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THE INQUISITOR’S APPRENTICE coming to New York next week

October 7, 2011 By 6 Comments

I’ll be doing several events in New York next week for The Inquisitor’s Apprentice. I’m loading up the car with dry socks and cookies to take down to Zuccotti Park. (I only mention this in case you’re looking for somewhere to donate your excess dry sock supply.)  Also, I’ll be doing signings and panels with with Very Cool People, including some I’ve never met before and am fannishly excited about meeting….

Complete listing of upcoming events at www.inquisitorsapprentice.com, but here’s a quick rundown of the New York events:

Thursday, October 13, 7pm: “Before and After Harry Potter: YA, SciFi, and Fantasy.” Center for Fiction Conference on Ursula K. LeGuin’s Earthsea Trilogy (Mercantile Library, 17 E 47th St between 5th Ave & Madison Ave, NY NY). This conference (and the panel) are incredibly cool. Among other reasons because the other panelists are Holly Black, Cassandra Clare, Delia Sherman, and Justine Larbalestier. Kewl!!

Saturday October 15, 5:30 pm: I will be autographing books at New York ComiCon with illustrator Mark Edward Geyer. We will be handing out free books! And Mark has promised to bring cool art stuff too. At NY ComiCon, the Javits Center, NY NY.

Sunday October 16, 1-3 pm: “Thrills, Chills, and Magic” (Books of Wonder, 18 West 18th Street, NY NY.) Mark will also be at this panel. And other panelists include Chris Grabenstein, Terry Castle, and Sam Ita.

 

 

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Inquisitor’s Apprentice BOING BOINGed

October 4, 2011 By 1 Comment

I think Boing Boinged is a verb now. If it isn’t, it should be. Anyway, Cory Doctorow just posted a lovely review of The Inquisitor’s Apprentice, which says this (among other things):

Chris Moriarty’s The Inquisitor’s Apprenticeis the first volume in a fantastic new historical young adult series that takes place in a turn-of-the-twentieth-century New York where magic is the key to power and the infamous robber-barons of the age have cornered the market on enchantment … Moriarty’s plotting is just fantastic, and the story itself manages to tackle difficult issues of race and class and politics without ever slowing down. Period ink illustrations by Mark Edward Geyer complete the package, giving the whole thing a deceptively lightweight, pulpy feel. It’s a great magic trick, a piece of misdirection that makes a book that’s full of weighty material zip along like a quick adventure tale. This is one of those incredibly promising first volumes that makes you hope that the writer’s got plenty more where it came from.

Nice! And the comments are interesting too. If someone’s giving out magic wands that work as advertised, I definitely want one!

 

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Publishers Weekly give THE INQUISITOR’S APPRENTICE a starred review!

September 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Yep. They did. Looky here:

Moriarty … makes her children’s book debut with a fabulously imaginative historical fantasy. Set in an early 20th-century New York City where every ethnic group has its own magic … Moriarty’s novel is chock-full of period detail (both in the author’s confident prose and Geyer’s occasional pen-and-ink illustrations), feisty character dynamics, and a solid sense of humor. It’s a fascinating example of alternate history that leaves the door open for future mysteries.

I have no idea if starred reviews in Publishers Weekly actually sell books. But they do seem to make publishers happy. And these days pretty much anything that makes your publisher happy is good. So We Are Pleased.

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The INQUISITOR’S APPRENTICE Website has gone live!

August 26, 2011 By 7 Comments

Phew! The website for The Inquisitor’s Apprentice and the NYPD Inquisitor books has finally gone live! I feel like I have been writing website content for a decade or so! It’s amazing how long it takes … and how longer it takes to check for typos. I’m sure there are still some of the nasty little beasts lurking in dark shadows. In fact, I’m so sure that I’m going to stage a book giveaway with the following conditions:

The three people who find the most typos on the website will receive a signed copy of The Inquisitor’s Apprentice when it comes out in October. I’m also doing an ARC giveaway right now on Goodreads, but this is completely different and is a giveaway of the actual finished book. Just so you know…

If you want to go typo-hunting the URL is: www.inquisitorsapprentice.com.

Just make not of any typos you find in the comments section for this post. I’ll keep the ‘contest’ (such as it is) open until the book’s release date (October 3rd). However, I will correct typos as people find them. So early bird gets the worm, &cetera….

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PW and Kirkus Name INQUISITOR’S APPRENTICE a Big Book of BEA 2011

May 24, 2011 By 2 Comments

This is my Book Expo America post — and definitely one for the “shameless self-promotion” column. I’m in New York. I just presented to the Jewish Book Council yesterday (truly the nicest people you will ever meet in publishing), and I’m going over to the main BEA venue today. I came home from  the JBC to a nice surprise: an email from a friend telling me Kirkus has named The Inquisitor’s Apprentice one of the Top 26 Books of BEA this year. Publishers Weekly put it on their Big Children’s Books of BEA list as well, so that makes two.

I am feeling the love. It feels good.

What feels almost as good? The overwhelming list of amazing “I have to read this” books that I brought home from the JBC. I think I may need to go to it next year and just sit in the audience compiling a reading list. Top of my personal list so far: a biography of Hank Greenberg by Mark Kurlansky (already one of my very favorite nonfiction writers), and a YA biography of Leonard Bernstein by Susan Goldman Rubin. The Leonard Bernstein bio is also on the Kirkus Top 26 Books of BEA list.

I’m just sayin’. Not that I happened to be looking at that page, or anything.

I guess it would be really wrong to get my son a biography of Leonard Bernstein for his birthday this year. He really just wants a monster truck. I guess I should get him the monster truck. I should be understanding about that. I mean, I wouldn’t want to go all Tiger Mom on him, would I? Especially when I’m doing so well with my stealth campaign to make him think piano lessons are his idea. (“Tiger Mom, meet Weasel Mom!”) But on the other hand, I could get him the truck and the Leonard Bernstein bio. And then I could get myself the Hank Greenberg bio … you know, just as a reward for being so understanding about the truck thing. Right? … Right? … RIGHT?

Oh good. I’m so glad you agree with me.

On a final BEA note, people tell me that there are fantastic BEA parties happening all over town this week. They seem to be happening at bars with ‘meet-cute’ names in neighborhoods like Williamsburg and Nolita and … well, whatever it is that we’re supposed to be calling Alphabet City now. But while you may be partying til you drop with the likes of Jonathan Safran Foer and Lev Grossman, I will be having an appallingly early ‘child-friendly’ dinner with my editor, our spouses, and our toddlers. These are the moments when one really looks forward to being a GRANDparent….

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