Children's Fiction and Nonfiction
I’ve gotten behind on posting news (and generally updating my site). This past year I had several short stories pubbed in ODYSSEY, including:
From Publishers Marketplace:
Angie Smibert’s THE MEME PLAGUE, the last title in the MEMENTO NORA trilogy, wherein a group of teens fight to expose the truth about the city’s mandatory ID program and the ID chips’ ability to implant false memories, to Marilyn Brigham at Marshall Cavendish, by Tina Wexler at ICM (World).
Book 3 should come out in Spring 2013. Now, I just gotta finish writing it!
The second book in the Memento Nora series will be coming out May 1, 2012. Here’s the jacket copy:
Aiden Nomura likes to open doors—especially using his skills as a hacker—to see what’s hidden inside. He believes everything is part of a greater system: the universe. The universe shows him the doors, and he keeps pulling until one cracks open. Aiden exposes the flaw, and the universe—or someone else—will fix it. It’s like a game.
Until it isn’t.
When a TFC opens in Bern, Switzerland, where Aiden is attending boarding school, he knows things are changing. Shortly after, bombs go off within quiet, safe Bern. Then Aiden learns that his cousin Winter, back in the States, has had a mental breakdown. He returns to the US immediately.
But when he arrives home in Hamilton, Winter’s mental state isn’t the only thing that’s different. The city is becoming even stricter, and an underground movement is growing.
Along with Winter’s friend, Velvet, Aiden slowly cracks open doors in this new world. But behind those doors are things Aiden doesn’t want to see—things about his society, his city, even his own family. And this time Aiden may be the only one who can fix things . . . before someone else gets hurt.
Advance copies (ARCs) will probably be available in January. If you’re a blogger, teacher, librarian, or reviewer, please email me at angie(at)angiesmibert(dot)com if you’re interested in receiving an ARC. Please include:
Name
Mailing address
Email address
Blog or publication url
I can’t guarantee you’ll get one, but I’ll forward your names to the publisher.
Thanks!
I just got the go ahead to share the cover for the next book in the Memento Nora series. I’m happy with it!
btw, here’s the jacket copy:
Aiden Nomura likes to open doors—especially using his skills as a hacker—to see what’s hidden inside. He believes everything is part of a greater system: the universe. The universe shows him the doors, and he keeps pulling until one cracks open. Aiden exposes the flaw, and the universe—or someone else—will fix it. It’s like a game.
Until it isn’t.
When a TFC opens in Bern, Switzerland, where Aiden is attending boarding school, he knows things are changing. Shortly after, bombs go off within quiet, safe Bern. Then Aiden learns that his cousin Winter, back in the States, has had a mental breakdown. He returns to the US immediately.
But when he arrives home in Hamilton, Winter’s mental state isn’t the only thing that’s different. The city is becoming even stricter, and an underground movement is growing.
Along with Winter’s friend, Velvet, Aiden slowly cracks open doors in this new world. But behind those doors are things Aiden doesn’t want to see—things about his society, his city, even his own family. And this time Aiden may be the only one who can fix things . . . before someone else gets hurt.
After helping me out this semester with the Memento Nora Project, the fabulous students at King Middle School in Portland ME get to exhibit their work at their local library!
The middle schoolers, under the mentorship of students from Maine College of Art’s art education program, created comics at part of the national Memento Nora Project.
Their work will be featured on Mementonora.com, and I’m also excited to meet these budding artists and writers (via Skype visit) on May 17th.
The Memento Nora project invites middle school and high school writers, artists, and creators to create and publish comics featuring MEMENTO NORA or the theme of the novel–combating social injustice and bringing attention to community challenges.
For more info, check out the event’s Facebook page . More on the Memento Nora Project. It’s open for anyone to participate in through November.