TV/Film
- The Ender’s Game film is running a sweepstakes with ICEE to win an Astronaut Experience.
- Willem Dafoe joins the cast of The Fault In Our Stars film adaptation as Peter Van Houten.
Diversity
- New Adult author Victoria H. Smith discusses ‘Writing People Of Color In NA Fiction’
- An infographic from Tina Kugler illustrates the surprising percentage of POC in children’s book
Publishing
- Bestselling thriller author David Baldacci, is set to publish a YA Fantasy series
- 2015 is going to be an awesome year for books ! Including a multi POV pre-apocalyptic novel, Apocalypse, Already. Breaking Sky, a dystopian set during WWIII about a female fighter pilot. Plus the third book in A.G Howards’s retelling of Alice and Wonderland, Ensnare. (via Publisher’s Weekly Rights Report andfuckyearhyoungadultlit.tumblr.com)
On The Web
- Author Jessica Khoury looks atDark vs. Pale Beauties in YA Fiction. It’s not what you think
- Meg Medina discusses how the title of her book ( Yaqui Delgado Wants To Kick Your Ass) played a part in her experience being uninvited to a school
- This isn’t the first time Jay Asher has found people getting inked with poems and symbols from 13 Reasons Why.
Cover Reveal
Sidelined by Kendra C. Highley
Lair of Dreams by Libba Bray
1/2 of the blogging duo at Books and Sensibility, I have been blogging about and reviewing books since 2011. I read any and every genre, here on the blog I mostly review Fantasy, Adult Fiction, and Young Adult with a focus on audiobooks.