Along with many of my fellow bloggers, I’ve been given the privilege of revealing the cover to Sweet Venom, the first book in the Medusa Girls Trilogy by Tera Lynn Childs.
Three teenage descendants of Medusa, the once-beautiful gorgon maligned by myth, must reunite and embrace their fates in a world where monsters lurk in plain sight.
I don’t know about you but I think this looks & sounds like it’s going to be an awesome book. If you want to find out a little bit more about it, check out Sweet Venom’s page. Can’t wait to read it? Add it to your Goodreads. If Facebook is your site of choice, then Like the Sweet Venom Fan page.
Aren’t those bookmarks gorgeous? All you have to do to be entered to win one is comment below & make sure you leave a name, email address & your twitter name if you have one. This giveaway is international & ends on February 28th.
Tomorrow is the release day for Angelfire, an amazing book from debut author Courtney Allison Moulton.
Because I loved this book so much, I’m going to bribe to spread the word. Normally I hate extra entries from the entrant side & when trying to calculate results, but this time I’ll make it so every tweet, & post counts as an entry. Tweet a link to this post with @CAMoulton & #Angelfire in your tweet all day today (the 14th) & tomorrow (the 15th) & then come back here & leave all of your entries in the comments.
For an example tweet, which you can copy & paste: “I want to win #Angelfire by @CAMoulton from #BookBound! http://bit.ly/fXs2tJ”
When you comment the 1st time, leave the link & an email with your name. If you comment multiple times, you don’t need to leave your info again as long as it’s from the same account as the 1st comment. If you would like to provide a running total of you points, you may, but it isn’t required.
Feel free to post a blog with the info as well. As an added incentive because I know this takes more time, a blog post will be worth 2 points.
Summary:
When seventeen-year-old Ellie starts seeing reapers - monstrous creatures who devour humans and send their souls to Hell - she finds herself on the front lines of a supernatural war between archangels and the Fallen and faced with the possible destruction of her soul.
A mysterious boy named Will reveals she is the reincarnation of an ancient warrior, the only one capable of wielding swords of angelfire to fight the reapers, and he is an immortal sworn to protect her in battle. Now that Ellie's powers have been awakened, a powerful reaper called Bastian has come forward to challenge her. He has employed a fierce assassin to eliminate her - an assassin who has already killed her once.
While balancing her dwindling social life and reaper-hunting duties, she and Will discover Bastian is searching for a dormant creature believed to be a true soul reaper. Bastian plans to use this weapon to ignite the End of Days and to destroy Ellie's soul, ending her rebirth cycle forever. Now, she must face an army of Bastian's most frightening reapers, prevent the soul reaper from consuming her soul, and uncover the secrets of her past lives - including truths that may be too frightening to remember.
Trailer:
Add it to your Goodreads. Website (With excerpt, playlist & other goodies)
Shadow Hills is getting a new cover for its paperback release so the street team is doing a little contest leading up to the release of the cover. On the 20th, Anastasia will post it on her blog. On each of the 12 days leading up the 20th, 1 puzzle piece will be posted & 2 trivia questions on 2 different blogs.
Ready for the prize info? Anastasia is giving away 24 signed posters of the original cover. Each of the participating blogs will pick a winner out of those who get the trivia answer correct, so make sure to enter all the giveaways! Winners will be posted on the 20th. To enter you must fill out the form & have a US mailing address.
Here's my piece:
Trivia:
14. What symbol is engraved on Phe's ID bracelet? Enter here.
If you've been keeping up with the Crossroads posts, you'll know I said I'd pick winners from commenters.
I have tons of swag & Zombie Queen of Newbury High to give away.
2 people will be chosen from Days 1 through 8 to win swag.
2 people who commented on days 9 through 16 will also win swag.
I will chose 1 person from all the comments to win Amanda Ashby's signed book.
Go comment (real comments please.) & then come over here & leave me your contact info (or just watch the blog for the winner.)
I'll choose a winner in 1 week. The giveaway is open internationally.
What was it about Anastasia Romanov’s story that made you want to write your own story about it?
I have always been drawn to the Romanov story because it’s just so darn tragic. Anastasia was so filled with promise – young and pretty and smart and funny and snarky and witty. And she was murdered before she had an opportunity to reach her adult potential – which I’m sure would have been amazing. She died because of politics, because of people who wanted to get rid of her parents. (obviously that’s an over-simplification, but it’s part of the truth) And it’s just so horribly sad. I totally understand why so many people over the years just couldn’t believe that she was really dead. And I wanted to pay homage to her here – even though I’ve created some definite fictions inside the historically accurate parts. If anyone could survive being held captive in a witch’s hut, I think Anastasia could definitely do it!
What are 3 of your favorite books or series?
I am a voracious reader. I can’t get through a day without reading something. So I really do have more than three favorites. But if I can be so bold as to alter your question a bit, three of my current favorite books have been Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games series (because it is total awesomeness in plotting, character development and romance); Maggie Stiefvater’s Shiver and Linger (because the werewolf nooky is beyond compare and they are deeply romantic books); and my friend Lauren Strasnick’s Nothing Like You -which is out in paperback now and which has the funniest book trailer I’ve ever seen except maybe Libba Bray’s book trailer for Going Bovine where she dresses up the cow costume, which is hysterical – ( because Nothing Like You’s ending makes me cry every time I read it. Beyond those, if I was absolutely pressed, my favorite piece of American lit is F.Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, which just blows me away at how it manages to stay fresh and contemporary in its view of the corruption of the American Dream.
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