EXO Will Be Released January 2017
My next novel has a title! EXO will be released by Scholastic on January 31, 2017. Cover reveal to come soon. In the meantime, you can add it on Goodreads.
Win the Zeroboxer Audiobook
It’s my birthday today, so I’m giving away a present to my email newsletter subscribers: a CD copy of the Zeroboxer audiobook! Enter below:
Andre Norton Award Nomination
The 2015 Nebula Awards have been announced, and Zeroboxer is a nominee for the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy! The Nebulas and the Norton are voted on by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, so I’m incredibly honored to have been recognized by peers in my field, and to be included in this year’s incredible slate of nominees.
Awards will be presented at the Nebula Conference in Chicago, May 12-15.
CCBC Choices 2016
Zeroboxer has been listed in CCBC Choices 2016, the annual best-of list compiled by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center.
ALA Quick Picks For Reluctant Readers
Zeroboxer is on the Young Adult Library Services Association’s 2016 list of Top Ten Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers.
I’m particularly pleased by this because I’d never heard the term “reluctant reader” before this year, when I started seeing it used a lot in trade reviews of Zeroboxer. The Quick Picks list suggests books that, according to the American Library Association, “teens, ages 12-18, will pick up on their own and read for pleasure; it is geared to the teenager who, for whatever reason, does not like to read.”
I became an author wanting in particular to write fast-paced, action-packed, thought-provoking books that inspire teens to read when they could be doing any number of things including watching YouTube videos or playing video games. Reading was so important to me when I was young. Authors are doing vital work when we make young people realize that reading is fun and turn them into readers for life.
So yeah, this one’s important to me.