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Five copies of my award-winning young adult novel Angelhood have just been released to be given away as prizes! To enter this contest, simply subscribe to my monthly newsletter between September 22 and October 2 (the Feast of the Guardian Angels!). Since this contest is for an audiobook, international contestants are welcome!
Just a couple days ago, an author friend told me about a seven-day reading challenge called BookTubeAThon. It’s happening over on YouTube, but if you watch this video, you’ll hear about my list of books to be read in a week. (Ha! Not going to happen.)
First, thanks to everyone who turned out for the Facebook party and Twitter contest last Thursday night. I had a blast! I’ll be blogging about the experience on the Seekerville blog on Memorial Day, so stop by then to find out a bunch of behind-the-scenes workings of a Facebook party.
In the meantime, the blog tour and giveaways continue! Here’s a roundup:
Coming up this week:
And still more to come!
In addition to the Fabulous Facebook Book Launch Party on April 30 (you are coming, aren’t you?), we’ll be holding a Twitter contest that night as well. To be entered to win an autographed copy of my young adult novel Angelhood, simply send out tweets with #Angelhood any time between 6-9 p.m. CDT on Thursday, April 30.
The more tweets you send, the more entries you’ll receive. Let’s see if we can’t get #Angelhood trending Thursday night!
Here are some tweets you can use. Or feel free to make up your own. Just remember the #Angelhood hashtag!
Only one month until my young adult novel, Angelhood, releases from Vinspire Publishing! What’s on the horizon?
Lots of blog tours. I’m lining up a series of blog interviews, guests posts, and even some recipe sharing. I’ll also have some podcast interviews for you to listen to. Many of these will have giveaways attached, so be sure to stay tuned and check them out.
Also, on the official release day (April 30, 2015), we’ll be having an online launch party on Facebook. We’ll have lots of fun games and giveaways!
Then on May 17, we’ll have the in-person launch party. If you’ll be in the Chicago area, you can check out the details for that party here.
Looking forward to sharing all this fun with you!
You’ve probably seen the challenge around Facebook. No, not the Ice Bucket one. The other one. The one where someone challenges you to list the first ten books you can think of that have stayed with you. They don’t have to be famous or great works of literature, just affected you in some way.
Although I’ll post this list on Facebook, I thought it would be fun to say a little more about each book here on my website. So here goes!
1. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery–If this surprises you, you don’t know me very well. I read Anne as a book report recommendation from my sixth grade reading teacher. This is the book that made me want to write stories for teens and tweens. It probably also influenced my decision to be a teacher. A friend of mine recently discovered Anne, and when she saw the movie, she said, “Yep, this has Amy written all over it.”
2. Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling–This also should not surprise anyone who knows me. I’ve been to some of the Harry Potter sites in London, ate lunch at the cafe where J.K. Rowling wrote the first books, and was one of those who hung out at bookstores until midnight to buy the last few books on the night of their release. If the Anne of Green Gables series lit the fire for me to write for kids, the Harry Potter books refueled it.
3. Izzy, Willy-Nilly by Cynthia Voight–Read this in eighth grade. Knocked my socks off. I’d never read realistic fiction like this before. The book opens with the narrator in the hospital waking up as the doctors tell her they’re going to have to amputate her leg. Slowly, she remembers the date with Mario and his drinking and the car crash.
4. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle–Read it as part of a Battle of the Books competition in junior high. Talk about taking us to other worlds!
5. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee–Didn’t read this one until I was forced to teach it! Ha! Who would’ve known teaching English would’ve actually brought me even more novels to read!
6. Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls–This is another one I didn’t end up reading until I had to teach it. I’m not even a dog lover, but I loved this one. I even loved the dogs in this one. It’s simply but beautifully written.
7. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie–Okay, I’m kind of using this a stand-in for all of Christie’s mysteries. I haven’t read them all, but I’ve read quite a few. How does she manage to almost always get me at the end?
8. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle–It may all be elementary for Holmes, but Watson and I are usually left feeling a bit clueless. Also, I just love quirky detectives.
9. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen–Like Murder on the Orient Express, this is kind of a stand-in for all of Austen’s novels. She just makes you want to live in another time period where people at least pretend to be polite to one another.
10. Wonder by R.J. Palacio–Read this just over a year ago. If you like kids’ books but haven’t read it yet, go grab a copy. It’s a beautiful tale of a disfigured boy who faces going to a regular school after years of being homeschooled.
I like Harry Potter so much that I have the first book in three languages (English, German, and Italian)!
