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YASH winners!

Congrats to the TEAM GREEN winner, Stephanie Ziegle! And to the winner of my personal giveaway, Melissa Robles!

I’ll be sending your prizes out soon!

YA Scavenger Hunt — Thanks!

Thanks to everyone to participated in the YA Scavenger Hunt! We had a ton of entries, and I have the name of the TEAM GREEN winner. She’ll be getting her book soon!

I haven’t picked the winner of my personal giveaway yet, but I will over the weekend, and then I’ll post that person’s name here and contact them.

Thanks again, guys!

YA Scavenger Hunt — Go Team Green!

Welcome to my stop on the YA Scavenger Hunt! I’m so happy to be hosting Tera Lynn Childs, who is an AWESOME author. She’s so awesome that she can make the clock chime 13 ... or so I’ve heard. That might be a rumor.

Anyway, Tera has provided me with some BONUS content, just for you! Below is an excerpt from Chapter 4 ofTen Things Sloan Hates about Tru.Enjoy!

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Tru practically leaps up from the table. “I’ll do it.”

He sounds as desperate to escape as I feel.

“Me too,” I add, hurrying to gra...

YASH is coming– again!

It’s time for the Fall edition of the Young Adult Scavenger Hunt! This time around, I’m on the GREEN team. GO GREEN!

The hunt starts Oct. 1, with the potential to win a TON of books and maybe some other surprises :) Down there in the graphic are all the books of the authors on my team.

Stay tuned!!

A CURSE OF ASH AND IRON and…the title

Okay, so now that I’ve been back from vacation for a bit, and sort of gotten my life all back in order again, I can return to my posts about CURSE. The book is still getting great reviews, even has some people talking about it on Goodreads. NINE HUNDRED people have added it to their Goodreads lists — To Be Read, or reviewed, or just read. That’s amazing to me! 900 people!

Anyway, the title. If anyone remembers, WAY back when it was a manuscript, it had another title. The original title was SM...

Walt Disney World and Me

We had an AWESOME time in Disney! Ten days of GO GO GO (and a little downtime — naps are necessary to survive in Disney!)

I DID end up with two Vera Disney bags. What you need to know about them if you go is that NOT every store that carries them has every Disney pattern. Our first night I went to Downtown Disney, which is like a big shopping place with restaurants. We took the boat from our hotel right to it. I found some Vera there, and then later also at Epcot, but since I had already bou...

I’m back — so where are my blog posts!

I know, I’ve been back from vacation for over a week now, and I haven’t blogged! What is WRONG with me! Well, I was catching up on post-vacation stuff, like laundry and bills and some other stuff that had been put off until we were home. So I’m nearly all done, and I will post some blogs soon. We had a great time at Disney, and the time we spent at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter was AMAZING.

I’ll be back on track by the end of the week. I think.

Excerpt 2: A CURSE OF ASH AND IRON

I’m still on vacation, lovelies, but haven’t forgotten you! Here is a second excerpt of CURSE. It’s kind of long, but I think it’s important to get the whole scene.

Like it? Go and get a copy!

When Ellie left Ben half an hour later, she was no closer to a solution. She only had more questions, and her friend was not being particularly helpful. He was still chatting away with the tall, mustached man who was responsible for the monster of a machine on display in the middle of the hall. The min...

Writers and Book Reviews — an epic struggle

When you put art out into the world, it can be a scary thing. You’ve worked SO HARD on getting it just right. Usually a single book represents years of work — writing, revising, workshops, critiquing, rejection, rewriting, more rejection, acceptance, editing. And because you feel that the final product is so hard-fought, and as perfect as you can make it, you want more than anything for people to LIKE it. To accept and acknowledge your hard work.

So when a reviewer hates your book, what do yo...

A Curse of Ash and Iron by Christine Norris

christinenorris:

Another great review!

Originally posted on "You Have Your Hands Full!":

I received this book from Netgalley/the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

I had not heard of A Curse of Ash and Iron before I received the opportunity to review it, but I was extremely intrigued by the premise. This is a young adult novel written by Christine Norris.

As the story begins, we are introduced to Ben and Ellie. Despite the fact that Ben was the son of the cook in a grand home that E...