Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Contest!
In which a girl reads just reached 600 followers, so Choco is giving away two books to celebrate! The contest ends Apr 17th, and one lucky winner will receive both Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver AND Willow by Julie Hoban.
Check it out!
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Another Contest!!
Alright, head on over to Shannon's blog and enter her fabulous contest. She's celebrating getting an awesome agent, so say congrats while you're there! The winners (6 of 'em) will each win a signed book from one of agent Laura Rennert of Andrea Brown, so you really want to check this one out.
Good luck everyone, and CONGRATULATIONS!!!! to Shannon (aka packratx). :D
My Entry...
The contest is to write a rhyming query (I had to to it for one of my SNIs that I'm toying with but not actually playing with yet). Enjoy!
The ghosts and the ghouls
And a number of fools,
In shades of gray,
Gather to say
They feel bad.
They give their confessions,
And at the end of each session
They give a group hug,
Shuffle over the rug,
And part until the next meeting
When Bonnie gets restless
She sadly confesses
The girl in 4D,
Obnoxious and peeved,
Is Bonnie’s first spook in a month.
The gang is all sad,
They say Bonnie was bad,
But they’re happy she feels better;
Bonnie signs a new letter
Swearing off spooking for good.
Dear Ms Agent,
I hope my email sent
To you this beautiful query
And that you aren’t weary
To request more.
I have the whole book,
Please don’t give me that look,
It’s really quite something
And could easily bring
Lots of money to you and to me.
Simply request
And I’ll send you my best
60,000 word novel,
There's no need to grovel,
For my YA paranormal comedy SPOOKS!
Saturday, March 27, 2010
So I haven't signed off yet...
...but I'm getting there. To tell the truth, I'll try not to disappear at all, though I can't promise anything.
I got another blog award! :) You guys really think I'm at least half way interesting. I'm glad. It makes me happy that I'm not just standing up here on my invisible box talking to a wall. What was I saying? Oh, blog award, right.
This one is from the very popular Nicole over at One Significant Moment at a Time, if you haven't ever stopped by or have never heard of Nicole, you should check her out. Now. Seriously, anyone who can compare life and a novel to a subway car is pretty interesting to me!
I'd like to pass this on now to some people who are a whole lot cooler than I am. Unfortunately, that would take forever, because I want you all to have this one. So, if you're reading this, congratulations! I think you're all wonderful and magnificent and quite a few other adjectives, so please consider yourself awarded, and continue passing on the silver lining. :D
In completely unrelated news, I'm thinking about starting to do reviews on here (not that I get to read very often, but I think it's be nice), what do you guys think? Would you like to know what I'm reading and what I think about it?
To give you a look, first up would more than likely be the Percy Jackson books by Rick Riordan. But I have a ton of books I bought recently including, Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld, Beastly by Alex Flinn, The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Neffenegger, and Atonement by Ian McEwan, so there's a nice little mix in there.
If I can keep up with posting, I'll try to stick to a schedule. Teaser Tuesday and Work in Progress Wednesday are at the top of my list, if you have any requests, now's the time to speak up! Do you want to hear about my school life? What caf food tastes like? Want me to stop talking and go away? Let me know!
And now, I'll leave you with a tiny snippet and no introduction whatsoever to my newest WiP, because I'm mean like that.
“Mom. He’s doing it again!” Taryn Jacobson bellowed, her voice carrying through the hall and into the kitchen where her mother was making dinner. “Make him stop!” she shouted. She sat on her bed trying to watch the latest episode of her favorite monster television show; Taryn’s little brother Luke sat in the floor between her bed and the TV throwing spit wads at the screen and giggling when they stuck in the middle of an actor’s face. Luke hated ghosts and all things scary. He even refused to go to sleep at night if the door wasn’t left open or if there wasn’t a light on. Luke was afraid the monsters would get him.
Taryn wished they would.
She was tired of having to get out of bed at night to check in on him because he was huddled against the wall crying about the scary things in his closet or the men hiding in the shadows. She would always sit with him and calm him down by turning on all the lights and showing him that everything was safe. Luke never really believed her, though; he always said that the monsters could only be seen when the lights were out because they were a part of the dark. They were made of darkness. It made sense to Taryn, but she still didn’t like having to give up her own sleep because her baby brother was scared, especially when he was such a pain during the day.
“Luke, if you don’t cut it out, I’ll let the monsters get you,” she said, threatening him. “I’ll turn out all the lights and close your door tonight after you go to sleep, and they’ll creep out of the shadows and in through the windows, and you’ll never even see them coming.” Luke froze, a spit wad dangling at the end of the straw that was sticking out of his five-year-old mouth. His face went pale and Taryn could see the tears welling in his little brown eyes. She knew she’d over done it, but she had had enough of his shenanigans; she just wanted to watch TV.
Friday, March 26, 2010
WiP Update
This story is fantastic and wonderful and new and exciting. And I love it. I'm also still not telling you anything about it, other than it's a paranormal YA hahaha. The only problem is that I've been on Spring Break all week, and I probably won't get to do much more writing for a while. I've got to spend my last two days catching up on all the homework I was supposed to get done (so not cool) instead of starting chapter 3. *sigh* Oh well.
School work is calling... The good news? I get to read Beastly by Alex Flinn for my Folklore class and write a paper on it, unless I choose to do Mercedes Lackey's The Fire Rose instead. I love awesome English classes. :) The bad news, that's the easiest and smallest assignment I have.
Are you making progress on something that you're working on? Are you getting bogged down with school/work/kids? Have anything to look forward to?
This may be the last you hear of me for a while. Farewell, my friends!
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