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YA Scavenger Hunt
Go to the YA Scavenger Hunt page to find out all about the hunt. There are TWO contests going on simultaneously, and you can enter one or all! I am a part of the BLUE TEAM–but there is also a red team for a chance to win a whole different set of twenty-five signed books!
If you’d like to find out more about the hunt, see links to all the authors participating, and see the full list of prizes up for grabs, go to the YA Scavenger Hunt homepage.
Alexandra Monir broke into the world of YA novels with her 2011 debut, TIMELESS. She is a singer/songwriter and recorded original music to accompany both TIMELESS and TIMEKEEPER, her second novel. She lives in Los Angeles.
Michele then finds her father’s journals, which tell stories of his time-traveling past. As she digs deeper, she learns about his entanglement with a mysterious and powerful organization called the Time Society and his dealings with a vengeful Windsor ancestor. Michele soon finds herself at the center of a rift over 120 years in the making, one whose resolution will have life-or-death consequences.
Alexandra Monir’s Timekeeper combines breathtaking romance with a tale of complex magic in a sequel that will have every reader believing in the transcendent power of love.
Available everywhere books are sold on January 8th!”
(SPECIAL CONTENT REMOVED DUE TO SCAVENGER HUNT BEING OVER):
And don’t forget to enter the contest for a chance to win a ton of signed books by me, Alexandra, and more! To enter, you need to know that my favorite number is 17. Add up all the favorite numbers of the authors on the blue team and you’ll have all the secret code to enter for the grand prize!
I will be giving away an annotated ARC plus SWAG. To be eligible to win, enter through the rafflecopter and ALSO leave a comment on this blog telling me why you should win my grand prize.
AND Alexandra has a bonus giveaway as well. Alexandra is gifting 4 readers a copy of TIMELESS, a digital download of SECRETS OF THE TIME SOCIETY, and a CD of the original songs from TIMELESS! Send her a tweet @TimelessAlex to be entered in the contest. Prize winners will be announced on August 5th!
Don’t forget that you also get an extra entry by tweeting about the hunt.
Cover reveal: Broken by A.E. Rought
Today I have the absolute pleasure of revealing the cover for a book from a dear friend of mine. A book that I loved enough to blurb I might add. 🙂
It’s a beautiful book. Dark. Romantic. And really kept me wanting to read even way past the time I was supposed to stop.
The book is, of course, BROKEN by A.E. Rought and is being published by Strange Chemistry the YA imprint of Angry Robot books.
Thank you, Ann, for letting me help with this reveal.
So, without further adieu, let the reveal begin…
Imagine a modern spin on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein where a young couple’s undying love and the grief of a father pushed beyond sanity could spell the destruction of them all.A string of suspicious deaths near a small Michigan town ends with a fall that claims the life of Emma Gentry’s boyfriend, Daniel. Emma is broken, a hollow shell mechanically moving through her days. She and Daniel had been made for each other, complete only when they were together. Now she restlessly wanders the town in the late Fall gloom, haunting the cemetery and its white-marbled tombs, feeling Daniel everywhere, his spectre in the moonlight and the fog.
When she encounters newcomer Alex Franks, only son of a renowned widowed surgeon, she’s intrigued despite herself. He’s an enigma, melting into shadows, preferring to keep to himself. But he is as drawn to her as she is to him. He is strangely…familiar. From the way he knows how to open her locker when it sticks, to the nickname she shared only with Daniel, even his hazel eyes with brown flecks are just like Daniel’s. The closer they become, though, the more something inside her screams there’s something very wrong with Alex Franks.
And when Emma stumbles across a grotesque and terrifying menagerie of mangled but living animals within the walls of the Franks’ estate, creatures she surely knows must have died from their injuries, she knows.
But that’s not all. There’s even a small excerpt, BUT I only have a small portion of it. There’s eleven blogs who each have an excerpt so if you want to start at the beginning you’ll have to go here.
Otherwise, the previous excerpt is here and the following excerpt is here.
Here’s my excerpt:
Which is exactly why I hadn’t said anything. Bree might be a genius in the costume and makeup department—comes with the territory for a theater major—but she’s not a miracle worker. The longer I hedge, the less time she has to force me into being a Zombie Twin, or Bad Faery Twin, or Whateverelse Twin she’s plotting on subjecting me too. With us both being 5’5”-ish, with blond hair—mine natural, hers what my mom calls Bottle Blonde—and average curves, Bree has a lot to work with in the Twins department.“I’ll let you know.”“Dying of anticipation,” she says, dragging out the last word like Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show.“Can we discuss this tomorrow? I’m walking and talking and can’t hardly see the sidewalk…”“Say no more.” She takes a swig from her pop, then says, “See ya in the morning, Em.”“Bye, B.”
Blog Tour and Housekeeping
I am now almost officially 4 months away from my release and things just turned CRAZY, y’all. It’s exciting and scary and absolutely wonderful. I still kind of have to pinch myself when I realize this is REALLY, really happening.
As you may or may not have heard, I will be having a blog tour. TWO blog tours in fact. Two wonderful blogs have agreed to host for me and yes I know I’m insane. The wonderful Mundie Moms and a newer blog The Book Paparazzi.
The Book Paparazzi already started taking sign-ups as of last night, and Mundie Moms will be doing theirs soon, so if you don’t make it into one, there’s always a chance of making it in to another. And if you don’t make it into either of those, I’ll be putting together a street team eventually (give me time on that part).
Before I go into the housekeeping details of the blog tour, I just first want to say a huge and heartfelt thank you to every one for supporting me and wanting to read RENEGADE. I’m simply blown away and (people overuse this word a lot, but) humbled by all of you. I want to say more here, but I’m pretty sure it would just get really sappy and silly and I’m already crying so I’ll stop here. 🙂
Now for the housekeeping details, if you’re interested in signing up for the blog tour, here’s how you can do it. The Book Paparazzi is taking sign ups right now. You can contact them and they’ll let you know from there. I’m not sure how Mundie Moms does their blog tours, but I will post that information as soon as I know. Please do NOT email them and ask to sign up yet. If you really, really want to be on their blog tour and can’t wait for details. [:P] email me instead.
If you are selected to be on either blog tour and you were signed up for a review and you are on the ARC list for my publicist, let me know, so I can make sure my publicist knows.
I think that’s it. If you have any questions, please feel free to either email me or comment below.
The button for The Book Paparazzi is below. Feel free to snag it and spread the word. I’ll post the button for the Mundie Moms one when they get it to me.
I look forward to working with these two blogs and all of you. Thanks again for such a wonderful reception. I <3 you all! *mwuah!*
Monday Musings: ARCs
Hi again, everyone! I know I dropped off the face of the Earth for a bit, but I got distracted by first pass pages and shiny new ARCs!
As a writer, getting ARCs is a day we patiently (or in my case, not so patiently) wait for like a kid at Christmas. And finally being able to tear open that box, after attacking the UPS guy (which, if I’d been home, I probably would have done. I guess it’s a good thing I was gone. :P), is such an awesome feeling.
I cried, laughed, hugged the books, then cried some more. I felt like a mama bear with cubs. Every time one of my family picked one up to look closer, I wanted to snatch them back and yell, “MINE! NO TOUCH!”
But I kept my hands firmly fisted in my t-shirt, so I wouldn’t.
And while I didn’t actually sleep with my ARC, I set it on my bedside table, so I could look at it every time I woke up during the night. Which was often.
I told everyone I could. I cried some more. I stared at it.
Then reality sunk in. This meant people were reading my book. People I didn’t know. And I think I said something like this. “People are reading my book!”
Think about. “Oh crap! People are reading my book.”
Instantly become nauseated and lightheaded and sit on the ground before I pass out.
My BIL, husband, and son were there when that happened and they laughed at me.
“Well, yeah, they’re reading your book. Isn’t that what you want?” my husband asked, still laughing.
“Yes! No! Oh, God, I don’t know!” I bury my face in my hands and cry again, but this time I cry so much I can’t breathe and freak out the hubby who decides the best thing to do is hide my ARCs.
LOL.
After a bit, I calmed down, but thinking about so many people I don’t know reading Renegade still makes me feel a bit sick. I’m SO EXCITED that people are reading my book, but all my doubts and worries are flying up to hit me in the face.
What if I didn’t explain this enough? What if I explained too much? Did I give this away? Is it boring? What if they don’t like it? What if they do? Oh, God, what am I going to do when I get my first negative review? What will I do when I get my first positive one? What about all the things I fixed in the first pass pages? Will people remember that things change between the ARC and the final?
It was kind of like when I had my babies. I was SO EXCITED to be pregnant. I couldn’t wait to see my little ones, but then I went into labor and went into full out panic mode.
Of course, ALL of this is out of my hands. And there is absolutely NOTHING I can do about it. And I wouldn’t change it for the world. But it still scares the bejeebers out of me. Every time someone emails me, or @s me on Twitter, telling me they have my book. I’m 2 parts excited and 1 part scared out of my mind.
Don’t get me wrong, though. I love it. I love hearing that people are reading my books, or wanting to. I love hearing how excited they are to get my ARC. Or how disappointed they were to go to the Tor booth at ALA, but all my ARCs were gone. It’s a fantastic feeling to know people aside from me, my editor, and agent are excited about Renegade.
While I admit it’s a little unnerving going from feeling almost euphoric down to mind-numbing terror in just a matter of a few seconds, it’s also breathtaking. Like sitting and watching the sunrise at the beach.
I hope I never lose this feeling. I want to be like this EVERY. Single. Time. one of my books release.
Does this make me insane? 😛
The Nightmare Affair by Mindee Arnett Jacket reveal + giveaway
Yesterday Tor.com revealed The Nightmare Affairs’ front cover here along with all the covers it took to get to the final product.
Here it is again, by itself.
Isn’t it gorgeous? I LOVE the phoenix and the purple color. And the silhouette of the girl. I’m just totally in love with this cover.
BUT today I, and a few other blogs, have something even more awesome to show you. We are revealing the rest of the jacket!
I’m so excited!
Okay, here’s the jacket without the jacket copy:
And here’s the finished version:
You can click on the pictures to make them larger.
Aren’t they just gorgeous! And LOOK! The spine is a TREE! How freakin’ awesome is THAT!
Jacket Copy:
Just fill out the widget below and Mindee will announce and alert the winner next week.
