Sick Lit is the in thing for movie adaptations. Many of the more popular books are either sick lit or more traditional fantasy lately.
Yep Sick Lit is everywhere right now. Wondering what the next trend will be.
Sick Lit is the in thing for movie adaptations. Many of the more popular books are either sick lit or more traditional fantasy lately.
that's frightening to read.
I honestly did not expect to see a hodgepodge of "famous in the 90s" people involved, even tangentially, in a New York Times YA Fiction Bestsellers list conspiracy. I was not prepared.
On a related note, apparently YA book twitter is nuts.
None of this comes as a surprise to the folks concerned by the current state of the discourse, who describe being harassed for dissenting from or even questioning the community's dynamics. One prominent children's-book agent told me, ”None of us are willing to comment publicly for fear of being targeted and labeled racist or bigoted. But if children's-book publishing is no longer allowed to feature an unlikable character, who grows as a person over the course of the story, then we're going to have a pretty boring business."
I'm amazed that books are still a selling item.
I don't know any young people that don't just use their phones and do nothing else.
Holy shit. I am reading Warhammer 40.000 novels about the grim dark future of humanity locked in a state of perpetual war against hell and nightmare combined itself, total biomass eating intergalactic aliens, fungus hellbent on war and destruction and a elven race made of all the darkest and fucked up desires and pleasures incarnated and even that universe isn't this freakin' savage.
I honestly did not expect to see a hodgepodge of "famous in the 90s" people involved, even tangentially, in a New York Times YA Fiction Bestsellers list conspiracy. I was not prepared.
On a related note, apparently YA book twitter is nuts.
http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=484356Wait, people know about Save the Pearls? The girl in the promotional video went to my high school. She was mocked mercilessly for it for years.
http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=484356
We had our run in
That's a pretty apt comparison actually.
On a related note, apparently YA book twitter is nuts.
yikes....I'm hella progressive but there are levels to this shit...sucks that people who advocate for social equity are lumped in with this mess.I honestly did not expect to see a hodgepodge of "famous in the 90s" people involved, even tangentially, in a New York Times YA Fiction Bestsellers list conspiracy. I was not prepared.
On a related note, apparently YA book twitter is nuts.
I honestly did not expect to see a hodgepodge of "famous in the 90s" people involved, even tangentially, in a New York Times YA Fiction Bestsellers list conspiracy. I was not prepared.
On a related note, apparently YA book twitter is nuts.
On a related note, apparently YA book twitter is nuts.
Holy crap. I can't believe I read all that. It's like a trainwreck you can't look away from.I honestly did not expect to see a hodgepodge of "famous in the 90s" people involved, even tangentially, in a New York Times YA Fiction Bestsellers list conspiracy. I was not prepared.
On a related note, apparently YA book twitter is nuts.
Why? Do you think GRRM advocates for rape, incest, or torture because many of his characters do such acts?Okay, I read that article and then the review itself, and the hate was pretty justified. The direct quotes are pretty damning. Some gave me chills after reading them because it mirrored the shit I experienced.
Where are these from?
Okay, I read that article and then the review itself, and the hate was pretty justified. The direct quotes are pretty damning. Some gave me chills after reading them because it mirrored the shit I experienced.
On a related note, apparently YA book twitter is nuts.
Okay, I read that article and then the review itself, and the hate was pretty justified. The direct quotes are pretty damning. Some gave me chills after reading them because it mirrored the shit I experienced.
That's a pretty apt comparison actually.
It killed the YA Dystopia movie. There's still others getting made.
On a related note, apparently YA book twitter is nuts.
Why? Do you think GRRM advocates for rape, incest, or torture because many of characters do such acts?
That book they referred to in the Article that's #1 in the YA list and had been on there for 25 weeks titled "The Hate U Give" which initials is T.H.U.G is currently getting made into a movie directed by George Tillman Jr. with an ensemble cast of black actors that include Issa Rae, Regina Hall, Amandla Stenberg, Common, Lamar Johnson, and Russell Hornsby.
Oh lord
that connection to the harry potter fanfic
truly a wild story
Finest tweets:
I honestly did not expect to see a hodgepodge of "famous in the 90s" people involved, even tangentially, in a New York Times YA Fiction Bestsellers list conspiracy. I was not prepared.
On a related note, apparently YA book twitter is nuts.
Okay, I read that article and then the review itself, and the hate was pretty justified. The direct quotes are pretty damning. Some gave me chills after reading them because it mirrored the shit I experienced.
I honestly did not expect to see a hodgepodge of "famous in the 90s" people involved, even tangentially, in a New York Times YA Fiction Bestsellers list conspiracy. I was not prepared.
On a related note, apparently YA book twitter is nuts.
Damn, people are crazy. Even trying to discredit books that aren't finished.On a related note, apparently YA book twitter is nuts.
Nah, people are usually excited when small publishers do well and get on the NYT. This got called out because they're not a real publisher and they essentially manipulated the system to get a #1 best-seller despite no "real" sales.From the stuff i just read about YA fiction drama it seems like this new book only got called out because it was a new publishing group. The drama was more like "hey who are these interlopers" more than anything else. Can't have outsiders steal your potential "The Fault in Our Stars" money.
Will they finish Mortal Instruments?
I'd be a little careful with that Vulture article. It was widely disputed, and IIRC the author of it has some sort of grudge against YA twitter.
Damn, people are crazy. Even trying to discredit books that aren't finished.
No, in the article quoted it said there was an instance where one author was already being dragged for a manuscript that wasn't even finished.The book was done and in the hands of a few librarians, where do you think the captions are from?