YA New York

So, as I said, Rachel Cohn and Patricia McCormick are doing a reading at B&N in Greenwich Village on Tuesday. But! Rachel Vail will also be reading from her awesome novel, Lucky, previously reviewed here.

Here’s the invite she sent out:

Bank Street Bookstore is at 112th St. and Broadway. Don’t complain about having to go allll the way uptown, chickies. It’s for a worthy cause. Would I send you past 96th Street if it wasn’t a good cause? No, I would not. Regardless, please do come to one of the two signings Tuesday. You have choices! Multiple choices, neither of which would be wrong. If you do attend, feel free to take pics and e-mail them to me. Be sure to include your name so I can give you photo credits and e-hugs.

This week is jam-packed. As in, packed with jam. Blackberry jam.

First, there’s a reading Thursday night for the 21 and over crowd at KGB Bar. Bennett Madison, Melissa Walker, Carolyn Mackler and Michael Northrop.

The action starts at 7 p.m. 85 E. 4th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues. For all you under-21s, I’ll be there with my camera and notebook in hand, so don’t fret.

And ANYWAY, there are totally other things happening this weekend. Like: A huge cast of awesome writers, including Sarah Beth Durst and Claudia Gray, Gail Carson Levine, Scott Mebus and Diana S. Zimmermanwill be reading at Books of Wonder at noon on Saturday. That’s NOON, folks. On Saturday. Which is June 14. Which is when you will be at 18 W. 18th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues.

NEXT week, Rachel Cohn and Patricia McCormick will be at Barnes and Noble twice. On Tuesday they’re reading at the Greenwich Village location (Sixth Avenue at 8th Street), and on Wednesday they’re reading in Brooklyn (267 7th Ave. in Park Slope).

Whew. I get exhausted just thinking about all these events. But I will be attending at least three of the four — I can’t decide whether to do the Brooklyn reading or the Manhattan one for the lovely Ms. Cohn and Ms. McCormick, but I probably won’t go to both. Methinks Brooklyn might be nice. I mean, how often do folks give readings in my very own borough? Oftener than I think, perhaps, but still. Anyway, I hope to see you at some of these things. I’m the short busty Asian chick, so please come say hi if you see me, yah?

Much love,
brina

This Sunday, June 8, at Books of Wonder:

Cecil Castellucci
Cassandra Clare
Holly Black
Tiffany Trent
Beth Bernobich
Craig Gidney
Ann Zeddies
… with their editor and fellow writer, Steve Berman

How, you ask, can so many awesome authors be in one place at one time? Well, they’ve all contributed short stories to Magic in the Mirrorstone, an anthology of magical tales. There were other writers who contributed, too, but these are the ones you’ll get to see Sunday at 1 p.m., if you are adventurous enough to make the trek. And you so should. Because, as I may have mentioned before, BoW totally provides yummy free treats for folks who attend readings. And because … hello? … you know you want to meet these fantabulous writers. I can’t even list all the awesome things they’ve written; there are far too many, and it wouldn’t be fair. I’d have you hyperventilating at the very thought. I can just say that if you attend, you’ll be in the presence of greatness. (If you want to know more about bibliographies and such, though, go look for yourselves. Just click on the links to these ladies’ (and gentlemen’s) websites.)

And remember: Sunday. 1 p.m. 18 W. 18th Street, New York City. Just be there, okay?

I have been remiss in updating this here blog, but I promise you two more reviews, plus an interview, by week’s end. However, for now you need to know about some upcoming events:

E. Lockhart, Sarah Mylnowski and Lauren Myracle, authors of How to Be Bad and many other brilliant YA books, will be doing a reading in NYC this weekend. 1 p.m. at Books of Wonder, 18 W. 18th St., between 5th and 6th. From everything I’ve been reading, these gals are a bucket of fun. Actually, buckets of fun, plural. Alas, I won’t be able to attend their event this weekend, but I’ll be interviewing them tomorrow, so I’ll post about it by Saturday at the latest.

Now, if for some unknown and unimaginable reason this is not your cup of tea (how could it not be? How???), you can come with me to the Brooklyn Tee Party at Etsy Labs. Same time, but at 325 Gold St. in Brooklyn. Lauren Mechling, co-author of the Social Climber series, will be reading from her new book, Dream Girl. Rachel Maude will be reading from the first book in a new series, Poseur. And Zareen Jaffery and Emily Gould will be reading from their novel, Hex Education. If you choose the Tee Party over Books of Wonder — and I won’t hold it against you either way, because personally I want to divide myself in two so I can be in both places at once — remember to bring an old T-shirt with you, so you can paint it up and do all sorts of wacky things to turn it glam.

Choices, people. You have a lot of choices to make. And I’m certain you’ll make the right one. You have two choices. Not three. The third choice, the one you don’t have, is to stay home on your sorry butt and eat potato chips while watching re-runs of Gilmore Girls on your DVR. No, trust me. You will have way more fun if you go to one of these readings.

By the way, last time I was at Books of Wonder for a reading, there were lots and lots of free delicious baked goods. Just saying.

FYI, Cory Doctorow will be doing a reading and signing here in NYC at Books of Wonder on Monday, May 26 from 5 to 7 p.m. 18 W. 18th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues.

Cory is going to be promoting Little Brother, a book about teen hackers who get taken in by Homeland Security when the Bay Bridge in San Francisco is blown up. This is his first YA book, but by no means his first book. In fact, Cory is no ordinary novelist. He is the King of Geek, one of the most acclaimed and awesome computer wizards of this day and age. (Thus the book about hackers? Mayhaps.)

I’ll be at the signing with my camera and notebook in tow, but until then … get this … you can download Cory’s book for FREE. This is because he released it under a Creative Commons license, hoping to make his work available to as many people as possible. You’ve got to admit the guy’s got moxie.

So spend this weekend reading his latest, and then meet up with me at Books of Wonder on Monday. I mean, what else have you got to do? Go to a barbecue? Pah!

PS. Scott Westerfeld himself told me to (a) read Little Brother and (b) attend Cory’s reading. And honestly? If Scott Westerfeld told you to jump off a bridge, you would, wouldn’t you?

Lauren Mechling, co-author of the fantastic 10th Grade Social Climber series, will be appearing at Etsy Labs in Brooklyn on Sunday, June 1, along with Rachel Maude, Emily Gould and Zareen Jaffery.

The event will be from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., and not only will the authors be giving away free books — so a little bird tells me — but folks will be encouraged to bring along old T-shirts to remake into vintage finds.

In fact, here’s a little ad for the whole shebang: