Adult authors switching to YA

Major Adult Authors Come to Teen!

Children

Jodi Picoult, the internationally bestselling and award-winning author of numerous books, and her daughter Samantha Van Leer, have teamed up to write a new teen novel:Between the Lines, planned for release in the Summer 2012 season.

Picoult is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of several adult novels, including My Sister’s Keeper, House Rules, Handle With Care, Change of Heart and Nineteen Minutes.Her daughter, Samantha Van Leer, is a junior in high school and pitched the idea of the book to Picoult, while she was in the middle of a book tour.

Between the Lines will be published jointly by Simon Pulse and Emily Bestler Books, and will be released on June 2012. This will be Van Leer’s debut book, while it will serve as Picoult’s debut teen book.

And another internationally bestselling adult author, Philippa Gregory, will also publish a series of young adult historical romance titles with Simon Pulse! Her first title is scheduled to release in Summer 2012.

Gregory is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Other Boleyn Girl and The Red Queen, with her Tudor series being adapted as a TV drama and The Other Boleyn Girlas a major film in 2008.

With this new deal, Gregory, and her historical and storytelling expertise, will be exposed to a new generation of young adult readers around the world.

Books That Will Give You Nightmares:

Hannibal by Thomas Harris
The Shining by Stephen King
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty and we can't leave out
The House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski


What books have you read that gave you nightmares?

Sales of "To Kill a Mockingbird" up 123%

Sales of "To Kill a Mockingbird" up 123% on Amazon.UK, and the book has climbed as high as #25 on the site's Top 100 list (compared to #803 on Amazon.com) since David and Victoria Beckham said Harper Lee was the inspiration for their new daughter's name, the Daily Mail reported. 

Here's how the soccer legend and his former Spice Girl wife made their decision: "A lot of thought goes into our children's names and Harper was a name that we've loved for a long time for a couple of reasons," said David. "One reason is Harper's an old English name which we loved and one of the other reasons was Victoria's favorite book is To Kill a Mockingbird and the author was Harper Lee. It's a very strong, passionate book. That's where Harper came from."

Any skeletons in your closet?

What reading skeletons do you have in your closet? Books you’d be ashamed to let people know you love? Addiction to the worst kind of (fill in cheesy genre here)? Your old collection of Bobbsey Twin Mysteries lovingly stored behind your “grown-up” books? You get the picture … come on, confess!

Teaser Tuesday!

Grab your current read
Open to a random page
Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Do you ever stop a book midway?

If you’re not enjoying a book, will you stop mid-way? Or do you push through to the end? What makes you decide to stop?

Post Amazing Book Depression

I was reading about this phenomenon called P.A.B.D. which stands for Post Amazing Book Depression  and means: the over-whelming sad feeling one gets after finishing a great book. 

Yes, I feel this feeling a lot! 

However, if a book has consumed me and made me feel such a part of it's life and world, it's often quite traumatic to be done with it. I do resort to many of the tactics listed in the Weekly Geek post in order to deal with it.

Yes, I've been known to seek out other books with a similar theme. 

Yes, I make other people read the book. (I did this with the ever popular Twilight, Book Thief, Hunger Games, etc.)

Yes, I read other things by the author and follow them around the internet.

No, I don't go seek out fan fiction though. That stuff sort of makes me crazy. And no I don't re-read over and over and over. For the most part anyway. 


Some of the books that have caused this P.A.B.D. for me:

--The Whole Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer

--The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins

--Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

--The Goddess Series by P.C. Cast

-- pretty much any big epic fantasy
-- pretty much any book where I feel a huge character connection. It's hard to let them go!

How about you? What books have caused you P.A.B.D.?

Weekly Geek 7/28/11

Last year, I saw a movie, I think it was called Definitely, Maybe, that got me to thinking. In this movie, one of the girls was on a quest to find a particular copy of Jane Eyre, I forget now the specific reason why. But in the process of her search, she ended up with this massive collection of Jane Eyre books, from all sorts of places and years and styles. She had a shelf that went all the way around her room, filled with these wonderful Jane Eyre books.

It made me wish I had a collection like hers, a collection of one particular title, in all it's various versions.

So, Weekly Geeksters, tell us, do you have a collection, (or are you starting a collection,) of one particular book title? If so, what's your story? Why that book, and how many do you have, and what editions are they? Share pictures and give us all the details.

Or perhaps you dream about starting such a collection. What title would it be and what would it take for you to get motivated to start collecting?

Or maybe it's the works of a particular author you collect (or want to collect) instead a certain book title?