The incredible Word for Word Performing Arts Company will bring selections of The Sky Is Everywhere to the stage on Friday October 14th at 6:30 PM, directed by Delia MacDougall, at the Z Space, 450 Florida Street, SF, CA 94110. I am so excited about this! If you’re in the Bay Area, check it out! Here’s the event link: http://www.zspace.org/w4w/otp/jandynelson.htm
SF Bay Area Teens! Enter the Figment teenquake writing contest by Sept. 18th! Great writing prompts for mystery, fantasy, straight fiction and poetry. I’m judging the poetry. Happy writing! Info here. And here’s a blog post I wrote for Figment.com on writing Sky.
Breaking news: The Sky Is Everywhere has been nominated for YALSA’s Teens Top Ten Books of 2011! If you are 12-18 years old and feel like voting–do! Voting is open now until September 16, 2011 only. Honored to be on the list–such great company! http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/teenstopten11
The Sky Is Everywhere won the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Award for best teen literature of 2010! So thrilled!
Sky is a Horn Book Fanfare Best Book of 2010, a BCCB Best Book of 2010, a Bank Street Outstanding Book of 2010, an Association of Booksellers for Children New Voices Pick for outstanding 2010 debuts, a Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Books of 2010, on the Pennsylvania Young Readers Choice Award Master List and selected for the 2011 International Reading Association Young Adult Choices List!
NPR picks The Sky Is Everywhere as one of five of the year’s best teen reads! (Chosen by the amazing Gayle Forman, author of If I Stay.) Listen to the report on All Things Considered.
Sky has been nominated for a Goodreads Choice Award!
Publishers Weekly named The Sky Is Everywhere one of five Flying Start debuts
The Sky Is Everywhere is on the longlist for the Carnegie Medal in the UK and the shortlist for the Prix des Sorcieres in France!
Sky has been shorlisted for the Australian 2010 Silver Inky Award, Australia’s only teen choice book award. I’m honored to be in such amazing company. The shortlist: Going Bovine by Libba Bray, Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld, Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater, Will Grayson, Will Grayson by David Levithan & John Green, and Sky!
Sky called Über mir der Himmel in German has been shortlisted for the 2010 Leserpreis Award.
Sky will be published in many languages all around the world. In French by Gallimard, in German by Bertelsmann, in Dutch by Moon Uitgevers, in Italian by Fazi Editore, in Spanish by Everest, in Danish by Glydendal, in Swedish by Gilla Bocker, in Turkish by Epsilon Yayinlari, in Chinese by Memory House, in Portuguese by Editora Novo Conceito in Brazil, in Polish by Amber, in Norwegian by Glydendal, and by Walker in the UK.
Check out a Q&A Jandy did about writing The Sky Is Everywhere.
Listen to an interview with Jandy on NPR’s The Roundtable
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The incredible Word for Word Performing Arts Company will bring selections of The Sky Is Everywhere to the stage on Friday October 14th at 6:30 PM, directed by Delia MacDougall, at the Z Space, 450 Florida Street, SF, CA 94110. I am so excited about this! If you’re in the Bay Area, check it out! Here’s the event link: http://www.zspace.org/w4w/otp/jandynelson.htm
SF Bay Area Teens! Enter the Figment teenquake writing contest by Sept. 18th! Great writing prompts for mystery, fantasy, straight fiction and poetry. I’m judging the poetry. Happy writing! Info here. And here’s a blog post I wrote for Figment.com on writing Sky.
Breaking news: The Sky Is Everywhere has been nominated for YALSA’s Teens Top Ten Books of 2011! If you are 12-18 years old and feel like voting–do! Voting is open now until September 16, 2011 only. Honored to be on the list–such great company! http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/teenstopten11
The Sky Is Everywhere won the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Award for best teen literature of 2010! So thrilled!
Sky is a Horn Book Fanfare Best Book of 2010, a BCCB Best Book of 2010, a Bank Street Outstanding Book of 2010, an Association of Booksellers for Children New Voices Pick for outstanding 2010 debuts, a Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Books of 2010, on the Pennsylvania Young Readers Choice Award Master List and selected for the 2011 International Reading Association Young Adult Choices List!
NPR picks The Sky Is Everywhere as one of five of the year’s best teen reads! (Chosen by the amazing Gayle Forman, author of If I Stay.) Listen to the report on All Things Considered.
Sky has been nominated for a Goodreads Choice Award!
Publishers Weekly named The Sky Is Everywhere one of five Flying Start debuts
The Sky Is Everywhere is on the longlist for the Carnegie Medal in the UK and the shortlist for the Prix des Sorcieres in France!
Sky has been shorlisted for the Australian 2010 Silver Inky Award, Australia’s only teen choice book award. I’m honored to be in such amazing company. The shortlist: Going Bovine by Libba Bray, Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld, Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater, Will Grayson, Will Grayson by David Levithan & John Green, and Sky!
Sky called Über mir der Himmel in German has been shortlisted for the 2010 Leserpreis Award.
Sky is also a Junior Library Guild selection, a YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults title for 2011, and was #3 on the Indie Next List for spring 2010 http://news.bookweb.org/features/7307.html!
And Sky is on the 2011 TLA Tayshas Reading List!
Sky will be published in many languages all around the world. In French by Gallimard, in German by Bertelsmann, in Dutch by Moon Uitgevers, in Italian by Fazi Editore, in Spanish by Everest, in Danish by Glydendal, in Swedish by Gilla Bocker, in Turkish by Epsilon Yayinlari, in Chinese by Memory House, in Portuguese by Editora Novo Conceito in Brazil, in Polish by Amber, in Norwegian by Glydendal, and by Walker in the UK.
Check out a Q&A Jandy did about writing The Sky Is Everywhere.
Listen to an interview with Jandy on NPR’s The Roundtable
The Sky Is Everywhere is in The Guardian/UK for the second time in two weeks! Why Are American Writers So Good at Coming of Age Novels?
Sky and I were featured in Maximum Shelf/Shelf Awareness in February:
Read the review
Book Brahmin Q & A with Jandy
Read an article about Jandy in the San Francisco Chronicle
Read interviews with Jandy at:
Persnickety Snark
Tattooed Books
Listen to Jandy read the first two chapters of The Sky Is Everywhere on KQED’s The Writer’s Block