Teen Book Fest Author: Check out trailer for “Noggin”

“Listen—Travis Coates was alive once and then he wasn’t.
Now he’s alive again.
Simple as that.

“The in between part is still a little fuzzy, but Travis can tell you that, at some point or another, his head got chopped off and shoved into a freezer in Denver, Colorado. Five years later, it was reattached to some other guy’s body, and well, here he is.”–From publisher’s description.

John Corey Whaley is coming to the Ontario City Library Teen Book Fest on May 16, 2014. I’m enjoying his novel Where Things Come Back and will review it as soon as I finish. But in the meantime, why don’t you check out this MTV interview with Whaley about his new book Noggin, due for release on April 8. The MTV interview has a great book trailer as well.

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1724044/noggin-ya-novel-to-movie-trailer-premiere.jhtml

About Victoria Waddle

Victoria Waddle is a Pushcart Prize-nominated writer and has been included in Best Short Stories from The Saturday Evening Post Great American Fiction Contest. Her books include a collection of feminist short fiction, Acts of Contrition, and a chapbook on grief, The Mortality of Dogs and Humans. Her YA novel about a polygamist cult, Keep Sweet, launches in June 2025. Formerly the managing editor of the journal Inlandia: A Literary Journey and a teacher librarian, she contributes to the Southern California News Group column Literary Journeys. She discusses both writing and library book censorship on her Substack, “Be a Cactus.” Join her there for thoughts on defiant readers and writers as well as for weekly library censorship news.

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