New YA book deal announced!
Kari Sutherland at HarperTeen has bought North American rights to screenwriter Victoria Aveyard’s debut novel, The Red Queen, which is set in a fantasy world where society is divided by the color of blood. It features a 17-year-old who, to save her family, must assume the role of a long-lost princess while secretly aiding a revolution. The novel was pitched asGraceling meets The Selection; it will be published in winter 2015. Suzie Townsend of New Leaf Literary and Media was the agent.
Ready to read this one!
Just finished THE BITTER KINGDOM by Rae Carson, and thought I would share this video interview I did a few months ago with Rae.
YA author Rae Carson talks Fire and Thorns (by girlsinthestacks)
Writing Advice on Writers’ Hands
For Shared Worlds 2013, some of speculative fiction’s finest artists, editors, and writers, were asked to write advice on their own hands and send in a picture.
Pictured here: Nnedi Okorafor, Lev Grossman, Neil Gaiman, Joe Haldeman, Garth Nix
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I lOVE this.
(via scribnerbooks)




