Sunday Shout Out (5)

Recently, I introduced a new feature here at In the Hammock on Sundays. It's called "Sunday Shout Out" and it's a place where I can give a special shout out to those publishers and authors who have sent me books over the week, as well as those bloggers who have hosted contests that I've won! I'll also be giving shout outs to any other cool books, blogs or bookish news that I've spotted during the week.

Check out my first Sunday Shout Out post for even more info, here!

Contest Wins

"Illuminate" by Aimee Agresti
 

"Au Revoir Crazy European Chick" by Joe Schreiber

"Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side" by Beth Fantaskey

"The Fashion Coloring Book" by Carol + Lulu

All four books won from Book Nerds Across America.and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. What a fun prom-themed prize!

"Insurgent" by Veronica Roth

Won from Dani at Pen to Paper Blog. I love the UK version of the cover!

"Blue Asylum" by Kate Hepinstall

Won from Julie at My Book Retreat and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This one sounds so intriguing!

Books for Review

"Nom de Plume" by Carmela Ciuraru

 A look at pen names throughout history.

"The Queen: A Life in Brief" by Robert Lacey

A look at the Queen's life and times.

Gifts

"She Tempts the Duke" by Lorraine Heath

Thank you, Karen at For What It's Worth!

Book News

YA Covers Infographics by Kate Hart

 Infographic used with permission from Kate Hart

If you haven't seen this yet, Kate Hart has put together some amazing infographics analyzing over 900 YA covers of 2011. Her analysis includes fun items like percentages of "pretty dress" covers, the color scheme of cover, and popular objects featured on the covers. 

She also includes the sad facts of the lack of diversity of race on YA covers. Surprising to me was that there is even less diversity in self- and indie-published YA fiction. Or actually, as Ms. Hart found in her research (admittedly she didn't use every self published YA book out there, but you can read the facts on her page) there was zero diversity in self-pubs.

Check it out for sure, anyone who is into YA books will enjoy seeing these graphics! They've been featured on Huffington Post and Jezebel, among other sites! I can't imagine how long it took her to put these together!

If you would like to do your own Sunday Shout out, please link back to this post, and leave your link in the comments section this weekend so I can check it out, and so that other readers can stop by too!!