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Blog Tour – Interview with Hilari Bell
1) Welcome Hilari! I always like to start my interviews with a challenge. What color would you say best describes you and why? I’m going to say hazel–a soft, mossy green with gold tints. It’s a very relaxing, mellow color. Not boring, but it’s not going to leap out and assault your eyes. 2) After reading your bio I noticed that you had many books written before you were first published. How did it feel to get that first book published? Amazing, stunning, overwhelming, astonishing…and when my second book sold just a few months later, terrifying. It’s interesting though, people…
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Sorry for the mess.
As I was fixing up my blog yesterday, I managed to mangle something so badly that my whole blog fell to pieces. LOL. A lesson to you my friends, never ever work on your live blog. That being said, this mishmash of a background will be here until I repair the other one and get it up and running! I just wanted to make sure it was easy for you all to read the posts that go up here.
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Swap Participation Guidelines
Periodically I run swaps through this blog! If you’re curious to what a swap is, or how to participate, this is the page for you! To see current swaps, check the link directly below this in the navbar above. ********** The Basics: WHAT EXACTLY IS A SWAP? A swap consists of a group of people who sign up to send packages to one another. The specific details will change, but the main guidelines will always stay the same. Give a package, get a package! That’s the way it works! THEME REQUIREMENTS: Each swap will have its own separate theme, which…
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And the winners are….
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FOLLOWING WINNERS! Winner of In The Belly of Jonah Wendy Hines *** Winner of The Absolute Value of -1 Jami Slack *** Winner of a signed Shadow Hills Poster Travis Pearson *** Winner of The Healing Spell CiNdY *** Winner of The Seers of Light Ebooks Twimom101 *** Winner of a signed copy of Freeze Frame Tore923 Emails are going out shortly! Winners have 48 hours to respond before a new winner is chosen. Thanks for entering!
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Blog Tour – Book Review: Trickster’s Girl
In the year 2098 America isn’t so different from the USA of today. But, in a post-9/11 security-obssessed world, “secured” doesn’t just refer to borders between countries, it also refer to borders between states. Teenagers still think they know everything, but there is no cure for cancer, as Kelsa knows first-hand from watching her father die. The night Kelsa buries her father, a boy appears. He claims magic is responsible for the health of Earth, but human damage disrupts its flow. The planet is dying. Kelsa has the power to reverse the damage, but first she must accept that magic…
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It’s Monday, what are you reading?
I see this meme around the blogs I read a lot, but I’ve never participated. Honestly, I couldn’t tell you why! SO in the spirit of 2011 and doing new things, here we go! Books I finished this past week: * Jazz In Love by Neesha Meminger * Like Mandarin by Kirsten Hubbard * Angelfire by Courtney Allison Moulton * City of Fire by Laurence Yep Currently Reading: * The Lost Gate by Orson Scott Card * Trickster’s Girl by Hilari Bell Up Next: * Chronicles of Endylmyr by Charles Hall * Awaken by Katie Kacvinsky It’s hard to say…
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Ghosts, cookies and tea pots.
With all the movies that they’ve remade lately I keep wondering why no one tackles Poltergeist yet. Then again, even though this movie is circa 1982 it ROCKS! Even the cheesy effects still make my spine tingle. So maybe big bad Hollywood is afraid to tackle this movie. Mess with something people love, cult classic and all that, and you are in deep water if you don’t do it right. I’ve seen this movie coming up on…..40 times now? It still scares the proverbial shite out of me. This house, is clean. The BF and I have been frequenting the Dollar…
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Book Review: Tandem
Media Type: Print Book Title: Tandem Author: Tracey Bateman Publisher: Waterbrook Multnomah Pages: Paperback; 320 Release Date: October 5, 2010 Source: Received from Blogging For Books ———————————————- Genre: Mystery / Christian Fiction HDB Rating: 2 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy Christian Fiction meshed with vampires. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N As obsession and loss become dark partners, how far must the people of Abbey Hills go to survive? Six months ago, brutal murders shook the small Ozark town—murders that stopped after a house fire reportedly claimed the killer’s life. Lauryn McBride’s family…
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New Feature: Plights of the Round Table
First a Blue’s Clues joke, now a historical joke? Yes ma’am and sir. I am full of them! *** I’ve been thinking for a long time about starting a new feature for advice. There are plenty of them out there, and they are all fabulous, but they rely on getting advice from that one person. From the blogger. At work we have something we like to call “OTJ” or “On The Job” on all our meeting agendas. It’s a time for us to put out problems/issues that we’re having, and then have our coworkers give us feedback and advice. Basically…
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Children’s Book Review: The Cloud Book
Media Type: Print Book Title: The Cloud Book Author: Tommie DePaola Publisher: Holiday House Pages: Paperback; 32 Release Date: July 1, 1985 Source: Library —————————————— Recommended to: Parents looking for an interesting way to teach their readers about different types of clouds. Difficulty Level: The vocabulary in this makes it more of an upper reader. Ages 8 and up should be able to read this alone. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / B&N The ten most common clouds along with related myths and popular weather sayings. I love Tommie DePaola so very much! All of his books are so…