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Win-It Wednesday: The Four-Book Contest!

Watch the video and find out how to enter. Okay, I'll tell you: Just comment below naming four books you love (recent or ancient, doesn't matter). Then, you're entered!

(But if you want to know the books you're playing for, you've gotta watch.)



+1 entry for tweeting, linking, facebooking or otherwise spreading the word, just note that in the comments. Contest ends 4/21, when I'll post a winner!

xoxo

The Library-Loving Blog Challenge!

[image error] This is a library-loving blog challenge!For every commenter on this post between now and 3/26 at midnight, I will donate one book to my local library: The Brooklyn Public Library, up to 50 books. (Yes, this kind of scares me but I'm ready to do it!)How easy could it be? You comment, I cough up the books, the library gets a gift! If you don't know what to say in your comment, "I love libraries" will do. I asked my friend and librarian Marie Hansen why she loves libraries so much, and she sa...

Cover Stories: Prophecy of the Sisters by Michelle Zink

Michelle Zink got a redesign! Her Prophecy of the Sisters has a new cover for its paperback incarnation, and Guradian of the Gate, its sequel, follows that design. So how does Michelle feel about the changes?Read on: [image error] "I'm always so focused on channeling the story that the cover doesn't occur to me until well after the book is complete. Prophecy of the Sisters was my first published book, and I was so focused on writing something worthy of publication that I never dared to DREAM about the possi...

Photo Friday: Glamour UK

[image error] This photo Friday is made up of pictures from a Glamour UK story I worked on. I interviewed models and their boyfriends for a fashion shoot, which resulted in tiny text (and an even tinier "Words by Melissa Walker" on the second-to-last page) but was lots of fun and had excellent catering. I think I ate an entire plate of brownies between interviews. (And yes, there were a couple of douchy boyfriends, but most were nice and I'll never tell who's who.) Enjoy! [image error] [image error] [image error] [image error] [image error] [image error] [image error] I think I like the daisy shot best....

Bonus Cover Stories: The Unwritten Rule by Elizabeth Scott

[image error] I read Elizabeth Scott's latest novel in one day last week while I ate gingerbread cookies and drank coffee and tried to avoid my revisions. Total treat! (You can win a copy of it, along with four other great titles, on I Heart Daily--and enter the contest to win Living Dead Girl right here on this blog!) Oh, and check out Adele's review of the book to learn more about the inside.Here's Elizabeth herself to chat about the gorgeous purple cover!"I didn't really have an idea for the cover. I ju...

Win-It Wednesday: Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott

Last week's contest over at Teen Fiction Cafe ended with tons of winners and lots of peeks into writers' working lives and insecurities. [image error] This week, to help celebrate the release of her latest novel The Unwritten Rule, I'm giving away a copy of Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott. It's the paperback version (read that Cover Story here), and it's a haunting book, in case you haven't heard. To enter to win a copy, just comment below and tell me about the creepiest/scariest book you've read...

Cover Stories: Beautiful by Amy Reed + The Melting Season by Jami Attenberg

So you guys know how I'm doing some Cover Stories for Barnes & Noble now, right? It's fun! So many covers, so little time. For example, Amy Reed's Beautiful Cover Story is up at Unabashedly Bookish. How cool is that full cover wrap?! [image error] [image error] Also check out the Cover Story for Jami Attenberg's The Melting Season. An excerpt: "The first cover I saw I hated immediately! It felt like it had nothing to do with the emotional thrust of the story, and it seemed frivolous. It was basically a woman in a white t...

Cover Stories: Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver

[image error] Lauren Oliver's Before I Fall is one of my favorite books that I've read in 2010--I really loved the voice. Sarah described the book as "Groundhog Day meets Mean Girls," and I think that's spot on (read Sarah's review here to learn more about the book).We're here, of course, to learn about the cover! What else? Here's Lauren:"You know what? I really didn't have an idea for the cover. I am probably the least visual person in the world, weirdly enough. When I have to memorize phone numbers, for...

2010 NYC Teen Author Festival

It starts tomorrow! Here's where you need to be. I starred (★) my events because, you know, this is my blog ("The Boy You Can't Have" I'm thinking will be especially fun!). But all of this stuff will rock. Woohoo! MONDAY:First Draft to Final Draft - Talking About the Writing Process Monday, 3/15 (NYPL, Tompkins Square Branch, 331 East 10th Street, 6pm): featuring: Gayle Forman, Daphne Grab, Carolyn Mackler, Sarah Mlynowski, Blake Nelson, Marie Rutkoski, Eliot Schrefer, Natalie StandifordTUESDA...

Photo Friday: Winter Wedding + Links!

My lovely friends Will and Orla got married a few weekends ago. They live in Dublin but their families flew all the way from Ireland to be at their wedding in Vermont! A wedding with Irish people is extra fun, trust me. Here are some photos:Me on the steps of the very white the Stowe Community Church: [image error] Just married, and so smiley! [image error] I'm telling you, these two are like moviestars in their lovely winter buggy: [image error] They had a dreamy starry cake: [image error] Orla wore amazing glitter Louboutins (yes, Julia, real ones):...