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Update: May 5, 2013
With Pennsylvania School Librarians at the PSLA Conference in Hershey, discussing my Pennsylvania novel A Plague Year.
With co-presenter, Toni Vahlsing from the Abingdon Friends School, Jenkintown, PA.
Update: July 18, 2012
A Plague Year has been selected for the Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Awards Program Master List for 2012 –2013.
Update: January 20, 2012
Upcoming Events:
Monday, January 23, 2012, 8:00pm
Lecture, with questions and answers for Florida Virtual School students as part of Celebrate Literacy Week
Saturday, February 25, 2012, 11:00am
Keynote address, Christopher Newport University Writers’ Conference, Newport News, Virginia
Monday, February 27, 2012, 7:00pm
Lecture and reception, Longwood University, Farmville, Virginia
Update: December 10, 2011
Books & Books (Miami, FL)
Update: November 21, 2011
Stephen Gaynor School in Manhattan (New York, NY)
Update: November 4, 2011
Edward Bloor's upcoming appearances for A Plague Year:
New York, NY:
Saturday, November 19, at 5:00pm:
Books of Wonder
18 W. 18th Street, New York, NY
212-989-3270
Miami, FL:
Saturday, December 10, at 3:30pm:
Books & Books
265 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables, FL
305-442-4408
Update: August 28, 2011
Edward’s Bloor’s seventh novel, A Plague Year, is now available for pre-order at Amazon
and Barnes & Noble. The official publication date for the hardcover is September 13, 2011. Please check back for information about launch events.
Update: February 28, 2011
Edward Bloor's short story "The Boy Who Should Have Said Something," a modern and somewhat wicked fable, has been published in the collection Fragmentation + Other Stories from Burrow Press.
Update: December 22, 2010
Edward Bloor’s sixth novel, Memory Lane, is now available as an e-book exclusive at Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com.
Click here
for the Amazon edition!
Click here for the Barnes and Noble edition!
Here is the online synopsis:
Memory Lane, America’s most popular new theme park, promises to provide its guests with “golden memories.” Choose any week—from 1950 to the present—and Memory Lane will recreate it for you in amazing detail: the foods, the clothes, the TV shows, even the schools. You will soon forget about the present and start living in the past.
But is that a good idea?
Alice hopes Memory Lane will provide a week of personal healing and of family bonding. Instead, Alice and her cousins Patrick and TJ find themselves struggling with a pair of psychotic bullies, and with the pain of young love, and with a shocking family secret that was, perhaps, better left buried in the past.
Smart, funny, and frightening, Memory Lane is Edward Bloor’s most powerful and insightful novel to date.
Update: June 26, 2010
Pictures from Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. Denise Ciancia, the reading specialist at Fred S. Engle Middle School, and some of the school's 900 reading fans. It was a great two days!
Update: May 16, 2010
Taken has been selected for the Sunshine State Young Reader’s Award Program Master List of Titles 2010-2011.
Update: February 27, 2010
We have received some excellent, and free, lesson plans for high school teachers using Crusader. Check them out in the For Teachers tab.
Update: January 30, 2010
Taken is now out in paperback! Click here to order.
Also, Memory Lane is now complete. Check out the Memory Lane page for a preview.
Update: April 15, 2009
Edward Bloor has announced that Blood Orange was just an April Fools' Day prank. His new novel is not a sequel to Tangerine, nor does it have vampires in it. If it did, he wouldn't be worrying about taxes today.
Update: April 1, 2009
Edward Bloor has signed to write the long-awaited sequel to Tangerine. In the sequel, titled Blood Orange, Erik Fisher, evil older brother of Paul, is assimilated into a group of teenage vampires that systematically prey on the cheerleaders at Paul's high school.
Update: January 29, 2009
Taken has been nominated for the Grand Canyon Reader Award, Arizona's state reading award.
On May 21, 2009, Edward Bloor has an appearance scheduled at Kenmore Middle School, Buffalo, NY. Go Sabres!
Update: January 18, 2009
London Calling has been nominated for the Virginia Readers' Choice award.
Update: June 1, 2008
London Calling has won the Bookbinders' Guild of New York Award: First Place in the Hardcover Young Adult category.
Update: May 15, 2008
The National Council of Social Studies has named Dear Author: Letters of Hope, edited by Dr. Joan Kaywell, a Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People, 2008. In its award announcement, the Council stated: "This compilation of authentic fan mail to young adult authors, and their responses, illuminates the importance of the real issues portrayed in books."
Check it out by clicking here!
Update: March 6, 2008
London Calling:
"London Calling to the underworld. Come out of the cupboards, ya boys and girls."
--The Clash
London Calling is now available in a Random House paperback edition. The art is the same as on the hardcover, but they have added new promotional material such as, "A Top Ten Book Sense 76 Pick."
"Extraordinarily moving…Characters ask, with good reason, what the truth is about the past or present." — Chicago Tribune
"A beautifully written story" — The Washington Post
Crusader:
CrushFilm Ltd. of London, UK, has optioned the film rights for Crusader.
Taken:
Florida Book Awards announced and Taken has been awarded the Silver Medal in Young Adult Fiction of the Florida Book Awards for 2007.
Interview:
Listen to Edward Bloor's March 2nd interview about Taken, London Calling, and other books on Front Porch at frontporchwithannakline.com.
Update: March 3, 2007
Like a skeleton horse, from the gates of hell,* Crusader has escaped from its exile among not-currently-available titles. The long-awaited trade paperback is out from Harcourt, with a large, reader-friendly trim size, and a cool, dark cover.
*Stolen from a great monologue in Talladega Nights
To read more about Crusader, here.
Also, Tangerine had some recent national publicity, being featured on February 23 on CBS's The Early Show, and in the March 2007 edition of Family Circle magazine. To view The Early Show video piece, click here.
Update: February 19, 2007
The tenth-anniversary hardcover edition of Tangerine, with an introduction by Danny DeVito, is now available!
Click here to buy it now!
Update: February 10, 2007
London Calling will be Edward Bloor's first novel to be translated into a foreign language. Or two. European publishers Librarie Plon and RCS Libri have made arrangements to release French and Italian versions in 2007.
Edward Bloor's fifth novel, Taken, has been posted on Amazon.com! Copies can be pre-ordered prior to the release date of October 9, 2007.
Update: April 23, 2006
Tangerine is being re-released in August with a new front cover, a commentary by the author, and a reader chat section. Be sure to look for it in your favorite book store!
To read more about Tangerine, click here.