RWA Con-solation Week: Day 1
First of all, I’m sorry for my recent absence from the blog. SHADOW BOUND is due just days from now, and I’m thoroughly immersed in deadline panic. Parts of the book are in their second draft. Others are more than five drafts along. And my CP, Rinda Elliot, deserves some kind of medal for critiquing for me, once again. I kind of hate it that my CP–one of my best friends–sees my books in their very worst condition. Always. And because she’s busy like everyone else, she rarely has time to reread the finished version, so I’m pretty sure she must think I thoroughly suck. 
But, all that aside, this week most of my writer friends left for the RWA National Conference. Due to back-to-back deadlines, I don’t have time for much travel this year, so I’m not going. Which is going to make the constant tweets and photo updates kind of hard to bear. So, I’m cheering myself up with an RWA Con-solation week!
I will give away one book every day of the 2011 RWA National Conference (June 28-July 1), to someone who wasn’t able to attend. In short, if you’re not going to RWA National for whatever reason (even if you’ve never heard of it) you can enter. But you must be 13 or older to win YA prizes and 16 or older to win non-YA prizes (and have a parent’s permission in both instances).
Up today: An ARC of Enthralled
To enter today’s giveaway, fill out this form.
About the prize:
Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions, a young adult anthology edited by Kelley Armstrong and Melissa Marr, composed of stories by some of the best writers in paranormal YA. (I am both flabbergasted and thrilled to be included.) You can read more about how the anthology came to be here, on Melissa’s blog.
My contribution is a Soul Screamers short story featuring Emma and Sabine on a road trip detour through Niederwald, a tiny, creepy town in Texas where the barrier between our world and the Netherworld is very thin.
Almost two years ago, when I moved to San Antonio, I passed a sign on the highway for an exit to a town called Niederwald, and I knew from that moment on that I wanted to write a story set in a fictional version of that town. Enthralled gave me that chance.
The stories in the anthology include:
Giovanni’s Farewell by Claudia Gray
Scenic Route by Carrie Ryan
IV League by Margaret Stohl
Red Run by Kami Garcia
Things About Love by Jackson Pearce
Niederwald by Rachel Vincent
A Mortal Winter King by Melissa Marr
Facing Facts by Kelley Armstrong
Let’s Get This Undead Show on the Road by Sarah Rees Brennan
Bridge by Jeri Smith-Ready
Skin Contact by Kimberly Derting
Leaving by Ally Condie
At the Late Night, Double Feature, Picture Show by Jessica Verday
Gargouille by Mary E. Pearson
The Third Kind by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Automatic by Rachel Caine
