News Update

Here's some of the latest news from the last few weeks! Sorry this isn't a full week in review but it's been a little crazy trying to get ready for BIR - so hope you enjoy some of this fun info and be sure stay tuned LOTS of fun and giveaways to be had starting Monday!

• Download Shadow Days, the prequel short story to Nightshade about Shay's adventures in his Uncle's house.
• Fun article about the Beautiful Darkness book tour. Publisher's Weekly also talks about the Beautiful Darkness book tour. 
• Novel Thoughts reveals part of the Eternal Sea book cover (Everlasting 2)
• Shannon Delany shares a 13 to Life Prequel story. 
• HarperTEEN Announced their next big tour! Learn more about the Dark Days of Supernatural tour and check out excerpts from Once in a Full Moon, Unearthly, Angelfire, Desires of the Dead and Afterlife. Head on over and CHECK IT OUT!
•  Publisher's Weekly talks about romance authors moving to YA.
• Cassandra Clare shared the November City of Fallen Angels teaser!
• Kami Garcia Vlogs about Touring.
• Check out this great Caster Chronicles vlog on graveyards! 
• Publisher's Weekly talks about the Apps craze going on for some of your favorite books! (Including the Caster Chronicles!)
• Are you a writer looking for some direction? Check out the San Fransisco Writer's University. (started by Julie Kagawa's Agent)
• Agent Jennifer Laughran blogs about when the right time to submit your book is.
• Meg Cabot talks about Books to Movies.
• The Indie Next list for Winter is out, is your favorite on the list?? (some of ours are!)
• NPR lists their top YA books of the year!
• California give their top 100 books of the year, and it includes some YA!
• Publisher's Weekly talks about Today's YA Scene.
• Maggie Stiefvater talks about her talk at NASA (yep, she talked to the astronauts)
• Simone Elkeles releases the cover of Chain Reaction!
  
• Jackson Pearce vlogs about how the NYTimes Best Seller list is created
  

Giveaways:

• Courtney Allison Moulton is doing 15 weeks of giveaways leading up to the release of Angelfire! Check out Week 3's giveaway! - Do you Fear the Reaper???

Weeks in Review 10/17-11/7

Reviews:

• Painting Caitlyn by Kimberly Joy Peters
• The Jumbee by Pamela Keyes
• Maybe Never, Maybe Now by  Kimberly Joy Peters
• The Mockingbirds by Daisy Whitney
• The Freak Observer by Blythe Woolston
• The Twin's Daughter by Lauren Baratz - Logsted
• The Sweetness of Salt by Cecilia Galante

On the Blog:

• It's Monday, What are you reading?
• Teaser Tuesday - The Cellar by A. J. Whitten
• Waiting on Wednesday -  The Marbury Lens by Andrew Smith
• Trailer Thursday - Plain Kate
• It's Monday, What are you Reading?
• Teaser Tuesday - Halo by Alexandra Adornetto
• Waiting on Wednesday - Awakened by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
• Trailer Thursday - The Jumbee & Vampire Boy's Goodnight
• Beautiful Darkness Tour Stop - Q & A with Link!
• Friday Five 
• Q & A with Pamela Keyes, author of The Jumbee
• Mockingbird Tour Stop - Q & A with Daisy Whitney part 1
• It's Monday, What are you Reading?
• Teaser Tuesday - Inconvenient by Margie Gelbwasser
• Waiting on Wednesday - Trapped by Michael Northrop
• Trailer Thursday - Freefall
• Friday Five
• In My Mail Box

In the News:

• YALSA announces their 2010 top 10 YA books (these are books released in 2009)
• Cassandra Clare shares the October Teaser for Clockwork Prince
• Publisher's Weekly talks about Nighshade's Viral Promotion Campaign (which PTB was a part of!)
• Jackson Pearce's Sweetly Gets a Cover! - This is the ARC Cover, not totally final, but still cool!
  
• Publisher's Weekly talks about Scholastic launching a social networking site
• Publisher's Weekly talks about Lauren Oliver's Delirium's cover treatment.
• Christine Johnson shares the cover for Nocturne & the paperback cover for Claire de Lune
   
• Pam over at Bookalicious has put together a great "Holiday Shopping Guide" - check it out, make your own!
• Romantic Times announces their favorite YA books of 2010
• Beautiful Darkness goodness:
• Kami Garcia talks about journal writing. 
• Here are the last 2 parts of Kaleb Nation's Inside the Beautiful Darkness documentary
  
  
  
  
• And during the documentary, Kami talks about how getting to meet the reader is her big thing, here's the video where she talks more about this.  (and here's Kami's blog post about this)
  
  
• Helpful information posts:
• Personal Demons author Lisa Desrochers discusses Reviews vs. Author/Book Bashing
• The Story Siren talks ARCs (Advanced Reader Copies)
• Andrea Cremer's Wolfbane gets a cover!
  
• Aprilynne Pike's Illusions cover is revealed!
  
• Sarah Rees Brennan's The Demon's Surrender gets a cover!
  

Week in Review 10/10-10/17

Reviews:

• Sleepwalk Society by Kendare Blake
• Love Drugged by James Klise
• Time Riders by Alex Scarrow
• Unraveled by Gena Showalter

On the Blog:

• Its Monday, What are you Reading?
• Bonus Trailer - Happy Book B-day to Beautiful Darkness
• Teaser Tuesday - Freak Observer by Blythe Woolston 
• Waiting on Wednesday - Inconvenient by Margie Gelbwasser  
• Meet us at the Crossroads Blog Tour chat - Leave questions for the authors in the comments!
• Trailer Thursday - Crescendo 
• In My Mailbox 

In the News:

• BloomsburyTeen continues the vlog interviews with Alyxandra Harvey, author of The Drake Chronicles
• Get to know Alyx
• Clever TV asks if Firelight by Sophie Jordan is the next Twilight.
• Melissa Marr has released a preview of Darkest Mercy. 
• Meet the members of the Chainsaw Gang -  There are eleven in the Chainsaw and we're dedicated to giving you the very VERY best of horror.F - They are doing a blog tour right now - keep an eye on Sarwat Chadda's blog for updates!
• Check out pictures from the Lost Hero by Rick Riordan launch party.  Publishers Weekly talks about the launch party also. 
• Publishers Weekly looks at Alexandra Adornetto US tour for Halo. 
• Nightshade by Andrea Cremer comes out next week! Watch all the Shadow Days videos and for those who have read Nighshade already, check out a preview of Wolfbane out Summer of 2011 at Nightshadebook.com.  And pre-order from Amazon for a chance to be the first to read the Prequel that follows Shay through his first days in his new home. 
• EW asks if race should matter when casting the Hunger Games movie, and looks at the Hunger Games taking the book world by storm. 
• MTV Hollywood Crush asks which book series will make the best movie - the Poll includes The Hunger Games and The Mortal Instruments Series. 
• Publishers Weekly looks at new book that's being published as both YA and Adult at the same time. 
• Vote for your favorite Book Trailers - up coming Crossroads chat participant Tonya Hurley's Ghost Girl: Lovesick trailer has been nominated. 
• Cassandra Clare shares the October City of Fallen Angels teaser on twitter. 
• Rebecca Maizel shares with us the cover for Stolen Nights, the next book in the Vampire Queen series (book 1 is Infinite Days)
   
• Beautiful Darkness News:
• Watch all the BlogTV stops along the Beautiful Darkness Tour HERE.  Get all the times and tour stop locations HERE, and be sure to follow all the fun through pictures and posts at  BeautifulCreaturesTheBook.com/Blog 
• Cant make it to a tour stop but still want a signed Beautiful Creatures or Beautiful Darkness? Learn how you can get a copy HERE. 
• Kaleb Nation is making a documentary of the tour, check out part 1 HERE. 
• Kami and Margie introduce Beautiful Darkness to the UK
• Joelle Anthony reads from Restoring Harmoney
  
  
• The Mockingbirds Diaries #4
  
  

Giveaways:

• Win a Nightshade inspired prize pack when you Hunt Down Nightshade by Andrea Cremer in your local bookstore! (10/19-10/22)
• MundieMOMS:
• hosting a Design a Fan Made City of Fallen Angels cover contest. (11/5)
• Freefall by Mindi Scott (11/15)
• Halloween Prize Pack giveaway from Courtney Allison Moulton, author of Angelfire. (10/25)
• Out for Blood ARC giveaway from Alyx Harvey (10/18)

Week in Review 9/26-10/3

Reviews:

• Beautiful Darkness by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
• Identical by Ellen Hopkins
• Spy Glass by Maria V. Snyder 

On the Blog:

• Forever by Maggie Stiefvater get's a cover!
• It's Monday, What are you Reading?
• Before the Split Blog Tour - Help Honor National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. 
• Teaser Tuesday - The Jumbee by Pamela Keyes
• Waiting on Wednesday - Cate of the Lost Colony by Lisa Klein
• Trailer Thursday - Angelfire by Courtney Allison Moulton 
• Clues to help Shay from Nightshade
• Giveaway Winners!!!!
• In My Mail Box
• Pixie is doing the Fall into Reading Challenge

In the News:

• Melissa Marr has a news recap including info on the Director for the Wicked Lovely movie.
• Banned Book Week:
• A Judge ways in on Ellen Hopkins books
• Time Magazine talks Ellen Hopkins
• New York Times talks Banned Books
• Penguin takes out a full page add in support of Speak and #SpeakLoudly 
• Publisher's Weekly talks about the Add
• Laurie Halse Anderson talks about the Add 
• SpeakLoudly.org is born!
• Ellen Hopkins posts for Huffington Post on Banning Books.
• Google Books looks at Banned Books
• It Gets Better: in response to the number of suicides by LGBT Teens and young adults recently, there has been a movement on Youtube to post It Gets Better Videos to help support LGBT Teens and young adults see there's life beyond the bullying.  Check out Melinda Lo, author Ash, and her partner talk about their story and learn more about the movement. 
• Cybils: Nominate your favorite book of 2010! (release dates October 2009 - October 2010)
• Alyxandrea Harvey answers fan questions
• Daisy Whitney at the Anderson's Bookstore Wherehouse

Giveaways:

• Novel Novice: Win a copy of Torment by Lauren Kate (10/8) 
• Heidi Kling: A Visitor's Guide to Mystic Falls (10/7)
• Spooktacular Giveaway and Blog Hop
• Sophie Jordan: 15 books! (10/20)
• Bree Despain: Countdown to the Lost Saint, Movie Edition Giveaway (10/4)
• Lisa Desrochers: Signed Melissa Marr Books (10/6)
• Bloomsbury Facebook: Low Red Moon inspired Jewelery (10/7)
• MundieMOMS: Torment by Lauren Kate (10/30)
• LateBloomer: Low Red Moon (10/4)

Week in Review 9/19-9/25

Reviews:

• Songs for a Teenage Nomad by Kim Culbertson

On the Blog:

• It's Monday, What are you Reading?
• Teaser Tuesday - Spy Glass by Maria V. Snyder 
• Banned Book Week Guest Blog 3 - Laura Manivong 
• Waiting on Wednesday - Where the Truth Lies 
• Trailer Thursday - Zombies vs. Unicorns 
• Giveaway Winners! 
• Banned Book Week - How has a banned book impacted your life?

In the News:

• Banned Book Week Articles:
• Random House talks Banned Books
• Yahoo News shares 10 Banned Books You Might Not Expect. 
• Laurie Halse Anderson talks about the power of Speaking Loudly.
• Do you live out west? Check out this great book festival happening in Oregon: Wordstock. 
• Harper Teen wants your help choosing the name for their new webpage. 
• Bree Despain announces that The Dark Divine has been optioned for a movie!
• Shanon Delany shares some great 13 to Life wallpaper for your computer!
• Register for the Rick Riordan Live chat on October 12th. 
• AP talks to Suzanne Collins
• Meet the Elevensies, the 2011 Debut Authors!
• The Daily Beast gives suggestions for what to read after The Hunger Games. 
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Affiliate News:

• The Hob shares some of the Q & A from the Suzanne Collins Signing in PA (click HERE to see all the Mockingjay Tour Stops)
• A Spells Deleted Scene over at Late Bloomers!

Contests:

• PTB:
• Speak Loudly - win a copy of Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
• Beautiful Darkness
• Lauren Oliver wants suggestions for the title of Delirium 2! 
• Win a stamped signed copy of Mockingjay!
• Win a copy of Speak
• Win copies of Speak, Slaughter-House-Five and Twenty Boy Summer
• Win a copy of Twenty Boy Summer
• Crescendo Trailer Contest
• Win books and Swag from some of the Smart Chicks Tour Authors!
• The Story Siren a Link a Contest post, check it out!

Week in Review 9/6-9/19

This is really 2 weeks in review - last week I was on a mini vacation hanging out with a couple bloggers and a couple authors.  So since I didn't get back till Monday, I didn't do a week in review, but I'm making up for it by doing a 2 week in review this week! so enjoy all the PTB goodness!!!
Reviews:

• The Duff by Kody Keplinger
• Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen
• The Goblin Gate by Hilari Bell
• The Mark by M.R. Bunderson
• The Ivy by  Lauren Kunze with Rina Onur
• Shadow of the Sun by  Laura Kreitzer

On the Blog:
Week 1

• What are You Reading?
• Celebrating The Vampire Diaries - Win a copy of The Visitor's Guide to Mystic Falls (ends 9/20)
• Teaser Tuesday - The Twin's Daughter
• Waiting on Wednesday - Fall for Anything
• Banned Book Week Feature 1 - Daisy Whitney author of Mockingbirds
• Trailer Thursday - Firelight
• Sea Love your Life 
• In My Mail Box

Week 2

• Book Blogger Awareness Week Day 1
• What are You Reading?
• Teaser Tuesday - Hunger
• Book Blogger Awareness Week Day 2 - Blogger Interview
• Waiting on Wednesday - All You Get is Me
• Book Blogger Awareness Week Day 3
• Banned Book Week Feature 2 - Andrea Cremer author of Nightshade 
• PTB Gets a Package from a Cute Fictional Boy!
• Book Blogger Awareness Week Day 4
• Trailer Thursday - Wildwing
• Meet Red and Vee from Vampire-Diaries.net
• Pixie Talks about the Smart Chicks Tour Stop she attended
• Lets go on The Hop
• Book Blogger Awareness Week Day 5
• Beautiful Creatures Paper Back Trailer
• Q & A with Alyxandrea Harvey - with Giveaway!
• In My Mail Box 

In the News:

• The Smart Chicks Kick it Tour has started! Here's some of the Fun from this past week! - Follow all the fun on the Smart Chicks Blog! (and each of the authors are posting about their time too, so check it all out!)
• Smart Chick's in Jackson
• Smart Chicks in Houston
• VLOGS (being posted on Jackson Pearce's Youtube Channel)
• Austin
• Houston Night 1
• Houston Night 2 
• Banned Book Week starts the 25th of September, but the posts have started already, partly because crazy thing have happened this September, so people are speaking out!
• There are a couple posts regarding Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson - follow the Twitter hashtag #speakloudly for people's thoughts on Speak being challenged yet again.
• Laurie's Post
• Andrea Cremer's Post
• Ellen Hopkin's Fallout released earlier this week - EW has the book trailer!
• Melinda Lo made a trailer for Ash in celebration of it's release in paper back! (out October 5th)
• Maggie Stievfater posts a short story on Merry Fates!
• Julie Kagawa posts the First (Ash) & Second (Puck) Iron Queen Teaser!!
• Jackson Pearce Announces next project!
• EW Talks about the way Nightshade by Andrea Cremer is being promoted
• The Great YA Bake Sale 
• Publisher's Weekly talks first printing numbers for The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan
• The Story Siren talks about digital Book Piracy 
• Pixie and Stacey answer Q's in the Book Blogger Awareness Week Blogger Interview!
• Meet the characters from The Duff:
• Tobias "Toby" Clay Tucker (The Crush)
• Jessica Nicole Gaither (Best Friend)
• Casey Anne Blythe (Best Friend)
• Wesley Benjamin Rush (The Boy)
• Bianca Lynne Piper (Our Main Character)
• Sara Rees Brennan shares the title and release date of the next book in the Demon Lexicon Series on Twitter!
• "The Demon's Surrender comes out Approximately May 2011."
• Kisses from Hell Promo Trailer
• Do you have a book crush? Share it in the Book Crush-a-thon!
• First Look at Beautiful Darkness Hard Cover!
• Check out this fun goodreads discussion group for Clockwork Angel - Cassandra Clare is answering Q's!

Giveaways:

• PTB: 
• The Drake Chronicles (3 Hearts at Stake, 1 Blood Feud, 1 ARC of Out for Blood)
• The Visitor's Guide to Mystic Falls 
• Win a Signed Copy of The Duff
• Iron Fey Bookmarks and Signed Iron King/Iron Daughter Giveaway from Julie Kagawa
• Hush Giveaway
• Bibliophilic Book Blog Blogiversary Giveaway!
• Your Chance to Premiere the Full Book Trailer For Beautiful Darkness  & How to Earn Extra Points
• Sophie Jordan is giving away ARCS!

week in Review 8/30-9/5

to our friends at Fallen Archangel! 

Winners! - We'll be emailing you shortly - you have 48 hrs to respond.

• A signed copy of Everlasting by Angie Frasier - Kristina
• Winner of a Team Ash t-shirt - Mackenzie
• Winner of a copy of Infinite Days by Rebecca Maizel - Marlene

Reviews:

• The Kids Table by Andrea Seigel
• Passing Strange by Daniel Waters
• Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

On the Blog:

• It's Monday, What are you Reading? 
• Carrie Ryan Q & A
• Teaser Tuesday - The Duff by Kody Keplinger
• Waiting on Wednesday - Slay by Amanda Marrone
• Trailer Thursday - Halo by Alexandra Adornetto
• Winners of our contests:
• 900 Follower Blog re-design and VLC Print
• Guess the Cover
• Lets go on the Hop
• In My Mail Box

Other News:

• Carrie Ryan reveals the final cover for Dark and Hallow Places!
• Maggie Stiefvater shares with us:
• The FULL Linger Playlist including with what chapters the songs go!
• Some songs from the Forever Playlist
• Sarah Rees Brennan shares her thoughts on negative reviews.
  
• Entertainment Weekly wants to know who we'd cast to play our favorite Hunger Games characters.
• Lauren Kate released the final teaser trailer for Torment. View the first teasers in our Trailer Thursday post HERE.
• Learn about the Simon Pulse Rom Com Challenge.
• Late Bloomer Online snagged a great Teaser off of Twitter from Wings 3 by Aprilynne Pike
• Aprilynne Pike announces the name of Wings 3!
• Caster Girls post Stacey's guest blog - A Growing Book Crush. 
• Mockingjay Numbers - from Publishers Weekly
• October Releases - From Publishers Weekly
• Posters and bookmarks for the Smart Chicks Kick it Tour.
• Firelight Twitter Party 9/8
•  Scholastic wants your 5 word Mockingjay Review 
• Lisa Desrochers is hosting a Character Week for her book Personal Deamson!

Contests:

• Our Contest - Zombie Giveaway (ends 9/20)
• Our Contest - Banned Book Giveaway (ends 9/25)
• Novel Novice - Zombies vs. Unicorn (ends 9/19)
• Karma Bites Book Contest 
• Clockwork Angel Swag (ends 9/8) - but she's doing another one the next week!
• Uber Fan Giveaway from Embassy Sweets. 
• My Fake Boyfriend is Better than Yours Giveaway (ends 9/8)
• The Fantasy Guide's Melissa Marr Writing Contest  (ends 9/30)

Week in Review 8/23-8/29

On the Blog:

• What are You Reading Monday
• Teaser Tuesday - Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
• Waiting on Wednesday - Where She Went by Gayle Forman
• Trailer Thursday - Torment by Lauren Kate
• Blogger Hop
• FallenArchangel.com wishes us a happy blog b-day. 
• Suzanne Collins reads the first chapter of Mockingjay
• Q & A with Vania from VLC Productions - and Chance to win one of her prints!
• One Lucky Librarian gets to Meet Suzanne Collins!

Reviews:

• Nightshade by Andrea Cremer
• Firelight by Sophie Jordan
• What I Learned from Being a Cheerleader by Adrianne Ambrose
• Haint Misbehavin' by Maureen Hardegree

Other News:

• Harlequin shares with us an excerpt from Iron Queen by Julie Kagawa 
• Bookalicio Interviews Lucy from The Drake Chronicles by Alyxandra Harvey
• Alexandra Bracken had a GREAT post about Mockingjay (SPOILERS)
• Damon from The Vampire Diaries is EW's Reader's Choice Sexiest Beast! 
• Publisher's Weekly:
• Covers the release of Mockingjay
• A Photo Tour of Bank Street Books
• Carrie Ryan blogs bout Love Triangles. 

Contests:

• Win an ARC of Across the Universe by Beth Revis 
• Win an ARC of The Duff by Kody Keplinger

Do you have news or contests? 

Leave them in our comments section!

Week in Review 8/16-8/22

Blog B-day Goodness:

• Guess the Cover Giveaway
• Guest Blog from Kristi - The Story Siren
• Guest Blog from Rebecca Maizel - author of Infinite Days (and giveaway!)
• Q & A with Angie Frazier - author of Everlasting (and giveaway!)

Reviews:

• The Pack by L.M. Preston
• Crescendo by Becca Fitzpatrick
• The Real Real by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
• House of Dolls by Francesca Lia Block
• Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
• Infinite Days by Rebecca Maizel
• Everlasting by Angie Frazier

On the Blog: 

• Blog Extra - More Beautiful Darkness Goodness!
• What are you reading? 
• Teaser Tuesday - Beautiful Darkness
• Waiting on Wednesday - Spy Glass
• Blog Extra - Clockwork Angel book trailer
• Trailer Thursday - The Familiars 
• Fragment Friday - The Duff
• In My Mail box 

Author/Other News:

• Shelf Awareness talks about the Smart Chicks Kick it Tour! (Pixie and Stacey will both be at their local stops!)
• Publisher's Weekly shared the announcement Harper Collins will release prequel trilogy to the Vampire Diaries!
• Penguin released a Robin McKinley Sampler - including a bit from her newest book Pegasus.
• Sarwat Chada, author of Dark Godess, interview 
• USA Today talks the release of Mockingjay.
• Forbes lists the top paid authors
• 5 Questions with Suzanne Collins 

Contests:

• Jenn at I read Banned Books is hosting her first giveaway! She's giving away a signed ARC of Linger!
• To celebrate getting finished copies of Personal Demons, Lisa Desrochers is giving away some Personal Demons goodness!
• Rebecca Maizel is giving away an Infinite Days audiobook!
• Reading Teen is giving away a Mockingjay swag pack!
• Time for Teaser 3 Beautiful Darkness Giveaway! And see all the Teaser Trailers on the Caster Chronicles Enter the Darkness page. 

Week in Review 8/9-8/15

Blog B-day Celebration:

• We're chatting with Shannon Delany, author of 13 to Life, on August 23rd at 8 pm central 9 pm eastern (Note the Date Change!)
• Guest post with Adam Jay Epstein & Andrew Jacobson - the Familiars
• Q & A with Grim from Julie Kagawa's Iron Fey Series. 
• Q & A with Puck from The Iron Fey Series and Iron Fey T-shirt giveaway!
• First Round of winners announced!

Reviews:

• Frenzy by Francesca Lia Block
• Other by Karen Kincy
• Crash Test Love by Ted Michael 
• Girl in the Arena by Lisa Haines
• White Horse Trick by Kate Thompson
• Almost to Die For by Tate Hallaway

On the Blog:

• What are you Reading?
• Teaser Tuesday - Crescendo by Rebecca Fitzpatrick
• Waiting on Wednesday - Entice by Carrie Jones
• Trailer Thursday - Wildfire Run by Dee Garretson
• Book Blogger Hop
• Fragment Friday Infinite Days by Rebecca Maizel
• In My Mail Box

Author News:

• Mockingjay, the last book in the Hunger Games Trilogy, comes out on the 24! Enjoy some pre-pub news!:
• Suzanne Collins asks for no spoilers
• Suzanne talks to EW about books she loves. 
• Publisher's weekly features a great groups of female authors:
• Feature on the Smart Chicks Kick it Tour.
• Feature on the Three Merry Sisters of Fate
• Feature on Melissa Mar
• Fun interview with Rebecca Maizel, author of Infinite Days, from the Providence Daily Dose. 
• Lisa Desrochers got her final author copies of Personal Demons!
• Kelly Armstrong shares the UK cover for The Gathering 
• Aprilynne Pike tweeted some lines from the 3rd book in the Spells series.  Thanks to Late Bloomer Online for reposting them!
• Cassandra Clare talks about the Clockwork Angel audiobook
  

Contests:

• Signed copy of Sleepless by Cyn Balog (ends 8/27)
• The Story Siren is hosting an LGBT Lit days and she's giving away Lit that features LGBT characters including Ash by Malinda Lo and David Inside Out by Lee Bantle.  Click HERE to view them all!
• Books Complete Me is having a 200 follow ARC Giveaway! (ends 8/30)
• Chance to win an ARC of Out for Blood by Alyxandra Harvey (ends 8/17)
• Fallen Archangel is giving away an ARC of Crescendo! (ends 8/22)
• Overflowing Shelf is giving away some books if you help her pick the 6 books she's going to take with her to college. (ends 8/20)

Week in Review 8/2 - 8/8 & News

Announcements:

We have some great contest running right now! Just in case you missed one.

• Take Me There Swag Giveaway
• Beautiful Moon Giveaway
• Coming of Age Signing Swag
• $15 Book Depository Book 
• 900 Follower Giveaway

We're chatting with Sea author Heidi Kling on the 10th!
Tyger Tyger Blog Tour Stop 

On the Blog:

• In My Mail Box
• Fragment Friday - Poison Diaries
• Trailer Thursday -The Replacement
• Waiting on Wednesday -Revolution
• Teaser Tuesday - Other 
• What are you Reading? 

Reviews:

• Low Red Moon - Ivy Devlin
• Ascendant - Diana Peterfreund
• My Worst Best Friend -Dyan Sheldon
• Love Sucks! - Melissa Francis
• Tyger Tyger - Kersten Hamilton 

Affiliates:

• Mundie Moms is running a month long Clockwork Angel Celebration. 
• Eve's Fan Garden is hosting a Midsummer Nights Chat starting Aug 9th!
• The Story Siren is hosting some AMAZING giveaways! Penguins Big 5 & Fall into Reading.

Author News:

• Cassandra Clare made a hung announcement during her Ustream chat. There will be an additional 2 books in the Mortal Instrument Series, after City of Fallen Angels. City of Lost Souls will be released in May 2012 and City of Heavenly Fire will be released September 2013. - Scholastic has shared with us a preview of Clockwork Angel. 
  
• Author Mix has more with Melissa de la Cruz, Fauthor of the Blue Bloods series; Margaret Stohl and Kami Garcia, authors of Beautiful Creatures; Cecil Castellucci, author of Beige, Boyproof, and Rose Sees Red; and Katie Alender, author of Bad Girls Don’t Die 
• Beautiful Creates the Book shares info on their Teaser Series and gives you a contest!
• Lauren Kate's Fallen hit's Berlin! 
• Alyxandra Harvey shares a peek at the Drake Chronicles Sound Track and does a great character interview with A Book Lover's Review. 
• 39 Clues Author Peter Lerangis talks about not being a traditional author and writing his 39 Clues book.
  
  
  
  
• Emma Michaels is having a twitter party to celebrate the release of The Thirteenth Chime!

Hunger Games Series News:

• School Library Journal has a great interview with Suzanne Collins.
• Reelz Channel looks at Hunger Games the movie casting.
• Mockingjay Blog Tour:
• District 1
• District 2
• District 3
• Full signing tour  info

Other News:

• Blog with Bite wants to know what your favorite paranormal books are (adult and YA)
• Huffington Post shares with us the top 10 most expensive rare books. 
• Did you miss the Twitter chat with Iron Daughter author Julie Kagawa? Check out the recap! 
• Interesting idea, Girls in the Stacks looks at the idea "Authors who have scorned, lied...Does it matter?"

Week in Review 7/26-8/1

Announcements:

• Today's the last day for our Top Commenter Contest! Be sure to comment away!
• We're chatting with Sea author Heidi Kling on the 10th!!

I (Pixie) stopped by Blue Willow Bookshop on July 28th to meet Maggie Stiefvater. Maggie is a riot; she had us laughing the whole time. While I was there, I picked up an extra copy of Linger to be given away this month! Yes, its signed. 

 

My sister in law & daughter with Maggie.

On the Blog:

• In My Mail Box
• Fragment Friday - Blood Feud and Nightshade
• Trailer Thursday - Black Hole Sun
• Waiting on Wednesday - Paranormalcy 
• Teaser Tuesday - Tyger Tyger
• What are you Reading? 
• Mockingjay Book Trailer

Reviews:

• Blood Feud by Alyxandra Harvey 
• Sea by Heidi Kling
• The Red Umbrella by Christina Gonzalez 

Affiliates:

• Mundie MOMS and Novel Novice are part of the 13 District Mockingjay Blog tour! You can see the full list of tour stops on On Our Minds, Scholastic's blog. 
• The Story Siren Announces her August Debut Author Giveaway.  She also has a Fall into Reading ARC Giveaway going on. 
• Eve's Fan Garden has some great chats coming up! 
• Mundie MOMS is also celebrating the release of Clockwork Angel, the first book in the Infernal Devices series.  Click the banner for more info.
  
  

Author News:

• Margie Stohl and Kami Garcia, authors of Beautiful Darkness, talk about their adventures at Comic-Con.  They will also be on Blog TV on the 17th of August - click HERE for more info.
• Tor.com  interviews Rebecca Maizel, author of Infinite Days
• Science Fiction & Fantasy Blog Interviews Lauren Kate, author of Torment, at Comic-Con
• Maggie Stiefvater blogs about the first part of her book signing tour. 
• Author Mix interviews Melissa de la Cruz, author of the Blue Bloods series; Margaret Stohl and Kami Garcia, authors of Beautiful Creatures; Cecil Castellucci, author of Beige, Boyproof, and Rose Sees Red; and Katie Alender, author of Bad Girls Don’t Die about what they were like in High School. 
• Iron Queen by Julie Kagawa gets a book cover!
  
  
• Lemniscate by Jennifer Murgia gets a cover!
  
  
• Delirium by Lauren Oliver gets a book cover!
  
• Cassandra Clare talks about Clockwork Angel 
  

Other News:

• Page To Premiere shares with us a new Voyage of the Dawn Treader Movie Poster.
• Learn more about I Am Number Four the Movie thanks to Alex Pettyfer Source 

Contests:  (more contests listed in our sidebar also)

• Mockingbirds and To Kill a Mockingbird  (ends 8/13)
• The Caster Chronicles Facebook Page is giving away books and Comic-Con Swag!
• CasterGirls.com is also giving away books and Comic-Con Swag!
• Penguin is giving away the full set of the Strange Angels Series (ends 8/12)
• St. Martin's Press is giving away a copy of The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams (ends 8/24)

Week in Review 7/19-7/25

Week in Review 7/4-7/11

We started this last week, and hope its something we are able to do every week - just in case, you missed something.

Weekly Post/Meme

It's Monday! What are You Reading

Teaser Tuesday

WoW

Trailer Thursday

The Blog Hop

Stacey's Vlog Tease

Reviews

The Replacement - Pixie

Voices of Dragons - Stacey

This is Me from Now On -Mamafox

No Talking -Lauralee

Whisper - Stacey

Winters Passage & Iron Daughter -Stacey

Contest

The Lost Saint Cover Art Contest - Vote for your favorite design Starting Monday here on the blo!

Clockwork Angel ARC (hurry ends today)


Birthday Giveaway from The Book Cellarx

Bree Despain is giving away books to celebrate the the release of The Dark Divine teaser trailer! Stop by to enter and watch the video a few times, the more views the more books!

Victoria Schwab is giving away some great prizes including cookies! If you're a writer is this a great contest to enter!

Random House is giving away a couple prize packs.

Win the Eternal Ones audiobook.

Eve's Fan Garden is giving away some great things right now including a Linger Prize pack, but stop by now, it ends tomorrow!

Blog News

Our Birthday Bash is coming up in a few weeks. Lots of stuff will be going on next month. To start off our Birthday Bash, we will be unveiling our new blog design from Twispired Blog Design! We will also be hosting lots of giveaways!

JIAM Winners Announced!

Affiliate News

Fallen Archangel is hosting a chat for the release of Kiss Me Deadly on July 26th.  This is an anthology that Becca Fitzpatrick and other have contributed to.  To learn more, check out the Kiss Me Deadly Blog they started.  

Novel Novice has some fun things going on! Stop by and check out their book related wallpapers and more!


The Story Siren has several contests going on, check out her sidebar for more information!

In Other News

Linger by Maggie Stiefvater will release the 13 instead of the 20 of June! You can order (and in some cases pick up) now at your local bookstore or if you order online it should ship on the 13th!

Lisa Desrochers releases the cover of her novel Personal Demons.

Cassandra Clare posted a teaser from The City of Fallen Angles.  Lean more at the MundieMOMs site!

TODAY is the 50th Anniversary of To Kill a Mockingbird.  There's been a TON of coverage of this today and over the last week.  To celebrate, check out this great article from EW and I'm sure there's plenty more around the web as well! Click the cover to order your copy of the 50th Anniversary Edition of any of the other great editions of this wonderful book.

DO YOU HAVE NEWS??? Post a link to your contest or news in the comments!

UPDATE:
This was going around Twitter today and I finally got to watch it (it takes a bit to load). WOW AMAZING! One of the best fan made trailers I've ever seen! If you're a Hunger Games fan, this is a must watch!