If you’ve been looking for a YA book from your youth that’s hard to find or has gone out of print, Ig Publishing has stepped in to offer a solution.… Read more »

The Guardian’s Allison Flood reports that Stranger, a post-apocalyptic young adult novel with a gay protagonist by American novelists Sherwood Smith and Rachel Manija Brown, has been acquired by Viking Penguin, despite a… Read more »

The Canadian newspaper The Province reports that Charles Kembo—a man convicted of murdering his wife, his mistress, his friend, and his step-child in 2010—has self-published on Amazon the 372-page YA novel… 2 / Read more »

Perhaps Sarah Weinman said it best on her Twitter yesterday: “dear Meghan Cox Gurdon: the moment you say readers have written emails supporting your piece, it’s all over.” Weinman of… 3 / Read more »

There’s been, as to be expected, some strong reactions to Meghan Cox Gurdon’s article in the WSJ which describes the new “lurid…profanity” of YA fiction, and warns that “a careless young… Read more »

According to an Associated Press wire story the American Library Association has announced a new category for one of their storied prizes on Monday and it will surely become one… Read more »

After panning the new Harry Potter book in a San Francisco Chronicle review — “It’s not that Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is dull, exactly. In places, it rises… Read more »

In a story that no other news source seems to have picked up, the Watley Review is reporting that a disgruntled fan has released a “corrected” version of the newest… Read more »

Less than 24 hours after going on sale in the UK and the US, the full text of the new Harry Potter book has been illegally posted on the Internet,… Read more »

One point of common discussion lost in the overwhelming blitz of media the last few weeks: “What is the secret of the explosive and worldwide success of the Harry Potter… Read more »