another year full of wonderful news from our Inkies. I can't believe I've had the honor of posting these Shameless posts for about two years now! How the time has flown ( Read more... )