Aprilynne Pike's Blog, page 16

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Just a quick blog post to let you know that I have a deleted scene up on my website now!

Also, I'll be doing another double DebsTour tonight showcasing two very different books. Stay tuned!!

Ciao!

If They Said It I can Say It, Right?

Hehe, I found this today. It's a quote from me! Yay! And hey, if it's on the Harper website I can re-post it here, right???:D

*Spoiler Alert* (Little spoilers, but spoilers nonetheless.)


*You've been warned!*


"I'm working on the sequel to Wings, entitled Spells. I'm so excited about this book because for the first time I will be taking readers right into Avalon! Readers will also get to see Tamani in his own environment, and to see David and Laurel together as a couple. In addition, Chelsea fans wi

Last Day to Escape and the Book That Was Published Around the World!

Okay people, this is the LAST day to escape with the Seven!! If you haven't entered already, get yourself over HERE and enter! You have till midnight! Go, go, go!!

Alright, I have been sitting on this for ages, but Wings has now sold into TEN foreign territories!!! I believe the last one I was allowed to announce was Estonia, which was my third sale, so most of these are new. Also, I have had a ton of email asking me if my book was coming to (fill in the blank) country, so without further ado, he

Escape With The Seven!!

Make an on-line slide show at www.OneTrueMedia.com

Starting and FiestaCon

Okay, first off, I am doing FiestaCon this year! Very cool! In case you are around Phoenix, I'd love to see you there! Here is where you can find me specifically!


Thursday:

Reading at 4:00 PM

Signing at from 5:00-6:00PM

Panel: Children's Classics...Today! (With Janni Lee Simner, James Owen, and Michelle Welch.) 7:00-8:00 PM

Saturday:

Panel: Media Promotion (With Jack Mangan, Diana Gabaldon, and Michael D'Ambrosio) 10:00-11:00 AM

Panel: How to Write to YA & Kids (With Janni Lee Simner, Michael D'Ambrosi

Escape With The Seven Extravaganza!!

Okay, I have been so excited to unveil this and we're finally ready!! I and six of my fellow Debs have put together a fab giveaway of fourteen books, to two lucky winners! These seven books *ahem* if I do say so myself, represent some of the cream of the debut crop in teen lit this year! You've seen me blog about several of them, but in case you are unfamiliar, please go check out our awesome bio page at our website!

Okay, so here's the gist: seven books, seven authors, a bunch of covers from bot

Dull Boy Winners and Father's Day

Okay! This is going to be a short post; you've been warned.:)

First off, Dads are, in my opinion, very under-appreciated. So Happy Father's Day to all of the hard-working dad's out there who love their kids and spouses and just quietly work to make the world a better place. I appreciate you!!!!!

Okay, next!

Dull Boy Winners: the grand prize winner is!!!!!

Yamile!!! who said: "Your super power should be that you can see the future "on-demand." Like if you need to see a few minutes from now you could,

Winner, Where's Aprilynne, and Shameless Self-Promotion.:D

Okay, I know you have all been waiting with bated breath for the winner of the Dueling Debs!!:D Well, I am totally going to tell you at the end of the post.:)

Okay no, I'm not really evil like that. The winning Deb is Danielle Joseph! Congrats Danielle! And in second place is Cynthea Liu!! Go Cynthea!! Seriously though, both of these books are awesome, and Cynthea will be most graceful in defeat as this is her SECOND book this year!

So the winning Danielle voter is TereLiz! Congrats to you! Please

Superpowers and Secrets and Awesome, Oh My!

Okay! Tonight's entry is all about free stuff!! Come on, who doesn't love free stuff!??!

First off, it's Debsness time!! If you are not familiar with Debsness, there's a big bag full of cool stuff that we give away each month with a chance to also win a 50$ gift certificate to a bookstore of your choice. Fun stuff, clicky for more info, ends at midnight on the fifteenth!



But more importantly, we have Dull Boy, by Sarah Cross that I am also going to give you a chance to win at the end of this post!

Ghosts, Microphones, Sheds, Music, Dolls, and Radios, OH MY!!!!

Welcome to DebsTour 2009, Dueling Debs edition!! I've had several BlogTours scheduled very close together and am still trying to unpack . . . and then re-pack to leave again next week so I thought I'd go for double duty today and try to shake things up a bit. And it's totally written in the stars. After all, this is Cynthea Liu's second book (2) and Danielle's book came out on the same day as mine, so we're book twins (again, 2) so it's totally meant to be!

So let me introduce you to our contesta