News For Nerds is a feature here on Katie’s Book Blog to help catch you up on all the bookish news you might have missed. Check back every Sunday to find out about cover reveals, book deals, movie news, and more.
Ebook steals:
Movie news:
Veronica Roth announced on her blog that the Divergent movie adaptation director is Neil Burger. Neil Burger directed The Illusionist and Limitless. She also announced that Shailene Woodley is in final negotiations for the part of Tris. For more information head over to Veronica’s blog!
Publishing news:
Penguin Teen is working on revamping their ARC distribution for bloggers. Fill out this form and you could receive some Peguin Teen ARCs in the future. (Filling out the form does not guarantee ARCs, it just means Penguin Teen has your blog information for future reference.)
Book trailer of the week:
Noteworthy blog posts/articles:
You guys know how much I love contemporary fiction, right? Well I do. When I saw this post at YALSA’s The Hub I knew I had to share it. Check out Kelly Jensen’s post on The Next Big Thing: Contemporary / Realistic Fiction!
Once again, Word For Teens has a completely fabulous post that I have to share. This one’s a discussion on the whiteness of YA books and book covers. Check it out here!
Jamie over at The Perpetual Page-Turner has created an awesome new feature called Starred & Shared where she shares some awesome posts she’s found on the blogosphere. Check it out here!
This year’s YALSA Teens Top Ten has been announced! Congratulations to all the winners. You can see the list here!
Giveaways:
–Win a horror book of your choice from Nerdette Reviews
–Win Prodigy or The Darkest Minds from On The Wings of Books
–Win a Lies That Bind prize pack from Candace’s Book Blog
–Win a copy of The Casual Vacancy from Christine Reads YA
–Win an ARC of The Assassin’s Curse from Yearning To Read
Cover reveals:
Thanks for posting the info on Penguin Teen! I’ve been trying to get onto more publishers’ contact lists…
Thank you for including the Penguin form link. I am just starting to dip my toes in requesting an ARC or two and have no idea what I am doing. I am so excited about the Divergent movie news too! 🙂
The article on contemporary fiction sounds really interesting- I’ll have to check it out.
And thanks for letting us know about the Penguin Teen spreadsheet! I still feel that I’m too new to be requesting ARCs, but I bookmarked it for the future. (Unless it expires, which I’m hoping it won’t.)
Thanks for including the Penguin Teen link! I’ve never requested an ARC, but it seems like this is a less… intimidating way of doing it?
And… AH! Divergent I’m kind of really excited. (:
Thanks for the link love! I saw someone come over from this post to mine so I figured I’d come see what it was! Made my morning! ALSO. I’m so behind on all things newsworthy (cover reveals, movie deals, etc. etc) so I am going to def be checking out these posts! I feel like I’m so spastic and can’t process all the news out there so this is a perfect format for me! So thanks for doing all the hard work 😛
Loving the covers for Monument 14’s sequel and Charmed Vengeance (sequel to Innocent Darkness)!!!!!!!!!! And Ii think that Shailene Woodley will make a good Tris, with her hair just a bit different… So happy with more Divergent movie news 😀
Sierra
Keep growing beautiful!
Awww, thanks for the link love! (And the Penguin Teen link.)
And I am IN LOVE with the cover for DEVIl AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA. Just. sjdflkdjflkdjskfds
ASHES ON THE WAVES cover makes me laugh..Her pose is just silly LOLLLLLL I’m in love with BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA!
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Giselle @ Book Nerd Canada
thanks for sharing such awesome information!!
Oh wow such pretty covers! I especially like the Dollhouse! That’s super exciting for Ms Roth! I loved Limitless all kinds of hard so this should be EPIC.
Amber Elise @ Du Livre
Love some of those covers! Wow. Especially the Dollhouse Asylum one.
Ashes on the Waves is such a beautiful cover! And it looks like you got a lot of ebook steals; enjoy! Happy Reading!
I am not really feeling the casting of Woodley…but I’m willing to be proven wrong! I wasn’t sold on Josh Hutcherson as Peeta and thought he was pretty good.
I can’t wait to read Ashes on the Waves and I love the cover!!
Yes, I saw the Pengiun news! Very interesting.
Eh, I really don’t see Shailene as Tris, but my movie castings don’t usually jive with who actually gets cast in the movies!!
I just checked out Jamie’s page. Love that! That and this News for Nerds – It’s such a nice way to get people updated about other awesome blog posts too 🙂
Thanks for posting my giveaway!
And for the ebook deals since there are a couple there I would like to get. Thanks for all the news!
LOVE LOVE this feature! Thanks for posting!
Sundays are my favorite day of the week on your blog just because of this feature. I especially love the ebook steals, cover reveals, book trailer… I guess I just love everything. Thanks for the post!
Taking Back Forever is an awesome first book in the series! The author is super nice and a blogger, and that beautiful cover was shot by a blogger too!
Have you read the series? It’s romantic and suspenseful and wholly original and unique in terms of the concept.