Next Tuesday at 8:30PM if you’re on the East Coast of the USA, or 3:30PM if you’re on the West Coast, or 12:30PM Wednesday if you’re in Sydney, or 2:30AM if you’re in Madrid, I’ll be doing the YA Author Cafe chat with Holly Black and Cassandra Claire. Our host will be the lovely Marlene Perez.
For those if you who don’t know—and I can’t imagine there are many of you—Holly Black is the author of the wonderful YA urban fantasies, Tithe and Valiant, not to mention the mega-selling Spiderwick books. Valiant, is one of the best reworkings of Beauty and the Beast I’ve ever read. It only came out last year yet I’ve already read it twice. If you haven’t read it then you really, really, really must.
And Cassandra Claire is the queen of Harry Potter fandom and the author of the very very funny Lord of the Rings Secret Diaries that went zooming around the internet a while back:“Still not king . . . “. She’s also just written a really fabby original YA novel, City of Bones, which, sad for you, doesn’t come out from Simon and Schuster until March 2007. Trust me, you have to read it! And when you do you’ll be screaming for the sequel. Not because it doesn’t standalone—it does—but because you’ll want more more more!
Anyways, to follow our chat and join in head here on Tuesday/Wednesday (don’t you all love timezones?).
wowy, speaking of sequels:P, sry if uve mentioned it anywhere else in the site and my lazy eyes have missed it, but are u gonna rite one for Magic or Madness? plz? cuz i really really really wanna noe wat happens afterwards. *virtual puppy dog eyes*
No need for puppy dog eyes. There is indeed a sequel, Magic Lessons. It comes out in the US of A in March. Just two months away! Right now I’m finishing up the third in the trilogy, which’ll be out in March 2007.
Thanks for the tip about the ya author cafe. Haven’t ever listened in, but sounds interesting.
Should be fun. Holly and Cassie are smart, talented, witty and a lot of fun.