Cover Reveal: City of Lost Souls, Thumped, and Before I Wake

Thumped

by Megan McCafferty

THE CONCLUSION TO ONE OF THE MOST TALKED-ABOUT NOVELS OF LAST YEAR

It’s been thirty-five weeks since twin sisters Harmony and Melody went their separate ways. And now their story has become irresistible: twins separated at birth, each due to deliver twins…on the same day!

Married to Ram and living in Goodside, Harmony spends her time trying to fit back into the community she once believed in. But she can’t forget about Jondoe, the guy she fell for under the strangest of circumstances.

To her adoring fans, Melody has achieved everything: a major contract and a coupling with the hottest bump prospect around. But this image is costing her the one guy she really wants.

The girls’ every move is analyzed by millions of fans eagerly counting down to “Double Double Due Date.” They’re two of the most powerful teen girls on the planet, and they could do only one thing to make them even more famous:

Tell the truth.

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City of Lost Souls

by Cassandra Clare

In Book 5: City of Lost Souls, the Shadowhunters struggle to piece together their shattered world after a betrayal by one of their own leaves them reeling.

That's it?? :( Amazing cover! How is the last book going to compete with this one???!! Also, why do they look so old?

The Wandering Stars Blog Tour-Interview with Author

About Marlon:

 Born and raised in Florida, Marlon moved to Iowa in the summer of 2008 after finishing his last year in high school to be with his long-distance girlfriend. Owing to that leap of faith, Marlon's experience with the motivating power of love inform and inspire his writing. A lifelong fascination with world mythology and legend has lead to the infusion of the supernatural into his stories.
Marlon's debut novelette, Helena's Empire, is now available as an eBook at various online retailers. Its full-length sequel, Wandering Stars, coming Autumn 2011, explores the life of a teenage girl when her world is turned upside down by a chance encounter – and a blooming romance – with Lucifer himself.

1.)What inspired you to write Wandering Stars?

There's no singular reason. Part of it is that the main character, Alice, has been with me in one form or another since I was fourteen years old. She's grown and changed as much as I have in those six years between her inception and the creation of Wandering Stars. So I had Alice, and I had stories for her, just not the story. Being in love, and actually moving half way across the country ¨C from Florida to Iowa ¨C gave me the inspiration I needed to find her true story. Almost everything came easily once I had the initial setup in place; it was as simple as introducing Alice, this thoughtful, somewhat reserved but thoroughly kind and loving girl to the Prince of Darkness and writing down the results as they unfolded.

2.) A food. A board game. A movie

Lamb curry! (I like it so much, it gets its own exclamation mark.) Apples to Apples. Slumdog Millionaire or Breaking Dawn Part One.

3.)  Do you have a playlist for your book, Wandering Stars?

Sure do. The songs correspond to different plot points in the book ¨C if you're a fan of Black Sabbath, it shouldn't be too hard to figure out what NIB represents. I used the songs to break through writers' block when it arose.

1 -  Reach - Eyes Set to Kill
2 - N.I.B. - Black Sabbath
3 - Don't Fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
4 - Diabulus in Musica - Mago de Oz
5 - Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
6 - The World Outside - Eyes Set to Kill
7 - Bleak - Opeth
8 - South of Heaven - Slayer
9 - Hurt - Johnny Cash
10 - To a Friend - Alexisonfire
11 -  Fire Burns Below - Judas Priest

12 - Aquelarre ¨C Mago de Oz

4.)What is something that would surprise people to learn about you?

I'm actually a paid employee of His Infernal Majesty, Lucifer. He pays me to write these books, says it builds good public relations.

5.) What character in your book resembles you the most and why?

There's a piece of me in every Wandering Stars character, except perhaps Indigo, Alice's dog. I'd say I have the most in common with Alice. We both “live in our heads” and when we fall in love, we fall hard.

6.)Say some person who never read a book wants a book recommendation. What book would you give?

It depends on what genres they feel they'd be interested, but a good fall-back is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, one of my all-time favorite books and, in my opinion, one of the world's greatest pieces of literature. Quite coincidentally, the main character in Wandering Stars is named Alice. Go figure!
7.) Twitter Style! Convince me to read your book in 140 words or less!

It's Roswell High meets Eclipse. Alice falls for the ultimate bad boy: the Devil. Can he be saved? Will she lose her soul? Wandering Stars takes you straight into Alice's heart as well as Lucifer's. Characters grow and hint at the future of the series.



The Wandering Stars Blog Tour-Guest Post

A Romance Writer's Thoughts on Breaking Dawn Part One

I became a fan of the Twilight saga after being introduced to it by my fiancee in mid 2008. Maybe “fan” isn't the right word, at least at first ¨C I have to say that I didn't enjoy the first book. Still, I soldiered on into New Moon, and was pleasantly surprised to find that it was gripping and emotional, charged with a bittersweet romance that firmly endeared me to Meyer's creation. Eclipse was better still, and by the time I reached Breaking Dawn I could hardly stand to put it down until the final page had been turned.

It's the same way with the films. Each is an improvement on the last, and Breaking Dawn Part One didn't disappoint. Although I wish the wedding scene had been longer (maybe on the DVD as an extended cut?) and the “werewolf telepathy” bit was kind of embarrassing to watch, Breaking Dawn Part One combined the sense of unconquerable love and the Edward ¨C Bella ¨C Jacob triangle we've come to expect with a chilling and genuinely creepy rendering of Bella's vampiric pregnancy. I was especially focused on the conflict between Edward and Bella here. I truly sympathized with Edward's desire to keep Bella safe at all costs, even if it meant the termination of her pregnancy. Bella found herself torn as well, this time not between Edward and Jacob, but between romantic love and motherly love. The heightened stakes coupled with Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson's excellent performances make you feel like the pages of the novel have literally been lifted onto the big screen and brought to life. I'm eagerly looking forward to the final installment ¨C and crossing my fingers for a film adaptation of The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, too!

Writers of teen fiction, of the paranormal, and of romance owe much to the success of the Twilight saga. I'm doubly grateful as I count myself as all three. Although the Wandering Stars series eschews vampires in favor of angels and the closest it has to a werewolf is a grizzled, doglike creature named Jezebeth, Stephenie Meyer's writing is in many ways an inspiration to me. Although all the books have been released and the movies are coming to a close, we have now in its wake a plethora of spectacular YA romance from major and independent publishers, established and emerging authors alike.

It's a great time to be a reader.

Marlon Pierre-Antoine is the author of Wandering Stars and its companion novelette, Helena's Empire. Visit www.marlonpierre-antoine.com to purchase and read a free excerpt from the book.

In My Mailbox #21

In My Mailbox

In My Mailbox is hosted by Kristi over at The Story Siren 

This week I have a huge library haul and only I only bought one book! Yepee!! :D

      

Bought One Book This Week :D



Aria is a teenager in the enclosed city of Reverie. Like all Dwellers, she spends her time with friends in virtual environments, called Realms, accessed through an eyepiece called a Smarteye. Aria enjoys the Realms and the easy life in Reverie. When she is forced out of the pod for a crime she did not commit, she believes her death is imminent. The outside world is known as The Death Shop, with danger in every direction.

As an Outsider, Perry has always known hunger, vicious predators, and violent energy storms from the swirling electrified atmosphere called the Aether. A bit of an outcast even among his hunting tribe, Perry withstands these daily tests with his exceptional abilities, as he is gifted with powerful senses that enable him to scent danger, food and even human emotions.

They come together reluctantly, for Aria must depend on Perry, whom she considers a barbarian, to help her get back to Reverie, while Perry needs Aria to help unravel the mystery of his beloved nephew’s abduction by the Dwellers. Together they embark on a journey challenged as much by their prejudices as by encounters with cannibals and wolves. But to their surprise, Aria and Perry forge an unlikely love - one that will forever change the fate of all who live UNDER THE NEVER SKY.

I'm really excited to start on this! let me tell you the story on this one! . So I've been looking for this book forever at Barnes and Noble the day before it gets released and I looked everywhere for this book!! After my attempt, I ask the Barnes and noble workers to help me out and soon it became a seach party! Ben, Michael, and I scoured thorught BN looking for the book untill we found it in the cookbook area!! I was like "YES!!!" Its was fun and made me as excited to read the book now :)

Soooooooooooooooo, What did YOU get in YOUR mailbox???!