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Waiting on Wednesday...PRETTY AMY!

The lovely Jill (a fellow Alabamian!) over at Breaking the Spine created the Waiting on Wednesday meme for us bloggers to showcase books we're waiting on. 


This week's selection is a YA contemporary that I cannot WAIT to read! I love the cover, and the synopsis only makes it better. I've chatted a bit with the author via Twitter, and she's super sweet. And I know that her book is going to be a hit! So please, rush over to Goodreads and add to your TBR lists...


PRETTY AMY
by Lisa Burstein
pub...

Tune in Tuesday: Book Playlist Edition #3

Tune in Tuesday is a very cool feature created by the awesome blogger Ginger (or G, as I like to call her!) over at GReads!. It's rather pretty simple: Each Tuesday, post a favorite song/video for others to enjoy!


For the month of March, G has decided to tie the worlds of music and books together (like we all do constantly, right?!) by creating Tune in Tuesday: Book Playlists Edition (how cool is that?). So, for the next four weeks, choose a song from either a book's playlist (or maybe your...

Review: WARD AGAINST DEATH

WARD AGAINST DEATH
Chronicles of a Reluctant Necromancer
by Melanie Card
pub date 8/2/2011


product description from goodreads.com


Twenty-year-old Ward de'Ath expected this to be a simple job—bring a nobleman's daughter back from the dead for fifteen minutes, let her family say good-bye, and launch his fledgling career as a necromancer. Goddess knows he can't be a surgeon—the Quayestri already branded him a criminal for trying—so bringing people back from the dead it is.

But when Ward wakes the...

TGIF at GReads!

First up: Don't forget that the Kindle version of my book BLOOD BORN is now on sale! You can get a copy right here ! :)
The awesomeness that is Ginger (or G, as I like to call her!) over at  GReads!  has created a great meme that is tons of fun. Each Friday, she poses a question for anyone to answer. Go check her out and join in the fun!

This Friday's Question:
Social Networking:

Do you use Twitter or Facebookto promote your blog?How has it benefited
your book blogging experience?


This is a two-sided...

Three Line Thursdays!

Since I have officially passed the two month mark until the release of my very first novel (holy crap, it's less than 2 months!!), I thought that a really neat idea would be to give a few teases to you guys from said novel. Fun, huh?! Hold applause.


So, I created Three-line Thursdays!


It's simple, really. Every Thursday between now and the release of BLOOD BORN, I'm going to tease you guys with three random lines from the book! I'll treat this just like Teaser Tuesdays, by turning to random...

Waiting on Wednesday...OLDSOUL!

The lovely Jill (a fellow Alabamian!) over at Breaking the Spine created the Waiting on Wednesday meme for us bloggers to showcase books we're waiting on. 


This week's selection is one I've already read, but I'm excited for it to be released so everyone else gets a chance to read it! It's written by a friend of mine (and fellow Pendrell Publishing author), but even without that connection, I'd still be pimping this book. It's well-written, humorous, exciting...you get the idea. So please, if y...

Tune in Tuesday: Book Playlists Edition #2!

Tune in Tuesday is a very cool feature created by the awesome blogger Ginger (or G, as I like to call her!) over at GReads!. It's rather pretty simple: Each Tuesday, post a favorite song/video for others to enjoy!


For the month of March, G has decided to tie the worlds of music and books together (like we all do constantly, right?!) by creating Tune in Tuesday: Book Playlists Edition (how cool is that?). So, for the next four weeks, choose a song from either a book's playlist (or maybe your...

Blood Born Trailer!

Check out the trailer for my debut novel, BLOOD BORN !

Review: PANDEMONIUM by Lauren Oliver

PANDEMONIUM
by Lauren Oliver
pub date 2/28/2012
product description from goodreads.com

I'm pushing aside the memory of my nightmare,
pushing aside thoughts of Alex,
pushing aside thoughts of Hana and my old school,
push,
push,
push,
like Raven taught me to do.
The old life is dead.
But the old Lena is dead too.
I buried her.
I left her beyond a fence,
behind a wall of smoke and flame.

My Review:

Okay, I have to start by saying that I truly did enjoy this book. It was a nice follow-up to DELIRIUM, and...

In which I make a pretty cool announcement!

I have been waiting for weeks for today's post. Mainly because I'm horrible at keeping secrets--even worse when those secrets pertain to me, lol. So to say I'm excited today is finally here is a MAJOR understatement.

I had completely planned on dragging this out by filling this post with junk just so you'd have to wait for my announcement.
But as I said in that first mini-paragraph, I'm horrible at keeping secrets. 
So I'll just come right out and say it.
I just signed a contract with  Pendrell...