Seek the Unknown with Evernight Teen (and enter to win a Kindle Paperwhite)

Teen Read Week™ is a national adolescent literacy initiative created by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). It began in 1998 and is held annually during the third week of October. Its purpose is to encourage teens to be regular readers and library users.

Seek the Unknown @ Your Library is Teen Read Week's theme this year. Explore and learn about the unknown through mystery, adventure, sci-fi, and fantasy books!

So in honor of this year's theme, Evernight Teen authors are playing a game of hide and seek this week with a fun Scavenger Hunt you can even play in your pajamas!

What's up for grabs? Evernight is giving away an All-New Kindle Paperwhite eReader randomly chosen from all correct entries!

Plus, three lucky commenters will be randomly chosen to receive $10 Evernight gift certificates!

Ready to play? Click here!

Don't forget to visit the participating authors; they hold the clues:

Sasha Hibbs
Bette Maybee
S.X. Bradley
Stephanie Lawton
Trakena Prevost
Diana Stager
Christine Klocek-Lim
Amaris Chapman
Melissa Frost

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YALLFest Interview with Lisi Harrison

Hey everyone!  Here's another exciting YALLFest interview to share with you! 

If you didn't know (and you really should because it is an awesome event) YALLFest is a great YA Author Festival held in Charleston, South Carolina hosted by Blue Bicycle Books. Still a baby, with 2013 being it's third year, YALLFest brings some of the BIGGEST names in YA books together for one day of ridiculous amazing fun.  To get people excited, they have picked bloggers across the internet to host interviews with the authors attending the festival.  I am one such lucky blogger!  

Check out the rockstar author that will be gracing us with her presence at the festival down below and keep checking back as the countdown to YALLFest keeps going! And you can always follow ALL the updates by checking out their twitter: @YALLFest

The Interview

What one thing do you need to have when you write?
A scented candle. Each book has it’s own scent.

Describe your book in 5 words.
PRETENDERS: Popular freshmen’s secret journals revealed.

What is the hardest line to write- the first or the last?
First. 100%

Best writing tip you ever received?
Stop writing in the middle of a chapter instead of the end. It will be easier to start up again the next day.

What one young adult novel do you wish you had when you were a teen? Why?
Stargirl.

Tell us 5 random facts about yourself.
1. I can’t run.
2. I have a tattoo with a type-o. It’s supposed to say, “creativity” but it says, “dry.”
3. In college I thought it would be cool to get a tattoo written in Chinese characters.
4. I was supposed to be on one of the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center. I changed my reservation at the last minute. Now every time I look at a clock it says 9:11.
5. I can’t stand being asked about my “favorites.” I don’t have favorites. If I did I’d forget what they are the minute you asked and would remember them the minute you leave. It’s maddening.
6. I prefer to give 6 random facts. 

Where's your favorite place to write?
My office.

What are you working on now?
Pretenders #2: License To Spill.

What is your favorite genre to write in? To Read?
What did I just tell you about “favorites?”

At what point in the development of an idea do you know that it will become a full-length novel?
When I can describe it in one sentence. And do it without cringing.

The Books

Pretenders series

The Clique series

Alphas series

Monster High series

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Meet Lisi Harrison

Lisi Harrison is a New York Times best selling author of The Clique, Alphas and Monster High series.  She was senior director of Development at MTV and also served as head writer for MTV Productions.  She is currently pretending to work on her next novels, The Dirty Book Club (Simon & Schuster) and Pretenders (Poppy, Hachette Book Group).

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YALLFest Interview with Shannon Hale

Hey everyone!  Here's another exciting YALLFest interview to share with you! 

If you didn't know (and you really should because it is an awesome event) YALLFest is a great YA Author Festival held in Charleston, South Carolina hosted by Blue Bicycle Books. Still a baby, with 2013 being it's third year, YALLFest brings some of the BIGGEST names in YA books together for one day of ridiculous amazing fun.  To get people excited, they have picked bloggers across the internet to host interviews with the authors attending the festival.  I am one such lucky blogger!  

Check out the rockstar author that will be gracing us with her presence at the festival down below and keep checking back as the countdown to YALLFest keeps going! And you can always follow ALL the updates by checking out their twitter: @YALLFest

The Interview

Describe your book in 5 wordsEver After High: The Storybook of Legends - Boarding school for children of famous fairytales.

Best writing tip you ever received?
        People remember a story for its characters.

What one young adult novel do you wish you had when you were a teen? Why?
        The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart. It’s smart, engaging, and discusses so many things I was struggling with.

Tell us 5 random facts about yourself.
        I have 4 kids (including identical girl toddler twins). My husband likes to wear masks and hide around the house to scare me. I like to read while lying on my belly. I love the sky. I’m not a very good speller.

What are you working on now?
        The third Princess Academy book.

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Meet Shannon Hale

New York Times best selling author Shannon Hale started writing books at age ten and never stopped, eventually earning an MFA in Creative Writing. After nineteen years of writing and dozens of rejections, she published The Goose Girl, the first book in her award-winning Books of Bayern series. Book of a Thousand Days, a standalone novel for young readers, is a Cybils award winner. Princess Academy won a Newbery Honor and is followed by best seller Princess Academy: Palace of Stone and an upcoming third book in the series. Her books for the adult crowd are Austenland (now a major motion picture), Midnight in Austenland, and The Actor and the Housewife. With her husband Dean, Shannon wrote two graphic novels: Rapunzel's Revenge, winner of the Pacific Northwest Young Readers Choice Award, and its acclaimed sequel, Calamity Jack. Her latest, Ever After High: The Storybook of Legends, will publish October 2013. Shannon's books have been translated into many languages and studied in classrooms from elementary schools to universities. She spends her days as a stay-at-home mom to four young children near Salt Lake City, Utah

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Cover Reveal of Hollow City (Miss Peregrine's Peculair Children #2) by Ransom Riggs

I don't know about you, but I am OBSESSED with Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs!  It was such an amazingly creepy book, but at the same time it was very touching and captured a moving story about acceptance.  That being said, I can't wait to get my hands on the next book in the series, Hollow City.  

And while the publication date isn't until January (just in time for my birthday!!), I have for you the cover of the book to share!!  I'm sure many of you have seen it over on Entertainment Weekly, but in case you haven't (and more publicity is always good right?), here it is:

Hollow City

by Ransom Riggs

January 14, 2013

Quirk Books

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Oh it's so deliciously creepy, just like the first one!  I've met Ransom Riggs in person and he is so lovely; and a cool fact about the books is that the photos used have all been ones that he has found with slight modifications to some.  But most of them, like the ones on the back cover of Miss Peregrine's (to the right), are shown how they were originally found.  Crazy right?

If you haven't had a chance to pick up this creepy, awesome, imiginative book, then you're in luck because you can grab a copy of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children in both paperback and hardcover!  I recommend it, so you need to go forth and read!

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Cover Reveal (and giveaway) for PUSH (The Game #2) by Eve Silver

Today I get to share with you a really exciting cover reveal!  

Push (The Game #2) by Eve Silver, the sequel to Rush, is coming out in 2014 and a ton of fellow book bloggers have the opportunity to bring you the cover!  I'm so excited because Rush was fantastic.  I am in love with these covers, and Push is just as beautiful!

Are you ready?

Push (The Game#2)

by Eve Silver

Release Date: 2014

Publisher: Harper Teen

Book Summary:

It’s either break the rules or die.

Miki Jones lives her life by her own strict set of rules, to keep control, to keep the gray fog of grief at bay. Then she’s pulled into the Game, where she—and her team—will die unless she follows a new set of rules: those set by the mysterious Committee.

But rules don’t mean answers, and without answers, it’s hard to trust. People are dying. The rules are unraveling. And Miki knows she’s being watched, uncertain if it’s the Drau or someone—something—else. Forced to make impossible choices and battling to save those she loves, Miki begins to see the Committee in a glaring new light.

And then the Game crosses a new boundary, pushes harder into Miki’s and her friends’ lives, and there’s nothing in the rules that can save them now.

Push is the sequel Rush fans will be screaming for.

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And check out book one to drop into the RUSH:

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About the Author
Eve Silver lives with her gamer husband and sons, sometimes in Canada, but often in worlds she dreams up. She loves kayaking and sunshine, dogs and desserts, and books, lots and lots of books. The first book in Eve’s new teen series, THE GAME: RUSH, from Katherine Tegen Books, was out June 2013 with THE GAME: PUSH out in 2014. She also writes books for adults.

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Harper Teen is offering an ARC of PUSH as the prize, which will be mailed to the winner early 2014, as soon as ARCs become available. (US and Canada only)

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YALLFest Interview with Melissa De La Cruz

Hey everyone!  Here's another exciting YALLFest interview to share with you! 

If you didn't know (and you really should because it is an awesome event) YALLFest is a great YA Author Festival held in Charleston, South Carolina hosted by Blue Bicycle Books. Still a baby, with 2013 being it's third year, YALLFest brings some of the BIGGEST names in YA books together for one day of ridiculous amazing fun.  To get people excited, they have picked bloggers across the internet to host interviews with the authors attending the festival.  I am one such lucky blogger!  

Check out the rockstar author that will be gracing us with her presence at the festival down below and keep checking back as the countdown to YALLFest keeps going! And you can always follow ALL the updates by checking out their twitter: @YALLFest

The Interview

What one thing do you need to have when you write?
Fear. Sometimes rage. I find that to truly focus I need to feel panic, and then suddenly everything in my manuscript becomes clear. I work best under duress, which is something my editors have learned and they're quite good at instilling fear in me. J I appreciate that! I also work well with many distractions, I think it's because I had a day job for nine years and had to write my books in the middle of doing my real work.

Describe your book in 5 words
FROZEN: Post-apocalyptic. Zombie. Dragon. Pirate. Fantasy.

What is the hardest line to write- the first or the last?
The first, definitely.

Best writing tip you ever received?
To introduce the love interest in the first 30 pages, not that specifically but learning that there was CRAFTING involved in writing a novel, not just voice.

What one young adult novel you wish you had when you were a teen? Why?
Harry Potter. Because! I don't think I have to explain.

Tell us 5 random facts about yourself.
1. I was a child model.
2. My favorite One Direction guy was Harry, but now it is Louis.
3. I have a Maltese named Mimi. She is not named for Mimi Force, our kid named her.
4. I learned to drive at 34.
5. I like savory treats better than sweet.

Where's your favorite place to write?
In a cubicle, surrounded by softly ringing phones and people murmuring. Sadly this is no longer possible for me.

What are you working on now?
My new series THE RING AND THE CROWN coming next spring from Disney-Hyperion.

What is your favorite genre to write in? To Read?
YA Fantasy and Paranormal. My favorite genre to read is "literary" fiction, but I would have to say I really enjoy bestsellers just as much, I like popular fiction, no matter what genre, I like to read what a lot of people are reading and take the pulse of the culture. But for my own taste, I love smart angry women writers like Lionel Shriver and Kate Christensen. Also cookbook memoirs.

At what point in the development of an idea do you know that it will become a full-length novel?
When we've sold it! 

The Books

Heart of Dread series

Blue Bloods series

Witches of East End series

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Meet Melissa De La Cruz

Melissa de la Cruz is the New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of many critically acclaimed and award-winning novels for teens including The Au Pairs series, the Blue Bloods series, the Ashleys series, the Angels on Sunset Boulevard series and the semi-autobiographical novel Fresh off the Boat. Her newest book for teens is Frozen, book one in the Heart of Dread series.

Her books for adults include the novel Cat’s Meow, the anthology Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys and the tongue-in-chic handbooks How to Become Famous in Two Weeks or Less and The Fashionista Files: Adventures in Four-inch Heels and Faux-Pas.  Her newest adult series is the Witches of East End, now a television series on Lifetime!  

Melissa lives in Los Angeles and Palm Springs with her family.

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