Phew.

Here's some Graceling lurrrve for you:

The nominees for the William C. Morris YA Debut Award are:

A Curse Dark as Gold by Elizabeth Bunce
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
Absolute Brightness by James Lecesne
Madapple by Christina Meldrum
Me, the Missing and the Dead by Jenny Valentine

Wow.  Excellent choices*, WCMYADA committee!

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*Well, I haven't gotten to Absolute Brightness yet and I had some real issues with the storyline of Madapple but I couldn't argue with the quality of the writing... but the other three, excellent all!