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Viruses Are Gone!

As some of you have commented here or written to me about, there have been virus and malware issues on this blog.

But they are gone now! So I can finally post the cover of Leviathan . . . soon.

Thanks to everyone at MDDHosting for kicking malware ass all weekend.

That is all.

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ganked from I Can Haz Cheezbuger?

Fan Art Friday (Saturday Edition)

I received this cool piece of fan art about a week ago, but then I changed my site to a new server, and four of five days of archived email went missing. I’d downloaded the art, but have no idea who sent it to me!

Please email me again and tell me who you are, oh, masked artist. (Sorry!)

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Lovely, isn’t it?

And it’s yet another opportunity to remind you that you can buy Extras in paperback now from your local bookstore, or order it from Amazon, Powell’s, B&N, or Indie Bound.

I also wanted to call yo

Extras in Paperback! (finally)

In exactly two days—on Tuesday, April 28—the long-awaited paperback of Extras will appear on the shelves of your local bookstore.

At last those of you with the first three Uglies books in paperback can possess the unified edition. Consistency freaks, rejoice!

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As you can see above, the cover is the same as the hardback except for that little “burst” on Aya’s left cheek. As it says, this edition includes an excerpt from Leviathan (And no, it’s NOT the same excerpt that was in Bogus to Bubbly, becau

Fan Art Friday

Some amusing fan art for you all. First, from Mandy-wa in the great state of California, this license plate with customized frame:

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Yes, that’s a real license plate, though the number has been Photoshopped out for obvious reasons. (I didn’t even know you could get personalized frames. But then again, I have no car.)

I wonder how many people read that on the highway and are, like, wtf?

And now from Katie-wa, a belated Easter diorama based on Peeps and starring, um, peeps.

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Oh, the humanity.

And in the

Forest of Hands and Teeth

Those of you who enjoy delicious zombies might want to check out this debut by Carrie Ryan, called The Forest of Hands and Teeth.

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I would tell you more about it, but I already wrote a signature review for Amazon, which starts like this:

Teenagers love a good apocalypse. Who doesn’t? All those annoying rules suspended. Society’s pretenses made irrelevant. Malls to be looted. School out forever.

But in The Forest and Hands and Teeth, Carrie Ryan’s marvelous debut novel, the post-apocalypse is defined

Vintage Uglies

Okay, I’m twelve days late, but I didn’t want to miss commemorating the 60th anniversary of the first publication of Uglies!

Here’s the novel in all its original glory, back in 1959.

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In other news, I suck at Photoshop!

Happy belated April 1st.

That is all.

2009 Preview

This is going to be a big year for me. Leviathan is my first new series to come out since Uglies appeared way back in . . . 2005!

For you ancient history buffs, the first books of both Midnighters and my so-called “New York Trilogy” (So Yesterday, Peeps, and TLD) appeared in 2004. So it has been a long time . . .

Anyway, here’s what happens this year:

April 28 (a mere 3 weeks away!)
The paperback edition of Extras is released! Now, at long last, you can line up all four books in matching editions.

Hoverboard Warnings

Snorgtees.com has a hoverboard safety T-shirt for sale featuring this logo:

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Of course, this warning doesn’t fit in with the canonical Uglies universe rules of hoverboarding, so I felt a quick remix was in order:

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Ah. Now doesn’t that feel better?

Still in Texas and having a blast.

Me in Houston w/Cassandra Clare

Next Tuesday, March 31, I’ll be appearing with the inestimable Cassandra Clare in Houston, TX. Cassie, of course, is the author of City of Bones, City of Glass, and the about-to-be-released finale of the series, City of Ash.

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Here’s the deets:

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

6:30PM

Murder by the Book

2352 Bissonnet Street, Houston, TX 77005

(713) 524-8597

See you there.

And all of you Texas librarians, Justine and I will be seeing you at TLA! Prepare yourselves for bibliographical mayhem!

Teen Author Festival

It begins.

This afternoon Justine and I join Holly Black, Cassandra Clare, Alaya Johnson, David Levithan, and Diana Peterfreund at the Juvenalia Smackdown. We’ll be reading from our childhood and teenage writings. (OMG I spent the day looking at them and they are worse than I thought.) The immoderate Libba Bray will be moderating.

Monday, 3/16, 4-6pm, Tompkins Square Park branch of the NYPL, 331 E. 10th Street

We’re also participating in a tribute to Joe Monti on Wedneday, where I’ll be reading fro