Starters by Lissa Price out TODAY!

Hey everyone! I'm so psyched to be here today to tell you about Starters, one of our great Apocalypsies debuts by Lissa Price (with whom I share the uber-fabulous Wendy Loggia, Random House editor extraordinaire!). When Lissa told me she was express-mailing me an ARC of Starters, I was beside myself. The premise sounded awesome, and I had just had my wisdom teeth out that morning, so I needed something un-put-downable to read while icing my face and drinking milkshakes on the couch.

And let me tell you, Starters did NOT disappoint.

Set in an unnamed future where germ warfare has wiped out everyone between the ages of 20-60 (yeah, when the CDC says they're only vaccinating children and the elderly? Uh, this is the consequence. Yikes.) Children, aka Starters, or "unclaimed minors" without elderly relatives, are on the run. Thanks to laws keeping them from work, they're forced to hide out all over the city, hoping not to be picked up by the Marshals. But now there's a new game in town, Prime Destinations, looking to make the Starters rich by paying them to rent out their bodies to Enders, or the elderly who want to have some fun in a bangin' young bod.

Enter Callie, who has lost her parents and is forced to keep her young brother alive with only her wits. Oh, and she has wits. Callie is smart and resourceful, but with Tyler getting sick and the marshals closing in, she decides maybe it's time to cash in at Prime Destinations. Only this isn't your standard rental. Something has gone wrong. Very wrong.

Starters is a unique dystopian set in a world I can totally see coming to pass (and that scares the hell out of me). There are some definite technological upgrades, but for the most part it mirrors the society we have now, with people in power clinging to it at all costs and everyone else just struggling to survive. And the premise? It's totally unique, completely creep-tastic, and so thrilling you won't be able to put it down. You'll burn through it until you reach the last terrifying, cliff-hanging chapter, and when you close the book you'll immediately mark your calendar for the sequel, Enders, out at the end of the year.

If you're looking for a totally thrilling sci-fi/dystopian that you can burn through in a single sitting, Starters is it. Hey, I don't even usually like sci-fi, and I was ignoring my husband and skipping the painkillers just to get to the end. 

Amazon * Barnes & Noble * Indiebound

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Lauren Morrill lives in Cambridge, MA, where she writes YA novels, plays roller derby, and tries not to freeze to death in the winter. Her debut YA novel, Meant to Be, releases on November 13, 2012 from Delacorte.

Apocalypsies Debuts

August 23, 2011
POSSESS by Gretchen McNeil (Balzer + Bray)

October 13, 2011
DARWEN ARKWRIGHT AND THE PEREGRINE PACT by A.J. Hartley (Razorbill)

November 8, 2011
DARKER STILL by Leanna Renee Hieber (Sourcebooks Teen Fire)

December 1, 2011
CATCHING JORDAN by Miranda Kenneally (Sourcebooks)

January 1, 2012
THE BOY PROJECT (NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS OF KARA McALLISTER) by Kami Kinard (Scholastic)
LIVING VIOLET: THE CAMBION CHRONICLES by Jaime Reed (Dafina)
LOVE AND LEFTOVERS, by Sarah Tregay (Katherine Tegan Books/HarperCollins)

January 3, 2012
CINDER by Marissa Meyer (Feiwel & Friends)
THE CABINET OF EARTHS by Anne Nesbet (HarperCollins)
UNDER THE NEVER SKY by V. Rossi (HarperCollins)
CRACKED by K.M. Walton (Simon Pulse)

January 5, 2012
LITTLE DOG LOST by Mônica Carnesi (Nancy Paulsen Books)

January 10, 2012
THE GATHERING STORM by Robin Bridges (Delacorte)
DITCHED by Robin Mellom (Disney-Hyperion)
MAY B by Caroline Rose (Schwartz and Wade)
DESTINY'S FIRE by Trisha Wolfe (Omnific)

January 17, 2012
NEVER EIGHTEEN by Megan Bostic (Graphia)
FRACTURE by Megan Miranda (Walker/Bloomsbury)
THE BOOK OF WONDERS by Jasmine Richards (HarperCollins)

January 24, 2012
EVERNEATH by Brodi Ashton (Balzer + Bray)

January 31, 2012
INCARNATE by Jodi Meadows (Katherine Tegen Books)
ARTICLE 5 by Kristen Simmons (Tor Teen)

February 1, 2012
HALFLINGS by Heather Burch (Zondervan)
THE OTHER LIFE by Susanne Winnacker (Marshall Cavendish/Usborne)

February 2, 2012
HARBINGER by Sara Wilson Etienne (Putnam)

February 7, 2012
THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST by Emily Danforth (Balzer + Bray)
BORN WICKED by Jessica Spotswood (Putnam)

February 14, 2012
SCARLET by AC Gaughen (Walker)
THE VANISHING GAME by Kate Kae Myers (Bloomsbury)
ABOVE WORLD series by Jenn Reese (Candlewick)

February 21, 2012
THE CATASTROPHIC HISTORY OF YOU & ME by Jessica Rothenberg (Dial)

February 28, 2012
WHEN THE SEA IS RISING RED by Cat Hellison (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)

March 1, 2012
A VOICE FOR KANZAS by Debra McArthur (Kane Miller)

March 6, 2012
FAIR COIN by E.C. Myers (Pyr)

March 8, 2012
KATANA by Cole Gibsen (Flux)

March 13, 2012
PRETTY CROOKED by Elisa Ludwig (Katherine Tegen Books)
STARTERS by Lissa Price (Random House)

March 20, 2012
CROAK by Gina Damico (Graphia)
SEEING CINDERELLA by Jenny Lundquist (Aladdin M!X)

March 27, 2012
SLIDE by Jill Hathaway (Balzer + Bray)
A BREATH OF EYRE by Eve Marie Mont (Kensington)
NEVERSINK: A PUFFIN SAGA by Barry Wolverton (Walden Pond Press)

April 1, 2012
ABOVE by Leah Bobet (Arthur A. Levine Books)
KISS THE MORNING STAR by Elissa Janine Hoole (Marshall Cavendish)
WAY TO GO by Tom Ryan (Orca)

April 3, 2012
STORYBOUND by Marissa Burt (HarperCollins Children's)

April 10, 2012
BOY + BOT by Ame Dyckman (Knopf)
YOU CAN'T HAVE MY PLANET BUT TAKE MY BROTHER, PLEASE by James Milhaley (Feiwel & Friends)

April 12, 2012
REMARKABLE by Lizzie K. Foley (Dial/Penguin)
PUZZLED BY PINK by Sarah Frances Hardy (Viking Children's)

April 17, 2012
THE WICKED AND THE JUST by J. Anderson Coats (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

April 24, 2012
THE SELECTION by Kiera Cass (HarperTeen)
OLDSOUL by Dan Haring (Pendrell Publishing)
UNRAVELING by Elizabeth Norris (Balzer + Bray)
THE MAPMAKER AND THE GHOST by Sarvenaz Tash (Walker)
BREAKING BEAUTIFUL by Jennifer Wolf (Walker)

May 1, 2012
WHAT SHE LEFT BEHIND by Tracy Bilen (Simon Pulse)
THE VICIOUS DEEP by Zoraida Córdova (Sourcebooks Fire)
WELCOME CALLER, THIS IS CHLOE by Shelley Coriell (Amulet)

May 3, 2012
THE NIGHTMARE FACTORY by Lucy Jones (Orchard Books/Hachette)

May 8, 2012
STRUCK by Jennifer Bosworth (FSG)
CHAINED by Lynne Kelly (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux)
HEMLOCK by Kathleen Peacock (Katherine Tegen Books)

May 10, 2012
ONE FOR THE MURPHYS by Lynda Mullaly Hunt (Nancy Paulsen Books)

May 15, 2012
GILT by Katy Longshore (Viking)

May 21, 2012
THE ROCK OF IVANORE by Laura White Reyes (Tanglewood Press)

May 22, 2012
THE DOWNSIDE OF BEING CHARLIE by Jenny Torres Sanchez (Running Press)

May 29, 2012
ANGEL EYES by Shannon Dittemore (Thomas Nelson)

June 5, 2012
SHADOW & BONE by Leigh Bardugo (Holt Children's)
THE SHADOW CAST BY STARS by Catherine Knutsson (Atheneum)
ALL THESE LIVES by Sarah Wylie (FSG)

June 7, 2012
AT YELLOW LAKE by Jane McLoughlin (Frances Lincoln Children's Books)

June 12, 2012
LIES BENEATH by Anne Greenwood Brown (Delacorte)
REUNITED by Hilary Graham (Simon & Schuster)

June 14, 2012
MY LIFE NEXT DOOR by Huntley Fitzpatrick (Penguin)
TOKYO HEIST by Diana Renn (Viking)

June 19, 2012
SOMETHING LIKE NORMAL by Trish Doller (Bloomsbury)

July 3, 2012
SMALL MEDIUM AT LARGE by Joanne Levy (Bloomsbury)

July 10, 2012
INSIGNIA by S.J. Kincaid (Katherine Tegen Books)
THE LITTLE WOODS by McCormick Templeman (Schwartz & Wade)

July 17, 2012
THE MONSTER WHO LOST HIS MEAN by Tiffany Strelitz Haber (Holt/Macmillan)

July 24, 2012
SOMETHING STRANGE AND DEADLY by Susan Dennard (HarperCollins Children's)

July 31, 2012
PUSHING THE LIMITS by Katie McGarry (Harlequin Teen)

August 7, 2012
GLITCH by Heather Anastasiu (St. Martin's Press)
QUEEN OF GLASS by Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury)
FINGERPRINTS OF YOU by Kristen-Paige Madonia (Simon & Schuster)
AURACLE by Gina Rosati (Roaring Brook Press)

August 8, 2012
INNOCENT DARKNESS by Suzanne Lazear (Flux)

August 14, 2012
FALSE MEMORY by Dan Krokos (Disney*Hyperion)

August 21, 2012
THE SINISTER SWEETNESS OF SPLENDID ACADEMY by Nikki Loftin (Razorbill)

Additional Spring/Summer 2012 Titles
CYBERNETIC by Laura Riken (Disney*Hyperion)
POISON by Bridget Zinn (Disney*Hyperion)

August 28, 2012
IF I LIE by Corrine Jackson (Simon Pulse)
THE CAVENDISH HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS by Claire Legrand (Simon & Schuster)
DEFIANCE by C.J. Redwine (Balzer + Bray)
THE DARK LIGHT by Sara Walsh (Simon Pulse)

September 1, 2012
CLAWS by Mike and Rachel Grinti (Chicken House/Scholastic)
STORMDANCER by Jay Kristoff (St. Martin's Press/Tor UK)

September 4, 2012
MALCOLM AT MIDNIGHT by W.H. Beck (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
STARTING FROM HERE by Lisa Jenn Bigelow (Marshall Cavendish)
BUTTER by Erin Lange (Bloomsbury)
STARTING FROM HERE by Lisa Jenn Bigelow (Marshall Cavendish)

September 11, 2012
PERSONAL EFFECTS by E. M. Kokie (Candlewick)

September 18, 2012
TEN by Gretchen McNeil (Balzer + Bray)
WHAT'S LEFT OF ME by Kat Zhang (HarperTeen)

October 1, 2012
GEEKS, GIRLS, AND SECRET IDENTITIES by Mike Jung (Arthur A. Levine Books)
LEAGUE OF STRAYS by L.B. Schulman (Amulet) 

October 2, 2012
THROUGH TO YOU by Emily Hainsworth (Balzer + Bray)
KEEPER OF THE LOST CITIES by Shannon Messenger (Aladdin)
CHASING THE SKIP by Janci Patterson (Henry Holt)
SEND ME A SIGN by Tiffany Schmidt (Walker)

October 9, 2012
TIME BETWEEN US by Tamara Ireland Stone (Disney*Hyperion)
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT by Colleen Clayton (Poppy)
VELVETEEN by Daniel Marks (Delacorte)

October 16, 2012
CREWEL by Gennifer Albin (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)

October 23, 2012
BLIND SPOT by Laura Ellen (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

October 30, 2012
VENOM by Fiona Paul (Philomel)
TOUCHING THE SURFACE by Kimberly Sabatini (Simon Pulse)
GRAVITY by Melissa West (Entangled)

November 13, 2012
MEANT TO BE by Lauren Morrill (Delacorte)
ASHES OF TWILIGHT by Kassy Tayler (St. Martin's Press)

Additional Fall 2012 Titles
LEVEL TWO by Lenore Appelhans (Simon & Schuster)
MYSTIQUE by Shari Arnold (Chronicle Books)
OUT OF REACH by Carrie Arcos (Simon Pulse, October 2012)
THE NIGHTMARE AFFAIR by Mindee Arnett (Tor Teen)
FISHTALE by Hans Bauer and Catherine Masciola (Marshall Cavendish)
THE MARBLE QUEEN by Stephanie Blake (Marshall Cavendish)
SKINNY by Donna Cooner (Scholastic)
MY HEART BE DAMNED by Chanelle Gray (kNight Romance, October 2012)
SPLINTERED by Anita Howard (Amulet)
FREAKLING by Lana Krumwiede (Candlewick)
BLACK CITY by Elizabeth Richards (Putnam, August 2012)

ALTERED by Jennifer Rush (Little, Brown)
RENEGADE by J.A. Souders (Tor Teen)
SILVER by Talia Vance (Flux)