![]() ![]() America has been offered the opportunity to enter the Selection – a contest that gathers a group of teen girls winnowed by lottery from which young, handsome Prince Maxon will select a bride. ![]() Set in a post-WWIII United States (now called Illea), ruled by a royal family and regimented by a prescribed caste system, Cass’s tale stars 16-year-old America Singer. After a first printing of 24,000 and 13 trips back to press, The Selection now boasts 175,000 copies sold in all formats, while The Elite has already sold 90,000 copies of its initial 100,000-copy print run (in all formats) and has gone back to press four times. By May, it had charted on the New York Times bestseller list.įast forward a year: this spring has seen the release of a tie-in e-novella titled The Prince (March), the paperback reprint of The Selection (April) and the just-out hardcover of its sequel The Elite (May). The Competition of a Lifetime.” With a tagline that sounds like a prelude to “the most dramatic rose ceremony ever!” on TV’s The Bachelor, Kiera Cass’s April 2012 dystopian YA romance The Selection (HarperTeen) was off and running, buoyed by warm reviews, a dedicated Facebook page, and a spot on the IndieNext list for spring 2012. ![]()
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