BK Akitas Wrote:BWAAAAAhahahahaha, I got mine
I refuse to give a single thing away but ya'll are going to want this. It might be marketed for YA's but there's no mistaking it's Jack my cover looks nothing like that.
(thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou)
ccosborne3 Wrote:Hmmmmmmm. Looks like somebody became a favorite very quickly.
One question. is JACK traditional FPW lacking gore and sex?
ImDeranged Wrote:S-E-X ? In a YA book? You have got to be kidding me. The last YA book I read was Dydeetown World and there was nothing about S-E-X in it. It was a nice little novel that the American Library Association and the New York Public Library, among others put on there recommended reading lists. It was set in the future where we are able to take cells from dead celebrities, clone them then sell them to be pimped out as prostitutes because they aren't real....but there was no S-E-X in it. That would've been wrong.
BK Akitas Wrote:I am loaning my copy to a YA tomorrow so she can read it over the weekend and get the opinion of someone who doesn't already know Jack...I think it will paint a very different picture.
ImDeranged Wrote:S-E-X ? In a YA book? You have got to be kidding me. The last YA book I read was Dydeetown World and there was nothing about S-E-X in it. It was a nice little novel that the American Library Association and the New York Public Library, among others put on there recommended reading lists.
fpw Wrote:[SIZE="3"] The heroine is a prostitute. [/SIZE]
fpw Wrote:[SIZE="3"]Let me know the reaction.A reaction like that wouldn't surprise me at all. Jack is a really engaging character as an adult; I can just imagine how interesting he'd be as an adolescent.
Last year I tested it on a group of 20 teens (even mix male and female) in a reading group in PA. To dodge the suck-up factor, I made 2 conditions: they weren't to know that the teacher knew me, nor that I would see their comments. The teacher told me that kids who usually took a week or two to finish a book were knocking off Secret Histories over a weekend. The comments were so universally positive -- many of them glowing -- that I hesitated showing the publisher for fear they'd think I was putting them on.
Can't expect that from all kids, but it's encouraging. [/SIZE]
XiaoYu Wrote:If indie booksellers will have this soon, does this mean I'll be able to order it online from them? Which stores'll have it? I don't wanna wait till the end of May to read this...
ImDeranged Wrote:"Hospitality consultant" ? I like that one but I think in a "PC" age we should rename them "Happy Endings Facilitators" because it sounds so "positive" (yes there is a pun in there)- If you are Happy you are Positive.