* First things first … POTTERMORE! This mysterious website from Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling popped up this last week, and links you to a countdown clock on YouTube filled with owls. The reveal is coming next week. Share your theories in the comments below!
*Also from the wizarding world … the final trailer for Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 was unveiled. I don’t know about you, but I teared up a bit:
*Can’t get enough of The Hunger Games? How about FOUR more books? Scholastic announced this week that it would publish a special gift edition of The Hunger Games for the holidays this year, and would release three movie tie-in books in February 2012!
*While we’re discussing some of our favorite franchises, Summit confirmed this week that Carolina Herrera designed Bella’s wedding dress for Breaking Dawn.
* Just in time for Father’s Day tomorrow, NextMovie’s “Confessions of a Male Twihard” columnist looks at the qualities of The Twilight Saga’s four fathers.
*Did you love our May book of the month, Divergent? Head on over to author Veronica Roth’s blog to see the title of book 2!
*One of our favorite, snarky YA writers Kimberly Pauley announced plans for a NEW BOOK:
Kimberly Pauley’s CAT GIRL’S DAY OFF, when a girl’s celebrity-addicted friends make her watch a viral Internet video, her secret “talent” to understand the language of cats catapults them into a celebrity kidnapping mystery with ties to Hollywood and Ferris Bueller’s Chicago, to Stacy Whitman at Tu Books, in a nice deal, for publication in Spring 2012, by Larry Kirshbaum at LJK Literary Management (World).
* We love a good parody, and this latest music video parody of The Hunger Games is both hilarious and catchy. Check out the video below, and see an exclusive Q&A with the creators at Hunger Games Examiner:
* 13 Reasons Why author Jay Asher joins the many YA authors responding to the WSJ mess in a new article at EW.
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