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ODD DUCK LA Book Launch 5/25 at Skylight Books

Come join me on Saturday, May 25th at 3 PM at Skylight Books for the Los Angeles launch of ODD DUCK!

There will be (iced) tea and cupcakes!  Bring your little ones and your odd friends!

Skylight Books /1818 N Vermont

3 PM

Odd Duck is finally here!

It’s finally here! ODD DUCK is out today! Written by me! Illustrated by Sara Varon! Go forth and be odd!

Indiebound

Amazon

B&N

powells

We Have Always Lived on Mars

My new story “We Have Always Lived on Mars” is up now at Tor.com!!!

You can also get it for your e-reader nook, kobo*, kindle

*remember, you can get your kobo ebook from an indiebound bookstore!

the art works (which I think is absolutely perfect and totally gorgeous) is by Carl Wien.

literary fests, bashes, book drops and writing retreat

These past few weeks there has been one literary thing after another!  Which I love!

First off there was the ReaderGirlz Teen Book Drop.  I dropped a few YA novels including my own First Day on Earth at the wee library in my neighborhood.  Look how tiny and cute it is.   Adorable.  It’s near a High School, so I think that those books will find great readers.

Then it was my favorite book festival of all time:  The Los Angeles Festival of Books!

I hung out mostly at the YA Stage where I moderated two panels and was on one panel.

First up was  a panel on the fantastic, with Gennifer Albin, Mark Frost and Cornelia Funke.

Then I moderated a panel on Middle Grade with Stuart Gibbs, and Blue Balliett.  It was kind of an amazing panel.

Then Aaron Hartzler, my co moderator at the YA Stage, moderated a graphic novel panel with me, Hope Larson and Ron Koertge.

That night was the LAPL Book Bash at the LAPL Central Library.  This year I was a honorary hostess which made me feel very fancy.

They had a photo booth!  Here I with my fellow PEN Emerging Voices Mentors Ramona Ausubel and Ben Loory!  We just saw our mentees do their readings at the Hotel Cafe this Sunday and they were swell.

Then it was World Book Night!  So I sat at Intelligentsia Cafe and I handed out Willa Cather’s My Antonia.  The weird thing is that people are so surprised that the book is free. They mostly thought that I was hocking my own self published novel. Yeah. I wish I wrote My Antonia!

Then this past weekend a bunch of writer pals and I went to a secret cabin in the woods and we workshopped some short stories and first chapters based on the Milford Workshop rules.  It was magical.

Here I am.  The smallest of the bunch.

 

Odd Duck reviewed in the NY Times

New Book anouncement: From publisher’s weekly/ April 1

Castellucci, Infurnari Go with Dark Horse

YA (and graphic) novelist Cecil Castellucci sold North American rights to a currently untitled Depression-era graphic novel to Dark Horse’s Sierra Hahn. The book, which William Morris Endeavor’s Kirby Kim represented, will be illustrated by Joe Infurnari, and is currently set for a fall 2014 release. The story is set in 1932 and follows, Dark Horse said, two misfits “and a relationship built during a train-hopping journey from the cold heartbreak of their eastern homes toward the sunny promise of California.”

Yappiest Day round up!

This past weekend I participated in the Yappiest Day on Earth!  the brain child of Cat Patrick.  It was 16 YA authors, bloggers and librarians and you!  Imagine us all running around Disneyland with matching blue shirts like we were on a school trip.  Every ride to conquer!  Thrilling screams to be had!

Here we are before our adventure began!

I wanted to go onto the Winnie the Pooh ride.  BUT WE GOT STUCK IN THE HONEYCOMB!

Or as Kevin Emerson, Sean Beaudoin, Rachel Cohn and I now will say for all things that suddenly go wrong: “Tigger spilt some honey on the tracks.”

Kevin Emerson and I in the Pooh “trap.”

I also went on Splash Mountain which was wet.  I was terrified at the drop.

Me and Gabrielle Zevin pre-drop.  We talked a lot about the Bears. And Zippity Doo Dah.

I spent a lot of the day hanging with Sean Beaudoin.  He even won me a stuffed mouse at the midway in California Adventure.  He also won a Dumbo that he gave to a tiny child who waddled off with the biggest grin on her face.   He also snuck in some Cruella de Ville time.

Anyway, it was a fun day and much thanks to Harper Collins for sponsoring the book signing afterwards and to Mysterious Galaxy for selling books.

Thanks to all of those who came out!  You should totally come next year.

Events upcoming next week! Dystopia Panel! Teen Author Read Night! Yappiest Day! Wondercon! Literary Orange!

Here are my upcoming events next week!

I will have Odd Duck buttons to give away.

Monday, March 25th

Dystopian YA Panel at Skylight Books
1818 N Vermont – Los Angeles
w/ Chris Howard, Sherri L Smith and Jennifer Bosworth
presented by The Los Angeles Review of Books



Thursday, March 28th
Teen Author Reading Series
w/ Margaux Froley, Sherri L Smith, Chris Howard and Aaron Hartzler
LAPL Central Libraray
630 w 5th Street


March 30th

Yappiest Day on Earth!Come join me and 15 other YA authors at Disneyland
To participate, meet the authors inside the gates of Disneyland at 8:00 AM on March 30th. Or, join us at the book signing at 5:30 PM at the Anabella Hotel, 1030 W. Katella Ave.

facebook invite here.



March 31st

Wondercon in Anaheim

Signing at Mysterious Galaxy Booth 11:30 – 12 #1201
Writing the Fantastic 2:30 – 3:30

Heroes vs. Villians 3:30p.m. – 4:30p.m., Room: 210BCD

April 6th

Literary Orange

1 PM Young Adult: The Awesome Age

Josephine Angelini, Cecil Castellucci, Jessi Kirby, Sarah Maas

Moderator: Allison Tran & Michelle Ann Dunphy

CondorCon San Diego Schedule

Condor Con Schedule!

Also I’ll be giving away some Odd Duck buttons!

Friday, March 8

3:00 PM Cresent

School as Dystopia – Vampires and werewolves they can handle. Heck, they’re cool. But what really concerns teenagers are final exams and what table they get to sit at a lunch. A consideration of views of worst of times through a fantasy lens. – Cecil Castellucci, Andrew P. Mayer, Gretchen McNeil, Leigh Bardugo

4:00 PM Cresent Retelling Old Stories: The New Fairy Tales Fairy tales twice told, retold, updated, remade, and yet they are still fairy tales. In today’s modern world, do we need to constantly update the themes that apply to the human condition? Can the Big Bad Wolf be your boss? Does Thumbelina have her own reality show? Do we lose the specialness of these tales by modernizing them? How does re-telling them in an updated form affect these themes? – Cecil Castellucci, Michael Underwood, Lillian Csernica, Juliette Wade, Laura Luchau

Saturday March 9

4:00 PM

Cresent Young Adult Fiction: Supernatural Romance Cecil Castellucci, Suzanne Lazear, Karri Thompson, Gretchen McNeil

5:00 PM Galleria 2 Autographs Gretchen McNeil, Cecil Castellucci, Leigh Bardugo

Sunday March 10

10:00 AM Cresent Young Adult Fiction: When I was a kid, we didn’t have . . . Rights: Dystopian visions in YA Cecil Castellucci, Karri Thompson, Andrew P. Mayer, Stephen Potts, Val Ontell

Short Story “The Ides of March” on Rookie Magazine!

Hey all! I’ve got a new short story “The Ides of March” (and it is the Ides right now!) up at Rookie Magazine! Hope you will go read it! And just look at the awesome art work that they paired it with. swoon! thanks, Ana!