Procrastination Pro-Tips: LOVE, SIMON, Junk Food of SUPERNATURAL, Hot Firefighters, And More!

Happy Friday (the 13th, ooooOOOOOooooooooo)! We're starting Pro Tips on a rotation, so now you'll get your weekly dose of distractions from a variety of FYA writers. Let's get to it, shall we?

Book Related Things

Cover reveal and excerpt from Sandhya Menon's new book From Twinkle With Love.

Kelly Loy Gilbert reveals the cover of her next book, Picture Us In The Light.

YA books with bi boys.

8 fall queer reads you need.

12 WOC and Native authors talk about why they write about mental illness.

Famous in Love author Rebecca Serle is releasing her first adult book.

Some good book deals: *

Letters to the Lost (review)

The Vampire Diaries 1: The Awakening—if you haven't read the series that started the show, why not start now? Be forewarned: TV!Elena and Book!Elena are very different.

Asylum (review)

YA Onscreen Things

ICYMI, The Runaways, Shannara Chronicles, The Last Jedi, and more in the latest YA Onscreen roundup.

A bunch of diners will become Pop's Chock'lit Shoppes in Canada this week.

Freeform's got a new drama starring Paul Wesley.

The poster for Love, Simon (the movie version of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda) is here!

Roswell is getting the reboot treatment. Discuss!

A tribute to the junk food of Supernatural. 

Here is a sobering roundup of all the women who have come forward with allegations against Harvey Weinstein. Related: James Van Der Beek has mentioned his own abuses, and come out in support of the Weinstein accusers.

Social Media Things

My own child says he’s coming to my career fair table because he MIGHT have questions about writing. That he can’t ask at home, apparently?

— Rainbow Rowell (@rainbowrowell) October 12, 2017

Here's Maggie Stiefvater playing the bagpipes at a recent book event in Menlo Park, CA:

 

Here's Maggie Stiefvater playing the bagpipes during her launch of All the Crooked Saints. She is just so cool! #fangirling #bayareaevents #keplersbooks #maggiestiefvater #allthecrookedsaints #bagpipes

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Oct 11, 2017 at 3:24pm PDT

FYA Photo-a-Day is still in full swing for October. Here are some of our faves from the first week of prompts! 

 

Our #fyaphotoaday Week 1 faves! Swipe to check out these 'grammers: 1. @akraticbehavior (Coffee and TBR) 2. @flashbug (Reading Spot) 3. @megan.j.richardson (Let's Get Familiar) 4. @smalltownnerdlette (Reading Spot) 5. @akraticbehavior (Currently Reading) 6. @carleemalemute (Character Cars) 7. @wayfaringarchivist (Let's Get Familiar) 8. @ladybookdragon (Reading Spot) 9. @glamtart (Mix Tape) 10. @cedarmilllibrary (Currently Reading) #bookstagram #bookstagramchallenges

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Oct 8, 2017 at 2:46pm PDT

Women are boycotting Twitter today. Are you? (I'm not—it already feels like we're silenced enough.)

Roxane Gay met Channing Tatum!

Miscellaneous Things

Halloween candy and beverage pairings, for the sophisticate. *raises pinky*

Who wants some hot Australian firefighters? You do.

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That's it for this week! Did we miss anything? Let us know in the comments!