Two things here:

• First off, vote for Catching Fire in the 2009 Goodreads Choice Awards! The second book of the beloved trilogy is up for two awards this year. Click Here! Thanks to Quarter Quell!
  
• Second, congratulations to Catching Fire again for making TIME's Top 10 Everything of 2009 list. It's #4 on the Top 10 Fiction Books (You have to scroll down quite a bit on this link). Click Here!. Thanks to the Scholastic Twitter!

The third book of the trilogy is to be released August 24th, 2010! Unfortunately, there still isn't a title, but at least there's a date. One week before our original estimate--not too bad, right?

Thanks to the Scholastic Twitter and credit to HoppingInTrees for first link!

1) Happy Belated Thanksgiving to everyone who celebrates it!

2) With thanks to everyone who voted, The Hunger Games won the Silver Inkys, an Australian award! First alert goes to Eric and link credit goes to Mike!

3) We've added a "Gift Shop" portion to the fansite! Just look over to your left, click it, and it'll lead you to a list of stuff that you or a fellow Hunger Games fan might like.

4) And #3 leads into the fact that we've added a "Contact Us!" portion to the fansite, in case anyone ever needs to tell us something, complain about something...etc.

Scholastic is currently offering a contest to all middle schools that run/ran a Scholastic Book Fair between the months of May 2009 and December 2009. In general, one of the volunteers/leaders of the book fair have to enter the contest by filling out a form and writing a 500 word essay about the most successful book fair he/she has ever helped run. The prize: A visit from Suzanne Collins. For more information, click here!

Thank you to the Scholastic Twitter!

Just as a general address: Random people on the Internet have randomly spread random rumors on Book III and the movie. I feel we need to confirm/squash all of this.

• No title has been confirmed for Book III. As of now, it is called "Untitled." The Victors should be considered a rumor until someone official speaks out.
  
• No auditions have been announced for the movie. So, no, there aren't calls for open auditions or for Cato/Clove and no dates have been confirmed.

For those of you in the UK or Ireland, the official UK site is currently having a contest in which you make a Hunger Games trailer and then submit it to their Youtube page.

The prizes include both books of the trilogy and a t-shirt. One person picked per month. There haven't been a lot of submissions so far, so it looks like a good opportunity for some free stuff if you have some free time.

Link to official instructions: Click Here!

Still speculation, but the German Hunger Games Twitter has written that the third book of the trilogy will likely be out Autumn 2010.

For the Image Source & Twitter, click on the picture.

With many thanks to our affiliate, http://www.thehungergames.fr, The Victors (still rumored name) will be released September 2010, the same month its predecessors came along.

Click Here for Source!

And just as another note: Don't take our Newsreel posts without crediting us! Several people still do it word-by-word. We are not afraid to dole out punishments.

One comment that we have gotten back from the members over and over again is how their language arts/writing skills have improved so much from just discussing on the forums. Part of this goes to the community's general respect of grammar, another part goes to the amount of brainwork needed in order to make a point clear in the debates, and yet another part goes to the literate fan fiction on the site.

Last year, one of the highlights of November was the presence of "NaNoWriMo," also known as "National Novel Writing Month," a time when a person tries his/her hardest to crank out 50,000 words for a story in one month. It was, indeed, quite popular on the forums and everyone seemed to jump in to the writing process and later come back to the forums to give us all a summary of how well they were doing.

So! We feel that this annual event would be very beneficial for everyone's writing skills and are recommending that everyone at least check it out. If you've had a story in your head for a while, this is the time to set it down on text. Click Here! to check it out, and Click Here! for our discussion link.

Happy Halloween, everyone! Enjoy doing whatever you're going to do tonight; just remember to be safe if you go trick-or-treating. :)

And because this place wouldn't be called HungerGamesTrilogy.Com if this post came without anything Hunger Games related:

• 1: Simply spreading this around as much as possible because it's quite interesting. This is Italy's cover for the Hunger Games: Click Here!
  
• 2: If you dressed up as one of the characters from The Hunger Games for Halloween, please feel free to e-mail us pictures to webmaster@hungergamestrilogy.com and we'll post it here! Directions on how you made your costume would be much appreciated for the sake of next year. :)

After about four months of half-heartedly trying to get back into HGT's Twitter account, I decided to finally make a true effort to get back in...and I got it! So:

• This fansite will be the place where you'll get true information on the trilogy that you might actually care about.
  
• Our Facebook will be a place for "big news" so that we don't spam your Facebook wall.
  
• Our Twitter will be a place where you can just message us to ask us questions or just start up a random chat. We'll probably answer (unless it's spam!).

So feel free to follow us here!

Despite our votes, The Hunger Games unfortunately didn't place as #1 in YALSA's Top Ten. Oh well. Hopefully, Catching Fire will place there next year instead. Click Here!

Credit to SanaBanana!

This is still under presumption as a rumor, as no one relatively official (Scholastic, Suzanne Collins, etc) have confirmed it, but The Examiner has put the name down as the title.

The Victors

Also, several pieces of fan-made merchandise have popped up throughout The Hunger Games trilogy's life. However, these bookmarks are definitely something to love. Look through the products traceeo has made and you'll realize these are absolutely beautiful. So...start bidding! Click Here!

The Hunger Games has been nominated for a Silver Inky! So...go vote! You must be under the age of 20 to do so. Click Here!

In other news, several features will be added on to this site in the next few days. They will basically be just images, info, and stuff in general. It's much more interesting than what it sounds. :)

Happy Belated Birthday to Limefan913, our beloved owner and administrator!

The Hunger Games Series (as in THG and CF) has placed at #2 on the Children's Fiction Series--Bestsellers, according to IndieBound. The series that cut them off from #1? Twilight. Click Here!

AND AS A LITTLE NOTE: I wish this were obvious, but it apparently is not. If you take information from this website, whether it be news or book profiles, we need you to cite us as your source! Especially if you take what I (Alexandria) have written word-by-word. If you do not, this is called plagiarism. Thank you to everyone who has cited us as their Hunger Games source so far! I do not want to be mean, but this is called reinforcement of federal law.

Only talked about briefly, but the covers of The Hunger Games and Catching Fire were present on the Today Show as "Fall's Best New Books." Click Here!

Thanks to D-Wayne for mentioning and Aya for the link!

It has been almost one month since the release of Catching Fire, which means it's now time to pile up a list of significant Honors that Suzanne Collins has taken for the second book in the trilogy.

• Entertainment Weekly's Picks: Today's Best in Pop Culture. Click Here!
  
• USA Today's Bestsellers. Click Here!
  
• New York Times Bestsellers. Catching Fire is currently #1 as of its release. Happy Anniversary to The Hunger Games on that list as it holds on to #2. Click Here!

There are several other excellent reviews by other magazines, corporations, and etc, but the most recognizable names are right up there.

Congratulations to Catching Fire, and may the odds be in its favor in the year ahead!

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