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After the Snow by S.D. Crockett
Released On: March 27 2012
ForgivenReleased On: March 27 2012
Goddess Interrupted by Aimee Carter
Released On: March 27 2012
Life Is But a Dream by Brian James
Released on: March 27 2012
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Spellcaster by Cara Lynn Shultz
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Take a Bow by Elizabeth Eulberg
Released on: April 1 2012
Book World News
The Hunger Games set box office records!
Cover Reveals
Revealed on: Seventeen.com
Expected release date:September 18 2012
The start of a brand-new young adult trilogy about three very different girls who overcome their differences and band together to seek revenge on those who have wronged them, uncovering a supernatural secret about what brought them together and why in the process. Each book will rotate back and forth between the perspectives of all three characters.
Scandalous Scandals
As a scathing indictment on the human race, a tumblr was made to name and shame racist tweeters complaining about the casting of The Hunger Games.
The BEA Bloggers Conference is getting set to take off, but not without significant resistance! Due to some, err, controversial decisions, such as the Conference requesting participants to register and declare their traffic stats. For those planning on revolting, a Book Blogger Unconference is being planned.
Then a curious thing happened in the week.
An agent tweeted Keira Cass, author of The Selection, and center of a Twitter controversy.
Now, there’s two funny things about this. The first one being that one author has had two agents publicly tweet her with insulting comments to reviewers.
And that the reviewers saw it and did not give a shit. It’s a strange world sometimes.
Bryanna
Geeze I love these posts! LOL. Although it had a surprising lack of turtle jazz hands.
Kate C.
That sucks about the BEA Blogger’s conference, but I’m not surprised. This world is all about the bottom line. Makes me cynical.
Kate C.
Just went and read the “unconference” blog entry. Fantastic! I hope it succeeds! Book Blogger unite! 🙂
Michelle Wolfson
Wow. I had no idea there was a huge uproar from my tweet. Clearly there was no grand plan. Kiera Cass is not my client. I read THE SELECTION and loved it. I don’t even know about any controversy surrounding a tweet by her own agent, but clearly my knee jerk attempt to cheer her up set people off. In retrospect, perhaps it was poorly worded. I certainly respect everyone’s right to their own opinion.
I also have a lot of respect for bloggers who spend a lot of time reviewing books often just for the love of reading, negative reviews included.
I can’t help wanting to defend books I love, whether they were written by my clients or not. But perhaps in the future I can do it without personally attacking the reviewer.
Kate C.
That’s decent of you to admit and thanks for posting it.
Kat Kennedy
This really wasn’t a huge uproar, Michelle. This was nothing – which makes it rather unique, since these sorts of comments would usually illicit more of a controversy.
Unfortunately, your respect for bloggers doesn’t come out in that tweet. You set the tone for those industry professionals you work with, and that kind of casual attitude is what leads people and authors to come on our reviews and call us whores and bitches. I believe those people are just wanting to defend the books they love too.
I appreciate that you didn’t mean any offense. I think, in this situation, that it’s good your tweet was mostly written-off so that we can all move on and get back to what we love doing.
Cassi Haggard
I’m beginning to question Kiera Cass’s stability. Why does she keep goading people? For attention?
At least Kiersten White seems to have some sense. Hey authors listen: STEP AWAY FROM THE REVIEWS.
cyna
See, now I’m curious to know what Cass said to inspire that reply from white in the first place… is it still residual drama from the first twitter blowup?
Stephanie Sinclair
I believe she was talking about reading reviews and how a negative review made her giggle or something.