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1. Simon & Schuster Reaches Out to Young Readers Through Texting

By: Maryann Yin, on 7/13/2012
Blog: Galley Cat (Mediabistro) (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: Tonya Hurley, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing, Publicity, Scott Westerfeld, Add a tag

Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing has teamed up with Mobile Commons to launch a new texting program for YA readers.

Fans of Scott Westerfeld‘s Leviathan trilogy can text “SCOTT” to a special shortcode to try to win a coffee date with him, talk about his books and learn more about future contests. Fans of The Blessed author Tonya Hurley can text “BLESSED” to a special shortcode to try and win a guitar. What do you think of this new marketing venture?

Here’s more from the release: “The Simon & Schuster author campaigns will use the consumer relationship tools on the Mobile Commons user dashboard, which include message editing, data segmenting, targeting, URL tracking, QR codes, and MMS (multimedia messaging). Simon & Schuster will also use the platform’s real-time analytics and reporting to help them better personalize their communications with their teen readers.”

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2. Not Chasing Trends, Making Them: My Publishing Perspectives Story on the BEA's Buzz YA Authors

By: Beth Kephart , on 6/7/2012
Blog: Beth Kephart Books (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: Publishing Perspectives, Bethany Griffin, YA trends, Elizabeth Norris, YA Book Buzz, BEA, Siobhan Vivian, Jenny Han, Melissa Marr, Tonya Hurley, Add a tag

In a wall-to-wall session at the BEA, the season's top YA authors—Melissa Marr, Tonya Hurley, Siobhan Vivian, Jenny Han, Elizabeth Norris, and Bethany Griffin—gathered to talk about trendmaking, book writing, and teen readers.

I covered the story for Publishing Perspectives here.

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3. ghostgirl by Tonya Hurley

By: Trisha, Gayle, and Jolene, on 10/3/2008
Blog: The YA YA YAs (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: Fiction, appetite for detention, ghostgirl, sloane tanen, tonya hurley, Reviews, Add a tag

Charlotte Usher has never been popular. She’s never even been noticed. But this year she’s sure things are going to be different. In the right clothes, in the same classes as her longtime crush, Damen—a result of Charlotte’s stalkerish behavior—how in the world can he not dump Petula, the most popular girl in school, in favor of the new and improved Charlotte?

Yet despite all her research, Charlotte is still invisible. She’s not even noticed as she chokes to death on a gummy bear after physics class. Determined to not let a little thing like death get in her way, Charlotte continues her pursuit of Damen from the afterlife.

You can count me among the minority of readers who found ghostgirl, by Tonya Hurley, a somewhat entertaining but rather disappointing book. It just didn’t work for me, though I can see how other readers may like it. It’s a satire and commentary on social hierarchy in high school, which will appeal to a lot of teens. Plus, look at the gorgeous packaging! That alone will have teens picking it up. But I could never get into the story, and I found the characters, the plot, and the satirical element unsatisfyingly thin. According to the VOYA review of ghostgirl, Hurley created the character of Charlotte online in 2002, and it did read like a novelization of something that was not originally a book, then was stretched into a 300+ page novel.

If you’re looking for a high school satire, I would recommend Sloan Tanen’s Appetite for Detention instead. Appetite for Detention is largely photographic (see the Bloomsbury site), with captions describing the various stereotypes being skewered. Even without the photos, though, lines like, “Edgar wasn’t a skater, a punk, a jock, a geek, or a nerd. He was just depressed, and he hadn’t found that clique yet,” are sharper and wittier than anything in ghostgirl.

Among the reviews of ghostgirl: Chicklish, Miss Print, Oops…Wrong Cookie, and Tempatt.