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Magnificent Tumblr Contest

Hi Everyone!

This week are having an Embassy Row Fan Art Contest on Tumblr!

So head over to Tumblr and post your best Embassy Row Fan Art and use the hashtags #embassyrowcontest & #isgracecrazy

You have until this Friday September 28th to post your art and you must use the 2 hashtags to be entered.

Ally will pick a winner or winners on Monday September 30.

What’s the prize you ask?

An Advanced Reading Copy of See How They Run!!!!

That’s right you can win it before you can buy it!

Can’t wait t...

Magnificent Answer Monday

Hi Everyone!

A few weeks ago I asked you to send in your questionsfor Ally, and today I am going to post some of the questions and her answers!

Can you describe See How They Run in one word?

INTENSE!

What book was the most fun to write?

I’m sure I probably hated every single one of them at one point or another in the process, but as far as just the sheer glee of it, I’m going to have to say the first draft of Love You, Kill You. It got much, much harder and more stressful when I started revi...

About Money

Hi, all!

Ally here again to continue my series of blog posts about Things I’ve Learned in the Past Ten Years, because, as you know, this December will mark my ten year “publiversary”, so I’ve been thinking a lot about all the things that a-decade-ago-me didn’t quite understand yet. And so this is me trying to pass some knowledge along.

Today is a hard one–but an important one: money.

No. I’m not going to talk about how to make pots of it. I’m going to talk about what you should do with what y...

Ally Goes to Hollywood

So…earlier this week, THIS happened.

Here I ampictured with Brownstone Productions, specifically Max Handelman, Elizabeth Banks (yes, that Elizabeth Banks) and Allison Small.

These are three of the wonderful and very smart people who are working to make Heist Society a movie, and I was so excited to get to go to their offices to talk about the script and the progress they’ve made so far. (Which is incredibly impressive because, again, they’re very smart.)

Now, as soon as I posted this pic...

Magnificent Ask Ally Monday

Hey Everyone!

Since we asked you questions last week, I thought this week we would let you ask the questions!

I will pick a handful of fun questions to have Ally answer.

For example, I know Ally likes to bake but I wonder what her favorite thing to bake is?!?!?!?

I think that will be my question! Ha!

So post your questions and I will get some answers!

Have a good week!

Shellie

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The Book That Almost Killed Me

Hello, everyone!

Ally here! As those of you who follow me on twitter might have seen a week or two ago, I just realized that this December will be my ten year Publiversary! Yep. My very first novel (which is now out of print and very hard to find, sorry) came out almost ten years ago.

I’ve been thinking for a while now of what I might do to mark the occasion, and I’ve got some ideas for something I think you guys are really going to like. But that’s going to take a little while to bring into...

Magnificent Quiz Monday

Hi Everyone!

Since we have a lot of new followers to the blog I thought a fun “get to know you” quiz would be fun!

1. Hamburger or Hotdog or I don’t eat meat?

2. Call or text or snapchat?

3. Purse or Backpack or Nothing, a true spy just uses what’s around?

4. Outside or Inside or Either?

5. Makeup or just mascara or nothing but face lotion?

6. Bike or skateboard or what are those?

7. Winter or Spring or Summer or Fall?

8. High heels or Tennis shoes or Hiking boots or Flip flops?

Hope everyone...

Baking Soda and the Art of Book-to-Film Adaptations

So this is something I’ve been thinking about writing for a long time. At least a year. Maybe longer. Probably longer. And I’ve decided to write thisnowbecause John Green’s PAPER TOWNS opens this weekend, and I’m extremely excited for John and about the movie. Also because the “John Green Hollywood experience” has been on my mind a lot lately.

It never ceases to amaze me how much the book-to-film process both captures the public’s fascination and confuses the heck out of people.

If you write...

Magnificent Cryptogram Monday

Hey Everyone!

I thought I would give you a cryptogram to solve today! I haven’t posted one in a while and thought I would pull a quote from All Fall Down. Good Luck!

W FEX’V KMCX VE LMV WXVE VSENOUM. VSENOUM HNTV TESV EJ JWXFT KM.

For those of you who have never solved a cryptogram puzzle before, the rules are simple… It is basically a secret code where different numbers, symbols, or in this case, letters, represent a different letter.

I will hold all comments with answers for 24hrs to give e...

Magnificent Monday

Hi Everyone!

I have tosay the BEST part of my job was getting to proof read See How They Run this past weekend!!

It is amazing! I can’t wait for everyone to get to read it and that way we can all geek out over it!

And in case you missed it….Ally put this little excerpt from See How They Run on her social media sites Saturday.

And if you are in the Oklahoma City area this weekend go and see AllySaturday, July 18th, at 3:00 at the Barnes & Noble at the Qual Springs Mall!

Have a great week!

xo...