No More Reviews

I know this is probably old news to you guys but I've decided to quit the book reviewing business. I just wanted to make it official with this post and change the name of my blog. I will still be posting on the blog like I have been within the last month or so. I am only posting book news and such on here now because I couldn't imagine giving up my blog. I really like to stay in the book news loop and I want you guys to know whatever I discover! I hope you guys will still stick around and read my blog but if you don't I completely understand.

Oh, and to publishers: if you still have me on your mailing list then you should probably remove me from it. Also, I will not be accepting anymore queries.

Thanks for hanging around as long as you have guys!

Ally Carter's New Cover

Ally posted on her blog the new cover for Uncommon Criminals, the sequel to Heist Society. I like this cover much more than I liked the cover for Heist Society. And now we know the book will have some jewel theft in it instead of art theft.

Here is a mini excerpt from the book!

It did not look like a clandestine rendezvous, not with the old woman and young man on the park bench and the teenage girl walking toward them, looking as if she'd just lost her very best friend.

Selena Gomez as Hanna Baker?

Universal Pictures has recently been signed over the rights to film 13 Reasons Why...jumping on the book adaptation bandwagon. I'm surprised this one hadn't been snatched up already so it is a really smart move on their part.

Selena Gomez has been chosen to play Hanna Baker. I'm not so sure how she'll do with this part. I've only seen her in her Disney show (guilty pleasure) and the acting in that isn't too difficult to do, so with a serious role like this it's got me wondering how she'll do. I think she is a little cutie and I hope she'll do well with this...for the sake of the book.

I'll keep you guys posted if I find out any more information about this movie.

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures and Strike Entertainment have acquired the Jay Asher novel 13 Reasons Why as a star vehicle for Selena Gomez. Strike's Eric Newman and Marc Abraham are producing with Mandy Teefey of July Moon Productions.

Jennifer O'Kieffe has been set to adapt the novel, about a shy California high school student who returns from school to find a box waiting on his doorstep. It contains seven cassette tapes recorded by Hanna Baker, the classmate he had a crush on. Before she committed suicide, Hannah sent the tapes to one classmate with instructions to pass them on to a list of students like a chain letter. The tapes explain to 13 people how they played a role in her death. The book was a bestseller when published in 2007 by the Penguin Books young adult imprint RazorBill. Strike's Kristel Laiblin is exec producer.

Gomez, who stars in the Disney Channel series The Wizards of Waverly Place, starred in the Tom Bezucha-directed Monte Carlo. She's repped by CAA. (Taken from Deadline.com)

Read the news here.

Lucy Christopher is a hint-dropping meanie.

If any of my fellow followers also follow Lucy Christopher, author of Stolen, on Facebook then you already know the news. All week Lucy has been dropping hints that has to do with some super awesome news about her book. 

On Tuesday she let this little hint slip:

Oh my! I have SUCH exciting STOLEN news .... almost ready to reveal! One little hint, it may be relating to four little letters - F. I. L. M.

This was enough to have my fangirl self squealing like a huge loser, but she's dropped some more exciting hints after that!

The same day she wrote this:

‎...hmmm.....want another hint?? ... my exciting news might have something to do with a certain actor who wants to be involved!

*Insert cartwheels here* Who could it be???

On Thursday she teased us all with this:

...next hint/tease....he said that playing the character of Ty would be 'every actor's dream'!

Hell yes. Someone who actually understands how awesome it would be to play Ty! I'm loving this guy already!

On Friday she posted that she would be going to South Africa on vacation and we wouldn't be able to hear the news of this hunky actor until she came back. It took some hounding on the fans' part but she left her final tease:

And the big film news...eek....you might have to wait til I get back, but a hint in the meantime .... He's blonde and gorgeous!

I am ready to fly to South Africa, hunt this woman down, and threaten to do terrible things to her until she tells me who this boy is. You think I'm kidding but I'm totally serious. Why would she toy us with this if she knew she couldn't tell us who it was until she came back?!

Suuuuper Excited!

One of my newer favorite authors, Carol Lynch Williams, has a book coming out next month and I'm so excited for it that I just had to tell somebody! She wrote The Chosen One and Glimpse for those of you who don't know of her yet and both are amazing books and you should read them asap! I wrote a review for Glimpse for those of you who are interested in looking at that.

Thirteen-year-old Lacey wakes to a beautiful summer morning excited to begin her new job at the library, just as her mother is supposed to start work at the grocery store. Lacey hopes that her mother's ghosts have finally been laid to rest; after all, she seems so much better these days, and they really do need the money. But as the hours tick by and memories come flooding back, a day full of hope spins terrifyingly out of control....

March 15, 2011

Honestly, I'm so happy right now that I can't even form a complete sentence in my mind!