book trailer + win a free book
Last week, Adaptive Studios revealed their phenomenal book trailer for The Silence of Six via Christine Riccio’s book channel on YouTube! It’s incredible to see my words translated to the screen like this, and it turned out even more shocking and creepier than I had imagined. But see for yourself:
Adaptive has more treats in store for you: another giveaway! This time they’re offering a bunch of free hardcovers of the completed book, which is out on November 5. (They even may be signed, if we can work out the logistics.) Enter the giveaway now through Nov. 15!
Goodreads Book Giveaway
The Silence of Six
by E.C. Myers
Giveaway ends November 15, 2014.
See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.
Enter to win
And here’s a picture of me and some of the Adaptive team in NYC last week, when we met for the first time IRL!
the silence of six giveaways!
I’m offering two signed ARCs (Advance Reading Copies) of my new YA novel, The Silence of Six, on Goodreads!
Goodreads Book Giveaway
The Silence of Six
by E.C. Myers
Giveaway ends October 07, 2014.
See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.
Enter to win
You also have until Friday, October 10 to enter another ARC giveaway at YA Books Central.
Book reviewers can request an electronic copy at NetGalley.
So there are several ways to read The Silence of Six before it releases on the Fifth of November. Good luck! And keep an eye on this blog for some more opportunities in the next couple of months.
#weneeddiversebooks at naiba
I was honored to be invited to the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association (NAIBA) Fantastic Fall Conference last weekend. They hosted their first ever #WeNeedDiverseBooks Reception, featuring 15 authors who are PoC and/or have written diverse books of all kinds. They also provided a highly visible table in the vendor room so booksellers and publishers could come find out about the campaign.
Back row (l to r): Robin Talley, Ryan Graudin, Ellen Oh. Front row (l to r): Justina Ireland, L.R. Giles, Kat Yeh, Renée Ahdieh.
This was one of the best events I’ve participated in. The reception was styled in a kind of “Speed Dating” format: Authors sat at small tables with their books and booksellers mingled and stopped to chat. There was a lot of enthusiasm and interest in #WeNeedDiverseBooks and our work, and it was great to meet so many people who own and run the independent bookstores we love and rely on. It’s also always wonderful to hang out with other authors and meet in real life after interacting online. Thanks so much to team members Ellen Oh, Aisha Saeed, Lamar Giles, I.W. Gregorio, Meg Medina, Renée Ahdieh, and Caroline Richmond for making me a part of it.
This was especially exciting for me because that night was the first time I saw advance copies of my new book, The Silence of Six! It looks really wonderful, and the awesome cover drew many people over to ask about it and get signed copies for their stores, kids, or themselves. Physical copies of the book are out in the world now! Thanks to my publisher, Adaptive Books, for getting books there in time.
It’s more than 1s and 0s and ideas in my head!
Despite my ongoing efforts to cull our bookshelves, I did come home with a few great books, and I encourage you to look for published and forthcoming work from the other attendees for a great selection of diverse titles and middle grade/young adult authors:
The Wrath and the Dawn — Renée Ahdieh
Fake ID — L.R. Giles
The Walled City — Ryan Graudin
None of the Above — I.W. Gregorio
Vengeance Bound — Justina Ireland
Control and Catalyst — Lydia Kang
Say What You Will — Cammie McGovern
Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass (Best. Title. Ever.) — Meg Medina
Prophecy — Ellen Oh
The Only Thing to Fear — Caroline Tung Richmond
Written in the Stars — Aisha Saeed
Lies We Tell Ourselves — Robin Talley
Saving Baby Doe — Danette Vigilante
The Truth About Twinkie Pie — Kat Yeh
And of course, if you’d like to learn more about We Need Diverse Books and how to support the campaign:
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Some diverse books I nabbed at NAIBA
what is “the silence of six”?
Would you believe I’ve never had a proper cover reveal before? The covers for Fair Coin and Quantum Coin just appeared on the internet one day without much fanfare, so I felt like I had missed out on a fun milestone for authors. I love cover reveals for other books so much! I wanted one!
That’s why I’m thrilled that the superb folks at YA Books Central have agreed to host the cover reveal for my next novel, The Silence of Six! Even though I’ve been staring at the cover art lovingly for a few weeks already (and it’s already the wallpaper on my phone), I’m excited for others to see it and share their opinions. I think it’s very excellent, and perfect for the book in so many ways. And hey, if you don’t like seeing faces on book covers, this one more than makes up for the covers of my first two novels :)
So pop on over to YA Books Central to check out the cover and read an excerpt — the first bits of my new novel out in the world! There’s also a giveaway and a bunch of links to pre-order the e-book; a hardcover will be available, but links aren’t available yet.
Remember, remember, the fifth of November — because that’s when The Silence of Six will be available from Adaptive Books!
Tweet about it
Add it to your Goodreads shelf
Request a review copy at NetGalley
Pre-order the e-book: Amazon Kindle | iBooks | Kobo
Updated to add links — 15:30:00
sherlock’s approach to research
Early this year, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts launched its interview series, In Conversation, with Benedict Cumberbatch. (Good choice!) Something he said about how he researches a new role struck a chord with me:
[Research is] a security blanket. Not all of it — very little of it ends up on screen, often. And it’s just to take a little bit more possession of the extraordinariness of what I’m being asked to do. Because it’s so far removed from my experience. It just gets me a little bit more… It just gives me a little bit more courage to pretend to be something I’m so far from.
[Watch the quoted clip, or the whole interview, here. Video will play automatically in a new window.]
I literally couldn’t have said it better, because I’m not Benedict Cumberbatch! But I feel the same way about novel research. Obviously, before you start writing about something you don’t know much about, like say computer hacking — the topic of my next book, The Silence of Six — you have to find out more about it. But the tricky thing about research is you don’t necessarily know what information you will need before you start outlining or writing the book. The natural solution is to learn everything you can, just like Sherlock, but as Cumberbatch said so sexily: most of that isn’t going to end up on the page, and it shouldn’t.
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