being up this high,
it doesn’t scare you
at all?
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This One Time At Band Camp..er…RT (Video)
Last week, I spent several days at the Romantic Times conference in Kansas City, laughing with…
Full disclosure: as our car approached the set, I turned to my husband and said, “I feel like I’m going to throw up.” I mean, I spend most of my time in front of a screen. Set visits to the movie adaptation of the words I scrawled over winter break three years ago were never something I was…
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And this explains so much of the awesomeness popping up on our dash.
The new China Glaze app lets you match nail polish to a photo, so we thought we’d make a polish guide to some of our books!
NOBODY BUT US by Kristin Halbrook matches with Pearls of Wisdom
DIVERGENT by Veronica Roth matches with Lemon Fizz
The DUFF by Kody Keplinger matches with Sunshine Pop
LIKE MANDARIN by Kirsten Hubbard matches with Japanese Koi
(Inspired by NOVL’s post)
“This got me thinking … about how important specific gestures are to romantic scenes, whether they’re “this romance is building” scenes or “this romance is about to explode into major smooches/sexytimes” scenes. One of my college professors said that a writer’s job is to make the reader experience a familiar thing as if for the first time, and this is especially relevant during romance. Almost all people have experienced a kiss before, even if it’s just from your Aunt Mildred or something, so we all know what it feels like, and it can be easy to feel disconnected from the word “kissed,” or phrases like “their lips pressed together,” just because they’re so familiar. These phrases are so common as to be almost negligible, which means the reader’s eyes might float right over them like they don’t exist.
I remember watching this moment in the theater and getting a weird chill when their hands met, and another one when he stretches out his fingers afterward, like he can’t believe he just touched her. That second moment was a little bit weird, unexpected— it made the first moment more powerful, because it suggests an emotional impact as well as physical contact.”
- Veronica Roth | “A Different Kind of Romantic Gesture” on YA Highway
In case you haven’t seen this already, two cast members were announced/confirmed today:
Ray Stevenson will be playing Marcus, and Mekhi Phifer will be playing Max!
I’m pretty excited! I think Ray and Mekhi are spot on, great matches for the Marcus and Max in my head.
Also, yes, shooting did in fact BEGIN TODAY.
It still seems so unreal to me that any of this is happening. Every time I experience something that makes it feel more real, I go through this period of shock like I’m the kid in that David After Dentist video:
Amazing.
That is all.
[W]riting is a long game. Sometimes the moment when you first have an idea or inclination is not the moment that you will finish a story. Sometimes you don’t finish what you start, ever, but you take pieces from what you start and incorporate them into something else. Sometimes, something that inspires you from a television show will come back in a year and a half, just as inspiring as it was when you first saw it.
You never know when the things you’re taking in, or the things you try and fail to produce, will come back into your writing.
— Veronica Roth | “Playing the Long Game” on YA HighwayThe official schedule for the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books is up and our very own founder/editor, Kerri Majors, will be moderating a panel on Saturday April 20 @ 4pm entitled: Young Adult Fiction: The Outer Limits in Norris Theater.
Panelists will include:
Lauren Oliver
Lissa Price
Veronica Roth
Victoria Schwab
If you want to help Kerri compile questions, drop her a note here.
