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July 14, 2011
A Friday Night Lights Companion's Fan Favorite Tournament: Day 4
The Fan Favorite semi-final is here, and only four characters remain standing. If you're just joining us: To celebrate the release of A Friday Night Lights Companion (which we are not too proud to remind you is available right now on Kindle and iBooks, and will be available everywhere in print form soon), and to mourn the end of the show, this week we're putting all of your favorite characters up against each other in a bracket match to determine which character is the Fan Favorite. Click on ...
July 13, 2011
A Friday Night Lights Companion's Fan Favorite Tournament: Day 3
It's Day 3 of the Fan Favorite Tournament, and the competition is heating up. If you're just joining us: To celebrate the release of A Friday Night Lights Companion—and to mourn the end of the show—this week we're putting all of your favorite characters up against each other in a bracket match to determine which character is the Fan Favorite.
Highlights from the last couple of days:
Tim Riggins won by a (not entirely unexpected) landslide—poor Landry didn't stand a chance.Counting the votes...July 12, 2011
A Friday Night Lights Companion's Fan Favorite Tournament: Day 2
For those of you who are joining us late, to celebrate the release of A Friday Night Lights Companion and to mourn Friday Night Lights, this week we're putting all of your favorite characters head-to-head in a bracket match to determine which character is the Fan Favorite. Due to a few technical difficulties yesterday morning, we've extended voting on our first four match-ups until 2 PM; if you didn't vote yesterday, you can do so now here. And continue on below to vote (with a brand new...
July 11, 2011
A Friday Night Lights Companion's Fan Favorite Tournament: Day 1
As fellow Friday Night Lights fans, we understand how supremely difficult it is to choose one favorite character out of such an amazing and loveable cast. We're here, however, to take on that challenge and—in honor of our new book, A Friday Night Lights Companion (read more here)—name a Fan Favorite by launching a five-day tournament that will end on Friday along with the final season of Friday Night Lights on NBC (don't forget to join us for the live-tweet!).
Every day this week we're...
July 8, 2011
Announcing the Friday Night Lights Companion Fan Favorite Tournament
The series finale of Friday Night Lights airs next Friday, and in an attempt to forestall the inevitable depression (and to celebrate the impending release of A Friday Night Lights Companion), we're hosting a week-long tournament to determine Friday Night Light's fan favorite character.
Beginning on Monday, we'll be pairing up 16 of the most well-loved Friday Night Lights characters for fan vote in a five-day fight to the finish—with the winner announced on Monday, July 18. Your job: to come a...
July 7, 2011
Smart Pop at Comic-Con
Though our parent publisher BenBella has exhibited at Comic-Con before, this will be Smart Pop's first year with a booth—and we're jumping in feet (or is that spines?) first. Jennifer, Heather, and I will be in San Diego for four days (plus preview night!) packed with signings and giveaways for our 2011 titles. You'll find us at B-4, in the back right corner of the exhibit hall.
You can download our official Comic-Con press release here but we wanted to take some time here to give you guys a s...
July 1, 2011
A Friday Night Lights Companion
Last season, we did an official introduction post for our Fall 2010 books. This season, we're trying something new: officially announcing our Spring 2011 titles individually, each in their own post. If you've missed any, you can check them all out here.
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This book was (sad to say) not my idea.
This book was the idea of our marketing manager, Jennifer, who has championed Friday Night Lights to those of us in-office for years—as much, I suspect, to have someone to discuss episodes with as to...
June 10, 2011
Friday Night Lights Episode, 5.8, Twitter Party Recap
Just in time for a new Friday Night Lights episode tonight, here's a recap of all the fun Leah and I had last week, tweeting up a storm during our favorite TV drama, with the help of A Friday Night Lights Companion contributor, Robin Wasserman (@robinwasserman).
First note-worthy event of the episode: Coach Taylor swinging a tricycle part at Julie's sleazy TA, who had the nerve to show up at her door. (The nerve to show up, but the good sense to run away as soon as Eric appeared in the...
June 8, 2011
Nyx in the House of Night: Officially Released!
If our recent posts about Nyx in the House of Night have caught your eye, then you won't want to miss this news: today the book is officially on store shelves everywhere!
If this is the first you're hearing about Nyx in the House of Night, the book is all about the mythology, religion, and folklore in the House of Night series, and includes an introduction and essay by P.C. Cast herself, along with an essay from Kristin Cast, plus other great YA writers and mythology and religion experts...
May 31, 2011
New Smart Pop team member: Heather Butterfield
We had a great time at BEA and Book Blogger Con last week (more to come on that!), but it meant we didn't have a chance to announce something we're really excited about: our new Smart Pop team member, Heather Butterfield.
Heather's been interning for us since Fall 2009, and as of last Monday, she's BenBella's newest employee. She'll be doing both editorial and marketing work, supporting Jennifer and I on all Smart Pop titles (as well as continuing to be in charge of our YA site), and we...
