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In a recent PW announcement, Macmillan Children’s Books has announced the creation of a new YA Romance imprint. The switch? It will be a sort of American Idol for YA Romance Writers.
Romance writers, are you ready for this?
Crowdsourcing, or drawing on participation from the audience for decisions, will be the major focus of the new imprint. Audience will consider chapters and vote on their favorite. When a manuscript is finally chose, they’ll vote on book covers.
The editor’s role?
The imprint’s editors will not screen the submitted manuscripts, but will monitor the content to make sure that “nothing obscene happens” in the novels. Romance fans reading the manuscripts online will be able to provide comments and offer a rating, the highest of which is five hearts – or “swoon-worthy.”
The imprint will be under the leadership of the ever-innovative Jean Feiwel, senior v-p and publisher of Feiwel and Friends, Square Fish, and now Swoon Reads. She has collected wide support throughout Macmillan and this will be an imprint to watch.
Do you have a manuscript that is Swoon-Worthy?
Polish it up! Read the early offerings from SRYA and look for announcements of submission guidelines.
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18 Comments on Hot Books Blog Hop - Giveaway, last added: 2/5/2012
Not sure, but Halflings was pretty hot - the guys were steamy!!
I don't have any HOT YA books...Vampire Academy? Dimitri is definitely hot! thanks :)
That's a tough one. I'd have to say Personal Demons by Lisa Desrochers. Thanks for the giveaway!
Personal Demons trilogy by Lisa Desrochers :)
Woo! I love hot books. Hot YA is so hard to find though, I feel like the field is dominated by the prude mafia. Vampire Academy is pretty hot. WAKE was hot. That's about it.
VA is awesome! Now you've made me really want to read Throat. Into my TBR pile it goes!
i have a few. ;-) i have dearly departed (i LOVE the cover and havent had a chance to read the book yet) and night circus. i have fracture, everneath, wither, under the never sky, tempest, all these things i've done, shattered souls. i have more but those are my more recent books and the ones i havent had a chance to read yet.
Hmm I don't really have any hot books...I guess I'd have to say Vampire Diaries. I'm pretty much obsessed with Damon soooo xD
Right now I don't have any hot YA books. I haven't read any as of yet. But I've seen some fantastic reviews for some YA that I have added to my list.
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I actually don't have any but my daughter is reading a lot of them right now. I'm entering to win Swoon/Swear for her. She's finishing Mrs. Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children right now and is into books like Wake, Fade, Hunger Games series and is getting ready to read the Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare.
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i really, REALLY want to read ondine. sounds awesome!
the hottest books on my shelf right now are my romance novels.. but if we're talking YA, i say unbecoming of mara dyers. the cover is HOT!
Hot and YA are completely subjective in my mind. However for these purposes I am going with Going too Far by Jennifer Echols. That can be followed by Anna and the French Kiss. There a couple of scenes in there that I would definitely classify as hot.
I guess if I had to classify by hot YA, I would go with Untraceable by s.R. Johannes. Most of my YA is not exactly hot since I have to be able to read them in the classroom!
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Hmmm... I have a few steamy adults but I guess the steamiest YA would have to be "Nightshade" and "Wolfsbane".
Some of the Vampire Academy books can get pretty steamy. I'd also say that Lisa Desrochers' Personal Demons series is pretty hot.
Thanks for the giveaway!
Excellent giveaway! How exciting! I would love to win- so thanks for offering this one. I don't know if I have any hot YA on my shelf- I have the Hunger Games series and Twilight- so I guess those would be mine!
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The hottest YA book on my shelf would probably have to be Unnatural by Michael Griffo. I personally have not read it yet, but I have heard and read things that lead me to believe that this book will definitely be very very "interesting". ;)
I dont think i have any hot ya books. Thank you for the awesome giveaway!
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