Mundie Moms

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

This is so exciting!!

Late Bloomers just posted the cover for Aprilynne Pike's sequel to Wings, called Spells.
We LOVE it!

Books Of Wonder Author signing TONIGHT in NY!!

If you're in NY, then you're in for a treat. Tonight at Books of Wonder authors, Libba Bray, Suzanne Collins, Justin Larbalestier, Scott Westerfeld, Kristin Cashore and Michael Grant will all be there to answer questions and SIGN books. The event is from 6-8 pm.

Not in NY? No problem. You can call and preorder a signed book today. It's totally easy and the employees are extremely nice. I called and talked to them today. They won't charge you until the signed book is in their hands and then they'll ship it out the next day.

If you're part of Cassandra Clare's google group, this is the store she talked about that had signed copies of her MI series. *books are subject to sell out and may not always be in stock when signed*

Show support for these wonderful YA authors and to a wonderful Indie Book Store.

Twitter Tuesday - Sarah Rees Brennan


We're looking forward to chatting with the witty Sarah Rees Brennan THIS Thursday, November 12th at 9pm EST about well, there are so many things.

But first there is this tweet posted yesterday -



HUGE Mundie Moms sized congratulations to Sarah on this nomination. For those of us who have not heard of the Carnegie Medal, it is the equivalent of our stateside Newbery Award: "The Carnegie is awarded by children's librarian for an outstanding book for children and young people."

To quote Sarah from her post here, "It is indeed an honour to be nominated, especially in the company of such people as Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Laurie Halse Anderson, and R.J. Anderson for her awesome book Knife."

We are thrilled for Sarah and her deliciously written fantasy about two brothers and dark family secrets, The Demon's Lexicon.

As if that wasn't enough, her tweet also included the first chapter of the sequel, The Demon's Covenant. Here's a little tease from Chapter One: Magic On Burnt House Lane -



“Any minute now,” Rachel said, “something terrible is going to happen to us.”

The area around Burnt House Lane was deserted at this time of night. The cracks in the pavement that Mae hardly noticed by day had turned into shadowy scars along the cement, tracing jagged paths that led into the dark of yet another dead-end alley. They peered down into the alley and made the silent mutual decision to walk on extremely fast. Mae was in the lead.

“Come on, this is an adventure.”

Rachel muttered behind her, “I’m pretty sure that’s what I just said.”

Mae had to concede that this might not have been one of her better ideas. She’d just wanted something different now that she was finally able to leave the house, something a little exciting, and a party in an empty warehouse near Burnt House Lane had seemed the perfect plan.

A street lamp above slowly winked its single evil orange eye and night swallowed them at a gulp. The light sputtered back on with a grudging crackle and night spat them up, but by then Rachel and Erica had both walked into Mae’s back and were huddling together.


"I've been in much worse situations than this.”

She shivered and thought of the knife sliding in her sweaty grasp, the terrible resistance as she had sunk it into skin. She remembered the blood on her hands.

Rachel and Erica didn’t know anything about what had happened last month. They still thought she’d run off to London with her poor misguided brother on some crazy impulse.

Her mother thought that too, which was why Mae had been grounded for two weeks, picked up outside school in Annabel’s car like one of the younger kids who ran from school to car frantic to exchange one cage for another.

Mae closed her eyes, more desperate to escape than any of them, and the dying street lamps and broken lane faded away. She remembered bright lanterns flooding the forest with gold, dancing with an edge of danger so she wasn’t sure if she was sweating from exhilaration or fear, and black eyes on hers.

She’d seen magic. And now she’d lost it.


You may read the rest on Sarah's blog here or on the The Demon's Lexicon portion of our Forum. Please feel free to post your reviews and join in our discussions. So, Mundie Moms, are you Team Nick or Team Alan? Don't forget to join us for the chat this Thursday where we will discuss this and more.

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