Thrillerfest started out with an epic six hour agent party at the rooftop of the Library Hotel. CJ Lyons, Barbara Poelle, Sophie Littlefield, Jamie Freveletti and me. Our YA panel moderated by the very funny R.L. Stine who kept the audience and the panelists laughing. R.L. Stine all to myself.Read More →
GET READY FOR The 2nd Annual SUPER SWAG SUNDAY!!! When: June 24th thru June 30th Where: laurisareyes.blogspot.com Why: For a chance to win lots of cool promotional items signed by 50+ of today’s best middle grade and young adult authors! Every day for seven days, Laurisa’s blog will spotlightRead More →
The next stop on the tour was Italy. I flew into Milan and a driver took me to Torino (Turin). The first surprise at this cool hotel was being given a two-room, two-bathroom suite with a private balcony overlooking a courtyard. Nice! It was cool and drizzly this year. AtRead More →
THE INTERNATIONAL READERS ASSOCIATION Starters is on the 2012 IRA list of YA Choices. This is a great list of wonderful YA books chosen by teens and list is distributed to schools and libraries. Starters was one of only three books by my publisher, Random House. See the list here.Read More →
Teenreads (see post below) has a deadline of Feb 13th, noon EST, so please get your nomination in if you haven’t yet. I went nutty an donated a mega pack of STARTERS goodies to a great cause. So any winning bid is tax deductible. One Starters first edition hardback, personalizedRead More →
TeenReads tweeted today that Starters almost has enough votes to make the official nomination list! Please follow the link below to nominate Starters for the contest. You can nominate up to 5 of your favorite YA books of 2012. You can name any number between 1 and 5, so don’tRead More →
Thank you, Vegas B&N, for a wonderful event last Friday night. I was impressed with the turnout on a night when there is so much to do in your city. Loved meeting everyone. There’s one thing you guys may not realize. As excited as you are to meet meRead More →
I will be at the Rainbow Promenade B&N Friday at 7 to meet you, talk and sign Starters. If you’re in the area, come and see me because this will be my only Vegas appearance. I’ll bring swag and you can get answers to your questions about Starters or aboutRead More →
Hypable.com nominated Starters as one of ten debut YA books for 2012! It’s a fast vote, you don’t have to vote for all the categories so you can get in and out quickly. Note that you can only vote once on this one! Ends Wed, Dec 19th so do now.Read More →
Vote for Starters at the MTV poll for best YA novel of the year (fast easy click) and enter here to win the CD set of the audio book to Starters ($44 list, US entries) or a copy of the book sent from the Book Depository if you are International.Read More →
