Challenger Deep Won the 2015 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature!
We won!!! Wow. What a night. Thank you, thank you, thank you everyone who has sent me kind emails, texts, tweets, psychic messages, and so on. I want to congratulate the other 2015 National Book Award winners—Adam Johnson, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Robin Coste Lewis—and give a shoutout to my fellow…
Buy CHALLENGER DEEP Art and Support the National Alliance on Mental Illness
The Official Shustermania Store Is Now Open It’s been a long time in the works—my official Storenvy store is now open for business! The new store features my son Brendan’s artwork from Challenger Deep, available in 8×10 and 5×7 full-color, autographed prints. Fifty percent of the proceeds from all sales will be…
CHALLENGER DEEP is a National Book Award Young People’s Literature Nominee!
September News: Challenger Deep Honors, Violent Ends, the Unwind Movie, and More I’m thrilled to announce that Challenger Deep is one of ten books nominated for the young-adult division of the National Book Award! Yee-haw! My son and co-writer Brendan and I are humbled and beyond honored to receive this recognition….
Violent Ends Excerpt
When I was approached by Shaun David Hutchinson about contributing to a story to Violent Ends, a collection about a school shooter, my mind started to race. On the one hand, I was intrigued, and fascinated by the idea of getting into the mind of a kid so troubled he would…
UNWIND Movie News!
Unwind Movie Update—February 2018 For a number of reasons, Constantin Films, who was developing UNWIND as a movie, halted the project just short of production, and decided it would be better to do as a TV series. So right now they are developing it for TV. More news soon!
ALA 2015
American Library Association Conference 2015 If you live in the San Francisco area, or will be attending the American Library Association (ALA) Conference this weekend (6/27–6/28), come find Eric Elfman and me in the Disney-Hyperion booth! We’ll be signing copies of EDISON’S ALLEY and TESLA’S ATTIC at Moscone Convention Center…
June 2015 News Tidbits
Happy June! What a whirlwind the past two months have been. Challenger Deep is out and the tour is over, but no time for slowing down. I’ve been catching up on various projects and, yep, traveling again. Here’s what’s going on in June: I had a great trip in Europe, visiting my foreign…
Surviving the Depths
Surviving the Depths Epic Reads recently invited me to contribute to its author guest blog post series on mental health. Here’s an excerpt of what I wrote, followed by a link to read the full article. While Challenger Deep is inspired by my eldest son’s battle with mental illness, I’m no stranger to the…
CHALLENGER DEEP is a 2015 Boston Globe–Horn Book Fiction Honor Winner!
I am inordinately proud to announce that CHALLENGER DEEP has been selected as a 2015 Boston Globe-Horn Book Fiction Honor winner! First presented in 1967, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards are among the most prestigious honors in the field of children’s and young adult literature. The awards are chosen by an independent…
I’m on Tour!
Challenger Deep Tour Dates I’m on the road again starting 4/16/15 in support of Challenger Deep! Here’s where you can find me: 4/16 Austin – TLA YART panel and signing 10am-1pm 4/19 Los Angeles – LA Times Festival of Books panel and signing 10:30am-12:30pm 4/20 San Francisco – Kepler’s Bookstore…