Sirenz Back In Fashion Cover Reveal Bomb!

The Sirenz Back In Fashion Cover Reveal Bomb is ON! Sirenz Back In Fashion, the sequel to Sirenz by Charlotte Bennardo and Natalie Zaman will be hitting the shelves in June 2012—but for now, enjoy the new cover! 

Ta-da!

We’re having a mega-giveaway to celebrate. The Sirenz Back In Fashion cover is debuting simultaneously on SEVEN different blogs. Visit all of us to enter and win prizes—yes, that’s PRIZES as in more than one!

How will the adventures of Meg and Shar continue? Visit these blogs to see if you can figure out what happens next:

http://dfordarlasdefinitereads.blogspot.com/

http://bookchicclub.blogspot.com/

http://speedyreader-allthingsbooks.blogspot.com/

http://www.whatsyourstorybookreviews.com/

http://badassbookie.blogspot.com/

http://beasbooknook.blogspot.com/

http://aten-ra.blogspot.com/

Each blogger is giving away a very special charm necklace which symbolizes something from Sirenz Back In Fashion. It could be an important object, or represent a significant place or character… or god!

This is the dice charm:

and the dice necklace:

Leave a comment on what you think of the new cover and what you think that particular charm means, along with your email address to enter. You can comment to win on EVERY participating blog! This giveaway is INTERNATIONAL—let’s spread the Sirenz love around the world!


A CLUE from Natalie Zaman:

"Oooo are Shar and Meg lucky... or unlucky?"

Good luck :)

Contest CLOSED

Once all blogger drawings are complete, another drawing of ALL entries from ALL blogs will take place for a grand prize to be

announced at http://www.thesirenz.com and/or http://nataliezaman.blogspot.com and http://charlotteebennardo.blogspot.com

GIVING AWAY: AFTER OBSESSION by Carrie Jones&Steven E. Wedel

After Obsession by Carrie Jones & Steven E. Wedel

Publication date: September 5th 2011
Published by: Bloomsbury
Genre: YA Paranormal

Aimee and Alan have secrets. Both teens have unusual pasts, and abilities they prefer to keep hidden. But when they meet each other for the first time, in a cold Maine town, they can’t stop their secrets from spilling out. Strange things have been happening lately, and they both feel strongly that something, or someone, is haunting them. They’re wrong. Despite their unusual history and powers, it’s neither Aimee nor Alan who is truly haunted. It’s Alan’s cousin Courtney who, in a desperate plea to find her missing father, has invited a demon into her life—and into her body. Only together can Aimee and Alan exorcise the ghost. And they have to move quickly, before it devours not just Courtney, but everything around her…. Filled with heart-pounding romance, paranormal activity, and rich teen characters to love—and introducing an exciting new YA voice in Steven Wedel—this novel is exactly what Carrie Jones fans have been waiting for. Meet your next obsession.

RULES
*This contest is open to US residents only (sorry!)
*You MUST be a follower to enter*Contest ends June 20th

Good luck :)

FILL OUT THIS FORM TO ENTER

*Winner Chosen*Rie @Mission To Read

INTERVIEW with Amber Kizer and GIVEAWAY!

Having recently read 7 Kinds Of Ordinary Chatastrophes, which I loooved, I was lucky enough to interview the lovely and awfully talented Amber Kizer.
Guys, if you haven't read 7 Kinds...yet, buy it and read it NOW! It's incredible!
Check out my review here: 7 Kinds Of Ordinary Catastrophes 

As a person:
Amber Kizer is not one of those authors who wrote complete books at the age of three and always knew she wanted to be a writer. When she faced a rare chronic pain disorder her freshman year of college, she knew she was going to have to learn to live outside the box. After one writing workshop, she fell in love with telling stores and she’s still going strong. Her characters tend to be opinionated, outspoken, and stubborn—she has no idea where that comes from.


A food lover, she plans trips around menus, wishes cookbooks were scratch and sniff, and loves to make complicated recipes—especially desserts. When she’s not reading from a huge stack, she’s coaxing rose bushes to bloom, watching delightful teen angst on television, or quilting with more joy than skill. She takes her tea black, her custard frozen, and her men witty. She lives in the Seattle area with a menagerie of animals that seems ever changing.


Her work:
Amber Kizer writes two very different young adult series for Delacorte Press/Random House. The Gert Garibaldi series is contemporary, frank and funny following an American high school student through the perils of growing up. Her debut novel ONE BUTT CHEEK AT A TIME was included in the prestigious NYPL Best Books for the Teen Age 2008 list. The next book in the series 7 KINDS OF ORDINARY CATASTROPHES will be released April 2011.


The Fenestra series is paranormal, dark and follows a girl who shepherds dying souls to the afterlife. MERIDIAN has been translated in German, Spanish, Turkish and will be available in Australia, Malaysia, and New Zealand within the next year. The next book in the series, WILDCAT FIREFLIES, will be published in August 2011.
In addition to these series titles, the spring of 2012 will see the release of a stand alone dystopian, young adult novel also from Delacorte Press/Random House.


Amber has toured nationally, speaking at writers’ conferences, on television and radio, to educators, and to teenage readers. Recently, she was selected to present one of a few breakout sessions at the NCTE Assembly on Adolescent Literature at the Philadelphia 2009 Conference.


More about MERIDIAN can be found at www.MeridianSozu.com. Gert can be found at www.OneButtCheek.com

For more info on Amber, visit:

Website

GoodReads

Facebook

Also, readers can always request signed bookplates and bookmarks for free by emailing their mailing addy to Amber@AmberKizer.com (regardless of where you are in the world!)




*Bio information taken both from her GoodReads page and her website.

 

Your upcoming novel, 7 Kinds Of Ordinary Catastrophes, is coming out April 5th, 2011. Would you like to tell us a little bit about it?

I love Gert, she’s funny and frank and very real. 7 KINDS…invites readers into the second semester of Gert’s sophomore year of high school. She’s got a boyfriend (who isn’t her ideal and raises lots of questions). She gets roped into soccer tryouts, even though she’s never considered herself an athlete. She wants to be friends with Maggie and Clarice but learning how to do that and stay true to herself pose problems. Her family changes and they face a crisis that will either pull them apart or closer together. She finds out what the work world is like and meddles in her best friend Adam’s love life. All with a sense of humor. As she says, “Okay, so here’s the deal: there are books about volcanoes erupting and meteorites hitting Earth and plane crashes where the survivors have to eat people—those are extraordinary crises. That’s not what this book is about. I’m more the ordinary catastrophe type: high school, boys, heartbreak, family, job, friends and future. Everyone’s life is full of ordinary catastrophes. There are mine…”



Gert has a very unique voice and she is not afraid to use it. Do you find similarities between Gert's teen years and yours?

I’ve never been afraid to stand up and use my voice. But I was a very serious, very singularly driven teen. Gert’s life is vastly funnier than mine ever was!



Something terrible happened in Gert's life towards the end of the book. Did you find that part hard to write?

Yes and no. The hard parts are always emotionally tough to write—because if I’m not feeling it, the reader won’t either. So on some level I have to draw from my own experiences and emotions to put those on the page. But I think in lots of ways we get caught up in the minutiae and details of our world and then wham—we get hit with something that puts it all in perspective. Right now I’d say Japan’s triple catastrophes make everything else pale in comparison—it can be something that big or something like what Gert’s family faced. So it’s important to go there with the characters and be present as the writer—that part is hard, deciding to do it—that’s easy!



Gert Garibaldi's Rants And Raves series is quite different from your other series, Fenestra. What triggered this change of pace?

Yeah, sometimes I’d like to put Gert and Meridian in the same room and see where the conversation takes them! I juggle lots of characters and books in my head so nothing triggered it per se, my job is about telling the right story at the right time, and I think there’s room in the world for funny books that deal with reality too. I hope readers agree! Especially those readers who insist they only like books with paranormal or fantasy elements—try a new flavor! I dare you!



What should your readers expect from you in the future?

The next book in the Meridian series, WILDCAT FIREFLIES comes out July 12, 2011 and I’m working on books 3 and 4 in that series for 2012/2013. I’m also writing a stand-alone survival story called ECHOES OF 1492 that will be out in 2013. I’d love to write more books following Gert to adulthood and I have several adult projects in the works too. Busy, busy, busy!

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And now for the GIVEAWAY!!
One lucky winner will get 1 finished hardback copy of 7 Kinds Of Ordinary Catastrophes!
Contest is INTERNATIONAL, open to everyone, and will end April 25th.
You don't have to be a follower to enter, but it would be much appreciated :)
You can enter here:

WINNER: Kai @ Amaterasu Reads  

GIVEAWAY : Blood & Flowers by Penny Blubaugh

Thanks to HarperTeen, I'm giving away a finished hardcover copy of Blood&Flowers by Penny Blubaugh

Three years ago, Persia ran away from her drug-addict parents and found a home with the Outlaws, an underground theater troupe. This motley band of mortals and fey, puppeteers and actors, becomes the loving family Persia never had, and soon Persia not only discovers a passion for theater but also falls in love with Nicholas, one of the other Outlaws. Life could not be more perfect.

Until an enemy with a grudge makes an unfair accusation against the group and forces them to flee the mortal world and hide in the neighboring realm of Faerie. But in Faerie, all is not flowers and rainbows—with bloodthirsty trolls, a hostile monarchy, and a dangerous code of magic, the fey world is not quite the safe haven the Outlaws had hoped for. And they must decide what’s more important: protecting their right to perform or protecting themselves.

Contest rules:

*One person will win 1 finished hardcover copy of Blood&Flowers by Penny Blubaugh

*Contest open to US residents only.If you have a friend in the US I will be happy to send to them.

*Contest ends April 15th, 2011.

*Winner will be announced on the blog and informed by e-mail.If I don't hear back from you within 2 days, I will pick a new winner.

*You don't have to be a follower to enter the contest, although if you do chose to follow it'd be much appreciated :)

*Fill out this form HERE to enter.Comments will not count as entries, but feel free to leave one.

Good luck :)


WINNER: Kira @Mrs. Boswell's Book Bag

Giveaway Winner, New Giveaway and...Other Stuff :)

Thanks to HarperTeen, I'm giving away a finished copy of Father Of Lies by Ann Turner.

Truth or Lies?

Lidda knew, with a clarity that was like a candle in a dark room, that all had changed; something was loosed in the village—Devil or not—and they would pay for it, every last man, woman, and child.

Fourteen-year-old Lidda has always known she was different. She longs to escape Salem Village and its stifling rules—to be free to dance, to sing, to live as she chooses. But when a plague of accusations descends on the village and witch fever erupts, L idda begins to realize that she feels and sees things that others can't, or won't. But how will she expose the truth without being hung as a witch herself?

Contest rules:

*One person will win 1 finished copy of Father Of Lies by Ann Turner.

*Contest open to US residents only.If you have a friend in the US I will be happy to send to them.

*Contest ends March 20th, 2011.

*Winner will be announced on the blog and informed by e-mail.If I don't hear back from you within 2 days, I will pick a new winner.

*You don't have to be a follower to enter the contest, although if you do chose to follow it'd be much appreciated :)

*Comments will not count as entries, but feel free to leave one.

Fill out this form HERE to enter.

Good luck :)

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My YA Historical Romance is over, unfortunately :( 

A huge thank you to everyone that entered the competition!

I had 147 entries(not counting the doubles), and the number that came up on Random.org was...

No42 - Jasmine Call @The Paranormal World and Reviews

Congratulations, Jasmine :)

Winner has already been contacted and has replied.

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This post will unfortunately end on a more sour note, as I am announcing the end to the tour-side of this blog.

Yeah, it's sad. Unfortunately, I don't have that tough a skin and I don't like it when people call me names on their emails. Especially when they know they're wrong. I won't refer to any specific incident, but I assure you there were a lot. I guess being an unpopular blogger  automatically puts a target on my back saying "Here, prey on the weak". I bet these people would never pull stuff like that if they participated in other bloggers' tours. Anyway, I shouldn't care what they do, because I don't really care for them as individuals. Thing is, they ruined the whole thing for the rest of you, who've been nothing but supportive and kind. Yes, making a tour-blog equals hard work, vast knowledge of the books that are coming out and of course an enormous amount of stress. Honestly, I wouldn't mind that if I had to deal with polite and caring people. But seeing how some people out there can't be kind, polite, or caring even if their lives depended on it, I can't go through all this, just so they can do their thing. I am well aware what a move like that will cost me, but I'm really really sorry, I just can't.

I would like to thank the participants of the tours for the support they've given me and  a special thanks must go out to a bunch of awesome bloggers who helped me go through with the tours. You know who you are, I love you :)

Tours that are already ongoing will continue as planned, of course.

KINDLE GIVEAWAY @SPARKLING REVIEWS

Mary from Sparkling Reviews has a goal.She wants to reach 500 followers.Right now she is at 327.

Please, help her achieve her goal!Because if she does she will give away a Kindle, YES!A KINDLE!, to one lucky winner!!!!!!I think it is our duty to help, don't you? ;)

Also, if she reaches 1000 followers she will still give away a Kindle PLUS a $50 Amazon GC PLUS a $150 GC from The Book Depository to a second winner.

Not too shabby, uh?

Contest is open internationally and will end 2 weeks after Mary achieves her goals.

You can enter here : Kindle Giveaway

Good luck to everyone :)

Harper Teen Contest

My lovely and awesome friend and fellow moderator over at International Book Tours, Reggie, is having an amazing giveaway over at her blog The Undercover Book Lover(Not Really).Prizes include : 

• The Awesome Pack (Delirium,Vesper,Angelfire)
• The Paranormal Pack(Fallen Angel, Through Her Eyes,Once In A Full Moon)
• The Coolio Pack (Blood Flowers, Vampire Crush, Pink)
• The Contemporary Pack (Rival,Where I Belong,See What I See)

Pretty cool, uh???So what are you waiting for?Sign up here!!!!

The contest is International and ends October 15th.

2011 YA Release Giveaway @LaFemmeReaders

The AH-MAZING and FANTABULOUS Eleni @ LeFemmeReaders is having an equally FANTASTIC contest!!!Check out the titles:

Delirium - Lauren Oliver

Angelfire - Courtney Allison Moulton

Wake Unto Me -Lisa Cach

The Iron Witch - Karen Mahoney

The Gathering-Kelley Armstrong

City Of Fallen Angels - Cassandra Clare

Awesome, uh????Contest ends September 2nd and yes, it IS international!!!!!!
So what are you waiting for????Sign up here! Good luck :)

PARANORMAL FIVE GIVEAWAY!!!!!

One of the most amazing, sweet and kind girls in the entire blogoverse, Reggie from The Undercover Book Lover(Not Really) is having an amazing contest over at her blog!


Books for grabs are:

Nightshade by Andrea Cremer

Paranormalcy by Kiersten White

The Eternal Ones by Kirsten Miller

Halo by Alexandra Adornetto

Pegasus by Robin McKinley

Also:


FIVE packs of 5 gum:
Zing (Bubble) 
Cobalt (Peppermint)
Flare (Cinnamon)
Lush (Tropical)
Rain (Spearmint)


So, go ahead and sign up here!Contest is of course International and ends July 15th.


Thanks Reggie!!!!

VERY CELEBRATORY CONTEST WITH ARCs!!!!

Go over to Michelle Hodkin for a chance to win :

Beautiful Darkness by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

The Duff by Kody Keplinger

Matched by Ally Condie

There will be two winners.One winner will receive Beautiful Darkness and Matched and the other The Duff and Matched.Very cool, right?Contest is international and will stay open till June 9th.

Enter here!

ARC HUNGER GIVEAWAY!!!!!!

Well, Eleni over at La Femme Readers did it again!She is giving away one ARC of one of fall's most anticipated books : Hunger by Jackie Morse Kessler!!!! 

I know, I couldn't believe it either!!!!But Eleni is of course awesome, so there you have it!She's also double super awesome for making this giveaway international!!!!So, sign up here and good luck to everyone :)

*Open till July 7th*

50 Followers Giveaway at Mel's Books And Info

50 Followers Giveaway over at Mel's Books And Info!!You can win either:

Perchance To Dream (Theatre Illuminata #2) by Lisa Mantchev

Infinity by Sherrilyn Kenyon

The Tension Of Opposites by Kristina McBride

If The Book Depository ships to your country,you have to hurry because contest ends June the 2nd!

Summertime Giveaway!

Great Summer Read Giveaway over at Dreaming Of Books. A chance to win :

Endless Summer by Jennifer Echols

It's Not Summer Without You by Jenny Han

Breathing by Cheryl Renee Herbsman

The contest is international and it ends June 29th.

MASSIVE BIRTHDAY EXTRAVAGANZA CONTEST @I SHOULD BE WRITING

ValerieK of I Should Be Writing is having a giveaway for her birthday.Prizes are divided between Readers Prize Pack and Writers Prize Pack.You do NOT wanna miss this! Sign up HERE.

222 FOLLOWER GIVEAWAY @EXLIBRIS

Another awesome contest is hosted by Stella from ExLibris. She's made it to 222 followers and she is giving away 2nd books from series like Kate Daniels, Parasol Protectorate, Women Of The Underworld and more.To find out more juicy deets, sign up HERE!

PRETTIES by SCOTT WESTERFELD GIVEAWAY!!!

Awesome Pretties by Scott Westerfeld giveaway at Ex Libris.Ends May 28th, so hurry!Contest is international, as long as The Book Depository ships to your country.

BOOK GIVEAWAY @ HISTORIAS IMAGINARIAS

Today is the last day you can sign up for the Book Giveaway hosted by Gaby at Historias Imaginarias.

The winner gets a book costing up to 10$ from an online shop that is convenient to the him/her(Book Depository, Amazon etc.) Hurry!

BIRTHDAY CONTEST @ HOOKED ON YA BOOKS

Hooked on YA Books is having a Super Huge Mega Crazy Bash Contest.Sign up now!Ends June 30th.

There will be at least 7 winners. She will add more for every 50 new followers.

Winner 1 gets 2 books from a list and any book from the Book Depsitory.

Winner 2 gets 2 books from the list.

Winner 3 gets a $10 Amazon Gift Card.

Winner 4 gets 1 book from the list.

Winner 5 gets 1 book from the list.

Winner 6 gets $5 Amazon Gift Card.

Winner 7 gets $5 Amazon Gift Card.

Contest is international as long as The Book Depository ships to you.

Good luck!

ARSON by Estevan Vega Giveaway

The cool and awesome I Heart Monster has another giveaway, Arson by Estevan Vega.And it's international! Go sign up here. Ends June 15th.

BIRTHDAY CONTEST @ BOOKMAC

BOOKMAC's birthday is just around the corner and she's having a contest to celebrate!Her first International contest!Thank you very much,BOOKMAC!!!You're awesome!

Winners can get : Iron King by Julie Kagawa

                         Hourglass by Claudia Gray

                         10$ iTunes GC

What are you waiting for??Sign up here, the contest ends April 30th.