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So . . .

Want to read the first 5+ chapters of SPELLS? You can!!!

http://tinyurl.com/y7jbpbd

Click the "Browse Inside" icon below the SPELLS cover.

Just sayin'.;)

ETA: Ack! Okay, now link works.:D

Ciao!

Tour Dates and Dismay

I'm alive! I promise!!

In fact, I'm just about done with revisions and then I will be more or less around . . . for three weeks till Spells comes out.:) This is my busy season! Luckily, I also tend to blog pretty well while on tour, so hopefully everything will just get better with the blog.:D

Okay, I've been promising you guys tour cities and dates for a while and, finally, here you go!


May 4th Joseph-Beth Booksellers Cincinnati, OH 7:00PM
May 5th Books & Company ...

Winner!!

My mom asked me how my day was going. I told her it was exploding--thus, this post will only have the Spells ARC winner. But more soon! Including my tour schedule!! Yay!!!

The Spells ARC winner is Amber Lynae at http://seriouslyamberlynae.blogspot.com/ Amber, email me at aprilynne pike at g mail dot com with your name and address and I will get that into the mail for you right away!!

Thank you EVERYONE for participating and posting the widgets. It is so fun to see them start to pop up everywher...

Winners and Widgets!

Okay, I'm a little late . . . . but I'm getting SO much good work done on Wings III! Trust me, the two-day delay will be worth it.:D

Okay, our winner for Struts and Frets is:

Maybe Genius who loves "I Love The Rain The Most" by Joe Purdy!

And our winner for Mistwood is:

Erica, who would shift into a hypogriff or a leopard!!

Both of you please email me your names, and addresses to aprilynne pike at g mail dot com and I will get those in the mail just as soon as possible!

Thank you everyone for enter...

Rules, Books, and ARCs

Hey all! Poking my head out for a minute to let you know about some giveaways. (Because, yanno, if I can't give you good content at least I can give you free books.;))

Sarah MacLean, the author of the awesome The Season (YA) and upcoming Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake (Adult) is doing a fun series on her blog where other authors come and offer Nine Rules for their books' worlds. Today is me! However, the other guest posts are all fun, so you may want to look for some of your favorit...

The Cave

*poking my head out*

Hi guys! It's me! Your long-lost blogger! Sorry for the radio silence; I have descended into "the cave," as the lovely Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl dubbed it last year. Complete with this very appropriate picture that I have shamelessly yoinked.:))



That's right, it's revision time!

I'm really excited at the improvements that my editor of awesomeness has suggested, but there is a lot of tweaking and streamlining to do and I've got a six week deadline. So you may not hear a ...

That Was MY Idea!!

Oh man! I have to start off this post with some fan-art of awesomeness!!!

The first one is from Laurelle_DaVinchi on the Wingsfansite forums who put together all of my covers including an old fan cover that the lovely Saundra Mitchell made for me. Check this out!!



Thank you, Laurelle!! I love it!!!

The next one is one from a few weeks back that I have been trying to remember to post, but the link is on my phone and I blog on my computer so . . . . anyway, here, you go, from Katie at SophistiKati...

Potpourri

You know that category in Jeopardy! that means it could be anything? Yeah . . . that's this entry.:D Lots of fun stuff though.

First off, a bit of news for all you aspiring authors, my lovely friend, Mandy Hubbard (author of Prada and Prejudice) is officially an agent!! After training for about six months under Jenny Bent (you guys know her? You should! I imagine a bunch of you have queried her. Heck, I think I got rejected by her twice. She's awesome!) Mandy is teaming up with Bob Diforio (I ...

Winners!!!

*shifty eyes* I'm a day late. I had a busy and fun Valentine's Day and I hope you all did too!!

But I do have winners!! And since I'm not one to prolong the agony, here we go!

The winner of the ARC is twaddleoranything, with her pairing of Gavroche and Scout.

But this contest was so fun, I really could not just stop there!!

So our runners-up who get Valentine's treat bags are:

Emily Jane Jimenez pairing Alex Kim and Owen Armstrong

and Meghan Rachelle pairing Susan Pevensie and Rupert Giles!!

Thanks ...

Happy Valentine's Day!

. . . a little early.:D

It's that time of year!! The time when love is heavy in the air?? No. The time when romance blossoms like flowers? Nope.

The time of year when Aprilynne gives away an ARC??

Ding, ding, ding!!!!:D

It's ARC time!!!

The Wings series is, at its heart, a love story, so I like giving an ARC away around Valentine's Day because . . . well, because I'm corny.:)

So one ARC of Spells is up for grabs!! Anyone is eligible, and all you have to do to enter is comment with your fantasy fict...