Sara Raasch's Blog, page 410
December 12, 2014
Robinson High School English Department at Barnes & Noble - Fairfax, Fairfax VA
Robinson High School English Department at Barnes & Noble - Fairfax, Fairfax VA:
See details on upcoming special events at the Barnes & Noble store in Fairfax, VA Get directions and hours of operation.
My last book fair event! For this month, at least ;)
Come for the bookish fun, stay for the wintry shenanigans!
December 11, 2014
yallwest:
THE YALLWEST 2015 AUTHOR LINEUP IS HERE!
From Epic...
THE YALLWEST 2015 AUTHOR LINEUP IS HERE!
From Epic Reads (the HarperCollins YA Community) and premier sponsor of YALLWest:
“We’ve been big supporters of YALLFest and are thrilled to be presenting the very first YALLWest, bringing the largest YA book festival to the West Coast! Come book shimmy with us this April in Santa Monica!”
THE YALLWEST 2015 AUTHOR LINEUP
Brought to you by Epic Reads
APPEARING ON SATURDAY APRIL 11th, 2015
(at Santa Monica Public High School Venue)
keynote
*RANSOM RIGGS (Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children) NYT
with
*LEIGH BARDUGO (Shadow and Bone) NYT
COE BOOTH (Kinda Like Brothers) LAT
*PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH (Secret Series) NYT
ANN BRASHARES (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants) NYT
LIBBA BRAY (Diviners) NYT, PRINTZ, LAT, TIGER BEAT
*RACHEL COHN (Nick & Nora’s Infinite Playlist) NYT
*MELISSA DE LA CRUZ (Blue Bloods) NYT and
*MICHAEL JOHNSTON (Frozen)
ALLY CONDIE (Matched) NYT
KIMBERLY DERTING (The Taking)
SUSAN EE (Angelfall) USA
DAN EHRENHAFT (The Last Dog on Earth) TIGER BEAT
*KAMI GARCIA (Beautiful Creatures) NYT, MORRIS
SHANNON HALE (Ever After High) NYT, NEWBERRY
E. LOCKHART (We Were Liars) NYT, PRINTZ
RICHELLE MEAD (Vampire Academy) NYT
*LISI HARRISON (Monster High) NYT
ELLEN HOPKINS (Crank) NYT
*ROBIN LAFEVERS (Grave Mercy) NYT
JUSTINE LARBALESTIER (Razorhurst)
ALEXANDER LONDON (Proxy)
*MARIE LU (Legend) NYT
*TAHEREH MAFI (Shatter Me) NYT
BARNABAS MILLER (7 Souls) TIGER BEAT
JANDY NELSON (I’ll Give You the Sun) NYT
*KASS MORGAN (The 100) NYT
LAUREN OLIVER (Delirium) NYT
DANIELLE PAIGE (Dorothy Must Die) NYT
BRENDAN REICHS (Virals) NYT
VERONICA ROTH (Divergent) NYT
STEPHANIE PERKINS (Isla & The Happily Ever After) NYT
MORGAN RHODES (Falling Kingdoms) NYT
VERONICA ROSSI (Under the Never Sky) NYT
CARRIE RYAN (Forest of Hands & Teeth) NYT
*HOLLY GOLDBERG SLOAN (Counting By 7’s) NYT
NATALIE STANDIFORD (Switched at Birthday)
*MARGARET STOHL (Beautiful Creatures) NYT, MORRIS
MAYA VAN WAGENEN (Popular) NYT
SCOTT WESTERFELD (Uglies) NYT
GENE LUEN YANG (Boxers & Saints) NYT, PRINTZ, NBA, EISNER, LAT
and illustrators
*GARY ROSEN (Appleblossom the Possum)
& *JOHN ROCCO (Percy Jackson)
APPEARING ON SUNDAY APRIL 12th, 2014
(Local Author Day at Santa Monica Main Library Venue)
SMPL’s mayor for the day
*JOHN COREY WHALEY
(Noggin) MORRIS, PRINTZ, NBA
with local authors
*COLET ABEDI (FAE)
*JULIE BERRY (Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place)
*VICTORIA AVEYARD (Red Queen)
*ROBIN BENWAY (Emmy & Oliver)
*GREG BOOSE (The Red Bishop)
*JESSICA BRODY (Unremembered)
*ANNA CAREY (Blackbird)
*AVA DELLAIRA (Love Letters to the Dead)
*MICHELLE GAGNON (Don’t Turn Around)
*AARON HARTZLER (Rapture Practice) stonewall
*NANCY HOLDER (Wicked) NYT
*LEILA HOWLAND (Nantucket Blue)
*JESSI KIRBY (Golden)
*MORGAN MATSON (Since You’ve Been Gone)
*ABBY McDONALD (Sophomore Switch)
*MAILE MELOY (The Apothecary) NYT
*JENNIFER NIVEN (All The Bright Places)
*NEAL SHUSTERMAN (Unwind) NYT
*ALYSON NOEL (Immortals) NYT
*MADELEINE ROUX (Asylum) NYT
*GRETCHEN MCNEIL (Possess)
*CINDY PON (Silver Phoenix)
*ELISSA SUSSMAN (Stray)
*ROBYN SCHNEIDER (The Beginning of Everything)
*LISA YEE (Millicent Min, Girl Genius)
*ALLEN ZADOFF (I Am the Weapon)
& honorary locals
KATIE COTUGNO (99 Days)
MARIA DAHVANA HEADLEY (Magonia)
SARA RAASCH (Snow Like Ashes)
*past or present SoCal author
nyt or usa = new york times or usa today bestseller
morris, nba, printz = nominated or received
tiger beat = festival band
note: schedule is subject to change.
I’LL BE AT YALLWEST!!!
WINTERIANS!!
The Winter Join the Blizzard contest is IN FULL...
WINTERIANS!!
The Winter Join the Blizzard contest is IN FULL SWING, but if that isn’t enough for you…
ANOTHER BLIZZARD HAS STARTED!
I’m one of SIXTEEN authors participating in the Blizzard of Books giveaway. The rules for this one are SUPER SIMPLE:
To enter the Blizzard of Books Giveaway & have a chance to win a fabulous stack of **SIXTEEN** signed YA books including SNOW LIKE ASHES:
1. Reblog this post.
2. Follow me on Tumblr.
3. You must follow *every* author in the giveaway to be entered.
*Signed* giveaway books, authors, & Tumblr pages:
RED QUEEN by Victoria Aveyard http://vaveyard.tumblr.com/
ZODIAC by Romina Russell http://rominagarber.tumblr.com/
UNDER A PAINTED SKY by Stacey Lee http://staceyleeauthor.tumblr.com/
THE YOUNG ELITES by Marie Lu http://marielubooks.tumblr.com/
LOOP by Karen Akins http://karenakins.tumblr.com/
THE BODY ELECTRIC by Beth Revis http://bethrevis.tumblr.com/
AN EMBER IN THE ASHES by Sabaa Tahir http://sabaatahir.tumblr.com/
THE WITCH HUNTER by Virginia Boecker http://virgboecker.tumblr.com/
THE WRATH & THE DAWN by Renée Ahdieh http://rahdieh.tumblr.com/
SNOW LIKE ASHES by Sara Raasch http://sararaasch.tumblr.com/
KALAHARI by Jessica Khoury http://jesskhoury.tumblr.com/
WRITTEN IN THE STARS by Aisha Saeed http://aishacs.tumblr.com/
BEWARE THE WILD by Natalie C. Parker http://nataliecparker.tumblr.com/
TINY PRETTY THINGS by Sona Charaipotra & Dhonielle Clayton http://tinyprettythingsballet.tumblr.com/
THE CONSPIRACY OF US by Maggie Hall http://maggieehall.tumblr.com/
THE WALLED CITY by Ryan Graudin http://ryangraudin.tumblr.com/
The giveaway will end 12/18 at 5:00 pm EST. Winner will be announced within 48 hours. US entries only. GOOD LUCK!
"She is a year ago.
She is the ache in the empty,
the first time you changed your mind
and the last..."
“She is a year ago.
She is the ache in the empty,
the first time you changed your mind
and the last time you were sorry about it.
She is a city sleeping beside you,
warm and vast and familiar, streetlights
yawning and stretching,
and you have never. You have never.
You have never loved someone like this.
She is your first stomach ache.
Your first panic attack and your
favorite cold shower.
A mountain is moving somewhere
inside of you, and her handprints are all over it.
Here. Here. Here, you love her.
In the fractured morning, full of
too tired and too sad, she is the first
foot that leaves the bed.
She is the fight in you, the winning
and the losing battle
floating like a shipwreck in your chest.
When they ask you what your favorite moment is,
You will say Her.
You will always say Her.”
- Caitlyn Siehl, Her, Her, Her (via alonesomes)
She is the ache in the empty,
the first time you changed your mind
and the last time you were sorry about it.
She is a city sleeping beside you,
warm and vast and familiar, streetlights
yawning and stretching,
and you have never. You have never.
You have never loved someone like this.
She is your first stomach ache.
Your first panic attack and your
favorite cold shower.
A mountain is moving somewhere
inside of you, and her handprints are all over it.
Here. Here. Here, you love her.
In the fractured morning, full of
too tired and too sad, she is the first
foot that leaves the bed.
She is the fight in you, the winning
and the losing battle
floating like a shipwreck in your chest.
When they ask you what your favorite moment is,
You will say Her.
You will always say Her.”
- Caitlyn Siehl, Her, Her, Her (via alonesomes)
