Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Monday, March 30, 2015
'Mortal Instruments' Drama 'Shadowhunters' Series Coming to ABC Family!
Just saw this awesome news at the Hollywood Reporter:
ABC Family is getting into The Mortal Instruments business. The youth-skewing cable network has handed out a straight-to-series order for Shadowhunters, a drama based on author Cassandra Clare's The Mortal Instruments book series, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Based on the book by Cassandra Clare with 'Helix's' Ed Decter set as showrunner.
ABC Family is getting into The Mortal Instruments business. The youth-skewing cable network has handed out a straight-to-series order for Shadowhunters, a drama based on author Cassandra Clare's The Mortal Instruments book series, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Sunday, March 29, 2015
Spring 2015 YA Scavenger Hunt
The Spring 2015 YA Scavenger Hunt begins this Thursday, April 2nd and goes through April 5th. Here is your chance to win books, gift cards and other great giveaways! And you'll have access to lots of bonus material from each of the participating authors.
Authors are divided by teams:
Authors are divided by teams:
#TeamPink
#TeamBlue
#TeamGold
#TeamGreen
#TeamOrange
#TeamRed
#TeamTeal
#TeamPurple
Check back Thursday when the hunt begins!
Thursday, March 26, 2015
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Review: Phoenix Island by John Dixon
A champion boxer with a
sharp hook and a short temper, sixteen-year-old Carl Freeman has been
shuffled from foster home to foster home. He can't seem to stay out of
trouble, using his fists to defend weaker classmates from bullies. His
latest incident sends his opponent to the emergency room, and now the
court is sending Carl to the worst place on earth: Phoenix Island.
Phoenix Island by John Dixon is another Stoker finalist and one I devoured over two days.
When Mark Twain was asked how he approached character development, he said, “Chase 'em up a tree and throw rocks at 'em." John Dixon must have written this book in a quarry. The MC, Carl, had so many rocks thrown at him I was exhausted by the end! The writing is excellent, easy, and many times made me forget I'm a writer (Dang that internal editor!).
This book was definitely a five-star for me. I can't wait for the sequel.
Phoenix Island by John Dixon is another Stoker finalist and one I devoured over two days.
When Mark Twain was asked how he approached character development, he said, “Chase 'em up a tree and throw rocks at 'em." John Dixon must have written this book in a quarry. The MC, Carl, had so many rocks thrown at him I was exhausted by the end! The writing is excellent, easy, and many times made me forget I'm a writer (Dang that internal editor!).
This book was definitely a five-star for me. I can't wait for the sequel.
Thursday, March 19, 2015
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
‘My Heart And Other Black Holes’ Movie
More book to movie news from Deadline:
The story centers on a pair of teenagers, Aysel Seran and Roman Franklin, who meet through an online site matching up suicide partners (these groups actually exist) to help ensure each partner will not back out of their own suicide. In a twist on Romeo and Juliet, they become more and more intimate through the 26-day countdown to their date until one question hangs between them: Will they live or will they die?
Paramount Pictures has closed a deal for movie rights to first-time author Jasmine Warga’s young-adult novel My Heart And Other Black Holes
with Anonymous Content attached to produce. The book was published
February 15 by HarperCollins’ Balzer + Bray imprint and has been sold
for publication already in 17 countries.
The story centers on a pair of teenagers, Aysel Seran and Roman Franklin, who meet through an online site matching up suicide partners (these groups actually exist) to help ensure each partner will not back out of their own suicide. In a twist on Romeo and Juliet, they become more and more intimate through the 26-day countdown to their date until one question hangs between them: Will they live or will they die?
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
YA Book to Movie News - Blackbird
I love keeping up with YA novels soon to hit the silver screen.
‘Blackbird’ YA Novel Near Lionsgate Deal
From Deadline:
Lionsgate is in negotiations to acquire the YA novel Blackbird from author Anna Carey in a competitive situation and is talking with Danny Mackey
to pen the adaptation. If the deal makes it will be the latest YA
book-to-film play from the studio that has reaped such enormous
windfalls for Summit’s The Twilight Saga and its own The Hunger Games. Alloy Entertainment would produce based on its book series.
Blackbird was published in September by HarperTeen. Written in
the second person, its follows a young girl who wakes up on the tracks
of the Los Angeles subway with no memory; a tattoo on her wrist of a
blackbird and a code; and a backpack containing clothes, $1,000, a phone
number and instructions not to call the police. The only thing she
knows for sure is that people are trying to kill her, and a thrilling
game of cat-and-mouse ensues.
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Review: Unmarked (Legion Book 2) by Kami Garcia
Kennedy Waters is still
trying to find her mark and her place among the Legion. After accidentally
unleashing a demon of hierarchy, it’s now up to Kennedy and the Legion members,
Alara, Priest, Lukas, and Jared, to destroy him before he opens the
gates of hell.
This was a could not put down for me. So many
twists and turns. And a huge reveal at the end that has me craving book 3.
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