Elizabeth Scott's Blog, page 10

quick contest and mmm....food

Just reading these recipes made me feel better! (At least while I was reading them :-)

100 Grand Cupcakes? YEP!

I always wondered how Baked Alaska was made...

Four-ingredient (!) Nutella Brownies? Yes, please!!!

And I'd also like to give away a copy of one of the best YA novels I've read in ages, The DUFF by Kody Keplinger. (US mailing addys only)

For your chance to win, just tell me what your favorite dessert is (I know you're shocked by this one!) by midnight EST tomorrow, August 27th--and make...

urgh.

I came down with a cold this weekend and bam! It's like everything shut down. I still feel pretty bad, actually, but I had to drop by here and say hi to everyone--and say congrats to the winner of ARC of Beautiful Darkness, Lynsey, who once saw her mother open a can of green beans, and--well, she hasn't touched them since!

I'm getting ready to head back to bed, but I have loads of links that need to be shared...and check back next week for your chance to win a copy of Mockingjay!

A writer's wo...

insomnia bites

I'm one of those people who needs eight hours (nine is better) of sleep or I become zombie-like, sitting around blinking and doing things like deleting all the links I wanted to share!

Thank goodness that I'd also saved them in a file. It's like I knew I wasn't going to get any sleep last night!

Anyway, here there are and as I'm sure there will be more typos than usual, I ask for your forgiveness in advance:

The YA Blogosphere is buzzing over Ellen Hopkins being invited--and then uninvited becau...

wow! and links

You all have most *definitely* experienced some awful dinners--keep those comments coming and YOU could win an ARC of Beautiful Darkness!

Today, I come bearing links--and some cool news:

Genreality on the dreaded blank page -- "Sometimes when I sit at the computer, confronted with a blank screen, my mind goes blank. Whatever idea I had in the car on the way home from Starbucks vanishes. Or the whole scene I envisioned dwindles to two uninspired sentences. Then my heart starts to pound and my...

ARC of Beautiful Darkness, anyone??? :-)

Breaking out of writing lock-down again (I'm so sneaky!)--to let you, wonderful readers, know that I have an ARC of the following:

Beautiful Darkness by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

Would you like to win this ARC?

Well then, all you need to do is have a US mailing address, make sure you leave a way for me to get in touch with you in your comment and then tell me this:

What is the worst meal you've ever had?

For me, I didn't think anything would top having to eat real Brunswick stew (the kind tha...

escape from writing lock-down!

I'm in the middle of a writing lock-down at the moment--I know there are some authors who can write twelve to fourteen hours a day, every day, for years (or their entire lives!) but as for me--well, long story short, I sneak away to see you, lovely readers, as a tired mush of goo with aching hands...

And links!

Want to see what a super enormous PR push for a book look like? Check out this article on Scholastic's marketing plans for Mockingjay

If you've ever lost part--or (shudder!) all of someth...

link explosion!

Another week, and another link explosion--there's a lot going on, so I'll get to it right after I say congrats! to rabbithigh, who won the movie contest--thank you all for your suggestions! (I ended up spending the weekend working, but maybe, one day soon, I'll get to the movies after all...)

Also, with September fast approaching, I will be sending a message (and yes, a members-only contest) to my mailing list in September. If you'd like to join, click here to find out how. I send out no more...

mmm, cake--wait, I mean links! Then cake. :-)

I'm loving the movie suggestions--keep them coming (and possibly win 3 ARCS!)

I also have a bunch of links to share:

Dear Author has some very interesting news about Barnes and Noble

Agent Janet Reid has a great blog post about twitter

Pimp My Novel on the importance of being nice

Agent Jessica Faust on why an editor's response time can vary

Donald Maass has a wonderful blog post about creating characters that readers never get to actually "see/meet"

Ah, it's nice to know I'm not the only...

it's raining hives--I mean FREE BOOKS!

I was going to do a video blog this morning, but as I am currently a wee bit hiveish -- well, as I adore you all so, trust me, you SO don't need to see that!

So instead I am going to do this:

Give away (to anyone with a US mailing addy)

an ARC of Sophie Jordan's Firelight
an ARC of April Lindner's Jane
AND
an ARC of Jennifer Donnelly's Revolution

How can you get all of these ARCs?

Simple!

Tell me what movie I should go see this weekend.

Yep, that's it! Let me know what movie you think I MUST see, and...

hey there linkys!

As you might have guessed from last week's guest blogs, I have been on vacation--and yes, it was lovely! I am not a very good relaxer, but my husband (bless him!) did his best to get me to try.

Of course, as all vacations do, I've come home, but am immediately back at work and on my way to New York for meetings. I will announce the winners of last week's contests (feel free to still enter if you have a U.S. mailing addy!) later this week.

And, in the meantime, I offer you up links--I itched to...