Teaser Tuesday-The Lost Saint

07 Sep, 2010 by in Teaser Tuesday, the lost saint 4 comments

Today’s Teaser Tuesday is from The Lost Saint by Bree Despain.

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly book meme
hosted by Miz B. of Should Be Reading.

This is how it works: Grab a book that you are currently reading. Turn to any page and grab two teaser sentences from that page. Make sure it’s not a spoiler in case anyone wants to read the book. Include the author and name of the book

“I couldn’t help but thinking that this would seem like the perfect night to someone like Talbot: a little dancing, a little dinner, and a little demon slaying for dessert. I thought about his pressed shirt, styled hair, and even a splash of musky cologne I could smell on his neck.”

p. 270, The Lost Saint

Book Review- Life Liberty and Pursuit

06 Sep, 2010 by in omnific publishing, Susan Kaye Quinn Leave a comment

by Susan Kaye Quinn
Published June 22nd 2010
Omnific Publishing
ISBN 1936305232
4 stars

When college-bound Eliza falls into a cruise-ship pool, she doesn’t expect to fall in love. And when navy recruit David pulls her from the water, he finds her surprisingly hard to resist. But a whirlwind of rescues, candlelit nights, and beachside misunderstandings pulls them into a four-day love affair that threatens to break their hearts before their love has a chance to start.

When David leaves for endless drills and physical training in boot camp, and Eliza returns to Albuquerque to prepare for Princeton in the fall, they dare to keep loving each other and struggle to imagine a future when they can be together. But when miles and mistrust pull them apart, they are forced to choose between keeping true to their dreams and having the courage to love.

I received this book from a cute friend of mine I met while working our vendor booths at Twi -events, Micha from We Book Apparel and Ominific Publishing. Thank you so much!!

The first couple of chapters of Life , Liberty and Pursuit were a little rocky for me. I had a hard time believing so many catastrophes would happen all in a four day period. Girl falls into swimming pool and almost drowns (can she not swim?), boy and brother get drugged and kidnapped while ashore. Then as the make outs during their four day cruise pick up it gets a little too steamy for my taste. I am thinking…”hmm not really YA material, more like watered down pure adult romance novel…thinking some of it could have been left out. But, I must shout hooray to Ms. Quinn for pushing abstinence, and advocating waiting. There was plenty I truly enjoyed about this book.

About a third of the way through and I was hooked. I found the interactions between David and Eliza via letters pulled my heart strings as they both try to navigate those crucial decisions made right after high school and beginning college. I am so glad the author didn’t tie their future up with a cute little bow and send them off happily ever after. There is separation of miles, testing conditions and time to get to know each other. Eliza is in the process of finding out who she is and what she truly wants while David is pushing himself at Navy boot camp. I personally love a man in uniform and grew up on various army bases so the story resonated with me. And it doesn’t hurt female readers to hear about his incredibly charming bunk mate Clayton. This was one of the strong points of the book for me. Real and likable secondary characters. As Eliza visits the Marek household, I can’t help thinking I want to be with them for their family Christmas. David’s brother is cute, his sister Tea spunky and his father a successful doctor in the community. They are a Polish Irish mix of fun and it’s endearing how much they support one another. I walked away with a good feeling, left with the theme of believing in the future and faith in the power of love. Overall I really liked it and would recommend it to those 18 and up. Four stars to a story about a cruise and real life choices made. To learn more visit http://www.lifelibertyandpursuit.com/

Half Moon Cover Contest

02 Sep, 2010 by in giveaway 31 comments

In honor of Half Moon coming out in 140 days, Jordan Deen is hosting a ‘Half Moon’ cover reveal scavenger hunt!

Here are the details:
Today, we are one of 14 bloggers who will reveal the ‘Half Moon’ cover art! As an added bonus, they will post an exclusive part of Chapter 2 of ‘Half Moon’. (You can read Chapter 1 by clicking the Half Moon link to the left on Jordan’s blog).

Now, the contest:
It’s just like a scavenger hunt! Here are the rules:
1) You start at Jordan Deen’s site She has a special post with all the bloggers hyperlinked in the order they need to be visited.

2) You go to each bloggers website, check out their post and their portion of Chapter 2 of Half Moon. Within their section there will be one word that stands out from the others. Collect that word. You must follow each of the blogs and comment on each in order to be officially entered.

3) Once you have all your words, you return to Jordan’s site and post a comment of what you thought about Chapter 2 of ‘Half Moon’. Then, send her an email to: info@JordanDeen.com with the sentence that the words formed from the thirteen websites. That’s all! Once you have commented, followed everyone, and emailed Jordan- you are done. If you want extra entries- please tweet this contest, add it to your blog roll, or share it on facebook- incllude the URL when you comment the “Half Moon” post.

The contest will go from early morning on 9/2/10 and conclude at midnight 9/9/10 (PST). (Just in time for Blogfest to begin!)

Want to know the prizes? One person will win all of the following:
Half Moon Swag
$25 B&N Gift Card
Journal
Jewelry Box
USB Camera/Video recorder

That’s right! It’s a *huge* prize pack! So spread the word.

Here’s our excerpt…find the key word then go to blog #4 Amy at www.ReadingTeen.net @ReadingTeen2

Chapter 2 Half Moon by Jordan Deen:

“She spread out a blanket and patted it for me to join her. “The first time Dillon touched me, the world stopped. I swear, I heard music. I never thought it would happen because I didn’t meet him until I was seventeen. So, we sort of have that in common. Dillon is seven years older than me too. He actually mated with someone else, but she died before either of them had transformed. She was five and he was six.” She picked up a smooth black rock and smashed it between her palms. “They never thought I would mate, but one night, we were following up on a lead to find you and poof! We mated, our marks appeared instantly, and we’ve been inseparable ever since. It hasn’t always been easy though. I guess that’s the point I was trying to get at.” She half smiled and tossed the rock into a deep part of the creek. “Anyway, the first time I transformed was just a few days after I turned eighteen. They thought that the gene had passed me, so my family was relieved when I finally mated.”

Contest rules All entries:
*Must follow Jordan’s blog and ours.
* Must comment on Jordan’s blog and this post
* Must retrieve the one word from the ‘Half Moon’ post on each page in the order of the words from the blogs.
* Must send Jordan an email at: info@jordandeen.com with your name, email and the sentence made up from all the words they collected from the websites

GOOD LUCK!

Waiting on Wednesday- Firelight

01 Sep, 2010 by in sophie jordan, YA fiction 1 comment

Our WOW today is Firelight by Sophie Jordan. Coming out in only 6 days!!

“With her rare ability to breathe fire, Jacinda is special even among the draki—the descendants of dragons who can shift between human and dragon forms. But when Jacinda’s rebelliousness leads her family to flee into the human world, she struggles to adapt, even as her draki spirit fades. The one thing that revives it is Will, whose family hunts her kind. Jacinda can’t resist getting closer to him, even though she knows she’s risking not only her life but the draki’s most closely guarded secret.”

Here’s the trailer from Harper Teen

And the author talking about wy she chose to write it…

Clockwork Angel Steampunk Giveaway

31 Aug, 2010 by in steampunk 40 comments

Congrats to Cassandra Clare on the release of her book The Clockwork Angel! Happy Book Birthday! We pre-ordered ours and will be waiting by the mailbox today.

To celebrate we are giving away this piece of jewelry from our Cassie Clare inspired collection on Etsy…suspended wings steampunk necklace.


As well we though it would be fun to include these two Texas steampunk graphic novels. One named “Clockwork Angels” by Lea Hernandez, and the first in his series, Cathedral Child which is signed by the author.

To Enter To Win: leave your name in the comments below and tell us your favorite item in our Cassandra Clare or angels Etsy collections.

Contest ends September 31, 2010 and is open internationally. Good Luck!

Contest Winners and News

31 Aug, 2010 by in contest winners 2 comments

Congrats to LizzyGo who won our Key to The Repository necklace http://fireandicereads.com/2010/07/key-to-repository-necklace-giveaway.html

and Lucky’s Luna who won the Orange Popsicle Haze SEA note cards http://fireandicereads.com/2010/07/orange-popsicle-haze-card-giveaway.html

Please email me your mailing address!

This week we will be participating in the cover release and giveaway by Jordan Deen for her upcoming YA release Half Moon. Stop by on Thursday to play!

Recent Book Events

30 Aug, 2010 by in utah authors 4 comments

This month I attended two really fun book events, The BYU bookstore signings for Education Week and the Book For Every Child Writing for Charity event hosted by Shannon Hale. Here are some of the photos I took. See our twitgoo feed @fireicephotos for all of them. And be sure to check out Brodi Ashton’s and CranberryFries blogs for more coverage of the Writing For Charity event!

James Dashner author of The Maze Runner and 13th Reality with our button.


Sara Zarr, author of Once Was Lost, Sweethearts and Story Of A Girl

Shannon Hale with all of our signed books


Jessica Day George author of Dragon Slippers and Princess of Glass


Bree Despain with Staff from the Charity Extravaganza

Ally Condie’s gift basket and ARC of Matched

Manager or The Kings English bookstore with our pin on her shirt

Me With Bree Despain Author of The Dark Divine series and Cranberryfries Blogger

Emily Wing Smith author of “The Way He Lived” and up and coming YA author Brodi Ashton


J Scott Savage author of the Far World Series

Us with Sheralyn Pratt, author of the Rhea Jensen Series

Ester Rasband author of Remembering Christmas


Ally Condie author of Matched

New Infinite Days Inspired Necklace

28 Aug, 2010 by in necklace, rebecca maizel 23 comments

For our final post and giveaway in our Infinite Week may we introduce a new necklace in our Etsy shop at LittleredReads made in collaboration with ideas from the author of the book “Infinite Days” by Rebecca Maizel, copyright 2010 St. Martin’s Griffin. http://rebeccamaizel.blogspot.com/

…a tiny pile of glittering dust. It looked as though sand was mixed with mica or tiny diamonds…I dipped my thumb and index finger in Rhode’s remains.” p 23

Rhode has brought my jewelry box form Hathersage so it was easy to find an old blood vial and fill it with a handful of Rhode’s remains. I hung it from a braided chain around my neck.” p.24, Infinite Days by Rebecca Maizel

The “Remembering Rhode” Marcasite pendant necklace is made from a rice vial tiny bottle approx 1 2/8″ – 1 5/8″ tall w/ silver plated vial cap vial opening is approx. 4mm wide
4mm swarovski crystal bicones fit inside this vial stacked in a single row. The vial is filled with marcasite glitter powder

To Enter : leave your name and email address if it’s not in your blogger profile
additional entries
+1 for hearting our shop on etsy http://www.etsy.com/shop/littleredreads
+2 to our blog followers and Facebook fans
+2 for visitng our sister shop and picking your favorite item http://www.etsy.com/shop/HeatherZahnGardner
+2 for becoming our fan on facebook
+2 for following us on Twitter
+1 for each retweet @FireIcePhotos
+5 for posting this giveaway on your blog
+3 for posting on Facebook or right sidebar
+1 for commenting on our Review post below of Infinite Days
Leave your links and total the entries in your comments

Contest ends September 28, 2010 and open internationally

Infinite Blues Art Print

27 Aug, 2010 by in rebecca maizel 6 comments


This art print goes along with the beach at Wickham and the way Lenah describes the blue of Rhode’s eyes in the book Infinite Days by rebecca Maizel…. donated by Deep Creek Studios
“There’s always a back story to my images. Each one I create captures a moment in time, and reflects what I was seeing and feeling at that moment. I like to make images that are graphic, timeless and evoke a mood or emotion. My work has been in numerous exhibitions over the years, and included in private collections. Thank you for looking at my images, I hope you like them as much as I enjoyed making them.”
TITLE: Infinite Blues
SIZE: 8×12
PAPER TYPE: Matte Fine Art

DESCRIPTION
This photograph is printed on matte finish, acid-free fine art paper using archival inks, and will last a lifetime. it will be signed and dated by me, and mailed in a rigid, protective shipping container. Please see my Seaside Memories section for more images like this one.

To Enter to win an 8×12 art print: leave your name below
and email address if it’s not in your blogger profile
additional entries
+1 for hearting his shop on etsy http://www.etsy.com/shop/deepcreekstudios

+2 to our blog followers and Facebook fans
+2 for becoming his fan on facebook http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/profile.php?id=100000027832857
+2 for following us on Twitter
+1 for each retweet @FireIcePhotos
+5 for posting this giveaway on your blog
+3 for posting on Facebook or right sidebar
+1 for commenting on our Review post below of Infinite Days
Leave your links and total the entries in your comments

Contest ends September 27, 2010 and open internationally

Wickham Scrabble Tile Pendant

26 Aug, 2010 by in etsy, rebecca maizel, wickham 28 comments

This pendant is for fans of WICKHAM and for the name of the school Lena and Justin attend in the book Infinite Days. Donated by Etsy seller PrettyWhimsical.

“Welcome. I’m a stay at home mom and wife to my college sweetheart and best friend. I am thankful for the creative gifts God has given me and enjoy working with my hands and sharing my creations with you. Thank you for stopping by and I hope you will return often.”

“Mr. Wickham is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his making friends—-whether he may be equally capable of retaining them, is less certain.” Pride & Prejudice

To Enter to win: leave your name below
and email address if it’s not in your blogger profile
additional entries
+1 for hearting her shop on etsy http://www.etsy.com/shop/prettywhimsical
+2 for following her on Twitter http://twitter.com/prettywhimsical
+2 for becoming her fan on facebook http://www.facebook.com/prettywhimsical
+2 to our blog followers and Facebook fans
+2 for following us on Twitter
+1 for each retweet @FireIcePhotos
+5 for posting this giveaway on your blog
+3 for posting on Facebook or right sidebar
Leave your links and total the entries in your comments

Contest ends September 25, 2010 and open internationally