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Behind a Bestseller: A Look Into the Inner Workings of the Inheritance Cycle
When Christopher Paolini began writing the Inheritance Cycle series, he was just 15 years old. A lot has changed in the 13 years since. Next week Inheritance, the fourth and final book in the series, will be released to much fanfare. What does it actually take to get the last book in a huge bestselling series off the ground? Here we take a look.
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HC Mines Spooky Time of Year to Promote New Carman Novel
Seven teenagers with crippling secrets and phobias travel to an eerie, mysterious place in hopes of finding a cure in Dark Eden, a novel and multimedia app by Patrick Carman.
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It's a Wrap, for Wimpy Kid 6
You can't miss it. What looks like a 46-foot-long, 12-foot-high mural, on West 112th Street in New York City is actually a ginormous sticker announcing publication of the next Diary of a Wimpy Kid installment, Cabin Fever, due on November 15.
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Houghton Book Spotlights Macy’s Parade Puppeteer
Kids watching this year's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, either from the streets of Manhattan or on television, will view the spectacle with a new eye if they've had the chance to read Melissa Sweet's Balloons over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade.
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Akashic to Publish Real Kids' Book Based on 'Go the F*** to Sleep' Parody
It may have been a “fluke hit,” but Akashic Books publisher Johnny Temple says Adam Mansbach and Ricardo Cortes’ bestselling kids' book parody, Go the F**k to Sleep, has spent six months on the bestseller lists and has more than 500,000 copies in print.
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Day-Long Online Event Introduces HarperCollins Novel
HarperCollins proclaimed Saturday, October 22 "Shatterday" in honor of Shatter Me, a dystopian romance that launches a trilogy by newcomer Tahereh Mafi.
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In Brief: October 27
This week, the Magic School Bus visits New York City; Hans Wilhelm receives a lifetime achievement award for literature from the city of Westport, Conn.; HarperCollins wraps up its third Dark Days tour; an auction raises $1,500 for an Adirondack library; and author events with Jeanne Walker Harvey, Gary Rubinstein, and Mark Pett.
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Q & A with Barry Denenberg
As he did in Lincoln Shot!, Barry Denenberg meshes fact and fiction to tell the story of the building of the Titanic and its doomed maiden voyage, in Titanic Sinks! (Viking).
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'Calvin Can't Fly' Takes Off with Educators
Though she’s an advertising industry veteran, children’s author Jennifer Berne "prefers to be home writing" rather than touring to promote that writing. It was a surprise, then, to discover that her picture book Calvin Can’t Fly: The Story of a Bookworm Birdie made its way to a Texas county school superintendent, who read it out loud to 6,000 adults.
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Steve Jobs Bio for Kids Due in February
Macmillan’s Feiwel and Friends will issue what publisher Jean Feiwel describes as "truly an instant book" on February 14, when it releases Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different by Karen Blumenthal.
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The Case of 'The Graveyard Book'
It is only exaggerating a little to say that many authors would kill to see the shiny gold Newbery medallion on the cover of one of their books. Which is why it is surprising that the latest edition of Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book not only forgoes the medal, but the claim as well: his 2009 Newbery win isn't mentioned on the jacket – back or front at all.
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Spokes-Pumpkin Spookley Speaks Up Against Bullying
Spookley, the star of The Legend of Spookley the Square Pumpkin by Joe Troiano, illustrated by Susan Banta, is the new official spokes-pumpkin for National Bullying Prevention Month.
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In Brief: October 20
This week, Al Roker picks War Horse for his book club; John Green reveals the cover of The Fault in Our Stars and announces a fan contest; and author events with Becca Fitzpatrick, Markus Zusak, Matthew Van Fleet, and Sophie Flack.
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Rick Riordan Wraps Up Whirlwind 'Olympian Week Tour'
October has been a busy month for Rick Riordan. After greeting fans at two well-attended outdoor pre-publication events — one in New York City and one in Los Angeles — the author celebrated the release of The Son of Neptune, the second installment of his Heroes of Olympus series, with a seven-day tour to seven cities.
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Chronicle Biography Offers New Take on Dan Eldon's Life
Artist, photographer, and humanitarian activist Dan Eldon was a photojournalist covering the civil war and famine in Somalia in 1993 when he was killed by a mob of protesters—at the age of 22. In 1997, Chronicle published The Journey Is the Destination: The Journals of Dan Eldon, a book resonated deeply with Jennifer New, whose Dan Eldon: Safari as a Way of Life for teens is due from Chronicle this month.
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HMH Treasury Collects Backlist Gems
Curious George, Lyle the Crocodile, Martha the Dog, Tacky the Penguin, and Mike Mulligan are among the iconic children’s book characters that make return appearances in The Family Storybook Treasury: Tales of Laughter, Curiosity, and Fun, which HMH Books is publishing on October 24.
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First Second Comics Anthology Updates Classic Nursery Rhymes
A wide range of cartoonists from Dave Roman to Mike Mignola have been recruited to update classic nursery rhymes in First Second’s Nursery Rhyme Comics: 50 Timeless Rhymes from 50 Celebrated Cartoonists, an anthology edited by Chris Duffy that will be published this month.
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Kids’ Comics: Small but Mighty at NYCC 2011
This year's New York Comic-Con may have been the biggest ever, but children's comics were a smaller presence. There were no industry panels on children's comics, as there have been in previous years, and only a handful of panels and new-product announcements.
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Michael Grant’s 'BZRK' Goes Transmedia
"What if you're writing a book and the audience already had a relationship with the content when the book came out," said Alex LeMay, CEO of the Shadow Gang, a firm that creates on- and offline social communities. LeMay and Shadow Gang have partnered with YA novelist Michael Grant to create an immersive transmedia project called GoBZRK, around Grant's next novel that does just that.
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In Brief: October 13
This week, new books from celebrity authors Hilary Duff and Taye Diggs; Marc Brown shows off his Arthur apps; and author events with Mike Mullin, Gina Otto, and Stephanie S. Sanders.
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