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Happy Halloween, book lovers! 👻
Are you reading any murderous/spooky/mysterious/thrilling books this Halloween season? 🎃😬😱🎃
So. many. amazing. new. books. 🎉
The Supervillain and Me by Danielle Banas Spill Zone: The Broken Vow by Scott Westerfeld (book 2 in the Spill Zone series) The Traitor’s Ruin by Erin Beaty (book 2 in the Traitor’s Circle series) Things Jolie Needs to Do Before She Bites It by Kerry Winfrey
Hellooooooo pretty books 📚📚📚
Just Dreaming by Kerstin Gier (Book 3 in the Silver Trilogy | May 2) The Battlemage by Taran Matharu (Book 3 in the Summoner Series | May 2) Spill Zone by Scott Westerfeld (May 2) Count All Her Bones by Apirl Henry (Sequel to Girl, Stolen | May 2) The Traitor’s Kiss by Erin Beaty (May 9) No Second Chances by Kate Evangelista (May 16) The Love Interest by Cale Dietrich (May 16) The Truth About Happily Every After by Karole Cozzo (May 16) I Believe in a Thing Called Love by Maurene Goo (May 30)
Every Tuesday is New Books Day, which pretty much makes it the best day of the week, don’t you think?
Count All Her Bones by April Henry (the sequel to Girl, Stolen) Just Dreaming by Kristin Gier (the third and final book in the Silver trilogy)
The Battlemage by Taran Matharu (the third book in the Summoner series) Spill Zone by Scott Westerfeld
Spill Zone by Scott Westerfeld comes out TOMORROW! 🎉 To celebrate Spill Zone, Team Fierce Reads asked Scott a few questions about the book and life as an author.
Team Fierce Reads: What makes Addison Fierce? Scott Westerfeld: Her hometown and family have been destroyed, but she's still all-in on raising her little sister, which means sneaking into the Zone to take photos of dreadful monsters. In short, she rides motorcycles, is an awesome big sister, and risks her life to make art.
TFR: If you could give Addison one piece of advice, what would it be? SW: Be careful! (And take it easy on yourself.)
TFR: What's the strangest thing you learned while researching Spill Zone? SW: In 1987, scrap dealers in a small city in Brazil bought a radiology machine and took it apart. The radioactive dust inside got passed around. In the end, 249 people, three buses, forty-two houses, fourteen cars, and five pigs were found to be contaminated. Don't mess with old medical machines, kids.
TFR: If you'd met Addison when you were a teen, would you have been friends? SW: Yes! I was all about sneaking into abandoned places as a kid. It's a wonder that I survived.
TFR: What's one fun fact most people don't know about you? SW: I can sing in a double-Donald-Duck harmony with myself.
NO ENTRY
NO PHOTOGRAPHS
NO SURVIVORS
Three years ago, something happened in upstate New York — a mysterious event that changed reality forever. But the Spill Zone has been quarantined and no one is allowed in (and especially out).
But now that's changing. Check out this blog tour to see exclusive photographs from inside the spill zone, by Addison Merritt — the photographer who's the subject of the new account of the spill zone, from Scott Westerfeld and Alex Puvilland.
May 1st — Audrey’s Book Blog May 2nd — BookCrushin May 3rd — YA Bibliophile May 4th — Fiction Fare May 5th — Teen Librarian Toolbox May 8th — Ex Libris Kate May 9th — Xpresso Reads May 10th — Miss Print May 11th — Adventures of a Book Junkie May 12th — Forever YA
Join us in the spill zone!
The following is a guest post from Scott Westerfeld, author of Spill Zone.
Let me tell you a little about how Spill Zone came to be.
In 2004, a Ukrainian photojournalist named Elena Filatova (aka KiddofSpeed) blogged an account of her illicit motorcycle journeys through the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, the area blighted by history’s worst nuclear accident. Her photos and writing were elegiac and apocalyptic, evoking the otherworldliness of the forsaken city of Pripyat. But once the posts went viral, certain discrepancies were noted, and Filatova admitted that her accounts were “more poetry than reality.”
In short, she might have taken a tour bus. You see, it’s pretty easy to get into the Exclusion Zone these days.
But the poetic version stuck with me—a woman on a motorcycle, a camera, an empty and dangerous world.
I’ve always been a sucker for tales about exploring broken, abandoned terrain. As a kid I was an “urban explorer,” though we didn’t have that term back then. I spelunked the buildings at my upstate New York college, and I’ve explored abandoned sites in and around NYC since. There’s nothing quite like the silent loneliness of a place that has been abandoned, restricted, and left to ruin. In these spaces, the usual rules don’t apply. It feels as if the laws of physics don’t either.
So what if they really were a slice of another world?
That’s what Spill Zone is about. The ways that disasters, canny or uncanny, change the spaces that they take place in. And the ways that we survivors become explorers of those ruined spaces, picking them apart with memories, stories, and art.
My heroine, Addison Merritt, isn’t just taking strange photographs. She’s rebuilding after the fall.
Working with me to make the world inside the Spill Zone alien and unsettling are artist Alex Puvilland (Templar, Prince of Persia) and colorist Hilary Sycamore (Battling Boy, The Shade). They’ve created a world that’s both alien and beautiful, and characters and settings that look like they belong in the hardscrabble upstate Zone towns that some downstaters still call “Tawana Brawley country.”
They’ve captured the feeling I first got from a line in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (S1E12), when Buffy sees a room of people killed by vampires: “When I walked in there, it . . . it wasn’t our world anymore. They made it theirs. And they had fun.”
Spill Zone by Scott Westerfeld | On Sale May 2nd, 2017
The Spring 2017 Fierce Reads Tour is HAPPENING REALLY SOON. It’s VERY POSSIBLE we’ll be stopping in a city near you, so check those dates!
Hello friends!!!!!
Once again, it is time to review the most recent Fierce Reads updates. (Y’know, because you all deserve to know EVERYTHING we’ve been up to.)
New Books: FOUR new books have hit shelves since our last recap: 1. Pyromantic by Lish McBride 2. Eyes of the World by Marc Aronson & Marina Budhos 3. Perfect by Cecelia Ahern 4. Duels & Deception by Cindy Anstey
A NEW LOGO?!?? YEAH. YOU READ RIGHT. Fierce Reads has a NEW AND SHINY LOGO. It’s all of everything. We are so happy.
A Contest: We want to put your selfie on a book cover. You should probably find out more about that.
Cover Reveals: EVERYONE ROLL OUT THE RED CARPET BECAUSE THE COVER FOR THE LANGUAGE OF THORNS BY LEIGH BARDUGO IS FINALLY HERE.
Fun Bonus Stuff: We wrote a post with tips for making room on your shelves for all of the books you accidentally bring home with you on a daily basis; Author Deborah Heiligman wrote a sweet post for National Sibling Day; To celebrate the launch of Perfect, we interviewed author Cecelia Ahern; If you preorder The Battlemage by Taran Matharu, you’ll receive annotated chapters from the book; and if you preorder Spill Zone by Scott Westerfeld, you’ll receive awesome tattoos;
UNTIL NEXT TIME
WILL WE SEE YOU ON TOUR THIS SPRING?!?
If so, which stop will you be at?
For full details, visit the Fierce Reads website!
