The LJ Community for the MATCHED trilogy by Ally Condie

MATCHED and CROSSED Read-Along!

iftherainstops — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:44:58 GMT

I'm participating in the Matched & Crossed read-along! The last book in the series, Reached, comes out November 13th, and I want to make sure I'm totally ready for it. Luckily there's a big read-along happening just for that purpose!

This is a great chance to get caught up on the first two books, and win some awesome prizes! You can even enter to win just by signing up! Check out the host blogs (Squeaky Books and The Non Reluctant Reader) to find out more!

Come read with me!

HELP NEEDED TO RUN THIS COMMUNITY

tekla — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 02:02:41 GMT

I don't have time to take care of this community anymore, and Penguin is still interested in working with us, so I thought it was only fair to ask to the members to see if someone is interested in running the community for me.

Please PM me or leave a comment here.

Thank you!

[fic: Matched trilogy] Selfish Degenerate

forthisdance — Sat, 19 May 2012 06:09:29 GMT

Title: Selfish Degenerate
Fandom: Matched
Rating: G
Word Count: 659
Summary: If Xander saw Ky again, what words would he have to say to him - and vice versa? Slight AU.
A/N: For #91 writer's choice prompt at YALit100. The key word is "selfish".

Who is the selfish one now?

Matched Book 3 Cover & Title Revealed! (+ Interview with Ally Condie)

dreamyzingg — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 20:26:45 GMT

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: There was a huge, huge bomb dropped about Xander in Crossed. Any chance at redemption in the final book?
ALLY CONDIE: Absolutely. There is always a chance at redemption until the last page…and sometimes even after that!

Whose point of view will we be getting this time? Are you switching it up again?
I am switching it up again, because it’s time for Xander to get to share his story as well. So there are three points of view — Cassia’s, Ky’s, and Xander’s — telling this final installment of the trilogy.

Read the rest of the interview here at Entertainment Weekly.

So excited! Thoughts?!!!

"Crossed" In the MTV Fave YA Novel of 2011 Poll!

aimmyarrowshigh — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:55:10 GMT

More often than not, my desk resembles a teen's lending library rather than an adult's workspace. And I'm totally cool with that because I wouldn't want to miss out on even one of the amazing reads that came out this year. As another 365 days of vampire romances, dystopian thrillers and murder mysteries comes to a close, it seems the opportune time to reflect on the year in YA.

And what a year it was. We were introduced to a handful of debut authors who are bound to leave their mark on the literary scene (we're looking at you, Veronica Roth, Marie Lu and Tahereh Mafi!). We dove into new series from old favorites (Richelle Mead's "Bloodlines"). And we continued our adventures with the usual suspects (Cassandra Clare, Ally Condie and Melissa de la Cruz). We stayed up late, reading just one more chapter until it was dawn, shuffling into school or the office like so many brain-hungry zombies. And we adored every second of it. And now it's time for you, Crushers, to declare your undying love and devotion for the book that made your year. What was your favorite YA novel of 2011? Vote in our poll after the jump!

(The poll closes at 11:59 p.m. ET on December 25. We'll announce the winner on December 26.)

Vote Here!

MATCHED: Crossed Fancasting

aimmyarrowshigh — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 08:09:34 GMT

I made a Matched fancast a few months ago, but this is sort of a retconned/new one for Crossed. The characters who only appear in
Matched (not Crossed) I didn't revise, but I did pick a new Cassia and do all of the new characters (as well as making new art for Xander and Ky).

( The Pilot leads The Rising )

Introducing the yalit100!

aimmyarrowshigh — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 06:57:01 GMT

yalit100 yalit100 yalit100 yalit100 yalit100

Love YA lit? Love writing fic? Love writing fic for YA lit and wondering why there doesn’t seem to be very much for most books?

Join the YAlit100 challenge!

You MAY claim more than one table at a time.
You MAY do crossovers, fusions, and AU fic! If you intend to write crossovers and/or fusions, claim the table for the MAIN WORK (so, for example, if you want to write 100 godly-parent-fusion fics, your claim would be “Percy Jackson,” unless all 100 fics would star characters from Anna and the French Kiss or something. SOME ASPECT of all 100 fics must be constant for the book/table you choose!)
Fics can be ANY LENGTH. You may write 3-sentence fics, drabbles, one-shots, six-word-ficfests, whatever. The whole point is just to encourage more YA lit fic! :)

So far, there are just the first few tables up, but I will be adding my usual amount of ALL THE YA BOOKS. :P Join and/or Watch the
comm on LJ for updates, and make sure to suggest any book(s) that you may think I’ll miss or that you want to see sooner!

Winner of our prize pack!!

tekla — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:18:59 GMT

Congratulations to Janice Yang your comment was picked using random.org

Please send me a PM with your shipping address so I can forward to Penguin. :)

Thanks to everyone who commented and participated in the Crossed Blog Tour, and special thanks to Ally and the Penguin Staff!

Crossed Blog Tour

tekla — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 22:33:27 GMT

We are thrilled to announce Penguin gave us the opportunity to participate in the Crossed Blog Tour!! This means Ally herself wrote a blog entry to share with our community! We are deeply grateful for this and we want to thank her!!

Ally Condie is the author of the international bestseller Matched, and its newly-released sequel, Crossed. Matched was chosen as one of YALSA’s 2011 Teens’ Top Ten, named as one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Children’s Books of 2010, selected as the #1 Pick on the Winter Kid’s Indie Next List, and received starred reviews from Kirkus and Publishers Weekly. In a starred review for the sequel, Crossed, Kirkus called the Matched series an “addictive, layered dystopic trilogy.”

A former English teacher (who still keeps her license current, just in case!), she lives with her husband and three sons outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. She loves reading, writing, running, and listening to her husband play guitar.

Blog Post: What’s in a Name (Ky and Xander)

It took me some time to come up with the perfect name for Cassia (Read this blog entry here at the Matched Department). The boys in the story were a little bit easier for some reason. Maybe it’s because I have three sons so I have experience choosing boy names!

I came up with Ky’s name first, and it was so easy and automatic that I can’t even remember how I first decided on it. He was just always Ky. The spelling is my own variation on the name (though I’m sure others have spelled it this way too). When it is spelled Kai, it’s Polynesian for ocean. When it is spelled Cai, it’s an abbreviation of Caius (which, according to some sources, means person of earth).

I like this dichotomy, because it reflects the dual nature of Ky himself. He’s very connected to the earth and grounded in that aspect of the natural world, but he’s also the kind of person who has a lot of depth to him (still waters run deep). I also like that the changeable nature of the sea is reflected in his eyes.

It was a bit trickier to name Xander. I wanted something a little futuristic-sounding but still classical. It was my sister (the same one who helped me name Cassia!) who pointed me in the direction of the name Xander. I’ve never watched the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer (I know, I’m horrible!) and so I hadn’t encountered the name before. I loved the name immediately and the meaning—defender of the people—fits him very well too, although you might have to wait a bit longer in the series to fully understand why. ;)

One last bit of information on the two male leads and their names—in earlier drafts of the book, the boys’ last names were switched, which is why you can sometimes catch me mixing them up now when I’m speaking.

In the final version of Matched, their names are Ky Markham and Xander Carrow. But earlier on it was Ky Carrow and Xander Markham. I had picked the last name Carrow because it means “a strolling gamester,” which I loved for Ky because he’s been on the move and because he could win at the games if he wanted to—and even by losing, he’s playing his own games.

Then my husband pointed out that “Ky Carrow” had a lot of hard c sounds together and so I switched them up. While I am very visual and always think of how a name looks on paper, my husband always thinks of the sound because he is more of a musician. So, I switched them. Because Xander is a bit of a gamester too. And because, since I had based both Ky and Xander partly on my husband, it seemed only fair that he should have a say in what they were named. :)

We have one (1) prize pack for you to give away to a winner in the US. The prize pack includes:

• 1 signed, finished copy of CROSSED
• 1 double sided CROSSED/Book 3 poster
• 3 MATCHED buttons

All you have to do is comment on this post to participate. We will use random.org to pick a winner November 16th.

Thanks again to Ally and the awesome staff at Penguin for making this experience possible!

CROSSED chapter Sampler
Official MATCHED website
Get MATCHED Facebook App

*Wed 16th Nov: Comments are officially closed. We will be announcing the winner tonight. :)

CROSSED discussion post!

dreamyzingg — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 00:42:56 GMT

Crossed discusson post

Hey everyone! Here's a Crossed discussion post for everyone who needs to talk about ALL THE THINGS THAT HAPPENED in this book. So, so many things... Anyway, talk about Crossed here, and of course, SPOILER ALERT for people who haven't read it yet!

Also, I felt like making a poll because I am very curious about this. Only vote ONCE please!

View Poll: undefined

MATCHED: In which apparently the thing I do for fun this year is make theoretical maps of dystopias.

aimmyarrowshigh — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 05:40:52 GMT

( Explanations and full-size maps under cut! SPOILERS FOR CROSSED; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. )

CROSSED trailer!

dreamyzingg — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 00:25:02 GMT

Opening chapters of CROSSED

tekla — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:00:22 GMT

You can read them here at ew.com!!! :D

Btw, don't forget to leave a comment on the site after you read the chapters, so we can let Ally, Penguin and everyone who reads EW know how excited we are for the new book!!!

Win a SIGNED Copy of MATCHED!!!

amethyst18 — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 16:03:38 GMT

Want to win a SIGNED copy of Matched by Ally Condie?

Well, check out our latest contest!!!

The DEADLINE is midnight on Friday, September 16th, 2011.

Go HERE for Details!!!!

*My apologies to the mods if this type of post in not allowed.*

A Matched Wiki and a Giveaway!

iftherainstops — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 04:06:23 GMT

Hello Matched fans!

I help run a Matched fan-site, The-Society.net, and we've got a ton of Matched related things coming up!

We recently finished our Matched Lexicon where you can find a ton of great information about the characters, locations and more.

Finally, we're giving away an Advanced Reader Copy of Crossed, the sequel to Matched, SIGNED by Ally Condie on our site. There are a couple of different ways you can win, check out how here

Thank you so much to the mods for affiliating with us and for letting us post this.

We wish you optimal results!

I love Matched

justbelieveyou — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:53:05 GMT

2 days ago I bought this book, I could not believe that I liked so much will and leave everything and read in their spare time like crazy. I had not read other works by Ally Condie, but I liked it a lot. To be honest I can not wait for the next book in the trilogy. With joy I learned yesterday that the series is a trilogy. Thank You so much Ally Condie!

Dream-Cast Matched

nildiam — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 19:33:06 GMT

I've made a fancast and I'm not sure where this came from. Suddenly I was surfing the internet for pictures and this is what's the end of it.

I couldn't decide for one actress or actor so I chose two for Cassia, Ky and Xander. But from the boys I like Jake Abel and Logan Lerman best. But I get the feeling that Jake is a bit to old. So sad... ;_; He is so cute and a fantastic actor.

Relevant to Interests

angel_gidget — Thu, 05 May 2011 12:57:09 GMT

Considering that it's really an "anything goes" sort of meme--including gen, regular prompts, etc.--it seems like too good an opportunity to pass up.

Matched, Ally Condie

aimmyarrowshigh — Mon, 02 May 2011 08:05:48 GMT

Total Icon Count: 25

Teasers:

( Icons Here! )

Join Incarceron!

kissingdaylight — Sun, 01 May 2011 18:29:19 GMT

Join incarceron, the only lj community for fans
of Catherine Fisher's Incarceron and sequel Sapphique.

If you've never heard of the books, as a fellow YA lit fan, I highly recommend you check them out. If you want to learn more, read the community profile or go to the official site!

Matched - Cassia (Two Variations on a Graphic)

aimmyarrowshigh — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:34:26 GMT

( Cassia or Bella? Cassia. )

CONTEST WINNER!!!!

tekla — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 02:33:38 GMT

Okay everyone, we got our winner for the CROSSED prize pack!!

Congratulation to arver7!!!!!

Thanks everyone for participating, you are all awesome and we are endlessly grateful for yours and Allie Condie's kindness.

Matched: Fifteen Drabbles for 15pairings, Theme Set #006

aimmyarrowshigh — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 22:02:30 GMT

Author: aimmyarrowshigh
Fandom: Matched, Ally Condie
Story Title: "15pairings, Theme Set #006"
Character/Relationships: Cassia/Xander, Cassia/Ky, Xander/Cassia/Ky, Lea/Joseph, Piper/Xander, Em/Dalen, Grandfather/Grandmother, Official+Ky, Em/Piper, Norah+Cassia, Lea/Piper, Xander/Ky, Ky/Livy, Patrick/Aida, Em+Cassia
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 1,500
Disclaimer: I don't own anything. All characters, settings, and proprietary language are owned by the author of the work from which this is derived.

( Fifteen Drabbles for Fifteen Pairings )

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT.

tekla — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 07:03:38 GMT

Okay folks, I can finally tell you! Turns out Penguin got in contact with the admins of this community to share some big news about Ally Condie and the Matched Trilogy with us!

First of all, they sent us a 'thank you' video Ally shot personally for us, the matched_trilogy community. Hope you enjoy it! Watch out for hints of CROSSED!!

We're very grateful of Ally for taking her time to shoot this for the community and we really appreciate it, she's really amazing!

MATCHED

Just some general info and videos of Matched to keep you guys posted.

MATCHED TRAILER:

ALLY CONDIE AUTHOR VIDEO:

SOME LINKS OF INTEREST:
• Ally’s website
• The MATCHED website
• The MATCHED Facebook app
• If you are a Matched Trilogy fan, you need to add the MATCHED MADNESS Twibbon to your Twitter/Facebook profiles!

CONTEST

And if that wasn't amazing enough, Penguin is also giving away one (1) MATCHED/CROSSED prize pack per fan site which will include:

• A signed copy of MATCHED (hardcover)
• A MATCHED/CROSSED poster
• A MATCHED bookmark
• A MATCHED button
• A galley of CROSSED (VERY IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT CROSSED: We don’t have galleys yet and we might not until sometime around June, so that portion of the prize pack will be mailed later, but one will be set aside for the winner of each contest and mailed as soon as they arrive in house.)
• US winners only

To enter just post a comment telling us which one was your favorite MATCHED scene and why. We will pick a winner randomly that will be announced next Friday.

The Matched Department is also running the same contest and they posted their personal 'thank you' video from Ally last Monday. Check it out for more Crossed hints!

The Society is also running the same contest and posted their personal 'thank you' video from Ally on Wednesday with more Crossed hints!

Don't forget to visit these Matched related websites for more videos and contest deets!

CROSSED

Pre-order CROSSED now.

In search of a future that may not exist and faced with the decision of who to share it with, Cassia journeys to the Outer Provinces in pursuit of Ky — taken by the Society to his certain death — only to find that he has escaped, leaving a series of clues in his wake. Cassia’s quest leads her to question much of what she holds dear, even as she finds glimmers of a different life across the border. But as Cassia nears resolve and certainty about her future with Ky, an invitation for rebellion, an unexpected betrayal, and a surprise visit from Xander — who may hold the key to the uprising and, still, to Cassia’s heart — change the game once again. Nothing is as expected on the edge of Society, where crosses and double crosses make the path more twisted than ever.

Due out November 1, 2011.

betty_mraz — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:22:57 GMT

~~[30] Being Human {US}~~
[2] Matched wallpapers + matching ;) headers
→ 1280x800 and 700x300
[1] The Hunger Games wallpaper
[1] Mockingjay wallpaper

preview

see them here (: