Black Juice is a Los Angeles Times finalist

I'm delighted to be able to tell you that Markus Zusak's I Am the Messenger and my Black Juice are finalists in the Young Adult Section of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. The other finalists are Michael L. Printz winner John Green's Looking for Alaska, Per Nilsson's You & You & You and Andreas Steinhöfel's The Center of the World.

The finalists were announced in New York on Thursday, and the winner will be announced in Los Angeles on 28 April.