Malinda Lo

Tomorrow is the official launch day for Huntress! To get you in the mood, here is a roundup of Huntress-related news: Huntress received a wonderful review from the Bulletin of the Center on Children’s Books. Here’s an excerpt: Lo expands from the lush, foreboding backdrop of the Wood found in her debut Ash (BCCB 10/09) ... More→

Greetings, dear readers! Today I’m pleased to share with you Chapter 3 from Huntress, which will be coming to bookstores quite soon! This will be the last little tidbit from Huntress that I’ll be posting online, but if you missed Chapter 1 or 2, you can read them all right here on one handy page. ... More→

I have exciting news, everybody! Today I can finally tell you about what I’ve been working on for months, because the deal was just announced in PW’s Children’s Bookshelf: Kate Sullivan at Little, Brown has bought Morris Award finalist Malinda Lo’s two-book YA series Adaptation. The premise? After an ominous series of mass bird deaths, ... More→

You may remember that a couple of weeks ago I posted Chapter 1 of Huntress on my website. Well, today I’m excited to share Chapter 2! Once more, with feeling: Now you can read both Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 of Huntress online! Two weeks ago, I also mentioned that I would be giving away ... More→

It’s time for one of my irregularly scheduled news roundups. 1. My first short story publication! I’m so pleased to announce that my short story, “The Fox,” will be published in the Summer 2011 issue of Subterranean Magazine Online, which is a special YA-themed issue edited by Gwenda Bond. The other stories in the issue ... More→

I have a couple of things to tell you about this week. Let’s start with the biggie: If you follow me on Twitter, you may have seen me tweeting about this new website I launched with Cindy Pon: Diversity in YA. Diversity in YA is not only a website celebrating diversity in middle-grade and young ... More→