The problem with the last few days of summer is that you can’t hold on to them. They zoom by way too fast. You live through them in a dream until they’re over. And then everything slows down to a glacial pace again.

Susane Colasanti, Waiting for You (via -daysgoby)

Appropriate end-of-summer quote is appropriate. Our summer Fridays end after Labor Day. More than a few tears being shed in the Penguin offices over that. On the other hand: fall books! Fall is such an exciting publishing season, and there are a TON of great releases to look forward to from Penguin Teen. Just in September we have:

  • Notes from an Accidental Band Geek by Erin Dionne (9/1) - that’s tomorrow!
  • Strange Angels 1 & 2 bind-up by Lili St. Crow (9/1)*
  • Shelter by Harlan Coben (9/6)
  • Sapphique by Catherine Fisher (9/6) - this is the paperback edition
  • The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff (9/6) - paperback
  • Stay With Me by Paul Griffin (9/8)
  • As I Wake by Elizabeth Scott (9/15)
  • Merlin: Book of Magic by T.A. Barron (9/15)
  • Matched by Ally Condie (9/20) - this is the paperback edition
  • Wereworld by Curtis Jobling (9/20)
  • Slayer Chronicles: First Kill by Heather Brewer (9/20)
  • Extraordinary by Nancy Werlin (9/20) - this is the paperback edition
  • Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins (9/29)
  • The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson (9/29)

*A bind-up is when we put two or more books in a series together in one paperback.

You know, people call mystery novels or crime novels or thrillers puzzles. I never really understood that, because when I buy a puzzle, I already know what it is. It’s on the box. And even if I don’t, if it’s a 5,000-piece puzzle of the Mona Lisa, it’s not like I put the last piece in all of a sudden and go, ‘Oh my God, I had no idea it’s the Mona Lisa!’ I look at it more like a camera coming into focus, where the first shot is kind of blurry: You see someone kind of tall with long, dark hair, and you think, ‘Oh, it’s Cindy Crawford.’ And then it gets a little bit more in focus, and you see the nose is a little off, and you go, ‘Oh, it’s Cher.’ And the final turn, when it becomes all clear, you see it’s Howard Stern—and you should have known it was Howard Stern right from the beginning. That’s what a good crime novelist—any good novelist—should do with you. It can play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain sight.
Harlan Coben (via landenwilson)