I love the aggressively red cover! This is Klausner’s debut YA novel, which just came out from Little, Brown Books for Young Readers and takes place at an upscale (yes) performing arts summer camp. Author is a bud of Amy Poehler’s, which means she must be funny.
Anyone reading it?
10 YA Novels with Asian American Main Characters
Nothing But the Truth (and a few white lies) by Justina Chen (Little, Brown, 2007)
Bitter Melon by Cara Chow (Egmont, 2010)
Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier (Scholastic, 2002)
My Most Excellent Year by Steve Kluger (Dial, 2008)
Beacon Hill Boys by Ken Mochizuki (Scholastic, 2004)
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2013)
Orchards by Holly Thompson (Delacorte, 2011)
Name Me Nobody by Lois-Ann Yamanaka (Hyperion, 1999)
Level Up by Gene Luen Yang, art by Thiem Pham (First Second, 2011)
Girls for Breakfast by David Yoo (Delacorte, 2005)
Yes! But are they all are digitized? This can be an issue with children’s and YA novels featuring non-white characters.
(via sdiaz101)
My current read, now that I finally finished Zadie Smith’s NW, comes from Cloud partner HarperCollins (ISBN 9780062190857), and my Twitter pal Bryan Waterman, a literature professor at New York University, just reviewed it for The Rumpus.
My favorite bit:
It’s inevitable that readers will compare Hell’s Tramp to Patti Smith’s Just Kids, given that both traverse the same CBGB-era New York downtown scene and that they’ve even been delivered by the same publisher within a few short years of one another…. Smith’s anecdotes never shy away from the Romanticism that has always characterized her writing, and in Just Kids she tends to overlay the past with a gauzy purple prose that borders on the euphemistic. Hell, by contrast, feels like a Romantic but writes like a hard-edged realist.
As my friends will tell you, I will at least power skim everything written about New York punk rock, and Hell credits himself with inventing the visual style that’s being feted at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute.
I’m on Chapter 8, and it’s growing on me like a subway tunnel fungus.
If you’re going to BookExpo America next week, and you are desperately seeking author face time, you can get some at the Librarians’ Lounge sponsored by my former employers, Library Journal, School Library Journal, and The Horn Book.
I should say you have to be a librarian to get past the velvet rope, and try you should because the likes of Jami Attenberg (The Middlesteins), Dagmara Dominczyk (The Lullaby of Polish Girls), and Ransom Riggs (Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children) will be there signing.
I think I know the answer, but let’s get a show of Tumblarian hands, please.
Amazon Publishing has secured licenses from Warner Bros. Television Group’s Alloy Entertainment division for its New York Times best-selling book series Gossip Girl, by Cecily von Ziegesar; Pretty Little Liars, by Sara Shepard; and Vampire Diaries, by L.J. Smith; and plans to announce more licenses soon.
Through these licenses, Kindle Worlds will allow any writer to publish authorized stories inspired by these popular Worlds and make them available for readers to purchase in the Kindle Store.
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Suw Charman-Anderson in Forbes, in the best piece I’ve read thus far on the launch of fan fiction platform Kindle Worlds, Amazon’s latest power play, or, per the author’s point, such an obvious strategy that it hurts.
Key graph:
The question that the publishing industry has to ask itself, though, is why did they not think of this themselves? Why have publishers not engaged more fully with fanfic writers to provide them with an arena to legally produce works based on someone else’s characters? It’s not like fanfiction is new — its modern incarnation started in the 1960s with Star Trek fiction.
In case you were wondering, your library already collects fan fiction (see 50 Shades of Grey).
When trying to decide between 1st, 2nd, or 3rd person for your novel first ask yourself this: isn’t there a better way to make a living?
— Victor LaValle (@victorlavalle) May 19, 2013
