November 2013 Releases

Done with October 2013 Releases? Here are November 2013 Releases. For future releases, check Reading Wishlist.

16th April 2013 Releases

Happy Release Day to:

Jackie Morse Kessler
Breath (Riders of the Apocalypse, Book 4)
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Graphia (US: 16th April 2013)
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Contrary to popular belief, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse aren’t just harbingers of doom – they actually keep life in balance. But what happens when their leader and creator, Death, becomes suicidal? Before the first living thing drew its first gasping breath, he was there. He has watched humanity for millennia. And he has finally decided that humanity is not worth the price he has paid time and again. When Death himself gives up on life, a teenager named Xander Atwood is the world’s only hope. But Xander bears a secret, one that may bring about the end of everything.

Marie Lu
Legend (Legend, Book 1)
Penguin (US & CA: 16th April 2013)
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What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbours. Born into an elite family in one of the Republic’s wealthiest districts, fifteen-year-old June is a prodigy being groomed for success in the Republic’s highest military circles. Born into the slums, fifteen-year-old Day is the country’s most wanted criminal. But his motives may not be as malicious as they seem. From very different worlds, June and Day have no reason to cross paths – until the day June’s brother, Metias, is murdered and Day becomes the prime suspect. Caught in the ultimate game of cat and mouse, Day is in a race for his family’s survival, while June seeks to avenge Metias’s death. But in a shocking turn of events, the two uncover the truth of what has really brought them together, and the sinister lengths their country will go to keep its secrets.

April 2013 Releases

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February 2013 Releases

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Penguin Books Australia – BTL Live

Marie Lu
Legend
Penguin (AU: 28th November 2011; US & CA: 29th November 2011; UK: 2nd February 2012)
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Once known as the western coast of the United States, the Republic is now a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors, the Colonies. Born into an elite family in one of the Republic’s wealthiest districts, fifteen-year-old June is a military prodigy. Obedient, passionate, and committed to her country, she is being groomed for success in the Republic’s highest circles. Born into the slums of the Republic’s Lake Sector, fifteen-year-old Day is the country’s most wanted criminal. But his motives may not be as malicious as they seem. From very different worlds, June and Day have no reason to cross paths – until the day June’s brother, Metias, is murdered, and Day becomes the prime suspect. Now, caught in the ultimate game of cat and mouse, Day is in a race for his family’s survival, while June tries desperately to avenge Metias’s death. But in a shocking turn of events, the two uncover the truth of what has really brought them together, and the sinister lengths to which their country will go to keep its secrets.

Gabrielle Williams
The Reluctant Hallelujah
Penguin (AU: 22nd February 2012)
When Dodie’s parents go missing just as final year exams are about to start, she convinces herself they’re fine. But when the least likely boy in class holds the key – quite literally – to the huge secret her parents have been hiding all these years, it’s up to Dodie, her sister, the guy from school, and two guys she’s never met before, to take on the challenge of a lifetime. So now Dodie’s driving – unlicensed – to Sydney, and being chased by bad guys, the police, and one very handsome good guy.

Sunday 11th December 2011
Penguin Books Australia – BTL Live

According to Legend author Marie Lu, her second novel will share what’s going on in the world outside her dystopian US. Sea levels have risen, so does that put Australia underwater? Well, the country’s separated into East and West. Makes sense – sometimes in history, Western Australia was considering forming their own country.

Gabrielle Williams‘s The Reluctant Hallelujah features SPOILERS:

November 2011 Releases

Done with October 2011 Releases? Here are November 2011 Releases. To see future titles, check Reading Wishlist.

5 New Covers (DeStefano, Etienne, Lu, Meyer & Wiggins)

4 New Covers: Goddess with a Blade, Legend, Vampire Academy: The Ultimate Guide & The Space Between

2 Events, 1 News & 11 New Deals

On Thursday 24th February, Keri Arthur will be the star of Library Lovers’ Lunch at Belgrave Library in VIC. Starts at 12:30PM and costs $10, which includes lunch. You can book your place by phone on 9754 7266, or online. Hope to see you there!

Rachel Caine will come to Australia for the worldwide release of Bite Club (Morganville Vampires, Book 10) in May 2011. Stay tuned for more details.

Sara Creasy‘s sci-fi romance Song of Scarabaeus has been nominated for the 2010 Philip K. Dick Award. The sequel, Children of Scarabaeus, will be published 29th March 2011.

Rachel Cohn‘s 4-book sci-fi/fantasy series to Disney-Hyperion (World English). The first book, Beta, will be published in 2012, the rest following in 1-year intervals. Set in the bioengineered tropical paradise of Annex, which is staffed by soul-less clones. In Beta, 2 teenage girls – 1 human & the other her clone – are both stranded in the Annex & fall in love with the same guy.

Film rights for Jack El-Hai‘s The Lobotomist sold to Realm Pictures producer Brad Fischer, working with Leonardo DiCaprio’s production shingle, Appian Way. A biography of Walkter J. Freeman, the brilliant doctor who found infamy instead of medical glory after he introduced the lobotomy as a treatment for mental illness.

Kat Falls’s dystopian YA romance trilogy, The Fetch, to Scholastic Press (world rights, exc. UK/Aus/NZ). 1st book scheduled for 2012. Set in a near future in which American has been literally separated – a wall has been erected – into East & West after a disease ravages the eastern half of the country. When a 16-year-old girls is forced to travel east into the “savage zone” on a dangerous mission, she winds up meeting a mysterious boy.

Kathy Hepinstall‘s The Blue Asylum to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (NA). Madness, slavery & war are the backdrop to a love story set during the Civil War, at an insane asylum on remote Sanibel Island, as a plantation wife who has been committed by her husband falls in love with a fellow inmate & plots their escape.

Nancy Holzner‘s next 2 Deadtown novels will be released in 2011 & 2012 respectively.

UK rights for Tara Hudson‘s debut YA ghost romance Hereafter sold to HarperCollins Children’s for publication in July 2011.

Jay Kristoff‘s Stormdancer in a 3-book World English deal to Thomas Dunne Books, in association with Tor UK. A dystopian fantasy set in steampunk feudal Japan.

Screen rights for Marie Lu‘s futuristic Legend to CBS Films/Temple Hill. Takes place in a North America split into 2 warring nations, following a young Robin Hood & a teen prodigy hired to hunt him down who uncover an impossible truth about their totalitarian leaders. Lu has planned the series as a trilogy & will be involved in the scripting phase as an exec producer.

Gena Showalter has sold Alice in Zombieland, the 1st in a series. A teenage girl loses her family in a crash, only to wake up to a world of zombies & zombie-slaying, as well as a bad boy who could save or destroy her.

Cecily von Ziegesar’s Gossip Girl, Psycho Killer to Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (NA), scheduled for October 2011. Will riff on the original title that launched the popular YA line about a group of wealthy Upper East Side teenagers who attend a posh Manhattan private school. The book, which will be a mashup in the style of Pride, Prejudice & Zombies, is a serial killer version of the original Gossip Girl novel…or “Gossip Girl: Slasher Edition”. Blair Waldorf & Serena van der Woodsen become the “most fabulous, trendsetting serial killers” around.

Jill Williamson‘s YA novel Jason Farms to Zonderkids for publication in June 2012. A girl discovers an underground lab of clones – all of whom look suspiciously like a boy from school.

5 New Deal Announcements

Lauren Dane‘s next 2 contemporary erotic romances & next futuristic erotic romance in a 3-book deal to Leis Pederson at Berkley Heat (world rights), for publication beginning 2011.

Marie Lu‘s LEGEND in a 3-book deal to Jennifer Besser at G. P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers (world rights). A dystopian set in 2130 Los Angeles, submerged by flooding. A girl who is a prodigy being groomed for government work meets a boy who is 1 of the state’s most-wanted criminals. The main characters’ love story (she’s tasked with finding his brother’s killer) is loosely based on Les Misérables. Scheduled for December 2011.

Kelly Meding‘s WARDEN’S TRANCE in a 2-book deal to Jennifer Heddle at Pocket. The 1st book in a new series, in which adult children of the world’s slaughtered heroes suddenly regain their lost superpowers after a mysterious 15-year absence, only to face a fearful public, a leery government, & the villain responsible for the deaths of their parents.

Jackson Pearce‘s PURITY to Julie Scheina at Little, Brown Children’s (world rights), for publication in 2012. A 16-year-old struggles with her conservative father’s expectations & decides to live on the wild side by losing her virginity, pitched as written in the style of Saved! & Juno.

Joan Frances Turner‘s FRAIL, again to Ace. The lone human survivor of a small town must make her way across a land ravaged by the “feeding plague” & contend with dangerous humans & zombies alike.