Disease name: Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) Caused by: Certain types of hantavirus (there are many), spread to humans via rodent bites and by inhaling particles in the air contaminated with the droppings, urine, and/or saliva of infected rodents. (a deer … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: February 2012
To my great excitement, today I get to share with you some foreign edition news, including a new and very striking cover! The Way We Fall will be published by Egmont Hungary this March (I don’t have an exact date … Continue reading
Valentine’s Day seems like a good time to talk about love. I’d assume most (if not all) of you reading this love books, and love the authors who write your favorite books. I tweeted earlier today about getting books in … Continue reading
I said earlier that I see “Crowd Surf Off A Cliff” as The Way We Fall‘s theme song, and that’s true, but if the unofficial soundtrack has a secondary theme, that would be Matchbox Twenty’s “How Far We’ve Come”: You … Continue reading
I’ve been sharing a lot of posts, articles, etc. that I find interesting, fun, and/or important on Twitter and Tumblr recently, so I figured it’d be worth starting a weekly link round-up for the blog readers who don’t follow me … Continue reading
Click here for an explanation of the The Ways We Struggle guest post series. Today’s post comes from Jennifer Rush, whose her first two books are coming soon: the YA action-thriller Altered in Fall 2012, and then the science fiction … Continue reading
I promised another giveaway — well, here it is! This one should be both fun and super simple. 🙂 All you have to do is take the The Way We Fall Survival Quiz to find out your chances of surviving … Continue reading
The winners of the The Way We Fall Infect Your Friends giveaway have been notified by email (so check yours, if you haven’t already)! Thank you so much to everyone who entered — it really was amazing to see! The … Continue reading
Disease name: Viral hemorrhagic fever (its most vicious forms: Ebola and Marburg) Caused by: Ebola hemorrhagic fever is caused by various forms of the ebolavirus. Marburg is caused by the Marburg virus (named for the city in Germany where it … Continue reading
The second song on The Way We Fall‘s unofficial soundtrack is Aimee Mann’s “It’s Not”: To me, the tone and the lyrics of this song capture Kaelyn’s state of mind before the beginning of the novel. When she moved away … Continue reading