Put on Your YA-rmulkah, It's Time for Channukah: 8 Crazy Nights of YA (A.K.A. The Chronicles of Word Channukah Special)

Ever feel like there are just SO MANY AWESOME YA BOOKS out there, it’s like Channukah’s come early this year?

Well, you’d be right.  Channukah has come early this year.  I’ll be lighting the first candle in just under a week on November 27^th, along with everyone who got a nod in Adam Sandler’s classic musical litany. 

In fact, in honour of the Festival of Lights, I’ve written my own version of the Adam Sandler Channukah song, featuring Jewish YA authors past and present.  Cuz I’m just that cool:

Meg Rosoff spins the dreidel

And Cassandra Clare – what a fine shayna meidel*

Guess who’ll be lighting a Channukah candler?

David Levithan and Daniel Handler!**

Demons, Daim Bars and Good Advice: The long-awaited interview with Sarah Rees Brennan...

Yael and I met Sarah Rees Brennan on Blackfriars Bridge, one late July evening.

Like all stories, the beginning comes a little before that point.

I’ve been a fan of Sarah since before she was published, back when she blogged about her road through publication and kept livejournal rolling in the aisles with regular updates of wit (sidenote: this still happens), and repeatedly threw her books at Yael until she agreed to read them.

[Yael: You will now go read them too, if you know what’s good for you.]

Sarah Rees Brennan is the author of the Demon's Lexicon trilogy and the Lynburn Legacy trilogy. She's also collaborated with other big name YA authors, such as Cassandra Clare and Justine Larbalestier, is vocal about diversity in YA*, and feeds on the tears of her readers. Inevitably, we had to meet her, and we had to interview her for the blog.