Tag Archives: YA

Jeff Hirsch sells YA post-apocalyptic debut, The Long Walk Home, to Scholastic

Debut novelist Jeff Hirsch's two-book deal with Scholastic will see post-apocalyptic YA novel The Long Walk Home published sometime in 2011... Read more [...]

Ilsa J. Bick sells YA zombie novel to Egmont

Primarily known for Star Trek and BattleTech novels, Ilsa J. Bick turns to dark YA writing with Ashes, a post-apocalyptic zombie novel for Egmont... Read more [...]

Robin Wasserman sells horrific YA novel to Knopf

Robin Wasserman's The Book of Blood and Shadow will focus on a girl whose best friend is murdered, apparently by her boyfriend, and the competing secret societies... Read more [...]

Debut author Lauren DeStefano sells dystopian YA trilogy to Simon & Schuster Children’s

Lauren DeStefano's The Last Chemical Garden will be set in a world where males die young, and females, younger... Read more [...]

Gabrielle Zevin sells dysptopian YA trilogy to FSG

Gabrielle Zevin sold the "Birthright Series", set in a future where chocolate and caffeine are contraband, to Farrar, Straus and Giroux's Books for Young Readers... Read more [...]

Jennifer Bresser to be new publisher of Putnam’s BfYR

Disney executive editor Jennifer Besser (who is responsible for Percy Jackson & the Olympians, among others) has been hired as the new vice president and publisher of G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers... Read more [...]

Most Popular and Updated Articles: 7-13 March 2010

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

Cory Doctorow and Tor seeking younger reviewers for his new YA novel

Cory Doctorow's new YA novel focuses on young online gamers, and he's looking for young gamers interested in reading the novel to review it... Read more [...]

Tu Books is new multicultural YA speculative fiction imprint at Lee & Low

Independent publisher Lee & Low is taking Kickstarter-funded multicultural YA sf publisher Tu Books as a new imprint... Read more [...]

Curtis Jobling to write new Wereworld series for Puffin

Bob the Builder designer Curtis Jobling will write a YA fantasy werewolf series called Wereworld for Puffin Books... Read more [...]

2011 WorldCon offering discounted YA membership rate

Renovation, the 2011 WorldCon, is offering a discounted young adult membership rate, currently 30% off the regular full membership rate... Read more [...]

Katie Mattie is now represented by Pinder Lane & Garon-Brooke’s Robert Thixton

17-year-old Michigan author Katie Mattie's first YA fantasy novel should be ready for submission next month... Read more [...]

Dragon Moon Press open for novel submissions

Editor-in-Charge Gabrielle Harbowy is looking at submissions fantasy, science fiction, and "gentle horror" novel submissions for the month of December... Read more [...]

Beth Bernobich sells YA novel to Viking

New-ish author Beth Bernobich's Fox and Phoenix will be her first YA novel, in addition to the three adult novels in the queue at Tor... Read more [...]

Bluewater Productions will turn S.E. Hinton’s novels into graphic novels

S.E. Hinton's Taming of the Star Runner and The Puppy Sister will be the first of her books to become graphic novels, but she'll also be writing a new YA title exclusively for Bluewater Productions under the deal... Read more [...]