Whew!
I find it strange that the zombie book craze hit the Young Adult corner of the publishing world, when clearly the most zombified population in the world is NEW MOTHERS. I know I haven’t posted in a great long while, but I also haven’t slept in a great long while. But now my son is three months old and I’m starting to return to the land of the living.
That doesn’t mean this is going to be a coherent blog post, though. Just saying.
So what’s new? First of all, I’m reading National Book Award winner What I Saw and How I Lied, by Judy Blundell. It’s awesome, and its 1945-50s flair makes me want to go around saying “jeepers!”
Also, I’m interested in the recent debate about the new Kindle, which has a read-aloud function. Some authors think this is Bad News, because there are often separate rights for “real” books and audiobooks. So the fear is that a read-aloud function could cut into author profits from audiobooks. Me, I tend to agree with Neil Gaiman on this issue.
Speaking Mr. Gaiman, congratulations to him for winning the Cybils award and, of course, the Newbery! Huzzah as well for all the finalists/Honors as well!
Further continuing down the path of randomness, I’m thrilled with how Battlestar Galactica is shaping up. Those last two episodes about the attempted coup were perfect—Kara and Lee back in fighting shape, Baltar being absolutely flawed, and yet funny and ironic (to Laura Roslin: “I suppose neither of us were particularly wise in our choice of political aides de camp” (or something like that)). I love that, with him, you can never quite tell when he’s being utterly selfish or doing what’s right—and how, so often, the two turn out to be not so incompatible.
And the final Cylon? I’m starting to agree with my pal Mordicai that it may be Doc Cottle. In any event, there’s no way it’s Ellen Tigh.
Well, I ought to set aside the BSG-ness, because I could ramble on forever about that. Instead, I’ll close by mentioning that I’m working on a new project! It’s lots of fun. It’s not part of the Kronos Chronicles—I’ve set aside Book 3 for the moment. The new book is for an older crowd—more YA than middle grade.
Uh-oh! Eliot’s awake, and I must go!
Hooray for writing a YA book. I’m trying to be a little better about skewing my reading younger sometimes (and I realized that that’s why I’d never heard of “Savvy” when you mentioned it) but middle grade really doesn’t circulate from my YA section, it does better in the children’s room.
There’s lots of great stuff in middle grade. Like The Magic Thief—adorable!
Btw, there’s some kind of Teen Lit-Library Festival planning afoot for the NYC area (or maybe you already know)….
I made a post that has some interesting discussion—if you want you can post anonymously or via OpenID or maybe you just want to read:
http://mordicai.livejournal.com/1645752.html