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Carrie Ryan: New YA Book Deal!
I can’t even explain how ecstatic I am to be sharing this newsl! I’ve signed a two book deal with Julie Strauss-Gabel at Dutton (an imprint of Penguin Young Readers)! HUGE YAY!!! Here’s the official announcement from Publishers Weekly: Dutton Inks Ryan to Double Carrie Ryan, author of… Hooray! So excited to welcome Carrie Ryan to the list and to the Penguin family!
WHEN I’M TOO TIRED TO EAT
This never happens to me.
Nor me. Though I’m increasingly too tired for everything else. Including going to bed.
How J’ADORABLE are these buttons, you guys?!?! (Sorry, I couldn’t resist.) Which one is your fave?
Co-worker love
Answer to my query about whether a certain outfit would be okay for a casual work dinner:
“Are you having dinner at the Cheesecake Factory? Is that why you would wear a T-shirt with words printed on it?”
Okay, Elyse Marshall, I know your (spurious) opinion on Uggs, but how do you feel about Crocs? Take a moment to consider your answer carefully.
I do not find Crocs to be aesthetically pleasing. Okay to wear if you are:
a) Mario Batali
b) Gardening
c) a child who has their footwear choices imposed upon them
This does not, however, diminish my love for Melissa McCarthy. I’m pretty sure she was joking. Because Crocs are terrible, and she is wonderful and lovely.
What’s extra funny here is the idea that adults make footwear choices FOR children.
(Source: gimmesomejimmy)
So, people ask me this sometimes, and I appreciate that they want me and Peter and Jon to get maximum paid for the records we make. And it is true that we’ll get the biggest cut from sales at shows, because those copies are copies we buy directly from the label. However, I am every bit just as happy and in fact in some ways happier to take a slightly reduced cut if you’re buying from your local record store, which is almost doubtless scrambling to survive every day, or from a cool mailorder, or directly from the label if the label does mailorder.
I make a little bit of a big deal about this because more people than me need to get paid for the stuff I do to happen. There’s been a lot of talk in recent years about labels and publishers as if they were hurdles to be cleared, obstacles to be circumnavigated. I can’t speak for anybody else’s experiences, though stories of label skullduggery abound, and shame on such labels. But my personal experience in independent music is that the people releasing Mountain Goats records aren’t “The Label.” They’re my friends, and they’re also almost all musicians themselves. They are people who share exactly equivalent praise or blame for the music I make, because you wouldn’t have heard it without them, by which I mean without their support and nurturing and faith I would never have made the music in the first place. So while I’m, again, grateful that people think of my well-being, it’s my opinion that the people who make the music available - especially independent labels, especially independent stores - deserve your patronage, and it’s 100% ok if I have to sell a few more records at retail to make as much as I’d make selling them at shows. I don’t do what I do in a vacuum. Without the labels that put out my stuff and the stores that stocked it and the people working in the stores who told people browsing to maybe check out the Mountain Goats, I would almost doubtless not even own a guitar right now. I’d be a nurse somewhere in California, and I’d write poetry in my downtime. Which would also be a good life, because every day above ground is a good day, unless you’re getting shot at, it sucks to get shot at, but you see my point
This is very important.
I’ve said many times over the last 15 months that The Fault in Our Stars, while it is dedicated to my friend Esther Earl, is not about her.
Esther’s story—her true, powerful, funny, painful story—belongs to her and to her family, and I am so excited that it’s going to be told in this amazing book, which comes out in January, 2014 and is available for preorder RIGHT NOW at bn.com and amazon.
This Star Won’t Go Out will include diary entries and sketches from Esther, and you’ll all finally get to see what a lovely writer she was. There will also be writing from Lori and Wayne, Esther’s parents, and an introduction by me.
Could not be more proud to be working with Lori and Wayne Earl to share Esther’s beautiful words. Welcome to the Dutton family.
My lovely followers, please follow this blog immediately!
This makes me think of a certain Julie Strauss-Gabel book…
They are coming for you Elyse.
It’s a grey ol’ Monday here at Penguin HQ, and it’s snowing (or it was when I went to get lunch) and you know what? We need some awesome news because spring has not yet sprung in our part of the world and we’re tired of winter. So can you imagine how excited we were that Ally Condie’s new book deal was announced today? (Linking you to Ally’s site so she can tell you about it herself!)
(Photo: Shi Cheng, China, photo by Chinese National Geography. I mean, I can’t with that picture. It’s one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen. I did the work of Googling it for you.)
