Poster Time - Wake

The most recent YA book I've spotted getting the poster treatment at train stations is Wake by Amanda Hocking:

A very enticing cover, especially to this land-locked Midland-er!

20p Kindle Bargains

I'm probably a bit behind the times, as I've only just spotted these UK kindle books at 20p!

Gina Blaxill's Pretty Twisted on amazon.co.uk.

Guest reviewed on Teenage Fiction For All Ages.

50 Cent's Playground on amazon.co.uk.

Amanda Hocking's Torn, the middle part in the trilogy at amazon.co.uk.

Switched and Ascend are 69p each.

Publishing Deal - Amanda Hocking

A UK deal has just been announced for Amanda Hocking's YA Trylle trilogy and her new series, Watersong:

Pan Macmillan has bought UK and Commonwealth rights (including e-books) to seven books by self-published US sensation Amanda Hocking.

Julie Crisp, editorial director at Tor, bought the rights from St Martin's Press in the United States. Hocking was subject to an intense auction in the US for her novels, with Amazon emerging as a shock underbidder.

She self-published her first novel to Amazon's Kindle in April 2010 and has since sold more than one million books.

The deal is for the Trylle Trilogy and a new four-book series called Watersong. The Trylle trilogy will be published in spring 2012 and the first book in the Watersong series will be released in autumn 2012 in paperback and e-book format.

It is described as a romantic coming-of-age tale about two sisters and their struggle to do right by each other and the men they love.

Read the whole article at The Bookseller.

Recent Publishing Deals

From today's Publishers Lunch Weekly, some recent YA deals including a couple you may have heard about already:

USA Today bestselling self-published ebook phenomenon Amanda Hocking's WATERSONG series, to Rose Hilliard at St. Martin's, for four books, at auction, reportedly for over $2 million, for publication beginning in Fall 2012.


Lenore Appelhans's debut YA novel LEVEL 2, a thriller set in the liminal place between our world and heaven, about a 17 year-old girl who spends her days reliving her memories from the security of her pod until she gets broken out by a boy from her past life, to Simon & Schuster Children's, in a pre-empt, in a two-book deal. Film rights sold simultaneously to Wolfgang Hammer at CBS Films.


NYT bestselling author Gail Carriger's debut YA historical fantasy series ESPIONAGE AND ETIQUETTE, set in her Soulless Alexia Tarabotti world but 25 years prior, an incorrigible aristocrat is sent off to finishing school to learn how to be lady only to discover that the school trains young ladies alright but for the wrong kind of "finishing," pitched as Ally Carter meets Steampunk, to Little, Brown Children's, in a pre-empt, in a four-book deal.


Christopher Paolini's INHERITANCE, the fourth and final book in his #1 NYT bestselling Inheritance cycle, to Knopf Children's, for simultaneous publication in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand on November 8, 2011.