tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18278597286960016552024-03-17T01:52:55.746-04:00THE BOOK BUTTERFLYBook Butterfly (Kim)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04622743685532743469noreply@blogger.comBlogger711125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827859728696001655.post-71138933289269895592011-09-25T21:42:00.000-04:002011-09-25T21:42:35.402-04:00Top Ten Paranormal Books by Amy Garvey, Author of Cold Kiss!<div style="text-align: center;"><u><b>Top Ten Paranormal Books </b></u><br />
</div>My favorite! I love scary books (and movies and TV and haunted houses). I read a lot of really bad horror when the genre was at its pulpy, mass-market height way back when, and I love that it’s coming back now, and the books are even better. Some of the books below aren’t horror, per se, but they all have that paranormal twist, and I think you all should run right out and read them. Go ahead. I’ll wait.<br />
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1) <u><b>Jane-Emily, by Patricia Clap</b><b>p</b></u>. I’m not even sure if this is still in print; I bought it at a Scholastic Book Fair at school when I was in fourth grade, and I still have my very worn, falling-apart original copy. It’s still a great read even now, which is the mark of a really good book. It’s 1912, and Louisa is taking her niece Jane to her grandmother’s house after her parents (Louisa’s sister and her husband) are killed in a carriage accident. But there’s a spirit waiting in the quiet house in Lynn, and it wants Jane … Spooky and atmospheric, and Louisa and Jane both are spunky and likeable.<br />
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2) <u><b>Ghosts I Have Been, Richard Peck</b></u>. The second in the Blossom Culp books, but this time the psychic Blossom has visions of the Titanic sinking. Set in 1913 – I was a sucker for historical set fiction then, and still am. Richard Peck is all-around genius, too – any of his books are worth reading.<br />
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3) <u><b>The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson</b></u>. One of the creepiest books I’ve ever read, and I mean that in the best possible way. Forget the movie (although the original is fantastic – please forget the horrible remake with Liam Neeson) , the book really raises the hairs on the back of your neck, and takes you so far into Nell’s experiences at Hill House, you begin to wonder if you’re going crazy with her.<br />
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4) <u><b>Wicked Lovely, Melissa Marr.</b></u> I loved Holly Black’s Tithe, too, but Marr’s version of faerie was so richly detailed, and so surprisingly realistic in terms of character motivations and interactions, I was blown away. These are fae the way I always imagined them – sexy, dangerous, impulsive, otherworldly. A gorgeously written start to a great series.<br />
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5) <u><b>The Witching Hour, Ann Rice.</b></u> Oh, Anne Rice. You got me with this one. The New Orleans setting, the tangled family history, the love story between Rowan and Michael – I unabashedly love this book.<br />
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6) <u><b>Ghost Story, Peter Straub</b></u>. This is one of those books that’s a fabulous read and also requires, like, a doctorate if you want to actually unravel all the allusions and homages to the genre in it. (Stephen King does a great job in Danse Macabre, actually.) So fabulously atmospheric and scary.<br />
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7) <u><b>Salem’s Lot, Stephen King.</b></u> It took a minute to pick just one King book, because I’m a huge fan of his, but as a strictly paranormal, fantastically terrifying book, this is the one. Vampires! Really scary ones, too. So delicious.<br />
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8) <u><b>A Great and Terrible Beauty, Libba Bray.</b></u> Not horror, obviously, but so wonderfully paranormal. Gemma’s discovery of the Realms and her place in them – as well as the effect it has on both her and her friends – is mind-blowing. I loved this series so much.<br />
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9) <u><b>White Cat, Holly Black.</b></u> So incredibly original – curse workers! The whole premise captured my imagination, and Black is such a sharp, honest writer. Cassel’s voice is amazing, too.<br />
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10) <u><b>Heart-Shaped Box, Joe Hill. </b></u>Stephen King’s son! Not that he needs the name-check – this book is as horrifying as anything his father ever wrote. An aging rock star gets a “gift” in the mail, but it’s not a gift anyone would want. And it will not go away. The tension in this book is almost unbearable, and the contents of the box are both genius and seriously disturbing. Read this one with the light on. <br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10429015-cold-kiss"><img alt="Cold Kiss" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1298874981l/10429015.jpg" /></a><span id="freeText15348061646333002419"><b> </b></span></div><blockquote><span id="freeText15348061646333002419"><b>“It seemed so right. Danny was mine, I was his, and that wasn’t going to work if he was dead. So I would make him not dead, not anymore. I didn’t think any further than what it would feel like to kiss him again, to wrap my arms around him and bury my head against his shoulder. <br />
That was my first mistake. It also turned out to be the biggest.”</b> <br />
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When her boyfriend, Danny, is killed in a car accident, Wren can’t imagine living without him. Wild with grief, she uses the untamed powers she’s inherited to bring him back. But the Danny who returns is just a shell of the boy she once loved. <br />
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Wren has spent four months keeping Danny hidden, while her life slowly unravels around her. Then Gabriel DeMarnes transfers to her school and somehow, inexplicably, he can sense her secret. Wren finds herself drawn to Gabriel, who is so much more alive than the ghost of the boy she loved. But Wren can’t turn her back on Danny or the choice she made for him—and she realizes she must find a way to make things right, even if it means breaking her own heart. <br />
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Amy Garvey’s transcendent teen debut is perfect for fans of Shiver and Beautiful Creatures. Wren’s unforgettable voice and story will stay with readers long after the last page is turned</span></blockquote><br />
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</a></div><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9031163-damned" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Damned (Crusade #2)" height="320" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519jpeoR3ZL.jpg" width="211" /></a><b>DAMNED BY NANCY HOLDER AND DEBBIE <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">VIGUIE</span></b><br />
<b>Reading level:</b> Young Adult<b> </b><br />
<b>Hardcover:</b> 544 pages<br />
<b>Publisher:</b> <a href="http://books.simonandschuster.net/buy/Crusade/9781416998082/from-other-retailers" linkindex="182">Simon Pulse</a> (August 30, 2011)<br />
<b>Language:</b> English<br />
Read: <a href="http://nancyholder.com/wp-content/uploads/Damned_chapt1_INT.pdf%20">Chapter 1</a> <br />
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<div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(217, 215, 215);">There is a fine line between love and sacrifice…. Antonio would do anything for his beloved fighting partner Jenn. He protects her, even suppresses his vampire cravings to be with her. Together, they defend humanity against the Cursed Ones. But tensions threaten to fracture their hunting team and his loyalty—his love—is called into question. <br />
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Jenn, the newly appointed Hunter, aches for revenge against the Cursed One who converted her sister. And with an even more sinister power on the rise, she must overcome her personal vendettas to lead her team into battle. <br />
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Antonio and Jenn need each other to survive, but evil lurks at every turn. With humanity’s fate hanging in the balance, they must face down the darkness…or die trying. </div><span style="font-size: 100%;"></span></blockquote><br />
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I first became acquainted with the plot of the first book CRUSADE upon reading the short story in the vampire anthology, THE ETERNAL KISS: 13 TALES OF BLOOD AND DESIRE. If you haven't read this story, entitled <span style="font-style: italic;">Passing</span>, and you've started CRUSADE anyways, you don't have to worry about being lost. But, I would highly recommend reading it anyways --it really is a fantastic short story and provides a good amount of background for this series. CRUSADE was a 5-star read for me (<a href="http://thebookbutterfly.com/2010/08/book-review-crusade-by-nancy-holder-and.html">read review here</a>) and DAMNED did not disappoint. Though the first book is definitely my favorite of the two (the foray in Damned with monster-ish hybrids lost me a bit), DAMNED still packed one heck of a punch. For me, the strength of this series lies within the complex relationships and motivations of the supporting cast as well as Jen Leitner's journey to becoming a confident, self-possessed leader. <br />
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All the vampire hunters had interesting and well-drawn out personalities. In fact, I could see future spin-offs centering around each of the characters-Jamie, Holgar, Eriko, Skye and Antonio. Skye, with her witchcraft and dark secrets fascinated me the most. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Holgar</span>, the fierce hunter with supernatural tendencies, was a close second. Antonio, the ex-priest turned vampire was utterly fascinating and at times, heart-breaking in the way his conflicting desires weighed upon his conscience. As a vampire hunting his own kind, I was immediately drawn to his character and found myself looking forward to any and all scenes involving him. The scenes in which Antonio veered from his normal persona were the best though. It was a great way to change things up and get the heart racing. I'm glad they did it--it showed another layer to his personality and endeared his character to me even more.<br />
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With non-stop action, DAMNED is sure to make your heart race while you battle alongside the hunters as they take on some truly frightening vampires. I look forward to the next installment in this thrilling series and highly recommend CRUSADE and DAMNED to both adult and teen readers who enjoy scary, action-packed vampire books.<br />
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<blockquote>Nancy Holder has published sixty books and more than two hundred short stories. She has received four Bram Stoker awards for fiction from the Horror Writers Association, and her books have been translated into more than two dozen languages. She has written or <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">cowritten</span> twenty Buffy and Angel projects. Her books from Simon Pulse include the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling series Wicked and the novel <i>The Rose Bride. </i>A graduate of the University of California at San Diego, Nancy is currently a writing teacher at the school. She lives in San Diego with her daughter, Belle, and their growing assortment of pets. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx8QZ7b6KfbdZigx5_MH0CGRuKtNO2cL26BOItS62VYqKIXb6xIl5w184JMR0PSAblBlGgJHYIlM4fLvdAKDOOWfCPXqTwAdznzhspU9gfLPW6xTj3-jmgw67cmGnBxbbdRXvenkA5bjc/s1600/DEBBIE.jpg" linkindex="189"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5504253076355738274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx8QZ7b6KfbdZigx5_MH0CGRuKtNO2cL26BOItS62VYqKIXb6xIl5w184JMR0PSAblBlGgJHYIlM4fLvdAKDOOWfCPXqTwAdznzhspU9gfLPW6xTj3-jmgw67cmGnBxbbdRXvenkA5bjc/s200/DEBBIE.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 200px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 133px;" /></a>Visit her at <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">nancyholder</span>.com.</blockquote><br />
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<blockquote>Debbie <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">ViguiÉ</span> holds a degree in creative writing from <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">UC</span> Davis. Her Simon Pulse books include the <i>New York Times </i>bestselling Wicked series and the Once upon a Time novels VIOLET EYES, SCARLET MOON and MIDNIGHT PEARLS. She lives in Florida with her husband Scott. Visit her at <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">debbieviguie</span>.com. </blockquote><br />
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Book Butterfly (Kim)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04622743685532743469noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827859728696001655.post-5387710374107835192011-08-28T22:57:00.003-04:002011-08-28T23:10:42.270-04:00Guest Post with Kendare Blake, Author of Anna Dressed In Blood<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://theteenbookscene.weebly.com/anna-dressed-in-blood-tour-details.html" linkindex="20"><img height="125" src="http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/9440/annadressedinblood.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">In Which I get Serious</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">(For like five minutes and then I go back to being a dingus)</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">By</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">Kendare Blake</div><br />
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“The hard thing isn’t becoming a writer. It’s staying a writer.”<br />
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Look at that quote. Read that quote. Repeatedly. I know I did, back when I was hip deep in the “becoming” part. I can’t remember who said it, but I remember that it was a writer I admired, Harlan Ellison, maybe, and that for a time, it floated around a circle of writers that I really looked up to, as they lamented the business that is “Staying a Writer.”<br />
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I don’t mind telling you: I called BS. The hard part isn’t “becoming”? I wanted to shout. Really? All this writing and soul-searching, and revising and submitting and being politely or less politely rejected…this isn’t the hard part? Because if that’s true, then what. The. Frick.<br />
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I told myself then that I would never forget what it took to “become”, if ever I was lucky enough to see publication. I wouldn’t forget the nail-biting and the self-loathing and the fleeting triumph of finishing a project just to see it dashed against the rocks as not-quite-good-enough-not-what-we’re-looking-for.<br />
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And I haven’t. The sheaf of unpublished literary stories on my hard drive remind me. The spreadsheet tracking all the agencies and magazines I submitted to remind me. But here I am. Out of the becoming, and into the staying, and I find…that the staying isn’t easy either. Looking back at one of my old journal entries I told myself that if I had a book published I wouldn’t whine or moan no matter what happened. I’d only be grateful. And now I get to call BS on myself. <br />
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That’s not to say I’m not grateful. Of course I am. It’s magical and wonderful and blah blah blah to the moon and back. But there’s struggle and strife and drama of Southern Belle proportions (vespers, I think they call it vespers) in my future, and that’s just the human condition. Because I know now what those writers meant. It’s hard at every turn. At every stage. But it’s also fan-fricking-tastic at every turn and every stage.<br />
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If I were to give advice (and I hate to give advice, what the heck do I know) it would be that if you are travelling a similar worn road, SAVOR every triumph. But don’t forget to glance back once in a while, to remember what it took you to get there.<br />
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And returning to dingus mode in 5…4…3…<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9378297-anna-dressed-in-blood" linkindex="40" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Anna Dressed in Blood (Anna Dressed in Blood, #1)" height="320" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51k%2Bn1WL8QL.jpg" width="219" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Anna-Dressed-Blood-Kendare-Blake/dp/0765328658?ie=UTF8&tag=httpbutterf09-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">ANNA DRESSED IN BLOOD</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=httpbutterf09-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0765328658" style="border: medium none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> BY KENDRA BLAKE</div><div style="text-align: center;">(August 30th 2011)</div><br />
Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead. <br />
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So did his father before him, until he was gruesomely murdered by a ghost he sought to kill. Now, armed with his father's mysterious and deadly athame, Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat. Together they follow legends and local lore, trying to keep up with the murderous dead—keeping pesky things like the future and friends at bay.<br />
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When they arrive in a new town in search of a ghost the locals call Anna Dressed in Blood, Cas doesn't expect anything outside of the ordinary: track, hunt, kill. What he finds instead is a girl entangled in curses and rage, a ghost like he's never faced before. She still wears the dress she wore on the day of her brutal murder in 1958: once white, now stained red and dripping with blood. Since her death, Anna has killed any and every person who has dared to step into the deserted Victorian she used to call home.<br />
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But she, for whatever reason, spares Cas's life.<br />
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<blockquote><b>Author Bio:</b> Kendare Blake is an import from South Korea who was raised in the United States by caucasian parents. You know, that old chestnut. She received a Bachelor's degree in Business from Ithaca College and a Master's degree in Writing from Middlesex University in London. She brakes for animals, the largest of which was a deer, which sadly didn't make it, and the smallest of which was a mouse, which did, but it took forever. Amongst her likes are Greek Mythology, rare red meat and veganism. She also enjoys girls who can think with the boys like Ayn Rand, and boys who scare the morality into people, like Bret Easton Ellis.<a href="http://www.kendareblake.com/bio.php">Official Website</a></blockquote>Book Butterfly (Kim)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04622743685532743469noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827859728696001655.post-78396577515064226872011-08-27T13:02:00.002-04:002011-08-27T13:02:33.422-04:00Character This or That Picks: The Revenant by Sonia Gensler<b style="color: #990000;"> </b><a href="http://ivyreads.info/2011/08/interview-with-the-author-of-the-revenant/#respond" title="Comment on Interview with the Author of The Revenant"><span class="commentcount"></span></a> <br />
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<b style="color: #990000;">Boarding School or Public School?</b><br />
Boarding schools can be a challenge, what with the wealthy snobs you often encounter, but I would much prefer to board than to attend a day school that requires me to go home at night.<br />
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<b style="color: #990000;">Horseback or carriage?</b><br />
I never learned how to ride, so it’s a carriage for me. Riding the train is best, however – if one can afford it.<br />
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<b style="color: #990000;">Hair up or down?</b><br />
In the Oklahoma wind, I’d have to say hair up – with a considerable number of pins to hold it in place!<br />
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Reading or writing?</b><br />
Reading! I’ve never been good at expressing myself in writing – never really realized how bad I was until it came time to mark essays.<br />
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<b style="color: #990000;">Gowns or simple dresses?</b><br />
All I have are simple dresses. It would be marvelous to have a gown that was made just for me.<br />
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Small towns or bustling cities?</b><br />
I’ve never seen a bustling city, but I think it would be grand to visit one. I’m certain I’d find good theater there. I’d love nothing better than to see a Shakespeare play with professional actors and a decent costume budget.<br />
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<b style="color: #990000;">Family or friends?</b><br />
Friends, please. Especially ones like Olivia Adair. Since Papa died, I do my best to avoid family. That’s not something a proper young lady should say, I know, but I just can’t be myself around my family.<br />
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<b style="color: #990000;">Dancing or singing?</b><br />
I’m no singer. And technically we’re not allowed to dance at the seminary – not with boys, anyway – but I do love to watch the younger girls dance. They put on secret performances on the third floor, and I’ll certainly never tell on them!<br />
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<b style="color: #990000;">Staying home or going on an adventure?</b><br />
Adventure, always! At home it’s all drudgery.<br />
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<b>Publisher:</b> Knopf Books<br />
<b>Release:</b> June 14, 2011<br />
<b>Buy the Book:</b> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375867015/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=rexrobrev-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399369&creativeASIN=0375867015">Amazon</a> <br />
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<div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><b>About the Book:</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span id="freeText16217330022035913443">When Willie arrives in Indian Territory, she knows only one thing: no one can find out who she really is. To escape a home she doesn't belong in anymore, she assumes the name of a former classmate and accepts a teaching job at the Cherokee Female Seminary.<br />
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Nothing prepares her for what she finds there. Her pupils are the daughters of the Cherokee elite—educated and more wealthy than she, and the school is cloaked in mystery. A student drowned in the river last year, and the girls whisper that she was killed by a jealous lover. Willie's room is the very room the dead girl slept in. The students say her spirit haunts it.<br />
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Willie doesn't believe in ghosts, but when strange things start happening at the school, she isn't sure anymore. She's also not sure what to make of a boy from the nearby boys' school who has taken an interest in her—his past is cloaked in secrets. Soon, even she has to admit that the revenant may be trying to tell her something. . . <i>Courtesy of Goodreads.com</i></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><blockquote><div style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1258596820p8/3101309.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1258596820p8/3101309.jpg" width="162" /></a><span id="freeText16217330022035913443"></span><b style="color: black;"><span id="freeText16217330022035913443">About the Author:</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span id="freeTextContainerauthor3101309">Sonia Gensler is a former high school teacher turned full-time writer living in Oklahoma with my husband and cat. Her debut novel, THE REVENANT (Knopf 2011), is a ghostly mystery set at a Cherokee girls' school. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="color: #990000;"><i><span style="color: black;">Welcome to today's tour stop on the <a href="http://theteenbookscene.weebly.com/witch-eyes-tour-details.html">Teen Book Scene's</a> blog tour for Witch Eyes by Scott Tracey. We decided to change things up by having Scott answer my questions using lines from the book. See details below for your chance to win a copy of the book. Enjoy! </span></i></div><div style="color: #990000;"><br />
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Taking a shower with sunglasses, and keeping them from falling off, was a struggle....People did really nasty things in the bathroom, things that could scar an innocent boy like me.<br />
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Our eyes met, and I saw through him. Trey unraveled in front of me, layers upon layers that peeled away like petals falling off a rose. I saw how deep loyalty ran within him, silver and gold threads that kept all the other parts together. I saw reflections and memories against diamond walls, decayed flowers that had been trampled underfoot, and icy winds of sarcasm that surrounded the core, the dark parts even he couldn’t see.<br />
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<div style="color: #990000;"><b>What are your favorite types of scenes to write (action, romance, etc) and can you share with us an example of one from your book?</b></div><br />
“Hackers reference,” Drew supplied. “Angelina played this hot teenage hacker badass schoolgirl chick.”<br />
“Didn’t we talk about you being offensive?” Riley said, actually sounding caustic for once.<br />
“I could try harder, right?”<br />
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<div style="color: #990000;"><b>On your blog, you write about how 2011 is the “Year of the Witch”. What do you think it is about witch-themed novels that appeals to readers of Young Adult books?</b></div><br />
Power. Greater than normal magic. Something far more severe. Deadly, but a beautiful kind of strength. I could do anything if I had that kind of power.<br />
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Had he known? Why else ask me that question? “That was the point of dinner, wasn’t it? Give Braden the magical roofie and watch him spill his guts."<br />
“Was she wrong? My mother’s not stupid, Braden. She’s worried you might be a threat.”<br />
“Of course I’m a threat, you idiot!”<br />
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Lucien pressed another button, cutting her off. His eyes grew vacant and he glanced behind him, toward<br />
the view over the city. “He does so enjoy unraveling my schedule.”<br />
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“I’m Riley. Newspaper editor extraordinaire, fashion wunderkind, and resident expert on all things beautiful and damned.” She shook her wrist, settling the bracelets all to the bottom. “Belle? Dam? Get it?”<br />
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Lucien’s expression was inscrutable. “Your son finds himself a beau, and you invite him over for a playdate. How very modern of you.”<br />
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“He wants the door unlocked. The door that no key should open,” I whispered.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Witch-Eyes-Scott-Tracey/dp/0738725951?ie=UTF8&tag=httpbutterf09-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Witch Eyes </a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=httpbutterf09-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0738725951" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">by Scott Tracey (September 8th 2011)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span id="freeText2199436747083947184"></span></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(217, 215, 215); font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span id="freeText16188469004966700962"> <br />
</span><span id="freeText2199436747083947184">Braden was born with witch eyes: the ability to see the world as it truly is: a blinding explosion of memories, darkness, and magic. The power enables Braden to see through spells and lies, but at the cost of horrible pain. <br />
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After a terrifying vision reveals imminent danger for the uncle who raised and instructed him, Braden retreats to Belle Dam, an old city divided by two feuding witch dynasties. As rival family heads Catherine Lansing and Jason Thorpe desperately try to use Braden's powers to unlock Belle Dam's secrets, Braden vows never to become their sacrificial pawn. But everything changes when Braden learns that Jason is his father--and Trey, the enigmatic guy he's falling for, is Catherine's son. <br />
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To stop an insidious dark magic from consuming the town, Braden must master his gift—and risk losing the one he loves</span> </div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">Want to win a copy of Witch Eyes? Just leave a comment below along with your email address. Contest ends September 1, 2011. US/Canadian residents only. Must be 13 years or older to enter. Good luck!</div><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/298/A8FA02279DA6BFACF2DF5F388091284D.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border: 0pt none ! important;" /></a>Book Butterfly (Kim)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04622743685532743469noreply@blogger.com46tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827859728696001655.post-49707966811435178852011-08-21T21:25:00.000-04:002011-08-21T21:25:42.889-04:00Top Ten Ways to Spot a Draki by Sophie Jordan, Author of Firelight and Vanish!<i>Today I'd like to welcome Sophie Jordan, author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Firelight-Sophie-Jordan/dp/B004WB1A3Y?ie=UTF8&tag=httpbutterf09-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Firelight </a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=httpbutterf09-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B004WB1A3Y" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" />(quite possibly my favorite book of 2010). The sequel to Firelight, entitled <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Vanish-Firelight-Novel-Sophie-Jordan/dp/0061935107?ie=UTF8&tag=httpbutterf09-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Vanish</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=httpbutterf09-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0061935107" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" />, releases in just a couple of weeks on September 6th- Hurray! Sophie stopped by today to share with us an amusing guest post on her top ten ways to spot a draki. (For those of you who haven't read the book, a draki is a person with dragon ancestry and certain capabilities)</i><br />
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Back home, Jacinda is greeted with hostility and must work to prove her loyalty for both her sake and her family’s. Among the few who will even talk to her are Cassian, the pride’s heir apparent who has always wanted her, and her sister, Tamra, who has been forever changed by a twist of fate. Jacinda knows that she should forget Will and move on—that if he managed to remember and keep his promise to find her, it would only endanger them both. Yet she clings to the hope that someday they will be together again. When the chance arrives to follow her heart, will she risk everything for love? <br />
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In bestselling author Sophie Jordan’s dramatic follow-up to Firelight, forbidden love burns brighter than ever.</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><div><br />
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing"> Top Ten Places to spot a Draki by Sophie Jordan</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b>1)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><b>In Jacinda’s pride, of course. Good luck finding it.</b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b>2)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><b>In the night sky, if the climate is right.</b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b>3)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><b>Um, wherever you find Will Rutledge.</b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b>4)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><b>In a hunter’s net.</b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b>5)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><b>In the clutches of the enkros.</b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b>6)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><b>Snapshots can be found on several UFO sites. You didn’t think that was really a flying saucer, did you?</b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b>7)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><b>Well, normally it wouldn’t be Chaparral... but these days, you better go ahead and look there.</b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b>8)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><b>Wherever there is an unusual amount of mist/fog.</b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b>9)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><b>According to Sophie Jordan’s husband … “In your face!” Yes, he’s forever a teenage boy at heart. ;)</b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b>10)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><b>Maybe right next to you….they walk among us, after all.</b><br />
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<span id="freeText9824809640276853796">In her mid-thirties, fashion editor Karen has it all: a handsome boyfriend, a fab flat in west London, and an array of gorgeus shoes. But when her boyfriend, Eric, leaves she makes an unexpected decision: to hang up her Manolos and wave good-bye to her glamorous city lifestyle to go it alone in a run-down house in rural Poitou-Charentes, central western France.<br />
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Tout Sweet is the perfect read for anyone who dreams of chucking away their BlackBerry in favor of real blackberrying and downshifting to a romantic, alluring locale where new friendships–and new loves–are just some of the treasures to be found amongst life's simple pleasures.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div></div><br />
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<div></div><blockquote><div class="picture-left" style="text-align: center;"> <img height="200" src="http://www.chicklitclub.com/books/karenwheeler.jpg" width="125" /> </div><h3><a href="http://www.chicklitclub.com/authorsw.html#karenwheeler"></a></h3>Karen Wheeler is a British fashion and beauty journalist. She moved to France and began a blog about her experiences at www.toutsweet.net, written under the pseudonym of Mimi Pompom. Tout Sweet, a memoir, is her first book and is subtitled Hanging Up My High Heels for a New Life in Rural France. (Interview by Angela Smith)<br />
<h4 align="right"></h4><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><u><b>CONTEST </b></u></span></div></blockquote></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">TO ENTER to win, simply comment and leave your email address so I can contact you if you're the winner.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Contest is open to all entrants with a valid U.S. mailing address only.<br />
Must be 13 years or older to enter. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Ends Sept 1st 2011. Good Luck! </div><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/298/A8FA02279DA6BFACF2DF5F388091284D.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border: 0pt none ! important;" /></a>Book Butterfly (Kim)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04622743685532743469noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827859728696001655.post-79061079548103196782011-08-16T23:46:00.000-04:002011-08-16T23:46:23.986-04:00Blog Tour Stop: Win an ARC of Between by Jessica Warman!<i>Welcome to today's tour stop on Jessica Warman's blog tour for her new book </i><i>Between which recently released. See below for details on how to win an ARC! </i><br />
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<div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(217, 215, 215); font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span id="freeText6177608917018888126"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Between-Jessica-Warman/dp/0802721826?ie=UTF8&tag=httpbutterf09-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank"> BETWEEN </a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=httpbutterf09-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0802721826" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span id="freeText6177608917018888126">BY JESSICA WARMAN</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span id="freeText6177608917018888126">(August 2, 2011)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span id="freeText6177608917018888126">Elizabeth Valchar --- pretty, popular and rich --- wakes up the morning after her 18th birthday on the yacht where she’d been celebrating with her closest friends. A persistent thumping noise has roused her. When she goes to investigate, she finds her own drowned body is hitting the side of the boat. Liz is dead. She has no memory of what happened to her, and can only observe in horror the fallout of her death. <br />
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She’s also soon joined by Alex Berg, a quiet boy from her high school who was killed by a hit-and-run driver. The two keep each other company, floating in and out of memories and trying to piece together the details of what happened to each of them. <br />
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In her regular life, Liz was a runner. It wasn’t abnormal for her to run 8-10 miles per day. But as memories from closer to her death begin to surface, Liz finds that she’d been running much more than normal, and that she’d all but stopped eating. Liz’s mother, who died when Liz was nine, had battled with anorexia as well, and those around her worried that Liz was following in her mother’s footsteps. But something more sinister was consuming Liz from the inside out..</span></div></div><br />
JESSICA WARMAN is also the author of Breathless, which received three starred reviews and was an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, and Where the Truth Lies. The idea for Between came from an incident in her childhood, when a local boy went missing after a party on a yacht (he was eventually found, alive). <a href="http://www.jessicawarman.com/">www.jessicawarman.com</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span id="freeText6177608917018888126"> </span> </div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">To enter to win, just leave a comment with your email so I can contact you if you're the winner.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Contest is open to all entrants with a valid U.S. mailing address only. Must be 13 years or older to enter. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Ends August 26th 2011. Good Luck! </div><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/298/A8FA02279DA6BFACF2DF5F388091284D.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border: 0pt none ! important;" /></a>Book Butterfly (Kim)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04622743685532743469noreply@blogger.com53tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827859728696001655.post-38632535032089851932011-08-14T23:11:00.001-04:002011-08-14T23:14:39.724-04:00Guest Post with Shelley Workinger, Author of SolidToday I'd like to welcome Shelley Workinger, author of the YA paranormal series, Solid. Shelley stopped by today to discuss her favorite type of scenes to write. Take it away Shelley! <br />
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<div class="MsoNormal">My favorite scenes to write are without doubt the conversations – particularly the ones involving Garrett, because he totally cracks me up.</div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">Yes, I know what you’re thinking: <i>Since </i>she’s<i> writing those scenes, doesn’t that mean she cracks </i>herself<i> up?</i></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">And the answer is, “Sure not.” Let me tell you why.</div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">I write in what I know most people see as a very unique way; essentially, I let the characters write the story. I “launch” a scene in my head, then take notes as they run with it. It’s like planning a dream (which I also do); I imagine a setting, then close my eyes to watch as it develops on its own. Unfortunately, also like dreaming, this method works best late at night, so I’m often up until the wee hours scribbling notes in the dark!</div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">The characters of “Solid” just exist so clearly in my imagination that for me to “direct” them would almost be unnatural. They may be fictional, but they are strong, distinct personalities who can really only react one way to the situations I’ve created for them in order to stay consistent and believable. So I may know where the story’s going and how to roll out the plot, but I have to let them talk amongst themselves to pick up their dialogue along the way.</div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">In case I really am sounding as bizarre as I think I might be, let me give you an example:</div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">When know-it-all Miranda asks Garrett if he washed the banana he’s about to eat, he asks (in typical Garrett-fashion) “To get off what? Monkey pee?” and she immediately throws back, “Insecticides, fungicides, nematicides….” I didn’t even know all those words before the scene evolved, but Miranda had to. Then Clio, who’s quick-witted and sarcastic but lets too many things fly out of her mouth without a filter thinks, “If [Miranda] didn’t lay off the ‘cides,’ she was going to end up a victim of friend-icide. And that was the best-case scenario.” Again, it was the response she had to have; I heard her voice in my head way before I had time to sit down and think, “Hmm, how would Clio react to that?”</div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">So that’s the part of writing that’s funnest* for me; the moments when, if only for a second, I get to feel almost like a reader – like any other member of the audience enjoying the scene and not already thinking two chapters ahead. Every book is an adventure to experience, so why should I have to miss out on my own?<br />
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BY SHELLEY WORKINGER<br />
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Eighteen years ago, a rogue Army doctor secretly experimented with a chromosomal drug on unknowing pregnant women. When he was killed not long after the children were born, any knowledge and evidence seemed to die with him - except for the living, breathing, human products of his work. <br />
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Almost two decades later, the newly self-proclaimed "open-book" military unearths the truth about the experiment, bringing Clio Kaid and the other affected teens to a state-of-the-art, isolated campus where they soon discover that C9x did indeed alter their chromosomes, its mutations presenting as super-human abilities. The military kids, who come from across the nation and all walks of life, come into their own as lighter-than-air 'athletes'; 'indies' as solid as stone walls; teens who can make themselves invisible and others who can blind with their brilliance. <br />
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While exploring her own special ability, forging new friendships and embarking on first love, Clio also stumbles onto information indicating that the military may not have been entirely forthcoming with them and that all may not be as it seems... <br />
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<div style="color: #990000;"><b>1. I<i>n Ordained,</i> Abby knows how to fight her way through demons, controlling the elements and setting things on fire with the flick of her wrist. Can you share with us a favorite line, scene or passage from the book? </b></div><div style="color: #990000;"><br />
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“No way am I touching that nasty potion,” she said boldly.<br />
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“I’ve changed the formula. I added vanilla to make it taste better.”<br />
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Abby accepted it but still eyed it reluctantly. Alcohol never sat well with her system. “How much vanilla?”<br />
“Like I’d really load you up with enough alcohol to throw your balance off. Just drink the tonic, Abby. You’ll feel better quicker.”<br />
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She sipped the tonic. Her face puckered again. She gagged, covered her mouth and mumbled in disgust, “Oh my God!”<br />
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“I said it tasted better, not great.”<br />
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Abby continued to force the sour tonic down in sips. She could taste a hint of vanilla but the potion left a bitter aftertaste that was similar to vinegar. Her stomach gurgled and burned.<br />
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“Water,” she coughed after her last sip of tonic.<br />
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“No. You’ll dilute it,” Noel said firmly, relieving her of the glass.<br />
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Smartly, she rebutted, “Isn’t that what you’re supposed to do after drinking poison? Or is it throw up?”<br />
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Stubborn, Sarcastic, Protective<br />
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</div>Well, right now, Emily’s been forced to return to school and not allowed outside the manor’s protective borders (like that stops her), so she’s not really hunting. But that doesn’t mean life is any easier inside the manor, especially when a group of demons break through the magical enchantments that protect the school…<br />
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“And just out of curiosity, how many of these twelve did you two end up killing?” [Emily] glared at the Chancellor. Surprisingly, he didn’t back away from her eyes.<br />
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Abby hesitantly looked toward Noel. She could tell he didn’t like where this was going. He slowly and quietly raised three fingers. “Seven.”<br />
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“Seven?” she huffed. “Wow. Two of them, seven demons. Well, I’m glad the twenty of us could help you out with the other five,” she ranted sarcastically.<br />
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“All right, that’s enough!” the Chancellor bellowed. Reddened, he added, “We’re all upset by this attack. None of you would be alive right now if you hadn’t been given the training you received during your school years.”<br />
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“You’re delusional!” she stressed. “These demons kicked our [bums]! Abby and Noel are the reason the rest of us are still alive. Your training only kept us alive long enough for them to sort out the mess!”<br />
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“Emily!” yelled Ethan, stamping forward. “You will stop this right now!”<br />
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“I’m not taking orders from you anymore!” she yelled back. “Any of you!”<br />
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</div>Abby has an evil entity living within her that fights for control of her body – the same evil that took control and murdered five advisors when she was sixteen. The hardest thing about being Abby is keeping the entity contained, but sometimes it manages to break through and stuff her deep within herself, into what she refers to as the hollow. <br />
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Lots of physical changes, especially with Emily as her body undergoes transformation.<br />
A high pitched screech once again reverberated through Emily’s head. She threw her hands to her ears to block the noise, but it had the opposite effect. The inside of her head vibrated violently. She fell to a crouch, writhing and crying out in pain.<br />
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“Emily?”<br />
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But Emily couldn’t stop screaming. She felt a pair of arms lift her from the doorstep, then drop her on the sofa. She continued to jolt back and forth viciously. The intense vibrations and screeching within her head refused to relent. She knew it was pointless to scream, but she couldn’t stop the only release her body was giving her.<br />
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BY DEVON ASHLEY<br />
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Abby Sorrensten likes to play rough. Ripping the horns off the foreheads of demons, manipulating lightning and setting things on fire with the flick of your wrist can give you a serious rush. So she probably wasn’t the best choice for the Order’s experimental training program. Thirteen years of isolation, lack of affection and a bruised and broken body from horrendous training sessions creates more than just an exceptional fighter. It creates an evil within - an evil responsible for several deaths the night she left. <br />
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Two hundred years later Abby resurfaces as the very thing the Order trained her to kill: a vampire. A mythical demon has set his sights on the school and only the ordained hunter has the powers to face it. Unbeknownst to the Order, Abby’s their precious ordained one and their only chance for survival. As much as she would love to leave them hanging, she’s not willing to risk the life of Emily, a fellow friend and hunter also fed up with the organization. <br />
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But for Abby, locking herself away in a fortress with angry descendants of those she killed causes suspicions and tensions to run high. Abby must learn the demon’s weaknesses for battle before the Order learns hers.<br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8686026-unnatural" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> </a></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(217, 215, 215); font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;">Jael Thompson has never really fit in. She’s changed schools too many times to count. The only family she’s ever known is her father, a bitter ex-priest who never lets her date and insists she attend the strictest Catholic school in Seattle. And her mother—well, she was a five thousand year old demon. That doesn’t exactly help.<br />
But on her sixteenth birthday, her father gives her a present that brings about some unexpected changes. Some of the changes, like strange and wonderful powers and the cute skater boy with a knack for science, are awesome. But others, like the homicidal demon seeking revenge on her family? Not so much.<br />
Steeped in mythology, this is an epic tale of a heroine who balances old world with new, science with magic, and the terrifying depths of the underworld with the ordinary halls of high school.<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="line-height: 140%;">2.What did you love most about bringing Jael’s character to life in Misfit?</span></span></b><i><span style="line-height: 140%;"></span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="color: #990000;"><span style="line-height: 140%;">3.What were you like as a teen and what do you think your teenage self would say if he was to read Misfit? </span></b><i><span style="line-height: 140%;"></span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 140%;">I was part rocker, part bookworm, part tech geek, part theater dork: i.e., I didn't fit in anywhere. I would have totally related to Jael.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 140%;">"The world is like a giant toolshed filled with babies who don’t know how to use the tools, and don’t even realize that the tools are anything other than something to stick in their mouths."</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="color: #990000;"><span style="line-height: 140%;">5. What’s the best advice you’ve ever been given as an author?</span></b><i><span style="line-height: 140%;"></span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 140%;">“Paint what you like and die happy” - Henry Miller.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 140%;">Be sure to check out The <a href="http://theteenbookscene.weebly.com/misfit-tour-details.html">Teen Book Scene </a>for more tour stops! The next scheduled tour stop is for tomorrow (August 10th) at <a href="http://urbanfantasyinvestigations.blogspot.com/">Urban Fantasy Investigations</a>.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Wolfsbane-Nightshade-Book-Andrea-Cremer/dp/0399254838?ie=UTF8&tag=widgetsamazon-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">WOLFSBANE (NIGHTSHADE, BOOK 2)</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=widgetsamazon-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0399254838" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">BY ANDREA CREMER </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8686026-unnatural" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> </a></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(217, 215, 215); font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Calla Tor has always known her destiny: After graduating from the Mountain School, she'll be the mate of sexy alpha wolf Ren Laroche and fight with him, side by side, ruling their pack and guarding sacred sites for the Keepers. But when she violates her masters' laws by saving a beautiful human boy out for a hike, Calla begins to question her fate, her existence, and the very essence of the world she has known. By following her heart, she might lose everything- including her own life. Is forbidden love worth the ultimate sacrifice?</span></span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"></span></span></span><span id="freeText5040612337589437117"> </span></div><div><span id="freeText5040612337589437117"></span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxwK23xoz1tLLZ8F4SG0GfPyTx6k1x0v_WHK8nBuAXVuJaEHHCRL3VS1U2fW6CHcOH6_pLuea5aIJR88kesqSi6vybZOp4LIQH49tbSgtwBe4CvlowjKan-r6KsRZTYfWlEndAuKNUThc/s1600/andrea.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxwK23xoz1tLLZ8F4SG0GfPyTx6k1x0v_WHK8nBuAXVuJaEHHCRL3VS1U2fW6CHcOH6_pLuea5aIJR88kesqSi6vybZOp4LIQH49tbSgtwBe4CvlowjKan-r6KsRZTYfWlEndAuKNUThc/s200/andrea.jpg" width="165" /></a></div><blockquote><blockquote style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Andrea Cremer spent her childhood daydreaming while roaming the forests and lakeshores of Northern Wisconsin. She now lives in Minnesota, but she thinks of her homeland as the “Canadian Shield” rather than the Midwest.<br />
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Andrea has always loved writing and has never stopped writing, but she only recently plunged into the deep end of the pool that is professional writing. When she’s not writing, Andrea teaches history at a very nice liberal arts college in St. Paul.<br />
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In the little spare time she can find, Andrea stares up at trees, rescues infant rabbits from predatory cats, and invents names for pug puppies with her husband. She has an unfortunate tendency to spill things – white carpets beware!<br />
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<a href="http://www.andreacremer.com/">Official Website</a> & <a href="http://blurredhistory.blogspot.com/">Blog</a> </blockquote></blockquote></div></span></span><span id="freeText5040612337589437117"> </span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDjfLihQvYfeDcZP05T0wam8LMYVA7Hcd0egBkgKg_GBlf8z5NreqmDXJG_QHkZPhjMefe9oxtYYAcYEskbalJ4ovKj4VnFePx1pQpmGD3xCKCQmZbUclfY1Zr7VO4LgisVWlx2Qz_ttI/s1600/Jennifer+Ziegler_bw+headshot+low-res.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> </a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div></div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span></div></div><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">10. On a plane: I love traveling and reading while on my way to another place is frosting on the cake. I also love peeking at what other travelers are reading.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">9. At the airport: Waiting to board is boring. Good books make the time go by like nothing else.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">8. In coffee houses: I love the sounds and scents of coffee houses. Reading in coffee houses is great for relaxing while still feeling the buzz of life all around you. Plus – caffeine!</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">6. In bookstores and libraries: Browsing the shelf after shelf of books – books I love like old friends and new books that I can’t wait to tread – is one of my favorite ways to spend time</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="FreeForm" style="margin-left: 22pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -22pt;"><span style="color: #262626;">10.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="color: #262626;">Beautiful singing voice causes neighbors to go insane </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="FreeForm" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #262626;">9. Uses a wheelchair (due to fin)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="FreeForm" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #262626;">8. You swear you’ve seen her face on the bow of a ship</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="FreeForm" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #262626;">7. Keeps trying to order kelp salad at local diner</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="FreeForm" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #262626;">6. Grizzled old sailors give her the eye</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="FreeForm" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #262626;">5. Wears a bikini top made of seashells</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="FreeForm" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #262626;">4. Gee-Her-Hair-Smells-Like-Seaweed</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="FreeForm" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #262626;">3. Backyard pool features live fish, sharks</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="FreeForm" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #262626;">2. Combs hair with a fork, best friend is a seagull</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="FreeForm" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #262626;">1. Yard riddled with bones of dead sailors</span></div><div class="FreeForm"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sirens-Storm-Lisa-Papademetriou/dp/0375842454?ie=UTF8&tag=httpbutterf09-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Siren's Storm </a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=httpbutterf09-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0375842454" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" />by Lisa Papademetriou</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u>July 12th 2011 </u></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
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<span id="freeText1146492771097430198">Nothing has been the same for Will ever since what happened last summer. One day, on an ordinary sailing trip with his brother, there is a strange accident. When Will wakes up, he learns his brother has disappeared, presumed drowned. Worst of all, Will can't remember what happened—his family finds him unconscious, with no memory of the accident.</span><br />
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<span id="freeText1146492771097430198">Now Will and his best friend and neighbor, Gretchen, are starting a new summer. Gretchen seems troubled—her sleepwalking habit is getting worse, and she keeps waking up closer and closer to the water. Will is drawn to Asia, the exotic new girl in town. Nobody knows where she's from—all Will knows is that her beauty and her mesmerizing voice have a powerful effect on people.<br />
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<blockquote><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/photo/author/53988.Lisa_Papademetriou" rel="nofollow" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="Lisa Papademetriou"><img alt="Lisa Papademetriou" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1285808069p5/53988.jpg" /></a><b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Lisa Papademetriou</b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> has worked in an editorial capacity at Scholastic, HarperCollins, and Disney Press. She has written or adapted over thirty books for young readers, including </span><i style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sixth-Grade-Glommers-Norks-Lisa-Papademetriou/dp/0786851708?ie=UTF8&tag=httpbutterf09-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Sixth-Grade Glommers</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=httpbutterf09-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0786851708" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" />, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sixth-Grade-Glommers-Norks-Lisa-Papademetriou/dp/0786851708?ie=UTF8&tag=httpbutterf09-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Norks, and Me</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=httpbutterf09-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0786851708" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" />; <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Wizard-Witch-Two-Girls-Jersey/dp/1595140743?ie=UTF8&tag=httpbutterf09-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">The Wizard, the Witch, and Two Girls from Jersey</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=httpbutterf09-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1595140743" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" />; <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Girly-Girl-Just-Candy-Apple/dp/0439890586?ie=UTF8&tag=httpbutterf09-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">How to Be a Girly Girl in Just Ten Days</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=httpbutterf09-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0439890586" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" />,</b></i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> and the New York Times bestselling Disney Fairies novel,</span><i style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b> </b></i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Rani-Mermaid-Lagoon-Disney-Fairies/dp/0736423753?ie=UTF8&tag=httpbutterf09-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" target="_blank">Rani in the Mermaid Lagoon</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=httpbutterf09-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0736423753" style="border: medium none ! important; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">.</span><br />
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </div><div class="workshops_black " style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Lisa lives in Massachusetts with her husband, daughter, and dog, playing guitar, dancing around the house to 80's music, and eating at the vegetarian cafe (even though she isn't vegetarian).</b></div><div class="workshops_black "><b><a href="http://www.lisapapa.com/">Official Website </a></b></div></blockquote><br />
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<i>The Wizard of Dark Street</i> is available to the public for the first time today, July 26<sup>th</sup>, 2011! I can’t tell you how VERY, VERY, VERY…VERY EXCITED I am to finally be able to share the mysterious world of Dark Street and Oona Crate’s extraordinary story with the world. What better way to celebrate the book launch than to share some of the character’s favorite books? Have you read any of them? Have a look. There’s some really good ones here. Might be a little hard to find, to be sure.<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Deacon</b>: <i>The Encyclopedia Arcanna</i>. (A set of more than one hundred reference books regarding all things magical)</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Oona</b>: <i>The Dark Street Who’s Who: 36BC to Present</i>. (This book contains information on nearly every person who has ever lived on Dark Street past and present)</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>The Wizard</b>: <i>The Gentleman’s guide to Social Gathering and Party Planning. 1877 edition.</i> (The name of this book pretty much speaks for itself)</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Samuligan (the faerie servant)</b>: <i>The Last Faerie Road</i>: an incomplete history of Dark Street, by <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Arthur Blackstone.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Adler Iree</b>: Any book on magical law. (The older and more ancient the book the better)</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Isadora Iree</b>: The Handbook for the Academy of Fine Young Ladies. (Everything a young lady needs to know about appropriateness, suitability, and social correctness in the year 1877. Not that Isadora always follows these rules, but they are good to know so that, when the opportunity presents itself, she can make others feel stupid when they show their ignorance.) </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Inspector White</b>: He’s been meaning to read the official Dark Street Police Department’s<i> Procedure Handbook</i> for quite some time…but hasn’t quite gotten around to it yet.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Constable Trout</b>: Cheep yellow-back romance novels and penny dreadfuls. (Trout can’t get enough of them. Reads them constantly…indeed, it has been noted that the man has a serious problem)</div><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/photo/author/4452502.Shawn_Thomas_Odyssey" rel="nofollow" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="Shawn Thomas Odyssey"><img alt="Shawn Thomas Odyssey" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1289850527p5/4452502.jpg" width="150" /></a></div>Shawn Thomas Odyssey is the author of THE WIZARD OF DARK STREET, a Middle Grade novel of detection and magic. Coming July 26, 2011, from Egmont USA.</div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9668661-the-wizard-of-dark-street"> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8686026-unnatural" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> </a></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(217, 215, 215); font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9668661-the-wizard-of-dark-street"><img alt="The Wizard of Dark Street" height="400" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514WVQwiknL.jpg" width="263" /></a> <br />
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by Shawn Thomas Odyssey<br />
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<span id="freeText14512625886760840520">Oona Crate was born to be the Wizard's apprentice, but she has another destiny in mind. <br />
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Despite possessing the rare gift of Natural Magic, Oona wants to be a detective. Eager for a case, she is determined to prove that logic can be just as powerful as wizardry. But when someone attacks her uncle--the Wizard of Dark Street--Oona is forced to delve even deeper into the world of magic. <br />
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Full of odd characters, evil henchmen, and a street where nothing is normal, The Wizard of Dark Street will have you guessing until the very end.</span><br />
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<span class="body"><span class="dropcap">B</span>orn in New York and raised in Bridgewater, New Jersey, Jennifer Jabaley is a graduate of James Madison University and Southern College of Optometry. She began writing in 2006 and tries to manage optometry, writing and motherhood. She lives in Blue Ridge, Georgia with her husband and two children.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">What books would you have recommended at Ages 5, 11, 16 and 20?</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Harry-Dirty-Dog-Treasury-Stories/dp/0060278412?ie=UTF8&tag=httpbutterf09-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="A Harry the Dirty Dog Treasury: Three Stories" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=0060278412&tag=httpbutterf09-20" /></a></div><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=httpbutterf09-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0060278412" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" />At age five I loved <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Harry-Dirty-Dog-Treasury-Stories/dp/0060278412?ie=UTF8&tag=httpbutterf09-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">HARRY AND THE DIRTY DOG</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=httpbutterf09-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0060278412" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> by Gene Zion and the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Frog-Toad-Collection-Read-Book/dp/0060580860?ie=UTF8&tag=httpbutterf09-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">FROG AND TOAD</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=httpbutterf09-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0060580860" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> books by Arnold Lobel.<br />
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At age 11 I adored Beverly Cleary books (particularly the Ramona books) and of course Judy Blume. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Are-You-There-God-Margaret/dp/0385739869?ie=UTF8&tag=httpbutterf09-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">ARE YOU THERE GOD, IT'S ME MARGARET</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=httpbutterf09-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0385739869" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> was practically required reading in my circle of friends.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/I-Heard-That-Song-Before/dp/0743497309?ie=UTF8&tag=httpbutterf09-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"><img alt="I Heard That Song Before" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=0743497309&tag=httpbutterf09-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=httpbutterf09-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0743497309" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /></div><br />
At age 16 I discovered Mary Higgins Clark. One summer I devoured just about every book she wrote. I loved that most of her books took place in New Jersey, my homestate, and often in locations very similar to where I grew up. I loved that she had strong, independent female protagonists that relied on their brains to solve mysteries and murders.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Crush-Control-Jennifer-Jabaley/dp/1595144242?ie=UTF8&tag=httpbutterf09-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Crush Control</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=httpbutterf09-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1595144242" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> by Jennifer Jabaley</div><div style="text-align: center;">June 9, 2011</div><span id="freeText7281017930923845058">Willow has spent most of her life as her mother's sidekick in a popular Las Vegas hypnotism show. So when she and her mom move back to their sleepy southern hometown to start over, she thinks she's in for a life of quiet normalcy. Except that her new life turns out to be anything but, when she kinda sorta hypnotizes Quinton, the hottest guy on the football team, to fall madly, deeply, head over heels in love with her. But what started out as an innocent way to make her best friend, Max, jealous soon gets way out of hand, and Willow begins to wonder if the mind - and more importantly, the heart - is something you can really control</span></blockquote><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/298/A8FA02279DA6BFACF2DF5F388091284D.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border: 0pt none ! important;" /></a>Book Butterfly (Kim)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04622743685532743469noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827859728696001655.post-475198007304326002011-07-18T20:34:00.000-04:002011-07-18T20:34:39.879-04:00Guest Post with Paula Bradley, Author of Chosen & Giveaway!<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjimh83p93N1dXv0TkEQA9_DYlLsF58MOkA9cLcpZ0Bo9v64Jq6I0PATSb3gJTftZCItLrl7SZihMbxzKs7FrlHrtaOumBCCp5VuldOvSje5ajQx18eDjRsFsRP-lMKQYE_vCTcs1O4xs/s1600/paula.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjimh83p93N1dXv0TkEQA9_DYlLsF58MOkA9cLcpZ0Bo9v64Jq6I0PATSb3gJTftZCItLrl7SZihMbxzKs7FrlHrtaOumBCCp5VuldOvSje5ajQx18eDjRsFsRP-lMKQYE_vCTcs1O4xs/s1600/paula.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">When I was encouraged to become a writer, I thought, </span><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">What am I going to write about?</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"> And then things just started exploding in my head. While I experimented, I read nearly thirty books on how to write. I realized something odd: I was doing nearly all the things the experts said to do, and not doing what they said not to. In my youth, I never gave writing a thought as a profession because it always came naturally to me and I never believed anything easy was worthy.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">I'm glad I had to quit my corporate job, because I can now do something I've always loved to do: tell stories. I can remember trying to get out of punishments for some (minor) infractions when I was a child, so I would tell a whopping tale, making it up as I went along. I always wondered why my father’s lips; I never realized he was trying to keep from laughing. Then he would say, “Is that the truth?” I learned quickly that if I ’fessed up and admitted it was just a story, I usually got off pretty lightly. I realized then that if you're entertaining, people are liable to forgive a lot of misdemeanors. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">I see the world as one great, big plot line. I naturally pay attention to my surroundings; to what's happening, and what people are doing (or not doing). People intrigue me as I try to imagine what they're thinking, what just happened before I saw them, and where they're going.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Of course, I have to throw in paranormal activity in these musings. Most lives are mundane, but they become downright exciting when you toss in a cosmic oddity or an antagonist with special powers. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">If I am so lucky, I can envision writing the rest of my life and never run out of material. Articles in financial magazines have hidden treasures bubbling just below the surface; a cookbook can become a subplot to a fascinating mystery; a pharmacy holds frightening poisons that just needs a genius sociopath to bring about mayhem.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">So if you're looking to write a story, listen to sounds of life around you, to cars flying by on the highway, to malls with endless stores, and people who exhale the very life of a great novel.</span></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">Have you ever wished you had superhuman abilities - a six sense? An ability to fly? Superior strength? The shy and introverted Mariah Adele Carpenter sure doesn't! The talent of clairvoyance that plagued her since childhood has been carefully concealed by her mother to prevent marking her a paranormal freak.<br />
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In Paula Bradley's heart-pounding debut novel CHOSEN, Mariah's faith, perceptions, and sanity are put to the test. After a suicide attempt, her powers can no longer be concealed. Mariah thought the woes of her powers would be extinguished by taking her life, but somehow a mysterious being saves her and sets her on a journey.<br />
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The supernatural rescue enhances Mariah's extrasensory power so much that she becomes a person of interest to the FBI, another government agency, and the media. She can't escape the intensifying outer turmoil and she quickly finds herself tormented by nightmares and an obsession of trying to find the ambiguous character that haunts her dreams. This page-turning thriller is a trip for the reader as well as the gripping danger and unexplained happenings challenge their own beliefs on the nature of faith and the value of discovery.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Want to win a finished copy? </div><div style="text-align: center;">It's easy. Just leave a comment for Paula along with your email address. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Official Rules: Must be 13 years or older to enter. Contest is open to entrants with a valid U.S. Mailing address only. Ends 8/1 </div><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/298/A8FA02279DA6BFACF2DF5F388091284D.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border: 0pt none ! important;" /></a>Book Butterfly (Kim)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04622743685532743469noreply@blogger.com34tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827859728696001655.post-65290472870616276572011-07-13T23:10:00.000-04:002011-07-13T23:10:54.820-04:00Blog Tour Stop: Win an ARC of Siren's Storm by Lisa Papademtriou!<i>Welcome to today's tour stop on <a href="http://theteenbookscene.weebly.com/sirens-storm-tour-details.html">The Teen Book Scene blog tour</a> for <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sirens-Storm-Lisa-Papademetriou/dp/0375842454?ie=UTF8&tag=httpbutterf09-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Siren's Storm </a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=httpbutterf09-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0375842454" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" />by Lisa Papademtriou! Today I am giving away an ARC of the book. To enter to win, leave a comment below with your email address. Contest ends 7/30 at midnight eastern standard time. Good luck! </i><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sirens-Storm-Lisa-Papademetriou/dp/0375842454?ie=UTF8&tag=httpbutterf09-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Siren's Storm </a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=httpbutterf09-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0375842454" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" />by Lisa Papademetriou</u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u>July 12th 2011 </u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUMtbzLr75Qo14cPIZjFsXFT4NrK_q9y9fWIov6_54y5HxkmuQkOroD_xk6Ff1dDirBr_uptFmdMW3lhBP-A27KavQBD1DAf34eMmSx9mK-7hzjvshMYfo0CLRKVVfUI-PO9POiF8e_Qo/s1600/Sass+and+Serendipity+cover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
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<span id="freeText1146492771097430198">Nothing has been the same for Will ever since what happened last summer. One day, on an ordinary sailing trip with his brother, there is a strange accident. When Will wakes up, he learns his brother has disappeared, presumed drowned. Worst of all, Will can't remember what happened—his family finds him unconscious, with no memory of the accident.</span><br />
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<span id="freeText1146492771097430198">Now Will and his best friend and neighbor, Gretchen, are starting a new summer. Gretchen seems troubled—her sleepwalking habit is getting worse, and she keeps waking up closer and closer to the water. Will is drawn to Asia, the exotic new girl in town. Nobody knows where she's from—all Will knows is that her beauty and her mesmerizing voice have a powerful effect on people.<br />
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Then there is another mysterious drowning, and Will and Gretchen begin to wonder: Is Asia just another beautiful, wealthy summer resident? Or is she something entirely more sinister . . . and inhuman?</span><br />
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<blockquote><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/photo/author/53988.Lisa_Papademetriou" rel="nofollow" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="Lisa Papademetriou"><img alt="Lisa Papademetriou" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1285808069p5/53988.jpg" /></a><b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Lisa Papademetriou</b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> has worked in an editorial capacity at Scholastic, HarperCollins, and Disney Press. She has written or adapted over thirty books for young readers, including </span><i style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sixth-Grade-Glommers-Norks-Lisa-Papademetriou/dp/0786851708?ie=UTF8&tag=httpbutterf09-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Sixth-Grade Glommers</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=httpbutterf09-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0786851708" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" />, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sixth-Grade-Glommers-Norks-Lisa-Papademetriou/dp/0786851708?ie=UTF8&tag=httpbutterf09-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Norks, and Me</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=httpbutterf09-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0786851708" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" />; <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Wizard-Witch-Two-Girls-Jersey/dp/1595140743?ie=UTF8&tag=httpbutterf09-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">The Wizard, the Witch, and Two Girls from Jersey</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=httpbutterf09-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1595140743" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" />; <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Girly-Girl-Just-Candy-Apple/dp/0439890586?ie=UTF8&tag=httpbutterf09-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">How to Be a Girly Girl in Just Ten Days</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=httpbutterf09-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0439890586" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" />,</b></i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> and the New York Times bestselling Disney Fairies novel,</span><i style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b> </b></i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Rani-Mermaid-Lagoon-Disney-Fairies/dp/0736423753?ie=UTF8&tag=httpbutterf09-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" target="_blank">Rani in the Mermaid Lagoon</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=httpbutterf09-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0736423753" style="border: medium none ! important; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">.</span><br />
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </div><div class="workshops_black " style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Lisa lives in Massachusetts with her husband, daughter, and dog, playing guitar, dancing around the house to 80's music, and eating at the vegetarian cafe (even though she isn't vegetarian).</b></div><div class="workshops_black "><b><a href="http://www.lisapapa.com/">Official Website </a></b></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/298/A8FA02279DA6BFACF2DF5F388091284D.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border: 0pt none ! important;" /></a></div>Book Butterfly (Kim)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04622743685532743469noreply@blogger.com54tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827859728696001655.post-78076496019845162832011-07-12T22:12:00.002-04:002011-07-12T22:16:29.613-04:00Guest Post with Jennifer Ziegler, Author of Sass & Serendipity!<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><div><div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i> Today I'd like to welcome Jennifer Ziegler. Jennifer stopped by to share with us her thoughts on writing her latest book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sass-Serendipity-Jennifer-Ziegler/dp/0385738986?ie=UTF8&tag=httpbutterf09-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Sass & Serendipity </a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=httpbutterf09-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0385738986" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" />(which releases today!). See details below on how you can win a copy of the book. </i><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>What are your favorite scenes to write?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">My favorite scenes always involve my most beloved characters. With <i>Sass & Serendipity</i>, I adored my two sisters, Daphne and Gabby, and I knew I’d enjoy spending time with them during the writing process. However, there was another character I really fell for while drafting the book: sweet, loyal Mule. I found myself really looking forward to his scenes. In fact, if I can say this without sounding a little warped, I probably developed a slight crush on him.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This always happens to me while crafting a novel. I find myself really drawn toward one of my side characters. I suppose it makes sense in a way. As an author, you don’t feel quite as responsible for them. The minor characters don’t frustrate you as much as your flawed protagonists or antagonists. They are there to help your main characters see the errors of their ways – either directly or indirectly. They offer insight, encouragement, and/or comic relief. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Here’s a scene where he ends up comforting Daphne, the younger sister, when she is reeling from a huge emotional setback.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;">“Hi,” Mule said. “Is Gabby here?”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;">Daphne shook her head. “She’s …” But she couldn’t remember where her sister was. Work? The store? The bank? Someplace important. What time was it, anyway?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;">Mule cocked his head and studied her. She could almost see him taking note of her blank expression, her gravity-defying hair, and her rumpled pajamas with the cartoon monkeys all over them. No doubt by now he’d caught a whiff of the sharp scent, like overly ripe fruit, that her body was giving off after three straight days of no bathing.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;">“Are you okay?” he asked.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;">His voice was so full of worry that her eyes automatically misted up and her throat got that just-choked feeling. She wanted to say, “Yes,” but that would be such an obvious lie. On the other hand, saying “No” would just invite more questions. And saying anything right now would squeeze the tears out of her. So she just stood there, feeling helpless and pitiful. And stinky.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;">“Hey, uh …” Mule shifted his weight and raked his fingers through his curls. “How about I hang around until Gabby gets back. Would that be okay?”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;">Daphne nodded. She left the door hanging open and flopped down on one end of the couch, propping her bare feet on the coffee table. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;">Mule walked inside and set down his backpack, keeping his eyes on Daphne the whole way. “Sure is nice out today,” he said, slipping off his jacket and draping it on the nearby chair. His movements and voice were extra steady, as if he were an expert negotiator and Daphne were some crazy person with explosives strapped to her chest.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;">Slowly and gently – as if trying not to spook her – he settled himself on the opposite end of the sofa. Out of the corner of her eye she could see him watching her as she focused on the muted television screen. They were now interviewing one of the drivers of the pile-up. The guy appeared dazed, but not too freaked to ramble to a reporter. The camera then panned to a dead deer lying on the shoulder of the road. Its mouth was open and bloody, and its glassy eyes seemed to be staring right into Daphne. Once again she could feel that downward tugging sensation inside her. It felt as if she were teetering on a ribbon-thin brink, in danger of plummeting into a dark, cold abyss.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;">Then Mule loudly cleared his throat.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;">“So I’ll just say it. I … heard about what happened,” he said, turning his torso enough to face her. “I’m really sorry…”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">There isn’t a whole lot of spoken dialog in this scene, but what is said is revealing and what <i>isn’t</i> said is even more revealing. Daphne has just been through a difficult ordeal, and as the author, it was tough for me to put her in that situation. That’s why this later scene was so refreshing and uplifting to write. Sweet, devoted Mule happens to stop by and instead of avoiding Daphne, he reaches out to her – in his own adorably awkward way.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Where my job as storyteller was to turn the protagonists’ world upside-down, Mule was the character who most often stepped in to offer guidance and reassurance. I loved him for that. I suppose, in a way, he was the most serendipitous part of writing this book.</div></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDjfLihQvYfeDcZP05T0wam8LMYVA7Hcd0egBkgKg_GBlf8z5NreqmDXJG_QHkZPhjMefe9oxtYYAcYEskbalJ4ovKj4VnFePx1pQpmGD3xCKCQmZbUclfY1Zr7VO4LgisVWlx2Qz_ttI/s1600/Jennifer+Ziegler_bw+headshot+low-res.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br />
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<span id="freeText5040612337589437117">Daphne Rivera and her sister Gabby could not be more different. </span><br />
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<span id="freeText5040612337589437117">For fifteen-year-old Daphne, the glass is always half full, a dab of lip-gloss can ward off a bad day, and the boy of her dreams—the one she's read about in all of her beloved romance novels—is waiting for her just around the corner. </span><br />
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<span id="freeText5040612337589437117">But Daphne’s older sister Gabby wishes Daphne would get real. In Gabby’s world, everyone’s out for themselves, wearing makeup is a waste of time, and boys only distract you from studying before they break your heart. The only boy Gabby trusts is her best friend, Mule, who has always been there for her. </span><br />
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<span id="freeText5040612337589437117">Both Gabby and Daphne are still reeling from their parents’ divorce, though in very different ways. While Gabby will never forgive her unreliable father for failing her mother, Daphne idolizes her daddy and is sure that everything would work out fine if her cranky mom would just let him back into their lives. </span><br />
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<span id="freeText5040612337589437117">When a crisis leaves the girls and their mom homeless, help comes from an unexpected source, and both girls are courted by surprise suitors who shake up their views of the world. Suddenly the glass isn’t so clearly half empty or half full . . . and love seems a lot more complicated than they ever could have imagined.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/298/A8FA02279DA6BFACF2DF5F388091284D.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border: 0pt none ! important;" /></a>Book Butterfly (Kim)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04622743685532743469noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827859728696001655.post-44501402633911102532011-07-10T22:02:00.000-04:002011-07-10T22:02:25.479-04:00Guest Post with Emily Wing Smith, Author of Back When You Were Easier to Love<i>Today I'd like to welcome Emily Wing Smith, author of Back When You Were Easier to Love. Emily stopped by to share her thoughts on items we would've found in her teenage garage sale. Take it away Emily! </i><br />
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<blockquote>Even as a child, Emily Wing Smith had overly thick eyebrows, a passion for writing, and a tendency toward attending odd schools. So it wasn’t much of a surprise when she graduated first with a BA in English from Brigham Young University, and later with an MFA in Writing for Children from Vermont College. It’s also no real shocker that she spends too much money on eyebrow waxing.<br />
Emily lives with her husband in Salt Lake City, where she writes, bakes chocolate chip cookies, and occasionally substitutes at her old high school (which hasn’t gotten any less odd). <a href="http://www.emilywingsmith.com/about/">Official Website </a></blockquote></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Teenage Garage Sale – Here’s what you’d find if I had a garage sale during my</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">teen years</span>:</b></div><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>5.Gigantic poster of the Eiffel Tower</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
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<div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(217, 215, 215); font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Back When You Were Easier to Love" height="320" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1282850905l/8120023.jpg" width="216" /><span id="freeText2160558609062374090"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span id="freeText2160558609062374090"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Back-When-Were-Easier-Love/dp/0525421998?ie=UTF8&tag=httpbutterf09-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Back When You Were Easier to Love</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=httpbutterf09-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0525421998" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> by </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span id="freeText2160558609062374090">Emily Wing Smith (April 28th 2011)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span id="freeText2160558609062374090">What's worse than getting dumped? Not even knowing if you've been dumped. Joy got no goodbye, and certainly no explanation when Zan - the love of her life and the only good thing about stifling, backward Haven, Utah - unceremoniously and unexpectedly left for college a year early. Joy needs closure almost as much as she needs Zan, so she heads for California, and Zan, riding shotgun beside Zan's former-best-friend Noah.</span></div><span id="freeText2160558609062374090"></span></div><span id="freeText2160558609062374090"> Original and insightful, quirky and crushing, Joy's story is told in surprising and artfully shifting flashbacks between her life then and now. Exquisite craft and wry, relatable humor signal the arrival of Emily Wing Smith as a breakout talent.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span></div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b><b><b><b></b></b></b></b></span><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/298/A8FA02279DA6BFACF2DF5F388091284D.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border: 0pt none ! important;" /></a>Book Butterfly (Kim)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04622743685532743469noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827859728696001655.post-83624343450101298862011-07-09T11:01:00.002-04:002011-07-09T11:06:09.079-04:00Haunting Violet by Alyxandra Harvey<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8685644-haunting-violet" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Haunting Violet" height="320" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1290347225l/8685644.jpg" width="212" /></a><br />
<b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Haunting-Violet-Alyxandra-Harvey/dp/080279839X?ie=UTF8&tag=httpbutterf09-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">HAUNTING VIOLET </a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=httpbutterf09-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=080279839X" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" />BY ALYXANDRA HARVEY</b><br />
<ul><li><b>Reading level:</b> Young Adult</li>
<li><b>Hardcover:</b> 352 pages</li>
<li><b>Publisher:</b> Walker Childrens; First Edition edition (June 21, 2011)</li>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">Violet Willoughby doesn't believe in ghosts. But they believe in her. After spending years participating in her mother's elaborate ruse as a fraudulent medium, Violet is about as skeptical as they come in all matters supernatural. Now that she is being visited by a very persistent ghost, one who suffered a violent death, Violet can no longer ignore her unique ability. She must figure out what this ghost is trying to communicate, and quickly because the killer is still on the loose.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: left;">Afraid of ruining her chance to escape her mother's scheming through an advantageous marriage, Violet must keep her ability secret. The only person who can help her is Colin, a friend she's known since childhood, and whom she has grown to love. He understands the true Violet, but helping her on this path means they might never be together. Can Violet find a way to help this ghost without ruining her own chance at a future free of lies?</div><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9407534-flying-blind"> </a></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="entry-content"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal">Full of mystery, intrigue and that trademark humor she's known for with The Drake Chronicles, Alyxandra Harvey exceeded my expectations with <i>Haunting Violet</i>. This was more than just a ghost story. It was a well-thought out paranormal piece of fiction told with great attention to historical accuracy. I thought Harvey did an amazing job with the historical aspects of the book. I loved the Victorian backdrop and felt as if I had stepped straight into the 1870's with each turn of the page. It was obvious to me that Harvey did an incredible amount of homework in constructing the scenes with the fake séances as well as other details. When I think back about the book, one scene always stands out in my mind- Violet being forced by her mother to wear a pair of bellows strapped under her dress so that she could create a "supernatural" breeze under the table for her mother's customers! Hilarious! It really was fascinating to me just how much people who want to believe so badly can be easily led astray with just a little ingenuity and a few careful props. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Right from page one, I couldn't help but connect to Violet. This was a girl whose whole life revolved around her fraudulent mother's schemes to trick upper class society into thinking she was a powerful medium. Yet she maintained an incredible sense of compassion and determination. I couldn't help but become vested in her story. There was a good romance in <i>Haunting Violet</i> that complemented the ghost story while never overshadowing it. I adored Colin, the Irish orphan Violet had known and worked with since childhood alongside her mother. If I had one critique of the book it would be that I almost wish it had been more on the adult side- I think I would've enjoyed it even more if the romance had been taken up a notch and the murder mystery a little more intense. Also a couple of times I did notice that the dialogue became a little "modernized", but these things were minor and in no way hindered my overall enjoyment. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal">Alyxandra Harvey's writing seems to have grown with each of her books, and this was my favorite one. I think it has something for everyone- mystery, supernatural and a touch of romance.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><u><b>Other Books by Alyxandra Harvey- The Drake Chronicles</b></u></div><br />
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<blockquote>Alyxandra Harvey lives in a stone Victorian house in Ontario, Canada with a few resident ghosts who are allowed to stay as long as they keep company manners. She loves medieval dresses, used to be able to recite all of The Lady of Shalott by Tennyson, and has been accused, more than once, of being born in the wrong century. She believes this to be mostly true except for the fact that she really likes running water, women’s rights, and ice cream.<br />
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Among her favourite books are ‘The Wood Wife’ by Terri Windling, ‘Jane Eyre’ by Charlotte Bronte, and of course, ‘Pride and Prejudice’ by Jane Austen. Elizabeth Bennet is her hero because she’s smart and sassy, and Mr. Darcy is, well, yum.<br />
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Aside from the ghosts, she also lives with husband and their dogs. She likes cinnamon lattes, tattoos and books. <a href="http://alyxandraharvey.com/">Official Website</a></blockquote></div><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"></a>Book Butterfly (Kim)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04622743685532743469noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827859728696001655.post-77523069968476021942011-07-07T22:27:00.000-04:002011-07-07T22:27:17.894-04:00Interview with Eileen Cook, Author of Getting Revenge on Lauren Wood and The Education of Hailey Kendrick!Welcome to today's Teen Book Scene tour stop with Eileen Cook.We're doing something a little different with this interview. Eileen has to answer my questions using lines from either <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Revenge-Lauren-Wood-Eileen/dp/1442409762?ie=UTF8&tag=httpbutterf09-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Getting Revenge on Lauren Wood </a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=httpbutterf09-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1442409762" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" />or <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Education-Hailey-Kendrick-Eileen-Cook/dp/1442413255?ie=UTF8&tag=httpbutterf09-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">The Education of Hailey Kendrick</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=httpbutterf09-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1442413255" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> </i>which released in January of this year! <br />
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<div style="color: #990000;"><b>1. If you could spend the day with Hailey Kendrick from The Education of Hailey Kendrick and Helen from Getting Revenge on Lauren Wood, what would you do with them? Do you think they'd get along?</b></div><br />
With Hailey, although I sing like a bad American Idol reject, …”I realized there was something worse than putting myself in a life-and-death situation. Karaoke.” (TEHK Page 179)<br />
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When hanging with Helen, “Once I dressed up a Barbie doll in a cheerleader outfit and tossed it into the giant wood chipper in the park. I grinned as a the flesh-colored plastic sprayed out in tiny half-moon crescents onto the ground.” (GRLW Page 23)<br />
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As to Hailey and Lauren getting along it would have to be out in the open and not a secret. “I’m not interested in being friends with you if you’re going to be all CIA I’d tell you, but then I’d have to kill you. I don’t even know if you want to be my friend.” (GRLW Page 206)<br />
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<b style="color: #990000;">2. Name a favorite quote of Hailey's and Lauren's from your two books.</b><br />
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Hailey: “Did you know that more people are killed every year in falling vending machine accidents than in shark attacks? Our school had an entire wall of unsecured ending machines in the lobby of the gym. If someone were crushed to death trying to get a frosty can of Diet coke, it wouldn’t be my fault.” (TEHK Page 9)<br />
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Lauren: “Old movies are black-and-white; they’ve got good guys and bad guys. The thing was, I didn’t want to live in the past anymore. It was time for my life to go full color.” (GRLW Page 261)<br />
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3. If you were a book on a bookshelf, what books would you want your neighbors to be?</b></div><br />
“Bon Appetit” (GRLW Page 80) because I love to cook and “The New Yorker” (TEHK Page 4) because they always have great articles and cartoons.<br />
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“You make him sound like a cocker spaniel. That’s not love. That’s affection. He’s a habit. Deep down you want to break the habit, so you did the one thing you know he wouldn’t be able to stand. You kissed someone else, and now you’re free. You’re scared to be off track, but I think you’re sick of always living in the lines.” (TEHK Page 145)<br />
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<b style="color: #990000;">5. Describe your books to us in 5 words or less.</b><br />
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Getting Revenge on Lauren Wood: Karma (page 25), best friends (Page 98) Revenge (Page 38) Fun (Page 126)<br />
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The Education of Hailey Kendrick: Independent (Page 255), Wondering (Page 149) declaration of love (Page 187)<br />
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<b style="color: #990000;">6. What is something surprising that Hailey keeps hidden from others The Education of Hailey Kendrick?</b><br />
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</b>“I wouldn’t have pegged you as a the vandal rebel-without-a-cause type.” (Page 97)<br />
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<b style="color: #990000;">7. If Helen was a superhero, how would you describe her?</b><br />
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“Fa-la-la-la kind of crazy.” (GRLW Page 127)<br />
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“I’m not sure where life is going to take me….but at least now I feel like I’m going somewhere.” (TEHK Page 225)<br />
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<blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBc7Lso1ipOyZKZnXb73dJsUp0KkdxQQ9RFYftwX5YVNiToy4cUS4-udaZTfgiQpVNVqyk8SB75GP94N5h9J0L1nZxlxpWC7mKik64wlOQmgf48oZNBbCkeHZSjuOQnUzPF1_VCQldUrhv/s1600/EILEEN.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494154439552980594" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBc7Lso1ipOyZKZnXb73dJsUp0KkdxQQ9RFYftwX5YVNiToy4cUS4-udaZTfgiQpVNVqyk8SB75GP94N5h9J0L1nZxlxpWC7mKik64wlOQmgf48oZNBbCkeHZSjuOQnUzPF1_VCQldUrhv/s200/EILEEN.jpg" style="height: 141px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></div>Eileen Cook is a multi-published author with her novels appearing in six different languages. She spent most of her teen years wishing she were someone else or somewhere else, which is great training for a writer. Her latest release, <b>Getting Revenge on Lauren Wood</b> was released in Jan 2010.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Be sure and check out <a href="http://theteenbookscene.weebly.com/the-education-of-hailey-kendrick--getting-revenge-on-lauren-wood-tour-details.html">The Teen Book Scene</a> for more tour stops! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://thebookbutterfly.com/2010/07/book-review-getting-revenge-on-lauren.html">Read my review</a> of Getting Revenge on Lauren Wood </div><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/298/A8FA02279DA6BFACF2DF5F388091284D.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border: 0pt none ! important;" /></a>Book Butterfly (Kim)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04622743685532743469noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827859728696001655.post-41472185456841153542011-07-06T23:17:00.000-04:002011-07-06T23:17:11.372-04:00The Book Blogger's Cookbook and Chance to win a Kindle!<div style="text-align: center;">Heard of The Book Blogger's Cookbook? It's described as "a community project from some of the blogosphere's best book bloggers in a simple, easy to read format. The cookbook combines a love of reading and dining to help you find books you'll devour and recipes you can't put down." </div><br />
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</a></div></span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Six-Moon-Summer-Seasons-ebook/dp/B004Y1MGYE?ie=UTF8&tag=httpbutterf09-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">SIX MOON SUMMER (BOOK ONE SEASONS OF THE MOON)</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=httpbutterf09-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B004Y1MGYE" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">BY SM REINE APRIL 26 2011 </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">Rylie's been bitten.<br />
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Rylie Gresham hates everything about summer camp: the food, the fresh air, the dumb activities, and the other girls in her cabin. But the worst part is probably being bitten by a werewolf. Being a teenager is hard enough, but now she's craving raw flesh and struggles with uncontrollable anger. If she doesn't figure out a way to stop the transformation, then at the end of summer, her life is worse than over. She'll be a monster.</div><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">1. <b style="color: #990000;"> </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><b style="color: #990000;">In <i>Six Moon Summer</i>, Rylie is an outsider – always picked last and always bullied. Then she's sent away to summer camp and Rylie's life changes in ways she never could've imagined. Can you tell us a bit more about the book and perhaps share with us a favorite line, scene or passage?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">On the surface, Six Moon Summer is about a young woman who is bitten by a werewolf and only has three months to find a cure before she loses herself forever. Underneath that, however, it’s about insecurity and growing up and finding out who you are-- and being comfortable with it! But that’s my inner English major talking. I can’t resist the urge to talk about the themes in books!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bullying is a major problem in schools these days, and you really have to find your inner strength to deal with it. Rylie struggles to deal with these things in Six Moon Summer. I’ll let this scene speak for itself:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">The cabin’s lights were already on. The sounds of laughter poured out the window. Disappointed she wasn’t the first back, Rylie pushed the door open.</span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">Her four roommates were clustered around a cot by the door. “...but I hope he doesn’t ask me out,” read Patricia in a nasal voice. “I don’t want to reject him and hurt his feelings, but I don’t want to be his girlfriend, either.”</span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">Rylie recognized those words. She had written them herself.</span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">In her diary.</span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">The contents of her backpack were spilled across a bed as her roommates pawed through them. Patricia held out her diary so everyone could see it. None of them had noticed Rylie yet. “I bet she made it all up,” said Kim. “Who would want to go out with her, huh? She wouldn’t even show up for the date!”</span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">“What are you doing?”</span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">The girl with the gold anklet looked up. Amber. She was holding a pair of Rylie’s shorts in one hand and Byron the Destructor, her favorite stuffed cat, in the other. “We noticed you hadn’t unpacked yet. We were just... helping,” she said before bursting into giggles. The other girls followed suit.</span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">Rylie stared at them. Her embarrassment in the mess was nothing in comparison to the numbness spreading through her now.</span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">“Nice teddy bear,” said Kim before dissolving into snickers.</span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">“You guys-- you-- I can’t...” She didn’t know what to say. Her mouth worked, but no sounds came out. “It’s not a bear. It’s a </span></i></span><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">cat<i>.”</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">She ripped the backpack off the bed, and they scattered. They had gone through everything, even her underwear. Rylie snatched her diary from Patricia’s hands and stuffed it into her bag.</span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">“Way to be grateful,” laughed Amber. “Didn’t you hear me? We were helping!”</span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">Eyes stinging, Rylie backed up until she hit the door. Why were they laughing? What was so funny?</span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">“Of course,” she whispered hoarsely. Helping.</span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">Rylie flew out of the cabin and passed Louise, who was setting pokers and marshmallows on a table by the fire.</span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">“Where are you going?” called Louise. “Rylie? Rylie!”</span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">She ran without looking where she was going. She passed a line of people heading back from the dining hall, and she knew they could all see her crying. Everyone would know what Patricia and Amber did to her. The teasing would only get worse.</span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">Rylie had to stop by the office on the shore of the glistening lake. Her chest felt constricted and she wheezed with every breath. She fumbled for her inhaler and tried to let all the air out of her lungs, but it took a few tries before she could calm down enough to breathe at all.</span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">She sucked down the medication. Wheezed again. Took another puff. Slowly, her air passage relaxed.</span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">“How could they do this to me?” Rylie rasped, fist clutched around her inhaler. “I hate them. I hate them.”</span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>2.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><i>Six Moon Summer</i> has a twist on the classic man-eating werewolf story in that this time around, the heroine is actually the wolf. What made you decide to write a story with this type of roll reversal?</b></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">You know, I never considered it as much of a role reversal at all. When I’m plotting out a story, one of my main thoughts is that I want to write characters to whom I can relate. I write what I like to read, and that’s usually strong but flawed women who take control of their lives. Although I love a good romance as much as anyone else, I don’t want to imagine myself as the woman waiting for some big beastly man to sweep me off my feet-- I want to be the beast!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: small;">3.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> <b style="color: #990000;"> </b></span><b style="color: #990000;">What do you think sets <i>Six Moon Summer</i> apart from other werewolf books currently in the market right now?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">In Six Moon Summer, werewolves are cursed beings. They are controlled by insatiable hunger. Even so, Rylie is still a good person at the core. How does she deal with her new, violent urges? There’s a depth and humanity to the book you often don’t see in classic horror, where the wolf man is purely monster, but the subject also isn’t sterile. Werewolves are scary, and you get to really experience the horror!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>4.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>What is the significance of the title "<i>Six Moon Summer</i>"?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">The werewolves in my mythology don’t immediately transform as soon as they’re bitten. There’s a transitioning phase elapsing three full months, wherein they change on every new and full moon-- so that’s six moons from the bite to the final change. Rylie experiences her transition during the summer, so... there you have it. :)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">Awkward, abrasive, and adventurous.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>6.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>In what ways (if any) do you relate to Rylie?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rylie’s kind of a punk kid who doesn’t know how to handle the adult problems happening in her teenage life. I was much the same, although I got along much better in high school than she does! I had a great support system, but Rylie is alone. We don’t have too much in common.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>7.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go and why?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ooh, <i>anywhere</i>? How about everywhere? Haha! I want to go somewhere no other human has set foot in centuries, like a river deep in a jungle canyon. I would love to be somewhere as beautiful as the places I imagine in my head! Of course, I’m not super athletic, so I’m probably not cut out for hiking to remote places. I’ll just go to the Middle East.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>8.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>What are some young adult novels you think every teen and adult should read?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">Obviously the Harry Potter books. Anybody who hasn’t read Harry Potter is living a dull, sad life. I forced them on my husband as soon as we married! Brandon Mull’s Fablehaven is also amazing (and terrifying), and I think Christopher Pike’s Last Vampire books are a total must-read... although maybe not the new ones.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>9.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>What was the most unexpected thing you've learned so far on your publishing journey?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nothing happens without work. Every little bit of this has been the result of hours of sweating and stressing and hair-pulling, from the cover to the editing to the promotion. It would be wonderful if there was a magical publishing fairy that came along and made it all happen, but no matter which route you pursue in publishing, you’re going to spend so much time bleeding your life into the book. It sounds gruesome, but it kind of is!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>10.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Can you discuss with us what we can look forward to next in this series? Any other upcoming projects in the works?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">I don’t want to share too much and spoil it, but we can look forward to Rylie learning even more about herself and coming to terms with the events of the first book. There’s going to be four books in the series, so Rylie still has a long, painful journey ahead of her before she finds some kind of catharsis. We also get to learn a lot more about the mysterious Seth and his family.</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2GL46YhJxH2Y2ILETya7HB4WFhFDzHqIoq5xbUdTGIrd5nsSt3PzgC1Dpqsx2rfxBauFQAhCiW3DDzTygAtcQQl6-uej3gV6-zkDG3WyWOR858siMs02kTGVftEOstg_xp8IhjjNWUhpa/s1600/10892567.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2GL46YhJxH2Y2ILETya7HB4WFhFDzHqIoq5xbUdTGIrd5nsSt3PzgC1Dpqsx2rfxBauFQAhCiW3DDzTygAtcQQl6-uej3gV6-zkDG3WyWOR858siMs02kTGVftEOstg_xp8IhjjNWUhpa/s200/10892567.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><blockquote><a href="http://smreine.com/">SM Reine</a> is an author of dark fantasy for teen and adult audiences. Her most widely known work is "Six Moon Summer," which has been hailed as "fresh and fast-paced" and "captivating." She lives in Nevada with her husband, the Helpful Baby, and too many black animals to count. </blockquote><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/298/A8FA02279DA6BFACF2DF5F388091284D.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border: 0pt none ! important;" /></a>Book Butterfly (Kim)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04622743685532743469noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827859728696001655.post-70225383974918110272011-06-30T22:21:00.002-04:002011-06-30T22:21:59.777-04:00Interview with Deborah Cooke, Author of Flying Blind!<i>Today I'd like to welcome Deborah Cooke, author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Flying-Blind-Diaries-Deborah-Cooke/dp/0451233883?ie=UTF8&tag=httpbutterf09-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Flying Blind: The Dragon Diarie</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=httpbutterf09-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0451233883" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" />s, the first book in a new series about shape-shifting humans trying to control their "inner dragons". Deborah stopped by to discuss the book with us, which recently released on June 7th. Be sure and check out my <a href="http://thebookbutterfly.com/2011/06/giveaway-win-arc-of-flying-blind-by.html">contest</a> to win an ARC of Flying Blind as well. </i><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsSdT2lgo-STa7F1VSdr8jtlQKhZai2MBt31_6KadlN3MGbDHkoE5AEZLZB6cHJc8BY2kVyAkPzfWfOJ1ucgPfkE0XeJ7wOnG0wlQAwjYG2UMHI1Es2wQjup9L_yYcvlfSdnupwq6tV6s/s1600/deb.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsSdT2lgo-STa7F1VSdr8jtlQKhZai2MBt31_6KadlN3MGbDHkoE5AEZLZB6cHJc8BY2kVyAkPzfWfOJ1ucgPfkE0XeJ7wOnG0wlQAwjYG2UMHI1Es2wQjup9L_yYcvlfSdnupwq6tV6s/s200/deb.JPG" width="160" /></a></div><blockquote><span id="freeTextContainerauthor1005984">Deborah makes her home in Canada with her husband. When she isn't writing, she can be found knitting, sewing or hunting for vintage patterns. Deborah Cooke has always been fascinated with dragons, although she has never understood why they have to be the bad guys. She has an honors degree in history, with a focus on medieval studies. She is an avid reader of medieval vernacular literature, fairy tales and fantasy novels, and has written over thirty romance novels under the names Claire Cross and Claire Delacroix.</span><br />
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</b></div><b style="color: #990000;">1. Zoe Sorensson is a girl trying to “fly blind” in a world where other find it effortless to conjure and control their dragons. As the only female dragon shape shifter with special powers, what would you say is the hardest thing about being Zoe?</b><br />
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Having no references and no one to ask for advice. I think it really bugs her that she can't just look up Wyvern and get an itemized list of what she should be able to do, maybe some tips on how to accomplish it.<br />
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I was listening to a lot of old music when I wrote this book. The one song that ran in my head for Zoë was Queen's first hit, KEEP YOURSELF ALIVE. It's a song that to me seems to be about being careful what you wish for.<br />
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Probably the most interesting thing is that medieval people believed that dragons were real. They lived off the edges of the maps ("here be dragones") or in Africa, where all sorts of strange creatures were known to live. Any hero worth his salt had to have killed one in a fierce battle, and a lot of medical remedies were made of dragon components - dragon's blood, or dragon skin. Saints also confronted dragons and were eaten alive by them - or defeated them with the sign of the cross. <br />
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The other interesting thing about dragon lore is that most cultures in the world tell stories about dragons. Maybe they are real!<br />
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4. You are the author of the adult series <i>Dragonfire </i>and have written over thirty romance novels under the pseudonyms Claire Cross and Claire Delacroix. What made you want to venture into the Young Adult genre? Would you say it’s been more challenging than writing for adults?</b><br />
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I followed Zoë's story into the YA genre. In the adult Dragonfire series, there is only one female dragon shifter at a time, called the Wyvern. The current Wyvern died in book #$3 of that series, which was KISS OF FATE. And so the child conceived in that book turned out to be a girl, not a boy, and was named Zoë. The idea was that she would ultimately become the new Wyvern. It took me a while to realize that Zoë's powers would manifest at puberty - the guy dragons come into their powers at puberty - which meant that her teenage years would be particularly challenging. I thought her coming of age story would be fun to write, but it was only when I realized that she'd be turning 16, in high school, keeping her dragon identity secret from her friends, etc. etc., that I saw it as a YA trilogy. So, it wasn't so much that I wanted to write YA, as that I wanted to tell Zoë's story and her story was a YA. <br />
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I like writing different kinds of stories, so I wouldn't say this series was more challenging. The structure of the story is different, as it is the story of Zoë's journey - while the Dragonfire books are romances. She became more clear to me when I wrote in first person, so that's a difference from my romances, too. Writing YA was actually more similar to writing women's fiction for me, specifically the four Coxwell books I wrote as Claire Cross. The first two of those were in first person, as well, which is one of my favourite writing tools. <br />
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<b style="color: #990000;">5.<i>Winging It</i>, the second book in the series is currently scheduled to release in December 2011. Can you give us any insider scoop on what we can look forward to next for Zoe, rocker Jared and best friend Meagan?</b><br />
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Trouble! One of my favourite things to do to characters is challenge their expectations. Zoë's will be challenged in a big way in this next book - and again in the third one. Essentially, as she becomes more adept with her abilities, she needs bigger challenges in order to grow even more. I really like the dynamic between her and her father in WINGING IT. It was only a matter of time before two dragons in one house became too hot to handle.<br />
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Zoë Sorensson is perfectly normal, except she's been told she's destined for great things. Zoë's the one female dragon shapeshifter of her kind. But Zoë is at the bottom of the class when it comes to being Pyr and her powers are AWOL, so she's sent to a Pyr boot camp. <br />
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Zoë quickly realizes that she has to master her powers yesterday, because the Pyr are in danger and boot camp is a trap. The Mages want to eliminate all shifters and the Pyr are next in line-unless Zoë and her friends can work together and save their own kind.</span></div></div></div><br />
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<div><div style="background: rgb(217,215,215); font-weight: bold;"><u><b>HOURGLASS BY MYRA MCENTIRE</b></u><b> </b><br />
<b>Reading level:</b> Young Adult <b> </b><br />
<b>Hardcover:</b> 400 pages <b> </b><br />
<b>Publisher:</b> <a href="http://www.egmontusa.com/">EgmontUSA</a> (June 14, 2011)<br />
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<b>One hour to rewrite the past . . . </b><br />
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For seventeen-year-old Emerson Cole, life is about seeing what isn't there: swooning Southern Belles; soldiers long forgotten; a haunting jazz trio that vanishes in an instant. Plagued by phantoms since her parents' death, she just wants the apparitions to stop so she can be normal. She's tried everything, but the visions keep coming back.So when her well-meaning brother brings in a consultant from a secretive organization called the Hourglass, Emerson's willing to try one last cure. But meeting Michael Weaver may not only change her future, it may change her past.<br />
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Who is this dark, mysterious, sympathetic guy, barely older than Emerson herself, who seems to believe every crazy word she says? Why does an electric charge seem to run through the room whenever he's around? And why is he so insistent that he needs her help to prevent a death that never should have happened?<br />
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Full of atmosphere, mystery, and romance, <b>Hourglass</b> merges the very best of the paranormal and science-fiction genres in a seductive, remarkable young adult debut.</div></div><div></div><div><br />
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