Chat with Scott Westerfeld

Based on how many of you ask me for The Uglies Trilogy, I suspect there's a healthy cadre of Westerfans out there. Therefore, I figure you should know that Scott Westerfeld is the featured author at readergirlz this month. They are talking Leviathan.

If you are still waiting for your copy of Leviathan to come in, the postergirlz have some recommended reads to go along with Leviathan:

• The Cabinet of Wonders by Marie Rutkowski


• Skybreaker by Kenneth Oppel


• The Explosionist by Jenny Davidson


• Skin Hunger by Kathleen Duey


• Boneshaker by Cherie Priest

And, because this is the month of BOOK TRAILERS, here's Leviathan's awesome one:



"Do you oil your war machines, or do you FEED them?" muhahahahaha!

Westerfeld will be chatting at the rgz blog all month long, including a LIVE chat on March 17th at 6pm.

As an added bonus, here's a video Westerfeld made:

Chat with Author Mary Pearson about The Adoration of Jenna Fox!

Tonight, via the readergirlz blog, there will be a live chat with the author of The Adoration of Jenna Fox. Which, if you've at all talked to me about books in the last 9 months, you know I <3.Why do I heart it? Because:

"Jenna was in a coma for 18 months. When she wakes up she doesn't remember anything - or anyone. Not what happened to her. Not her parents. Not her grandmother. Soon little pieces of her memory start coming back, slowly, and with their return she begins to realize that the isolated world of Jenna Fox is not what it seems. As she slowly unravels what happened to her - and the implications of what was done to her - she finds that maybe it would have been better if she had never woken up from that coma at all."

(that's me, quoting from myself. It's lame, but why write it twice, right?)

There's lots of tension and it really made me think. I'd say more, but I don't want to give anything away. Anyway, I encourage you to attend the rgz chat! If you can't make tonight's chat, never fear, rgz features a different author every month! April will be ELLEN HOPKINS, author of CRANK, IDENTICAL, GLASS, GLASS and BURNED. (!!!)

Live Chat with Meg Cabot!

Since you're probably stuck inside with all this snow, why not chat with an immensely popular author?

From the readergirlz blog:

"Join the readergirlz forum tonight at 9pm EST/6pm PST as we chat LIVE with Meg Cabot! Tiaras optional.

And during the day, to psych up, visit Girl Week at Reviewer X's blog."

Have fun!

Like authors? Have questions? Just wanna Chat?

Readergirlz can help ya out a little there.



In celebration of Teen Read Week/Month Readergirlz are hosting live chats with authors EVERY NIGHT THIS WEEK. If you've got a MySpace account, you can participate. Just head on over to the group forum.

Here's the line up:

Monday, October 13:

Multicultural Bites

Coe Booth

An Na

Mitali Perkins

Tuesday, October 14:

Verse Bites

Lorie Ann Grover

Stephenie Hemphill

Lisa Ann Sandell

Wednesday, October 15:

Contemporary Bites

Ally Carter

Justina Chen Headley

Maureen Johnson

Thursday, October 16:

Fantasy Bites

Holly Black

Dia Calhoun

Ted Naifeh

Tamora Pierce

Friday, October 17:

Gothic Bites

Holly Cupala

Christopher Golden

Annette Curtis Klause

Mari Mancusi

Chats start at 6pm PST! Stop in and say hi! Hope to see you there!

And, if you just happened not to have seen it...here it is again, simply because I loves it:

NIGHT BITES

All I'm sayin' is this is awesome, take a look: