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Teri Lesesne has included Soul Enchi­lada in her Texas Library Asso­ci­a­tion pre­sen­ta­tion, “Best New YA Books.” It’s, erm, slide #55. But who’s count­ing? You’ll want to see the whole list. Speak­ing of TLA–a big howdy to every­body who’s lucky to be attend­ing. One of my Green­wil­low author­mates, Jody Feld­man, will be sign­ing in the Harper­Collins booth. …

Announc­ing FreeBookStimulusPlan.com Wanda Jew­ell has a prob­lem. After serv­ing nearly 20 years as Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of the South­ern Inde­pen­dent Book­sellers Alliance (SIBA) she is over­run with books. All kind of books; fin­ished copies and gal­leys, advance read­ing copies, advance reader edi­tions, paper­back and hard­bound, slip-covered and not, lim­ited edi­tions, signed and unsigned, per­son­al­ized and not. …

Green­wil­low Books has released a Soul Enchi­lada read­ing group guide that is per­fect for class­room dis­cus­sion, small read­ing groups, and library lit­er­a­ture cir­cles, as well as book clubs. I think Soul would make a ter­rific read for Mother-Daughter book clubs. This is one of my favorite ques­tions: “Bug says in chap­ter 6 that “poor folks get …

Join Us for the Launch of Soul Enchilada

Inter­ested check­ing out the buzz around Soul Enchi­lada, the novel that Kirkus, Horn Book, PW, and Book­list have raved about?*  Look Inside now:       *Sorry for the self-congratulatory post, but every­one keeps telling me that I cant be self-effacing about the book, just myself.

This week­end, I’m attend­ing Fly­con 2009, which is an inter­na­tional, round-the-clock sf/f con­ven­tion, com­plete with pan­els, a deal­ers’ room, and all that good stuff that hap­pens at cons. Fri­day at noon, which is East­ern time, I will serve on the panel, “When is Young Adult not really for Young Adults? Panel: sex and vio­lence are stan­dards …