Denise Jaden's Blog, page 55

Launch Party Fun!

I'm finally getting a few pictures and videos uploaded from my launch party (thanks to Mindi Scott and my awesome brother!). It's been a busy week! I don't have the really nice pictures back from my photographer yet, but in the meantime, here are a few to show you what a great time it was...

This is how the day started:



These are my good friends from the Paul Tavai Polynesian Dancers (the group I also dance with). A pretty exciting way to kick-off a book launch!

From there, I went on to talk abo...

Wandering Wednesday

Today I've wandered over to The Contemps Blog and posted there about a book I love, THE SKY IS EVERYWHERE by Jandy Nelson.



I hope you'll drop by, watch the UK trailer (which is the best one, in my opinion), and mention in the comments any of your favorite literary/contemporary YA novels.

Teen Author Tuesday Presents Holly Cupala!

I'm thrilled to welcome another author-friend of mine who writes for teens, Holly Cupala! I was fortunate enough to meet Holly during BEA earlier this year, and if her name sounds familiar, it's because her debut novel TELL ME A SECRET has been turning a lot of heads in the last few months. TELL ME A SECRET was released in June from HarperTeen, and it's for ages 14 and up.



What a great cover, right?! Welcome Holly! Can you tell me about your book in seven words or less.

Sisters, secrets...

I Slept In...

Maybe you were wondering where I disappeared to after all the blog-partying lately. Well, I had an awesome, amazing launch party yesterday, and today I was all tuckered out. I will definitely put together a blog post with some pictures, but in the meantime, my friend Carol put up a lovely post about it:

http://careann.wordpress.com/2010/09/19/launched-author-denise-jaden/

Besides that, I've been trying to catch up on household life, and also working on coming up with a winner for the Logline Co...

When Things Aren't Going Quite Right...

I'm busy getting ready for my launch party (very excited), but I thought I'd leave you with a couple of fun videos just in case you're having one of those days and need a little cheering up...

First, have a look at tips from Popular Lauren. If you haven't yet read GETTING REVENGE ON LAUREN WOOD by Eileen Cook, trust me, you want to. Here's a little taste of the book's villain...



This one comes out in paperback next week I think.

And if you're still feeling down in the dumps (though, how could yo...

The Grand Prizes!!!

Thank you all again for joining me on my blog tour! I had so much fun, and I'm glad so many of you did too!

I've drawn our grand prize winners! Are you excited?! I know I am.

So let me just get a few of the rules out of the way here first...

Here are your choices of Fabulous Prize Packs, compliments of Simon Pulse:

Prize Pack A will include:

CRASH INTO ME by Albert BorrisCRUSADE by Nancy Holder and Debbie ViguieSTUPID CUPID by Rhonda StapletonVAMPIRE BEACH by Alex DuvalSWOON by Nina MalkinUNLEASH...

Administration of a Blog Tour

I've had several people asking me how I put together my blog tour. The easy answer is...I don't know. Really it just came together somehow. I guess one thing I did was started to plan very early. When people asked me for interviews, even six months ago, I asked them if they'd like to hold off on posting it and be part of my official blog tour. All the blog owners were happy and excited to do this, so I just fit in a date that worked for both of us. I also asked some of my author-friends and c...

And the Poetry Journal Goes to...

Remember way back on Day 2 of my blog tour, I had a poetry contest to win a poetry journal?

Well my two BFF's...they couldn't agree. Hmmm. So it looks like I'm giving away TWO POETRY JOURNALS!

Here are the winning poems. Enjoy! And if the winners could email me with their mailing addresses, I'll get them their poetry journals ASAP! (d (at) denisejaden (dot) com).

And for your enjoyment...here are the winning poems!

This one is from Cass...


I'm sorry, do I know you?
Is this the path you chose to...

GCC Presents Lucienne Diver!

I'm busy tabulating - Wow, what a lot of entries and support I had for the blog tour! Thank you all SO MUCH!

In the meantime, while you wait for the announcement of the prizes, I wanted to share a little of my own news...

I've been invited to join the Girlfriends Cyber Circuit! If you haven't heard about this group, let me tell you a little bit about it. The group is made up of some pretty amazing authors, including the awesome Eileen Cook who recommended me to the group. It's all women (if you...

Party Wrap-up on Day 14: The Tour. The Party.

Thanks so much for joining in on my celebration, everybody! Today is the last day of the official party, and I'll be fervently writing down all the entries and throwing them into a hat to find our winners. I'll start announcing the winners of the grand prizes by Friday between 8 - 9 AM (PST)! You'll want to stop by and see if you're one of the winners as soon as you can after that time, as the first winner to contact me with their choice of the gift packs will get their first choice!



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