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Wicked City book day
Amazon/B&N/Powells
Well, Zephyr has landed. With any luck she’ll be at a bookstore near you (though if that bookstore is a Barnes & Noble, that will be the MAINSTREAM section, NOT Fantasy/SF-and god, don’t ask me why, the story is too long for the telling).
I am very happy to have this book finally released in the wild. I love the cover and hope that ( Read more... ) -
The Summer Prince
It can finally be told…my YA debut is coming out next spring from Arthur Levine/Scholastic, and I am so excited!
You can read the announcement on PW’s Children’s Bookshelf (scroll down). Here’s the description, though:
Alaya Dawn Johnson’s The Summer Prince. Set in a utopian city in a futuristic Brazil, it’s a coming-of-age story about a rebellious ( Read more... ) -
new things
Hello, world! Happy new year? Yeah, I know, this livejournal has been gathering dustbunnies lately. So of course I started a Tumblr yesterday, since what my life needs is more social media platforms I never update! Yeah! Hmmm...the idea is that Tumblr might be a little easier for me to update regularly, since I won't feel like I have to, you know, ( Read more... ) -
Wicked City arc up for auction
A quick note to let you know that if you'd like to read Wicked City many months early, you can drop by the magick4terri auction community and bid on a personalized copy. Also, you can browse through the many other amazing things on offer, all to help out Terri Windling. Terri's work has been a huge part of my life since I was thirteen, and I was recently lucky ( Read more... ) -
What to do with ARCs?
So I just got ten advanced reading copies of Wicked City (sequel to Moonshine) and I'm wondering what I should do with them. Right now they are sitting around my kitchen, which is lovely when I get a drink of water, but not, I suspect, particularly useful. I was thinking of maybe some kind of giveaway? But I don't really know, and it's not like ( Read more... ) -
abolish the [expletive] death penalty
I am so gutted over Troy Davis I hardly know what to say. I only heard of his case late, and I have absolutely no personal connection to it, but it so perfectly encapsulates the medieval, racist, morally stunted blood circus that is the death penalty in the US. No, I don't think my country is better than this. No, I don't think we've betrayed our ( Read more... ) -
Gay YA: a question of intent
It takes a lot to make me overcome my inertia and actually make a blog post, internets, but that time has come.
So, you might not have heard the YA blogosphere blow up yesterday, but it did! Here are good summaries:
cleolinda makes an excellent and well-reasoned overview of the situation, complete with many links to the major players that you should ( Read more... ) -
Narrative Pet Peeve
So, you know how sometimes your heroine will fall in love with a cad? A hustler, a deadbeat, a no-good, low-down playa? And you know how betrayed she feels when she finds out what we, the long-suffering audience, have known since episode/chapter two? She has several choices of how to behave, but generally, the reaction falls into two categories:
( Take it from Dolly Parton? ) -
Pretty Cover!
Hello friends! Yes, I know this is one of those rare-as-unicorns posts of mine, but I have something exciting to share! First, Moonshine officially has a sequel, which is called Wicked City. It will be out in April, and I have just gotten the official cover and permission to share it with you from the publisher. I am SO EXCITED about this one, I ( Read more... )
