Calamity Jack Launch Party
From Goodreads…”Jack thinks of himself as a criminal mastermind with an unfortunate amount of bad luck. A schemer, a trickster …maybe even a thief? But, of course, he’s not out for himself he’s trying to take the burden off his hardworking mum’s shoulders. She’d understand, right? He hopes she might even be proud. Then, one day, Jack chooses a target a little more …’giant’ than the usual, and as one little bean turns into a great big building-destroying beanstalk, his troubles really begin. But with help from Rapunzel and other eccentric friends, Jack just might out-swindle the evil giants and put his beloved city back in the hands of the people who live there …whilst catapulting them and the reader into another fantastical adventure”
Shannon standing on Dean’s back…later she used him as a horse
Dean autographing our book
Shannon and Dewan “capering about” taught us what a true caper is!
Nathan Hale’s work for Calamity Jack…
the middle image almost became the cover for the book
Rapunzel artwork by Nathan Hale
The authors talking about the process of publishing their newest graphic novel
Trailer of Rapunzel’s Revenge, the first in the series
Win Wings By Aprilynne Pike
http://wickedwalker.blogspot.com/2010/01/contest-win-wings-by-aprilynne-pike.html and don’t forget to follow her on Twitter @Raycee3
Fallen Archangel Chasing Brooklyn Contest
CHASING BROOKLYN CONTEST
Enter this awesome contest from Fallen Archangel http://www.fallenarchangel.com/home/featuredfiction.html
Courtesy of Simon & Schuster, we have 5 copies of this book to give away to US & Canadian Residents. (We have read it and it’s really GOOD!) Here’s how to enter….
Grab the Chasing Booklyn button ——>>
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Place it on your Blog, Facebook, MySpace, or anywhere else you can think of 🙂 Post a link to each place you have posted it, in the contest thread in our forum. You will receive one entry for each place you post it.
Contest runs through Sunday, January 10!
Bright Blue Miracle
“Seventeen-year-old Leigh Mason is not sure she’s ready to share her mom, her bedroom, and her little sisters with her new stepsister, Betsy. And she’s definitely not ready to share her best friend, who happens to be a boy!
Coping with a blended family is not easy for either Leigh or Betsy, especially during their senior year in high school. Each step brings them nearer to a crisis that will either send them running in different directions or bind them firmly together (which, let’s face it, would take a miracle).
Bright Blue Miracle is a new young adult novel that has everything a girl wants: a hero (more specifically, a really cute boy), a villain (who happens to be a stepsister), comedy, despair, pedicures, ice cream, love, hate, tennis, revenge, and, of course, a couple of surprises that might send you for some tissues.”
This was a fun-loving realistic look at how it would feel to combine families and share a room with what seems to be a “perfect” step-sister. Blending two households with teenagers is never an easy task! But Gamma makes it easier with her pedicures and hook ups. It’s a great book for teens with lessons of sharing your guy friends with their girlfriends. Jeremy handles things as every girl wishes he would and you’ll find your heart strings tugged. I give it a three out of five stars.
We Have Buttons
Hip Hip Hooray! Special thanks to Jean at Fallen Archangel for all of her hard work. She just rocks… Check out our two angel buttons on the sidebar and feel free to grab them. They will link to Heather’s Etsy shop with YA jewelry, photography, our music CD and journals.
Now we just need a button with code for our Fire and Ice logo with the words written on it and small enough to fit on the side bar.
We absolutely love the ones already posted on the sidebars at Mundie Moms http://www.mundiemoms.blogspot.com/ and Past Times Geneaology
http://pasttimesgenealogy.blogspot.com/Thank you!!!
If anyone out there could write us the codes for these and send them on we will be forever grateful!
Here is the photobucket account some photos uploaded, but we are always up for new design ideas! http://s669.photobucket.com/albums/vv57/zahngardner/Blog%20Buttons/
So, we are giving away a free copy of Jessica Bendger’s new book “The Seven Rays” to anyone who would like to make us new buttons with code. Comment below to win.
And if you add one of our buttons to your site, let us know…we will send you something special in the mail 😉
Caster Girls BC Ridley Contest
Caster Girls is giving away some great Ridley swag from the book “Beautiful Creatures” by Kami Garcia dn Margaret Stohl.
You can win: a 5×7 Ridley Print from VLC Photo, BC bracelets and dog tag, Pink Hair clips, Ridley’s candy, and Ridley’s shoes signed by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl!
Click here to enter http://castergirls.com/ridley-kicks-a-contest/
Contest ends February 1st.
Open to USA only.
Frozen Fire Giveaway
Winner of the Southern Schools Book Award 2009
“In this atmospheric, British supernatural thriller, a stranger comes to town. Fifteen-year-old Dusty first hears his voice on the telephone, and she is startled by his words—last said to her in similar language by her long-missing older brother, Josh. As snow falls on the remote English countryside where Dusty lives, she searches for the mysterious boy, and the closer she comes to him (and he to her), the more danger surrounds her. Bowler’s writing chills, both in the way the author heightens the tension, chapter by terrifying chapter, and through his descriptions of the relentless snow beating down, brightening and frightening—the frozen fire of the title. Sometimes the descriptions burden the story, because readers will be anxious to get back to the compelling interplay between Dusty and the boy. Both spectral and powerful, the boy sends messages (by phone, in person, even through the snow) that propel Dusty forward, always hoping the boy will lead her to Josh. The tension doesn’t wane until the last possible moment.”