Justine Larbalestier

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Magic or Madness in Texas

This just in: the very first piece of documentary evidence of the existence of my book in the real world. Woo hoo! This is a photo by Stephanie Leary taken with her phone (I love the world we live in, don't you?) of the new teen fiction shelf at Barnes & Noble in College Station, Texas. Not bad placement, eh? I'm very happy about the eccentric alphabetisation which has me next to one of the hugely-selling Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants books and Boy 2 Girl which is all the buzz ...
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Posted by Justine at 1:26, March 24th, 2005 under Magic or Madness trilogy, Musings, New York City/USA | Comments Off

Geraldine McCaughrean: Genius Rewarded

I've just heard that Geraldine McCaughrean has won the contest to write the sequel to J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan. This is astonishingly good news because Geraldine McCaughrean is a far better writer than J. M. Barrie ever was. McCaughrean is a genius. Every sentence she writes is pure gold. Here's hoping that winning the contest and writing the wonderful book that she will, of course, write, is going to bring her the fame and riches she deserves. And here's hoping (double plus a billion) that her entire backlist ...
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Posted by Justine at 1:29, March 19th, 2005 under Musings, Reading, Young Adult literature | Comments Off

First Novel Delirium

For the last few months there's been just one topic of conversation on John Scalzi's blog: the publication of his first novel, Old Man's War. He's asked his readers to send in photos of it in the wild, he's posted and discussed every single review that's appeared, made his blog over so it looks just like the book (how tacky is that?), theorised about every slight movement the book has made up and down Amazon.com's rankings. It's been all Old ...
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Posted by Justine at 1:30, March 4th, 2005 under Magic or Madness trilogy, Musings, Praising, Publishing business, Writing life | Comments Off

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