A Monthly List of YA Bookish News
TV/Movies
- Get your iTunes ready Divergent fans, The Divergent soundtrack will feature music from Snow Patrol, Kendrick Lamar, Skrillex , Ellie Goulding and more !
- Ruta Septeys’ Between Shades of Gray is on it’s way to the big screen. And yes, they are changing the name as to not get confused with the other shades of gray.
- And the adaptations keep coming as New Line Cinema picks up Maggie Steifvater’s Raven Boys.
- It’s getting closer and closer to March 24th and to tide us over there is a new Divergent trailer.
Publishing
- Victoria Schawb announces a new series, A Darker Shade of Magic set to be published by Tor.
- Forget about Disasters and make room for Oblivion. Jamie McGuire announced Beautiful Oblivion a companion to Beautiful Disaster about Travis’ brother, Trent Maddox
- Judy Blume’s novels are getting makeovers ! Illustrator Debi Ohi shares her covers for the Middle Gradenovels and check out the YA ones at EW.
- Simon & Schuster’s new Sci-Fi and Fantasy imprint, SAGA,release details on their spring 2015 books.
- Celeb sisters Kendall and Kylie Jenner release the title and cover of their YA dystopian City of Indra
On The Web
- Over at Publishing Crawl Never Fade author Alexandra Bracken discussesThe Value of ARCs
- LA Timessits down with Tahereh Mafias her Shatter Me series comes to an end.
- Feburary was Black History Month and Book Riot has a nifty timeline of Black History told through YA novels.
- Epic Reads has an ‘Epic Chart of 162 Young Adult retellings.
- Sometimes opposites attract! Tiffany Schmidt reveals the trailer for her YA romance novel, Bright Before Sunrise. Out now