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January 13, 2017
Announcing Pitch Madness!
The Pitch Madness submission window will be open for 24 hours on February 24!
What is Pitch Madness? It’s a contest held every March, where writers enter for a chance to win requests from the participating agents. Writers submit a 35-word (max) pitch and the first 250 words of their completed manuscript on submission day. Then a team of readers choose the top sixty (60) entries to go onto the agent round. Though Pitch Madness has a game theme, the next contest will transition to more of a critique based contest with agents simply requesting in the comments of the entries’ posts instead of having the agents play for requests. Also, hosts will coach our team members, helping them polish their entries and first pages.
We’ll have an agent introduction post up next week.
The submission window will be open from 12:01 AM EST on February 24 until 11:59PM EST. You should have plenty of time to get your submissions in. There is no limit of how many entries will be accepted. Please note: All entries sent before or after the allotted times will be deleted.
There will be 60 finalists moving onto the agent round. Pitch Madness will accept Middle Grade, Young Adult, New Adult, and Adult completed fiction, novel length (no novellas) completed and polished manuscripts only. This time around we will not accept non-fiction. Only one entry per writer this round.
What do you need to enter? A 35-word (max) pitch and the first 250 words of your finished manuscript. If the 250th word falls in the middle of a sentence, go to the end of the sentence. I will post formatting instructions before the submission window opens. There will be a form on the submission post to enter your pitch into.
Pitch Madness will be on six blogs and each blog host will have a co-host helping them choose their top 10 entries.
We’ll have a small team of first readers ranking the entries for the host round.
All the twitter fun will be happening on the hashtag #PitchMadness!
Meet our first round readers …
Jami Nord
Phone monkey, former Lit Agent intern, freelance editor for @Chimera_Edits, & writer under a pen name. Bi, pagan, nerdy, & liberal. I don’t bite, promise.
Kerbie Addis
Writer. Feminist. Slytherin. Bacon mage. Future librarian. Lit agent intern. Army wife. Lover of dark stories & dark lipstick. #PitchWars co-mentor. #WNDB
Mary Anne Marlowe
Author of SOME KIND OF MAGIC @KensingtonBooks Feb ’17 * Repped by @mike_hoogland at @DGLM * #PitchWars Mentor, Whovian, & Sassenach
Samantha Joyce
Author of the LOVE IN DISGUISE series. FLIRTING WITH FAME and DEALING IN DECEPTION out now from Pocket Star! Repped by @KatRushall of ABLA. Broadway Geek Girl.
Here are the links to the host blogs and their co-hosts for the contest …
Team Ice Cream Sea hosted on Brenda Drake’s blog …
Brenda Drake
NYT bestselling author of YA fiction. Latest, THIEF OF LIES & CURSING FATE. Next, GUARDIAN OF SECRETS 2/7/17. Rep’d by @petejknapp #PitchWars & #PitMad Creator
October 30, 2016
BEFORE TOMORROW!!!
Today is the release day of BEFORE TOMORROW, aka Logan’s novella, and I couldn’t be any more thrilled! Guys, I love this book so much. Logan is one of my favorite characters from the Forget Tomorrow series, and it was an utter joy to hang out in his mind for a little while!
Synopsis: In a world where all seventeen-year-olds receive a memory from their future selves, Logan Russell’s vision is exactly as he expects — and exactly not. He sees himself achieving his greatest wish of becoming a gold-star swimmer, but strangely enough, the vision also shows him locking eyes with a girl from his past, Callie Stone, and experiencing an overwhelming sense of love and belonging.
Logan’s not sure what the memory means, but soon enough, he learns that his old friend Callie is in trouble. She’s received an atypical memory, one where she commits a crime in the future. According to the law, she must be imprisoned, even though she’s done nothing wrong. Now, Logan must decide if he’ll give up his future as a gold-star swimmer and rescue the literal girl of his dreams. All he’ll have to do is defy Fate.
And you know what the best part is? For the time being, this novella is utterly and absolutely FREE! So what are you waiting for? Download your copy now!
Links for Kobo, iBooks, and Google books coming soon!
October 27, 2016
Spook-tacular Blog Hop
Hi! I’m Pintip Dunn, and I’m your hostess for this stop of the blog hop!
Tricks can be fun, be TREATS are way better. And this contest gives you a chance to win a ton of treats in the form of signed books, ebooks, candy, book swag and more from 13 authors!! We know…it’s kind of SPOOK-TACULAR!
So how do you snag the loot? It’s simple, and you don’t even have to dress up and walk in the cold door to door to get the goodies.
Visit each of the THIRTEEN participating author websites. You will find the name of the candy/treat they are giving away, as well as what BOOK they are offering as part of the PRIZE PACK! Be sure to write down the name of the treat, you’ll need it later.
Each author will provide a link to another author website on the hunt. (We are making it nice and easy so you don’t get lost in the dark) =)
Have fun reading all about the books each author is giving away in the prize pack, plus any other tricks and treats the authors may have in store for you.
When you have collected the names of all 13 author “TREATS”, head on over to complete the Trick or Treat Hunt Page Google Forms doc and enter the correct treat next to the corresponding author name.
You can enter for BONUS chances to win via the Rafflecopter found on each author’s website, by doing things like following them on Twitter or following their Goodreads page, or tweeting about the Hunt!
So WHAT WILL YOU WIN??
A creepy-awesome black canvas tote bag with a cool skull filled with each of the books noted below as well as bookmarks and other great book swag. You will also win all of the treats that the author’s list on their pages PLUS a bunch of other candy treats all in a black plastic cauldron. You’ll even get the cute little plastic skulls shown in the prize photo.
LIST OF PARTICIPATING AUTHORS and their AWESOME BOOKS!
Amy McNulty – Nobody’s Goddess (advanced paperback)
Kiran Oliver – DAYBREAK RISING (ebook)
Dorothy Dreyer – SCARE ME TO SLEEP (Kindle ebook)
Jodie Andrefski – THE SOCIETY (signed paperback)
Julia Ember – UNICORN TRACKS (paperback)
Julie Reece – THE ARTISANS (signed paperback)
Nina Rossing – FJORD BLUE (signed paperback)
Pat Esden – BEYOND YOUR TOUCH (signed paperback)
Pintip Dunn – FORGET TOMORROW (signed paperback)
S.A.Larsen – MOTLEY EDUCATION (signed paperback)
Suzanne van Rooyen – OBSCURA BURNING (Releases 11/10 ebook)
Vanessa Barneveld – THIS IS YOUR AFTERLIFE (Kindle ebook)
Vicki Weavil – FACSIMILE (signed paperback)
The contest runs from Friday October 28th, 2016 through Midnight, October 31st, 2016 (EST)
Winner will be announced November 1st.
Contest is US only. Thank you for your understanding.
Don’t want to wait to see if you win? How about a FREE BOOK, right here, right now?
As an extra special treat, you can download my novella BEFORE TOMORROW for free! This novella is a prequel to the New York Times bestselling and award-winning novel, FORGET TOMORROW, and it will release on Halloween! If you are visiting this post before Oct. 31, you can pre-order it for free, and it will show up on your device on Halloween!
Synopsis: In a world where all seventeen-year-olds receive a memory from their future selves, Logan Russell’s vision is exactly as he expects — and exactly not. He sees himself achieving his greatest wish of becoming a gold-star swimmer, but strangely enough, the vision also shows him locking eyes with a girl from his past, Callie Stone, and experiencing an overwhelming sense of love and belonging.Logan’s not sure what the memory means, but soon enough, he learns that his old friend Callie is in trouble. She’s received an atypical memory, one where she commits a crime in the future. According to the law, she must be imprisoned, even though she’s done nothing wrong. Now, Logan must decide if he’ll give up his future as a gold-star swimmer and rescue the literal girl of his dreams. All he’ll have to do is defy Fate.
DOWNLOAD FOR FREE HERE:
Links for kobo, iTunes, and Google will be available on Oct. 31!
As part of the prize pack, I will be offering a signed copy of the first book in my series, 
FORGET TOMORROW. However, the second book in this series, REMEMBER YESTERDAY, is also now available!
Synopsis:
Imagine a world where your destiny has already been decided…by your future self.
It’s Callie’s seventeenth birthday and, like everyone else, she’s eagerly awaiting her vision-a memory sent back in time to sculpt each citizen into the person they’re meant to be. A world-class swimmer. A renowned scientist.
Or in Callie’s case, a criminal.
In her vision, she sees herself murdering her gifted younger sister. Before she can process what it means, Callie is arrested and placed in Limbo-a hellish prison for those destined to break the law. With the help of her childhood crush, Logan, a boy she hasn’t spoken to in five years, she escapes.
But on the run from her future, as well as the government, Callie sets in motion a chain of events that she hopes will change her fate. If not, she must figure out how to protect her sister from the biggest threat of all-Callie, herself.
Buy Links:
Amazon Barnes & Noble Kobo Book Depository iTunes
Before you go, you’ll need to know that one of my favorite TREATS is a KIT-KAT. So enter that in the google docs next to my name, Pintip Dunn!
ENTER HERE FOR BONUS ENTRIES: a Rafflecopter giveaway
To continue the blog hop, head over to Suzanne van Rooyen’s page and learn all about her awesome book, OBSCURA BURNING!
Good luck to everyone who enters, and have a spooky good time playing!
October 12, 2016
Autumn Dystopian SFF Giveaway
Autumn Dystopian SFF Giveaway–win books by Elizabeth Briggs, Jennifer Brody, Brenda Drake, Pintip Dunn, Madeline Dyer, and Kirby Howell.
Hey, everyone! New giveaway alert! I’ve teamed together with some great authors to run a dystopian SFF giveaway this autumn. Entries open on the 12th October and close on the 19th October. And one lucky person will win the following six books in print–and it’s open internationally…
About the Books
Future Shock by Elizabeth Briggs
A New York Times bestseller!
What do you do when the future is too late, and the present is counting down to an inevitable moment?
Elena Martinez has street smarts, the ability for perfect recall, and a deadline: if she doesn’t find a job before she turns eighteen, she’ll be homeless. But then she gets an unexpected offer from Aether Corporation, the powerful Los Angeles tech giant. Along with four other recruits–Adam, Chris, Trent, and Zoe–Elena is being sent on a secret mission to bring back data from the future. All they have to do is get Aether the information they need, and the five of them will be set for life. It’s an offer Elena can’t refuse.
But something goes wrong when the time travelers arrive in the future. And they are forced to break the only rule they were given–not to look into their own fates. Now they have twenty-four hours to get back to the present and find a way to stop a seemingly inevitable future–and a murder–from happening. But changing the timeline has deadly consequences too. Who can Elena trust as she fights to save her life?
The first book in an unforgettable series about rewriting your destiny in the city of dreams.
The 13th Continuum by Jennifer Brody
One thousand years after a cataclysmic event leaves humanity on the brink of extinction, the descendants of the chosen survivors take refuge in thirteen contingency shelters buried deep underground, at the bottom of the ocean, and in the far reaches of outer space. In the underwater 13th Continuum, sixteen-year-old Myra Jackson has heard rumors and whisperings all her life of a magical place called “The Surface” where people could breathe fresh air, feel the warmth of something called sunlight on their skin, and see things known as stars and trees and mountains. Myra has never dared to ask whether the stories are true, since the act of speaking such words aloud is an offense punishable by death. But after she discovers that the air supply aboard her underwater colony is running out, she realizes that her only hope for survival is to find this mysterious place. She must first recover the only guide to the Surface―the Beacon, an ancient device that also connects her to Captain Aero Wright, a dashing young soldier from one of the only remaining space colonies. With the fate of all humankind depending on them, Myra and Aero must escape the tyrannical forces that rule their colonies, journey through the black depths of the ocean and across the cold void of space, to find each other on the Surface that their ancestors once called home.
Thief of Lies by Brenda Drake
Gia Kearns would rather fight with boys than kiss them. That is, until Arik, a leather clad hottie in the Boston Athenaeum, suddenly disappears. While examining the book of world libraries he abandoned, Gia unwittingly speaks the key that sucks her and her friends into a photograph and transports them into a Paris library, where Arik and his Sentinels—magical knights charged with protecting humans from the creatures traveling across the gateway books—rescue them from a demonic hound.
Jumping into some of the world’s most beautiful libraries would be a dream come true for Gia, if she weren’t busy resisting her heart or dodging an exiled wizard seeking revenge on both the Mystik and human worlds. Add a French flirt obsessed with Arik and a fling with a young wizard, and Gia must choose between her heart and her head, between Arik’s world and her own, before both are destroyed.
Forget Tomorrow by Pintip Dunn
Don’t miss this New York Times bestselling and award-winning novel!
Imagine a world where your destiny has already been decided…by your future self.
It’s Callie’s seventeenth birthday and, like everyone else, she’s eagerly awaiting her vision-a memory sent back in time to sculpt each citizen into the person they’re meant to be. A world-class swimmer. A renowned scientist.
Or in Callie’s case, a criminal.
In her vision, she sees herself murdering her gifted younger sister. Before she can process what it means, Callie is arrested and placed in Limbo-a hellish prison for those destined to break the law. With the help of her childhood crush, Logan, a boy she hasn’t spoken to in five years, she escapes.
But on the run from her future, as well as the government, Callie sets in motion a chain of events that she hopes will change her fate. If not, she must figure out how to protect her sister from the biggest threat of all-Callie, herself.
Untamed by Madeline Dyer
As one of the last Untamed humans left in the world, Seven’s life has always been controlled by tight rules. Stay away from the Enhanced. Don’t question your leader. And, most importantly, never switch sides–because once you’re Enhanced there’s no going back. Even if you have become the perfect human being.
But after a disastrous raid on an Enhanced city, Seven soon finds herself in her enemy’s power. Realizing it’s only a matter of time before she too develops a taste for the chemical augmenters responsible for the erosion of humanity, Seven knows she must act quickly if she’s to escape and save her family from the same fate.
Yet, as one of the most powerful Seers that the Untamed and Enhanced have ever known, Seven quickly discovers that she alone holds the key to the survival of only one race. But things aren’t clear-cut anymore, and with Seven now questioning the very beliefs she was raised on, she knows she has an important choice to make. One that has two very different outcomes.
Seven must choose wisely whose side she joins, for the War of Humanity is underway, and Death never takes kindly to traitors.
Autumn in the City of Angels by Kirby Howell
What would you do if you lived through the apocalypse? The real fight to survive comes after everyone else is gone.
A plague of epic proportion sweeps the globe, leaving less than one percent of the world’s population immune. Among the living is Autumn Winters, the teenage daughter of a famous actress. When Autumn’s parents don’t come home and the city is overtaken by a dangerous faction, she goes into hiding with a small group of underground survivors. They’re led by a mysterious young man who harbors an unearthly secret, and with whom Autumn feels a deep connection.
Autumn in the City of Angels is the first novel in a series, followed by Autumn in the Dark Meadows and Autumn in the City of Lights.
Enter the Giveaway
October 3, 2016
YA Scavenger Hunt – Fall 2016
Welcome to the YA Scavenger Hunt! I’m Pintip Dunn, the author of the New York Times bestselling and award-winning novel, FORGET TOMORROW, and the newly released sequel, REMEMBER YESTERDAY, as well as the YA contemporary thriller THE DARKEST LIE. I am your hostess for this stop on the hunt.
This bi-annual event was first organized by author Colleen Houck as a way to give readers a chance to gain access to exclusive bonus material from their favorite authors…and a chance to win some awesome prizes! At this hunt, you not only get access to exclusive content from each author, you also get a clue for the hunt. Add up the clues, and you can enter for our prize–one lucky winner will receive one signed book from each author on the hunt in my team! But play fast: this contest (and all the exclusive bonus material) will only be online for 5 days!
Go to the YA Scavenger Hunt page to find out all about the hunt. There are SIX 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, an orange team, a green team, a purple team, and a gold team for a chance to win a whole different set of 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 page.
SCAVENGER HUNT PUZZLE
Directions: Below, you’ll notice that I’ve listed my favorite number. Collect the favorite numbers of all the authors on the blue team, and then add them up (don’t worry, you can use a calculator!).
Entry Form: Once you’ve added up all the numbers, make sure you fill out the form here to officially qualify for the grand prize. Only entries that have the correct number will qualify.
Rules: Open internationally, anyone below the age of 18 should have a parent or guardian’s permission to enter. To be eligible for the grand prize, you must submit the completed entry form by Sunday, October 9, at noon Pacific Time. Entries sent without the correct number or without contact information will not be considered.
THE SCAVENGER HUNT
Today, I am thrilled to be hosting Kaitlin Bevis! Kaitlin spent her childhood curled up with a book and a pen. If the ending didn’t agree with her, she rewrote it. Because she’s always wanted to be a writer, she spent high school and college learning everything she could to achieve that goal. After graduating college with a BFA and Masters in English, Kaitlin went on to write The Daughters of Zeus series.
PERSEPHONE
One day Persephone is an ordinary high school senior working at her mom’s flower shop in Athens, Georgia. The next she’s fighting off Boreas, the brutal god of Winter, and learning that she’s a goddess—a rare daughter of the now-dead Zeus. Her goddess mom 
whisks her off to the Underworld to hide until Spring.
There she finds herself under the protection of handsome Hades, the god of the dead, and she’s automatically married to him. It’s the only way he can keep her safe. Older, wiser, and far more powerful than she, Hades isn’t interested in becoming her lover, at least not anytime soon. But every time he rescues her from another of Boreas’ schemes, they fall in love a little more. Will Hades ever admit his feelings for her?
Can she escape the grasp of Boreas’ minions? The Underworld is a very cool place, but is it worth giving up her life in the realm of the living? Her goddess powers are developing some serious, kick-butt potential. She’s going to fight back.
Deleted Scene:
This is a deleted scene from my novel, Persephone. It was originally supposed to be the prologue, but my publisher decided to cut it. It was the only scene written for Persephone with a point of view from Hades. I’ve paired it with the same scene from Persephone’s perspective.
Hades
She was beautiful. Hades hadn’t expected that. Silly really, the daughter of Zeus and Demeter would hardly be plain. He wasn’t sure what he had been expecting as he tore his way through the earth. He hadn’t taken the time to think, had only been advised of what was happening above his realm, and acted.
She held her head high as the ice retreated. Her fists clenched in defiance as her white dress swirled around her petite frame. She had to be frightened. He could almost see her pulse hammering in her throat. Still, she stood calmly facing his chariot as he drew to a halt.
He felt as though he was seeing the sun for the first time. Had she only been beautiful, he would have been able to tear his gaze away from her. He had seen no shortage of beauties in his long and lonely existence. Helen of Troy, Andromeda, even Oreithyia could not have matched this girl for beauty. It was the purity and intelligence sparkling from her cypress green eyes that held him captive. That she was still standing spoke of immeasurable bravery to say nothing of that defiantly clenched fist.
He loomed over her, in his black chariot. He was trapped in her gaze, unable to move forward. His mind kept repeating an endless refrain of thanks that he had not been too late. Another thought kept edging to the forefront of his brain. He tried to shove it back unsuccessfully. He had to have her.
That she would complicate his life beyond measure was of no importance. Demeter would be furious. If this begat a war with the few gods left, so be it. Cassandra had warned him this would happen one day. Gods help him, he’d thought she was kidding.
Persephone
“I can’t believe I’m even considering this,” I muttered.
My hair whipped across my face as a breeze picked up around me. I sat up and placed my hand on the cool, dark earth before me, feeling energy thrumming through the soil. I closed my eyes and concentrated on making something, anything, happen.
I felt a tickle against my palm and jerked forward, eyes flying open. I nearly fell face first in the dirt when a bright green stem unwound itself between two of my outstretched fingers. I scarcely breathed as red petals unfurled themselves into a tiny red poppy.
I gasped. I had powers! I was a goddess! I wasn’t crazy, Mom wasn’t crazy. Melissa, Orpheus, it was all true. Wasn’t it?
“I’m not hallucinating, am I?” I touched the flower, feeling the silky petal brush against my hand. The wind pushed me forward forcefully. My bag of pomegranate seeds blew over, spilling around the poppy. My dress flapped against my ankles as chills shot across my skin. I heard crackling and spun around to see the ground freezing around the flower.
The frost crept toward me. The branches above me stretched toward my face, ice inching along the branches. I heard a loud snap and a massive branch broke from the tree and hurtled toward my head.
I screamed and stumbled backward. The branch crashed in front of me, scraping my legs. I ran for the parking lot as fast as I could. The frost closed in, surrounding me. I’d never been claustrophobic, but as the frost cut off my escape path with a solid white wall, I panicked.
Fog rolled in, like cold death, cutting off my view of the park. It curled around me, brushing against my face, arms, and legs. I turned back to the tree and ran faster, my dress tangling between my legs as the fog and icy wind blew against my skin.
The parking lot is the other way! my mind screamed. The other way was cut off by a mountain of ice. I felt as if I was being herded. By ice?
I slipped on the icy ground, falling face first into the frost. Ice crept up my toes and along my legs. I thrashed and screamed. I felt the fog becoming a solid mass above me, pinning me to the ground. The ice piled around me. Am I going to be buried alive?
I dug my nails into the frigid snow in front of me and tried to claw my way out of the frosted death trap. I was so panicked I didn’t feel it when my nails broke against the impenetrable wall of ice, leaving red crescents of blood welling up on sensitive skin. A hysterical sob worked its way out of my throat as I gouged red lines into the ice. The ice was above my knees, snaking its way up my thighs. I shivered.
Shivering’s good, I reminded myself. It means your body hasn’t given up . . . yet. The cold was painful, like a thousand little knives pricking my skin. A violent tremor went up my spine, sending waves of pain through me.
“Help me!” I screamed, knowing it was futile. I was going to die here.
Except I couldn’t die. Could I? Mom said I was immortal, but was that all-inclusive? Did I have a weakness? Was snow my Kryptonite? If I got hurt, would I heal or would I be trapped in an injured body in pain forever?
I suddenly didn’t know if immortality was a good thing or a bad thing. The cold hurt. I was kicking, screaming, and clawing my way out of the frost, but for every inch I gained a mountain piled around me. I thought I heard a man’s laughter on the wind, the sound somehow colder than the ice freezing me into place.
The ground before my outstretched hand trembled. The shaking increased. The earth lurched beneath me. The surface cracked and the sound was so loud that for a moment all I could hear was high-pitched ringing in my ears. The ground split into an impossibly deep crevice. My voice went hoarse from screaming as I peered into the endless abyss, trapped and unable to move away from the vertigo-inducing edge. A midnight black chariot, drawn by four crepuscular horses that looked like they’d been created out of the night sky, surged from the crevice. I ducked my head into the snow with a frightened whimper as they passed over my prone body.
The fog around me dissipated as the ice melted away from my body. Terrified, I sprang to my feet, stopping when I was eye-to-eye with one of the frightening horses pulling the chariot. For a moment I could do nothing but stare into its huge, emotionless eyes. A strangled whimper tore from my throat and the horse snorted at me.
They weren’t black; they weren’t anything. They were an absence of color and of light, a nauseating swirling void. They hurt to look at. My head ached, and my stomach lurched in mutiny. I clenched my fists and turned to the driver.
His electric blue eyes met mine, and he seemed to see everything I’d done and everything I’d ever do. I had the strange sensation I’d been judged and found wanting. No way this guy was human. His skin could have been carved from marble; his hair was the same disorienting black as the horses. A terrifying power emanated from his tall, statuesque frame.
I couldn’t speak. I couldn’t move. His ebony cape billowed behind him as he marched toward me. At the grasp of his hand I snapped back to life and jerked away from him.
“We have to get out of here.”
“Let me go!” I yelled, yanking my arm away. He closed in on me, pushing me toward the chariot. I struggled against him, shrieking with rage when he picked me up and slung me over his back like a sack of potatoes.
I punched his back, kicking my legs. “Let me go! Someone help me! Help!”
I recalled the instructor of some self-defense class long lost in memory reminding me dead weight was harder to carry than a thrashing captive. My body rebelled at the idea of going limp so I pushed aside his cape, pulled his shirt up and raked my torn and ragged nails across his bare skin. His hands jerked in surprise and I slid off his back and onto the hard ground.
My breath left my body as I hit the ground with enough force to make me dizzy. With strength I didn’t know I possessed, I scrambled away, clawing at him as he pulled me back.
“Enough!” he shouted. “We don’t have time for this! I have to get you out of here!”
“No!” I yelled. Did he really just expect me to go Okay, strange creepy man, I’ll get in your scary chariot of death. No problem.
His furtive gaze took in the empty park, and he swore in a voice as smooth as silk. “I’m sorry.”
My eyes widened in surprise as his lips pressed against mine. I went wild, hitting and scratching and pushing for all I was worth. He didn’t budge. He exhaled, and I sank lifelessly into his arms.
******
Are you as intrigued by this book as me? You can buy it here!
You can learn more about Kaitlin on her website. Follow her on Twitter and Facebook!
MY FAVORITE NUMBER…
Don’t forget to enter the contest for a chance to win a ton of signed books by me, Kaitlin Bevis, and more! To enter, you need to know that I will soon have FOUR books published! FORGET TOMORROW, REMEMBER YESTERDAY, and THE DARKEST LIE make three. At the end of this month, the novella BEFORE TOMORROW, a prequel to the Forget Tomorrow series will be released. FOUR is such a nice number, isn’t it? In fact, it is my very favorite number. Add up all the favorite numbers of the authors on the BLUE team and you’ll have the secret code to enter for the grand prize!
BONUS GIVEAWAY
Before you go, be sure to enter my bonus giveaway! In celebration of my newly released
REMEMBER YESTERDAY, I am giving away an Amazon.com gift card of $20 to one grand prize winner, as well as a hardcover of FORGET TOMORROW and a paperback of THE DARKEST LIE.This contest is open internationally and will run during the same time as the YASH competition, which mean it will end on Sunday, Oct. 9, at noon Pacific time.
Enter now: a Rafflecopter giveaway
CONTINUE THE HUNT
To keep going on your quest for the hunt, you need to check out the next author on Team Blue, Lilliam Riviera!
September 16, 2016
BEFORE TOMORROW Cover Reveal!
I am so excited to share with you the cover reveal for BEFORE TOMORROW, a FORGET TOMORROW novella from Logan’s POV!
Title: Before Tomorrow
Publisher: Entangled TEEN
Release Date: Oct. 31, 2016
In a world where all seventeen-year-olds receive a memory from their future selves, Logan Russell’s vision is exactly as he expects—and exactly not. He sees himself achieving his greatest wish of becoming a gold-star swimmer, but strangely enough, the vision also shows him locking eyes with a girl from his past, Callie Stone, and experiencing an overwhelming sense of love and belonging.
Logan’s not sure what the memory means, but soon enough, he learns that his old friend Callie is in trouble. She’s received an atypical memory, one where she commits a crime in the future. According to the law, she must be imprisoned, even though she’s done nothing wrong. Now, Logan must decide if he’ll give up his future as a gold-star swimmer and rescue the literal girl of his dreams. All he’ll have to do is defy Fate.
Add BEFORE TOMORROW on Goodreads!
But what if you don’t want to wait until Oct. 31?
No problem. Pre-order REMEMBER YESTERDAY, book 2 in the FORGET TOMORROW series, and register your receipt here, and you’ll receive a copy of BEFORE TOMORROW to read before anyone else! Plus, U.S. residents will also get a bookplate and bookmark!
Want to learn more about FORGET TOMORROW and REMEMBER YESTERDAY? Click here.
REMEMBER YESTERDAY buy links:
Amazon Barnes & Noble iBooks Kobo
September 8, 2016
Pre-order Remember Yesterday
Want to read a BRAND NEW novella from Logan’s POV before anyone else? Now is your chance!
Pre-order Remember Yesterday and claim your free pre-order gift!
When you pre-order either a Hardcover or an eBook version of Remember Yesterday, you will receive the following special item(s). In order to receive your free gift, please complete the following Google Form and email the proof of purchase of Remember Yesterday (your receipt) to publicity {at} entangledpublishing {dot} com by Thursday, September 29, 2016, and then sit back and wait!
If you live in the US, your pre-order gift will consist of:
A Remember Yesterday Bookmark
A signed bookplate
An eBook version of Before Tomorrow, a Forget Tomorrow novella from Logan’s POV, before anyone else can read it!
If you live internationally, your pre-order gift will consist of:
An eBook version of Before Tomorrow, a Forget Tomorrow novella from Logan’s POV, before anyone else can read it!
August 25, 2016
The YA DASH!
Welcome to the YA DASH! One lucky person will win ALL sixteen of the books shown above! All you have to do is dash along the websites of fourteen of your favorite YA suspense and thriller authors!
THE RULES: Participants in the DASH need to visit all fourteen authors and tally the answers to the featured question. Simply put, you need to count how many authors chose A, B, C, D, E or F as their answer to the featured question. The most popular answer will ‘unlock’ the rafflecopter and enter participants into the prize pack draw. Please note, only those participants indicating the correct answer will be eligible for the prize draw. Participants can find the rafflecopter for the YA DASH prize pack draw at https://theyadash.wordpress.com/
For more information, you can also visit: http://theyadash.tumblr.com/
First, I’d like to share with you a creepy photo featuring my book, THE DARKEST LIE:
Synopsis: “The mother I knew would never do those things. But maybe I never knew her after all.”
Clothes, jokes, coded messages…Cecilia Brooks and her mom shared everything. At least, CeCe thought they did. Six months ago, her mom killed herself after accusations of having sex with a student, and CeCe’s been the subject of whispers and taunts ever since. Now, at the start of her high school senior year, between dealing with her grieving, distracted father, and the social nightmare that has become her life, CeCe just wants to fly under the radar. Instead, she’s volunteering at the school’s crisis hotline—the same place her mother worked.
As she counsels troubled strangers, CeCe’s lingering suspicions about her mom’s death resurface. With the help of Sam, a new student and newspaper intern, she starts to piece together fragmented clues that point to a twisted secret at the heart of her community. Soon, finding the truth isn’t just a matter of restoring her mother’s reputation, it’s about saving lives—including CeCe’s own…
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And now, for the YA DASH featured question:
What’s your favorite way to kill a character?
A. Gun
B. Poison
C. Buried Alive
D. Drowned
E. Strangled
F. Fire
My answer would have to be B. Poison, as I’m not really a violent kind of girl!
Before you dash onto the next author’s website, however, check out my individual contest. I am giving away TEN kindle e-copies of my New York Times bestselling novel, FORGET TOMORROW, which also won the RWA RITA® award for Best First Book. That means, ten lucky winners will receive one kindle e-copy each.
Click the link to enter: a Rafflecopter giveaway
And that’s it! Thanks so much for visiting!
To continue dashing along the YA DASH, please visit my good friend, T.A. Maclaglan. (Oh, and don’t forget to check out her book, THEY CALL ME ALEXANDRA GASTONE, because it is fabulous!)
July 25, 2016
RITA® winner for Best First Book on sale for $0.99!
FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY, you can buy the RWA RITA® winner for Best First Book for $0.99!
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Synopsis:
Imagine a world where your destiny has already been decided…by your future self.
It’s Callie’s seventeenth birthday and, like everyone else, she’s eagerly awaiting her vision-a memory sent back in time to sculpt each citizen into the person they’re meant to be. A world-class swimmer. A renowned scientist.
Or in Callie’s case, a criminal.
In her vision, she sees herself murdering her gifted younger sister. Before she can process what it means, Callie is arrested and placed in Limbo-a hellish prison for those destined to break the law. With the help of her childhood crush, Logan, a boy she hasn’t spoken to in five years, she escapes.
But on the run from her future, as well as the government, Callie sets in motion a chain of events that she hopes will change her fate. If not, she must figure out how to protect her sister from the biggest threat of all-Callie, herself.
July 19, 2016
Pitch Wars Mentor Wishlist!
My name is Pintip Dunn, and I’m so excited to be a Pitch Wars mentor this year!
A little bit about me…
I am the YA author of FORGET TOMORROW and THE DARKEST LIE, as well as the upcoming REMEMBER YESTERDAY. I graduated, magna cum laude, from Harvard University, with an A.B. in English Literature and Language. I then received my J.D. from Yale Law School, where I was an editor of the YALE LAW JOURNAL.I’m represented by Beth Miller of Writers House. I’m a total foodie, and my top five favorite foods are: salmon toro sashimi, seared foie gras, raw oysters, roasted bone marrow, and champagne. I adore reality tv (Survivor, Top Chef, The Amazing Race, The Bacherlor/Bachelorette), as well as unReal (the show about the making of a reality tv show). I’m also obsessed with The 100.
I understand well the long, hard road to publishing. Even after I landed my agent in 2011, I was on submission for three years with three different books before I finally sold. I received almost the same universal response on my books: “We love it, but we can’t buy it because of the market.” I persevered, however, and continued to write more books. In 2014, shortly after my third baby was born, I sold seven books in approximately seven months to two different publishers — Entangled TEEN and Kensington Publishing.
Just this past Saturday, FORGET TOMORROW won RWA’s prestigious RITA® award for Best First Book! This was an honor beyond my wildest dreams, and I’m still pinching myself. What’s more, the award was presented to me by Nora Roberts herself!
FORGET TOMORROW was also a Goodreads’ Best YA Book of the month (Nov. 2015). USA TODAY called it a “must-read YA,” and Buzzfeed said it will “have you on the edge of your seat.” FORGET TOMORROW has sold in three foreign territories outside of the U.S.: France, Turkey, and Brazil.
THE DARKEST LIE was a Top Pick from Romantic Times Book Review, who called it a
“heartbreaking novel . . . [with] a hopeful and moving narrative that will stick with readers.” School Library Journal proclaimed it an “exhilarating read,” and Booklist said “mystery fans will race through the pages.”In addition to being a RITA® winner, I was also a RWA Golden Heart® finalist in 2012 and a double-finalist in 2014. I write both YA science fiction and YA contemporary thriller.
Because of my fibromyalgia/RSI, I cannot type on a keyboard without excruciating pain. Thus, I’ve written my last six books on my cell phone.
What I’m looking for:
A strong voice, high stakes, and complex characters! I’m willing to consider anything within the YA genre. However, I have a preference for anything contemporary and science fiction/speculative.
My Pitch Wars scavenger hunt letter is: O.
That’s it, my lovely potential mentees! I’m really looking forward to your submissions!
1.
Phil Stamper
2.
Jenni L. Walsh
3.
Linsey Miller
4.
Jennifer Blackwood
5.
Amy Trueblood
6.
Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
7.
Kelly Ann Hopkins
8.
Kip Wilson Rechea
9.
Kristin Wright
10.
Amanda Foody
11.
Fiona McLaren & Dionne McCulloch
12.
Karen Fortunati
13.
Marty Mayberry
14.
Sarah Glenn Marsh & Shana Silver
15.
Monica M. Hoffman
16.
Heather Ezell
17.
Kate Karyus Quinn and Demitria Lunetta
18.
Erin Summerill & Rosalyn Eves
19.
Jamie Howard
20.
Ashley Hearn
21.
Charlie N. Holmberg
22.
Isabel Ibañez Davis
23.
Pintip Dunn
24.
Rachel Solomon & Kit Frick
25.
Mara Rutherford & Joan He
26.
Cat Scully & Kim Graff
27.
Lynnette Labelle and Destiny Cole
28.
Natasha Neagle
29.
Sonia Hartl
30.
Trisha Leaver & Kelly Calabrese
31.
Jessie Devine
32.
Ayesha Patel
33.
Helene Dunbar & Beth Hull
34.
Emily Martin
35.
Karen McManus
36.
Marie Meyer
37.
Jeanmarie Anaya
38.
Sharon Johnston
39.
Naomi Hughes
40.
Summer Spence
41.
Nikki Roberti
42.
McKelle George
43.
Monica B. Wagner & Kerbie Addis
44.
Rebecca Sky & Stacey Trombley
45.
M.K. England and Jamie Pacton
46.
Tabitha Martin
47.
Brian Palmer
48.
Brianna Shrum
49.
Molly E. Lee
50.
L.L. McKinney
51.
RuthAnne Snow
52.
Chelsea Bobulski
53.
Janella Angeles & Axie Oh
54.
Megan Lally & Katie Bucklein
55.
Kes Trester & Jen Hawkins
56.
Dannie Morin
57.
Stephanie Scott
58.
Sarah Nicolas & Leigh Mar
59.
Lizzy Charles
60.
Tobie Easton
61.
Lisa Amowitz
62.
Diana Gallagher
63.
Katherine Webber
64.
Judi Lauren
65.
Austin Aslan
66.
Dawn Ius
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