Enter to win one of four ARCs of Dead Is a State of Mind by Marlene Perez (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Jan. 2009)(author interview).
To enter the giveaway, email me (scroll and click on the envelope) with your name and snail/street mail address by 10 p.m. CST Dec.
Enter to win a copy of Demigods and Monsters: Your Favorite Authors on Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series, edited by Rick Riordan with Leah Wilson (BenBella, 2008)(PDF excerpt)! Read a Cynsations interview with Rick. From the promotional copy:
How are the Greek gods like your middle school principal?
Enter to win one of three hardcover copies of The Robe of Skulls: The First Tale from the Five Kingdoms by Vivian French (Candlewick, 2008)(author interview). From the promotional copy:
High above the mountain village of Fracture, trouble is brewing. The sorceress Lady Lamorna wants a skull-studded gown of deep black velvet,
Check out readergirlz’s “Books with Bite” series celebration of Teen Read Week; see the awesome trailer below:
The 2009 Red Dirt Book Festival has called for proposals. The theme is “Imagine Oklahoma: Read, Write, Talk.” Submit your proposal here. Deadline: Dec. 1. Note: the 4th annual Red Dirt Festival will be held in Shawnee,
Wahoo! In celebration of the ten-year anniversary of www.cynthialeitichsmith.com, children’s author Michelle Meadows is sponsoring the giveaway of a signed copy of her picture book Pilot Pups, illustrated by Dan Andreasen (Simon & Schuster, 2008)(excerpt)!
From the promotional copy: “When a couple of kids forget to put away their toys,
Enter to win one of two autographed copies of The Very Ordered Existence of Merilee Marvelous by Suzanne Crowley (Greenwillow, 2007)! Note: they also include dragons drawn by Caitlin, the author’s daughter to whom the book is dedicated.
To enter the giveaway, email me (scroll for address) with your name and snail/street mail address by 10 p.m.
Enter to win an autographed copy of A Thousand Never Evers by Shana Burg (Delacorte, 2008)!
To enter the giveaway, email me (scroll for address) with your name and snail/street mail address by 10 p.m. CST July 28! Please also type “A Thousand Never Evers” in the subject line. Read Shana’s blog and a Cynsations interview with Shana.
A.M. Jenkins blog: “The reasons for this blog: 1. To provide basic author information (for students, teachers, librarians etc.), without me having to maintain a website. 2. I think out loud a lot as I work through writing projects, so I’m going to try dumping those thoughts here rather than on my friends.” Read a Cynsations interview with A.M.
The Cynsations grand-prize June giveaway is an autographed hardcover set of First Daughter: Extreme American Makeover (Dutton, 2007) and First Daughter: White House Rules (Dutton, 2008), both by Mitali Perkins. Read a Cynsations interview with Mitali.
To enter the giveaway, email me (scroll for address) with your name and snail/street mail address by 10 p.m.
Congratulations to Kathy Duval on the publication of The Three Bears Halloween, illustrated by Paul Meisel (Holiday House, 2007). From the promotional copy: “Boo! It’s finally Halloween. Baby Bear is trick-or-treating with Mama Bear and Papa Bear. As the bears come up to the very scary house, they notice that the door is open.
