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Happy Book Birthday
Today’s post is filled with the wonderful scent of new book smell! There are a TON of awesome new releases that I can’t wait to share with you! So instead of blathering on I’ll just wish a Happy Book Birthday to the following sweet authors and their books:
THROUGH TO YOU by Emily Hainsworth (Balzer + Bray)
Cover blurb:
Camden Pike has been grief-stricken since his girlfriend, Viv, died. Viv was the last good thing in his life: helping him rebuild his identity after a career-ending football injury, picking up the pieces when his home life shattered, and healing his pain long after the meds wore off. And now, he’d give anything for one more glimpse of her. But when Cam makes a visit to the site of Viv’s deadly car accident, he sees some kind of apparition. And it isn’t Viv.
The apparition’s name is Nina, and she’s not a ghost. She’s a girl from a parallel world, and in this world, Viv is still alive. Cam can’t believe his wildest dreams have come true. All he can focus on is getting his girlfriend back, no matter the cost. But things are different in this other world: Viv and Cam have both made very different choices, things between them have changed in unexpected ways, and Viv isn’t the same girl he remembers. Nina is keeping some dangerous secrets, too, and the window between the worlds is shrinking every day. As Cam comes to terms with who this Viv has become and the part Nina played in his parallel story, he’s forced to choose—stay with Viv or let her go—before the window closes between them once and for all.
KEEPER OF THE LOST CITIES by Shannon Messenger (Aladdin)
Cover blurb:
Twelve-year-old Sophie Foster has a secret. She’s a Telepath—someone who hears the thoughts of everyone around her. It’s a talent she’s never known how to explain.
Everything changes the day she meets Fitz, a mysterious boy who appears out of nowhere and also reads minds. She discovers there’s a place she does belong, and that staying with her family will place her in grave danger. In the blink of an eye, Sophie is forced to leave behind everything and start a new life in a place that is vastly different from anything she has ever known.
Sophie has new rules to learn and new skills to master, and not everyone is thrilled that she has come “home.” There are secrets buried deep in Sophie’s memory—secrets about who she really is and why she was hidden among humans—that other people desperately want. Would even kill for.
In this page-turning debut, Shannon Messenger creates a riveting story where one girl must figure out why she is the key to her brand-new world, before the wrong person finds the answer first.
CHASING THE SKIP by Janci Patterson (Henry Holt)
Cover blurb:
Ricki’s dad has never been there for her. He’s a bounty hunter who spends his time chasing parole evaders—also known as “skips”—all over the country. But now since Ricki’s mom ran off, Ricki finds herself an unwilling passenger in a front-row seat to her father’s dangerous lifestyle.
Ricki’s feelings get even more confused when her dad starts chasing seventeen-year-old Ian Burnham. She finds herself unavoidably attracted to the dark-eyed felon who seems eager to get acquainted. But Ricki thinks she’s ever in control—the perfect manipulator. Little does she know that Ian isn’t playing their game by her rules.
SEND ME A SIGN by Tiffany Schmidt (Walker)
Cover blurb:
Mia is always looking for signs. A sign that she should get serious with her soccer-captain boyfriend. A sign that she’ll get the grades to make it into an Ivy-league school. One sign she didn’t expect to look for was: “Will I survive cancer?” It’s a question her friends would never understand, prompting Mia to keep her illness a secret. The only one who knows is her lifelong best friend, Gyver, who is poised to be so much more. Mia is determined to survive, but when you have so much going your way, there is so much more to lose. From debut author Tiffany Schmidt comes a heart-wrenching and ultimately uplifting story of one girl’s search for signs of life in the face of death.
And my personal favorite:
IRON SKIN by Tina Connolly
Cover blurb:
Jane Eliot wears an iron mask.
It’s the only way to contain the fey curse that scars her cheek. The Great War is five years gone, but its scattered victims remain—the ironskin.
When a carefully worded listing appears for a governess to assist with a “delicate situation”—a child born during the Great War—Jane is certain the child is fey-cursed, and that she can help.
Teaching the unruly Dorie to suppress her curse is hard enough; she certainly didn’t expect to fall for the girl’s father, the enigmatic artist Edward Rochart. But her blossoming crush is stifled by her own scars, and by his parade of women. Ugly women, who enter his closed studio…and come out as beautiful as the fey.
Jane knows Rochart cannot love her, just as she knows that she must wear iron for the rest of her life. But what if neither of these things is true? Step by step Jane unlocks the secrets of her new life—and discovers just how far she will go to become whole again.
New website is live!
Well, today is the day! It’s October 1st, which means 2 things. It’s exactly 42 days until RENEGADE launches and, more importantly at the moment, it’s the day my new website goes live! I’m so excited for you to see it. It’s been designed by the wonderful, fantabulous Tessa Elwood of ipopcolor. She’s truly fantastic and I’m so glad I’ve been able to work with her.
I LOVE my new website. I love the purple and the creepy, elegant shadows on the side. Not to mention the blood splatter. But I think my absolute favorite is the splash page. I love how the lightning is streaking out of the door like something from a mad scientist’s laboratory. I don’t think I could have asked for a more perfect site.
Because I have a new website, I also have a new blog. I’ll still be cross-posting blog posts for the next few weeks, but soon it’ll go away and new blog posts will only be here, so you’ll want to sign up for the RSS feed. It’s up there in the left corner above the Renegade countdown widget. 🙂
Also, you may have noticed on my news page, I have some appearances listed. This is by far not all of them. There are still a ton still in the works, especially for my launch. I’ll update the list when I have confirmations. Also, I’m going to have a newsletter! If you want to sign-up for that, you can do so by going to my contact page. And, I’ll be starting sign-ups for my street team soon! I’m still sorting details, but I’m really excited about it. More details soon!
I’m sure there’s going to be a few bugs to work out with the site(there always is, especially when it comes to me. I’m hopelessly lost when it comes to computer stuff–which is insane considering I’m a science fiction author. LOL.), so if you see something that isn’t working right or whatever, let me know!
Anyway, to celebrate this awesome occasion, I’ll be giving away 5 ARCs of RENEGADE. And all you have to do is fill out the rafflecopter widget below. The contest will run for 2 weeks until October 15th. Then I’ll choose 5 winners at random. This contest is US/Canada only do to postage issues, but I’ll have more international contests soon.
P.S.: Don’t forget you can enter the goodreads giveaway, too.
Renegade Launch and YOU!
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Hi everyone! Can you believe it? Renegade’s US release is in approximately 2 months! I can’t believe it. I’m so excited I can hardly sit still. *wiggles*
That being said I’m setting up my launch and signings in Florida (if you’re not if Florida–I have a plan for you, too. Just kee
p reading. :]), but I’ve come across a little hitch. I don’t know how many people want to attend a signing by poor little me. Thus, I have no idea how much SWAG to order or how many books to request the bookstores to order!
So, in all my ingeniousness (;]) I’ve decide to put a poll together. Now this is where I need your help. Please fill out the google form below. If you even think it’s possible you’ll attend a signing at a location on the poll, please check it off. You may check off more than one if you think you may attend more than one, but I’d like to keep it as close to accurate as possible.
Of course, there is no obligation to attend once you click a location. In fact, I’m not even taking names or email addresses. In a few days, I’ll set up a different form for my newsletter that you can sign up if you want to. IF you want me to send you an official invitation to the booksigning closest to you, you may fill out the comment box at the bottom of this google form (and I’ll use that to send you the invitation), but there’s no obligation. When I have the dates and times confirmed I’ll make sure to post them on my website and here on the blog. 🙂
Also, all of the cities on the form are in Florida. HOWEVER, if you are in another state and want me to come to your city, please fill out the form and click of other and use the comment form at the bottom to tell me what city. If there’s enough votes for your city, I’ll do everything in my power to visit you!
All that being said, if you are a teacher/librarian and are interested in me speaking at your location, email me. I LOVE doing talks and presentations.
Renegade’s German Book birthday!
Eee! Today is an extremely exciting day for me! It’s Renegade’s German Book birthday. People all over Germany are reading my book! And while it’s extremely nerve-wracking, I’m jumping all over the place with excitement.
This version had to leave the nest a little earlier than the US version, so I’m worried about it making it in the big, scary world, but I’ve done all I can for it and it’ll either sink or swim. Hopefully, it’ll swim and may even start doing speciality strokes! That would be extremely awesome.
Because today is release day for Renegade, Evelyn is over at the Book Goddess sharing her diary in a “Day in the Life of” post on the Authors are Rockstars tour.
For people in Germany, if you see my book “in the wild” I’d LOVE to see it. Send me pics, so I can share the awesomeness on twitter and facebook!
Anyway, thanks to everyone who’s sharing this awesome occasion with me. I’ll hope you join me again in November for the US release.
Young Adult Giveaway Hop.
We’re officially in the double digits for RENEGADE’s US release! And we’re only 12 days from the German release! I’m super excited for both so I’m participating in this hop to prove it! 😛
This one is simple, all you have to do is follow my blog and then enter through the rafflecopter widget below. The prize will be a pre-order of RENEGADE (Either US or German) from the retailer of your choice and SWAG. If you’re international, though, I will be getting it from book depository. Simple, right?
That being said, if book depository delivers to your country, then you can enter, so yes, it’s International.
And, as always, here’s the description and covers.
Since the age of three, sixteen-year-old Evelyn Winters has been trained to be Daughter of the People in the underwater utopia known as Elysium. Selected from hundreds of children for her ideal genes, all her life she’s thought that everything was perfect; her world. Her people. The Law.But when Gavin Hunter, a Surface Dweller, accidentally stumbles into their secluded little world, she’s forced to come to a startling realization: everything she knows is a lie.Her memories have been altered.Her mind and body aren’t under her own control.And the person she knows as Mother is a monster.Together with Gavin she plans her escape, only to learn that her own mind is a ticking time bomb… and Mother has one last secret that will destroy them all.
