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<b style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Written By: Camille DeAngelis</b></div>
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<b style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Published By: St. Martin's Press (MacMillan)</b></div>
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<b style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Release Date: March 10, 2015</b></div>
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<b style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Pages: 292</b></div>
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<b style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Genre: Horror, Coming of Age</b></div>
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.8000001907349px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Maren Yearly doesn’t just break hearts, she devours them. </span><br style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.8000001907349px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><br style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.8000001907349px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.8000001907349px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Since she was a baby, Maren has had what you might call "an issue" with affection. Anytime someone cares for her too much, she can’t seem to stop herself from eating them. Abandoned by her mother at the age of 16, Maren goes looking for the father she has never known, but finds more than she bargained for along the way. </span><br style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.8000001907349px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><br style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.8000001907349px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.8000001907349px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Faced with love, fellow eaters, and enemies for the first time in her life, Maren realizes she isn’t just looking for her father, she is looking for herself. The real question is, will she like the girl she finds?</span></div>
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This was one of my most anticipated releases of 2015 and I was so thrilled to end up being on the street team! I feel like right off I should say that this book is not for everyone. It's dark, it's gritty, and there are parts of it that are downright gross, but if you can get past that it's a very original, enjoyable read. While it's being marketed and sold as an adult novel it is very much a YA novel, seeing as the protagonist is 16 years old and trying to figure out who she is without her mother. Despite having a main character who eats people whole, bones and all (hence the title), the book is largely a coming of age story along with learning to accept yourself for who you are, which is an important message. There were also some lines that I really loved and thought were very artfully worded, which doesn't always happen. I will say that there were a few things that either struck me as odd or confused me in some way, those things were as followed; first, there was the time period, the book actually takes place back in the late 90's which I wasn't expecting. It wasn't a problem though, so much as just a shock and, initially I was a little confused as to parts that seemed outdated (as it turns out they were). The other thing that I found slightly confusing was that things happened in the novel and the main character made some sort of "ahh, now I see" deceleration when I as a reader did not. That was slightly jarring and I found myself going back a page or two trying to figure out it I just skipped over something important or if I just didn't "get the joke" so to speak. I would have liked to see more focus on the eaters, they fascinated me and while there was some information it did at times seem very glossed over, but I think that's more of a personal thing, seeing as the idea of cannibalism is something I find intreguing. As a heads up I do have to say that there were a few places where the story lagged somewhat, but once I got through them - and they didn't seem to last very long - I was pulled back into the story and things got going again. Overall it was a deliciously unique novel that those with a flare for the macabre will enjoy, and I'm excited to see what the author comes up with next.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264029250198425148.post-20462141164320471292015-03-10T08:00:00.000-07:002015-03-10T08:00:07.158-07:00Shadow Scale Release Day GiveawayOver two years ago debut author Rachel Harman took the literary world by storm with a high-fantasy novel that became a <i>New York Times</i> Bestseller and gained <b>EIGHT</b> starred reviews. <i>Seraphina</i> made numerous "best of" lists and was raved about by authors and booksellers alike and today the highly anticipated sequel (and conclusion to the series) hits shelves! Thanks to the publisher I have an exciting giveaway for you all! But first, here's a look at the books!<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.8000001907349px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">In her </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.8000001907349px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">New York Times</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.8000001907349px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"> bestselling and Morris Award-winning debut, Rachel Hartman introduces mathematical dragons in an alternative-medieval world to fantasy and science-fiction readers of all ages. </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.8000001907349px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Eragon</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.8000001907349px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">-author Christopher Paolini calls them, "Some of the most interesting dragons I've read in fantasy."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.8000001907349px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Four decades of peace have done little to ease the mistrust between humans and dragons in the kingdom of Goredd. Folding themselves into human shape, dragons attend court as ambassadors, and lend their rational, mathematical minds to universities as scholars and teachers. As the treaty's anniversary draws near, however, tensions are high.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.8000001907349px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; text-align: left;">The kingdom of Goredd: a world where humans and dragons share life with an uneasy balance, and those few who are both human and dragon must hide the truth. Seraphina is one of these, part girl, part dragon, who is reluctantly drawn into the politics of her world. When war breaks out between the dragons and humans, she must travel the lands to find those like herself—for she has an inexplicable connection to all of them, and together they will be able to fight the dragons in powerful, magical ways. </span></div>
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<b style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Release Date: January 27, 2015</b></div>
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Honestly I wasn't overly crazy about <i>Fairest</i>. Sure, it's a Marissa Meyer book and part of the Lunar Chronicles, but I personally am not a huge fan of back stories about villains. I never have been. Don't get me wrong, I love a good villain, they're fantastic and a story, especially a sci-fi fantasy story, can't really BE a story without one, but while it is interesting seeing how evil came to be that way I always end up circling back to the same thought; "Cool motive. Still murder." This being said I think I enjoyed <i>Fairest </i>a bit more than I thought I would. There's something about Marissa's writing that makes it hard for me to put her books down, an ease that lulls me into reading page after page after page, somehow oblivious to the time ticking by. <i>Fairest</i>, like all of her other books, does just that. And despite being about a character that eventually turns into someone evil and heartless (haha, that's funny cause that's the title of Marissa's next book!) there are pieces of it that were so pretty. Sure there were parts that weren't, there were even a few parts that irked me, mainly the whole "I am <i>not</i> a child" thing that shows just how much of a child the character actually is, but I understood the need for it. I also found myself sympathizing with Levana for a period of time. I think what I loved the most though was, having read all of the previous (other?) books in the series, I made connections between the books and saw all of the little tidbits Marissa had put in. It's little Easter eggs like the ones in this book that push the story to the next level because it really shows that the author is thinking about every little detail, which just blows my mind. Overall I'm pretty happy with this book, and although I wish that maybe it had come out after <i>Winter</i> because I NEED THE END OF THE SERIES I respect that Marissa needed to flush out this character, her villain, to help her write the end, and while it was short it was a quick, enjoyable read. Fans of the Lunar Chronicles will surely enjoy this look into the most feared character in the series, and even though it's not the ending we were hoping to see at this point in the year it is part of the world and enough to, hopefully, hold us over until <i>Winter</i>'s release this November. </div>
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<i>Shutter</i> was one of those books that I was just crazy excited about getting my hands on. If for some reason you didn't know I'm a HUGE horror fan so to have a YA book being published that hails the author as the new name of horror is very exciting. I've learned the hard way that the hype that a publisher places on a book isn't always the way I see it, but thankfully this was not one of those times. From the very first page of this book the action and horror was ramped up full force, sending little chills down my spine from time to time and keeping me on edge. The world that Courtney created was fascinating, and the fact that she based it all off of <i>Dracula</i> was even cooler. It's actually rather impressive how well thought out this book was, especially considering it was a debut, and although there were a few bits here and there that got a little bogged down with the details (the first few chapters had a little bit of an info-dump) overall it kept me interested the entire time and I was compelled to find out what happened. I think it's hard to <i>write</i> scary because so often in the movies we rely on those moments of tension coupled with suspenseful music that ultimately leads to the reveal of the big bad thing where it jumps out from around the corner and yells "boo!" but in books it's so much harder to do that. You're not physically <i>showing</i> a person those things and you don't have the background music to help set the tone, you're forced to rely totally on words on a page, and Courtney has managed to do that. She's managed to do it not just with the typical creepy setting but with her descriptions of everything, morphing the ordinary into the grotesque just by weaving words together and comparing mundane things to horrific ones. It was fantastic. A note to the faint of heart, it wasn't just the descriptions of ordinary things, buildings and the like, that were gross, but the ghosts and the creatures and the death, so this book, it's not for the weak willed. That being said I can say that fans of horror, especially those who are also fans of the YA age group, will find this to be a delightful read. The action is non-stop and while there's a little bit of romance is isn't overwhelming. I can honestly say that this won't be a book for everyone , there are going to be people who won't like it, but as a horror novel it stands its own and I really do hope that Courtney is able to continue the story because while most things are wrapped up there's potential for more. Fingers crossed that will happen (on both Courtney and MacMillan's end)!</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"><b>Written By: Gayle Forman</b></span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"><b>Published By: Viking (Penguin)</b></span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"><b>Release Date: January 27, 2015</b></span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"><b>Pages: 288</b></span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"><b>Genre: Contemporary, Realistic fiction, Suicide</b></span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"><b>Source: ARC from publisher</b></span></span><br />
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<strong style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Cody and Meg were inseparable.</strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Two peas in a pod.</strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Until . . . they weren’t anymore.</strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">When her best friend Meg drinks a bottle of industrial-strength cleaner alone in a motel room, Cody is understandably shocked and devastated. She and Meg shared everything—so how was there no warning? But when Cody travels to Meg’s college town to pack up the belongings left behind, she discovers that there’s a lot that Meg never told her. About her old roommates, the sort of people Cody never would have met in her dead-end small town in Washington. About Ben McAllister, the boy with a guitar and a sneer, who broke Meg’s heart. And about an encrypted computer file that Cody can’t open—until she does, and suddenly everything Cody thought she knew about her best friend’s death gets thrown into question.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><em style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">I Was Here</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"> is Gayle Forman at her finest, a taut, emotional, and ultimately redemptive story about redefining the meaning of family and finding a way to move forward even in the face of unspeakable loss.</span><br />
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Several years ago I read Forman's award-winning novel <i>If I Stay</i>, and unlike almost everyone else I wasn't blown away by it, but I did thoroughly enjoy it. Although this book hasn't hit shelves yet most of its praise has been along the lines of <i>If I Stay</i> so there's no doubt in my mind that fans of that book will just eat this one up too. The writing was truely beautiful, with several quotes that I can see being made into beautiful pieces of artwork or even tattoos. The story was reminiscent of Jandy Nelson's <i>The Sky If Everywhere</i> in the sense that it delt with trying to move past the death of a loved one while at the same time keeping them close. It was fascinating watching Forman weave her story and even more interesting that she managed to add a hint of mystery and love to the mix. The characters were well rounded and while they did some things that irked me there was a logical reason for them to do it, so I was able to forgive the act more than I would have if it had just been for the sake of the plot. Overall it was a touching story of a girl coming to grips with the suicide of her best friend, along with uncovering the reasons that she decided to go down that path and learning to forgive herself for what happened. All of that being said for some reason there was just something that didn't click with me. I appreciated the characters and the plot, was blown away by the writing in places, and was intregued enough to plow right through the book, but despite all of that I didn't connect with it the way so many people seem to have. Please though, if you are excited for this book and/or are fans of Forman's previous works pick it up. Just because I wasn't hit the way so many others were doesn't mean that you won't be (for some reason Forman's books don't give me all the feels like they do to everyone else), but I still think this is a powerful book because it does what so many books are afraid to do. And that's talk about a tough subject. It talks about a subject that so many people won't touch and it does it in such a real way and that makes it SO IMPORTANT. So go pick it up because even though I didn't love it I liked it a lot and it's something that everyone should read.</div>
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There have been so many people raving about this book that I was a little worried that it was going to be one of those books that I found overrated but surprisingly that did not turn out to be the case. By the time I realized this book might end up breaking my heart I was already so invested that I had to see what happened next, so a warning to you all; tears are almost unavoidable. This should come as no surprise to people though, seeing as the book is comped to <i>The Fault in Our Stars</i>, which is also a tear-jerker, and let me say if you didn't enjoy that book you probably won't enjoy this one. I say this because I can see a slight resemblance between the "teens who feel too old for teenagers" vibe coming from both of these books, and while some people hate this I found that it lead to some passages that were breathtakingly beautiful. Something that I think people will enjoy is that the manic-pixie-dream-girl stereotype that seems to come with these kind of books isn't there. In fact it's more of a manic-pixie-dream-boy kind of thing, which I found quite fascinating. The energy exerted by the main male character is one of the biggest reasons that I kept flipping pages, I almost felt like I HAD to see what happened next; what he would do next, what he would say next. There was a feverish pace that I couldn't break no matter how hard I tried. And I have to give props to the girl because so often in books like this they do everything wrong, but she did everything RIGHT. When you get to the point I'm referring to you'll know exactly what I mean, and I cannot stress enough how fantastic it was to see that in YA lit. It just filled me with joy that Niven decided to take her characters down that path instead of the one most traveled. Overall I was ridiculously pleased with age-group jump into YA and I can already tell this is going to be a big seller. I found this a fantastic way to bring in the new year and I wish Niven all the best in the sales of this book, they are deserved. I can't see what she comes up with next.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yesterday I took a look back at my year in books and today, being the start of a new year, I'm going to look forward. One of the things that make me so excited about a new year is all of the new books that are going to be published and I thought I would take a look at some that I can't wait to read along with a few book-related new year's resolutions!</span></div>
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<li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16096824-a-court-of-thorns-and-roses?ac=1">A Court of Thorns and Roses</a> by Sarah J. Maas - I love Sarah J. Maas' books, so I'm sure this will be no exception! </li>
<li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22055262-a-darker-shade-of-magic?ac=1">A Darker Shade of Magic</a> by V. E. Schwab (aka Victoria Schwab) - Schwab's first adult book was SO GREAT and I have high hopes for this one!</li>
<li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23278532-alive">Alive</a> by Scott Sigler - A teenage girl wakes up in a coffin and finds others in the same position. That's how it starts. HOW COOL IS THAT!? (Note: in real life this would NOT be cool)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21570066-bones-all?ac=1">Bones & All</a> by Camille DeAngelis - Cannibals. That is all.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23014725-delicate-monsters?ac=1">Delicate Monsters</a> by Stephanie Kuehn - Supposedly the main female character is screwed up. I'm excited to see if it's true!</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22489107-fairest?ac=1">Fairest</a> by Marissa Meyer - I'll pretty much read anything Marissa writes, and since <i>Winter</i> isn't out until much later I suppose I'll have to see how Queen Levana turned into who she is. I'm interested to see if I like it. (We'll stick <i>Winter</i> in here too, cause it comes out this year too!)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22736613-hold-me-closer?ac=1">Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story</a> by David Levithan - This is a musical as a novel about one of the best characters from <i>Will Grayson, Will Grayson</i>. It cannot get better than that.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16060716-lair-of-dreams?ac=1">Lair of Dreams</a> by Libba Bray - I'm excited to finally see what happens to this cast of characters! </li>
<li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21393526-magonia?ac=1">Magonia</a> by Maria Dahvana Headley - This cover. This summary! And Neil Gaiman meets John Green? Heck yes I'll give that a shot!</li>
<li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16181516-monstrous?ac=1">Monstrous</a> by MarcyKate Connolly - This book just sounds so adorable I can't even. Also, the cover is SO CUTE!!!</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18715922-ruthless">Ruthless</a> by Carolyn Lee Adams - A girl gets kidnapped by a serial killer and he might become her first victim? Oh yes. </li>
<li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22929537-the-devil-you-know">The Devil You Know</a> by Trish Doller - I love both of Trish's previous books and this one is a thriller, which is right up my alley!</li>
<li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22449285-the-remedy">The Remedy</a> by Suzanne Young - A prequel to <i>The Program </i>that shows how it all started? I foresee tears in my future.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21936988-the-sin-eater-s-daughter">The Sin Eater's Daughter</a> by Melinda Salisbury - The main character can't touch anyone, which reminds me of <i>Shatter Me</i>, but it sounds like it's gonna be set in more of a mid-evil time. That sounds awesome!</li>
<li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18044277-the-walls-around-us">The Walls Around Us</a> by Nova Ren Suma - I've loved <i>Imaginary Girls</i> and with this novel it sounds like she's getting back to that more magical realism thing, which has me super excited!</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17831753-a-history-of-glitter-and-blood">A History of Glitter and Blood</a> by Hannah Moskowitz - The description of this novel just sounds so beautiful I can't not read it.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23149128-extraordinary-means">Extraordinary Means</a> by Robyn Schneider - I loved Schneider's first novel, <i>The Beginning of Everything</i>, and this book - which is about people with incurable tuberculosis - sounds like exactly something I would read. </li>
<li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23492282-nowhere-but-here?ac=1">Nowhere But Here</a> by Katie McGarry - I'll read anything McGarry writes and this new series sounds HOT.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22396591-the-dead-house?ac=1">The Dead House</a> by Dawn Kurtagich - This is a psychological thriller made up of several things, including medical reports and video transcripts. That sounds way cool!</li>
<li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23429332-the-rose-society?ac=1">The Rose Society</a> by Marie Lu - <i>The Young Elites</i> was one of my top reads last year and I'm excited to see how the story continues.</li>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is not even close to a list of the books I'm excited for to come out in 2015! Ask me about more of them in the comments, on the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Peace-Love-Teen-Fiction/113906138666107">facebook page</a>, or on <a href="https://twitter.com/peachandblue">twitter</a>!</span></div>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">With the increase in books I also hope to increase the number of posts I put up. Reviews, giveaways, and just plain discussions!</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Whenever I go to a book signing I want to have read at least one book by the author (If there are more than one author at the event I want to have read at least one book by at least one author, more if there are 5+)! [Note: I tried this last year, it lasted less than a month. We'll see if I can do it this year!]</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">I want to write at least 350 words every day (here a "day" is a weekday that is not a national holiday. That equals writing at least 252 days this year)!</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have extra copies of three 2015 ARCs and so I've decided that one winner will get to pick two of them to keep for themselves! Below are the three titles I have extra copies of and all you have to do to win is enter via the rafflecopter! And since this giveaway started a day after the one put up yesterday it will end on the 11th, instead of the 10th!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The year is just about over and now comes the time for looking back at all we've done over the past 365 days, and since this is a book blog I'm going to look back at all of the books I read this year. First I'll start with some numbers, cause I'm a sucker for all of those infographic things (although mine aren't nearly as cool).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I read a total of 51 books this year. You can see them all <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/1157380">here</a>. (That's just over half the total number that I read last year.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I didn't review any of the Adult/New Adult books, so that's a total of 35 reviews. That's not so great...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm actually surprised by this cause I generally think of myself as more of a paranormal/fantasy/sci-fi lover.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This number could have been much higher, especially with all of the great debuts that came out this year. </span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">read <b>3</b> books that were not published in 2014</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">did not finish (read more than 100 pages of and didn't care for) <b>3 </b>books (I started and did not finish more, but I mean to come back to those ones...at some point in time)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">read <b>6</b> books that were self-published/indie-published (this is out of ALL the books I read)</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19141361-amity?ac=1">Amity</a> by Micol Ostow</span><br />
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Why? Cause I'm a huge fan of the horror genre and the writing worked for me. Also, it's pretty original.<br />
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<a href="http://peaceloveteenfiction.blogspot.com/2014/08/review-amity.html">My review</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17228280-better-off-friends?ac=1">Better off Friends</a> by Elizabeth Eulberg</span><br />
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Why? I adore friends to lovers stories and this one was just so adorable.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13206828-cress?ac=1">Cress</a> by Marissa Meyer</span><br />
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Why? Rapunzel on a satellite. That is all.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13597757-don-t-touch?ac=1">Don't Touch</a> by Rachel M. Wilson</span><br />
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Why? This was such a fantastic look at an anxiety disorder, and I really think we need more of them in YA (and adult) lit!<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20613470-heir-of-fire?ac=1">Heir of Fire</a> by Sarah J. Maas</span><br />
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Why? Despite being a super dark book the writing is just so pretty! Also, the story! And yay for high fantasy for the YA group!<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20820994-i-ll-give-you-the-sun?ac=1">I'll Give You The Sun</a> by Jandy Nelson</span><br />
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Why? The writing was beautiful, as was the story, and it shouldn't have worked but it TOTALLY did.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9627755-isla-and-the-happily-ever-after?ac=1">Isla and the Happily Ever After</a> by Stephanie Perkins</span><br />
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Why? Because it was just so gosh-dang adorable. Also, cameos from the previous two book's characters. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18298225-on-the-fence?ac=1">On The Fence</a> by Kasie West</span><br />
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Why? Another friends to lovers story that really hit the spot. I'm also a huge fan of the "one of the boys" cliche too. This book is just filled with warm fuzzies.<br />
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<a href="http://peaceloveteenfiction.blogspot.com/2014/06/review-on-fence.html">My review</a><br />
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Why? A female anti-hero, that's why. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Those are my top ten books for the year but because it's 2014 I've decided that there need to be 14 books on this list, so below are four extras that are part of the top 14, but not the top 10</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">*One last note, if I owe you a prize I will be mailing it not long after the 10th (and emailing you before then)! I'm so sorry that it's taking me so long, I just REALLY hate going to the post office...also I'm kinda broke-ish. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264029250198425148.post-29708073399065524592014-12-02T22:08:00.000-08:002014-12-02T22:08:30.029-08:00Review - The Young Elites<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Three years ago I read Marie Lu's debut novel, <i>Legend</i>, and I really enjoyed it, but for some reason despite buying the other two books in the series I never saw it through to the end. This year when I heard that she had a new book coming out I decided it sounded like something I would enjoy and asked the publisher for a copy. I received one but didn't end up getting to it before it came out, so I pushed it aside and said I would come back to it later. That was a mistake, I wish I would have read this book so much sooner. So often in books, YA lit especially, females are portrayed as delicate flowers or, when they're actually fully rounded, are still sweet and loving; they're <i>good</i>. That's bull. The whole world is not rainbows and butterflies, some people are good, some people aren't, and some are just plain confused. Adelina falls into the confused category, straddling the line between good and bad in a way that makes you slightly unsure of which side you're actually rooting for to win. On top of Adelina, the main character, the cast of supporting characters was fantastic and I fell in love with almost all of them. The other thing I adored was that Adelina was fragile. So often we see characters as weak, especially females, for accepting help, but Lu has written Adelina in a way that while she appears fragile at some points she needs help and ends up accepting it while still coming off as a whole as someone who could kill you easily. There's a distinct lack of that in YA lit, in anything at all actually, and it's something that I think is really important to highlight; that even strong people have to ask for help sometimes. Overall I was just so thrilled with this book as a whole. The twists and turns that Lu wove into the story-line were fantastic and I can honestly say that where the book ended up was not what I was expecting. I will undoubtedly read book two when it comes out and would recommend this book to just about anyone. I want to say that I had some trouble getting into the book at first, it was heavy in a way that's hard to describe but that might have had something to do with the fact that this book constitutes as a high-fantasy novel, which can be slightly more bulky than other novels. There are also some dark scenes in the book that might not be appropriate for those under the age of 14, but that being said it was spectacular.<br />
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Usually I do not read self published books but when I was just starting out as a blogger an author sent me a copy of her newest YA novel for me to read, and being who I am I decided to read it. What I found was a really good, emotional novel that I would never have found if I hadn't taken that chance, so when that same author asked me to read her upcoming YA release I decided that I would take that chance again. When it comes to books with difficult subject manners (this one deals with child abuse and drug and alcohol abuse) I usually find that it takes me a while to get through them because they're so intense. Now, while this book is intense, quite intense actually, I didn't find it difficult to read at all. In fact despite the slightly strange formatting (which might have been because it was an early uncorrected copy) and jarring voice of the male POV (which made sense in terms of the story) it was a really quick read. I found that the pages just flew by and I was invested in what was going to happen to the characters next. I also loved being able to see things from both character's POV, and trust me when I say there was no mistaking one character for another, which I know can be a big problem for some people. There was one thing that was slightly irritating but after thinking about it I realized that for the character it made sense. That was the fact that the female character seemed a little young, but like I said after giving it some thought I realized that it wasn't as big of a problem as I thought it was, that it fit with the idea of the character. Overall I was very pleased with this book and I'm interested in seeing what happens to the characters next. Like I said I don't rarely read self published books, and even rarer do I recommend them to people, but this book managed to touch me in just a way that makes me think I will be thinking about it for quite some time, and on top of that it's a quick read that sets itself apart from other things that are currently on shelves. <br />
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There's almost nothing I love more than a good murder mystery, whether it be on TV, the big screen, or on a page, so last year when I heard about a book that was basically <i>Criminal Minds</i> with teenagers I knew I had to read it. I devoured the first one and was very pleasantly surprised by the novel as a whole and the fact that I didn't see who the killer was from page one, so when I heard there was going to be a second book in the series I knew I had to get my hands on it. So often I find that the second book in a series inevitably leads to heartbreak one way or another but that, thankfully, didn't happen. Dare I say it I think that I actually enjoyed this book more than the first one in the series. Everything was ramped up in this sequel, the romance, the intrigue, the death, and the gore. With the consequences of the first book really starting to show up at the very beginning the stage is set for a novel that could very well have ended up being a flop but with Barnes introducing a character we had only just heard about in book one everything changes and gets much, much darker. Again we got to see inside the mind of the killer and look through their eyes as they methodically carried out their plan, but we also got a glimpse of a killer behind bars who, arguably, could be one of the top serial murderers in the YA world (and might be able to hold that title in the real world as well). I think it's also important to point out that while this book could have been so dark Barnes managed to keep it light with her entertaining cast of main characters who we get to learn more about. Overall I'm ridiculously pleased with the outcome of this book and would recommend it to anyone who has a thing for YA and criminal dramas (especially <i>Criminal Minds</i>). As for the rest of the series I hope that there will be at least two more books (although if we're being honest there's probably only going to be one more), but regardless of how many books there are left I can't wait to return to this world with these characters because even the ones I disliked I still wound up liking! Bravo Barnes for a great second-in-a-series novel, and I do believe you have found your calling writing YA murder mysteries!<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The month of October is finally over, and with it the first ever YA horror/thriller Spooktacular! There were 22 days of interviews and just about as many giveaways, some of which are still running so be sure to check those out! What I have for you today, the day after Halloween, is a list of other books to check out if you, like me, are a fan of the horror/thriller genre. These are books that came out earlier this year or will come out next year but for whatever reason I was unable to get an interview with the author, or a reply for an interview. Just because I wasn't able to feature these authors I think their books sound interesting enough/were good enough that I think you should all check them out as well, and at the very bottom there's a small list of pre-2014 YA horror/thriller books to check out too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thank you so much to everyone who has taken part in this year's YA horror/thriller spooktacular and like I said above be sure to check out the remaining open giveaways, many of them run for at least another week and are ARCs of books that won't be out for several months yet! Leave a link with a YA horror/thriller book I may have missed/that you loved for an extra entry in the <a href="http://peaceloveteenfiction.blogspot.com/2014/09/introducing-ya-horrorthriller.html">giveaway from the very start</a>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Peace, Love, Teen Fiction: This is your debut novel so hopefully this
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Amanda Panitch: Julia tries, but can't escape the
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />PLTF: Sometimes the most frightening of all things is human nature
itself, why did you decide to go contemporary when you very well could have
gone paranormal? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>AP: I love fantasy and
the paranormal, but in this book I wanted to explore evil and love in a
real-world setting. I'd classify <i>Damage Done</i> as a
psychological thriller rather than horror, but I still think it's pretty scary
that the things that happen in the book could actually happen in real life.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that's very much explored in the book! Sometimes it can be something that's
innate, sometimes circumstances collide and push someone into doing something
evil. Sometimes doing nothing can be the most horrible thing.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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see faces from her past, she thinks she's going crazy. She's not sure whether
or not these people are actually there, and it's that which spurs her to
investigate. The book is told closely from her point of view, so she's shaping
everything she sees - I hope I succeeded in making the story convincing.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>AP: <i>Damage Done</i></b><b> was part of a two-book deal, so next up is a second YA
stand-alone psychological thriller, this one set in an amusement park. It's a
much more personal book than <i>Damage Done</i>, since I spent two summers
as a teenager working at Six Flags Great Adventure and met my first love there
(though I was fortunate in that nobody went missing from the park that summer,
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silver hanging skeleton earrings I love that I can really only wear on
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Now that she’s Lucy Black, her fresh start has attracted the attention of one of the hottest guys in school. And someone much more dangerous. She thought her brother’s crimes were behind her. But now she’s being forced to confront the dark secrets she thought were safely left behind. How far will Julia go to keep her slate clean?</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">One thing is clear: The damage done can never be erased. It’s only just beginning. . . <span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The day before the last day of October I have for you <i>two</i> <i>New York Times</i> bestselling authors! They're both veteran horror authors and this isn't the first time they've worked together. Who are they? Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguie!</span></div>
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Fiction: Basics first, can each of you sum up <i>The Rules</i> in
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18pt;">Debbie Viguie: Edge
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18pt;">Nancy Holder: If
you scream, the killer will know where you are.</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the book,<i> The Rules</i>, obviously corresponds to a large aspect of the
plot. What are your rules?</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18pt;">DV: Mine
personally: Never turn your back on danger. Know when to fight and when to run.
Warn your friends when they can’t see the danger but you can.</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18pt;">NH: - If someone scares you, don’t be
polite. Move the hell away.</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18pt;"> - If you can’t get away, scream
“Fire!” like crazy and kick their ass!</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18pt;"> - Never piss off Debbie
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18pt;">PLTF: Did
you do any kind of research to get the killings or the killer to seem
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18pt;">DV: We’ve
both racked up a pretty high body count in the books we write together and the
ones we write apart. At different points in the past I’ve done research for
other books, but not for this one specifically.</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18pt;">NH: OMG,
how many times did I watch the most perfect YA teen thriller <i>ever?</i> The
narrative pace of <i>Scream </i>is in my marrow. I love you, Kevin
Williamson. I also did a ton of research on Northern California and canneries.
Debbie and I are both from the Bay Area so that helped a lot!</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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did you decide who needed to die to keep the story going? Were there any
characters you ended up wishing you didn’t have to kill off?</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18pt;">DV: In every
great scary story of this type you need to kill off characters, particularly
ones whose deaths will traumatize the protagonist, the reader, or both. There
were some characters I felt bad for when we killed them off, but none that I’d
go back and save if I had the chance.</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18pt;">NH: DIE,
SUCKAS! I feel bad every time I kill a character…but it has never stopped me.</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18pt;">DV: Tons of
things! Later next summer I have the first book in my <i>Robin Hood
Demon’s Bane</i> trilogy coming out. I’m co-writing that series with James
R. Tuck. I am in the middle of writing a teen thriller called <i>Never
Have I Ever. </i>I’m putting the finishing touches on five books for three
of my other continuing series. NH: and I are also working on
another project together, but we can’t say anything about that just yet!</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18pt;">NH: I’m
working on novels based on the TV show <i>Beauty and the Beast</i>. The
first one, titled <i>Vendetta,</i> will be out in November. Also in
November is a new anthology of pastiches and homages to Sherlock Holmes, called <i>In
the Company of Sherlock Holmes.</i> I have a Lovecraft story narrated by
my soulmate, Edgar Allan Poe, in <i>Out of Tune </i>and a reprint in <i>Halloween
Tales, </i> a charity anthology out from the Los Angeles chapter of
the Horror Writers Association (my home chapter. SHOUTOUT.) Also a bunch of
short fiction coming out from IDW. I’m also an editor and comic book writer for
Moonstone Books, and we have some truly exciting projects coming in 2015.</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18pt;">1. On
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baby!</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18pt;">2. If
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18pt;">DV: Totally!</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18pt;">NH: Dude,
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18pt;">NH: <i>Scream</i>!
A couple of years ago on Halloween I was driving up my street and a person in a
Scream costume was standing in my driveway, in full Ghostface pose, and
wouldn’t move. IT WAS AWESOME.</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18pt;">1. <i>Saw</i> or <i>I
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<span style="font-size: large;">For today's interview I have another debut author for you, this one was actually born on Halloween though, so it's pretty fitting that she ended up writing YA horror! I'm excited to present to you Carolyn Lee Adams</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;"> <b>CLA: Growing up south of Seattle, I was deeply impacted by Gary
Ridgway, aka, The Green River Killer. He dumped bodies less than a mile from my
house. Years later, skeletal remains were found in the ditch alongside my
horse’s pasture. Despite his ominous presence, I was still allowed to play in a
vast tract of wilderness behind our house. I guess my mom was like, “Oh, the
Green River Killer? He abducts prostitutes from the airport. My daughter will
be fine. He doesn’t go for third graders.” I kid because I love. I’m very glad
I got to run free as a child. And, you know, I didn’t wind up dead, so all’s
well that ends well. In any case, Gary definitely warped my brain, as he did
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called, “A Story About a Nightmare.” http://fanfreakingtastic.com/?p=608</b></span></div>
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just as important as the characters, how did you pick where your killer would
take Ruth? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;"> <b>CLA: I spent four years working as a trailblazer and guide in the Blue
Ridge Mountains. Some days I simply wandered around, often by myself, searching
out potential new trails. Other days I’d cut or maintain trails. But most of my
time was spent on horseback, leading riders through the wilderness. The Blue
Ridge Mountains cover a lot of ground, from Georgia to Pennsylvania. I only
explored a little corner of it, but I knew that area like the back of my
hand. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 21.4666652679443px;"><br></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">PLTF: What does ruthless mean to you? (The
book or the word itself. Or both.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;"> <b>CLA: The book works as a metaphor for me on a
couple of levels. Firstly, I wrote it as I was going through a difficult time
in my life. I’d been working on another project, <i>The Book of Ezra</i>, when Ruthless came along. I actually dreamt the
first three chapters. Upon waking, I knew I had to write this story, even
though it seemed like a very bad idea to abandon my WIP. Moreover, I didn’t
think anything would come of Ruthless. I wrote it because I had to write it. I
was almost to the end of the book when I realized, “Wait a minute, much like my
protagonist, I too am struggling to overcome some very trying circumstances.
It’s almost as if these two things could be related.” (I’m super quick on the
uptake.) Looking at it from a wider angle, Ruthless also represents my “never
give up” mentality. I’ve spent the majority of my adult life working for very
little money either with horses or as a manual laborer or in other random jobs.
It took a very long time, fourteen years, but I eventually made good on my
dream to become a writer. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;"> <b>CLA: I still dream of
finding a publisher for <i>The Book of Ezra</i>.
It is a horror set in an 1890’s Upstate New York asylum and poorhouse. Very
Edgar Allan Poe. It is big and ambitious and still needs revision, but it’s my
favorite thing I’ve ever written. I also have a contemporary thriller more
along the lines of Ruthless I’m working on, as well as rom-com that currently
exists as a screenplay. (I spend my days writing novels and my nights working
as a stand-up comedian, so writing comedy comes naturally to me.) Because I
went to USC Film School and majored in screenwriting, I have screenplays and
television pilots I’ve written. It’d be awesome to find some of those guys a home.</b></span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Lightning
round</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">1.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">On a scale of 1 to 10 how scary is
your book?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;"> <b>Holy cats. I have no idea! To me, it’s a 4, but some of my beta
readers would definitely give it a 9.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 21.4666652679443px;"><b><br></b></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">2.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">If you were a character in your book
would you survive?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;"> <b>Absolutely.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 21.4666652679443px;"><b><br></b></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">3.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Favorite scary movie? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;"> <b><i>The Exorcist</i>.
Now THAT’s a 10 on the scary meter. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 21.4666652679443px;"><br></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">4.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Favorite Halloween candy?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;"> <b>Reese’s
Peanut Butter Cups!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 21.4666652679443px;"><br></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">5.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">What were you last year for Halloween
or what do you plan on being this year? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;"> <b>Halloween is my birthday, so I go all
out. My favorite costume ever was from when I was 12. I went as The Elephant
Man. It was awesome. Had a bag over my head with one eye hole, the works. I may
reprise that costume.</b></span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">This or that</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">1.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Bundy or Ridgeway?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;"> <b>Ridgway.
Ultimately, I believe his low IQ protected him from detection. Bundy was brilliant
but arrogant. Like a con artist, he wanted credit for his crimes and bought
into the myth of his own infallibility. Ridgway was simplistic in the way a
Great White shark is simplistic. That simplicity made him the more effective
apex predator.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 21.4666652679443px;"><br></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">2.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Run or fight? - </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;"> <b>Both. Also, hide.
Also, cooperate. Also, everything. Whatever it takes.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 21.4666652679443px;"><b><br></b></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">3.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Black or white? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;"> <b>Black.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 21.4666652679443px;"><b><br></b></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">4.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Mountains or the woods? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;"> <b>Mountains.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;"> <b>Tricks. They’re
more memorable.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">When she wakes up with a concussion in the bed of a moving pickup truck, she realizes she has been entered into a contest she can’t afford to lose.</span><br>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">At a remote, rotting cabin deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Ruth’s blindfold comes off and she comes face-to-face with her captor. A man who believes his mission is to punish bad girls like Ruth. A man who has done this six times before.</span><br>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">The other girls were never heard from again, but Ruth won’t go down easy. She escapes into the wilderness, but her hunter is close at her heels. That's when the real battle begins. That's when Ruth must decide just how far she’ll go in order to survive.</span><br>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Back home, they called her Ruthless. They had no idea just how right they were.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The interview I have laid out for you today is with an author I consider a good friend of mine so when I planned this whole feature out I knew that I had to include her new book, which is a huge jump from her previous novels. Today, here to talk about her upcoming novel, is Trish Doller!</span></div>
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First things first, describe </span><i><span style="border: none; font-size: 18pt;">The Devil
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<b><span style="border: none; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">TD: I was pretty uncomfortable
because I’m the kind of person who will catch bugs and lizards so I can release
them outside, rather than see them die. So even harming fictional people was
hard for me, but for this story it was necessary for keeping the tension
ratcheting up.</span></b><span style="border: none; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="border: none; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">TD: Not really. The story
evolved from a road trip story I was kicking around with some leftover boys
from abandoned projects as the main characters. Instead, Arcadia popped into my
head and started telling me her story and it just worked out well that these
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think. Writing suspense was much harder than writing straight contemporary, so
I relied a lot on my critique partners and editor to tell me when I needed more
tension. It was a very slow process for me, and definitely a learning
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<b><span style="border: none; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">TD: My next project is an
adult novel about a young woman whose grief over losing her boyfriend to
suicide sends her to sea in the boat he always wanted to sail. Writing this one
is definitely more in my comfort zone than THE DEVIL YOU KNOW, but now I have
an unknown audience.</span></b><span style="border: none; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The author I have for today's feature is new to the YA horror/thriller genre. I think some of her previous books have had a body count (although I'm not positive), but I'm pretty sure this is the first one with a killer stalking people in the woods. Please give Kieran Scott a big welcome!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> Peace, Love, Teen Fiction: We have to get the
basics out of the way first, would you describe </span><i style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">What Waits in the Woods</i><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> in
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b>Kieran Scott: Four teens enter the
woods, three come out alive.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">PLTF: It
appears as though all of your previous books are more along the lines of fluffy
contemporary fiction, what was it like to write a novel with a body count?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b>KS: I LOVE to read mysteries
and suspense novels, so it was a lot of fun writing one. I liked writing the
heightened emotions and the cliffhangers and the gasping shocker lines. I may
have to do more of this in the future. There is some romance and friendship
drama, too, so it's not a total departure. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">PLTF: What
kind of things do you think would send you turning around and back to the car
if you were on a camping trip?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b>KS: Well, let's see. I've
lived through huge spiders, wandering bears, and getting completely lost so . .
. a knife-wielding psychopath would be bad. I also don't like camping with
people who don't like camping. They tend to complain a lot and ruin my good
time. So whiny people=my camping kryptonite. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">PLTF: It’s
obvious that your setting is very important, why did you decide to go with the
woods instead or some other places like the desert or an abandon country house?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b>KS: I'm very familiar with
camping in the woods. My family camped a lot when I was a kid, so I know what
it feels and smells like in the woods, and I wanted to bring that authenticity
to this book. The woods had to be very real for them to feel threatening in the
way I wanted them to.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">PLTF: What’s
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suspense novel that has a very romantic, us-against-the-world feel to it. I
can't say more than that yet, but I can tell you it's a total thrill ride from
beginning to end. A lot of breathless action and a heroine and hero you can
fall in love with and cheer for. It's been so much fun to write!</b></span><br />
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<o:p><span class="style2" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Kieran Scott is a young adult author</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333366; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px;"> who was born, bred and still resides in New Jersey along with her husband Matt and her two-year-old son. A graduate of Rutgers University with a double-major in English and Journalism, Kieran worked as a YA editor for several years before striking out on her own as a writer. Her first hardcover novel, </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #333366; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.kieranscott.net/otherbooks.html#jingleboy" style="color: #990000;">Jingle Boy</a></em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333366; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px;"> (Delacorte Press), was published in 2002. Her next book, </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #333366; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.kieranscott.net/cheerleadertrilogy.html#nonblondecheerleader" style="color: #990000;">I Was a Non-Blonde Cheerleader</a></em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333366; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px;"> (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2005) was an ALA Quick Pick, an NYPL Book for the Teen Age, and was featured on the Texas Library Association’s TAYSHAS Reading List for 2006-2007. The book spawned two sequels, </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #333366; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.kieranscott.net/cheerleadertrilogy.html#brunettesstrikeback" style="color: #990000;">Brunettes Strike Back</a></em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333366; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px;">(2006), and </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #333366; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.kieranscott.net/cheerleadertrilogy.html#nonblondeinlove" style="color: #990000;">A Non-Blonde Cheerleader in Love</a></em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333366; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px;"> (2007). Kieran’s fifth hardcover novel, </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #333366; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.kieranscott.net/otherbooks.html#geekmagnet" style="color: #990000;">Geek Magnet</a></em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333366; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px;">, was published by Putnam in 2008. </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #333366; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.kieranscott.net/shessodeadtous.html#shessodeadtous" style="color: #990000;">She’s So Dead to Us</a></em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333366; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px;"> was released in May 2010 from Simon and Schuster. Her newest trilogy, starting with <a href="http://www.kieranscott.net/truelove.html">Only Everything</a>, is out in May 2014 and is about the Greek God Eros (also known as Cupid) having to go down to Earth and pair up people without her powers.</span></o:p></div>
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Kieran has offered up an ARC of the book she featured here today, <i>What Waits in the Woods</i>! You guys, I will also be crazy jealous of whoever ends up winning this book, because it sounds SO COOL!!! I don't think there's anything I love more than a good teen slasher novel! This giveaway will be open to US and Canada only and will run for two weeks, all you have to do is enter the rafflecopter below!</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The author I have for today is one that I learned about through the blog of Nova Ren Suma, whose books I love</span><span style="font-size: large;">. I am SO thrilled that she featured this author because when I heard about the book I knew I had to read it and then when I decided to do this feature I knew I had to ask her to be a part of it. The author is Camille DeAngelis! </span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;"> PLTF: Your main character eats people, if
it’s not too much of a spoiler how did come come about doing that?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;"> <b>CDA: I kept thinking about cannibals in love, what a hilarious
paradox that would be, and Maren and Lee's relationship grew out of that. I
heard Maren's voice in my head while I was in the shower one day (as you
do...), and from then on I found myself not so much writing as </b></span><b><i style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">exorcising</i><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">
her story.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: large;"> PLTF: You are a vegan, which means no meat,
so why did you end up writing about someone who eats the most taboo meat of all
– human?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;"> <b>CDA: This
is a question I hope a lot of people will ask as they're reading the book. At
first it seems preposterous to compare eating animal flesh with consuming human
flesh, but lately I keep reading novels in which the narrator is involved in
some sort of war, men are set on fire, and the narrator thinks (half in horror,
half </b></span><b><i style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">hungrily</i><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">) that the burning flesh smells like roasting meat. (The
two examples I'm thinking of are the third installment in Patrick Ness's Chaos
Walking trilogy and Diana Gabaldon's latest Outlander novel.)</span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;"> I
only realized after I'd completed the first draft that </span><i style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Bones & All</i><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">
is ultimately about how our culturally sanctioned eating habits make predators
of us all. I'm not a judgy vegan, but I'm not going to pull any punches either:
I feel </span><i style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">really</i><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;"> good about the fact that I am no longer a flesh eater.</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: large;"> PLTF: I have some insider information (wink
wink) that tells me this book has some paranormal/supernatural elements to it,
what can you tell me about that?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;"> <b>CDA: Fortunately we're not actually spoiling anything here,
because you find out on the first page how Maren eats people. Even if you are a
cannibal, you can't possibly gobble someone up (yes, bones and all) in seven to
fifteen minutes!</b></span><b><br /><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Funny side note: in early 2013, while I was revising the
manuscript at a residency at Hawthornden Castle in Scotland, I read an excerpt
to the group after dinner one evening. One of my fellow writers (who is also a
physician) asked, very earnestly, “How can she possibly consume that many
calories?” To which I replied, “Colin, you are overthinking this.”</span></b><br /><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><br /><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">PLTF: What’s next?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 21.4666652679443px;"><br /></span><b><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">CDA: Always my
favorite question! At the moment I'm working on revisions for my next (adult)
novel, </span><i style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Immaculate Heart</i><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">, which is coming out in 2016. Once I've
submitted that revision, I'll go back to writing my second children's novel,
which is set in post-Revolutionary Providence and has three very lovely ghosts
in it.</span></b><br /><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><br /><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Lightning
round</span><br /><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">1.<span style="line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">On a scale of 1 to 10 how scary is
your book? <b>Hmm...4? I might be underestimating.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 21.4666652679443px;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">2.<span style="line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">If you were a character in your book
would you survive? <b>I might not, actually! While all but one of Maren's victims
are male, I am a very affectionate person. (This will make sense when you read
the book.)</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 21.4666652679443px;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">3.<span style="line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Favorite scary movie?<b> <i>The Sixth Sense
</i>(What can I say—I'm a sap!)</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 21.4666652679443px;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">4.<span style="line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Favorite Halloween candy?<b> Used to be
candy corn, but I haven't had it since I went vegan. I found this recipe [</b></span><b><a href="http://pursuitofhippieness.com/2011/09/23/vegan-candy-corn/" style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">http://pursuitofhippieness.com/2011/09/23/vegan-candy-corn/</a><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">] but I never got around to trying it
last year. I'll have to bake a double batch this year to make up for it!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 21.4666652679443px;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">5.<span style="line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">What were you last year for Halloween
or what do you plan on being this year?</span><br /><b><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">I'm not sure yet about this year, but last year I sewed a red
cape and put on face paint to become a Sister of the Sibylline from Doctor Who
(season 4, the Pompei episode). You can see pics here: </span><a href="http://www.cometparty.com/2013/10/doctor_who/" style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">http://www.cometparty.com/2013/10/doctor_who/</a></b><br /><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><br /><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">This or That</span><br /><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">1.<span style="line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Cannibals or zombies? <b>YOU CAN'T MAKE
ME CHOOSE. Maybe cannibals should be scarier, but it's the zombies who (“who”?)
give me nightmares. (No joke—I had to stop watching The Walking Dead.)</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 21.4666652679443px;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">2.<span style="line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Cooked or raw? <b>Are we talking
vegetables or people? ;)</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 21.4666652679443px;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">3.<span style="line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Mother or father?<b> Well, seeing as she
went to the trouble of giving birth to me, I'd have to say Mother. (She'll love
this part, by the way.)</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 21.4666652679443px;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">4.<span style="line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Show or tell? <b>Show! Always show!</b></span></span></div>
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or treats? <b>Treats if I'm receiving, tricks if I'm giving. Heh heh!</b></span></span></div>
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Camille DeAngelis is the author of <a href="http://www.cometparty.com/books/bones-all/" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bones & All</em></a> (St. Martin’s, 2015), <a href="http://www.cometparty.com/books/petty-magic/" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Petty Magic: Being the Memoirs and Confessions of Miss Evelyn Harbinger, Temptress and Troublemaker</em></a> (Crown, 2010), and <a href="http://www.cometparty.com/books/mary-modern/" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mary Modern</em></a> (Crown/Shaye Areheart, 2007), as well as a first-edition guidebook, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Moon-Ireland-Handbooks-Camille-DeAngelis/dp/1598800485" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Moon Ireland</em></a> (Avalon, 2007). She is a graduate of New York University (B.A. in Fine Arts, minor in Irish Studies, 2002) and the National University of Ireland, Galway (M.A. in Writing, 2005). Her fourth novel, <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Immaculate Heart</em>, will be published by St. Martin’s Press in 2016.</div>
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A longtime vegetarian, she went vegan in April 2011, and in June 2013 became a certified vegan lifestyle coach and educator through Victoria Moran’s <a href="http://mainstreetvegan.net/academy/" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Main Street Vegan® Academy</a>. She is also planning to receive her yoga teacher training in 2015.</div>
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Originally from New Jersey, Camille now lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Very rarely do I get excited about paranormal novels involving ghosts, but when I heard about today's featured novel I couldn't help but freak out over the fact that something like this was going to be published, especially for the YA world. Actually today's author is one of the first I contact, asking if they would be available for an interview, and luckily she was! What author am I talking about? Courtney Alameda! A 2015 debut YA horror author!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Peace, Love, Teen Fiction: I’ll
give you an easy question so you can warm up: Describe <i>Shutter</i> in up to 10 words.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Courtney Alameda: We’ll go for alliteration: Girls, guys, ghosts, guns, gore, and grit.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I don’t ask about covers because I know authors have no control over them, but
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>CA: The black thing you’re referring to is the novel’s ghost, actually.
When my editor sent me the cover comp, I was hesitant about the artwork—mostly
because horror projects rarely feature their monsters on covers or promotional
materials. However, I’m grateful now as I think it entices the right audience
and warns away anyone not looking for a good scare. (Plus, I’m thankful they
didn’t put a girl in a pretty dress on the cover—Micheline wouldn’t be caught dead
in a ballgown.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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real and you were undead what color would your aura be and why? And would you
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>CA: I’d choose to be a ghost, which means my aura would be
violet. Not only is violet one of my favorite colors, but as a horror author, I
imagine I’d enjoy spending my afterlife frightening people.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>CA: That’s a really good question! SHUTTER went through roughly
four drafts before selling, and the only constants between the drafts were the
camera and the curse. In all the drafts, the curse had a visual representation
under Micheline’s skin; however, in the fourth draft I decided the curse needed
to look like chains made of ghostlight, which fit with Micheline’s abilities
and the book’s theme of revenge “shackling” an offend<i>ed</i> party to the offend<i>ing</i>
one. So, I suppose it was a symbolic choice as opposed to a creative idea.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>CA: I currently have two short stories set in the SHUTTER-verse
on their way to publication: the first is TRIGGER, which is the story of the
reaping of the Embarcadero Scissorclaw (one of the defining moments in
Micheline’s life), which will be available on Tor.com soon. The other short
story is called FIXER, and is a story told from Ryder’s perspective on the days
following Micheline’s mother’s and brothers’ deaths. <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>For me, it’s a 4 or a 5. For some readers, it’s been a 10. </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><strong>Courtney Alameda’s</strong> career has been spent in and around books. She holds a B.A. in English Literature with an emphasis in Creative Writing from Brigham Young University, spent seven years working for Barnes & Noble, and currently works as an Adult & Teen Services librarian at the Provo City Library. Her forthcoming novel, SHUTTER (winter 2015, Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan), is a tale spawned in part by Bram Stoker’s DRACULA, in part by her experiences both paranormal and not-so-paranormal, and features a cast of monsters inspired by everything from Japanese folklore to survival horror video games.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Courtney is represented by John M. Cusick of <a href="http://greenhouseliterary.com/" style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Greenhouse Literary</a>. A Northern California native, she now resides in Utah.</span></div>
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Courtney has graciously donated one of her beloved ARCs AND a necklace for me to give away! Do you know how crazy jealous I will be of whoever wins this giveaway? I'm serious, how unethical is it to enter your own giveaway cause you guys, I'm totally considering it. Although in the end I shall leave it to you all to enter. The giveaway will run for two weeks and is US only! Make sure to leave Courtney lots of love in the comment section!</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Today's author not only has an upcoming book that is in the horror/thriller genre but earlier this year she had another book out that also falls into this category! I asked her which one she wanted to spotlight and she said the upcoming novel, so instead of being featured at the start of the month she is now here, at the tail end. That being said I present to you Megan Shepherd!</span></div>
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you describe <i>The Madman’s Daughter</i>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Megan Shepherd: A mad
scientist’s daughter is swept into a world of monsters and embraces her dark
legacy</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 21.4666652679443px;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 21.4666652679443px; text-indent: -0.25in;">PLTF: </span><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Your books have that
macabre feel to them, what’s the grosses thing you think you’ve written?</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">MS: It’s so
funny, because I get grossed out super easily, and yet I love writing about the
macabre. I think the grossest scene I ever wrote was when Juliet destroyed her
father’s laboratory specimens, and is covered in chemical preservatives, organ
tissue, blood and slime. The most disturbing part? It’s a romantic scene!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 21.4666652679443px;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 21.4666652679443px; text-indent: -0.25in;">PLTF: </span><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Each of the three books
in this series have been inspired by a famous work of literature, which of
those works is your favorite and which of your own books do you like the best
and why?</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">MS: I’ll always
be drawn most to THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU by H.G. Wells. He so perfectly
captures my fears of experimentation in hidden places, and the line between
human and animal. Of my books, I like A COLD LEGACY best, because Juliet is
finally making her own decisions—and not all of them good.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 21.4666652679443px;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">PLTF: Juliet’s father makes some pretty
horrific creatures, what are your stances on what he does? Do you think there might ever be a situation
where what he’s doing could be considered okay?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><b>MS: In the
second and third books in my series, I tried to present some scenarios where
Moreau’s work could be considered beneficial to society: things like using pig
valves for human heart transplants, or shark skin grafts to help human burn
victims (both of which we currently do.) My series portrays him as a monster,
however, because he isn’t interested in the greater potential of his work, but
rather, his own desire to play god.</b></span><br /><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span><br /><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">PLTF: What’s next?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">MS: I have a new YA series starting next
summer. It's called THE CAGE and is about six teenagers abducted by a super
powerful race known as the Kindred and put in a "human zoo." I had a
lot of fun with this book. It's not quite as dark as the Madman's Daughter
series, but it's got lots of insanity, twists, and ill-fated romance!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 21.4666652679443px;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">Lightning
round</span><br /><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">1.<span style="line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">On a scale of 1 to 10 how scary is
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><b>Hmm, 7.8?</b></span><br /><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">3.<span style="line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Favorite scary movie?</span><br /><span style="line-height: 115%;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><b>CABIN IN THE
WOODS. A little funny, a little scary, incredibly creative.</b></span><br /><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><b>Resse’s
peanut butter cups—the pumpkin shaped ones</b></span><br /><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">5.<span style="line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">What were you last year for Halloween
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">We’re dong a
Star Wars theme this year; my husband is Han Solo, my scruffy little dog is
Chewbacca, and I’m torn between Leia or Jabba the Hut </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; line-height: 115%;">J</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="line-height: 21.4666652679443px;"><b><br /></b></span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">This or that</span><br /><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">1.<span style="line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Go to the island or stay in London?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><b>Scientific
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<span style="background-color: white;"><br /><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Sixteen-year-old Juliet Moreau has built a life for herself in London—working as a maid, attending church on Sundays, and trying not to think about the scandal that ruined her life. After all, no one ever proved the rumors about her father's gruesome experiments. But when she learns he is alive and continuing his work on a remote tropical island, she is determined to find out if the accusations are true.</span></span></span></div>
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Megan has been many things, like a professional exchange student, park ranger in Montana, and LOST enthusiast, but what she is now is a writer.</div>
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She grew up in the mountains of North Carolina, raised behind the counter of her parents’ independent bookstore, <a href="http://www.highlandbooksbrevard.com/" style="color: #149981; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Highland Books</a> in Brevard. Despite being surrounded by books, she never thought being an author could be a real career. Her passion was always travel and cultures, so she studied International Studies and foreign languages (and still muddle by in a few of them). Then she joined the Peace Corps and spent two years in Senegal, living in a mud hut with no electricity or running water, and teaching environmental education to school children.</div>
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It wasn't until a chance acquaintance read her Peace Corps blog and said, "you're a good writer. Have you ever considered writing professionally?" that something clicked and she realized it was possible. Megan's husband encouraged her, and she fell head-over-heels in love with writing, and children's literature in particular. She started out writing articles, which have appeared in Faces, Appleseeds, and Calliope magazines, and stories for younger children. She soon realized she wasn’t sweet enough to write fiction for that age and found herself writing young adult literature instead, which doesn’t require nearly as many tender moments and includes a lot more cursing.</div>
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When she's not writing, she can usually be found horseback riding, day dreaming at coffee shops, or gardening at her farm in the mountains of Western North Carolina.</div>
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Megan is represented by Josh Adams of <a href="http://www.adamsliterary.com/" style="color: #149981; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Adams Literary</a>.</div>
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Megan has graciously donated a swag pack for her books. She has told me that it includes bookmarks AND a special flavor of tea she created in honor of <i>Her Dark Curiosity</i>, which is super hard to find (I'm not sure if she even gives them out at her signings, just a few giveaways she does)! The giveaway will be US only and will run for two weeks. All you have to do is enter via the rafflecopter below!</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For today's interview I have a special treat for you all (or a trick, if you prefer). What is it? It's TWO authors! That's right, today's book was co-authored by two lovely women who are creep-tastic! Who are they? Why Trisha Leaver and Lindsay Currie, that's who! And they're providing a giveaway, so make sure to check that out after the interview!</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Trisha Leaver: Oh, this is hard </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">J</span><span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> Let’s see… A small town, a charismatic leader,
and no way to escape. That is actually
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<span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">TL There are no paranormal elements in any of my horror
manuscripts. Not because I don’t enjoy a good fanged monster, but rather
because I believe the darkness that surrounds us every day is scarier than any
paranormal element our imaginations could dream up.</span><span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">It is the evil that lingers in a chosen few,
their dark past and tutored existences that I love to capture. What can I say,
cults lend themselves well to that! Their charismatic leaders who quote
scripture while holding hands with the devil. The coercive persuasion they use
to tap into people’s innate need to feel loved and belong. The way they twist
those very basic needs twist to suit their own maniacal desires. These towns,
these sects…these charismatic leaders walk among us every day, and I think that
commonality, the idea that CREED could actually happen, is that makes cults so
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">LC: Trisha makes a really important point here. The
storyline in CREED could happen. That’s what drew me to this particular concept
when we first started writing it. Don’t get me wrong, I love all horror
varieties – including your pop-out scares, your slash and gore, etc. </span><span style="color: blue; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="color: blue; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">But it’s the psychological stuff that bothers
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<span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">TL: I researched existing cults, what their doctrine was,
and the cult community’s view of the society as a whole. Why they chose to live
where they did, what clothes they wore and how their attire became an outward
statement of what they believed. I read interviews with individuals who had
broken away from cults as well as statements from the social service agency
assisting them.</span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">There are a couple of religious sects here in New
England, most of which own and operate public business.</span><span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I visited a few, grabbed a cup of coffee and
sat down, watched them interact with each other, with their customers and the
community as a whole.</span><span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">They were all
pleasant, quick with a smile a genuinely seemed happy.</span><span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Not unlike the residents of Purity Springs.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 21.4666652679443px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">LC: Elijah was really a little of both!
Over the years there have been dozens of cults brought to light with leaders
similar to Elijah - scary enough to keep followers contained, but charismatic
enough to gather new ones as well. We definitely did our research there and
chose to incorporate bits and pieces of those stories into his character. In
terms of traditional horror, Elijah is incredibly different from the typical
villain in the sense that for the most part, he looks and acts like everyone
else. The darkness is inside of him and that's SO much more frightening to me
than a guy in a hockey mask any day! </span></div>
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did you choose the location you did (and the winter month) when you were
crafting the story?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 21.4666652679443px;"><br /></span><span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">TL: Purity Springs is a fictional town set in upstate New
York.</span><span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I’ve driven that I90 route several
times to visit family in Chicago and Ohio.</span><span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">
</span><span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s a beautiful drive, littered by with small towns and hundreds of
miles of corn and soy fields. And that is just what you can see from the
interstate.</span><span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Get off and drive fifty
miles and the landscape is just as beautiful, the towns just as quaint…towns
you’ve never heard off.</span><span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The setting, and
New England’s Puritan roots, lent itself perfectly to CREED.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">LC: Purity Springs reminds me a great deal of the town I
grew up in. Small, surrounded by cornfields and soybeans . . . its actually
beautiful in the daytime. But at night, when those stalks start swaying in the
darkness, look out!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 21.4666652679443px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">PLTF: What’s next?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 21.4666652679443px;"><br /></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Both: Jacquelyn
Mitchard at Merit Press has bought a YA novel by Trisha Leaver and Lindsay
Currie, called Sweet Madness. It's a reimagining of the Lizzie Borden murders,
told through the perspective of Bridget Sullivan, Lizzie's maid and confidant,
who finds herself in a perilous situation. Kathleen Rushall and Kevan Lyon
Marsal Lyon Literary Agency brokered the deal for world English rights.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Lightning
round</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">1.<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">On a scale of 1 to 10 how scary is
your book?</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">TL: Five maybe.</span><span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Hard
for me to gauge since I have a high tolerance for scares. LOL</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">LC: I’m going with a five as well. I think for many
people, it will rank higher on that scale. And for some, it might fall lower.
Just depends on your tolerance!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">2.<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">If you were a character in your book
would you survive?</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">TL: Oh hell yes!</span><span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #365f91; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">LC: </span><b style="color: #365f91; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">ABSO-FREAKING-LUTELY.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">3.<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Favorite scary movie?</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">TL:</span><span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Hands down, <i>The Blair
Witch Project</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">LC: In terms of actual scariness, ditto on this one. I
also like the <i>Paranormal Activity</i> movies. They’re pretty good. But I still love
slasher flicks, like <i>Halloween</i>, <i>Friday the 13</i> and <i>Scream</i></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">J</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">4.<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Favorite Halloween candy?</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">TL: Almond Joy</span><span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">LC: </span><span style="color: blue; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">100 Grand</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">5.<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">What were you last year for Halloween
or what do you plan on being this year?</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">TL: I have kids, so last year I was walking the
neighborhood as they ran from house to house Trick or Treating.</span><span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">This year, I will be doing the exact same
thing.</span><span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Here’s to hoping it is semi-warm
and not raining!</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">LC: We host a huge costume party for our kids friends and
their parents – last year there were over 120 (I’m a maniac for Halloween</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">J</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">) and I was actual a
Zombie version of Alice in Wonderland (there was something VERY dark down that
rabbit hole. . . ) This year, I’m
actually going in masquerade garb.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">This or that</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">1.<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Winter storms or cults?</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">TL:</span><span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> Winter storm</span><br />
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<span style="color: #548dd4; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">LC: </span><span style="color: blue; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Winter storm</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">2.<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Stay in the empty house or look for
someplace else?</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">TL: Keep moving and look for someplace else</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">LC: Keep looking – ESPECIALLY if the house is creepy</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">J</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">3.<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Stick with your friends or save your
own butt?</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">TL: Stay with my friends</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">LC: Stick with my friends, of course!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">4.<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Charismatic leaders or powerful ones?</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">TL: Charismatic leaders</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">LC: Is it cheating to say both? Yes? Oh well. I say
powerful. Generally the powerful ones have some degree of charisma or they face
uprisings.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 21.4666652679443px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">5.<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Tricks or treats?</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">TL: Tricks always</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">LC: TREATS, baby! Gimme chocolate! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">When their car breaks down, Dee, her boyfriend Luke, and his brother Mike walk through a winter storm to take refuge in a nearby town called Purity Springs. When they arrive, the emergency sirens are blaring and the small farming town seems abandoned. With no other shelter, they spend the night in an empty house.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Today, Lindsay is an author of young adult and middle grade fiction. She is a proud member of SCBWI, The Horror Writers Association, The YA Scream Queens and OneFourKidLit, a community of authors with debuts upcoming in 2014. Her debut novel, CREED (co-authored with Trisha Leaver), releases from Flux on November 8, 2014. Her second co-authored novel, HARDWIRED, releases from Flux in Fall of 2015. She is represented by Kathleen Rushall, of Marsal Lyon Literary Agency. Any inquiries regarding her work should be sent to her attention. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Today's interview marks the first one where the book featured hasn't actually hit the shelves yet! Although it just so happens that today's featured book hits shelves TOMORROW. For the remainder of the month you won't be so lucky, seeing as you'll have to wait at least several weeks (and up to 6 months) to wait for the book to come out. That being said the author of today's book is the lovely Natalie C. Parker, a debut author whose book is full of gothic horror goodness! Please give her a warm welcome!</span></div>
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the big bad thing in this book and not something else? </span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b>NCP: It all boils down to my
love of gothic novels. The traditional ones like The Castle of Otranto by
Horace Walpole, The Italian by Ann Radcliffe, and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.
One of the tropes of a gothic novel is a setting that makes the protagonist
feel impinged upon, small, or helpless. I wanted to take that one step farther
and make the setting something with power that was both active and focused.
After all, what is more terrifying than knowing the ground you stand on might
choose to swallow you at any moment…?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">PLTF: The setting is obviously a huge part
of the book, how did you decide where the book would be set and were there any
other places you considered setting it? </span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b>NCP: I only ever considered the deep south.
It’s where my family hails from and home to many a swamp. I was also interested
in boundary or liminal spaces, so I was drawn immediately to the swampy border
between Mississippi and Louisiana. It felt like the sort of place magic could
easily grow.</b></span></div>
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definitely a bit of both. The magic of the swamp follows specific rules, but I
also looked for opportunities to make explore the things I find naturally
frightening about swamps – how many noises it makes, how easy it is to get lost
in them, how many different dangers they hide.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;"> <b>NCP: Well! I’m working on
something, but I’m not yet allowed to say what. However, if you’re speculating
that there are more stories lurking inside this swamp, you might find that
you’re correct.</b></span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Lightning
round</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">1.<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">On a scale of 1 to 10 how scary is
your book?<b> I think it probably hovers around a 6 or 7. How about 6.7?</b></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">2.<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">If you were a character in your book
would you survive? <b>I like to think so.</b></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">3.<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Favorite scary movie? <b><i>The Exorcism of
Emily Rose</i>. It’s exquisite!</b></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">4.<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Favorite Halloween candy? <b>Pumpkin
Spice Hershey’s Kisses.</b></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">5.<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">What were you last year for Halloween
or what do you plan on being this year? <b>Last year, I was “Burton-esque,” which
basically meant I wore dark make-up and stripped tights. This year, I’ll be
driving across the country on tour with two of my best friends, so I think I’ll
probably put on some bold lipstick and be Julie Murphy for Halloween.</b></span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">This or That</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">1.<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Swamp or the woods? <b>Woods!</b></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">2.<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Small town or big city? <b>Small town,
please.</b></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">3.<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Keep secrets or keep it out in the
open? <b>Ooo….keep them. Preferably in a box.</b></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">4.<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Loner boys or popular boys? <b>I’ll go
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have wrangled another YA horror/thriller veteran into doing an interview with me today, and even better she lives in my state! (Well, better for me, and all of you who live in Washington around Seattle!) Who is it? Well I will give you a hint. She wrote a two-book series with a <i>Supernatural</i>-eque plot but had never actually seen the show until the book was published. Any guesses? If you guessed Kendare Blake you are correct! </span></div>
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describe the </span><i style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Antigoddess</i><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;"> series in 15
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;"><b>Kendare Blake: Fifteen words? Ok. So. These gods are
dying, see, and they’re real pissed about it, see, and chaos ensues badum bum
ching! I’m counting the sound effects as one word. </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: large;">PLTF: First ghosts and now gods, you seem
to like writing about things that shouldn’t be able to die but do anyway. How come?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 21.4666652679443px;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b>KB: Maybe I’m saying something deep about our own fragile nature.
Maybe I’m secretly afraid of my own soft, mortal underbelly. Or maybe I just
like writing about things that don’t go down easy.</b></span><br /><span style="line-height: 21.4666652679443px;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">PLTF: In this new series gods are dying and
you’ve come up with some pretty inventive ways to do so. What has been your favorite god to kill and
how did they die/how are they dying?</span><br /><br /><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b>KB: My favorite dying god is probably Poseidon, just because he gives the
best image. His hulking, diseased form, waiting at the bottom of the sea and
run through with oil and slivers of kelp…it just makes me so happy.</b></span><br /><br /><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">PLTF: What’s going through your mind as you
kill one of your characters?</span><br /><br /><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b>KB: Depends on who it is. Sometimes it’s tough. Others, it’s more of a
general. Huh. Bummer. And then there are those where I just say, sucks to be
you, dude.</b></span><br /><br /><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">PLTF: What’s next?</span><br /><br /><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b>KB: After MORTAL GODS comes the final book in the trilogy, UNGODLY. It should
be out in fall 2015! Also that year I’ve got a story I really like coming out
in SLASHER GIRLS & MONSTER BOYS. And then, in 2016, THREE DARK CROWNS
should kick off from HarperTeen. It’s about three queens, triplets, who rule a
remote magical island. But only one can have the crown, and on the island, that
means the last queen standing.</b></span><br /><br /><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Lightning
round</span><br /><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">1.<span style="line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">On a scale of 1 to 10 how scary is
your book? <b>2. I don’t think The Goddess War is that scary. Of course, I don’t
think much is that scary.</b></span><br /><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">2.<span style="line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">If you were a character in your book
would you survive? <b>Of course! Unless I was a main character. Then perhaps not.</b></span><br /><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">3.<span style="line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Favorite scary movie? <b><i>Nightmare on
Elm Street</i>. 4?</b></span><br /><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">4.<span style="line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Favorite Halloween candy? <b>Individual
Hershey Kisses.</b></span><br /><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">5.<span style="line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">What were you last year for Halloween
or what do you plan on being this year? <b>Last year I was nothing. I wanted to be
Kato but I couldn’t find a Green Hornet. This year, I will be on tour, so I
will probably be nothing again.</b></span><br /><br /><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">This or that</span><br /><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">1.<span style="line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Ghosts or gods? To have in your
house? <b>Ghosts. Gods would trash the joint. To party with? Gods. I think you
know why.</b></span><br /><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">2.<span style="line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Fight the curse or make use of the
time you have left? <b>Why not do both?</b></span><br /><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">3.<span style="line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Forgiveness or revenge? <b>A little bit
of revenge, then a whole lot of forgiveness.</b></span><br /><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">4.<span style="line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Knives or hand to hand combat? <b>Hand
to hand. Unless we’re talking practicalities, because I am small, and would
need knives.</b></span><br /><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">5.<span style="line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Tricks or treats? <b>Treats! For me!
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Or so Athena thought. But then the feathers started sprouting beneath her skin, invading her lungs like a strange cancer, and Hermes showed up with a fever eating away his flesh. So much for living a quiet eternity in perpetual health.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Desperately seeking the cause of their slow, miserable deaths, Athena and Hermes travel the world, gathering allies and discovering enemies both new and old. Their search leads them to Cassandra—an ordinary girl who was once an extraordinary prophetess, protected and loved by a god. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Because Hera, the queen of the gods, has aligned herself with other of the ancient Olympians, who are killing off rivals in an attempt to prolong their own lives. But these anti-gods have become corrupted in their desperation to survive, horrific caricatures of their former glory. Athena will need every advantage she can get, because immortals don’t just flicker out. </span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Kendare Blake is an import from South Korea who was raised in the United States by caucasian parents. You know, that old chestnut. She
received a Bachelor’s degree in Business from
Ithaca College and a Master’s degree in Writing
from Middlesex University in London. She brakes for animals, the largest of which was a deer, which sadly didn’t make it, and the smallest of which was a mouse, which did, but it took forever. Amongst her likes are Greek Mythology, rare
red meat and veganism. She also enjoys girls who
can think with the boys like Ayn Rand, and boys
who scare the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>morality into people, like Bret Easton Ellis.</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I am going to Kendare's home launch party for <i>Mortal Gods </i>and decided that I would do a giveaway for a signed copy of one of her books. Fill out the rafflecopter form below by the 28th for a chance to win a signed copy of ANY of her published books out now which include <i>Anna Dressed in Blood</i>, <i>Girl of Nightmares</i>, <i>Antigoddess, </i>and <i>Mortal Gods</i>. Please check and make sure the name you write in the personalization box is correct because I am not responsible for any mistakes you make. The giveaway will be open internationally! PLEASE make sure to check you email/back to see if you've won!</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For the interview today I have another YA horror/thriller veteran. Her books, although not as well known as they could (should) be, are big for the people that have read her work before (my particular favorite is <i>Ten</i>). She even put together her own street teams that have been talked about in <i>Publisher's Weekly</i>! Please welcome Gretchen McNeil to the blog!</span></div>
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every one of your books, and this one is no different. How do you decide how the characters are
going to die? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b>GM: Usually I know going into the story who will live and who will
die. It's plot driven, for the most
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GET EVEN that was supposed to die, but I had much fun writing him that I spared
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">PLTF: What’s the bloodiest death you’ve
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b>GM: There's a death in TEN (I won't
say who – spoilers!) that involved a crossbow arrow through the neck. Gore everywhere as the victim drowns in her
own blood.</b></span></div>
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Illuminati. I want to know their
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b>GM: GET DIRTY, the sequel to GET EVEN is out in
June. Then I've got a couple of projects
knocking around – a really creepy horror novel with cannibalism, a historical
melodrama, and a humorous contemporary.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">1.<span style="line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">On a scale of 1 to 10 how scary is
your book? <b>5</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">2.<span style="line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">If you were a character in your book
would you survive? <b>Probably not.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">3.<span style="line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Favorite scary movie? <i><b>The Exorcist</b></i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">4.<span style="line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Favorite Halloween candy?<b> Mini Kit
Kats</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">5.<span style="line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">What were you last year for Halloween
or what do you plan on being this year?<b> I was Zombie Little Orphan Annie. This year, I think my husband and I are going
as Dr. Bricker and Charo, from <i>The Love
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">1.<span style="line-height: normal;"> </span></span><i style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Pretty Little Liars</span></i><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;"> or <i>The Breakfast Club</i>? <b>I'm a
child of the 80's, so <i>The Breakfast Club.</i></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">2.<span style="line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Bully or bullied? <b>Bullied.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">3.<span style="line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Anonymous or take credit? <b>Take credit</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">4.<span style="line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Get mad or get even?<b> Both?</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">5.<span style="line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Tricks or Treats?<b> Treats.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Gretchen McNeil is an opera singer, writer and clown. Her YA horror POSSESS about a teen exorcist debuted with Balzer + Bray for HarperCollins in 2011. Her follow up TEN – YA horror/suspense about ten teens trapped on a remote island with a serial killer – was a 2013 YALSA Top Ten Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, a<em>Romantic Times</em> Top Pick, a Booklist Top Ten Horror Fiction for Youth, and was nominated for "Best Young Adult Contemporary Novel of 2012" by<em>Romantic Times</em>. Gretchen's 2013 release is 3:59, a sci-fi doppelganger horror about two girls who are the same girl in parallel dimensions who decide to switch places. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">In 2014, Gretchen debuts her first series,<em>Don't Get Mad</em> (pitched as "John Hughes with a body count") about four very different girls who form a secret society where they get revenge on bullies and mean girls at their elite prep school. The<em>Don't Get Mad</em> series begins Fall 2014 with GET EVEN, followed by the sequel GET DIRTY in 2015, also with Balzer + Bray. Gretchen also contributed an essay to the <em>Dear Teen Me</em> anthology from Zest Books.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Gretchen is a former coloratura soprano, the voice of Mary on G4's Code Monkeys and she sings with the LA-based circus troupe <a href="http://www.cirqueberzerk.com/" style="text-decoration: none;">Cirque Berzerk</a>. Gretchen blogs with <a href="http://enchantedinkpot.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration: none;" title="The Enchanted Inkpot">The Enchanted Inkpot</a> and is a founding member of the vlog group the<a href="http://www.youtube.com/yarebels" style="text-decoration: none;">YARebels</a>. She is repped by Ginger Clark of Curtis Brown, Ltd.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Contemporary horror/thriller novels are not as common as one might think, especially in YA, and for some reason serial killers? Also not big in YA. I wonder why. For the interview today I have an author who writes about serial killers and to top it all of is also a dude (for some reason there seem to be a lack of dudes in YA horror). Just who am I talking about? The wonderful <i>New York TImes</i> bestseller Barry Lyga, that's who! Give him a huge welcome and check out the answers he gave!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Barry Lyga: What if your father was the world's most notorious
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">BL: I didn't want Billy to seem like any one real-world
killer. I envision him studying serial killers the way artists study the
great masters. So he incorporates techniques from each. He's sort of an
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">BL: Good question! I just started riffing one day,
throwing out ideas. I kept the ones that seemed either really eerie or slightly
silly. If you think about it, a name like "Son of Sam" is sort of silly,
until you know the context. I wanted some of my names to be similar.
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<b><b>I HUNT KILLERS</b></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">In an effort to clear his name, Jazz joins the police in a hunt for a new serial killer. But Jazz has a secret—could he be more like his father than anyone knows?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">In an effort to prove murder didn’t run in the family, Jazz teamed with the police in the small town of Lobo’s Nod to solve a deadly case. And now, when a determined New York City detective comes knocking on Jazz’s door asking for help, he can’t say no. The Hat-Dog Killer has the Big Apple–and its police force–running scared. So Jazz and his girlfriend, Connie, hop on a plane to the big city and get swept up in a killer’s murderous game.</span><br />
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Called a “YA rebel-author” by <em>Kirkus Reviews</em>, Barry Lyga has published fourteen novels in various genres in his nine-year career, including the <em>New York Times</em> bestselling <a href="http://barrylyga.com/novels/i-hunt-killers/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #003859;" title="I Hunt Killers"><em>I Hunt Killers</em></a>. His books have been or are slated to be published in a dozen different languages in North America, Australia, Europe, and Asia.</div>
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After graduating from Yale with a degree in English, Lyga worked in the comic book industry before quitting to pursue his lifelong love of writing. In 2006, his first young adult novel, <em><a href="http://barrylyga.com/novels/fanboy-goth-girl/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #003859;" title="The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl">The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl</a></em>, was published to rave reviews, including starred reviews from <em>Booklist</em> and<em>School Library Journal</em>. <em>Publishers Weekly</em> named Lyga a “Flying Start” in December 2006 on the strength of the debut.</div>
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His second young adult novel, <em><a href="http://barrylyga.com/novels/boy-toy/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #003859;" title="Boy Toy">Boy Toy</a></em>, received starred reviews in <em>SLJ</em>, <em>Publishers </em><em>Weekly</em>, and <em>Kirkus</em>. <em>VOYA</em> gave it its highest critical rating, and the <em>Chicago Tribune</em> called it “…an astounding portrayal of what it is like to be the young male victim.” His third novel, <em><a href="http://barrylyga.com/novels/hero-type/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #003859;" title="Hero-Type">Hero-Type</a></em>, according to <em>VOYA</em> “proves that there are still fresh ideas and new, interesting story lines to be explored in young adult literature.”</div>
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Since then, he has also written <em><a href="http://barrylyga.com/novels/goth-girl-rising/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #003859;" title="Goth Girl Rising">Goth Girl Rising</a></em> (the sequel to his first novel), as well as the <a href="http://barrylyga.com/novels/archvillain/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #003859;" title="Archvillain"><em>Archvillain</em> series</a> for middle-grade readers and the graphic novel <em><a href="http://barrylyga.com/novels/mangaman/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #003859;" title="Mangaman">Mangaman</a></em> (with art by Colleen Doran).</div>
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His latest series is <em>I Hunt Killers</em>, called by the <em>LA Times</em> “one of the more daring concepts in recent years by a young-adult author” and an “extreme and utterly alluring narrative about nature versus nurture.” The first book landed on both the <em>New York Times</em> and <em>USAToday</em> bestsellers lists, and the series has been optioned for television by Warner Bros./Silver Pictures.</div>
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Lyga lives and writes in New York City. His comic book collection is a lot smaller than it used to be, but is still way too big.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I also want to note that at this point in time <i>I Hunt Killers</i> AND <i>Game </i>e-books<i> </i>are both on sale on all platforms so go purchase them now if you're interested!!!</span></div>
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