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Eve's Fan Garden chat!

Wednesday night Lorie Ann Grover and I chatted live with amazing authors Jennifer Hubbard, Beth Fantaskey, Lauren Oliver, Ivy Devlin, Sydney Salter, Bree Despain, Jeri Smith-Ready, Aprilynne Pike, Sarah Rees Brennan, and Kelly Armstrong at Eve's Fan Garden for A Midsummer Night's Chat!

Here we are, chatting!

You can check out the transcript at the EFG chat forum - and there's lots more all week!

Plus Lorie Ann and I guest blogged yesterday about strong female characters, which you can read here....

Story Secrets: CHANGE OF HEART by Shari Maurer + giveaway!

I am very pleased to welcome Shari Maurer today, who I met at the Class of 2K10 event in New York City during BEA! Even though I'm not part of the class, they enveloped me into their group easily and we went out to dinner to chat books, writing, and New York delicacies. Then Shari kindly drove me home and we had a chance to chat about her beautiful debut novel, CHANGE OF HEART.

Shari has even included a giveaway with this lovely interview, so don't forget to read and comment. Welcome, Shari!

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Chat tonight at Eve's Fan Garden!

Join me, Jennifer Hubbard, Lorie Ann Grover, Beth Fantaskey, Lauren Oliver, Ivy Devlin, Sydney Salter, Bree Despain, Jeri Smith-Ready, Aprilynne Pike, Sarah Rees Brennan, and Kelly Armstrong at Eve's Fan Garden for A Midsummer Night's Chat tonight- wow, right?!?

It all starts tonight at 5:30 Pacific at the EFG chat forum!

Read about the participating authors here, submit your discussion questions here, and come straight to the chat forum here - it's going to be a lot of fun, I think!

A Midsummer Night's Chat!

The amazing ladies over at Eve's Fan Garden have put together the coolest event for this week, A Midsummer Night's Chat, and I'll be chatting with them live on Wednesday eve at 5:30 Pacific!

They've cleverly divided the 'fest into Shakespearean Acts. Here's a rundown of the events (from EFG's site):

Monday, Act I – Setting the Stage
We are going to set the stage for the week with a welcome message and a list of all the participating authors and the prizes and events for the week!

Tuesday, Act...

#tellmeasecret tour swag!

Thanks to everyone who came along for the wild ride that was the Tell Me a Secret Virtual Tour!


Miss some stops? That's ok, they're all in one handy place.

We wrapped up the final week with teen pregnancy and scandals with The Undercover Book Lover, historic meets contemporary with YA author Janet Fox, a fun art discussion (and a slideshow of my art!) at Eve's Fan Garden, vlog secrets with The Hiding Spot, and Q&A with The Bookologist.

OH, and a whole bunch of amazing YA author friends who came ...

#tellmeasecret party pics!

I finally put together the tmas party album from that wild and crazy night - a few here, and the rest to be perused here:

Welcome to the party!

Mean bouncers! Who liked cupcakes!

Fancy decor and crazy 6 foot poster:

Wow, people came to party!

Maybe they just came for the epic cupcake display:

Beautiful YA authors Justina Chen and Janet Lee Carey!

Me with YA author Liz Gallagher:

SCBWI Stars Sarah Easterly, Kim Baker, Jolie Stekly, Cathy Benson, and Stasia Kehoe!

Rock star YA librarian Jackie P...

Story Secrets: SO MANY BOYS by Suzanne Young

Welcome back to my dear friend Suzanne Young, whose hot series about cheering spy girls is showing no signs of stopping! SO MANY BOYS (sequel to THE NAUGHTY LIST) is out for the summer and promises to be snuggled up on a ton of beach towels this month.

Here's a pic of Suzanne and me at the 2nd annual Kidlit Blogger Con (which I highly recommend, by the way, because bloggers are very cool people).

Without further ado, say hello to Suzanne!

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SO MANY BOYS picks up three months after THE...

Did I mention readergirlz...?

Yes! All month #tellmeasecret and I are @readergirlz! Hooray! We're discussing sisters...secrets...super-hot sci fi guy (although not, er, alien or vampire or...sheesh, nevermind).

Anyway, there's also a twitter chat on 8/18 at 6pm PST/9pm EST, and we're doing this super big secret announcement thing right around then (which you saw, if you watched the party live stream, but we'll be officially announcing it soon...):
See you there!

TELL ME A SECRET trailer launch party!

Welcome, everyone, to the TELL ME A SECRET Trailer Launch Party!!!
And huge thanks to over 100 bloggers across the 'sphere for hosting and spreading the trailer-y love! We're inviting you to celebrate with us…and win some fun TELL ME A SECRET prizes!

First…the trailer…

I hope you enjoyed the music by our friends at Splashdown and the trailer, produced by my sweet husband Shiraz and our super-talented friend, Paul Michael Gordon!

And now for the party! Here's what we're giving away:

Signed TMAS...

I've been keeping a big secret.

Which is...how many author friends have stopped by to tell you a few secrets to celebrate the end of the Tell Me a Secret Virtual Tour!



I'm also hanging out with Mavie at The Bookologist today with a few last secrets...and last chances to win Week 7 tour prizes! Comment here and at The Bookologist for a chance to win! (US/Canada residents only.)

So what's the big secret on Monday?

Over 100 blogs are throwing a HUGE PARTY across the blogosphere to celebrate the launch of the Tell Me a Secret...