Trailer Thursday-NEW Shadow Hills

29 Apr, 2010 by in shadow hills, VLC productions 3 comments

Out trailer Thursday is “Shadow Hills,” officially released on YouTube today! I just finished this book last week and it is amazing. Vania and Anastasia are two of my favorite people. I first met Vania of VLC Productions at the “Beautiful Creatures” release party in Salt Lake City. She is one talented lady and a photographer after my own heart! Author Anastasia Hopcus has been SO good to us from the beginning. Enter to win Shadow Hills swag and see our review on the right hand side bar under International Giveways!

Utah Author Interview- Mette Ivie Harrison

29 Apr, 2010 by in giveaway, mette ivie harrison, utah authors 9 comments

Where were you born?
New Jersey

Did you graduate from college, if so from where and in what major?
BYU, B.A. and M.A. in German Literature 1990
Princeton, PhD in Germanic Languages and Literatures 1995

What are your hobbies?
triathlon, knitting, crocheting, piano, quilting

What are your favorite all-time books?
Lois McMaster Bujold
Megan Whalen Turner
Robin Hobb
Margeret Peterson Haddix

When did you start writing your book and how long did it take to get it published?
I wrote a lot as a child and teen, but stopped for about ten years. I started up again in 1993 and had my first offer in 2000. I wrote twenty novels before I got to the one that sold. They are almost all unredeemable.

Who is your hero/ mentor?
Rick Walton

What suggestion would you give young writers?
Listen to people around who tell you what you do uniquely well. Do that.

What do you plan to do when you retire?
Retire? Why would I retire when writing is the thing I love to do most?

Do you have another day job?
I have 5 kids.

Favorite music? Does music or art inspire your writing?
I don’t listen to music while writing. It distracts me. But I love Chopin and the piano music from Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, the movies.

What are the names of your published works?

THE MONSTER IN ME
MIRA, MIRROR
THE PRINCESS AND THE HOUND
THE PRINCESS AND THE BEAR
THE PRINCESS AND THE SNOWBIRD
TWO PRINCESSES (forthcoming)

Are you working on any books right now?
Several, a contemporary YA fantasy/romance based on the original Tristan and Isolde tale, a postapocalyptic novel, and a vampire novel. Plus more Hound Saga books.

What do you aspire to do before you die?
Be happy.

Literary crush?
Megan Whalen Turner

What is your all-time favorite children’s book?
The Queen of Attolia

Do you prefer independent booksellers and why?
Because they buy more than the best sellers with big concepts.

Do you have a writer’s group?
I used to, but moved away, so right now my two teen daughters are my first readers of almost everything.

Mette’s Newest Book “The Princess and the Snowbird” comes out this week.

Book description from author’s website…Her parents were legends. When she was born, they gave their magic to her. And they will not take it back. Now, it is up to her if magic lives or dies. But she has lived all her life with animals. Why should it matter to her what humans do to their own magic?

Read an excerpt of all Mette’s books online at http://www.metteivieharrison.com/mybooks.html

Thanks so much to Mette Ivie Harrison for sitting with us for an interview. To learn more about Mette visit her website which is full of childhood photos, triathlon tales and beautiful writing. We snagged some of her bookmarks at the Authorpalooza at Barnes and Noble. And, we are giving them away to you lucky blog readers. The giveaway also includes other Utah author bookmarks and one of our site buttons!

To enter to win a prize pack: leave your name in our comments
+5 for following our blog or adding our button to yours
+2 for each contest retweet @FireIcePhotos
+2 for visiting her site and commenting below http://www.metteivieharrison.com/

Giveaway ends May 29, 2010 and is open internationally

Waiting on Wednesday "Sea"

28 Apr, 2010 by in etsy, Sea 1 comment

SEA
Heidi R Kling
To be released June 10, 2010
details Hardcover, 336 pages
http://www.heidirkling.com/
isbn 0399251634

Synposis From Goodreads…Haunted by recurring nightmares since her mother’s disappearance over the Indian ocean three years before, fifteen-year old California girl Sienna Jones reluctantly travels with her psychiatrist father’s volunteer team to six-months post-tsunami Indonesia where she meets the scarred and soulful orphaned boy, Deni, who is more like Sea than anyone she has ever met.

She knows they can’t be together, so why can’t she stay away from him? And what about her old best friend-turned-suddenly-hot Spider who may or may not be waiting for her back home? And why won’t her dad tell her the truth about her mother’s plane crash? The farther she gets from home, the closer she comes to finding answers.

And Sea’s real adventure begins.

I have seen a lot of chatting about this book on twitter and I am excited for it to be released. (Hopefully somehow I get an ARC) The author is such a fun person…and a boy like the Sea? So cool! In the meantime I have been busy creating a new Etsy Shop called “Little Red Reads” and adding a SEA inspired collection! I am having a blast!

Check it out here: http://www.etsy.com/shop/LittleRedReads
and pardon our dust! I am also waiting on pins and needles for my cool new banner and avatar 🙂 SQUEE~

La Boutique de Josefina

28 Apr, 2010 by in etsy, scarf 21 comments

Today’s ETSY giveaway is for a versatile knitting scarf from Chile native Gabriela Ordenes. Thank you so much for visiting my store, La Boutique de Josefina.

Josefina is my poetic name.

Feel free to contact me with any questions you might have. Your visit and comment are a pleasure to me.

Also, you can find me at Ravelry as Gaviota, and in my blog josefinayelamanecer.blogspot.com

All knitting pieces and patterns that you can see here, were designed by me, Gabriela Ordenes, and are copyright protected.


To Enter To Win:
leave your name below
+3 for contributing a dollar to Chilean families via PayPal heatoddgardner@yahoo.com and +3 additional entries for each dollar after that ( if you wish to mail a check please email us)
+3 for visiting her blog and commenting
+2 for heating her shop http://www.etsy.com/shop/LaboutiquedeJosefina and our new shop on Etsy http://www.etsy.com/shop/LittleRedReads
+2 for each tweet @FireIcePhotos on Twitter

Contest ends May 28, 2010 and is open internationally

Pantuflas Los Rusticas Giveaway

27 Apr, 2010 by in pantuflas 21 comments

Our Etsy shop giveaway is from Chilean shop Chivato.
She is donating a pair of handmade Pantuflas/ slippers to one of our blog readers. You choose the color and size! Pantuflas by Chivato are knitted and crocheted of natural sheep wool. The shoe sole consists of real recycled sheepskin from the south of Chile and is needled to the slipper. Manufacture 100% handmade. Pantuflas are manufactured on order corresponding in size!!!

To Enter to win a pair of slippers: leave your name and email address below

+3 per dollar donated to our CHile releif fund via Paypal at heatoddgardner@yahoo.com
+3 for visiting her shop and hearting it http://www.etsy.com/shop/chivato
+2 for visiting her official site and commenting http://www.arte-sanias.com/
+3 for visiting us on Flickr and picking your favorite photos
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chivato_artesanias
http://www.flickr.com/photos/heatherzahngardner
+2 for each tweet, leave the link
Contest ends May 27th and is open internationally!

Teaser Tuesday- Wonderland Revisited

27 Apr, 2010 by in Teaser Tuesday Leave a comment

Wonderland Revisited and the Games Alice Played There
by Keith Sheppard, Michael Everson (Editor), Cynthia Brownell (Illustrator)

This 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

“One would feel very foolish”, though Alice, “if one tried to run away from something only to find oneself running towards it!” By now the hum was deafening. p. 39

Mom’s Monday-Librarian’s Dream

27 Apr, 2010 by in book giveaway, narnia, tom sawyer 13 comments

I still remember my Elementary School Librarian “Mrs Pursigan” and the hours I spent in there searching for information on the Loch Ness Monster and hte horses of Chinqoteague Island! How sad to think that many school children will not have the fond memories that I had of spending time poring over books. To celebrate teachers and librarians cross the world who encourage others to open a book and open their imagination, we are giving away two prize packs.

Each winner will receive:
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer- Mark Twain paperback Scholastic Edition
The Giver– Lois Lowry paperback Laurel-Leaf Newbery edition
The Wisdom of Narnia– Lewis/Baynes Hardback Harper Collins edition

To Enter to Win: leave your name and email address below
+1 tell us about a librarian you remember
+3 for each dollar donated to Chile earthquake relief via PayPal to heatoddgardner@yahoo.com
+2 retweet @FireIcePhotos leave the link
+5 post this or our button to your blog
Contest ends May 26, 2010 and is open to US and Canada only or internationally if you are willing to pay shipping upon winning. Good Luck!

Angela’s Studio 1 Jewelry Giveaway

26 Apr, 2010 by in Uncategorized 61 comments


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Today’s Etsy shop giveaway is for two amazing necklaces! Welcome To Angela’s Studio 1. I am just setting up shop so bear with me as I list my items little by little. I displayed and sold some of my jewelry in my mom’s shop and now have opened a shop of my own. Grab a cup of coffee and shop awhile, you might find something you like.

My mom has been on Etsy going on 5 years and has unique hats, scarves gloves, purses and lots of other goodies. Click here and you will be taken to her shop.
http://www.etsy.com/shop/countingstitches?ga_search_query=countingstitches&ga_search_type=seller_usernames

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To enter to win one of the two necklaces: leave your name and email address below

+3 go to her shop and pick your favorite item
+3 for each dollar donated to our Chile relief fund via Paypal at heatoddgardner@yahoo.com
+3 heart her shop at http://www.etsy.com/shop/angelastudio1

and ours at http://www.etsy.com/shop/heatherzahngardner
+3 follow us on Twitter @FireIcePhotos, leave your username
+3 become a fan of Fire and Ice on Facebook
+5 post this to your blog
+2 for each tweet, post the link

Contest ends May 24, 2010 and is open internationally!