Monthly Archives: January 2012

Lying to Children

The All-Time Champion of Lying to Children, my grandpa.

I was driving my friend Mags home one day after seeing a film in Tours. After chatting for a few minutes, she said, “So this is the magic car.”

“The magic car?” I responded. READ MORE…

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DIE FOR ME in Turkish

DIE FOR ME is out in Turkish! And Google Translate tells me that the title reads as “DIE FOR ME”, so no fancy variations in this version. You can check out its page in Turkish here.

Turkey is really high on my list of places I want to go. READ MORE…

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CONTEST MONDAY: The Glimpse (Presenting Claire Merle) – WON by Jennifer Thomas!

Claire Merle, author of THE GLIMPSE, Faber June 2012

I can’t even say how excited I am to introduce you to a debut YA author who I’ve become friends with.

I met Claire Merle at the Paris SCBWI conference last December, READ MORE…

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News from Poland

I am thrilled to announce that Polish rights for the DIE FOR ME trilogy have been sold to Weltbild! Yet another language for me to learn to say “Thank you” in.

Dziękuję, Weltbild!!!

I wonder what type of video I can do for the Polish book birthday. (My Australian book birthday video. My U.K. book birthday video. I still have to do Norway, Bulgaria, Turkey, Germany and Russia. Ideas welcome!)

Again, THANK YOU Weltbild and to super foreign rights agent, Lauren Abramo at Dystel & Goderich!

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Dropped text from UNTIL I DIE (read it or watch it!)

Only five months to go until Un-DIE is released! And a very few Advance Reader Copies (ARCs) have begun to be sent out to sales reps and book reviewers in the United States. However, it was discovered after-the-fact that a 1 1/2 page section was accidentally dropped in the printing process. READ MORE…

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