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Galley Talk: 'Colin Fischer'
Julie Wilson, a bookseller at The Bookworm in Omaha, shares her enthusiasm for Colin Fischer by Ashley Edward Miller and Zach Stentz, which Razorbill will release in November.
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Author Launches Grassroots Campaign to Promote New Novel
Author Gretchen McNeil, a dedicated tweeter and blogger, has taken to the Internet to promote her new novel, Ten, due September 18 from Balzer + Bray. McNeil is mobilizing a battalion of fans to spread the word about her novel via a grassroots, incentive-based campaign she’s named the Army of Ten.
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Barnes & Noble Debuts My Little Pony Collection for Nook
Hasbro and Barnes & Noble have launched 11 My Little Pony e-book editions exclusively for the Nook Tablet and Nook Color. The titles, marking the first time any Hasbro properties have been available for the Nook platform.
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In Brief: August 23
In brief this week: a trio of events in the New York City area, featuring NBA All-Star Amar’e Stoudemire and two debut YA authors, Kristen-Paige Madonia and Patty Blount.
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A Golden Anniversary for Clifford the Big Red Dog
Next February, Clifford the Big Red Dog turns 50 years old, and Scholastic's plans to commemorate this milestone are already underway. Beginning September 1, the publisher kicks off a year-long celebration with the release of Norman Bridwell's Clifford Collection, a hardcover treasury of six Clifford stories originally published between 1963-1977.
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Applewood Brings Back a Christmas Classic – Again
It's been more than a decade since Applewood Books published Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer in a facsimile edition of the original, written by Montgomery Ward copywriter Robert L. May and illustrated by Denver Gillen.
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Random House to Publish Enhanced 'Inheritance' E-Book
Knopf Books for Young Readers will release an enhanced e-book version of Christopher Paolini's Inheritance, the fourth and final installment in his Inheritance Cycle, on October 23.
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Olympic Soccer Star Alex Morgan to Pen Middle-Grade Series
Kristin Ostby, editor at Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, has signed soccer star Alex Morgan, a member of the U.S. Women’s Olympic gold medal winning-team, to write a middle-grade series called the Kicks.
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Roger Duvoisin's Granddaughter Pens Debut Picture Book
Each season, plenty of authors have their first book published. But not many of them have a Caldecott Medalist for a grandfather.
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Little, Brown to Publish YA Novel from Chris Colfer
Having found success earlier this year with his middle-grade novel The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell, actor turned author Chris Colfer, best known for his role as Kurt Hummel on Glee, will publish his first book for teens later this year. Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal will be released by Little, Brown on November 20, ahead of the film on which the book is based.
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A Fantasy Author Debuts – But First, the Prequels
It's publication week for Sarah J. Maas's first novel, Throne of Glass, but Bloomsbury has been publishing the author's work all year, thanks to an innovative marketing scheme: beginning in January, four e-novella prequels were released every other month in the lead-up to the novel's August 7 publication date.
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And Chewie Makes Three: Light Speed Ahead for Origami Yoda
The Force is strong with this one. On Tuesday, August 7, the third book in Tom Angleberger’s middle-grade Origami Yoda series, The Secret of the Fortune Wookiee (Abrams/Amulet), went on sale with a 500,000-copy first printing, and the author marked the occasion with a trio of events in the New York City area, before heading out on tour.
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After Seven Decades, the 'Boxcar Children' Get a Prequel
Seventy years after its debut, the Boxcar Children series is finally getting a prequel – and by a Newbery Medalist to boot. In The Boxcar Children Beginning: The Aldens of Fair Meadow Farm, Patricia MacLachlan, author of Sarah Plain and Tall, provides what she calls "the beginning before the beginning" of Gertrude Chandler Warner's popular series.
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'Find Waldo Local' Promotion Ends on High Note
"Wow! We cannot tell you what an impact our Where's Waldo? summer event is having on our community," says Victoria Irwin, events coordinator at Eagle Harbor Book Company in Bainbridge Island, Wash. She's not alone. Nationwide, 250 booksellers participated in July's month-long Find Waldo Local promotion,
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James Patterson Wraps Up Maximum Ride, Launches Two Series
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers will soon add a trio of new James Patterson titles to its list – one a series finale and two marking series debuts.
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Two Publishers, One Series: The Latest Tale of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea
In a venture that all involved agree is unusual, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Simon & Schuster have joined forces to reissue Ursula K. Le Guin's seminal six-book fantasy series set in the realm of Earthsea.
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