Winners!!!

Hey guys, we have quite a few winners today!!

Winner of Everlasting Poster:

Ashley

Winners of Gratitude Giveaway:

Jenna P.

&

Monica J.

Winners of Cover vs. Cover Giveaway:

Misha

&

Rusted

Thank you to everyone who entered!!

Daily Dose!!!

So I found some really great pics this week and thought I would share them with you. This is a great little Meme hosted at Good Golly Miss Holly. Make sure to check out her great blog.. 

and maybe share some of your inspirational pics with us!

What Inspires you?

Gratitude Giveaway!!!!!!

Its time for another Giveaway Hop!!!

This is my second one of these hops and the Spooktacular hop was a blast! 

Just wanted to say a quick thanks to I Am A Reader, Not A Writer for putting together such a great Hop!

ALSO WANTED TO SAY THANKS TO ALL MY WONDERFUL FOLLOWERS!! 

I LOVE YOU GUYS!

OK on to my giveaway... Thats why your here right.

Last giveaway killed me on shipping so I thought this time I would do an Amazon.com  giveaway.

So here's how it's going to work:

There will be 2 winners

Both winners will receive: 

A book of their choice from Amazon.com

( $15 limit please!)

Open International 

It can be an old book, a new book or a pre- order. Your Choice!

So there you go! Fill out the form and cross your fingers and make sure to

 check out all the other great blogs participating!

Note: Don'y forget to enter The Cover vs. Cover giveaway and the Signed everlasting poster giveaway while your here! (you can find the links at the top, under contests!!)

Contest Closed!

Author Spotlight: Angie Frazier & Giveaway!

Please Welcome Angie Frazier

Author of Everlasting!

1) Could you tell us a bit about yourself.

Angie: Let’s see…I’m a writer, a mom, a movie buff, a Jane Austen and Edith Wharton lover, history geek, and a wannbe world traveler.


2) What was the inspiration for writing Everlasting?

Angie: I’ve always loved stories of adventure and romance, and after I graduated from college where I’d spent four years writing news articles, essays, papers and reading next to nothing other than school texts, I was craving something adventurous and as far from reality as possible. I decided to just go ahead and write it myself.



3) Were there any personal experiences that went in to writing Everlasting?

Angie: If anything at all, I tried to work in the wonder of traveling to new places. I always feel so small and insignificant when I travel—the world is huge and it will revolve with or without me in it. I wanted to bring that feeling to the forefront with Camille, when she realizes the same thing.


4) Was Camille's character based on anyone or was she a purely made up character?

Angie: She is mostly a made up character. I am sure that I took qualities of people I know and blended them into the characters somewhere, but it wasn’t an intentional thing. I think when someone writes, they subconsciously draw from what their mind already knows.


5) Do you plan to have Everlasting as a series or a stand alone novel?

Angie: I initially wrote it as a stand alone, but I didn’t want to leave Camille or Oscar just yet. I am excited to have a second Everlasting book coming out in June 2011! It picks up right where Everlasting left off.

6) What was your inspiration for the cover of Everlasting? 

Angie: I actually didn’t have anything to do with the creation of the cover. That aspect of the book was totally up to Scholastic’s design team, and sales and marketing teams. I feel they did a great job making the cover stand out the way it does, and from what I’ve seen so far the cover for the sequel is even more beautiful!

7) What do you plan on doing in the future?

Angie: I plan to keep writing, both YA and middle grade novels and perhaps branching into other genres as well. I never seem to have a dry spell when it comes to story ideas. And next up in March 2011 my middle grade mystery THE MIDNIGHT TUNNEL: A SUZANNA SNOW MYSTERY will be hitting the shelves!

8) Do you write with music? Whats your favorite?

Angie: I actually cannot write with music playing, but I do find that music is inspirational during the “pre-writing” phase of nearly every story. I tend to go for music without lyrics, which for me tend to get in the way. So I stick with classical music and instrumental soundtracks from movies like Braveheart and Gladiator, Cider House Rules and the new adaptation of Emma. 

9) What are you reading right now? 

Angie: At the moment I’m reading a non-YA romance by Sarah MacLean called TEN WAYS TO BE ADORED WHEN LANDING A LORD. It’s fantastic! Sarah is talented author, and she does have a YA title called THE SEASON.

10) Who are a few of your favorite authors?

Angie: Edith Wharton, Jane Austen, Sarah MacLean, MM Kaye, Libba Bray, and Cassandra Clare are some of my favorites.

Thank you so much Angie for stopping by!

Make sure to check out Angie's website: http://angiefrazier.com/

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Wanna win a SIGNED Everlasting poster?

Well thanks to Angie, you can! 

She will be giving one signed poster to a lucky person.

All you have to do to enter is Fill out this Form:
Open International
Ends: 11-26

Extra entries:
+1 Comment on interview
+1 Follow Book Junky


Contest Closed!

Good Luck and Happy Reading!

Forget Me Not! New Meme

This is the first post of what I hope to be many!

So this is my new Meme:

Forget Me Not

Its all about books that are not brand new.

Lately I have noticed that there are so many great books coming out that I can't keep up with the ones on my shelf. I am constantly reading the new ones that come out that my previously bought books are going unread. 

Thus, Forget Me Not was born. Here you can share your slightly older, but still great books!

Hopefully this will inspire you to get to your older books out, wipe off the dust and get reading!

If you want to join in ( and I strongly urge you too) Just grab the Meme pick, link back here ( so others can read all about FMN) and put your post on the Mr. Linky so everyone can check out your post!

This week my pick is:

A Victorian boarding school story, a Gothic mansion mystery, a gossipy romp about a clique of girlfriends, and a dark other-worldly fantasy--jumble them all together and you have this complicated and unusual first novel.

Sixteen-year-old Gemma has had an unconventional upbringing in India, until the day she foresees her mother's death in a black, swirling vision that turns out to be true. Sent back to England, she is enrolled at Spence, a girls' academy with a mysterious burned-out East Wing. There Gemma is snubbed by powerful Felicity, beautiful Pippa, and even her own dumpy roommate Ann, until she blackmails herself and Ann into the treacherous clique. Gemma is distressed to find that she has been followed from India by Kartik, a beautiful young man who warns her to fight off the visions. Nevertheless, they continue, and one night she is led by a child-spirit to find a diary that reveals the secrets of a mystical Order. The clique soon finds a way to accompany Gemma to the other-world realms of her visions "for a bit of fun" and to taste the power they will never have as Victorian wives, but they discover that the delights of the realms are overwhelmed by a menace they cannot control. Gemma is left with the knowledge that her role as the link between worlds leaves her with a mission to seek out the "others" and rebuild the Order. A Great and Terrible Beauty is an impressive first book in what should prove to be a fascinating trilogy.

Have you read it yet? Let me know what you think and make sure to join in on Forget Me Not!

Happy Reading!

Winner of The Near Witch Pre- order giveaway!

Thanks so much to everyone who entered! We had a great turn out. The Winner is:

Briana @ The Book Pixie

Congrats Briana!

Make sure you check out The Near Witch by Victoria Schwab

out August 2011

Daily Dose!!!

So I found some really great pics this week and thought I would share them with you. This is a great little Meme hosted at Good Golly Miss Holly. Make sure to check out her great blog.. 

and maybe share some of your inspirational pics with us!

What did you find today?