Underland: Book launch and Twitter takeover (Online)

 

We 💖 Pulse Point

(See my review and Q & A with the authors)

 

which was Colleen Nelson and Nancy Chappell-Pollack's first collaborative YA novel of a dystopian world in which Citizens under a dome are monitored via an implanted microchip in a forefinger and kept separate from the Primitives beyond the protective shell.

 

Written by Colleen Nelson with Nancy Chappell-Pollack
Yellow Dog (Great Plains Publications)
978-1-927855-97-3
192 pp.
Ages 12-15

2018 

Reviewed here

 Now their sequel is launching!

Underland

Written by Colleen Nelson and Nancy Chappell-Pollack

Yellow Dog (An imprint of Great Plains)

978-1-77337-052-1

192 pp.

Ages 12-15

October 2020

To celebrate the book's release, co-authors

 Colleen Nelson and Nancy Chappell-Pollack 

will be taking over their publisher's Twitter account

 (@Great PlainsPub) 

to answer questions and 

share details about the writing of their latest book

on

Wednesday, October 28, 2020

             6-8 PM (Central Time Zone)

 

 

PLUS

You have time (until this online launch) to enter 

to win a signed copy of Underland

(Entrant must be 13 years of age or older)

Enter to win at https://www.greatplains.mb.ca/product/underland/

 

 

See you at the launch!

CBC Bookie Awards 2012

In 2011, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) introduced the CBC Bookie Awards as an opportunity for readers to choose their favourite Canadian reads published the previous year.  Based on the selections of the well-read CBC personnel from CBC Books, Canada Reads, Writers & Company, The Next Chapter, as well as recommendations from the public, five titles in each of ten categories are nominated.  Readers can then cast their votes (only once per category per day).

This year's CBC Bookies Awards nominees were announced yesterday and voting must take place online before 11:59 p.m. ET of Saturday, March 31.  The winners will be announced at a CBC Twitter Chat (#CanLit) on Thursday, April 5.

This year's ten categories, which include two international ones, are:

• Literary Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Poetry
• Thriller, Mystery or Crime
• Science Fiction, Fantasy or Speculative Fiction
• Young Adult
• Graphic Novel or Comic Book
• Short Story Collection
• International Fiction
• International Non-Fiction

The one category relevant to CanLit for LittleCanadians is the Young Adult category.  The finalists for this category are:

Blink and Caution

by Tim Wynne-Jones
Candlewick Press

The Gathering

by Kelley Armstrong
Doubleday Canada

No Ordinary Day

by Deborah Ellis
Groundwood Books

This Dark Endeavour: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein
by Kenneth Oppel
HarperCollins Canada

Tilt

by Alan Cumyn
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press

Use this CBC Bookies link to cast your vote(s) for your favourites in the Young Adult category, but only until the end of March 31, 2012.  (The ballot below is as it appears on the CBC Bookies website)

Retrieved from the CBC Bookies website on March 9, 2012.

Let CBC and others know what YACanLit are your favourites from 2011.

Twitter Chat with Author Alice Kuipers

Join us for a

 CHAT

with 

ALICE KUIPERS

author of

• 40 Things I Need To Tell You •

• The Worst Thing She Ever Did •

• Life on the Refrigerator Door •

• Lost for Words •

Wednesday, March 7, 2012 

2 - 3 p.m.  

(Eastern Standard Time)

Chat with @AliceKuipers using the following hashtag

Alice Kuipers will be answering questions about writing, her books, being an author, etc. 

Look for more input from Alice Kuipers the following week
 when she begins her 40 Things I Want To Tell You blog tour,
including a guest post here on March 12, 2012