YA Highway Anniversary Giveaway

The ladies over at YA Highway are having a massive giveaway to celebrate their 3rd year anniversary. They are giving away a ton of stuff including books, ARCs and query critiques. Also a grand prize so big you have to click here to see for yourself.
YA Highway is an amazing blog written by some amazing people. I personally have been following this blog for years and I love it. They have great features like Road Trip Wednesday, Field Trip Friday, lots of book reviews and author and agent interviews. So hurry up and check it out.


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Just For Fins Release Day!!!

Wow time flies by so fast. Tera Lynn Childs' third book in the Forgive my Fins series Just for Fins is out today. If you haven't heard about Forgive my Fins or Tera Lynn Childs then go here. I can't believe it's been three years since Forgive my Fins was released and I've been on the Splash Team. I am so glad to be apart of such an amazing group. Tera has been so kind to take the time out of her crazy writers schedule to chat with us. She even has this awesome forum that every TLC fan should check out and post topics. Check it out now! Tera is really good about responding to posts. It's a great forum.
Here is the the synopsis of Just for Fins:

***CONTAINS FORGIVE MY FINS AND FINS ARE FOREVER SPOILERS***

"When Lily Sanderson decided to remain Crown Princess Waterlily of the mer kingdom of Thalassinia, she knew she couldn't just coast along in the current. But since she's spent the last couple of years on land, Lily's not sure she has the fins to lead a kingdom. Even her maddeningly pretentious cousin Dosinia seems to know more about ruling than she does.

But Lily has to dive in deep to keep her promise to Tellin, her mer bond in name only, who tells her his kingdom is suffering in the changing ocean climate. Lily knows this is a seven seas–sized problem. They'll need to create some serious waves to make the mer community aware and get it to join together to make things right. Lily has to lead the way, even if that means facing one of the iciest queens in the mer kingdoms.

Just when Lily thinks her double life on land and sea can't get any more complicated, an ancient mer law might separate Lily and her human boyfriend, Quince, after all. It feels as if the pair is up against a solid tsunami wave!

In this third installment in the series that began with Forgive My Fins and Fins Are Forever, Lily will have to find a way to balance safety and justice for the mer people and for the humans she loves."

***SPOILERS END HERE***

To celebrate the release, I will be giving away some Just for Fins bookmarks and mermaid tattoos. I will be giving away about five, depending on how many people enter. If there are more than ten entries then I will try add more. It's not as glamorous as giving away a book, but I wanted to do something to celebrate. To enter write in the comments your favorite summer memory. The contest will end Sunday July 8, 2012 at 11:59 pm. Winners will be announced the following Monday. This is giveaway is only open to US residents but if you're international and itching to share your memory you can, just let me know you're international.

My favorite summer memory was last summer when I went to the beach each with three of my friend. We blasted 90s music, took failed jumping pictures and stopped at this pig themed ice cream shop on our way back. It was the best beach day ever! 

 Useful links:

Tera's website: http://teralynnchilds.com/

Tera's Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/teralynnchilds

Tera's Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/authortlc

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Author Appreciation Week: Make Up Days

I apologize a thousand times for not blogging for TWO DAYS. Anyway to make up for the day days lost I will have my last two authors in the same post.

Day Four Make Up

Lauren Myracle has been a big inspiration and I appreciate her so much. She has had to deal will a lot of censorship and challenging a few years now. What really makes me appreciate her is her attitude towards every issue she faces. I love how she takes the high road and keeps moving on.

That’s why I have to say “Lauren Myracle I appreciate you and good luck.”

Day Five Make Up

I would have to say that Meg Cabot is my biggest influence. I have been reading her books since I was twelve and she is one of the reasons I want to be an author. I literally counted all of the books she has written from the inside of Being Nikki a while back. I was really impressed. Now it seems like she’s releasing about four books a year.

With that I say “Hey Meg Cabot, I appreciate you and keep up the good work.”

That concludes my authors for Author Appreciation Week. I'll be back to my regular routine next week.
 
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Author Appreciation Week: Day Three

Today I’m going skip all of the fancy introduction stuff and get right into appreciating Maureen Johnson.

Maureen Johnson writes books. Good books. Good books for teens. She has written many, many good books for teens. I’m stalling, I know, but what can I say? I like to read.

Back in the day when I was a young and naïve, little girl (with was not that long ago) I read Girl at Sea with no idea of who Maureen Johnson was. Then the Battle of the Books competition I talked about during my last blog came and read Devilish and Bermudez Triangle. The next thing I knew I was preordering Suite Scarlett and anxiously awaiting the sequel (which I’m still waiting for my copy to come in from the library.)

So I say to you Maureen Johnson: Thank you for writing books. Good books. Good books for teens. Many, many good books for teens.

Author Appreciation Week: Day Two

Day two of Author Appreciation Week was a tough one. There is only one word to describe this author.

AWESOME!

John Green is the author of Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherine, Paper Towns and co-wrote the upcoming novel Will Grayson, Will Grayson with David Levithan.

The first thing I ever read from John Green was the anthology Let it Snow. He was the only author of the three who I had not heard of. (I know I lived in a box!!!) Afterwards I read Looking for Alaska for a battle of books contest at my school. (Only 4 kids showed up so we all won) I laughed, I cried and I realized I should not read books in public. I was hooked.

So here’s to you John Green for being awesome and making me look like a fool in class!!!

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Author Appreciation Week: Day 1

Today is the first day of  Author Appreciation Week. I’ve thought long and hard over the weekend and I have five authors I appreciate. Today I will talk about an author who has to put up with a bunch of crap, Stephenie Meyer.

Back in the day I had phases. I had a Mary-Kate and Ashley phase. I had a Britney Spears phase and I had a Twilight phase.

I was obsessed, and recommended it to all my friends. Well that phase is over. However, I hear so many negative things from people about the books it makes me sick. That’s when I’ve come to realize that whenever something or someone is really popular, people always try to bring it down. My opinion is that people should keep their opinion to their selves.

So I say to Stephanie Meyer (though she will never read this blog post) I appreciate you and how you don’t let all of the crap people give you get to you.

(PS If you are interseted in Author Appreciation week visit Heidi R. Kling's blog at  http://seaheidi.livejournal.com/173993.html)

Happy Reading!