Some of you may know that I have been working on a YA novel for some time now. My novel, Sublime, now stands complete, and I am querying agents in order to seek representation. I am one of many, and I know the road to getting published won’t be easy. But I have always been [...]
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Is Lauren Conrad still No. 1 on The New York Times best sellers list? Yep. See who else made the cut: CHAPTER BOOKS This Week Weeks on List 1 SWEET LITTLE LIES, by Lauren Conrad. (Harper/HarperCollins, $17.99.) The heroines of “L.A. Candy” in a new Hollywood story. (Ages 14 and up) 3 2 PERCY JACKSON AND [...]
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Today, we’re kicking off a week of fun posts related to Alice in Wonderland in anticipation of the new movie from Tim Burton, in theaters on Friday, March 5th. We begin by taking a look at some of the more well-known adaptations of Alice in Wonderland over the years (in chronological order): Disney’s Alice in [...]
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Today marks the last day of February, and so the last day of our February Book of the Month: Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl. We’ve had some amazing goodies this month. I want to thank authors Kami & Margie for all their help & support — they provided an awesome prize pack [...]
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In our final post regarding Common Sense Media, we have two teens’ reactions to the postings on www.barnesandnoble.com. The first is from one of our teen contributors, Marina: When I first read over the “Common Sense Media” summary for the novel Unwind by Neil Shusterman (which, by the way, is a fantastic read), I was [...]
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Today as part of our February Book of the Month feature on Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl, we’ve got a new, original desktop wallpaper — featuring bad-girl Ridley! Click to view full-size, then right-click to save: Some of the photos featured in this wallpaper are (C) VLC Photography & were used with [...]
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I’ve made no secret that I love the literary mash-ups between classic novels & supernatural twists — such as Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Mr. Darcy, Vamypre and others. I think the concept is sort of brilliant (getting modern audiences to read classic lit — such trickery!) and I think the results are hilarious. [...]
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Just in from our friends at OBS, an awesome new contest! Check out the details: In honor of our Comic Book Review on Arcana Comic’s ‘Dark Horrors Anthology’, OpenBookSociety is holding a 3-Panel Horror Comic contest starting today, February 25 through March 25, 2010. Deadline for submissions is March 25 and the winners will be announced on April 1, [...]
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Our friends at Young Adult Books Central are hosting an auction to help raise funds for upgrading & expanding their site — which includes book reviews (many by teens!), author interviews, and more goodies for YA lit. Plus, the site is run by Kimberly Pauley, the awesome author of Sucks to Be Me and the [...]
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We are excited to announce the winners of our first-ever giveaway here at Novel Novice. For three weeks, we gave you multiple opportunities to enter for a chance to win one of three copies of My Soul to Save by Rachel K. Vincent (courtesy Harlequin Teen). The winners are: Elizabeth Hannah Brooke I e-mailed the [...]
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