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August 13, 2013
Dragonwriter, a tribute to Anne McCaffrey and Pern
Each season we announce our new titles individually, each in their own post, to give you a little extra background behind the book. If you’ve missed any, you can check them all outhere. All of Spring 2013′s intro posts arehere.
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Today is the official pub date for Dragonwriter: A Tribute to Anne McCaffrey and Pern, edited by Todd McCaffrey.
There’s something different about working on a tribute volume, compared to our usual anthologies. All of our books are, in some ways, about passion—about f...
August 12, 2013
Are you a Shadowhunter or Downworlder?
On August 16 declare your affiliation via Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, or Pinterest to win Shadowhunters and Downworlders prizes in celebration of the August 21 City of Bones premiere.
50 winners will receive:
a Shadowhunter or Downworlder button
2 winners will also receive:
a copy of Shadowhunters and Downworlders
2 movie tickets, to see City of Bones on us
To enter to win . . .
. . . on Twitter or Facebook, add the Shadowhunter or Downworlder twibbon to your user icon from...
July 4, 2013
San Diego Comic-Con 2013
It’s July again, and that means one thing around here at Smart Pop: frantically finishing up packing for San Diego Comic-Con. Click/scroll onward to see where you can find us in the convention center this year, what we’ll be up to, and what we’re giving away.
Jump to: Location, Signings, Panels, Free Stuff (With Bonus Prize Wheel!), Scan and Win
Location (#4300 – Exhibit Hall, Entrance F)
We’re sharing booth space again with Friend of Smart Pop Jamie Chambers and his Signal Fire Studios, which m...
July 3, 2013
Demigods and Monsters – Expanded Edition
Each season we announce our new titles individually, each in their own post, to give you a little extra background behind the book. If you’ve missed any, you can check them all outhere. All of Spring 2013′s intro posts arehere.
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Back in 200mumblemumble, when Borders was still alive and kicking (Borders, we miss you!), there was this little middle grade series just hitting its prime, featuring a kid with ADHD that finds out he’s actually the son of a god. That series, of course, was Rick Rior...
June 19, 2013
New Smart Pop books to look forward to, July to December 2013
I know I say this every year, but I mean it, sincerely, every time: the books we have coming are the smartest, best, most gratifying bunch of books we’ve had yet.
July 2013
Demigods and Monsters – Expanded Edition: Your Favorite Authors on Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series
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Edited by Rick Riordan
It might be a little easy to miss, with all the other films-based-on-YA-books excitement going on this year (Hunger Games! Mortal Instruments! Ender’s Game!), but the second Percy Jac...
June 18, 2013
See V. Arrow online at Victory Tour 2013
We all know the internet’s been a boon to fan communities—social media (and before that, message boards and listservs) have made it unbelievably easy to find other people who like what you like and want to spend time talking about it. These days, online is pretty much where being a fan happens.
It’s only logical that conventions would eventually start happening online too, right?
Enter Victory Tour 2013, an online convention on a few of our favorite dystopic YA series: The Hunger Games, Diverge...
June 3, 2013
Get Fifty Writers for only 99 cents!
Looking for some summer reading? How about revisiting Christian Grey and Ana Steele, the characters people can’t stop talking about? Lucky for you, we’ve dropped the e-book price for Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey to just 99 cents for a very limited time.
In case you need a refresher:
In Fifty Writers, Lori Perkins has collected some of the most interesting, provocative thoughts on Fifty Shades of Grey—good and bad—from romance and erotica authors, to real-world BDSM practitioners, to ad...
April 2, 2013
Ender’s World
Each season we announce our new titles individually, each in their own post, to give you a little extra background behind the book. If you’ve missed any, you can check them all out here. All of Spring 2013′s intro posts are here.
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Some worlds are larger than their creators.
Middle Earth is probably the classic example; the world Tolkien brought to life in Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit carries on though Tolkien himself does not. On the necessarily finite details of the framework he provided...
March 14, 2013
Doing our part to put the Veronica Mars movie in space
We’re, um, really excited about the Veronica Mars movie getting fully funded on Kickstarter. Like, really excited.
To celebrate, we’re giving away 2 paperback copies of our Veronica Mars anthology Neptune Noir, with terrific introduction from Rob Thomas on how Veronica Mars saved his soul (direct quote!). To enter, just leave us a comment on this post—say, with your favorite Veronica Mars quote—by midnight Central time this Sunday.
But we also wanted to do a little bit more.And so, starting tod...
February 8, 2013
We don’t have any candy hearts…but here are some essays!
Teddy bears are cliché, roses die, and too many chocolates? That’s how you spend Valentine’s Day with an upset stomach (hardly conducive for a romantic evening). We’ve got the perfect present for you, though, readers: food for thought.
During the week of Valentine’s Day—February 11–15—our daily essays will be all about sex and love. When you’re a romantic at heart or a jaded curmudgeon or something in between, we’ve got an essay to match your mood. Scroll down to see what’s in store.
Happy read...
