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Top 10’s with Griffin Hayes
Please welcome Griffin Hayes to the blog today ladies and gentlemen! Author of Malice, he is out in the blogosphere touring up a storm. Can I please say I both love and am scared of this cover in equal measures? When a series of shocking suicides rock the small town of Millingham, Massachusetts, the authorities are left with a single burning question. Why are all the victims gouging their eyes out? Only seventeen-year-old Lysander Shore knows these aren’t suicides at all. There’s a serial killer stalking the people of Millingham. One that murders at will and never leaves a trace.…
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Favorite Fantasy Books with D.W. Hawkins. Plus your chance to take a book home!
On the blog today, I have D.W. Hawkins, author of The Sentient Fire. For those of you who know me well, you’ll know that Fantasy is (and probably forever will be) my absolute favorite genre! So when D.W. asked if he could take over my blog for the day to share his favorite books, and to do a giveaway, I happily acquiesced. Enjoy! In one short night, Dormael Harlun’s life was changed forever. Tired and half drunk, Dormael stumbled upon Shawna Llewan, a beautiful young woman, wounded and near death. What he didn’t realize was that his decision to come to her…
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Gina Damico shares her favorite childhood books, plus a CROAK prize pack!
Bringing a little of the dark and macabre to the blog today is Gina Damico, author of Croak. This was a book that caught my eye straight away! After all, who doesn’t want to reap the benefits of a good book? Okay, bad pun. I know. Read on.
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Jennifer Archer: “A Poet Is A Nightingale…” plus a giveaway!
Huge thanks to Jennifer Archer for this original guest post! “A POET IS A NIGHTINGALE . . . ” by Jennifer Archer In my novel, THROUGH HER EYES, which was released last year by Harper Teen, Tansy and her family move to tiny Cedar Canyon, Texas and into an old house at the edge of town. From the Cedar Canyon residents she meets, Tansy soon hears about a seventeen-year-old boy named Henry who lived in the same house in the 1930’s. Henry has become a local legend – it’s believed that he took his own life by jumping from a…
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Denise Grover Swank’s Favorite Books of 2011!
In honor of Here, Denise Grover Swank is on a whirlwind blog tour! Along the way she is sharing things about herself, about her book, and even about her writing process. Sound like something you’d be interested in? Click the banner to follow the full tour! Meanwhile here’s a little more about the book. Sixteen year old Julia Phillips buries herself in guilt after killing her best friend Monica in a car accident. Julia awoke in the hospital with a broken leg, a new talent for drawing and false memories of the accident, in which she dies and Monica lives.…
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Interviewing Luke from A Touch Morbid
If you haven’t already heard of Leah Clifford and her amazing books, welcome to your wake up call. A Touch Morbid is the second book in the series, and I am so excited for more of Eden and her adventures! Eden won the battle-she saved her true love from the darkest evil. But the war has only just begun. With secrets swirling around her, powerful allies unraveling, and life-and death-as she knows it eroding, Eden and those she loves tread dangerous ground. Can she trust anyone? Will her unearthly powers be her salvation or her downfall? A sweeping, dark, and sexy…
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This or That? with Julie from Pieces of Us
Visiting the blog today is Margie Gelbwaser, author of Pieces of Us. She is here to promote her new book and to share with her readers a look into the character Julie. If you haven’t already read Pieces of Us, I can tell you that the characters are very complex. It’s nice to get to see a little bit more into the mind of Julie! Two families. Four teens. A summer full of secrets. Every summer, hidden away in a lakeside community in upstate New York, four teens leave behind their old identities…and escape from their everyday lives. Yet back…
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Character Interview: Matchbox Girls by Chrysoula Tsavelas
Today on the blog is a little visit from Chrysoula Tsavelas, the author of Matchbox Girls. I reviewed this book yesterday and liked it’s uniqueness. Here is your chance to see a little further into it! You can also fill out this form to enter to win a digital copy here on the blog (ends 3/1), and make sure to check out the information at the bottom of the guest post to see how to win a prize pack! Without further ado, I give Chrysoula the floor. Today’s interviewer at Character Backstage is Corbin Adair. In-story, he plays the role of…
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5 Favorite Book Picks with Emily Beaver, author of Slipping Reality
Special thanks to Emily Beaver and JKSCommunicatons for this original content! Emily Beaver’s Top 5 Book Picks 5 – In Cold Blood by Truman Capote I read this book for one of my analytical papers in AP Literature, and I just couldn’t put it down. Technically this is a non-fiction book, but I felt like it was fiction with how rich the characters and descriptions were. I’m already a fan of his most famous novel, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, but this book was written so simply and so effortlessly you can’t help but feel aligned with the characters. While much of…
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Emily M. Danforth shares her favorite moments from The Miseducation of Cameron Post
I had a very good time creating and inhabiting and utilizing the character of Grandma Post. In fact, I came to love her scenes so much that she eventually emerged on the page much more fully than I’d probably originally intended. Now that I’ve been done writing about her for quite awhile I actually miss her sometimes. That probably sounds strange, but it’s true. And so, in her honor, I give you: The Top Ten (Funny/Awkward/Old Fashioned/Endearing) Bits of Dialogue from Grandma Post When Cameron Post’s parents die suddenly in a car crash, her shocking first thought is relief. Relief…