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.


Happy Reading!

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

Happy Reading!

Sweet Venom 2 Title Hunt

Are you excited for Tera Lynn Childs' newest novel Sweet Venom?  I know I am. If you didn't know, right now Tera is hosting a title hunt for Sweet Venom 2! Guess what blogger has a letter?

ME!!!

Tera is giving away  five signed copies of Sweet Venom and the grand prize is a $50 bookstore gift card

The tittle hunt is open internationally.

Without further ado here is my letter

E

You can check out more bloggers with letters and the rules of the hunt at http://teralynnchilds.blogspot.com

Happy Hunting!

Contest Winner

The winner of these awesome prizes is

Cary Cheyenne

Sorry it took so long. Please leave your email in the comments please use [AT] and [DOT]com when writing it out to avoid spambots.

Thanks to all who entered.

 

Happy Reading!

Extension

Sorry about the delay. Holiday weekends are a pain. Thing are crazy right now so I'm extending the giveaway until Friday and announce the winner of the prize pack on Saturday. There has also been a little problem. Some of the participants who commented and followed me on twitter no longer following me for some reason. I don't know if twitter screwed it up or you just hate what I tweet about, but as of right now that point will not be counted. But you have until Friday.

Happy Reading!

Happy Release Day

Happy release day Tera Lynn Childs!

On Lily Sanderson’s eighteenth birthday she’ll become just a girl—still a mergirl, true, but signing the renunciation will ink Princess Waterlily of Thalassinia out of existence. That leaves plain old Lily living on land, dating the boy she loves, and trying to master this being-human deal once and for all.



Now that Lily and Quince are together, mer bond or not, she’s almost content to give up her place in the royal succession of Thalassinia. But just when she thinks she has everything figured out, the waves start to get rough. Lily’s father sends a certain whirlpool-stirring cousin to stay with her on land. What did Doe do to get herself exiled from Thalassinia and stuck in terraped form, when everyone knows how much she hates humans? And why why why is she batting her eyelashes at Lily’s former crush, Brody?



The seafoam on the raging surf comes when a merboy from Lily’s past shows up—Tellin asks Lily for something that clouds her view of the horizon. There’s a future with Quince on land, her loyalty to the kingdom in the sea, and Lily tossing on the waves in the middle. Will she find a way to reconcile her love, her duty, and her own dreams?
 
To celebrate the release here are some links to some awesome contests and giveaways.


Check out nymfaux's awesome swag giveaway! http://nymfaux.blogspot.com/2011/06/fintastic-fins-are-forever-tlc-swag.html

Tera is also giving away two copys of her book http://teralynnchilds.blogspot.com/2011/06/monday-giveaway-fins-are-forever.html

also check out her sweet cupcake contest http://teralynnchilds.blogspot.com/2011/06/calling-all-cupcakes.html

and finally a gift giveaway on my blog. http://readingwritingandchocolate.blogspot.com/2011/06/fins-are-forever-gift-giveaway.html

Happy Reading!

Fins Are Forever Gift Giveaway!

As most of you know, I am a member of the Splash Team. It’s my job to spread the word about Fins Are Forever, the sequel to Tera Lynn Child’s novel Forgive My Fins.

On Lily Sanderson’s eighteenth birthday she’ll become just a girl—still a mergirl, true, but signing the renunciation will ink Princess Waterlily of Thalassinia out of existence. That leaves plain old Lily living on land, dating the boy she loves, and trying to master this being-human deal once and for all.


Now that Lily and Quince are together, mer bond or not, she’s almost content to give up her place in the royal succession of Thalassinia. But just when she thinks she has everything figured out, the waves start to get rough. Lily’s father sends a certain whirlpool-stirring cousin to stay with her on land. What did Doe do to get herself exiled from Thalassinia and stuck in terraped form, when everyone knows how much she hates humans? And why why why is she batting her eyelashes at Lily’s former crush, Brody?
The seafoam on the raging surf comes when a merboy from Lily’s past shows up—Tellin asks Lily for something that clouds her view of the horizon. There’s a future with Quince on land, her loyalty to the kingdom in the sea, and Lily tossing on the waves in the middle. Will she find a way to reconcile her love, her duty, and her own dreams?

To celebrate the release of Fins Are Forever on Tuesday I’m going to have a small giveaway. Last year I gave away a copy of the bookbecause I just happened to have two. This year I don’t and I plan not to have that happen again, but I do have goodies for you. This year I have cool treats. I tried to keep them as mermaid themed as possible.

Lip gloss, blue and green nail polish, blue earrings, a book mark and some mermaid tattoos.

I know it’s small, but I give what I can. This contest is for US only. Sorry International friends, not this year. Here are the guidelines

Comment on this post +1
Follow this blog +1 (old followers +2)
Follow me on twitter +1 (old followers +2)
Follow Tera Lynn Childs on Twitter +1
“Like” Tera Lynn Childs on Facebook +1
The Contest closes Next Friday July 1, 2011 at noon. Winners will be picked the following day.

Happy Reading!

Edit: I forgot to add links to the pages.
My Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/laboyden
Tera's Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/teralynnchilds
Tera's Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/#!/authortlc