Thank you to everyone who participated in the Lucky Leprechaun Giveaway Hop and to Kathy from I am a Reader, Not a Writer, for organizing such a great hop!
I used Random.org to draw winners from my entries. Below are the entry numbers and their winners:
#1722 - HAVEN by Kristi Cook - Stacy T.
#965 - HALF-BLOOD by Jennifer L. Armentrout - Kylie C.
#869 - Book of Choice - Krista R.
Emails have been sent to all winners. Congratulations!
I'm giving away 3 awesome prizes! To celebrate two of my amazing critique partners, I am giving away one of each of their books & also one additional YA book of your choice. All prizes are open internationally.
The prizes are:
1 book by Kristi Cook - HAVEN or a pre-order of MIRAGE (book two in the series)
1 book by Jennifer L. Armentrout - HALF-BLOOD, a pre-order of PURE (book two in the Covenant series), OBSIDIAN, SHADOWS (a Lux novella) or a pre-order of ONYX (book two in the Lux series)
1 YA book of your choice.
Read below to find out more about the first books in their series and be sure to tell me which books you're entering for on the Rafflecopter form.
Also, check below for the full list of blogs participating. Thanks so much for stopping by!
About: Violet McKenna isn’t a normal girl with normal teenage issues; she has
more to contend with than most people could handle. Violet thought she
was just crazy when she had a vivid vision of her dad’s murder. Her life
started falling apart when her premonition came true. She’s had flashes
of other events too. The problem was nobody believed her until she
found a new school: Winterhaven.
At Winterhaven, Violet finally
feels like she belongs. She quickly finds a close group friends and
discovers that they too have psychic ‘gifts’—as do all the students at
Winterhaven. But as soon as she feels settled she discovers the most
intriguing and alluring boy she has ever met, and things quickly go
awry. As the attraction between them grows, intense visions of the boy’s
death start to haunt her. In her premonitions the secret he is
unwilling to share begins to reveal itself. And to Violet's horror, she
learns that their destinies are intertwined in a critical--and
deadly--way.
About: The Hematoi descend
from the unions of gods and mortals, and the children of two
Hematoi-pure-bloods-have godlike powers. Children of Hematoi and
mortals-well, not so much. Half-bloods only have two options: become
trained Sentinels who hunt and kill daimons or become servants in the
homes of the pures. Seventeen-year-old Alexandria would rather risk her
life fighting than waste it scrubbing toilets, but she may end up
slumming it anyway. There are several rules that students at the
Covenant must follow. Alex has problems with them all, but especially
rule #1:Relationships between pures and halfs are forbidden.
Unfortunately, she's crushing hard on the totally hot pure-blood Aiden.
But falling for Aiden isn't her biggest problem--staying alive long
enough to graduate the Covenant and become a Sentinel is. If she fails
in her duty, she faces a future worse than death or slavery: being
turned into a daimon, and being hunted by Aiden. And that would kind of
suck.
OBSIDIAN by Jennifer L. ArmentroutAbout: Starting over sucks.When
we moved to West Virginia right before my senior year, I'd pretty much
resigned myself to thick accents, dodgy internet access, and a whole lot
of boring.... until I spotted my hot neighbor, with his looming height
and eerie green eyes. Things were looking up.And then he opened his
mouth.Daemon is infuriating. Arrogant. Stab-worthy. We do not get along.
At all. But when a stranger attacks me and Daemon literally freezes
time with a wave of his hand, well, something...unexpected happens. The
hot alien living next door marks me.You heard me. Alien. Turns out
Daemon and his sister have a galaxy of enemies wanting to steal their
abilities, and Daemon's touch has me lit up like the Vegas Strip. The
only way I'm getting out of this alive is by sticking close to Daemon
until my alien mojo fades. If I don't kill him first, that is.
Congratulations to my amazing and wonderful and talented and kind and all kinds of awesome crit partner, Jennifer L. Armentrout!
Want to know what she's celebrating today? LOOKIE:
Here is what Publishers Marketplace says:
Jennifer L. Armentrout's DON'T LOOK BACK, pitched as Black Swan meets Pretty Little Liars, featuring a teen girl who had it all until the night she and her friend go missing, and she loses all recollection of who she is, but must piece together a life she no longer wants and the events that led to her friend's disappearance, to Emily Meehan at Disney-Hyperion, in a pre-empt, in a two-book deal, by Kevan Lyon at Marsal Lyon Literary Agency (World English). Foreign rights: Taryn Fagerness Agency
Virtual confetti everywhere!!
So proud of you, Jennifer!
You can check out her blog HERE and congratulate her there or on TWITTER.
I'm so proud to make this post I can hardly stand it! One of my critique partners has some fabulous news about a new book that she's sold and I'm thrilled beyond belief to share it with you.
Jennifer L. Armentrout has just sold a new book to Spencer Hill Press. CURSED is set to be released in September 2012.
Here is the official blurb and (amazing!) cover from Spencer Hill Press:
Dying sucks--and high school senior Ember McWilliams knows firsthand. After a fatal car accident, her gifted little sister brought her back. Now anything Ember touches dies. And that, well, really blows.
Ember operates on a no-touch policy with all living things--including boys. When Hayden Cromwell shows up, quoting Oscar Wilde and claiming her curse is a gift, she thinks he’s a crazed cutie. But when he tells her he can help control it, she’s more than interested. There’s just one catch: Ember has to trust Hayden's adopted father, a man she's sure has sinister reasons for collecting children whose abilities even weird her out. However, she’s willing to do anything to hold her sister's hand again. And hell, she'd also like to be able to kiss Hayden. Who wouldn't?
But when Ember learns the accident that turned her into a freak may not've been an accident at all, she’s not sure who to trust. Someone wanted her dead, and the closer she gets to the truth, the closer she is to losing not only her heart, but her life. For real this time.
Congratulations to both Jennifer and Spencer Hill Press! I'm so very excited about this news and can't wait to hold a copy of this beautiful book.
Check out Jennifer's BLOG to congratulate her and stop by SPENCER HILL PRESS to learn about other books you can expect from them.
OBSIDIAN by Jennifer L. Armentrout About: Starting over sucks.When
we moved to West Virginia right before my senior year, I'd pretty much
resigned myself to thick accents, dodgy internet access, and a whole lot
of boring.... until I spotted my hot neighbor, with his looming height
and eerie green eyes. Things were looking up.And then he opened his
mouth.Daemon is infuriating. Arrogant. Stab-worthy. We do not get along.
At all. But when a stranger attacks me and Daemon literally freezes
time with a wave of his hand, well, something...unexpected happens. The
hot alien living next door marks me.You heard me. Alien. Turns out
Daemon and his sister have a galaxy of enemies wanting to steal their
abilities, and Daemon's touch has me lit up like the Vegas Strip. The
only way I'm getting out of this alive is by sticking close to Daemon
until my alien mojo fades. If I don't kill him first, that is.
