Category: The Publishing Biz
Before the Hunt Goodreads Giveaway!
Hey, there, Goodreads folks! I am giving away 10 copies of Before the Hunt…along with copies...
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Stories I Never Told: The Legion of Super-Heroes
Over in my newsletter, I ran the never-before-seen Legion of Super-Heroes graphic novel proposal...
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Interview: Connected Conversation
“There is a route to salvation that goes right through the clipboard.” Want to know what...
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Creating Kid Lit — I’m Teaching!
So, this summer, through the auspices of the fine folks at The Writers Circle, I will be teaching...
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The Long Haul
Over on the Insecure Writer’s Support Group, I wrote about “The Long Haul:” A...
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Publishers Weekly Stars Time Will Tell!
I’ve published a couple dozen books at this point, but the anxiety of waiting for reviews...
Read MoreAnnouncing TIME WILL TELL
Courtesy of the fine folks over at PublishersMarketplace, here is the announcement for a new YA from yours truly: And no that’s not a typo — this book comes out in 2021. See you then!
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The I Hunt Killers Movie is Coming! (Maybe. In Korean.)
After literally years of hard work by my agents in the States and some folks on the Korean...
Read MoreJune ACLU Fundraiser: Her Decade
Here is June’s fundraiser short story for the ACLU: ALL PROCEEDS FROM THIS STORY GO TO THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION! A young man celebrates his eighteenth birthday with some drinking. Who could get hurt? Susan Ann...
Read MoreInterview: Huffington Post
Over on the Huffington Post, the Book Doctors interviewed me about Bang, pizza, and writing books that teens read. TBD: How did you learn to become a writer? BL: I sort of figured it out on my own, really. I knew at a very young...
Read MoreBang in the New York Times!
The New York Times Book Review has posted its review of Bang. Needless to say, I’m stoked: Lyga captures the heartbreak of Sebastian’s situation with sensitivity and compassion, exploring how a life can be unfairly defined...
Read MoreAmazon Picks Bang!
Hey, some more good news for Bang has come my way: the book has been included in the “Spring’s Best YA Fiction” list on Amazon’s Spring Reading Preview! Bang joins nineteen other titles, including The Hate U Give and Strange the...
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