ACHUKA: April 2006 Archives

Adult Princess

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Heads Up: Meg Cabot Has a New Calling—Not Suitable For Children!

Meg Cabot interviewed, prior to release of her new adult novel Queen Of Babble:

The author's upcoming Queen of Babble, due May 23 from William Morrow, revolves around post-graduation uncertainty, secrets and sex through the eyes of a young woman who usually has her foot in her mouth. It's her sixth adult novel, not counting the seven she has written under the name Patricia Cabot. As Meg Cabot, the novelist spoke recently with The Book Standard about the zamboni guy; screenwriting; her life as the basis for her fiction; and a shortcoming of contemporary writing: oral sex. "That's my calling," she says. "To put the blowjob back in literature."..

The author's upcoming Queen of Babble, due May 23 from William Morrow, revolves around post-graduation uncertainty, secrets and sex through the eyes of a young woman who usually has her foot in her mouth. It's her sixth adult novel, not counting the seven she has written under the name Patricia Cabot. As Meg Cabot, the novelist spoke recently with The Book Standard about the zamboni guy; screenwriting; her life as the basis for her fiction; and a shortcoming of contemporary writing: oral sex. "That's my calling," she says. "To put the blowjob back in literature."

What Book Can It Be?

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Teaching Ideas & Resources - TES - The Times Educational Supplement

“A bit like Holes but without the humour, the style or the story.”

Play the What Book Can It Be? game by taking a trip over to Geraldine Brennan's TES blog, where she has copied out some quotes overheard while she sat through discussions of the 45 novels nominated by regional library groups and individuals for the Carnegie Award.

Lois Lowry

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Buffalo News - Talking to Lois Lowry

An interview with LOis Lowry, author of The Giver

New Flower Fairies

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Publishing News - News Page

From Publishing News:

PENGUIN'S FREDERICK WARNE imprint will be publishing new Flower Fairy fiction titles under the series name Secret Stories this July. The original titles by Cicely Mary Barker were first published before the First World War. The four titles, Rose’s Special Secret, Zinnia’s Magical Adventure, Lavender’s Midsummer Mix-up, and Wild Cherry Makes a Wish, all of which cost ?3.99, are aimed at five-to-seven-year-olds, and written by Kay Woodward and Pippa LeQuesne, both of whom have written branded titles for Penguin before. ..

Marks On Bologna

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Publishing News - News Page

Graham Marks sums up this year's Bologna for Publishing News...

Notebook Girls

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calendarlive.com: BOOKS - In their own words

BY the end of "The Notebook Girls," the story of four teens at an elite New York high school, the main characters have had the kinds of experiences that make parents cringe — oral sex, the loss of virginity, binge-drinking, pot smoking. But Julia, Sophie, Courtney and Lindsey have also matured. They've mended fences with their parents and thought deeply about the world. They're on their way to college.

"Looking back on everything, I realized we all figured ourselves out in this mess," Courtney writes in a farewell note to her pals. "There's nothing we can't share."

The book is raw but also sentimental, the characters obsessed with making their way through high school's cruel pecking order. Parents are the objects of complaint, but they're on the periphery of the story. There's despair, and a happy ending. It reads, in other words, like the typical "young adult," or YA, novel, found in the teen sections of bookstores and mostly written by adults. But "The Notebook Girls," which will be published next week by Warner Books with a first printing of 40,000, is not a novel, it's a real-life account written by four actual teenagers... ...

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