It's that time again, YALLFEST TIME.

November 9 & 10, 2012 in Charleston, South Carolina.

Jam packed with authors including The Impostor!

But also Trenton Lee Stewart, and Adam Gidwitz - both of whom have stories up on our very own Guest Ghost. You may also know Adam Gidwitz as the author of the book A TALE DARK & GRIMM, and Trenton Lee Stewart as the author of THE MYSTERIOUS BENEDICT SOCIETY series.

Also appearing will be other middle grade authors including Holly Black, Gitty Daneshvari, and others.

Check out what they have to say:

We’re pretty confident in saying that the only place you’ll find a more stacked lineup of YA authors than this year’s YALLFest is the teen section of your local Barnes & Noble. Because for the second annual meet-up dedicated to all things young adult, organizers Margaret Stohl, Pseudonymous Bosch and Melissa de la Cruz (pictured) are welcoming 48 authors—25 of them New York Times bestsellers. And guess what? We have the EXCLUSIVE lineup for you to scrutinize!

Click on the pics for links to find out more.

Organizers Margaret Stohl, Pseudonymous Bosch (allegedly) and Melissa de la Cruz.

The official lineup includes: Kwame Alexander, Jennifer Lyn Barnes, Holly Black, Pseudonymous Bosch, Sarah Rees Brennan, Heather Brewer, Kiera Cass, Cinda Chima, Cassandra Clare, Andrea Cremer, Katie Crouch, Gitty Daneshvari, Melissa de la Cruz, Matt de la Pena, Kim Derting, Simone Elkeles, Elizabeth Eulberg, Gayle Forman, Kami Garcia, Adam Gidwitz, David McInnes Gill, Adele Griffin, Deborah Harkness, Jenny Han, Siobhan Vivian, Michelle Hodkin, Ellen Hopkins, Tonya Hurley, Michele Jaffe, Caitlin Kittredge, Alyson Noel, David Levithan, Stephanie Perkins, Diana Peterfreund, Kathy Reichs, Brendan Reichs, Beth Revis, Jessica Rothenberg, Carrie Ryan, Eliot Schrefer, Natalie Standiford, Trenton Lee Stewart, Margaret Stohl, Cate Tiernan, Robin Wasserman, Marjorie Wentworth, John Corey Whaley, and Kathryn Williams.

Here is another installment of THE EDGE OF FINALIA.

Many of you have checked out the earlier installments and the response has been overwhelming.

http://thenameofthiswebsiteissecret.com/stories/336-the-edge-of-finalia-by-delores-hawk

The Wordnik Word of the Day for May 7, 2012 is

adularescence
http://www.wordnik.com/words/adularescence

(noun) The chatoyancy of the adularia variety of feldspar; the moon-like sheen of the moonstone, best visible when the stone is cut with a convex dome.

'Adularescence' comes from 'adularia,' a kind of moonstone or feldspar, and the Latin '-escence,' process or state of being. 'Adularia' is named for Adula, a mountain group of southeast Switzerland.

Example:
"'I love for gems to have inclusions -- the more nonperfect it is, the more it fascinates me,' she says. 'But moonstones are a particular favorite. It's their adularescence -- it's a quality specific to moonstones, meaning they give off a billowy blue light.'"

I like how they use the word chatoyancy in the definition of this word. In case you're wondering, chatoyance is an optical reflectance effect seen in certain gemstones. But I bet you all knew that, right?

The books, sighted? We can't tell, they're all in disguises, but Agent B assures us they are the Secret Series.

We're not totally convinced.

The Wordnik Word of the Day for May 3, 2012 is

onychomancy

http://www.wordnik.com/words/onychomancy

(noun) A kind of divination by means of the finger-nails.

This word is Greek in origin, and contains 'onychos,' fingernail, and 'manteia,' oracle, divination.

Recently unearthed ... rare Egyptian message from BEYOND!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIp6gWpYGpo&feature=youtu.be

The Word of the Day for April 25 is:

cahoot   kuh-HOOT   noun
: partnership, league — usually used in plural

Examples:
Police suspect that the burglar was in cahoots with the bartender.

"In a huge anti-mafia bust, 16 judges have been arrested near Naples, Italy, according to the BBC, for allegedly being in cahoots with Italy's notorious Camorra crime syndicate." — From a news article in The Huffington Post, March 19, 2012

Did you know?
"Cahoot" is used almost exclusively in the phrase "in cahoots," which means "in an alliance or partnership." In most contexts, it describes the conspiring activity of people up to no good. (There's also the rare idiom "go cahoots," meaning "to enter into a partnership," as in "they went cahoots on a new restaurant.") "Cahoot" may derive from French "cahute," meaning "cabin" or "hut," suggesting the notion of two or more people hidden away working together in secret. "Cahute" is believed to have been formed through the combination of two other words for cabins and huts, "cabane" and "hutte."

The Wordnik Word of the Day for April 16, 2012 is

clochard

http://www.wordnik.com/words/clochard

(noun) A vagrant; a tramp.

'Clochard' comes from the French 'clocher,' to limp, which ultimately comes from the Vulgar Latin 'cloppus,' lame person.

The Word of the Day for April 12 is:
tragus   TRAY-gus   noun
: the prominence in front of the external opening of the outer ear
Examples:
"The tragus, she explains, is the tough fold of cartilage that sticks out from the ear at the entrance to the ear canal." — From an article in the Irish Independent, December 5, 2011
Did you know?
The tragus is the tongue-like projection of the outer ear. Its name comes from the Greek word "tragos," meaning "he-goat." According to hearsay, the Greek word was influenced by Peloponnesian tragedy. In this style of drama, satyrs were represented as goatlike creatures, and their prominent ears became associated with a feature of our own human ears. "Tragos" contributed to the English language in another way as well; it is also the word from which "tragedy" is derived.

Here is a list of books about chocolate. Unfortunately the Secret Series is on there, but you should NOT read that one and read the others instead.

Some great (and delicious) books on this list:
http://lclkids.blogspot.com/2012/01/chocolate-lovers.html

Thanks, LCL.