Tag Archives: YA

Delacorte Press Acquires Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson

Delacorte Press acquires the first YA series from Brandon Sanderson. The first novel in the planned trilogy, Steelheart, is scheduled for publication in Fall 2013... Read more [...]

Two New York City Book Launch Parties: Tonight and Tomorrow

Alethea Kontis launches her debut YA fairy tale novel, Enchanted tonight, at an open party. Tomorrow, it's Amy Plum's launch of Until I Die... Read more [...]

Most Popular and Updated Articles: 15-21 April 2012

The most popular SFScope articles during the last week, as well as those which were updated... Read more [...]

Actor/playwright/novelist Tom Isbell sells YA fantasy trilogy for seven figures

HarperCollins Children's will publish Tom Isbell's YA fantasy trilogy, starting with The Hatchery, in 2013. They acquired the books in a seven figure deal via agent Victoria Sanders... Read more [...]

Tu Books publishing Tobias S. Buckell and Joe Monti’s anthology Diverse Energies

Tobias S. Buckell and Joe Monti have edited an anthology, Diverse Energies, showing diversity in YA dystopian stories... Read more [...]

Edward Willett’s Magebane shortlisted for Regina Book Award

Edward Willett's Magebane (under his pseudonym Lee Arthur Chane), is a finalist for the Regina Book Award, an award he won in 2002... Read more [...]

Spencer Hill Press to re-open to submissions on 1 December

Small publisher Spencer Hill Press is about to re-open to unsolicited, unagented submissions. They publish sf and fantasy... Read more [...]

Quill and Quire names top sf books of 2011

Quill and Quire's top sf titles of the year in Canada are the third of an adult trilogy and the first of a YA trilogy... Read more [...]

Cory Doctorow’s Clockwork Fagin available for free

Cory Doctorow is offering free electronic downloads of his Clockwork Fagin, which will appear in the forthcoming Steampunk! anthology... Read more [...]

YA Author William Sleator Dies

YA author William Sleator (1945-2011) was a Caldecott honoree for his first book, The Angry Moon, and wrote 30 more books, including Interstellar Pig... Read more [...]

James P. Blaylock sells YA novel to Subterranean

James P. Blaylock's YA Zeuglodon is the Zeno Literary Agency's first sale to Subterranean, but not the first time the publisher and author have worked together... Read more [...]

Pyr to enter YA market with K.D. McEntire, Ian McDonald, and Ari Marmell

Pyr SF will start publishing YA novels in November, with K.D. McEntire's debut Lightbringer, followed by Ian McDonald's YA debut Planesrunner in December... Read more [...]

Author/film producer Perry Moore dies

YA author and film producer Perry Moore, aged 39, was the author of Hero and the executive producer of the Chronicles of Narnia films... Read more [...]

Curtis Jobling sells two more Wereworld books to Puffin

Wereworld book 1 was released last month. Now Puffin has signed author Curtis Jobling to write books three and four... Read more [...]

The new characters are young and in Starfleet Academy, but The Delta Anomaly doesn’t get resolved

Very evocative of the new film franchise, but (as with that movie), not a very satisfying story... Read more [...]