First, huge congratulations to Amy Christine Parker, whose debut young adult thriller GATED is up for a YA Books Central Choice Award for Best Teen Horror/Thriller of 2013! To vote or to find new books to love, check out the Choice Awards here! (And if you want to check out GATED for yourself, there’s aContinue reading “YA Books Central Choice Awards & GoodReads Reminder”
Author Archives: luciennediver
GoodReads Chat
I’m excited to be chatting with the great folks at GoodReads this Friday, both as author and agent (though, unsurprisingly, most of the questions thus far are aimed at my agent-self). I hope you’ll join in! Questions can be posted any time, but I’ll be there from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. ET this Friday, JanuaryContinue reading “GoodReads Chat”
Book Birthdays! Plus Top Ten Things Never to Say to a Writer
So many exciting book birthdays today! There’s BLACK ARTS, the new novel in Faith Hunter‘s New York Times bestselling Jane Yellowrock series, HOWLING FOR YOU, an e-novella in Chloe Neill’s NYT bestselling Chicagoland Vampires series, where we finally get things from Jeff Christopher’s perspective, and GRYPHON PRECINCT, the fourth novel in Keith R.A. DeCandido‘s fantasyContinue reading “Book Birthdays! Plus Top Ten Things Never to Say to a Writer”
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year everyone! May yours be filled with magic and all that is miraculous! Logging on just briefly today today, because I can’t resist letting you all know that Ramez Naam’s incredible SF thrillers NEXUS and CRUX are are Kindle Daily Deals. Today only they’re $1.99 each and practically a steal at the price,Continue reading “Happy New Year!”
Happy Book Birthday, etc.
I have to wish a fantastically happy book birthday to debut author Marie Langager, whose wonderful young adult science fiction novel BEYOND OUR STARS, released today as part of Bloomsbury Spark’s launch line. So exciting! Cover Copy: Fleeing a destroyed Earth, seventeen-year-old orphan Hope grew up living in the confines of a spaceship heading toContinue reading “Happy Book Birthday, etc.”
Book Birthdays, Giveaways and Best of 2013!
Okay, so much good! First, happy one-day-belated book birthday to Faith Hunter and Carol Malcolm, whose JANE YELLOWROCK WORLD COMPANION came out in digital yesterday and is available everywhere! They’re having a release party starting at noon today (though you can RSVP now) over at Bitten by Books and giving away a $50 gift card! Continue reading “Book Birthdays, Giveaways and Best of 2013!”
Magical Words and Gift Ideas
First, Tuesdays YA Rebels (aka me and Amy Christine Parker) offer up great gift ideas this holiday season for readers and writers. If you’re one of the above, you might want to discretely post this link somewhere like your Facebook page to give your significant other ideas! Also, I’m up at Magical Words today,Continue reading “Magical Words and Gift Ideas”
Let me hear you!
I started my blog in February 2008. (Before it was here, it was over on LiveJournal at http://varkat.livejournal.com.) This means that I’ve been blogging for about six years now. In that time so much about the industry has changed that my earliest blogs sound like nostalgia for some bygone era when people still sent paperContinue reading “Let me hear you!”
Book Birthdays and Rebel Reads
It seems the days when I could count on things being quiet enough to post a leisurely blog are far behind me, so I’m a couple of days late posting my happy book birthdays for the week. Here are some great, great reads just out! KICKING IT edited by Faith Hunter and Kalayna Price ThisContinue reading “Book Birthdays and Rebel Reads”
What I’m Thankful For
I want to take a second out of the insane preparations for the holiday to talk about what I’m thankful for this season. (Full disclosure: someone else in my family is hosting Thanksgiving and my husband is cooking our contributions, so mostly this involves me trying to get a week’s worth of work done inContinue reading “What I’m Thankful For”
Lucienne Diver's Drivel 