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Buzz Worthy News: April 24, 2017

Welcome to Buzz Worthy News where the stories are awesome (or at least fun to read). Need your book industry news? Never fear, Kate Copeseeley is here to give it to you straight. In this week’s Buzz Worthy News:  #CloakandDagger Trailer, Cast Rumors for Aladdin, and... Keep Reading »

Hot New Titles

Hot New Titles: July 14th 2015

Welcome to Hot New Titles the feature that supports the decision to buy ALL THE BOOKS listed. Weeeeeeeee! New releases include About a Girl by Sarah McCarry, The Blind Wish by Amber Lough and Deceptive by Emily Lloyd-Jones. Cover reveals include Glass Sword by... Keep Reading »

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How to Make Your Own Fantasy Map

What I see a lot of from avid readers is an intense love of maps in fantasy books. They seem to collect them and talk about them and compare them. Which, to me, is like collecting, talking and comparing bits of chewing gum wrappers. I may occasionally feign interest in a... Keep Reading »

5 Reasons Your Young Adult Novel Might Suck

5 Reasons Your Young Adult Novel Might Suck

Kat Kennedy breaks down 5 Reasons Your Young Adult Novel Might Suck and covers many of the baffling and not so baffling ways that teenagers are written in YA these days. Read on to find out more!

Cover Reveal: Arclight by Josin L. McQuein

Cover Reveal: Arclight by Josin L. McQuein

We reveal the cover to Josin L. McQuein’s new novel, Arclight – but first we give her the option of possibly having one of the three snazzy covers we mocked up for her instead.

Cover Reveal: Phoebe Pope and the Year of Four by Nya Jade + Giveaway

Cover Reveal: Phoebe Pope and the Year of Four by Nya Jade + Giveaway

We reveal the new cover for Nya Jade’s book, Phoebe Pope and the Year of Four and give you a chance to win a $100 gift card for Tiffany & Co.

Blog Tour Stop: Guest Post with Gennifer Albin and Giveaway

Blog Tour Stop: Guest Post with Gennifer Albin and Giveaway

Today debut author, Gennifer Albin, stops by Cuddlebuggery for a guest post on crafting female characters apart of the Crewel Blog Tour. Check it out and enter the giveaway for a chance to win Crewel and a bracelet!

Blog Tour Stop: Author Interview with Marie Rutkoski + Giveaway

Blog Tour Stop: Author Interview with Marie Rutkoski + Giveaway

Kat Kennedy and Stephanie Sinclair interview Marie Rutkoski, Young Adult author of The Shadow Society and engage in a battle of Ninjas vs. Pirates.

Review War: Unspoken by Sarah Rees Brennan

Review War: Unspoken by Sarah Rees Brennan

Kat Kennedy and Stephanie Sinclair return to the review battle arena to hash it out over Unspoken by Sarah Rees Brennan. Watch the war and decide for yourself who wins the debate!

Buzz Worthy News: 15 October 2012

Buzz Worthy News: 15 October 2012

Wel­come to this week’s Buzz Wor­thy News! Fifty Shades of Grey apparently has not plot, J.K. Rowling is writing children’s books again, the Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded, and small presses kicked butt in the Man Booker Prize! All this and much, much more. Read on to find out every­thing that’s been hap­pen­ing in the book world this week.

Buzz Wor­thy News is Cuddlebuggery’s weekly Mon­day news post. Bring­ing you all the most inter­est­ing, rel­e­vant and fun news from the pub­lish­ing and book blog­ging world.

Hot New Releases and Reveals

Hot New Releases and Reveals

Check out this week’s releases and new cover reveals including the covers for Renegade, Red, Fractured and Afterglow.

Dear Debby: Advice for YA Fictional Characters (7)

Dear Debby: Advice for YA Fictional Characters (7)

Dear Debby is Cuddlebuggery’s weekly advice col­umn for Fic­tional, Young Adult char­ac­ters to get some life or romance advice. Debby is a car­ing, nur­tur­ing soul giv­ing down to earth, wise words of wis­dom to those in need. To email Dear Debby about your fic­tional trou­bles and lit­er­ary char­ac­ters, please email contactus@cuddlebuggery.com.

4 Reasons Self-Published titles are sometimes better

4 Reasons Self-Published titles are sometimes better

Kat Kennedy runs through four great reasons to be reading self-pubbed novels, if you’re not already. Check it out to see what you could be missing.

Cuddlebuggery Technical Difficulties

Cuddlebuggery Technical Difficulties

Hello loyal subscribers, Thank you for your continued support of […]

Review: Article 5 by Kristen Simmons

Review: Article 5 by Kristen Simmons

Stephanie Sinclair reviews Article 5 by Kristen Simmons and talks about how she likes her dystopians. Hint: With world building!

Review: Quintana by Melina Marchetta

Review: Quintana by Melina Marchetta

Kat Kennedy raves, and raves and raves some more about Quintana. Come see what has her so excited – and prepare yourself. Marchetta fever is highly contagious.

Review: Easy by Tammara Webber

Review: Easy by Tammara Webber

Stephanie Sinclair reviews Easy by Tammara Webber. Find out why she calls it one of the best books she’s ever read!

Buzz Worthy News 8th October 2012

Buzz Worthy News 8th October 2012

Wel­come to this week’s Buzz Wor­thy News! Tamara Webber lands a book deal, NaNoWriMo is on the horizon, The Casual Vacancy fairly rolled it in, and there’s a whole pile of challenged books to read for Banned Book Week – just because we can! All this and much, much more. Read on to find out every­thing that’s been hap­pen­ing in the book world this week.

Buzz Wor­thy News is Cuddlebuggery’s weekly Mon­day news post. Bring­ing you all the most inter­est­ing, rel­e­vant and fun news from the pub­lish­ing and book blog­ging world.

Hot New Releases and Reveals 7th October 2012

Hot New Releases and Reveals 7th October 2012

Check out what book came out and what covers were revealed last week. Some hot covers include Ink, Quintana and Neverall. Read on to check them out.

Dear Debby: Advice for YA Fictional Characters

Dear Debby: Advice for YA Fictional Characters

Dear Debby is Cuddlebuggery’s weekly advice col­umn for Fic­tional, Young Adult char­ac­ters to get some life or romance advice. Debby is a car­ing, nur­tur­ing soul giv­ing down to earth, wise words of wis­dom to those in need. To email Dear Debby about your fic­tional trou­bles and lit­er­ary char­ac­ters, please email contactus@cuddlebuggery.com.

Review: Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Review: Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Kat Kennedy reviews Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout, plays a drinking game for the best insults to Daemon, muses over the story and characters and compares Obsidian to Twilight. Come find out what Kat ultimately decided about the controversial and addictive Young Adult series.

Review: The Lost Prince by Julie Kagawa + Giveaway

Review: The Lost Prince by Julie Kagawa + Giveaway

Stephanie Sinclair reviews Julie Kagawa’s newest novel, The Lost Prince and has only a mild bout of fangirlism. What can she say? It’s an improvement. Also, ARC giveaway!

Review: Entangled by Nikki Jefford

Review: Entangled by Nikki Jefford

Kat Kennedy reviews Entangled by Nikki Jefford and takes this opportunity to rant a little bit, then rant a little bit more. Read on to see what went down and while Entangled just didn’t seem to work.

Buzz Worthy News: 1 October 2012

Buzz Worthy News: 1 October 2012

Wel­come to this week’s Buzz Wor­thy News! Where Sir Peter Stothard is calling the bloggerpocalypse, The Casual Vacancy is released and causes me heart palpitations, someone is messing with Wuthering Heights – AGAIN, and I’m running a competition on who can best make fun of Stan Lee. All this and much, much more. Read on to find out every­thing that’s been hap­pen­ing in the book world this week.

Buzz Wor­thy News is Cuddlebuggery’s weekly Mon­day news post. Bring­ing you all the most inter­est­ing, rel­e­vant and fun news from the pub­lish­ing and book blog­ging world.

Releases and Reveals

Releases and Reveals

Welcome to this week’s ensemble of new releases and cover reveals. Check out the latest and greatest in the Young Adult world and tell us what you think and are excited for.

Dear Debby Advice for Fictional YA Characters (5)

Dear Debby Advice for Fictional YA Characters (5)

Dear Debby is Cuddlebuggery’s weekly advice col­umn for Fic­tional, Young Adult char­ac­ters to get some life or romance advice. Debby is a car­ing, nur­tur­ing soul giv­ing down to earth, wise words of wis­dom to those in need. To email Dear Debby about your fic­tional trou­bles and lit­er­ary char­ac­ters, please email contactus@cuddlebuggery.com.

Cover Reveal for Release by M.R. Merrick

Cover Reveal for Release by M.R. Merrick

Today on the blog we reveal the cover for the third book in M.R. Merrick’s Protector’s series, Release. Once again an author has missed a marvelous opportunity to hire us to design their covers! Hopefully this post will start to set them straight! Click on to see the three mock covers we’ve created for Merrick’s new book before we reveal the real one.

Shit I’m Sick of Reading Part 3

Shit I’m Sick of Reading Part 3

Stephanie Sinclair muses about bad romances in YA literature, how it portrays unhealthy relationships and gives her list of the 6 Worst Male YA Love Interests.