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Breathe signed giveaway goes to....

majoy


Sorry it took me so long to post this! I've been busy getting The Vincent Boys ready for publication. Congrats Majoy =) I'll be emailing you for your mailing address today. 
               
ALSO a character interview with Sadie and Jax can be     
found at Books Are Precious Gems today! 

This week we are supposed to share our best "fan" experie...

This week we are supposed to share our best "fan" experience. I'm new to this so I don't have one really big "fan" moment etched in my memory. I really tried to nail down just one email, blog post, tweet, or review that stood out above all others but I just couldn't do it. So, instead I am listing a top 5 of my favorite reader moments:(by the way, these are in no particular order)My first reader dream cast for Breathe http://www.bookittyblog.com/Breathe.html I'd never even realized there was such a thing as a "dream cast" at the time. I was new to the game and this was such a fun thing to see. Brittany from YA Sisterhood blaming me for her lack of sleep due to staying up all night to read Breathe. I loved hearing she couldn't put it down. Receiving an email from a reader who told me after finishing Breathe she immediately read it again.The first time "Team Jax" and "Team Marcus" actually made it into reader's tweets. I had no idea there was a Team Jax let alone a Team Marcus. The day I received my first request from a reader to write a story for Marcus. I've had dozens since then asking the same thing but that first time when a reader loved a character I created so much they wanted to read more. It was definitely something to remember.                              Here's what is happening this week:                        
Courtney  released her Bloodstone Saga finale, My Tattered Bonds                       
Check out The Paranormal Plumes Haunted Book Tour in Savannah Halloween Weekend!http://www.theplumessociety.com/
30% of the royalties of Lexus Luke's Manitou The Sky People Saga go to the ASPCA. 
The Vincent Boys by Abbi Glines will release on Oct 21. Here is the book trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=aAp6chU-d6o
For a limited time, Kimberly Kinrade is selling signed copies of her YA paranormal thriller/romance Forbidden Mind. As an All Hallow's Read bonus, she is also including some awesome gifts with each purchase... including a very special bonus to the first 5 lucky people who place an order. Get a copy for yourself and buy one for a friend in celebration of All Hallow's Read. For more details, visit http://bit.ly/qGMQkz
Filter Giveaway on Gwenn Wright's blog! http://hereventuality.blogspot.com/2011/10/von-strassenbergs-giving-it-away.html. When she reaches 100 followers she will give away a signed copy of Filter AND one of her fancy new mugs!                                                       Follow the Carnival.....

The Fuji Mermaid Dani Snell's Refracted Light Reviews
Leopard Girl Patti Larsen Author of The Ghost Boy of MacKenzie House, The Hunted Series and the HayleCoven Novels
Fire Breather Courtney Cole Author of Every Last Kiss, Fated, Princess, and Guardian. Also a contributing author in The Glassheart Chronicles
Strong Woman Nicole Williams Author of Eternal Eden, and Fallen Eden. She is also a contributing author in the Glassheart Chronicles
Champion Sword Swallower Fisher Amelie Author of The Understorey, as well as a contributing author in The Glassheart Chronicles
Snake Charmer Amy Maurer Jones Author of The Soul Quest Trilogy as well as a contributing author in The Glassheart Chronicles
Pretzel Woman Rachel Coles. Geek Mom. Book Reviewer Author of Diary of a Duct Tape Zombie, Whistles, Beergarden, Plagues, Bees of St. John, and Mushrooms
The Giant T. R. Graves T.R. Graves: Author of Warriors of the Cross
Jungle Woman P.J. Hoover Author of Solstice, The Emerald Tablet, The Navel of the World, The Necropolis
Shape Shifter Alicia McCalla Author of the upcoming science-fiction novel Breaking Free
Tarot Card Reader Heather Cashman Author of Perception
Fortune Teller Abbi Glines Author of Breathe, and the upcoming Existence and Vincent Boys
Knife Thrower Cheri Schmidt Author of Fateful, Fractured, and Fair Maiden
Fire Dancer Lexus Luke Author of Manitou, The Sky People Saga
Fire Breather Suzy Turner Author of December Moon and Raven
Dragonslayer K. C. Blake Author of Vampire Rules
Elephant Trainer Gwenn Wright Author of Filter
Ring-Leader Kimberly Kinrade Author of Bits of You, Pieces of Me and Forbidden Mind
Prestidigitator Darby Karchut Author of Griffin Rising and the upcoming Griffin's Fire
Lion Tamer Madeline Smoot Author of Missing, Summer Shorts, and The Girls
Siren M. Leighton Author of the Blood Like Poison Series, Wiccan, Caterpillar, Madly & Wolfhardt & The Reaping
Horse Whisperer Cidney Swanson Author of Rippler
Flying Trapeeze Artist Heather Self awesome book blogger.

Paranormal Book Tour Stop One ~ Haunted Savannah

Join me along with several other fabulous YA authors as we scamper through Savannah days before Halloween. We'll be eating with ghost, searching for the famous haunts in Savannah via a haunted tour and hosting a book signing and discussion. Find out the when and where by going here http://theplumessociety.com/

The Vincent Boys book trailer.....

AHHHH! It's finally ready!
 The Vincent Boys book trailer.

All the things that could go wrong....

Writing for teens is so much fun. As a writer of teen fiction, I create scenarios knowing all will end well. In the real world, that isn't always the case. Anyway, yesterday my pastor read a letter that a son wrote his father. It cracked me up and I thought I would share it with you guys. (Oh and I looked for the author to this and it's unknown) Dear Dad,     It is with great regret and sorrow that I'm writing you. I had to elope with my new girlfriend, because I wanted to avoid a scene with Mom and you. I've been finding real passion with Stacy, and she is so nice, but I knew you
would not approve of her, because of all her piercing's, tattoos, her tight motorcycle clothes, and because she is so much older than I am. But it's not only the passion.Dad she's pregnant. Stacy said that we will be very happy. She owns a trailer in the woods, and has a stack of firewood for the whole winter. We share a dream of having many more children. Stacy has opened my eyes to the fact that marijuana doesn't, really hurt anyone.We'll be growing it for ourselves, and trading it with the other people in the commune, for all the cocaine and ecstasy we want. In the meantime, we'll pray that science will find a cure for AIDS, so Stacy can get better. She sure deserves it!! Don't worry Dad, I'm 15, and I know how to take care of myself. Someday, I'm sure we'll be back to visit, so you can get to know your grandchildren.Love, your son,
John.P.S. Dad, None of the above is true. I'm over at Tommy's house. I just wanted to remind you that there are worse things in life than the report card that's in my center desk drawer. I love you! Call when it is safe for me to come home.

Breathe is NOW available in paperback!

       Thirteen days early! You can now purchase Breathe in it's   paperback edition. Check it out on Amazon 

Also look for The Vincent Boys book trailer later this week.

The Vincent Boys Dream Cast

 This week on the YA Indie Carnival we are posting dream cast for our newest books. 
In 22 short days my newest release The Vincent Boys will hit Amazon and Barnes and Noble. 

                                                        Ashton Gray (Hayden Panettier)

                                               Beau Vincent (Chad Michael Murray)

                                                         Sawyer Vincent ( Ryan Sypek)


Being the good girl isn't all it's cracked up to be. Ashton Gray has grown weary of playing the part to please her parents, and to be worthy of the town's prince charming, Sawyer Vincent. Maybe That's why she's found herself spending time with Sawyer's cousin, Beau, while he's away for the summer camping with his family. Beau is nothing like her perfect boyfriend. He's the sexiest guy she's ever seen, dangerous in ways she's only day dreamed about, and the one guy she should stay away from.      Beau never envied Sawyer his loving parents, his big nice home, or his position as quarterback. He loves him like a brother. Which is why he's tried everything in his power to keep his distance from Sawyer's girlfriend. Even if he has loved her since the age of five, Ashton is Sawyer's girl, so therefore she's off limits. But when Sawyer leaves for the summer, Ashton, the one girl Beau would move Heaven and Earth for, decides she wants to get into trouble. Stabbing the one person who's always accepted him and stood by him in the back, is the cost of finally holding Ashton Gray in his arms. Is she worth losing his cousin over?.... Hell Yeah.

Read an excerpt from Beau's POV:
I reached for my phone for at least the tenth time to call and cancel when Ashton's Jetta spun into the gravel drive outside. Great.I'd successfully fought off my good intentions just long enough for her to get here. This was bad. Hurting people isn't something I have issues with, but hurting Sawyer? That's out of the question. Ashton stepped out of her car wearing another short dress and carrying a plate of food. Watching the sway of her hips under the wispy fabric, as she made her way toward me, the corners of her mouth turned up in a shy little smile, I decided I didn't care if I was being a dirtbag. Sawyer wasn't here and I couldn't seem to help myself. My cousin should have stayed his ass home. 
YA Indie Carnival Info:
Gwenn Wright's The Von Strassenberg Saga. Dani just released (and designed!) the official cover for BlueStocking Girl! Here's a link to Gwenn's awesome video: 
http://hereventuality.blogspot.com/2011/08/von-strassenberg-sagaa-reading.html

Laura A. H. Elliott's 13 on Halloween new release! Book trailer here: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksO8iGOhc5s
Excerpt here: 
http://laurasmagicday.wordpress.com/13-on-halloween-excerpt/



Dani Snell's Refracted Light Reviews
Patti Larsen Author of The Ghost Boy of MacKenzie House, The Hunted Series and the Hayle Coven Novels
Courtney Cole Author of Every Last Kiss, Fated, Princess, and Guardian. Also a contributing author in The Glassheart Chronicles
Nicole Williams Author of Eternal Eden, and Fallen Eden. She is also a contributing author in the Glassheart Chronicles
Fisher Amelie Author of The Understorey, as well as a contributing author in The Glassheart Chronicles Laura A. H. Elliott Author of Winnemucca as well as 13 on Halloween, book 1 in the Teen Halloween Series
Amy Maurer Jones Author of The Soul Quest Trilogy as well as a contributing author in The Glassheart Chronicles
Rachel Coles. Geek Mom. Book Reviewer Author of Diary of a Duct Tape Zombie, Whistles, Beergarden, Plagues, Bees of St. John, and Mushrooms
T. R. Graves T.R. Graves: Author of Warriors of the Cross
P.J. Hoover Author of Solstice, The Emerald Tablet, The Navel of the World, The Necropolis
Alicia McCalla Author of the upcoming science-fiction novel Breaking Free
Heather Cashman Author of Perception
Abbi Glines Author of Breathe, and the upcoming Existence and Vincent Boys
Cheri Schmidt Author of Fateful, Fractured, and Fair Maiden
Lexus Luke Author ofManitou, The Sky People Saga
Suzy Turner Author of December Moon and Raven
K. C. Blake Author of Vampire Rules
Gwenn Wright Author of Filter
Kimberly Kinrade Author of Bits of You, Pieces of Me and Forbidden Mind
Darby Karchut Author of Griffin Rising and the upcoming Griffin's Fire
Madeline Smoot Author of Missing, Summer Shorts, and The Girls
M. Leighton Author of the Blood Like Poison Series, Wiccan, Caterpillar, Madly & Wolfhardt & The Reaping

Preparations for The Vincent Boys Book Trailer

    After the success of the Breathe book trailer, I had some serious pressure on me to find the right actors for my main characters in The Vincent Boys. I went through so many options but finding Beau was proving to be impossible. Beau is the gorgeous bad boy who can't just be portrayed by anyone. I almost threw out the idea of a book trailer for this book. The only thing that kept me searching was the fact I love this story. I wanted to film this book trailer if just so I could sit and watch it. Then the answer fell in my lap. I was sitting at my table staring out the window contemplating my options when the guy who cuts our grass rode by shirtless. Don't get the wrong idea here because he also happens to be my husband's MUCH younger brother. But as he rode by I realized he was my Beau. If only I could convince him of this. It took snagging an Ashton I knew he wouldn't turn down to get him to agree. Tomorrow we film! I can't wait =)

13 on Halloween by Laura Elliott

What inspired 13 on Halloween? I actually started to write a trilogy a while back when I first started writing. The first book in the trilogy was called Wanda and The Witch Kingdom. Wanda is Roxie's same age and her family has lots and lots of secrets. WWK takes place in a Chicago suburb like 13 ON HALLOWEEN. The story of WWK never left me. I see Roxie and Wanda as friends. I believe that Wanda will meet Roxie in book 2 of the Teen Halloween Series, 14 ON HALLOWEEN. How much of yourself is on the page? I guess every book has pieces of me in it. In middle school I had a very best friend. And one day, that very best friend became really good friends with another girl. It was the three of us for a while. But for some reason the threesome didn't work out and my best friend became very best friends with the other girl. Middle school is dramatic. Friendships are important. I wanted to write a humorous book that explored popularity and friendships probably because of what happened to me in middle school. Do you believe in luck? So much of 13 ON HALLOWEEN explores ideas of good luck and bad luck and lucky charms. Even what it means to be lucky. I think the way we look at things has a lot to do with luck. I think positive people get lucky more often. I don't really have one good luck charm or a lucky outfit like Roxie, but I do have some yellow polka-dot socks because they just are adorable. I like to write in them. My husband and I lived in Big Sur for two years. It's a very remote place along the coast of central California. It's beautiful and so rugged even the Spanish missionaries wouldn't venture into the wild. The Spanish labeled the region El Sur Grande [which means Big Sur] and left it wild. The Spanish settled and built missions in every other part of California but Big Sur. And after I lived there for a while, I noticed that people who live in nature [or make their living in it] seem to have more good luck charms than people who live in urban areas. When I first moved there a lovely woman named Helga asked if I had a piece of jade. When I said I didn't, she said I must carry a piece with me all the time. For protection. It wasn't just Helga that believed this, I found most people who live in the area also believe that jade has the power of protection. I lived in LA up until the time that we moved to Big Sur. I'd never lived that remotely in my life. I asked Helga what I needed to be protected from. She said boulders falling. Trees. You never know what might happen. I bought a small piece of jade that day. I still keep it with me. Sometimes I think people make their own luck. But, after living in Big Sur, I believe that carrying a little something can help tooJ There's a quote in my novel Winnemucca that explains how I feel about luck and lucky charms: "I scooped up the dirt with my handcuffed hands knowing things that don't have any power over us do sometimes, if you believe in them. Maybe that was the only kind of magic I'd ever find in the wide world."  What was the luckiest thing that's ever happened to you? Meeting my husband. The unluckiest? Well, very early this morning when I arrived at 1 AM after a road trip to San Diego, my house was covered in worms. Eeew. Something that infested the Oak Trees this year. I'm told it happens every six years. Kind of like cicadas in Chicago. But this year everyone says that the worms are really bad. I DK, as long as they don't start creeping inside my house. YUCK. It was pretty epic coming home last night to a "wiggling" house. LOL! So what's 13 ON HALLOWEEN about? Twelve-year-old Roxie wants to be like Adrianne, the peacock [popular girl] in class who gets everything she wants––a trampoline, a flock to prowl around the mall with, and most especially invitations to parties despite the fact that Adrianne tarantulas [scares the heck out of people] and hamsters [hops from one thing to the other without really doing anything] and cats [completely annoys Roxie] and owls [knows everything] and eagles [gets all the attention] her way to get it all. But everything changes when Roxie invites all the peacocks in the eighth grade to her birthday party on Halloween and they all come. And a boy, the boy, actually talks to Roxie. Roxie's having the best night of her life until the peacocks decide they want to celebrate her birthday in a way she never expected. In her attic. With the lights out. And a pact to swear to never tell a living soul what happens there. 13 ON HALLOWEEN trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksO8iGOhc5s Why do you like Halloween so much? In legend, it's the time that the veil is thinnest between the spiritual world and the mortal world and that idea is fascinating to me. Plus, where I grew up there was a local ghost story which made the idea of ghosts and spirits likely. And my mother is half Irish so she told some amazing tales about "The Great Beyond." It's fun to make-believe. I guess I just never grew out of it. What are you working on now? The story is called TRANSFER STUDENT, about Ashley, a Beverley Hills surfer fashionista, who swipes lives with Rhoe, a boy geek alien from Planet Retha, when his teleporting experiment develops an unintended side-effect––swapping lives with Ashley. They survive each others' lives only to fall in love with each other a galaxy apart. Their story is told in two POVs. Read the excerpt here. http://laurasmagicday.wordpress.com/2011/08/26/ya-indie-carnival-teasers/#more-349 The pic below is of me in high school, wearing part of the belly dancing outfit described in 13 ON HALLOWEEN.

 

Preteen Reads by Annabee

This weekend my daughter decided she wanted to start reviewing the books she reads. She is currently reading 13 on Halloween by Laura Elliott, which will be released this week. So, she and I sat down and began working on setting her up a blog: Preteen Reads by Annabee. This afternoon I am going to teach her how to write reviews and let her write her first one on My Sister the Vampire Take Two by Sienna Mercer, the last book she read. Although she will be doing many of her reviews via vlog post, since she is more of a verbal person, she will also be posting written reviews on how she felt about the book and who she thinks it will appeal to. If you have an MG reader in your life be sure to go follow her blog.... this should be entertaining ;)
http://preteenreadsbyannabee.blogspot.com/