The nominating phase for this years Queen Of Teen award has now been completed and this can only mean one thing – voting begins!
On this years pink shortlist are:
You can place your vote here.
This month the UK’s teen fiction site with the tag line “Reader, I snogged him…”, Chicklish will be celebrating it’s 4th Birthday, thats 4 years of providing book news, interviews and reviews written by avid readers of young adult / teen fiction from a selection of age ranges.
To celebrate Tales on Moon Lane and Southwark Libraries have teamed up to provide you with the opportunity to meet teen authors Luisa Plaja (editor of Chicklish), Sarra Manning, Keris Stainton (host of Chicklish) and Simmone Howell at Dulwich Library on Monday 28th June at 5:45pm.
At the event “the authors will be discussing their writing from 6:15pm followed by an opportunity to get books signed. Drinks will be served.”
This is a completely free event but places are limited so if you would like to go along call Tales On Moon Lane on 0207 274 5759, email them at info@talesonmoonlane.co.uk, pop into the shop or Dulwich Library.
Happy Birthday Chicklish!
The search is on to find 2010′s Queen Of Teen the “sparkliest, most glamorous and certainly the pinkest award in the world of fiction”.
Founded in 2008 the awards aim is to celebrate the most fantastic writers for the teen and tween markets voted for by teen (and tween) readers aged between 10 and 18.
The shortlist will be revealed on the 21st June 2010 and the overall winner will be announced as part of a glitzy and pink award ceremony later in the year.
If you’re aged between 10 and 18 and want to make sure your favourite author makes it onto the shortlist get your nominations in now.
You can find out more about the award on the Queen Of Teen website.
Wasted by Nicola Morgan is officially published by Walker Books on the 3rd May 2010 (buy you can buy a copy from Amazon now) and today see’s the official launch of the blog promoting the book, www.talkaboutwasted.blogspot.com, I say official launch as the blog already had some basic content but from now on will be updated every day for 6 weeks.
Coming up on the blog each day will be either
Talking of prizes if you sign up to be a follower of the Wasted Blog you will have the chance of winning a copy Wasted every week!
In addition Nicola is going on a blog tour to promote Wasted, you can see which blogs Nicola will be paying a visit to on the right hand side.
So why are you still reading this post? www.talkaboutwasted.blogspot.com is THE place to be.
If you’re interested in writing and are between the ages of 5 and 25 you might like to enter the Wicked Young Writers’ Award 2010.
The award has been setup to “recognise excellence in writing, encourage creativity and help develop writing talent in young people” and there are some fantastic prizes on offer made even more brilliant if you want to see Wicked at the Apollo Victoria Theatre (my favourite musical!).
The top 20 prizes available will be awarded at a special prize ceremony this autumn and include:
For full details and information about how you can enter visit the Wicked Young Writers’ website which has tips from author, Michael Morpurgo, videos and more.
Good Luck if you enter!
I am a regular reader of Nicola Morgan’s Help! I Need A Publisher blog and it was on her blog that I spotted a bright orange banner / button calling for nominations for the Author Blog awards 2010. After a little bit of digging (otherwise known as clicking the link) I found out a little bit more.
Basically the aim of the awards is to promote the best of these author blogs written by published and unpublished writers and industry proffessionals.
The awards are being run by Completely Novel. Here is their description:
“The Author Blog Awards is brought to you by CompletelyNovel and aims to honour the best blogs by both published and unpublished writers. They will recognise the writers who use their blogs to connect with readers in the most imaginative, engaging and inspiring ways. At the same time we hope to attract new audiences to these blogs and help readers find out more about the authors they love…and new authors too.”
You can find out which blogs have already been nominated here.
You can place your nominations here and you could win something from a fab range of prizes including eReaders, lovely new books, free eBooks, and book tokens.
Nominations close on the 2nd April 2010.
Welcome to Books 4 Teens, a blog about, well books for teens. It contains a mixture of news reviews and interviews run be me, Jesse, a 26 year old YA book adorer.
