I stole this cute picture of me, Richelle Mead, and Melissa de la Cruz from Richelle’s blog. (Even I look pretty good in it, and not totally delirious from heat and foot pain.) I love how Richelle and Mel match! This was from the Fire & Ice luncheon Penguin hosted to celebrate the fourth book in Richelle’s Bloodlines series (THE FIERY HEART! WHICH IS SO AMAZING I LOST A FULL DAY OF A FOUR-DAY MEXICAN VACATION TO DEVOUR IT!) and the first book in a new sci-fi/fantasy series Mel is writing with her husband, Mike, called FROZEN, which you will love because magic+dystopia+dragons! (Get it? Fire & Ice? Fiery Heart/Frozen? You get it.) I had the extreme pleasure of getting to moderate a conversation between Richelle and Mel, and it was delightful and fun. One of the highlights of my BEA experience this year. 
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I stole this cute picture of me, Richelle Mead, and Melissa de la Cruz from Richelle’s blog. (Even I look pretty good in it, and not totally delirious from heat and foot pain.) I love how Richelle and Mel match! This was from the Fire & Ice luncheon Penguin hosted to celebrate the fourth book in Richelle’s Bloodlines series (THE FIERY HEART! WHICH IS SO AMAZING I LOST A FULL DAY OF A FOUR-DAY MEXICAN VACATION TO DEVOUR IT!) and the first book in a new sci-fi/fantasy series Mel is writing with her husband, Mike, called FROZEN, which you will love because magic+dystopia+dragons! (Get it? Fire & Ice? Fiery Heart/Frozen? You get it.) I had the extreme pleasure of getting to moderate a conversation between Richelle and Mel, and it was delightful and fun. One of the highlights of my BEA experience this year. 

Clearly I need to go out of town more often, because when I do, great things arrive for me in the mail! Like, say, The Lord of Opium, which is the sequel (long-awaited) to Nancy Farmer’s critically acclaimed and award-winning (seriously: it won the National Book Award, and got both Printz and Newbery honors) novel The House of the Scorpion. And ALSO!!! My buddy Leila Sales’ third book, This Song Will Save Your Life! If you haven’t read Leila’s other two books, Mostly Good Girls and Past Perfect, you had better get on that immediately. They’re really well written, and also hilarious. I can’t wait to finish this interminable Dan Brown book (early verdict: the New York Times review was way too kind and reading it is mostly like, you know, if a Rick Steves guide could give you nightmares about overpopulation) so I can dig in!
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Clearly I need to go out of town more often, because when I do, great things arrive for me in the mail! Like, say, The Lord of Opium, which is the sequel (long-awaited) to Nancy Farmer’s critically acclaimed and award-winning (seriously: it won the National Book Award, and got both Printz and Newbery honors) novel The House of the Scorpion.

And ALSO!!! My buddy Leila Sales’ third book, This Song Will Save Your Life! If you haven’t read Leila’s other two books, Mostly Good Girls and Past Perfect, you had better get on that immediately. They’re really well written, and also hilarious. I can’t wait to finish this interminable Dan Brown book (early verdict: the New York Times review was way too kind and reading it is mostly like, you know, if a Rick Steves guide could give you nightmares about overpopulation) so I can dig in!

Happy Monday—Entertainment Weekly has the exclusive cover + excerpt reveal of my buddy Alex Bracken’s NEVER FADE, book 2 in her YA near-future thriller series that started with THE DARKEST MINDS. I was lucky enough to read an early draft of NEVER FADE and I can tell you it’s just as heart-pounding (and heart-wrenching) as THE DARKEST MINDS—actually, way more so. 
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Happy Monday—Entertainment Weekly has the exclusive cover + excerpt reveal of my buddy Alex Bracken’s NEVER FADE, book 2 in her YA near-future thriller series that started with THE DARKEST MINDS. I was lucky enough to read an early draft of NEVER FADE and I can tell you it’s just as heart-pounding (and heart-wrenching) as THE DARKEST MINDS—actually, way more so. 

entertainmentweekly: You’ve been waiting patiently for the next Outlander novel since 2009′s An Echo in the Bone — and you’ve still got several months to go before the eighth installment, Written in My Own Heart’s Blood, hits shelves. Thankfully, EW has some goodies for you: This cover, and some juicy scoop from Diana Gabaldon herself. I really think they could’ve done better than this cover. It doesn’t really match the other books in the series, for a start, but oh well. Still excited for the book/hoping it comes out in December as planned!
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You’ve been waiting patiently for the next Outlander novel since 2009′s An Echo in the Bone — and you’ve still got several months to go before the eighth installment, Written in My Own Heart’s Blood, hits shelves. Thankfully, EW has some goodies for you: This cover, and some juicy scoop from Diana Gabaldon herself.

I really think they could’ve done better than this cover. It doesn’t really match the other books in the series, for a start, but oh well. Still excited for the book/hoping it comes out in December as planned!

I literally just finished reading David Iserson’s Firecracker at my desk, which I would not normally do (read during the work day) except technically it is lunchtime and also technically reading Firecracker is part of my job and ALSO I couldn’t resist so whatever. Firecracker is exceptionally hilarious, like reading a novel-length version of Suri’s Burn Book. You should read it, but first you should watch this video of celebrities reading funny passages from the book (because I know you’d rather listen to a bunch of celebrities instead of me; I don’t blame you). 
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I literally just finished reading David Iserson’s Firecracker at my desk, which I would not normally do (read during the work day) except technically it is lunchtime and also technically reading Firecracker is part of my job and ALSO I couldn’t resist so whatever. Firecracker is exceptionally hilarious, like reading a novel-length version of Suri’s Burn Book. You should read it, but first you should watch this video of celebrities reading funny passages from the book (because I know you’d rather listen to a bunch of celebrities instead of me; I don’t blame you).