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Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing partners with Shindig on weekly series The Hot YA Summer Chat Series will connect and engage YA readers through interactive video chat events with a new author each Tuesday at 7pm. The series kicks off tonight, June 11th with New York Times bestselling author Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian. The authors will be discussing the eagerly awaited sequel in the Burn for Burn trilogy, FIRE WITH FIRE. Participating authors in the series will include Lisa McMann, Andrew Smith, Corey Ann Haydu, John Corey Whaley, Abbi Glines, Neal Schusterman and Carmen Rodrigues. View the full Press Release from Simon & Schuster.

Writer Chuck Palahniuk, left, being interviewed by Publishing Perspectives' Edward Nawotka at the Shindig booth during BookExpo America. Photo courtesy of Getty Images.   ONE VOICE, BUT THOUSANDS PARTICIPATE by Megan Labrise    “Who wouldn’t like doing a book talk while still being able to hang out in your living room?” says A.J. Jacobs, author of Drop Dead Healthy: One Man’s Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection—a man who knows how to work a crowd without interrupting a daily routine. He once answered fans’ questions while walking on a treadmill. “Sitting is terrible for you,” he says. “Sitting is the new smoking.” Shindig, a New York City-based startup that produces video chat events augmented by cross-media content, enabled Jacobs to remain a stand-up guy in his readers’ eyes. And at BookExpo America 2013, the publishing industry’s major annual convention, he and 50 fellow bestselling authors, including Chuck Palahniuk, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Mary Higgins Clark, Michael Showalter and Sylvia Day, digitally connected with thousands... (Click to read full article on Kirkus)