MundieMOMS has a Ton of stuff stuff going on in 2010. They start off the year with an author chat with Cassandra Clare on January 5 at 8 pm cst. Be sure to keep checking back to their blog for information on all the great things going on in 2010! (click the button to view their blog)
FallenArchangel.com has an interview with Lisa McMann, their December featured author. They also have a list of all the end of the year lists Hush, Hush has made this year.
I'm putting Beautiful Creatures news and Caster Girls news together.
- Kami blogs about her favorite reads of 2009
- BeautifulCreaturestheBook.com is hosting a BC Cover contest. Click HERE to see what you'll win! They are also hosting a BC in the wild photo contest!
- Caster Girls has another installment of Kooking with Kami. She's kooking Bread Podding this time!
- Stop by and Cast Marian.
Book Giveaways
~ Simon and Schuster is giving away a copy of The Seven Rays by Jessica Bendinger.~ Frantic Reader is giving away The Dark Divine Swag, click HERE to enter (closes 1/7).
~ The Book Blather is giving away a TON of books to 3 winners. Click HERE to enter (closes 1/8)
~ Jaclyn Dolamore tweeted about 3 contests to win her book, Magic Under Glass.
~ Julie Kagawa is giving away Grimalkin Rocks (Grim is a character in Iron King which cracks me up! and yes, he is a "cat"). Click HERE to enter.
~ Kay Cassidy is giving away a signed ARC of her book Cinderella Society (which we'll be featuring on this blog soon, so keep checking back) for adding her countdown widget to your webpage. Click HERE to see how you can enter.
Debut Events
~ The Dark Divine Debuted to much fan fair! Author Bree Despain talks about talks about the debut events. Michelle Sallay, a photographer, was one of the lucky attendees at the TDD Deb Dinner. You can view her pictures and account HERE.~ Scones and Sensibility Debuted the same day as TDD. Author Lindsay Eland had an event and posted pictures on her facebook page, click HERE to enjoy!
Author News
~ The Lonely Heart's Club and Elizabeth Eulberg have been getting a TON of press lately! LHC is one of the January Book of the Months for TwilightMOMS, Susan Collins has publicly reviewed it and Elizabeth is Stephenie Meyer's Publicist. Congrats to Elizabeth on a great Debut!!! If you want a chance to win a signed copy of this book, head on over to the Story Siren to enter!
~ Meet the Classof2K10! (you'll be seeing a lot of them on our blog this year!)
~ Myra McEntiere, author of Hourglass (2011), has given us a sneak peak of her book!
~ Heidi Kling, author of Sea, talks Hunger Games and Team Peta vs. Team Gale.
~ Maggie Stiefvater, author of Shiver, talks her goals for 2010.
~ Did you read Interwined by Gena Showalter? Well if you did here's a treat! Gena has given us a deleted scene!
~ Lisa McMann, author of Wake, announces tour dates for 2010.
~ Lisa Schroeder talks about how you can support your favorite author.
~ Maureen Johnson Gives the gift of Suit Scarlett click HERE to see how you can read her book.
~ Aprilynne Pike shares with us the Russian Cover of Wings (scroll to the bottom)!
~ Lisa Mantchev shares with us the ARC Cover of Perchance To Dream!
~ Cassandra Clare gives us a tease for City of Fallen Angel.
@cassieclare: New Year's quote from City of Fallen Angels: "“He is bound to you,” said the Queen. “But does he love you?”
@cassieclare: *laughs* @ everyone: Yes, that's the Seelie Queen talking to Clary.
~ Fallen by Lauren Kate got a fun welcome in London enjoy this coverage!
- Freelance photographer Iain Weir snapped THESE pictures of the event.
- Random House Publicity's Twitter, had these fun tweets. Tweet 1, Tweet 2.
- You can see more on their Facebook Page.
- And more pictures from the event.
- And enjoy this video!
~ and for our older readers, are you a fan of The Southern Vampire Series? Charline Harris has posted the first chapter of Dead in the Family!
TONS of Other News
~ The Examiner talks about Shiver being optioned by Warner Brothers.
~ Green by Hayley Anne Perkins has a fan site! Stop by and sign up to view some exclusive content.
~ Undercover Book Lover interviews Daniel from Fallen.
~ Frantic Reader has some fun The Dark Divine posts including Interviews with Daniel and Grace. Stop by HERE to view all the TDD posts.
~ Goodreads wants to know your favorites of 2009, click HERE to vote.
~ Check out this cool Etsy store for some fun TDD (and other book) inspired jewelry. (the store owner is a TwilightMOM!!)
~ Read this Book Blog has their list of the top 6 YA Couples and the 6 Almost YA Couples of 2009.
~ Margaret's Book Blog has an interview with Heidi Kling, author of Sea.
~ Click HERE to see if your favorite book covers won any awards in the All things Urban Fantasy Cover Art Awards!
~ Scholastic talks about what they have coming in 2010!
~ The News Tribune talks about their favorite books of 2009
~ The Hunger Game Trilogy Fan site has posted the German covers of HG and CF (below is CF, go to their web page to see HG)
~ Cybils has announced their 2009 award finalists. Candor was nominated in the Fantasy & Science Fiction section. Click HERE to see Pam's response and click the links below to see who was nominated in each category.
- Easy Readers/Short Chapter Books
- Fantasy & Science Fiction
- Fiction Picture Books
- Graphic Novels
- Middle Grade Fiction
- Non-Fiction Picture Books
- Non-Fiction: Middle Grade & Young Adult
- Poetry
- Young Adult Fiction
Wow, that is a ton of news! Thank you for putting it altogether!
ReplyDeleteHehe, I loved Jackson Pearce's video. It was very inspiring.
Wow what a lot to go though. Kicking off the new Yeat with a bang
ReplyDeleteThat's a ton of news! Thanks for compiling this for all of us. It's always so much easier to find stuff with this post. I love the Fallen video. I wish stuff like that would happen around where I live.
ReplyDeleteAnd Jackson Pearce has the best videos...EVER.