Kiera Cass

Kiera Cass
Born May 1981
South Carolina
Occupation Writer
Genre Young-adult fiction
Years active 2009 - present
Spouse Callaway Cass (m. 2004)
Children 2
Website
kieracass.com

Kiera Cass (born May 1981) is an American writer of young-adult fiction, most known for The Selection and its sequels.[1]

Career

Cass was born and raised in South Carolina and graduated in 1999 from Socastee High School in Myrtle Beach. She attended Coastal Carolina University before transferring to Radford University.[2][3] She graduated from Radford with a degree in History.[2]

Kiera Cass's first book, "The Siren", was self-published in 2009.

The first book in The Selection trilogy, The Selection, was published in 2012 by HarperTeen.[4] Television rights for the trilogy were optioned by the CW Television Network and two pilots were filmed, but neither were picked up for a full series.[5] In April 2015, movie rights for The Selection trilogy, The Selection were acquired by Warner Bros.[6]

In May 2013, Cass announced that she would be working on an as-yet untitled series she refers to as 238 on social media, to be published by HarperCollins.[7]

On August 14, 2014, Kiera Cass announced that The Selection Series would be expanding into more books. First, The Favorite, will be published in 2015. The Heir will follow in 2015. Cass announced another book following The Heir and she has announced the name of the next book, The Crown, which will be released on May 3, 2016.

Controversy

On January 12, 2012 a one-star review of Cass' book, The Selection, was posted on the book reviewing site Goodreads,[8] and on the reviewers blog. Later on the same day, Kiera Cass' literary agent, Elana Roth, posted a series of derogatory tweets on the social networking site Twitter. In a conversation that Cass and Roth believed was private—but was, in fact, public—Roth called the reviewer names and both Roth and Cass collaborated on how best to bump the negative review down and boost positive reviews by manipulating the ranking system themselves.[9] The controversy sparked an article by Publishers Weekly speaking out against this practice and raised an outcry from multiple reviewers, bloggers, and publications against the cyber-bullying of non-professional reviewers by authors and agents.[10][11][12]

Bibliography

Selection Series

  1. The Selection (2012)
  2. The Elite (2013)[13][14][15][16] (ISBN 978-0-06-205997-0)
  3. The One (2014) (ISBN 978-0-06-205999-4)
  4. The Heir (2015) (ISBN 978-83-7686-368-9)
  5. The Crown (2016)

Novellas

Other Books

References

  1. ↑ "Young Adult Author Kiera Cass on The Selection". Teen Vogue. Retrieved 16 May 2013.
  2. 1 2 "About". Kiera Cass (kieracass.com). Archived from the original on March 18, 2015. Retrieved 16 May 2013.
  3. ↑ Potts, Jessie (24 April 2013). "Interviews: Kiera Cass and Cornelia Funke". USA Today. Retrieved 16 May 2013.
  4. ↑ "Should Authors and Agents Weigh In on Citizen Reviews?". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 16 May 2013.
  5. ↑ Andreeva, Nellie (May 9, 2013). "'The Selection' Dead At The CW". Deadline Hollywood.
  6. ↑ "Warner Brothers has purchased the film rights for the selection". Kiera Cass. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
  7. ↑ "Kiera Cass to Author Two New Young-Adult Novels". Children's Book Council. Retrieved 16 May 2013.
  8. ↑ "Goodreads: The Selection Review". Goodreads. Retrieved August 6, 2015.
  9. ↑ "Goodreads: The Selection Review". Goodreads. Retrieved August 6, 2015.
  10. ↑ "Should Authors and Agents Weigh In on Citizen Reviews?". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved January 19, 2012.
  11. ↑ "Breaking the Silence: The Selection Debacle". The Midnight Garden. Retrieved May 31, 2012.
  12. ↑ "Authors Behaving Badly". Pocketful of Books. Retrieved May 17, 2012.
  13. ↑ "'The Elite': Kiera Cass talks about the sequel to 'The Selection'". EW. Retrieved 16 May 2013.
  14. ↑ "Review: The Elite". RT Book Reviews. Retrieved 16 May 2013.
  15. ↑ "Review: The Elite". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 16 May 2013.
  16. ↑ "Review: The Elite". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 16 May 2013.
  17. ↑ "Read an excerpt from Kiera Cass' new novella 'The Prince' -- EXCLUSIVE". EW. Retrieved 16 May 2013.

External links

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