Monday Fun Day! (3/4/2013 Edition)

Monday Fun Day! (3/4/2013 Edition)

Welcome to a brand new week, everybody.

- We're excited to announce that we added the Class of 2013 teen titles post to the Books for Teens section! You are officially encouraged to go take a look at our featured titles coming from St. Martin's Griffin this year.

- And speaking of encouragement, we highly recommend that you register for Library Journal's "Editors' Picks: Hot Summer Titles from HarperCollins, Macmillan, and Random House" webcast! Two of our amazing editors will be talking about forthcoming Macmillan titles. Details and registration link here.

- Read about Nancy Richler's THE IMPOSTER BRIDE (one of Talia's recent #FridayReads) and her experiences writing about a character who is forced to exchange her identity for someone else's. Article here.

- A number of librarian and in-house darlings including MR. PENUMBRA'S 24-HOUR BOOKSTORE, REVENGE, and THE HOUR OF PERIL have been recommended on Baltimore County Public Library's blog, Between the Covers!

- Tor Books is now on Pinterest! Live long and pin.

- And finally, the battle you've all been waiting for... PUPPY VS. CRAB ROBOT!

PUPPY ROBOT VIDEO

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Our #FridayReads: Women in Disguise

Our #FridayReads: Women in Disguise

Talia and I realized we're reading around the same theme this week: incognito women wreaking havoc on cities and men.

Talia's reading:

THE IMPOSTER BRIDE by Nancy Richler in which Lily, a mysterious mail-order bride, arrives in post-WWII Montreal only to disappear again leaving behind a new husband, a baby daughter, a diary, and a diamond.

Ali's reading:

BABAYAGA by Toby Barlow in which two ever-youthful witches, Zoya and Elga, arrive in 1950s Paris and encounter Will, a good-hearted Detroit ad man who might be working with the C.I.A., and Inspector Vidot who has the misfortune of being turned into a flea.

Today is also the last day to enter last week's #FridayReads sweepstakes for a signed copy of LOVE IS A CANOE! Details here.

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Monday Fun Day! (9/10/2012 Edition)

Monday Fun Day! (9/10/2012 Edition)

We're kicking off the week with some award-nominee announcements (yay!) and a few articles by some of our favorite science-fiction authors.

- The 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize jury has announced the 2012 longlist and we're excited to see the following titles on their list:

RU by Kim Thúy (Bloomsbury, 11/2012)

THE IMPOSTER BRIDE by Nancy Richler (St. Martin's Press, 2/2013)

Finalists will be announced in October. See the full longlist here!

- The Crime Writers' Association shortlisted GOOD PEOPLE (Minotaur Books, April 2013) by Ewart Hutton for the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award! The winner will be announced on October 18th. See the full shortlist here!

Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross spent nine years working together on what ultimately became THE RAPTURE OF THE NERDS and there's a great article on the Tor/Forge blog in which they interview one another. Read it now!

"So we began emailing the story back and forth, adding around 1000 words each time, building on each other's work (and, I think, trying to provoke each other by periodically adding preposterous elements—'here, write your way out of this!'). And at the end of the day we wound up with a novella, which Ellen Datlow bought for SciFi.com. And there matters rested in 2003 or 2004 or thereabouts, until..."

- John Scalzi was interviewed in Locus and you can read part of that interview online.

"I’ll be blunt about it: humor is one of the great taboos of science fiction. It’s not just an issue of being able to write it well. When I first started writing, I was told, 'You can’t sell a humorous science fiction novel.'"

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