News For Nerds (8)

News For Nerds is a feature here on Katie’s Book Blog to help catch you up on all the bookish news you might have missed. Check back every Sunday to find out about cover reveals, book deals, movie news, and more.

Ebook steals:

Dear Bully edited by Megan Kelley Hall – $2.99 – Amazon
Awaken by Katie Kacvinsky – $3.99 – Amazon
Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick by Joe Schreiber – $3.99 – Amazon
Born At Midnight (Shadow Falls #1) by C.C. Hunter – $2.99 – Amazon
Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier – $2.99 – Amazon
Gone (Gone #1) by Michael Grant – $2.99 – Amazon
Witch Eyes by Scott Tracey – FREE – Amazon

Movie news:

Black City (an awesome book!) has been optioned for film!  Screen Gems scored the rights to the first book in the Black City Chronicles.  For more information check out this article over at Entertainment Weekly!

There is an awesome new featurette for Beautiful Creatures.  It gives you a more in depth look at Lena and Ethan and it makes me really excited for the movie!

Publishing news:

The National Book Award Finalists were announced this week.  In the category of the Young People’s Literature Award the finalists are: Endangered by Eliot Schrefer, Out Of Reach by Carrie Arcos, Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormick, Goblin Secrets by William Alexander, and Bomb: The Race to Build—- and Steal– – the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin. For the full list of finalists, go here!

J.K. Rowling answered fan questions this week during a live webcast as part of Scholastic’s Harry Potter Reading Club.  If you missed out you can check out the replay here!

Victoria Scott’s agent sold the rights to her YA thriller to Scholastic! The book is title The Brimstone Bleed and will be published in 2014.  For more info and to congratulate Victoria, head over here!

Book trailer of the week:

Noteworthy blog posts/articles:

Both Jen from A Reading Daydreamer and Kirthi from Pages posted about blogging in the past versus now. Both of their posts bring up some great points about how blogging has changed.  Check out Kirthi’s post here and Jen’s post here.

Word For Teens has another awesome addition to her Characterize feature.  This time it’s Julie Kagawa on writing strong characters.  Check it out here!

Since October is anti-bullying month Cassandra Clare posted about it on her Tumblr.  It’s a wonderful post about hate blogs and bullies and you can check it out here.

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12 comments

  1. News for Nerds is probably my favorite post by you, Katie. I guess I really am a nerd. However, if you wouldn’t mind telling me, how do you get the pictures of your books to touch each other like that. I have so much things I want to post on my blog and can’t figure out how. I’m looking at blogger tutorials right now though.

    1. Yay! Glad you like these posts.

      For the images I actually use a website called Pixlr.com. You can create collages in different shapes and sizes. It’s really simple to use.

  2. A lot of cover reveals and some are really pretty 🙂 Thanks for sharing the links. I liked the post on Word for teens. Also Cassandra’s post was fascinating to read. Blugh, how I hate bullying.

    Keep posting this ‘meme’, I love it 🙂

  3. Red’s cover is so playful and I love how just seeing her with her finger on her mouth, telling you to shush, makes you want to read it!

    Was it as good as the cover?