YA Scavenger Hunt Fall 2017 featuring M.K. Harkins and and Rosalyn Eves
Hello! I am Marilyn Harkins,
your hostess for this leg of the hunt.
About Me
My favorite color is green (but blue for clothes)
I have a black and white dog named Oreo (I know, very unoriginal-but he was a rescue dog and we didn’t want to confuse him)
My favorite number is 77
I’m currently writing my 7th book
You are currently hunting on TEAM RED.
But, first, a few rules.
SCAVENGER HUNT PUZZLE RULES
DIRECTIONS: You’ll notice that I’ve listed my favorite number. Collect the favorite numbers of all the authors on TEAM RED, and then add them up (don’t worry, you can use a calculator!)
ENTRY FORM: Once you’ve added up all the numbers, make sure you fill out the form here to officially qualify for the grand prize. Only entries that have the correct number will qualify.
RULES: Open internationally, anyone below the age of 18 should have a parent or guardian’s permission to enter. To be eligible for the grand prize, you must submit the completed entry form by SUNDAY, October 8th, at noon Pacific Time. Entries sent without the correct number or without contact information will not be considered.
On this hunt, you not only get access to exclusive content from each participating YA author, you also get a secret number. Add up the numbers, and enter it for a chance to win a major prize–one lucky winner will receive at least one book from each author on my team in the hunt! But play fast. This contest (and all the exclusive bonus material) will only be online until noon PST on Sunday, October 8th!
There are SEVEN contests going on simultaneously as well as a bonus contest and you can enter one or all! I am a part of the RED TEAM but there is also a PINK TEAM, BLUE TEAM, PURPLE TEAM, GREEN TEAM, ORANGE TEAM & GOLD TEAM! Check out each team for a chance to win SEVEN different sets of signed books!
If you’d like to find out more about the hunt, see links to all the authors participating, and see the full list of prizes up for grabs, go to the YA Scavenger Hunt page.
Now that all the technical stuff is out of the way, I’ll introduce the author I am hosting on this hunt.
I am super excited to be hosting…
ROSALYN EVES
About ROSALY:
Rosalyn Eves is a part-time English professor, part-time writer, full time mother and dreamer. She lives in the Rocky Mountains where she reads, hikes, watches too many period films, and ignores housework on principle. The historical fantasy BLOOD ROSE REBELLION is her first book.
The book she is showcasing is
ABOUT THE BOOK
In an alternate Victorian England where social prestige stems from a trifecta of blood, money, and magic, sixteen-year old Anna Arden believes herself unable to perform magic. But when an accidentally broken spell leads her to Hungary, Anna finds that nothing about her world or her own lack of magic is quite as it seems. As rebellion sweeps across Hungary, Anna must choose: deny her unique power and cling to the life she’s always wanted—or embrace her ability, spark a revolution, and change the face of magic itself.
ROSALYN EVE’S EXCLUSIVE CONTENT:
“Writing a book is never a particularly straightforward process, and so when I considered which deleted scene from BLOOD ROSE REBELLION to include in the YA Scavenger Hunt, I had lots to choose from. The book went through many revisions before it hit the shelves: at one point I cut nearly 30k from the story (including an encounter with bandits that I loved, but didn’t quite fit the story—but I’m happy to say I’ve repurposed some of those scenes for book 2, LOST CROW CONSPIRACY). Another revision saw nearly as much cut and rewritten, not to mention all the scenes that were transformed during edits.
I’ve settled on a scene that isn’t particularly spoilery, but was deeply satisfying to write. If you’ve read BLOOD ROSE REBELLION, you know it starts off with the MC, Anna, dealing with a caddish and dishonorable suitor. He doesn’t really show up again in the book, but in an earlier draft, I dragged him back just so Anna could finally confront him as he deserved.
For readers keeping track, this scene would have fallen around the current chapter 17 of the novel, when Anna has gone to visit Lady Berri in Buda-Pest and agrees to try and help Lady Berri break a spell. (You might also notice that Anna’s maid Ginny was Jenny in earlier versions—until it finally occurred to me that Jenny was too close to my sister’s name, Jeni, and she might not appreciate being made into a lady’s maid, particularly as she also has reddish hair and freckles and endured too many sessions of playing “princess” with me growing up, where I was the grand lady and she was my maid—the perils of being a younger sister with a bossy elder sister. Sometimes your subconscious holds onto things and puts them in your books without permission).
Without further ado, I give you Anna and Lord Frederick Markson Worthing (aka Freddy).”
You can buy her book HERE!
Check out more on her Website or Facebook page.
And don’t forget to enter the contest for a chance to win a ton of signed books by me and many more! Just check out all these books on team RED,
Thank you so much for visiting! Now onto the next leg of the hunt, Jacob Devlin.
