1. We've reached the halfway point of Grapemo 2013. YAY US! Please remember to send in your progress reports by Sunday night for positing on Monday.


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READ ABOUT "SEE YOU AT HARRY'S" on jbknowles"s blog! Release date was May 8th.


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I just read WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN by Lionel Shriver, and discovered two reasons why I'm so bad at book reviews.

First reason: I'm inarticulate.

I collapsed in front of my husband after finishing the read. "WHAT THE ****?"

"What?"

"JEE-sus Christ!"

"What?"

"Omigod. This is one ****-ed up book!"

That's as far as I got with explaining anything.

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SUGAR AND ICE, a beautiful MG book by Kate Messner aka kmessner.


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...here she is, on the cover of another book:


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A HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to seaheidi on the release of her YA novel SEA


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Lucky, lucky me--I got to read aprilhenry 's GIRL STOLEN which will be released on September 28th by Henry Holt.


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I am so happy to announce that SAY THE WORD made YALSA's 2010 BBYA list along with novels written by so many friends, 2k7-ers, and fellow LJ-ers like Rosemary Clement-Moore (Highway to Hell) Jo Knowles (Jumping Off Swings) L.K. Madigan (Flash Burnout) Mary Pearson (The Miles Between) Maggie Stiefvater (Lament and Shiver!) Siobhan Vivian (Same ( Read more... )

My summer TBR list is ALMOST down to zero. This amazing feat was accomplished only because I broke my own rule about not reading in the same genre while working on something of my own. Then again, I was "revising"--not actually "writing" (or so I like to tell myself).

Lee Bantle: DAVID INSIDE OUT A coming-of-age/coming-out story that resonated with ( Read more... )

ROBIN of TV AND BOOK ADDICT fame. Congratulations, Robin!

Congratulations also to sartorias who won a signed copy of STW in newport2newport's contest.

And speeeeeeaaaking of newport2newport--check out her INTERVIEW with the psycho psych nurse passing herself off as an author (namely me, of course). Melodye's interviews are always fun and this one is no exception! :)


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