It's Friday, so you know what that means: hella distractions courtesy of US slidin' up in your day like:
Always ask yourself: WWSnoopD?
Book Related Things
Marie Lu's Batman: Nightwalker has a cover, and it's definitely in the same vein as Leigh Bardugo's Wonder Woman: Warbringer:
Our Jennie was interviewed by The Washington Post for a piece they did on adults who love YA. (Bit tardy to the party, eh WaPo?)
World's Rudest Bookseller, aka The Basil Fawlty of Books, has sold his shop in Yorkshire, is tired of being known as The Man Who Charges 50p Admission.
Bloomsbury will release two new Harry Potter universe books to coincide with the British Library's new Harry Potter collection.
There is a library seeking ACTUAL witches to help with some 17th century translation.
Rainbow Rowell blogged about writing The Runaways (OMG I can not waitttttt!)
YA memoirs are getting more and more popular these days, so here's a list to get you started!
YA Onscreen Things
ICYMI, this week on YA Onscreen: We're finally getting a female Doctor! The whining from babymenz is HILARS.
Universal Cable is developing the Raven Boys series with Catherine Hardwicke and Dan Harmon! I'm hoping that Harmon will bring a bit of much-needed levity to the lives of the Aglionby boys.
Sookie and Michel ran into each other while on holiday in Greece!
A Latina Cinderella is coming to Once Upon a Time!
Felicity Jones has been cast to play RBG in her biopic.
Social Media Things:
In news that is awesome, Maureen Johnson announced that she and Tim Federle are editing a Why I Resist anthology with some YA faves:
Comic Book Goddess Kelly Thompson (Hawkeye, Jem and the Holograms, A-Force) is going to be writing the new Ghostbusters miniseries! LOOK AT THE ART:
Tomi Adeyemi dropped her cover reveal on Twitter for Children of Blood and Bone, and can I just have this on my shelf already? Please?
Miscellaneous Things
Sleep in a heated outdoor sphere in Iceland and watch the Northern Lights!
Art On Demand via text, courtesy of the San Francisco's MoMA!
Keegan Michael Key's Luther decided to come out of retirement as Obama's Anger Translator with the encouragement of Stephen Colbert. Luther, I have missed you so!
How are y'all handling this heat wave? I'm going to need climate change to be addressed POST HASTE, Congress. DAMN. What other interweb stories caught your eye this week? Convo with me below!