tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47819662840137106892024-03-19T03:53:10.923-04:00Hannah McBride: Current Author, Former Irish BananaFormerly the Irish Banana Review, I've now shifted my focus to writing books instead of reviewing books.Hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14609984238909948421noreply@blogger.comBlogger1070125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4781966284013710689.post-55551265656834387432020-05-04T13:22:00.001-04:002020-05-04T13:22:29.678-04:00To New Beginnings...Well hey there, y'all! It has been a month (okay, <i>year</i>) of Sundays since I was last here, but I wanted to share some excited news....<div>
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I'm publishing a book!!!!!</div>
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I considered starting a new blog, but I've always loved the layout of this one, so I'm planning to tweak it into a temporary author page because ... why not? </div>
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I'm so excited to share SANCTUM with you all this summer!</div>
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Goodreads: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53330025-sanctum">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53330025-sanctum</a></div>
Hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14609984238909948421noreply@blogger.com393tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4781966284013710689.post-57458016057701705192017-09-28T00:00:00.000-04:002017-09-28T00:00:00.969-04:00The End's Not Near, It's Here<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I've started this post with several sentences, in several ways (funny, sincere, reflective, etc.), but it all comes back to this: Goodbye.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">After 6 years, thousands of followers, thousands of books, hundreds of posts, dozens of friends, 10 book conferences, and countless blog tours ... it's all over now. And there's just no easy way to sum that up in a witty starter sentence. I've struggled over the last year with closing down the blog, but I always kept trying to find a new way to get myself hyped up again to blog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When I started this blog in February of 2011, I had no idea where that insane road would lead. I figured I'd make a few friends, get some free books, and blogging would be a fun little hobby. I never imagined it would lead to a secondary career as an event planner, let alone the countless friendships and connections I've made.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It's been a crazy 6 years. I've seen bloggers come and go. I've seen friends get married, have babies, move away, graduate college, and start their adults lives. I've watched publicists and bloggers become authors. I've seen authors go from tiny little publishing houses to international fame. I've walked the halls of the major publishing houses in New York City. I've partied in basements and rooftops with my bookish friends. I've spoken on panels at events. I've worked as an event coordinator for several bookish organizations. I've traveled all over the US (which, for me, is pretty huge - I never really traveled before) for events and conferences.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Not bad for a girl who started this blog on a whim one winter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If you've been part of my journey, thank you. I truly can't thank you enough. Thank you for commenting on a post. Entertaining me on twitter. Liking a photo on instagram. Sending me a DM or an email. Giving me a hug or a smile at an event. Or listening to me rant and ramble on any given platform.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Thank you to the incredible friends (bloggers, publicists, and authors) who rallied around me this past year when my life fell apart. Your support means the world to me. </span></div>
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Hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14609984238909948421noreply@blogger.com201tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4781966284013710689.post-21898018602013943412017-09-27T09:21:00.000-04:002017-09-27T09:21:01.750-04:00Blog Tour: Best Day Ever by Kaira Rouda<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">BEST DAY EVER is a chilling page-turner taking place over just 24 hours that follows seemingly perfect couple Paul and Mia, as Paul whisks Mia away for what he promises will be the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">best day ever</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, but may have ulterior motives</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">...</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #5856d6;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">BEST DAY EVER is continuing to get great advanced praise! Good Housekeeping called BEST DAY EVER a “c</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; white-space: pre-wrap;">hilling, satisfying suspense,” saying, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; white-space: pre-wrap;">“It's clear from the beginning that something sinister is going on in this novel, which will cost you sleep as you race through its pages.” and <i>Library Journal</i> gave it a Starred Review, writing, </span><span style="color: #222222; white-space: pre-wrap;">“This latest psychological thriller from bestselling Rouda is destined to fly off the shelves, enticing readers to ride along as this multifaceted day in the life of the Stroms unfolds.” </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PopSugar also </span><span style="color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">named </span><span style="color: #222222; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Day Ever</span><span style="color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> one of “</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the 25 best new books of Fall!”</span></span><br />
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by Alice Feeney. And I’m not lying. Seriously, a great book with a cliffhanger
ending that makes me anxious to read her next novel, <i>Sometimes I Kill</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Pub day for BEST DAY EVER. I was grinning all day long. I
went to the nearest Barnes & Noble to find my book and yes, I probably
embarrassed myself. I was so excited. Luckily, the manager said she loves
authors. Or maybe she was just saying that. I’m still smiling today. It never
gets old, that feeling of seeing your book on the store shelf. Pinch me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There are so many great moments in this business, but my
favorite times are meeting other authors. This summer I had a chance to meet
B.A. Paris, author of <i>The Breakdown</i>.
She is amazing, brilliant, and even met me for coffee to chat. It was fabulous.
The other great moment has been having my book chosen to lead the Graydon House
imprint of Harper Collins |Harlequin. I have had such a fabulous journey with
my publishing team. I couldn’t be more thankful.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The beach. Pretty much anywhere in the world. My dream
since I was a young person was to grow up and live near the beach. We arrived
in Southern California ten years ago from Ohio. Dreams do come true, just maybe
not as soon as you’d like them to, but usually when they should.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The red book! It looks just like the cover of Best Day
Ever, well without the words and the envelope design. But still. Whenever I
thank someone for reading or reviewing or liking BEST DAY EVER, I tend to use
the red book and the high five hands. It’s become a habit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Kaira Rouda is a USA TODAY bestselling, multiple
award-winning author of contemporary fiction. Her debut novel, Here, Home, Hope,
was the Winner of the Indie Excellence Book Award in Mainstream/Literary
Fiction, Winner of the USA Book Awards in the Women's Fiction category and
received Honorable Mention in Mainstream/Literary Fiction for the Writer's
Digest Book Awards. Her novel, The Goodbye Year, which was released in May
2016, was Redbook Magazine's “20 Best Books You Absolutely Must Read This
Spring.” Kaira’s latest novel, Best Day
Ever, is one of the major launch titles for Harlequin’s new imprint Graydon
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Kaira is also the author of Real You Incorporated: 8
Essentials for Women Entrepreneurs and the creator of Real Living, one of the
nation’s most successful real estate brands and the first national women-focused
brand in real estate. She has given speeches to both women and men’s
entrepreneurial conferences and programs across the country on the power of
women as consumers and in the world. Kaira was named Best Entrepreneur from the
Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and was also recognized in Entrepreneur magazine’s
inaugural Top 50 fastest-growing, women-led companies list.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In addition to her many entrepreneurial and literary
accomplishments, Kaira is very active in both her native Ohio community and in
her community in Southern California, where she now resides. Her philanthropic
pursuits began when she founded Central Ohio’s first homeless shelter for
families when she was twenty-five years old, and Kaira has since received
numerous awards for her civic service.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Kaira’s family includes her husband of 28 years, her four
kids, and her two spoiled dogs. She lives in Southern California and is at work
on her next novel. After living in Columbus, Ohio, for most of her life, she
now enjoys the beach whenever possible.</span><o:p></o:p><br />
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<br />Hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14609984238909948421noreply@blogger.com106tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4781966284013710689.post-86547807133571527072017-08-27T00:00:00.000-04:002017-08-28T09:17:17.233-04:00Fast Five with Irena Brignull<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm so excited to welcome Irena Brignull to the blog for a quick Fast 5!</span><br />
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<span class="yiv8289557796"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">‘<i>It’s
never too late to be what you might have been</i>.’ George Eliot. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="yiv8289557796"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My
mum has this framed in her office and it really reminds me of her. She is, in
fact, a living example of it. She got a university degree in psychology in her
40’s and trained as a relationship counsellor, helping countless couples in a
career that’s lasted until her retirement this year at the age of 70. She’s now
about to start learning Italian. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="yiv8289557796"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #0433ff;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Favorite bookish
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<span class="yiv8289557796"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There
are so, so many, but I’ve picked my earliest. It’s from The Lion, The Witch and
The Wardrobe when Lucy first hides in the wardrobe and feels her way through
the fur coats until she reaches trees and snow, the lamp-post and Mr Tumnus in
the land of Narnia. Reading this as a child was when I first understood the
amazing adventures that stories can take you on.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="yiv8289557796"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #0433ff;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Best moment as an
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<span class="yiv8289557796"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As
a screenwriter, it has to be the 18 minute standing ovation for The Little
Prince when it premiered at Cannes. It was an extraordinary, unforgettable, magical
night. As an author, it was hearing the news that a publisher wanted to publish
my first novel. I was over the moon. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="yiv8289557796"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #0433ff;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Last person you
hugged: <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="yiv8289557796"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My
husband. We met at university and, a wedding and three children later, we are
still together. We just seem to fit. In life and in hugs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="yiv8289557796"><span lang="EN-GB">Skiathos,
Greece. Skiathos is a small island, lush with pine trees and olive groves and
surrounded with sandy beaches and the brilliant blue waters of the Aegean sea.
My mother and my husband are Greek and I’ve been coming here since I was a
teenager. It’s my happy place. Whenever I’m feeling glum in grey London, I look
at the wallpaper on my phone which is the view from my mum’s house.</span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi2DXFfrpXe_fwRWAsnfy3r9xtKTkkBLhCeyztttT9ExnoaCLkpqu3HyZkL5g06Ylit9oxRuyzantQGypc8fpwxaHEB6JZaNLDAAV_0KsHoGtAvUxzDcmOb3R5946zi6MOoRPwn2_4Vrll/s1600/HawkweedLegacyCover-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1067" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi2DXFfrpXe_fwRWAsnfy3r9xtKTkkBLhCeyztttT9ExnoaCLkpqu3HyZkL5g06Ylit9oxRuyzantQGypc8fpwxaHEB6JZaNLDAAV_0KsHoGtAvUxzDcmOb3R5946zi6MOoRPwn2_4Vrll/s320/HawkweedLegacyCover-2.jpg" width="213" /></a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">THE <span class="m_1241599724540596709gmail-il">HAWKWEED</span> <span class="m_1241599724540596709gmail-il">LEGACY</span> B</span></b><b>y <span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Irena Brignull</span></b>, <b><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">H</span>ardcover, $18.00, August 15, 2017</b><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Poppy is discovering a purpose for her powers in Africa, but she is haunted by a vision of her own death. Taken in by a boy and his great-grandmother, a healer, they vow to keep her safe-even if that ultimately means holding her captive. But Poppy never stops longing for Leo and, when she feels his magic begin to spark, she will do anything to be reunited with him.</span><br /><span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span>Desperate to regain Poppy's trust and bring her home, Charlock embarks on a plan to reunite Leo with his mother. What Charlock doesn't foresee are the string of consequences that she sets into motion that leave Ember all alone and prey to manipulation, the clan open to attack from other witches, Sorrel vulnerable to Raven's ghost, Betony determined to protect her son from his father's fate, and which leave both Leo and Poppy in terrible danger.<br /><br /><b><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">THE <span class="m_1241599724540596709gmail-il">HAWKWEED</span> PROPHECY B</span></b><b>y <span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Irena Brignull</span>, Trade Paperback (All new cover!) <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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$10.99, August 15, 2017</b><br />Poppy Hooper and Ember <span class="m_1241599724540596709gmail-il">Hawkweed</span> couldn't lead more different lives. Poppy is a troubled teen: moving from school to school, causing chaos wherever she goes, never making friends or lasting connections. Ember is a young witch, struggling to find a place within her coven and prove her worth. Both are outsiders: feeling like they don't belong and seeking escape.<br /><span style="color: #12c00e;"><br /></span>Poppy and Ember soon become friends, and secretly share knowledge of their two worlds. Little do they know that destiny has brought them together: an ancient prophecy, and a life-changing betrayal. Growing closer, they begin to understand why they've never belonged and the reason they are now forever connected to each other.<br /><span style="color: #12c00e;"><br /></span>Switched at birth by the scheming witch Raven <span class="m_1241599724540596709gmail-il">Hawkweed</span>, Poppy and Ember must come to terms with their true identities and fight for their own place in the world. Enter Leo, a homeless boy with a painful past who – befriending them both – tests their love and loyalty. Can Poppy and Ember's friendship survive? And can it withstand the dark forces that are gathering?<br /><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: white; color: #181818;">After being held hostage during a robbery at
the local convenience store, seventeen-year-old Edie finds her attitude about
life shattered. Unwilling to put up with the snobbery and bullying at her
private school, she enrolls at the local public high school, crossing paths
with John. The boy who risked his life to save hers.</span><span style="color: #181818;"><br />
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<span style="background: white;">While Edie’s beginning to run wild, however, John’s just
starting to settle down. After years of partying and dealing drugs with his
older brother, he’s going straight—getting to class on time, and thinking about
the future.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">An unlikely bond grows between the two as John keeps Edie out
of trouble and helps her broaden her horizons. But when he helps her out with
another first—losing her virginity—their friendship gets complicated.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Meanwhile, Edie and John are pulled back into the dangerous
world they narrowly escaped. They were lucky to survive the first time, but
this time they have more to lose—each other.</span></span></i><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Ask my friends – leading up to ApollyCon 2017, the author
I was most excited to meet was Kylie Scott. Not just because she seems like a
cool chick, but her writing is everything. She seamlessly blends humor with
heat, snarky with sexy. She’s hands down one of my favorite authors, and when I
found out she was foraying into the Young Adult world with TRUST, I was all
over this.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">What I loved most was that Edie and John are hopelessly
flawed. It’s not a pretty love story with a meet cute and a little teasing
before they fall in love. Their first meeting involves a hostage situation and
a tweaked out robber with a trigger happy finger. It’s tense and heartbreaking
and vicious. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Edie is a heroine I wished I could have had read about
growing up. Edie is <i>me</i> (minus the
hostage situation and super hot bad boy savior). Edie is overweight, fluent in
snark and sarcasm, and much better at faking who she wants people to think she
is than actually being herself. She’s not Katniss, hurling herself in front of
a firing squad to protect people or Tris trying to take down an evil empire or
even Bella, stupidly bumbling her way through a world she doesn’t understand.
She’s <i>Edie</i> and Edie is imperfect and
a little broken but with a mountain of heart. In short, she’s most of us.</span></div>
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me at all with TRUST. So give it a chance. <i>Trust
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: white; color: #181818;">From strip clubs and truck stops to southern coast mansions and prep
schools, one girl tries to stay true to herself.</span></i><i><span style="color: #181818;"><br />
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<span style="background: white;">These Royals will ruin you…</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Ella Harper is a survivor—a pragmatic optimist. She’s spent
her whole life moving from town to town with her flighty mother, struggling to
make ends meet and believing that someday she’ll climb out of the gutter. After
her mother’s death, Ella is truly alone. </span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Until Callum Royal appears, plucking Ella out of poverty and
tossing her into his posh mansion among his five sons who all hate her. Each
Royal boy is more magnetic than the last, but none as captivating as Reed
Royal, the boy who is determined to send her back to the slums she came from.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Reed doesn’t want her. He says she doesn’t belong with the
Royals.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">He might be right.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Wealth. Excess. Deception. It’s like nothing Ella has ever
experienced, and if she’s going to survive her time in the Royal palace, she’ll
need to learn to issue her own Royal decrees. </span></span><b><o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So I've been on a quest to read all the authors of
ApollyCon 2018 prior to the event. Call me a well-rounded event planner, but I
wanna know who I'm working with.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And also, I've seen fans freaking out each one of the
authors on our lineup are attending, and I love to freak out and swoon, too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've read Elle Kennedy before (I'm absolutely in love
with everything of hers I've read), and prior to this I read a book by Jen
Frederick and loved it (look for that review later), so I decided to give them
a try as a duo, Erin Watt. And holy crap balls rolling down drama mountain ...
I'm in love. I binged the entire trilogy in 28 hours. I bought the audio
versions so I could listen in the car and while I put my makeup on. I literally
breathed this series. But let's start with book 1: PAPER PRINCESS. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Let's start with my girl Ella, who is seriously a champ.
This girl has been through hell - she never knew her father, her mom died when
she was 15, and terrified of being put into foster care, Ella brilliantly and
doggedly holds down 3 jobs (including being a stripper) to support herself. She
forges her mom's signature for school documents, determined to get herself
through school and college so she can carve out an existence beyond straight up
survival.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Enter the Royals: Callum Royal (dad of the Royal clan)
comes and pulls Ella from her life of poverty and puts her in a palace where
she has money and clothes and a massive bed and the best education money can
buy ... Seems too good to be true, right?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Right.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So Ella, knowing nothing in the world is free, is
(rightfully) skeptical. She doesn't enter the Royal world willingly. She's
quite literally dragged and thrust into it, much to the fury of Callum Royal's
5 (yes, FIVE, totally hot, swoony, assholey) sons. Reed, second oldest, is the
ring leader and makes it his mission to make Ella's life <i>hell</i> until she packs her bags and runs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Cue the most passionate, volatile, combustible love/hate
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There are parts I must admit were hard to swallow, even
after later learning the guys' motives. They crossed lines in their quest to
bully and humiliate Ella that made me cringe. These boys had to work for Ella's
(and my) favor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This book is drama. It's technically pitched as YA, but it's definitely upper YA/NA. Especially in the romance dept. It's seriously angsty and is, often,
over the top. But the magic of Erin Watt cannot be denied. This series is as
golden as that freaking gorgeous crown on the cover. I can't wait to get to my
thoughts in the next week or so about the other books in the series.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Author: </b>Kristen
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<b style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Summary (</b><i style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">from Goodreads</i><b style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">):</b></div>
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rules: no kissing on the mouth, no staying the night, no telling anyone, and
above all… No falling in love.</span></b><span style="color: #181818;"><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Anna Jones just wants to finish college and
figure out her life. Falling for star quarterback Drew Baylor is certainly not
on her to do list. Confident and charming, he lives in the limelight and is way
too gorgeous for his own good. If only she could ignore his heated stares and
stop thinking about doing hot and dirty things with him. Easy right?</span><br />
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<b><span style="background: white;">Too bad he’s committed to making her break
every rule…</span></b><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Football has been good to Drew. It’s given him
recognition, two National Championships, and the Heisman. But what he really
craves is sexy yet prickly Anna Jones. Her cutting humor and blatant disregard
for his fame turns him on like nothing else. But there’s one problem: she's
shut him down. Completely.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">That is until a chance encounter leads to the
hottest sex of their lives, along with the possibility of something great.
Unfortunately, Anna wants it to remain a hook up. Now it’s up to Drew to tempt
her with more: more sex, more satisfaction, more time with him. Until she’s
truly hooked. It's a good thing Drew knows all about winning.</span><br />
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<b><span style="background: white;">All’s fair in love and football…Game on.</span></b></span></i><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You know that magic moment when
you find a new book you just immediately love and you know in your heart of
hearts that the author is your kind of people? That’s how I felt 2 chapters
into THE HOOK UP by Kristen Callihan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In my quest to read more
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football players? Pretty much a no brainer, but I never expected to fall head
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">These two have the most electric
chemistry. Chemistry that had me blushing and furiously texting my blogging
besties <a href="http://kristasdustjacket.blogspot.com/">Krista</a> and <a href="http://www.stuckinbooks.com/">Val</a>, demanding they read this book. Before I finished THE
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astonishing ease. Kristen Callihan is going down as one of my auto-buy authors
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">How do I explain how amazing this book is? TSCotAD features found families, monster girls, snarky meta, and Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson all wrapped up in an incredible Victorian Era bow. Brianna took this book to London with her and devoured it. Hopefully you’ll love it just as much as she does!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">Based on some of literature’s horror and science fiction classics, this is the story of a remarkable group of women who come together to solve the mystery of a series of gruesome murders—and the bigger mystery of their own origins.<br /><br />Mary Jekyll, alone and penniless following her parents’ death, is curious about the secrets of her father’s mysterious past. One clue in particular hints that Edward Hyde, her father’s former friend and a murderer, may be nearby, and there is a reward for information leading to his capture…a reward that would solve all of her immediate financial woes.<br /><br />But her hunt leads her to Hyde’s daughter, Diana, a feral child left to be raised by nuns. With the assistance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, Mary continues her search for the elusive Hyde, and soon befriends more women, all of whom have been created through terrifying experimentation: Beatrice Rappaccini, Catherin Moreau, and Justine Frankenstein.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #181818;">Theodora Goss's publications include the short story collection In the Forest of Forgetting (2006); Interfictions (2007), a short story anthology coedited with Delia Sherman; Voices from Fairyland (2008), a poetry anthology with critical essays and a selection of her own poems; and The Thorn and the Blossom (2012), a two-sided novella in an accordion format. She has been a finalist for the Nebula, Crawford, Locus, and Mythopoeic Awards, and on the Tiptree Award Honor List. She has won the World Fantasy and Rhysling Awards.</span></span></div>
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Hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14609984238909948421noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4781966284013710689.post-55073834369778460452017-06-08T00:00:00.000-04:002017-06-08T09:53:28.307-04:00Makeup Looks: The Refrigerator Monologues<div style="margin: 0 auto; width: 600px;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The <span class="m_8040642015261442031gmail-il">Refrigerator</span> <span class="m_8040642015261442031gmail-il">Monologues</span> is for anyone who ever got upset at the way women were treated in comic shows, movies or books.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The lives of six female superheroes and the girlfriends of superheroes. A ferocious riff on women in superhero comics<br />
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From the <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author Catherynne Valente comes a series of linked stories from the points of view of the wives and girlfriends of superheroes, female heroes, and anyone who’s ever been “refrigerated”: comic book women who are killed, raped, brainwashed, driven mad, disabled, or had their powers taken so that a male superhero’s storyline will progress.<br />
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In an entirely new and original superhero universe, Valente subversively explores these ideas and themes in the superhero genre, treating them with the same love, gravity, and humor as her fairy tales. After all, superheroes are our new fairy tales and these six women have their own stories to share.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #181818;">Catherynne M. Valente was born on Cinco de Mayo, 1979 in Seattle, WA, but grew up in in the wheatgrass paradise of Northern California. She graduated from high school at age 15, going on to UC San Diego and Edinburgh University, receiving her B.A. in Classics with an emphasis in Ancient Greek Linguistics. She then drifted away from her M.A. program and into a long residence in the concrete and camphor wilds of Japan.</span><br style="color: #181818;" /><br style="color: #181818;" /><span style="color: #181818;">She currently lives in Maine with her partner, two dogs, and three cats, having drifted back to America and the mythic frontier of the Midwest.</span><b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "oswald"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Have you heard of the awesomeness called LuLaRoe? They’re a direct sales clothing company that’s becoming more and more popular because of their unique clothing prints and buttery soft leggings. As soon as you try ANY of their clothing items, you become addicted! We sure did!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "oswald"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But you can ONLY find their unique clothing line through a LuLaRoe<br />
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<span style="font-family: "oswald"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">LuLaRoe clothing items are so amazing because they flatter all body types, shapes and sizes. Women look and feel beautiful in LuLaRoe clothing. Plus, the clothes are ultra-comfortable! You feel like you’re wearing pajamas and feel like you can comfortably take a nap in clothing that makes you look your best! How awesome is that? Check them out! They are amazing!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "oswald"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We're a mother and daughetr independent Fashion Consultant Team we just joined LuLaRoe in March and onboarded 3 weeks ago!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "oswald"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I (Jaime) have been a part of the bookish world in different capacities for 7 years! As a blogger, blog tour company owner, and publicist and I recently became a LuLaRoe Independent Fashion consultant because I see so<br />
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<span style="font-family: "oswald"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">One of our most favorite things about our blogging and work communities is meeting so many<br />
amazing women with similar interests.<br />
Guess what? We're thrilled to say<br />
that we’ve been able to connect with so many more women through LuLaRoe</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…</span><span style="font-family: "oswald"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">and in an amzingly short time! We're not only connecting with<br />
ladies who long for clothes that make them feel good, but we're connecting with<br />
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<span style="font-family: "oswald"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The owners of LuLaRoe are determined to provide a quality product,<br />
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It’s amazing!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Publishing on May 2, 2017, <em>Daddy’s Best Friend </em>is the debut title for author London Hale. The book is the first in the Temperance Falls series and launches a world of naughty fantasies and taboo romances set on a small island in one of the Great Lakes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Nathan had always been more than just my dad’s friend. I never thought he’d see me as an adult, especially not after avoiding me for so long. But one hug, one moment feeling every inch of him against me, shattered that illusion. Consequences no longer mattered—I was eighteen, and I was willing to risk everything for my shot with him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I never should’ve seen Eve as more than my best friend’s daughter. As a cop, I knew it was wrong. It was my job to protect her from guys like me. Chasing her could cost me my career—not to mention the only family I’d ever known—but I couldn’t hold back another second. One taste, and I wanted her. To hell with the fallout.</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In celebration of their upcoming release, London is doing a giveaway for a $25 Amazon gift card! Go <a href="http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/22b294fa7/">HERE</a> to enter. </span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">London Hale is the combined pen name of writing besties Ellis Leigh and Brighton Walsh. Between them, they’ve published more than thirty books in the contemporary romance, paranormal romance, and romantic suspense genres. Ellis is a USA Today bestselling author who loves coffee, thinks green Skittles are the best, and prefers to stay in every weekend. Brighton is multi-published with Berkley, St. Martin’s Press, and Carina Press. She hates coffee, thinks green Skittles are the work of the devil, and has never heard of a party she didn’t want to attend. Don’t ask how they became such good friends or work so well together—they still haven’t figured it out themselves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.londonhale.com/gazette">Sign up for the Temperance Falls Gazette</a> to get up to date information on all things happening on the island!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">More London: <a href="http://www.londonhale.com/">Website</a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AuthorLondonHale/">Facebook</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/haleyeslondon">Twitter</a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/bundtandgrind/">Reader Group</a> | <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/londonhale0048/">Pinterest</a> </span></div>
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As the faerie queen and her army of Vultures prepare to march, Isabelle must race to find a prince who can awaken her sister with the kiss of true love and seal their two kingdoms in an alliance against the queen.<br />
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Isabelle crosses land and sea; unearthly, thorny vines rise up the palace walls; and whispers of revolt travel in the ashes on the wind. The kingdom falls to ruin under layers of snow. Meanwhile, Aurora wakes up in a strange and enchanted world, where a mysterious hunter may be the secret to her escape . . . or the reason for her to stay.<br />
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Spindle Fire is the first book in a lush fantasy duology set in the dwindling, deliciously corrupt world of the fae and featuring two truly unforgettable heroines.</span><span style="color: #181818;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Lexa Hillyer is the co-founder of Paper Lantern Lit, former YA editor, and author of Proof of Forever. Lexa is also an award-winning poet: Her first collection, Acquainted with the Cold, won the Melissa Lanitis Gregory Poetry Prize as well as the 2012 Book of the Year Award from ForeWord Reviews. Her poetry has been anthologized in Best New Poets 2012, and has appeared in several journals. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and their daughter.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">I've been a fan (both personally and professionally) of Brigid Kemmerer's for years. I've long considered her one of those authors who I cannot figure out why the world hasn't caught on to the magic of her awesome. But I feel like LETTERS TO THE LOST is about to change that.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">At least I can say I knew Brigid way back when.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">LTTL is a heartbreaking tale of grief and hope. It's a rare book that can make me cry, but this one did. Multiple times. Brigid has this ... visceral way of connecting the character to the reader that leaves a lingering, haunting bond long after the last page is turned.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">Maybe this is your first Brigid book (if so, you need to read <i>The Elementals</i> series NOW). Maybe you've been a fan since the beginning. Either way, it's safe to say that Brigid Kemmerer just upped the bar for all YA contemporary novels.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #131313;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Juliet Young always writes letters to her mother, a world-traveling photojournalist. Even after her mother's death, she leaves letters at her grave. It's the only way Juliet can cope.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #131313;">When Declan reads a haunting letter left beside a grave, he can't resist writing back. Soon, he's opening up to a perfect stranger, and their connection is immediate. But neither Declan nor Juliet knows that they're not actually strangers. When life at school interferes with their secret life of letters, sparks will fly as Juliet and Declan discover truths that might tear them apart.</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ABOUT BRIGID KEMMERER:</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #131313;">BRIGID KEMMERER is author of LETTERS TO THE LOST (Bloomsbury; April 4, 2017), a dark, contemporary Young Adult romance; THICKER THAN WATER (Kensington, December 29, 2015), a New Adult paranormal mystery with elements of romance; and the YALSA-nominated Elemental series of five Young Adult novels and three e-novellas which Kirkus Reviews calls “refreshingly human paranormal romance” and School Library Journal describes as “a new take on the supernatural genre.” She lives in the Baltimore area with her husband and four sons.</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">1.</span></b><b><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">Last book you read: </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"> GS: I’ve been working so much, the last
handful of books I read...I hate admitting this because I'm usually a
devoted reader...were all my own. <i>Can’t Hardly Breathe</i> (the
copy edit), <i>Can’t Let Go</i> (finished the rough draft) <i>Lifeblood</i> (last
round of edits), and <i>The Darkest Promise</i> (checking for
typos—fingers crossed I got ‘em all).</span><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"> GS: An onion—the bastard! </span><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">GS: I went to New Orleans with my bestie (and fellow
author) Jill Monroe to celebrate the release of </span><i style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Feversong</i><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> by
the amazing Karen Marie Moning. Darynda Jones and Diana Love were there
and </span><i style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">oh, my gosh</i><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">, what awesome ladies! In true Showalter
fashion, however, I never left the hotel. If I wasn’t attending a
conference panel, I was in my room, working on a contemporary romance
titled </span><i style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Can't Let Go</i><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> (part of my Original Heartbreakers
series). Deadlines, man. They tend to follow you LOL</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">4.</span></b><b><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">Favorite quote: </span></b><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"> GS: I have this on my wall as a constant reminder that no
matter how bad things get, I’m going to come out on top. It’s my anthem,
and the reason I can make it through a single day. “Do not fear, for I have
redeemed you; I have called you by name; you are mine. When you pass through
the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will
not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the
flames will not set you ablaze.” Isaiah 43:1-2.
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"> 5.</span></b><b><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">Best moment as an author: </span></b><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"> GS: Nothing beats finding out (1) you’re going to be
published for the first time (2) you’ve hit the New York Times for the first
time and (3) you’ve sold the movie rights to one of your books. Okay,
that’s not true. When a movie is actually made—that’ll be better. </span><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">"My Firstlife is over, but my Everlife is only now beginning." </span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">With her last living breath, Tenley "Ten" Lockwood made her choice and picked her realm in the Everlife. Now, as the war between Troika and Myriad rages, she must face the consequences. </span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Because Ten possesses a rare supernatural ability to absorb and share light, the Powers That Be have the highest expectations for her future—and the enemy wants her neutralized. Fighting to save her Secondlife, she must learn about her realm from the ground up while launching her first mission: convincing a select group of humans to join her side before they die. No pressure, right? </span><br />
<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But Ten's competition is Killian, the boy she can't forget—the one who gave up everything for her happiness. He has only one shot at redemption: beating Ten at a game she's never even played. As their throw-downs heat up, so do their undeniable feelings, and soon, Ten will have to make another choice. Love…or victory.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Author Bio: </b><b>Gena Showalter </b>is the <i>New York Times </i>and <i>USA TODAY </i>bestselling author of the Intertwined Novels, the White Rabbit Chronicles, and the Everlife Novels, among numerous novels for an adult audience as well. Her stories have been praised as “unputdownable.” Gena lives in Oklahoma with her family and a menagerie of dogs. Follow her on twitter @genashowalter and visit her website at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://genashowalter.com/&source=gmail&ust=1490209916789000&usg=AFQjCNHK4upEuaWtn3BSbacEBkynY8fRfw" href="http://genashowalter.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">genashowalter.com</a>.</span></div>
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Author website: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://members.genashowalter.com/&source=gmail&ust=1490209916789000&usg=AFQjCNFC1-5gUGr_xtJoj7lTAjFxLmz4IQ" href="http://members.genashowalter.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://members.genash<wbr></wbr>owalter.com/</a><br />
Amazon Buylink: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.amazon.com/Lifeblood-Everlife-Novel-Gena-Showalter/dp/0373212194&source=gmail&ust=1490209916789000&usg=AFQjCNF3SxddKzZxoVyevivz4LLnQFDgbA" href="https://www.amazon.com/Lifeblood-Everlife-Novel-Gena-Showalter/dp/0373212194" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.co<wbr></wbr>m/<span class="m_-6570223714757923987gmail-il">Lifeblood</span>-Everlife-Novel-Gen<wbr></wbr>a-Showalter/dp/0373212194</a><br />
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<b style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Stressing over the mess? Discover YOUR personal organizing style—and stay organized forever!</span></b><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Organization isn’t one-size-fits-all. Different people need different solutions. Fortunately, Katie and Kelly McMenamin—the organizing gurus behind PixiesDidIt!®—have found the key to making organization stick, with strategies that work for every personality.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Whether you’re OCD or a little less fastidious, Katie and Kelly will help you discover your organizational style, using unconventional approaches or sticking to what already works. Along with personality-based solutions for every space in your home, they offer advice on solving strife between different “PixieTypes.” So you can keep the stuff you love . . . and the peace!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">2. Change is hard, so be honest about organizing tasks. People who never hang up their coats in a closet, probably never will; get a coat rack and call it a day. <u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">6. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Change is hard (see #2!) so if storing TP right next to the toilet works for you, do it, but for heaven’s sake try to make it look nice—unless you live alone on Antarctica then who cares.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">7. Organizing at its core is about retrieval. Period. Can you easily find and get things when you need them. Everything else is an argument about aesthetics.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">9. Be loud & proud. So, you write important To Do’s on your hand in a pinch. Who cares? Don’t apologize, defend it and tell any scolds where they can go.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Remember me? I know, I know. It feels like it's been forever since I posted with any regularity. Or played on twitter. Or showed off a book on instagram. And I've spent the last several weeks - <i>months</i>, really - debating on sharing what's going on. But I've gotten a few questions and I know I've been seriously absent-minded lately, especially regarding blog tours so I feel like it's time to come clean. I'll try to keep this short and simple and to the point.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Right before Thanksgiving, I started feeling ... off. Not quite myself. I spent the last year as a running joke with friends and family that I could never stay still. I was the girl with 6 jobs - full time job at a doctor's office, part time job at Ulta, blogging, blog tours, planning 2 book conferences, and trying to see my family and friends in my free seconds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The beginning of December, I ... lost it. Call it a nervous breakdown, call it a mental breakdown ... Whatever it was, I lost it. I was drowning and could not find my way out of it. So many circumstances, personal and professional manifested themselves into this perfect storm of anxiety. I spent weeks in a state of panic attack. To the point where my body didn't know how to <i>not</i> have one. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I stopped eating. I lost 26 pounds in 3 weeks. All I would consume was half a bowl of dry cheerios and a gallons of water. I cried every hour of every day. My coworkers started asking me what was wrong, watched as I literally fell apart on day and sat with me, holding my hands through the worst of it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My parents and my sister never left my side because I was terrified of being alone. I was a girl who loved to be by herself and suddenly, the idea of being left by myself was enough to make me shut down. They asked if I needed to go to the hospital and check myself in for a few weeks (I didn't ... but I probably should have).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">At the worst of it, I was alone in my office at work and spent two hours researching the easiest ways to kill myself. What ways were most effective. What ways would cause the least amount of stress on my family to deal with. I wrote that letter to my family, detailing that they were amazing and I loved them, but I was simply too tired to keep going.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Needless to say, I stopped reading. I stopped blogging. I stopped being on social media. I couldn't even fake being happy. I had never been able to understand how people could get so depressed and so anxious that getting out of bed became a Herculean feat. But that's exactly what it was. I forced myself to live minute by minute for months.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I only told a super small group of friends and family how bad it got. I was embarrassed and ashamed. I mean ... I'm known for being sunshine and sparkles and happy, and I was so afraid that if people saw this broken, damaged version of me, that they would want nothing to do with me. I mean, <i>I</i> wanted nothing to do with me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To those people, and you know who you are, thank you. I'm not kidding when I say you literally saved my life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I'm getting better. I <i>am</i> better. I feel closer to being a calmer version of the old me. Having friends and family rally around me and keep me in check (and in prayer) is the best medicine. I'm still struggling to keep my focus in the blogging world, and it's why so many times I have posts and blog tours falling through the cracks. I'm stepping back for a bit and taking it slow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So ... what's the point of this? It's not for sympathy. It's not. Part of it is an apology to the people I've let down recently - bloggers and publishers I spaced on, never emailed back, or went radio silent on. And it's to tell everyone what I've been going through so they know I'm not a total flake (just a partial one), and to let anyone out there who reads this know one thing:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>I get it. I've been there. My door (inbox or DM) is always open</b>. <b>You are not alone.</b></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>FOLLOW THE TOUR:</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">Wednesday 2/22 - <a href="http://www.readsallthebooks.com/">Reads All The Books </a> - Book-Inspired Cocktails & Brews</div><div style="text-align: center;">Thursday 2/23 - Vi3tBabe/<a href="http://deityisland.blogspot.com/">Deity Island</a> - Book-Inspired Manicure</div><div style="text-align: center;">Friday 2/24 - <a href="http://theirishbanana.blogspot.com/">The Irish Banana Review</a> – Book-Inspired Makeup</div><div style="text-align: center;">Monday 2/27 - <a href="http://nobsbookreviews.com/">No BS Book Reviews</a> – GIF Review</div><div style="text-align: center;">Tuesday 2/28 - <a href="http://jenuinecupcakes.blogspot.com/">Jenuine Cupcakes</a> – Book-Inspired Cupcakes</div><div style="text-align: center;">Wednesday 3/1 - <a href="http://vilmasbookblog.com/">Vilma’s Book Blog </a>– Cover-Inspired Décor</div><div style="text-align: center;">Thursday 3/2 - <a href="http://www.kimberlyfayereads.com/">Kimberlyfaye Reads </a>– Book Cover Reimagining</div><div style="text-align: center;">Friday 3/3 <a href="http://www.stuckinbooks.com/">Stuck In Books</a> – Favorite Bed & Breakfast Destinations</div><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Fun, original, and exciting, THE BLUE MOON NARTHEX is a book I have been waiting for. N.J. Donner absolutely knocks it out of the park with this one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There is a depressing shortage of upper MG/lower YA books with male protagonists. With the exceptions of Harry Potter and Percy Jackson, books aimed at adolescent males seem in short supply these days, which makes me so happy that Donner has stepped in to fill that void with Cole McCarthy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Cole is witty, energetic, and smart as he unravels the mystery of his father. Blending action with humor and a fast moving plot that kept my attention, Donner has put himself on the map. I can't recommend this book hard enough to those looking for the void Harry and Percy left behind. </span><br />
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<span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Since the beginning of time, Karmanic matter worked silently and unassisted keeping good and evil in balance, until growing greed in the world meant Karma couldn’t keep up. As World War I rages, the secret Karmanic Sovereign Legion works behind the scenes to help Karma.</span><br />
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<span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">A suspicious train accident and an odd stone-shaped object that belonged to his father thrust Cole McCarthy and two schoolmates into the middle of this battle to keep dark forces in check.<span class="m_6015296918704596263gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">With only the powerful stone, a letter, and grandfatherly Norm to guide them, the trio must unravel clues and tap into unknown strengths to discover who Cole’s father really was and keep themselves and those they love safe.</span><br />
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<br />Hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14609984238909948421noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4781966284013710689.post-6370191865141970622017-02-13T00:00:00.000-05:002017-02-13T00:00:03.529-05:00Review: Wintersong by S. Jae-Jones<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Let's get this out of the way: WINTERSONG had me at <i>Labyrinth</i>. I'm a hue fan of the movie, have watched it countless times, and <i>still</i> quote it regularly. So a book about goblins and a goblin king (y'all know I pictured Jareth, AKA David Bowie the entire time), had me utterly intrigued, and I'm happy to say S. Jae-Jones didn't disappoint me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Following Liesl down the rabbit hole as she tries to save her sister, Kathe, when Kathe is kidnapped. Now I gotta say, Liesl is a better girl than I am because I was content to let Kathe rot in the Underground (she's annoyingly selfish and vain). But Liesl saves her sister, by offering up herself, and thus becomes 'trapped' in the Goblin King's world where she absolutely flourishes. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I will admit that the beginning of the story was a bit sluggish, but something about S. Jae-Jones' writing and way with words kept me going, and I am so glad I did. This story is completely original and absolutely beautiful. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: #181818;">Beware the goblin men and the wares they sell.</span><br style="color: #181818;" /><br style="color: #181818;" /><span style="color: #181818;">All her life, nineteen-year-old Liesl has heard tales of the beautiful, mysterious Goblin King. He is the Lord of Mischief, the Ruler Underground, and the muse around which her music is composed. Yet, as Liesl helps shoulder the burden of running her family’s inn, her dreams of composition and childish fancies about the Goblin King must be set aside in favor of more practical concerns.</span><br style="color: #181818;" /><br style="color: #181818;" /><span style="color: #181818;">But when her sister Käthe is taken by the goblins, Liesl journeys to their realm to rescue her sister and return her to the world above. The Goblin King agrees to let Käthe go—for a price. The life of a maiden must be given to the land, in accordance with the old laws. </span><span style="color: #181818;">A life for a life</span><span style="color: #181818;">, he says. Without sacrifice, nothing good can grow. Without death, there can be no rebirth. In exchange for her sister’s freedom, Liesl offers her hand in marriage to the Goblin King. He accepts.</span><br style="color: #181818;" /><br style="color: #181818;" /><span style="color: #181818;">Down in the Underground, Liesl discovers that the Goblin King still inspires her—musically, physically, emotionally. Yet even as her talent blossoms, Liesl’s life is slowly fading away, the price she paid for becoming the Goblin King’s bride. As the two of them grow closer, they must learn just what it is they are each willing to sacrifice: her life, her music, or the end of the world.</span></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #181818;">S. Jae-Jones, called JJ, is an artist, an adrenaline junkie, and the author of </span><em style="color: #181818;">Wintersong</em><span style="color: #181818;">, forthcoming from Thomas Dunne in February 2017.</span><br style="color: #181818;" /><br style="color: #181818;" /><span style="color: #181818;">Born and raised in sunny Los Angeles, she lived in New York City for ten years before relocating down to Dixie, where she is comfortably growing fat on grits and barbecue. When not writing, she can be found rock-climbing, skydiving, taking photographs, drawing pictures, and dragging her dog on ridiculously long hikes.</span><br />
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<script src="https://widget-prime.rafflecopter.com/launch.js"></script>Hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14609984238909948421noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4781966284013710689.post-22500034897110394882017-02-06T09:28:00.003-05:002017-02-06T09:28:45.451-05:00Bookburners Blog Tour: Excerpt<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Welcome to the first day of the BOOKBURNERS blog tour! Thanks for stopping by. Here's a fun excerpt from the book:</span><br />
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<u><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>An Excerpt from <i>Bookburners </i>Episode 1: Badge, Book, and
Candle</b><o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He set his hand on the book’s cover.
Sal hadn’t noticed before how the leather was discolored: most of it matched
Perry’s skin, but a crimson bloom spread beneath his fingers. She heard a sound
she couldn’t name: a footfall, maybe, or a whisper, very soft. Goose bumps
chased goose bumps up her arms. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Perry, who are the Bookburners? Do you
think someone’s following you?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I thought you didn’t want to know.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> She leaned over the couch, over his shoulder,
and checked through the blinds. Street still bare. Red Toyota pickup. Honda
Civic. Garbage. E-Z Carpet Cleaner van. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Please, Sal. They would have nabbed me
on the way. They did not. Ergo, I wasn’t followed.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“What the hell is going on?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Someone knocked on her door. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Shit,” Perry said. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Jesus Christ, Perry.” She grabbed her
phone off the living room table. “Who is that?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> “Aiden. Probably.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> “Mister Brooks?” The man on the other side of
the door was unquestionably not Aiden—too old, too sure, too calm. An accent
Sal couldn’t place twined through his words. “Mister Brooks, we’re not here to
hurt you. We want to talk.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Shit,” Perry repeated, for emphasis. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sal ran to her bedroom and returned
with her gun. “Who are you?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I’m looking for Mister Brooks. I know
he’s in there.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“If he is, I doubt he’d want to see
you.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I must talk with him.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Sir, I’m a police officer, and I’m
armed. Please step away from the door.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Has he opened the book?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> “What?” She looked into the living room. Perry
was standing now, holding the book, fingers clenched around the cover like
she’d seen men at bay clutch the handles of knives. “Sir, please leave. I’m
calling 9-1-1 now.” She pressed the autodial. The line clicked. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Stop him from opening the book,” the
man said. “Please. If he means anything to you, stop him.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> “Hello. This is Detective Sally Brooks,” and
she rattled off her badge number and address. “I have a man outside my
apartment who is refusing to leave—” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Something heavy struck the door.
Doorjamb timbers splintered. Sally stumbled back, dropped the phone, both hands
on the pistol. She took aim. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The door burst free of the jamb and
struck the wall. A human wind blew through. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Later, Sal remembered slivers: a
stinging blow to her wrist, her gun knocked back against the wall. A woman’s
face—Chinese, she thought. Bob haircut. Her knee slammed into Sal’s solar
plexus and she fell, gasping, to the splinter-strewn carpet. The woman turned,
in slow-motion almost, to the living room where Perry stood. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He held the open book. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">His eyes wept tears of blood, and his
smile bared sharp teeth. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He spoke a word that was too big for
her mind. She heard the woman roar, and glass break. Then darkness closed
around her like a mouth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">© 2017 Max Gladstone, with
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">About BOOKBURNERS:</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The critically acclaimed urban fantasy about a secret team of agents that hunts down dangerous books containing deadly magic—previously released serially online by Serial Box, now available in print for the first time!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Magic is real, and hungry. It’s trapped in ancient texts and artifacts, and only a few who discover it survive to fight back. Detective Sal Brooks is a survivor. She joins a Vatican-backed black-ops anti-magic squad—Team Three of the Societas Librorum Occultorum—and together they stand between humanity and the magical apocalypse. Some call them the Bookburners. They don’t like the label.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Supernatural </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">meets</span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> The Da Vinci Code </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">in a fast-paced, kickass character driven novel chock-full of magic, mystery, and mayhem, written collaboratively by a team of some of the best writers working in fantasy.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">About the Authors:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MAX GLADSTONE has been thrown from a horse in Mongolia, drank almond milk with monks on Wudang Shan, and wrecked a bicycle in Angkor Wat. Max is also the author of the Craft Sequence of books about undead gods and skeletal law wizards—</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Full Fathom Five</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Three Parts Dead</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Two Serpents Rise</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Last First Snow</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Max fools everyone by actually writing novels in the coffee shops of Davis Square in Somerville, MA. His dreams are much nicer than you’d expect. He tweets as</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://twitter.com/maxgladstone&source=gmail&ust=1486476629703000&usg=AFQjCNFm_nwOtjA22QUU7mKPbjRtSCJU8g" href="https://twitter.com/maxgladstone" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">@maxgladstone</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bookburners</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, which he wrote with Margaret Dunlap, Mur Lafferty, and Brian Francis Slattery, is available from Saga Press in January.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Before joining the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bookburners</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, MARGARET DUNLAP wrote for ABC Family’s cult-hit </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Middleman</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in addition to working on SyFy’s </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Eureka</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Most recently, she was a writer and co-executive producer of the Emmy-winning transmedia series </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Lizzie Bennet Diaries</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and co-created its sequel </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Welcome to Sanditon</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Her short fiction has previously appeared in </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Shimmer Magazine</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Margaret lives in Los Angeles where she taunts the rest of the team with local weather reports and waits for the earthquake that will finally turn Burbank into oceanfront property. She tweets as</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://twitter.com/spyscribe&source=gmail&ust=1486476629703000&usg=AFQjCNGtGS4Zo5QLPLV1R5TGlRZToSmmFA" href="https://twitter.com/spyscribe" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">@spyscribe</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bookburners</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, which she wrote with Max Gladstone, Mur Lafferty, and Brian Francis Slattery, is available from Saga Press in January.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MUR LAFFERTY is the author of The Shambling Guides series from Orbit, including the Netfix-optioned </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Shambling Guide to New York City</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ghost Train to New Orleans</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. She has been a podcaster for over 10 years, running award-winning shows such as </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I Should Be Writing</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and novellas published via podcast. She has written for RPGs, video games, and short animation. She lives in Durham, NC where she attends Durham Bulls baseball games and regularly pets two dogs. Her family regrets her Dragon Age addiction and wishes for her to get help. She tweets as</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://twitter.com/mightymur&source=gmail&ust=1486476629703000&usg=AFQjCNHcKgfrIkIQu0EqwNe_nrpvBjrh7g" href="https://twitter.com/mightymur" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">@mightymur</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bookburners</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, which she wrote with Max Gladstone, Margaret Dunlap, and Brian Francis Slattery, is available from Saga Press in January.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BRIAN FRANCIS SLATTERY is the author of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Spaceman Blues</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Liberation</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lost Everything</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Family Hightower</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lost Everything</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> won the Philip K. Dick Award in 2012. He’s the arts and culture editor for the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">New Haven Independent</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, an editor for the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">New Haven Review</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and a freelance editor for a few not-so-secret public policy think tanks. He also plays music constantly with a few different groups in a bunch of different genres. He has settled with his family just outside of New Haven and admits that elevation above sea level was one of the factors he took into account. For one week out of every year, he enjoys living completely without electricity. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bookburners</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, which he wrote with Max Gladstone, Margaret Dunlap, and Mur Lafferty, is available from Saga Press in January. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The graphic novel adaptation of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Stranger</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Albert Camus (illustrated by Jacques Ferrandez and translated by Sandra Smith). </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A box of old family Polaroids that my sister gave me for Christmas. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Train from New York City to Pennsylvania. I love to stare out the window at the “montage” of trees and graffiti-stained walls and the secrets hidden near the tracks.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Waking up to rainsong.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Favorite quote: </span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I taped this quote above my desk: “If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.” Charles Bukowsi, Factotum</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My earliest memory = walking to the boat docks at Biscayne Bay with my dad…scooping up seashells and hermit crabs (I’d hide in my pocket to take home).</span></div>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Favorite bookish moment: </span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In my childhood favorite--</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My Side of the Mountain</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Jean Craighead George—the main character, Sam, carves his home out of a tree. I dreamed about running away to the woods with a pet hawk.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When a mysterious cardboard box appears on your doorstep. And you rip it open and there’s a big stack of books. At last…author copies! The first thing I do = sniff the pages. Then it feels real.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">pamplemousse</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> cocktail of grapefruit and champagne (on my birthday trip to Pennsylvania). Also: I really love the word </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">pamplemousse</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Last person you hugged: </span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Home in Brooklyn.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Last emoticon you used:</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Oh, Clara Kensie, the way you break my heart. AFTERMATH is an unflinching look into the worst nightmare of every family. Brilliantly written, Kensie has written a story that is one heck of an emotional roller coaster that left me thankful I got on the ride.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Watching the evolution of Charlotte as a character was amazing. From beginning to end, her growth and depth never ceased to amaze me. What this girl endures is unthinkable, but she's a survivor. Her moxy and courage are the driving force behind this book. I vacillated between standing up to cheer her on and wanting to just hug her and protect her myself.</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I think what drew me most to this story is the way Kensie doesn't balk at talking about something as dark as child abduction. While she definitely doesn't glamorize or go into gory details, you know the heartache Charlotte and her family have endured. Not only does Kensie nail the emotions of a devastated family, but she also managed to infuse moments of humor to lighten some of the tension. </span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;"><i>Charlotte survived four long years as a prisoner in the attic of her kidnapper, sustained only by dreams of her loving family. The chance to escape suddenly arrives, and Charlotte fights her way to freedom. But an answered prayer turns into heartbreak. Losing her has torn her family apart. Her parents have divorced: Dad's a glutton for fame, Mom drinks too much, and Charlotte's twin is a zoned-out druggie. Her father wants Charlotte write a book and go on a lecture tour, and her mom wants to keep her safe, a virtual prisoner in her own home. But Charlotte is obsessed with the other girl who was kidnapped, who never got a second chance at life--the girl who nobody but Charlotte believes really existed. Until she can get justice for that girl, even if she has to do it on her own, whatever the danger, Charlotte will never be free.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Clara Kensie grew up near Chicago, reading every book she could find and using her diary to write stories about a girl with psychic powers who solved mysteries. She purposely did not hide her diary, hoping someone would read it and assume she was writing about herself. Since then, she’s swapped her diary for a computer and admits her characters are fictional, but otherwise she hasn’t changed one bit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #181818;">Today Clara is a RITA</span><sup>©</sup><span style="color: #181818;"> Award-winning author of dark fiction for young adults. Her </span>super-romantic psychic thriller series, <i>Run To You</i>, was named an RT Magazine Editors Pick for Best Books of 2014, and <i>Run to You Book One: Deception So Deadly</i>, is the winner of the prestigious 2015 RITA<sup>©</sup> Award for Best First Book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Clara’s latest release is <i>Aftermath</i>, a dark, ripped-from-the-headlines YA contemporary in the tradition of <i>Room</i> and <i>The Lovely Bones</i>. <i>Aftermath</i> is on Goodreads’ list of Most Popular Books Published in November 2016, and Young Adult Books Central declared it a Top Ten Book of 2016.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">HISTORY IS ALL YOU LEFT ME by Adam Silvera, and my heart will never recover…not ever. I wrote a rambling review of the book and of Adam’s tallness on Goodreads, but you really should just read the book as soon as you can and then find me so we can talk about it. I will most likely weep. You have been warned.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My daughter and I trying to read from the French edition of LOCK & MORI. She was very impressed at my ability to translate the Title page. (My eighth grade French class finally pays off!!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“In almost every artist's nature is inborn a wanton and treacherous proneness to side with the beauty that breaks hearts.” -- Thomas Mann<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I’m a little tea-obsessed. And my favorite teas right now come from T-WE Teas out of San Francisco. First, because the tea blends are amazing. But also because the descriptions of the teas on the website are hilarious, and every order comes with a cute little note from the person who packed the box. My most recent “treat” was a refill of their Chai Hard blend, which we go through very quickly in my house. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: #181818;">Sherlock Holmes and Miss James “Mori” Moriarty may have closed their first case, but the mystery is far from over in the thrilling sequel to </span><span style="color: #181818;">Lock & Mori</span><span style="color: #181818;">, perfect for fans of Maureen Johnson and </span><span style="color: #181818;">Sherlock</span><span style="color: #181818;">.</span><br style="color: #181818;" /><br style="color: #181818;" /><span style="color: #181818;">You know their names. Now discover their beginnings. </span><br style="color: #181818;" /><br style="color: #181818;" /><span style="color: #181818;">Mori’s abusive father is behind bars…and she has never felt less safe. Threatening letters have started appearing on her doorstep, and the police are receiving anonymous tips suggesting that Mori—not her father—is the Regent’s Park killer. To make matters worse, the police are beginning to believe them.</span><br style="color: #181818;" /><br style="color: #181818;" /><span style="color: #181818;">Through it all, Lock—frustrating, brilliant, gorgeous Lock—is by her side. The two of them set out to discover who is framing Mori, but in a city full of suspects, the task is easier said than done. With the clock ticking, Mori will discover just how far she is willing to go to make sure that justice is served, and no one—not even Lock—will be able to stop her.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" ,; line-height: 14.3px;">Heather Petty has been obsessed with mysteries since she was twelve, which is when she decided that stories about murders in London drawing rooms and English seaside villages were far superior to all other stories. She is the author of the Lock & Mori series. She lives in Reno, Nevada, with her husband, daughter, and four hopelessly devious cats. You can visit her online at HeatherWPetty.com.</span></div>
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<b>12/1:</b> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://theirishbanana.blogspot.com/&source=gmail&ust=1481051110203000&usg=AFQjCNHgSWfvdEipYZgB6MUHHY8ie-jSMw" href="http://theirishbanana.blogspot.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">The Irish Banana Review - Guest Post</a></div>
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<b>12/5:</b> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.mundiemoms.com/&source=gmail&ust=1481051110203000&usg=AFQjCNEtKNWLpLB5vd814sPXbQGhGKQHZw" href="http://www.mundiemoms.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Mundie Moms - Q&A</a></div>
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</span> <div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Bt0vzRQVMSclW2XiN2CX_5caP08kRaKOsuhTFt7YgmaTE4AkUNihnwlR1n2nD_8rCtUA46_6M2stSSIN24Gdz8uQqLtAqUjIynXEajbiHivvazd1Li739p_fXs2gSR0J245a-6C75egy/s1600/spindle+final+cover+art.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Bt0vzRQVMSclW2XiN2CX_5caP08kRaKOsuhTFt7YgmaTE4AkUNihnwlR1n2nD_8rCtUA46_6M2stSSIN24Gdz8uQqLtAqUjIynXEajbiHivvazd1Li739p_fXs2gSR0J245a-6C75egy/s320/spindle+final+cover+art.jpg" width="211" /></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">ABOUT SPINDLE:</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: #181818;">The world is made safe by a woman...but it is a very big world.</span><br style="color: #181818;" /><br style="color: #181818;" /><span style="color: #181818;">It has been generations since the Storyteller Queen drove the demon out of her husband and saved her country from fire and blood. Her family has prospered beyond the borders of their village, and two new kingdoms have sprouted on either side of the mountains where the demons are kept prisoner by bright iron, and by the creatures the Storyteller Queen made to keep them contained.</span><br style="color: #181818;" /><br style="color: #181818;" /><span style="color: #181818;">But the prison is crumbling. Through years of careful manipulation, a demon has regained her power. She has made one kingdom strong and brought the other to its knees, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. When a princess is born, the demon is ready with the final blow: a curse that will cost the princess her very soul, or force her to destroy her own people to save her life.</span><br style="color: #181818;" /><br style="color: #181818;" /><span style="color: #181818;">The threads of magic are tightly spun, binding princess and exiled spinners into a desperate plot to break the curse before the demon can become a queen of men. But the web of power is dangerously tangled--and they may not see the true pattern until it is unspooled.</span></i></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />
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<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">E.K. Johnston had several jobs and one vocation before she became a published writer. If she’s learned anything, it’s that things turn out weird sometimes, and there’s not a lot you can do about it. Well, that and how to muscle through awkward fanfic because it’s about a pairing she likes.</span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Her books range from contemporary fantasy (<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Story of Owen, Prairie Fire</i>), to fairy-tale reimaginings (<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">A Thousand Nights, Spindle</i>), and from small town Ontario (<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Exit, Pursued By A Bear</i>), to a galaxy far, far away (<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Star Wars: Ahsoka</i>). She has no plans to rein anything in.</span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You can follow Kate on <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://twitter.com/ek_johnston&source=gmail&ust=1480518972600000&usg=AFQjCNFRJ8UyCokEaQM24kgwt_n41Minhw" href="https://twitter.com/ek_johnston" style="background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #428bca; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Twitter (@ek_johnston)</a> to learn more about Alderaanian political theory than you really need to know, or on <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://ekjohnston.tumblr.com/&source=gmail&ust=1480518972600000&usg=AFQjCNG3X_QQBSEmNLPUnqNfYL0EvP4k_g" href="http://ekjohnston.tumblr.com/" style="background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #428bca; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Tumblr (ekjohnston)</a> and <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.instagram.com/ek_johnston/&source=gmail&ust=1480518972600000&usg=AFQjCNHat4SPC8jQICcssqZ7khDrX-PCUQ" href="https://www.instagram.com/ek_johnston/" style="background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #428bca; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Instagram (ek_johnston)</a> if you're just here for pretty pictures.</span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">E.K. Johnston is represented by <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.adamsliterary.com/&source=gmail&ust=1480518972600000&usg=AFQjCNEY3XWlEk5NkG3qAoV2PzmSgkoErg" href="http://www.adamsliterary.com/" style="background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #428bca; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Adams Literary</a></span></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjvldGcd9Wk_7rq9XEqdr6HXIWrSKQ2malI6EKkHx2bii8Yy1WeVi9RF1K7cRvKLm9O84khXdWTpVdoi2flvNe8NbT0GrVVC0nsg5Tv1m3Eowh9Fj3lt_Wuvjg6v1Z6Q9TSLPQ6MbQmrFcXCZQTI1JfxyiWw8Ll88bXavyGVnVZqxyhEw3lS1bk48mCmG0m=" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><img alt="fire-in-you-cover" border="0" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-21761" src="http://www.inkslingerpr.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/FIRE-IN-YOU-cover-1.jpg" height="320" width="213" /></span></a><strong><em><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">From the # 1 New York Times and International bestselling author comes a richly moving story about heartbreak and guilt, second chances and hope. Full of familiar, fan-favorite characters and no two people more deserving of a happy ending, Fire In You will burn bright beyond the last page…</span></em></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Jillian Lima’s whole world was destroyed in a span of a few hours. The same night her childhood love, Brock ‘the Beast’ Mitchell, broke her heart, her life was irrevocably altered by the hand of a stranger with a gun. It takes six years to slowly glue together the shattered pieces of her life, but Jillian is finally ready to stop existing in a past full of pain and regret. She takes a job at her father’s martial arts Academy and she’s going out on her first date since a failed relationship that was more yuck than yum. Jillian is determined to start living.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She just never expected Brock to be a part of her life again. But he’s firmly back in her life before she knows it, and not only is he older, he’s impossibly more handsome, more teasing and more <em>everything</em>. And when he sees Jillian, he’s no longer capable of thinking of her as the little girl who was his shadow growing up or the daughter of the man who gave him a second chance at life. He sees the woman who’d always been there for him, the one person who believed in him no matter what.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Brock knows she’s the one he should’ve made <em>his</em>, and what begins as a tentative friendship quickly turns to red-hot chemistry that sparks a flame that burns brighter than lust. Falling for Brock again risks more than her heart, because when the sorrow-filled and guilt-ridden past resurfaces, and a web of lies threatens to rip them apart, the fallout could lay waste to everything they’ve fought to build together, and destroy the dreams of those they care most about.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Twisted Palace by Erin Watt (3<sup>rd</sup> book in the Royals series)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I finally got my new Macbook Pro </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Release of my first published book, Half-Blood, or the first time I hit #1 on the NYT with Wait for You</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>As always Jennifer L. Armentrout proves she is one of my all-time favorite authors. Her quick wit and vivacious characters are some of my favorite to read and that holds extra true for FIRE IN YOU. Y'all there is definitely some fire in this book.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Seriously, fans of the <i>Wait For You</i> series don't need to be told of the smexy and snarky goldmine that is this series. If you haven't checked it out, get in now! This book can absolutely be read as a standalone, but I'm guessing you'll be scrambling to start from book 1 before you make it out of the first chapter.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong>Pre-Order a digital or paperback copy of FIRE IN YOU by Jennifer L. Armentrout, writing as J.Lynn, AND fill out </strong><strong><a href="https://a.pgtb.me/M7KhMC" target="_blank">THIS FORM</a> by December 3rd</strong><strong>, and get an exclusive bonus scene-an Epilogue featuring POVs from all the major couples throughout the Wait For You World!</strong></span></h3>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><em>FIRE IN YOU</em> will be available in paperback and eBook November 28th, 2016!</span></strong></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong>Just enter your name, age, email address, and the order number from your digital or paperback pre-order receipt at</strong><a href="https://a.pgtb.me/M7KhMC" target="_blank"><strong>https://a.pgtb.me/M7KhMC</strong></a><strong>to receive your exclusive FIRE IN YOU bonus scene! All entrants will receive the bonus scene on December 5th, 2016 through email using the email given when the entrant filled out </strong><a href="https://a.pgtb.me/M7KhMC" target="_blank"><strong>THIS FORM</strong></a><strong>.</strong></span></h3>
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<strong><u><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">FIRE IN YOU Feature Tour</span></u></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">November 21</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.thebookbratz.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">The Book Bratz</a>-Review<br />
<a href="http://wackymommareads.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">This Wacky Mama Reads!</a>-Review & Excerpt<br />
<a href="http://bookloversforlife.com/" target="_blank">Booklovers For Life</a>-Character Q & A-Jillian</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">November 22</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://thereadinggeek.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">The Reading Geek</a>-Review<br />
<a href="https://wordswithsarah.com/" target="_blank">Words With Sarah</a>-Review & Author Interview</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">November 23</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.mundiemoms.com/" target="_blank">Grown Up Book Reviews (MundieMoms)</a>-Review<br />
<a href="http://kristasdustjacket.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Krista’s Dust Jacket</a>-Review & Excerpt<br />
<a href="http://ohmygrowingtbr.com/" target="_blank">Oh My Growing TBR</a>-Review & Excerpt</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">November 24</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.abookishescape.com/" target="_blank">A Bookish Escape</a>-Review<br />
<a href="http://starcrossedbookblog.com/" target="_blank">Star-Crossed Book Blog</a>-Review & Author Interview</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">November 25</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://bookbitchesblog.com/" target="_blank">Book Bitches Blog</a>-Review & Excerpt<br />
<a href="http://theirishbanana.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">The Irish Banana Reviews</a>-Review & Author Interview</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">November 26</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://lovesbooksreview.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Stuck In YA Books</a>-Review & Top 5 List<br />
<a href="http://www.stepintofiction.com/" target="_blank">Step Into Fiction</a>-Review & Excerpt</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">November 27</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://lessrealitymorebooks.blogspot.ie/" target="_blank">Less Reality, More Books</a>-Review & Character Q & A-Kristen<br />
<a href="http://myyanabookobsession.com/" target="_blank">My YA NA Book Obsession</a>-Review & Author Interview</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">November 28</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.instagram.com/rentasticreads" target="_blank">RentasticReads</a>-Review<br />
<a href="http://stuckinbooks.com/" target="_blank">Stuck in Books</a>-Dual Reviews<br />
<a href="http://www.mrsleifs.com/" target="_blank">Mrs. Leif’s Two Fangs About It</a>-Review<br />
<a href="http://www.mereadalot.net/" target="_blank">MEReadAlot</a>-Review</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">November 29</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://milkywayofbooks.blogspot.gr/" target="_blank">Milky Way of Books</a>-Review<br />
<a href="http://www.readlovelust.com/" target="_blank">Love Between the Sheets</a>-Review & Character Q & A-Brock<br />
<a href="http://bookboyfriendreview.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Book Boyfriend Reviews</a>-Review</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">November 30</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.thecovercontessa.com/" target="_blank">The Cover Contessa</a>-Review & Top 5 List<br />
<a href="http://deityisland.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Deity Island</a>-Review & Excerpt<br />
<a href="http://allromancereviews.com/" target="_blank">All Romance Reviews</a>-Review & Excerpt</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">December 1</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.cocktailsandbooks.com/" target="_blank">Cocktails and Books</a>-Review<br />
<a href="http://readerslive1000lives.com/" target="_blank">Readers Live 1000 Lives</a>-Review & Character Q & A-Avery & Cam<br />
<a href="http://k-booksxo.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">K-Books</a>-Review</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">December 2</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://tometender.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Tome Tender</a>-Review & Excerpt<br />
<a href="http://thebookhookup.com/" target="_blank">The Book Hookup</a>-Review & Excerpt</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">December 3</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://ycervera.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Nose Stuck in a Book</a>-Review & Excerpt<br />
<a href="http://kimberlyfayereads.com/" target="_blank">Kimberlyfaye Reads</a>-Review & Top 5 List</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjQaHPskb-1dgXlaOS5sV4RVUW1nvGPXyymMxhzvS_6kq_loIod-_KZ3kvgPY8EHekKBLoAreSJNvpJdMdO2e0geCn3I7bp0odLOn4LeUrztrAqIY0-FwiiPw2I4i7-gnGDJT5la_KM0T5A_9kbr7dkofEYpKhFdzl_WHI6D9-WTuaiynjYMnZiUCaPpUXF3lsFNOj0gk4mMfLZy0Io=" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="author-photo-jla_j-lynn" border="0" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-21763" src="http://www.inkslingerpr.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Author-Photo-JLA_J.-Lynn-1-200x300.jpg" height="300" width="200" /></a> <strong><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">About Jennifer L. Armentrout:</span></strong><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"># 1 New York Times and # 1 International Bestselling author Jennifer lives in Martinsburg, West Virginia. All the rumors you’ve heard about her state aren’t true. When she’s not hard at work writing. She spends her time reading, watching really bad zombie movies, pretending to write, and hanging out with her husband and her Jack Russell Loki.</span><br />
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</span> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjQaHPskb-1dgXlaOS5sV4RVUW1nvGPXyymMxhzvS_6kq_loIod-_KZ3kvgPY8EHekKBLoAreSJNvpJdMdO2e0geCn3I7bp0odLOn4LeUrztrAqIY0-FwiiPw2I4i7-gnGDJT5la_KM0T5A_9kbr7dkofEYpKhFdzl_WHI6D9-WTuaiynjYMnZiUCaPpUXF3lsFNOj0gk4mMfLZy0Io=" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Her dreams of becoming an author started in algebra class, where she spent most of her time writing short stories….which explains her dismal grades in math. Jennifer writes young adult paranormal, science fiction, fantasy, and contemporary romance. She is published with Spencer Hill Press, Entangled Teen and Brazen, Disney/Hyperion and Harlequin Teen. Her book Obsidian has been optioned for a major motion picture and her Covenant Series has been optioned for TV. Jennifer has won numerous awards, including the 2013 Reviewers Choice Award for Wait for You, the 2015 Editor’s Pick for Fall With Me, and the 2014/2015 Moerser-Jugendbuch- Jury award for Obsidian. Her young adult romantic suspense novel DON’T LOOK BACK was a 2014 nominated Best in Young Adult Fiction by YALSA.</span><br />
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