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Interviewing Zenn from Possession
Tweet Elana Johnson, author of Possession, is here today! She brought along her character Zenn, who is one of the love interests of Vi, our main character. Trust me when I say that Zenn is quite….well to put it in his own words complicated. He’s one of the reasons that the book is so deep and full of twists. Here’s your chance to see a little bit into his head before you really dive into the book. 1) Hi Zenn, thanks for coming by! First things first, if you had to describe yourself in just one word, what would it…
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Book Review: Cursebusters
Tweet Media Type: Book Title: Cursebusters Author: Julie Smith Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Pages: Paperback; 264 Release Date: May 17, 2011 Source: Author/TBS ==================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Budding-psychic Reeno is the most accomplished teenage burglar in California, but one tiny screw-up and poof!—she’s sentenced to Bad Girl School. And that isn’t even her worst problem. Her sister Haley’s dying of an illness no one can diagnose, and now she can’t even help. But wait, maybe she can! The school psychics have found each other and formed their…
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Interviewing Pi from The Sext Crime
Tweet Please welcome the fantastic (and funny) Jason Ancona to the blog today! He’s on a tour to promote his newest book in the Cover Youth Agency Series, aptly titled The Sext Crime. It’s hilarious, I should know, and here’s my review so you can know too. Not that I’m peddling the book or anything *whistles*. Anyway I’m interviewing Pi today! Take a look at this sweet main character and fall in love. I demand it! 1) Hi Pi, welcome to my blog once again! Nice to see you back! Let’s start with a challenge. In a tweet (exactly 140…
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Book Review: Nightspell
Tweet Media Type: Book Title: Nightspell Author: Leah Cypess Publisher: HarperCollins Pages: Hardcover; 336 Release Date: May 31, 2011 Source: Publisher/TBS ==================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Here be ghosts, the maps said, and that was all. In this haunted kingdom, ghosts linger—not just in the deepest forests or the darkest caverns, but alongside the living, as part of a twisted palace court that revels all night and sleeps through the daylight hours. Darri’s sister was trapped in this place of fear and shadows as a child. And now…
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The 7th and 8th Paths are solved!
Tweet Ready for some more Nine Paths fun? The Mai symbol for foe is what you see right there to the left. The 7th Path centered around this symbol. Who is Chloe’s foe? Well I intended to find out. We were sent a package with a business card (notice the odd edge) and a pen. Upon opening them I made sure to look all over each, and even took the pen apart. Oh don’t judge me, ABC Family and the Mai can be tricky! However it was the back of the card that held the secret. It told me to…
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Barbara Quick, on when she’s not writing!
Tweet The lovely Barbara Quick, author of the recently reviewed A Golden Web, is here today to share with us a little bit about what she does when she isn’t busily writing her amazing books. As a reader, I love to know things like this! So away we go! For the past two years I’ve been living in the countryside in the Wine Country of Northern California with my fiancé (very soon to be my husband!), who is a violist with the San Francisco Symphony. Between his practicing, teaching and the weekly concerts I attend, I’m pretty much immersed in…
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Celebrating Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier with a giveaway!
Tweet Thanks to the lovely people at Zeitghost media and Macmillan Publishing, I have another giveaway to share with you! Kerstin Geir’s books were originally written in German, and are now being translated to share with other readers around the world. How exciting is that? The first book coming over is called Ruby Red. Gwyneth Shepherd’s sophisticated, beautiful cousin Charlotte has been prepared her entire life for traveling through time. But unexpectedly, it is Gwyneth, who in the middle of class takes a sudden spin to a different era! Gwyneth must now unearth the mystery of why her mother would…
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Talking Characters with Allison van Diepan
Tweet Please give a warm welcome to the fabulous Allison Van Diepan! On a blog tour to promote her newest book, The Vampire Stalker, Allison is here to share with us a bit of background to the book. I love this post. As fellow readers, I’m sure you all wished one of your favorite characters really existed at some point. Allison van Diepan understands that, but I’ll let her explain. Could the characters we love be real? In The Vampire Stalker, Amy discovers that her favorite book character, the dashing Alexander Banks, is actually a real person. In fact, all of…
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The 6th Path!
Tweet Ready for some more Chloe King and Nine Paths goodness? The show is only 5 days away! Are you excited? I AM! Again, there is still time to start playing if you haven’t already. Get over to this link and start playing. The prizes are well worth it! Let’s start off where I last left you shall we? At the end of the last post I shared with you that my next clue had shown up, and so I’ll start from the beginning of the 6th Path! I woke up to this awesome shirt in the mail, and was instantly…
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Chatting with Karyn Henley & a giveaway!
Tweet Karyn Henley, author of Breath of Angel and many children’s books, is here today! I had fun browsing her Goodreads page, I’ll tell you that. So many cute books! Anyway, she is here to share a bit about what she does when she isn’t writing, and was sweet enough to bring along a giveaway! Are you ready? I’ve learned that I’m always writing, even when I’m not at my computer putting words into sentences. I get great ideas when I’m washing dishes or cleaning the bathtub or taking a shower or walking for exercise. But I do have a hobby:…