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HAPPY 2012!

Hi friends! Hopefully if you’re reading this, your new year’s eve was happy and safe and left you with a renewed sense of newness and all that stuff! This is your year, tiger! Look at you! 

I had a great time ringing in two thousand and twelve by dancing (some might better describe it as “wildly spinning and jumping around”) with a lot of good friends to a killer dance mix in my living room. The next morning, we dragged ourselves to the crepe spot around the corner and then lounged a bit in dolores park, enjoying the unseasonably sunniness. [Pics to follow hopefully if I can get my hands on some once people start uploading to Facebook]

All in all, it was awesome and every additional day I get to spend in San Francisco reminds me that I am extraordinarily blessed. I love this city, my boyfriend, my family, my friends, and my work. Yay for 2012! Come at me, bro. 

Publishers Weekly review

Woah. Publishers Weekly called my book “spicy”…I could not be more thrilled!

“In this sardonic gift book, Roddy extracts the implicit messages behind such popular teen movies as Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (“To jumpstart a better relationship with your dad, let your best friend cost him millions in property damage”) and Clueless (“A smart, sensitive guy will eventually fall for a ditzy, self-serving girl as long as she promises to be a little nicer to people—and is ridiculously hot”).

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a Fight, Lie, Cry book review!

From Technorati:

“Roddy analyzed fifty popular films and gleaned fifty inappropriate life lessons from them, which she gleefully shares with readers, along with “Sound Bites” (quotes), film stills, a synopsis of each, and goofy multiple-choice questions. Don’t sweat the quiz, it won’t be counted as part of your grade…”

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library love

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to speak to the YALSA (Young Adult Library Association) teens at San Leandro Library. It was really fun and interesting, and the librarian, Chris, did a write up of my visit:

“One of the coolest things about having our teens write reviews for SLJTeen is that they get to meet people like Nikki Roddy, Zest Books’ marketing and research manager. Last month, Nikki stopped by a meeting of the Sneak Peek Reviewers Club at our library to give the kids an insiders’ view of the publishing biz….”

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Hello beloved bookworms!

One of the cooler perks of working in the publishing industry (Have I mentioned that I work for a book publisher? Well, I do. I also have no long-term memory) is that I consistently get my grubby little hands on galleys, which are unformatted copies of books before they hit the shelves. Mostly, they generate sales and buzz for the book. And generate they do! 

So, I’m going to give a special holler at two new books coming out by one of my favorite YA authors, Lauren Oliver. You should immediately pre-order these:

• Liesl & Po. This is a middle grade book, but I really think all ages could read and fall in love with this story. The writing is beautiful and the story is whimsical and poignant. I think I was in tears by page 4. Pre-order!

• Pandemonium. This is the second book in a trilogy. The first book is Delirium, a dystopian novel set in a world were love is considered a dangerous disease, and citizens line up to be “cured” on their eightieth birthdays. I’m not finished with the second book yet, but it’s already as exciting as the first book. Delirium is on sale now, so get that and then you’ll be ready for when Pandemonium comes out in March. Pre-order!

That’s all for now! But if you feel like it, click over to my GOODREADS account* and friend me.

Now, I’m off to the Russian River (about 1 ½ hrs north from San Francisco) to play wiffle ball, eat BBQ, float on the river, and celebrate two of my friends’ birthdays. And of course, there will be dancing. Oh yes…

Have a great weekend everyone!