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'After I Do' by Taylor Jenkins Reid

From the BLURB: When Lauren and Ryan’s marriage reaches the breaking point, they come up with an unconventional plan. They decide to take a year off in the hopes of finding a way to fall in love again. One year apart, and only one rule: they cannot contact each other. Aside from that, anything goes. Lauren embarks on a journey of self-discovery, quickly finding that her friends and family have their own ideas about the meaning of marriage. These influences, as well as her own healing process and the challenges of living apart from Ryan, begin to change Lauren’s ideas about monogamy and marriage. She starts to question: When you can have romance without loyalty and commitment without marriage, when love and lust are no longer tied together, what do you value? What are you willing to fight for? This is a love story about what happens when the love fades. It’s about staying in love, seizing love, forsaking love, and committing to love with everything you’ve got. And above all, After I Do ...
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LoveOzYA - announcing anthology author line-up!

From the official HarperCollins press release:  HarperCollins Publishers is thrilled to announce the stellar line-up of writers contributing to its inaugural #LoveOzYA anthology. The anthology of young adult short stories will feature new work from Amie Kaufman , Melissa Keil , Will Kostakis , Ellie Marney , Jaclyn Moriarty , Michael Pryor , Alice Pung , Gabrielle Tozer and Lili Wilkinson . As previously announced, youth literature advocate Danielle Binks is spearheading the project as anthology editor and will also contribute to the collection. Of the line-up, Binks says, ‘These writers are a reflection of how varied and kaleidoscopic Australian YA is, and has always been. It’s a celebration of every genre – there’s contemporary, space-opera, love stories and redemption stories, time-travel and friendship stories – something for everyone! And I hope that as well as enjoying the short story form in itself, readers will love seeing in one collection how rich and multi-faceted Aust...
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Crime and Mystery and Classics - LoveOzYA posters!

Hello Darling Readers! Just a quick message to say there have been two new LoveOzYA posters created in the last week!   The first is a Crime & Mystery poster - which came about because author Rebecca Lim received a request for this genre poster from a group of students she was speaking to at a Lit Festival recently. This poster was kindly designed by the very talented Jin Wang, of Jin & Co .   The second poster is a 'ClassicsOzYA' poster, which offers but a drop in the ocean of books that have shaped Australia's youth literature. This one was designed by the fabulous Jessica Harvie , who also did the LGBTQIA+ posters.  These new LoveOzYA posters are available to download from the DropBox folder as always, and I've uploaded them as ' Resources ' on the official LoveOzYA website! 
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'Poison or Protect' Delightfully Deadly novella #1 by Gail Carriger

Received from the author in exchange for an honest review From the BLURB: Can one gentle Highland soldier woo Victorian London’s most scandalous lady assassin, or will they both be destroyed in the attempt?   New York Times bestselling author Gail Carriger presents a stand-alone romance novella set in her popular steampunk universe full of manners, spies, and dainty sandwiches.   Lady Preshea Villentia, the Mourning Star, has four dead husbands and a nasty reputation. Fortunately, she looks fabulous in black. What society doesn’t know is that all her husbands were marked for death by Preshea’s employer. And Preshea has one final assignment.   It was supposed to be easy, a house party with minimal bloodshed. Preshea hadn’t anticipated Captain Gavin Ruthven – massive, Scottish, quietly irresistible, and… working for the enemy. In a battle of wits, Preshea may risk her own heart – a terrifying prospect, as she never knew she had one.   Buy Poison or Protect today to fin...
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Some thoughts on editing YA and kids books containing Indigenous content - guest post by Ambelin Kwaymullina

Some thoughts on editing YA and kids books containing Indigenous content A few people have asked me recently about the kinds of things editors need to know in order to appropriately edit YA and children’s books that contain Indigenous characters/content. So here’s a few thoughts on some of the things that editors might find it useful to inform themselves about.   A Lack of Sustained Engagement It should be noted at the outset that a lack of editorial knowledge regarding Indigenous peoples and realities in part arises from the fact that most of the Australian publishing industry – and the literature industry more generally – lacks any history of sustained engagement with Indigenous peoples. Engagement has tended to be on a one-off, ad hoc basis with all the failings that can entail – inconsistencies in approach (including inconsistencies within the same publisher); a lack of retention of corporate knowledge (because knowledge resides with one person and is lost when they leave); and...
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Reflecting on Indigenous superheroes, Indigenous Futurisms and the future of diversity in literature - guest post by Ambelin Kwaymullina

Reflecting on Indigenous superheroes, Indigenous Futurisms and the future of diversity in literature I cannot count the number of time I’ve been told it’s unusual to be an Indigenous speculative fiction writer who tells a story about an Indigenous superhero. But Indigenous superheroes are nothing new – at least, not to Indigenous peoples. We have always had stories of the Ancestor heroes, and through the long violence of colonialism, we’ve had other heroes too. These heroes include the resistance fighters of the frontier period; the undercover operatives of the protection era where intense government surveillance required Indigenous peoples to engage in a thousand hidden acts of defiance; and the child heroes who survived being members of the Stolen Generations.   In Australia and elsewhere, Indigenous peoples have also long been able to interact with the world in ways that the West might label as ‘magic’, but this is because the West often defines the real (and hence the possible)...
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Signing recap: #JenniferNiveninPH book signing!

I am back with a new recap! The month of May brings Jennifer Niven , author of the tear inducing and heart wrenching All the Bright Places, to Manila for a signing courtesy of National Bookstore. She's here! What an amazing person and an amazing author. Some of the bloggers might or might've cried a bit during the Q&A. #JenniferNiveninPH #nbsevents #booksigningevent #booksigning #phyabookblogger #phyabooksigning A photo posted by Kai A. (@amaterasureads) on May 28, 2016 at 8:40pm PDT It never, never, never gets old. I mean that feeling of seeing an author walking straight towards you, all smiles and so excited to spend time and talk about writing books and the stories she'd written. Perfect example: Jennifer Niven. I love how she's so soft spoken, speaks with simple words and just makes so much sense. As for what she said during the Q&A, check out the rundown below: If Jennifer was to write a sequel for ATBP, what is in store for Violet Markey? Violet wanders ar...
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My events at Melbourne Writers Festival 2016

Hello Darling Readers, Long time no see! I am still in the thick of deadline-itis, but thought I'd interrupt my Blog of Solitude to *squeeeeee* a little, and say how excited I am to be back at Melbourne Writers Festival this year! I'm going to be involved in two Schools sessions:  How To Review  →  Tue 30 Aug, 11.15am, VENUE: ACMI Cinema 2 What are the ingredients of a review that does all the right things? Film reviewer Myke Bartlett and YA book blogger Danielle Binks take students through the craft of reviewing, with special tips for reviewing the page and the screen. Learn from the professionals! More info here:   http://www.mwf.com.au/session/how-to-review-2/ ***  Opinion Writing → Thu 1 Sep, 12.30pm, VENUE: ACMI Cinema 2 How do you write a killer opinion piece, making your voice heard and maybe even changing minds? Opinion queen Clementine Ford and fellow feminist Amy Gray will open their toolkits and teach you about voice, structure, argument and more. ...
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