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Tens List with Steven Watkins – Vacation Destinations
Tweet Steve Watkins, author of the upcoming What Comes After, is here today to share some favorite vacation destinations! He’s on a blog tour promoting his newest book, and you can find all the stops by clicking the banner at the bottom of the page. In the meantime though, please enjoy this simply fabulous tens list! 1. Lamu, an island off the coast of northern Kenya, not far from Somalia, with blindingly white beaches and mango groves but watch out for bandits with their pangas. 2. The Jomsom Trail, starting in Pokhara, in western Nepal and trekking through to the…
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Favorite Books with Cat Patrick
Tweet Lucky day! Cat Patrick is here to share a bit about herself in honor of her newest book, Forgotten. The best part? She’s here to share her favorite books! For bibliophiles like us, what could be better? Hubby and I try hard not to spoil our girls. In our house, you don’t get a treat for riding quietly in the basket at Target—unless you consider paper towels a treat, which under certain circumstances, I guess they are—and the soft lovie at the check stand is cute to pet while Mommy pays but we always need to tell him “bye,…
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Tens List with Alissa Grosso
Tweet Alissa Grosso is here today, and I’m excited! She’s on a tour promoting her newest book, Popular, which I’m pretty psyched about, I shan’t lie. Anyway since I only ask the important questions, I asked Alissa to share with us her Top 10 Snack Foods. Ready to see what she picked? I’ll be the first to say I’d share a snack fridge with her any day! Alissa Grosso’s Top 10 Snack Foods First off, I would like to say that FINALLY someone is asking me the important questions! Also, I would like to point that being asked to name my…
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OyMG Tens List!
Tweet Today I have Amy Fellner Dominy, author of OyMG, here to share a tens list! This one is a little special, as it is a list of Yiddish quotes. Yup, Yiddish! Read the book and you’ll understand. It’s fantastic! ENJOY! (Number 2 is by far my favorite.) There’s a character in OyMG who says exactly what he thinks, talks to dead people, eats cookies for breakfast and loves to quote wisdom in a foreign language. The character is Ellie’s grandfather, Zeydeh, and the language is Yiddish. Yiddish is a mix of German and Hebrew and was first spoken by…
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Interviewing C. Lee McKenzie and a giveaway!
Tweet A treat for you today my friends! C. Lee McKenzie, author of Princess of Las Pulgas, is here for an interview. This interview is a bit special though because it’s answered by both Lee herself AND a character from her other amazing book, Sliding on the Edge. Take some time and get to know them both! 1. If you had to choose an animal to describe you, what would it be and why? Shawna – It depends on when you ask me this question. Before I came to Sweet River, I would have said my favorite animal was a cat and…
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Teenage Garage Sale – Liz Gallagher’s Edition!
Tweet Being grilled on the blog today is Liz Gallagher, author of recently published My Not So Still Life. She’s here today to share a little bit about her past in a post that we invented on The Teen {Book} Scene called “Teenage Garage Sale”. Let’s see what things we might be able to buy if we went back to Liz’s teen days! Ooh, fun. Picturing my old room … I’d have oodles of cassette tapes to sell. As a young teen, I wouldn’t have parted with any New Kids on the Block or Debbie Gibson. They would’ve been priceless.…
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Interviewing Mary Lindsey and a GIVEAWAY!
Tweet Mary Lindsey, author of the upcoming (and absolutely gorgeous) Shattered Souls is here today! She will be sharing with us a little bit about herself, and then sharing with you a fantastic giveaway she has planned. Oh yes, it involves Wolfsbane, just saying. Here we go! * If you had to pick a fictional place from a book to live for the rest of your life, where would you want to go? I thought a lot about this question and came up with lots of cool answers, but it just kept coming back to one: The Texas Gulf Coast. I’ve lived…
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Escape Giveaway!
Tweet It’s time for another giveaway! Lisa Polisar has sweetly offered up a copy of her book to one lucky winner. If you haven’t already seen my review, it’s the post right before this. The book is fantastic! Now, because Lisa is offering up this giveaway specially, there is a quick stipulation to entering. We are trying to spread the love for her newest book and the smaller publishing company that is attached to it. So, a little different, but the way to enter is small and easy. Are you ready? To be entered to win a signed copy of…
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Talking with Nick from The Lucky Kind and a giveaway!
Tweet The lovely Alyssa Sheinmel is here today to share some more goodness from The Lucky Kind. Nick, the adorable main character, is here to share some things he loves about his girlfriend, Eden. Isn’t that cute? (insert awwww here) Let’s go! Top Ten Things that Nick Brandt Loves About Eden Reiss The Lucky Kind is about, among other things, Nicholas Brandt and the girl he loves, Eden Reiss. Herewith, the top ten things that Nick loves about his girl. The dark brown freckle on her right knee, just waiting to be kissed. The way she seems so much cleaner…
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Character Tweets – Unnatural by Michael Griffo
Tweet Michael Griffo is here today to promote his new series called Archangel Academy, the first book of which is Unnatural. As a special treat, he’s drawn up some tweets from his characters to one another! If you haven’t seen one of these posts before, they are awesome! This is what his characters would sound like on a normal Twitter conversation. Truth be told, I think this is the most hilarious one that I’ve seen yet! CaptRonan: Ur 4ever beautiful and 4ever mine FU: Thx! But isn’t Michael gonna get jealous? CaptRonan: This isn’t Michael? FU: No, it’s Fritz. ScienceGuy: And…