CARRIE VAUGHN’S VOICES OF DRAGONS

Source: tor.com

Colorado author Carrie Vaughn is best known for the seven books starring Kitty Norville, a werewolf who has come out of the closet and hosts a Denver late-night talk show that invites discussions of all things supernatural. As the series has progressed, readers have learned that, in Vaughn’s alternate universe, vampires, shape-changers, witches and all types of monsters live among us normal folks.

Now, although she still enjoys spending time in Kitty’s world—the eighth installment, Kitty Goes to War comes out in June, and Kitty’s Big Trouble is due next year—Vaughn has let her imagination take her in other directions. Voices of Dragons, her first young adult novel, and the first published in hard cover, came out last month from Harper Teen, and Tor will release her first adult hard cover novel, Discord’s Apple in July.

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WAITRESS, CAN I HAVE A SIDE OF HUMOR WITH MY SCIENCE FICTION ROMANCE, PLEASE?

Source: thegalaxyexpress.net

The answer, usually, is “No ma’am, I’m afraid that’s not on the menu.” Bah!

What’s an intergalactic spy to do? I work hard. I work DAMN hard, and when I get back from a grueling mission, there’s nothing I like more than curling up with a book that makes me swoon, cry, and, dammit – LAUGH!

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Do you think scifi romances lack humour? I’ll be honest and say that I’m usually drawn to more action and epic books – or down-right funny ones, (ie: Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, or Red Dwarf) so if something is marketed as a romance, it’s not my first choice of story.
Have you read Carrie Vaughn’s work?

Join us in the forum to discuss!

OBS is proud & excited to announce that we will be adding a mature/adult book club to our repertoire.

BUT this book club will be a bit different than our other two (main and young adult). Due to content the mature book club discussion will be held on our forum. When you join our forum, please put in your age (if you are over 18) and you will see a Mature section only visible to age 18+ – that is where our mature book club will take place.

If you have participated in our other book clubs you will notice that we do a summary, characters involved, places, memorable quotes and discussion questions. For the mature/adult book club we will be doing it a bit differently. We will suggest you read chapters 1-X and come to the forum to discuss what you’ve read. We will come up with discussion questions and we need your participation. We’d like to see YOU help us come up with an A-Z list, memorable quotes, casting couch (our dream cast for the parts from the book), soundtrack etc….the mature/adult book club hinges on your participation.

JR Ward Black Dagger Brotherhood Lover Mine is the book for May. It’s released on April 27th, so hurry to get your copy.

From the NY Times:

The hot new novel in the Black Dagger Brotherhood by the #1 New York Times bestselling author

John Matthew has come a long way since he was found living among humans, his vampire nature unknown. Taken in by The Brotherhood, no one could guess what his true history was-or his true identity.

Xhex has long steeled herself against the attraction to John Matthew. Until fate intervenes and she discovers that love, like destiny, is inevitable.

If you’ve read any of the Black Dagger Brotherhood books, you know they’re HOT HOT HOT and a little more Steaming HOT!

We are extremely excited to begin the mature book club. Please join us (and the forum to participate) and please make suggestions for future mature book discussions.

We are very excited to present an author profile on Judith Graves. She is promoting her new book Under My Skin. Later this week, we will have an exclusive interview with her.

Author Name: Judith Graves

Books by the author:

Under My Skin (2010)

Link to author’s official site:

http://www.judithgraves.com/

A Short Bio and Review:

Judith Graves is a Canadian young adult author, now living in Alberta. Her debut book Under My Skin comes out on March 27th. She is passionate about encouraging teens to read and she is always willing to visit a library or school to chat about books.

“A firm believer that Canadian teen fiction can be sexy, action packed and snarky as hell – Judith writes paranormal stories with attitude.”

Synopsis for Under My Skin:

All her parents wanted was for Eryn to live a normal life…Redgrave had its share of monsters before Eryn moved to town. Mauled pets, missing children.
The Delacroix family is taking the blame, but Eryn knows the truth. Something stalks the night. Wade, the police chief’s son and Redgrave High’s resident hottie, warns her the Delacroix are dangerous. But then so is Eryn – in fact, she’s lethal.

But she can’t help falling for one of the Delacroix boys, dark, brooding – human Alec. And then it all goes bad.

A normal life? Now that’s the real fairytale.

Upcoming Events:

March 27th – Big par-tay in my home town of Cold Lake, AB to celebrate the launch of UMS! Beantrees Coffee House will be overrun with friends and family. Awesome tunage provided by “Shenanigans”

Under My Skin will be launching with the Class of 2K10. Congrats to the grads of the Class of 2K9! The class program is a collective of new young adult and middle grade fiction authors.

Under My Skin has an official release date of March 27, 2010! Watch the Wolfy Chicks blog for ARC giveaways!

You can pre-order Under My Skin at Barnes & Noble, in store or online.

Please check back, we will be posting an exclusive interview with Judith Graves on Friday March 26th.

Source: variety

After vying with two other studios, Fox 2000 has acquired the film rights for British author Catherine Fisher’s young-adult novel “Incarceron.” John Palermo will produce via Seed Productions, Palermo and Hugh Jackman’s Fox-based company. Incarceron was published just three weeks ago in the U.S., and immediately inserted itself in a spot on the New York Times children’s bestsellers list.

Novel synopsis:

Incarceron is a prison so vast that it contains not only cells, but also metal forests, dilapidated cities, and vast wilderness. Finn, a seventeen-year-old prisoner, has no memory of his childhood and is sure that he came from Outside Incarceron. Very few prisoners believe that there is an Outside, however, which makes escape seems impossible.

And then Finn finds a crystal key that allows him to communicate with a girl named Claudia. She claims to live Outside- she is the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, and doomed to an arranged marriage. Finn is determined to escape the prison, and Claudia believes she can help him. But they don’t realize that there is more to Incarceron than meets the eye. Escape will take their greatest courage and cost more than they know.

Have you read Incarceron? Are you a fan of Catherine Fisher’s work?

via Book Trade: Two-Book World Rights Deal For YA Fantasy Novelist
Puffin are very excited to announce that we have acquired two fantasy novels in a new series entitled Wereworld by British author and artist Curtis Jobling. Shannon Park, Executive Editor at Puffin secured world rights for the series from the John Jarrold Literary Agency, for an undisclosed five-figure sum. The Wereworld novels are due for publication in 2011 and 2012 respectively.

WEREWORLD follows the story of fifteen-year-old Drew, a shepherd’s son, as he comes of age and discovers he’s the last of the long line of Werewolves, and rightful (yet reluctant) ruler of the land of Lyssia, where lycanthrope ‘Werelords’ reign. Before long he’s hurtling headlong into an epic journey of fantasy and horror, from one deadly encounter to the next, meeting exotic Werelords at every turn as he’s drawn inexorably towards his destiny.

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Cover Exclusive: FULL STEAM AHEAD by Nathalie Gray

by Heather Massey at The Galaxy Express
Regarding the cover for Nathalie Gray’s forthcoming erotic steampunk romance novel, FULL STEAM AHEAD, nothing can express my reaction better than OMG!* Feast your eyes on this striking cover, an exclusive made possible for you by the combined generosity of the author and Red Sage Managing Editor Theresa Stevens.

This cover is a super science fiction romance cover for a number of reasons. First, the airship is eye-catching and prominent. Sleek. It’s above the clouds so I’m anticipating the story will promise loads of adventure and airship battles. There’s not just one, either—two of them grace the cover. Those convey the science fictional aspects with aplomb. But what about the romance?

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Over Fifteen Pounds of Book!!–Knowing Darkness: Artists Inspired by Stephen King

by Jeff VanderMeer at Omnivoracious
Some books make you feel like Captain Ahab pursuing the white whale. They come smashing through the door, so heavy that because it’s a book and you’ve forgotten books can be huge, you almost hurt yourself lugging it through the house to the livingroom. Knowing Darkness: Artists Inspired by Stephen King is one of those books. It’s the brainchild of Centipede Press and its founder Jerad Walters, who has established a reputation for doing the impossible, with such juggernauts as A Lovecraft Retrospective: Artists Inspired by Lovecraft (which my wife and I covered for io9 in this feature).

Covering King’s entire career, this oversized monster features over 500 illustrations in almost every artistic medium imaginable, including 30 double-page foldouts. Not only have obscure reprints been included, but the 11 x 15 book also features commissioned works that will never appear anywhere else.

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Source: sfscope

Great news for young adult fans of science fiction. Renovation, the 2011 World Science Fiction Convention, has announced that it will be the first WorldCon to offer a reduced membership rate for young adults, “enabling many more young people to participate in this unique event.”

Attending membership rates for WorldCons have usually been discounted for children under 17, but Renovation Chair Patty Wells said “I strongly believe that we need to do more to attract young people, especially when so many of them are discovering the genre through writers such as J.K. Rowling and Stephenie Meyer. Our YA rate will allow these new fans to be part of the WorldCon experience: meeting and listening to writers; exploring our art show, dealers’ room, and exhibits; and attending the Hugo Award Ceremony, Masquerade, and other special events.”

Read more about YA membership rates for WorldCon here…

If your interested in attending you can visit the Revonation, the World Science Convention site.

Will you be attending the WorldCon? If you do, please come back to the OBS forum and tell us all about it.