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mistymasseyToday in 1606, the trial of Guy Fawkes and other member of the Gunpowder Plot began, and ended three days later when they were executed. Talk about your speedy trial!
It's been a rather neat day. First, Neil Gaiman's marvelous novel, The Graveyard Book, won the Newbery Medal. It was well-deserved - go read this book, y'all.
Speaking of reading other people's books, I also received an ARC of Lisa Mantchev's upcoming debut novel, Eyes Like Stars in the mail today. Oh boy! I get to read it before you do! But I'll let you know what you should be looking forward to. *grin*
And now, a drumroll please.....I had to wait until the Newberys were announced before I was allowed to tell my sooper-seekrit news. My book, Mad Kestrel, has been nominated for the 2010 South Carolina Association of School Librarians Young Adult Book Award! Mad Kestrel will be on the shelves in every high school in South Carolina, and the students themselves will vote to pick the winner. I'm up against some heavy talent (Caroline Cooney, Sherman Alexie, Laurie Halse Anderson and others) but I'm just so thrilled to be nominated. There are somewhere around 400 high schools in SC. That's a whole lot of books being bought by the libraries. Sales make me very happy!
If you want to see the whole list, I'll hide it back here.
YABA
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - Sherman Alexie
The Adoration of Jenna Fox - Mary Pearson
Beanball - Gene Fehler
Big Fat Manifesto - Susan Vaught
Blood Brothers - S.A. Harazin
The Circle of Blood: A Forensic Mystery - Alane Ferguson
City of Bones - Cassandra Clare
Enter Three Witches: a Story of Macbeth - Caroline B. Cooney
Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature - Robin Brande
Game - Walter Dean Myers
Good Enough - Paula Yoo
Gym Candy - Carl Deuker
In the Name of God - Paula Jolin
Mad Kestrel - Misty Massey
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac - Gabrielle Zevin
The Silenced - James DeVita
Thirteen Reasons Why - Jay Asher
Twisted - Laurie Halse Anderson
Wake - Lisa McMann
Yellow Flag - Robert Lipsyte
It's been a rather neat day. First, Neil Gaiman's marvelous novel, The Graveyard Book, won the Newbery Medal. It was well-deserved - go read this book, y'all.
Speaking of reading other people's books, I also received an ARC of Lisa Mantchev's upcoming debut novel, Eyes Like Stars in the mail today. Oh boy! I get to read it before you do! But I'll let you know what you should be looking forward to. *grin*
And now, a drumroll please.....I had to wait until the Newberys were announced before I was allowed to tell my sooper-seekrit news. My book, Mad Kestrel, has been nominated for the 2010 South Carolina Association of School Librarians Young Adult Book Award! Mad Kestrel will be on the shelves in every high school in South Carolina, and the students themselves will vote to pick the winner. I'm up against some heavy talent (Caroline Cooney, Sherman Alexie, Laurie Halse Anderson and others) but I'm just so thrilled to be nominated. There are somewhere around 400 high schools in SC. That's a whole lot of books being bought by the libraries. Sales make me very happy!
If you want to see the whole list, I'll hide it back here.
YABA
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - Sherman Alexie
The Adoration of Jenna Fox - Mary Pearson
Beanball - Gene Fehler
Big Fat Manifesto - Susan Vaught
Blood Brothers - S.A. Harazin
The Circle of Blood: A Forensic Mystery - Alane Ferguson
City of Bones - Cassandra Clare
Enter Three Witches: a Story of Macbeth - Caroline B. Cooney
Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature - Robin Brande
Game - Walter Dean Myers
Good Enough - Paula Yoo
Gym Candy - Carl Deuker
In the Name of God - Paula Jolin
Mad Kestrel - Misty Massey
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac - Gabrielle Zevin
The Silenced - James DeVita
Thirteen Reasons Why - Jay Asher
Twisted - Laurie Halse Anderson
Wake - Lisa McMann
Yellow Flag - Robert Lipsyte
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Date: 2009-01-27 10:58 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-01-28 12:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-28 09:43 pm (UTC)The Follett rep came by today, and said the same thing, that just making the list was a very big deal. Which set me to shivering the rest of the afternoon. I can't think about winning, or I'll spend the next few months nauseous. *laugh*
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Date: 2009-01-28 01:43 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-01-28 05:32 am (UTC)I will be rooting for you.
I actually found a copy of your book in a local bookstore today - was walking out and the thing just about jumped off the shelf and hit me - so now I finally get to read it!
(yes, I friended you without even having read it yet... because you're interesting in non-book ways too :D)(but I was like OMG!! I know the person who wrote this! Nice part of my day.)
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Date: 2009-01-28 09:40 pm (UTC)*blushes* Aww, thank you! I hope you enjoy the book!
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Date: 2009-01-28 04:24 pm (UTC)I haven't read everything on that list, but I've read Twisted, and I'm partway through City of Bones; you're sure to beat both of them hands down.
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Date: 2009-01-28 09:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-28 05:21 pm (UTC)