Unison Spark en Español
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Unison Spark is out today in Spain! Thanks to Molino for doing such an excellent job.
Check it out on amazon.es.
Unison Spark – UK Edition
Unison Spark will be published (as Unison 3.0) in the United Kingdom on April 1, the same day that Game of Thrones season 2 begins and people in offices and schools around the world prepare for an onslaught of ill-conceived pranks.
As you can see, Catnip Publishing did an awesome job with the cover. Readers across the pond can pre-order now from Amazon UK!
NYC Teen Author Festival 2012 is almost here!
I’m psyched to be participating in a few events around the city, including one in Queens, which has been my home borough for almost a decade. And of course I’ll be checking out some of the other amazing panels from the audience, too. There’s a LOT going on – I’ve posted the schedule below, and you can head over to facebook for the full list in all its epic grandeur.
Hope to see you there!
Find me and UNISON SPARK at these events:
Wednesday, March 28 – Panel discussion at the NY Public Library, Main Branch, 6-8pm (Things Fall Apart: World Building and World Destroying in YA)
Thursday, March 29 – NYC Big Read – Long Island City branch of the Queens Public Library (37-44 21 Street, LIC)
Sunday, April 1 – Mega-signing at Books of Wonder, 2:30-3:15
And check out the rest of the awesomeness:
Monday, March 26 (Mulberry Street Branch of the NYPL, 10 Jersey Street b/w Mulberry and Lafayette, 6-8):
Plotting Dangerously: Doing What it Takes to Find the Story
Coe Booth
Jen Calonita
Paul Griffin
Deborah Heiligman
Melissa Kantor
Morgan Matson
Kieran Scott
Melissa Walker
moderator: David Levithan
Tuesday, March 27 (McNally Jackson Bookstore, 52 Prince Street, 7-8:30):
The Mutual Admiration Society Reading
Madeleine George
Ellen Hopkins
David Levithan
Jennifer Smith
John Corey Whaley
Wednesday. March 28 (42nd St NYPL, Berger Forum, 6-8):
Things Fall Apart: World Building and World Destroying in YA
Anna Carey
Sarah Beth Durst
Anne Heltzel
Jeff Hirsch
Andy Marino
Lauren McLaughlin
Lissa Price
Jon Skovron
moderator: Chris Shoemaker
Thursday, March 29:
The NYC Big Read
NOTE: SPECIFIC MANHATTAN LIBRARY LOCATIONS TO COME
Queens – Long Island City branch of the Queens Public Library (37-44 21 StreetLong Island City, NY 11101)
Tara Altebrando
Brent Crawford
Gina Damico
Jeff Hirsch
Andy Marino
Jon Skovron
Alecia Whitaker
Manhattan – Locations to come
Jen Calonita
Anna Carey
Matthew Cody
Jocelyn Davies
Melissa De La Cruz
Hilary Graham
Christopher Grant
Leanna Renee Hieber
Anne Heltzel
Gwendolyn Heasley
PG Kain
Kody Keplinger
Lauren McLaughlin
Sarah Mlynowski
Eugene Myers
Micol Ostow
Stephanie Perkins
Jessica Rotherberg
Lena Roy
Erin Saldin
Leila Sales
Eliot Schrefer
Samantha Schutz
Mark Shulman
Arlaina Tibensky
Brooklyn – Brooklyn Public Library, central branch, Grand Army Plaza
Kate Ellison
Gayle Forman
Melissa Kantor
Barry Lyga
Michael Northrop
Matthue Roth
Victoria Schwab
Melissa Walker
Bronx — Bronx Library Center – 310 East Kingsbridge Road, Bronx
Elizabeth Eulberg
Paul Griffin
Alissa Grosso
David Levithan
Sarah Darer Littman
Kieran Scott
John Corey Whaley
Friday March 30, Symposium (42nd Street NYPL, 2-6)
2:00 – Introduction
2:10-3:00: Being Friends With Boys
Elizabeth Eulberg
Jenny Han
Terra Elan McVoy
Stephanie Perkins
moderator: Sarah Mlynowski
3:00-3:50: The Writer as Time Traveler: Writing the Past While Sitting in the Present
Judy Blundell
Matthew Cody
Jennifer Donnelly
Leanna Renee Hieber
Suzanne Weyn
moderator: David Levithan
3:50-4:40: No Ordinary Love: How to Create a Satisfying Love Story and a Satisfying Supernatural World at the Same Time
Andrea Cremer
Melissa de la Cruz
Jeri Smith-Ready
Victoria Schwab
Margaret Stohl
moderator: Barry Lyga
4:40-5:30: New Voices Spotlight
Emily Danforth
Kate Ellison
Lucas Klauss
Carley Moore
Aleica Whittaker
Friday March 30, Barnes & Noble Reader’s Theater/Signing (Union Square B&N, 33 E 17th St, 7-8:30)
Andrea Cremer
Emily Danforth
Lucas Klauss
Stephanie Perkins
Siobhan Vivian
John Corey Whaley
moderator: David Levithan
Saturday March 31, Symposium (42nd Street NYPL, 1-5)
1:00 – Introduction
1:10-2:00 – Rising to the Challenge: YA Characters Facing Down What Life Throws Them
Tara Altebrando
Matt Blackstone
Susane Colasanti
Kody Keplinger
Siobhan Vivian
K.M. Walton
moderator: David Levithan
2:00-2:50 — Killer Instincts: Death, Murder, and the YA Novel
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Gina Damico
Kim Harrington
Barry Lyga
moderator: Marie Rutkoski
2:50-4:00 — Moments of Truth: Characters at a Crossroads
Natasha Friend
Margie Gelbwasser
Jennifer Hubbard
Stewart Lewis
Sarah Darer Littman
Jess Rothenberg
Daisy Whitney
moderator: E. Lockhart
4:00-5:00 – Looking Forward to Fall
David Levithan
Marie Rutkoski
Eliot Schrefer
…and more authors reading from their upcoming books
Sunday April 1: Our No-Foolin’ Mega-Signing at Books of Wonder (Books of Wonder, 1-4)
Unison Spark is out RIGHT NOW!
Axl Rose got so excited about release day that he jumped off an oil tanker.
A Letter From Brian Jacques
Along with The Lord of the Rings, Brian Jacques’ Redwall books were my introduction to fantasy literature. At the tail end of elementary school, I sent him a fan letter. His incredibly gracious reply stayed pinned to my bulletin board for a long time. Thanks to the comprehensive archives in the Marino family basement and the document-hunting skills of my parents, I’ve still got a copy.
Brian Jacques died earlier this year, so I thought I’d pay tribute by sharing his kind words to a kid who wanted to be a writer himself someday.
Uncrashable Dakota
I’m very happy to announce that Holt will be publishing my second novel, UNCRASHABLE DAKOTA. Once again, I’ll be working with the incomparable Noa Wheeler.
Here’s the deal:
September 12, 2011
Andy Marino’s UNCRASHABLE DAKOTA, pitched as “Die Hard” on a steampunk airship, set in an alternate 1914 in which the teen heir of the Dakota aeronautical empire has to foil a hijacking of the flagship’s first trans-Atlantic flight and discovers dark secrets about his family’s history that could ignite the entire world if revealed, again to Noa Wheeler at Holt Children’s, by Elana Roth at Johnson Literary (World English).
Rights: elana@johnsonlitagency.com
It didn’t make the Publishers Marketplace summary, but the novel also features intrigue rooted in the Civil War. And some pretty weird bugs. And moonshine.
I’m incredibly grateful to my agent, Elana Roth, for putting it all together for a second time.
Teen Author Reading Night — (Fall Schedule)
Want to see a bunch of YA authors read from their newest books? Check out one (or all) of the upcoming Teen Author Reading Nights at the Jefferson Market Branch of the New York Public Library (corner of 6th Avenue & 10th Street). I’ll be reading from Unison Spark on December 7th.
If you want to see what it’s all about, I highly recommend dropping by on September 7th to see Jeff Hirsch read from his awesome debut, The Eleventh Plague.
Here’s the full schedule for September – December 2011. Each reading starts at 6pm and ends at 7:30.
September 7
Coe Booth, Bronxwood
Sarah Beth Durst, Drink, Slay, Love
Paul Griffin, Stay With Me
Jeff Hirsch, The Eleventh Plague
David Levithan and Jonathan Farmer, Every You, Every Me
Jon Skovron, Misfit
Adrienne Vrettos, Burnout
October 5
Jocelyn Davies, A Beautiful Dark
Anna Godbersen, Beautiful Days
Anne Heltzel, Circle Nine
Michelle Hodkin, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
Kody Keplinger, Shut Out
Micol Ostow, What Would My Cell Phone Do?
Leila Sales, Past Perfect
Cecily von Ziegesar, Gossip Girl Psycho Killer
November 2
Nora Raleigh Baskin, The Summer Before Boys
Donna Freitas, The Survival Kit
Leanna Renee Hieber, Darker Still
Stewart Lewis, You Have Seven Messages
Barry Lyga, Mangaman
Lauren McLaughlin, Scored
Lynn Weingarten, The Secret Sisterhood of Heartbreakers
December 7
Cecil Castellucci, First Day on Earth
Margie Gelbwasser, Inconvenient
Andy Marino, Unison Spark
Julia Mayer, Face in the Mirror
Marie Rutkoski, The Jewel of the Kalderash
Delia Sherman, The Freedom Maze
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