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Monday, February 9, 2015

Heartbreakers Blog Tour!

From quality self-published and small presses to traditional publishers, debut novels to bestsellers, we’re offering access to amazing contemporary young adult and new adult fiction authors. This February, fourteen writers will embark on a heart-stopping blog tour that will hook readers up with great reads and cool SWAG.

Grand Prize GIVEAWAY: one lucky winner will receive a free Kindle, as well as a $20 Amazon gift card. That's a ton of heartbreaking reads... ;)




Who can resist a heartbreaker?

2015 TOUR ROSTER

Participating Authors: 

Eileen Cook: Remember (Simon Pulse, 2015)
D.G. Driver: Passing Notes (Fire and Ice, 2015)
Laurie J. Edwards: writing as Erin Johnson. Grace and the GuiltlessWanted Series (Curious Fox, 2014)
Janet Gurtler: The Truth About Us (Sourcebooks Fire, 2015)
Sara HantzWill The Real Abi Saunders Please Stand Up (Entangled Teen, 2014)
Brenda HiattStarfall (Dolphin Star Press, 2015)
Denise JadenForeign Exchange (Evernight Teen, 2014)
Jen McConnelHer Secret Inheritance (Bloomsbury Spark, 2014)
Judith TewesMy Soon to be Sex Life (Bloomsbury Spark, 2014)
Ashley PostonThe Sound of Us (Bloomsbury Spark, 2014)
Dawn IusAnne and Henry (Simon Pulse, 2015)
Shari GreenFollowing Chelsea (Evernight Teen, 2014)
Vanessa BarneveldThis is Your Afterlife (Bloomsbury Spark, 2014)
LS MurphyReaper (J Taylor Publishing, 2013), Pixelated (Bloomsbury Spark, 2015)

Participating Bloggers:

Reading is My Treasure
YA Yeah! Yeah!
A Glass of Wine (Where I'm featured on Monday!)
Little Library Muse
Jennzah.dot.net (Where I'm featured on Wednesday!)
Tales of Yesterday
The Reader Bee (Where I'm featured on Tuesday!)
Words of Mystery

THE GIVEAWAY!

Click Here to be taken to the awesome Rafflecopter Giveaway, and enter to win a Kindle AND a $20 Gift Card!

Sunday, March 2, 2014

The Fast Fiction Blog Tour Starts Here Today!

Rather than doing a traditional interview-filled tour for Girlfriend Cyber Circuit, I am celebrating the release of my new nonfiction writing book, FAST FICTION, by dropping tips about writing quickly at every stop of my blog tour, and offering some awesome prizes for commenting on any of these posts. The more you drop by and comment, the more chances you have to win these great prizes:

The Prizes:

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  • Compliments of New World Library: They will be giving away A BOX of copies of FAST FICTION by Denise Jaden and GET IT DONE by Sam Bennett (Distributed individually to US and Canada Winners only - Winners may choose one or the other.)
  • Audiobook copies of NEVER ENOUGH by Denise Jaden! (For International Winners)
  • A critique of your first five pages, compliments of Denise's agent, Michelle Humphrey from The Martha Kaplan Agency! (For International Winners)
  • Compliments of Denise Jaden, TWO BOXES of great fiction (US Only), including:
A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend by Emily Horner
Hush by Eishes Chayil
The Lighter Side of Life and Death 
by CK Kelly Martin
The Hourglass Door by Lisa Mangum
Revenge of the Homecoming Queen 
by Stephanie Hale
I Like it Like That by Cecily von Ziegesar
A Girl Named Mister by Nikki Grimes
What She Left Behind by Tracy Bilen
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
American Girls About Town
Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier
The Dark Light by Sara Walsh
The Tragedy Paper by Elizabeth Laban
Writing with a Heavy Heart by Denise Jaden
(This box of books has been spoken for.)
All Unquiet Things by Anna Jarzab
Watch Me by Lauren Barnholdt
Fashionista by Micol Ostow
The Sweetness of Salt by Cecilia Galante
Birthmarked by Caragh O'Brien
Roomies by Sara Zarr and Tara Altebrando
Just Like Fate by Cat Patrick and Suzanne Young
Wild Cards Simone Elkeles
The Appeal by John Grisham
Between the Lines 
by Jodi Picoult and Samantha Van Leer
I'd Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman
He's So Not Worth It by Kieran Scott
Jungle Crossing by Sydney Salter
The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore 
by Benjamin Hale
Writing with a Heavy Heart by Denise Jaden
(This box has been spoken for.)


All you have to do is enter the rafflecopter for a chance to win (at the bottom of this post, I've included links to all of the other blogs where you can comment for more chances to win).

About Fast Fiction:

Writers flock to National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) each November because it provides a procrastination-busting deadline. But only a fraction of the participants meet their goal. Denise Jaden was part of that fraction, writing first drafts of her two published young adult novels during NaNoWriMo. In Fast Fiction, she shows other writers how to do what she did, step-by-step, writer to writer. Her process starts with a prep period for thinking through plot, theme, characters, and setting. Then Jaden provides day-by-day coaching for the thirty-day drafting period. Finally, her revision tips help writers turn merely workable drafts into compelling and publishable novels.

A portion of publisher proceeds will be donated to National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)



Praise for Fast Fiction:

“Fast Fiction is filled with stellar advice, solid-gold tips, and doable, practical exercises for all writers who want to draft a complete novel.”
— Melissa Walker, author of Violet on the Runway

“Being a ‘pantser’ I have always resisted outlining, but I have to say that Fast Fiction changed my mind! Denise Jaden takes what I find to be a scary process (outlining) and makes it into an easy and, dare I say, enjoyable one. Fast Fiction is a hands-on book that asks the right questions to get your mind and your story flowing. I know I’ll be using Fast Fiction over and over again. Highly recommended for fiction writers!
— Janet Gurtler, author of RITA Award finalist I’m Not Her

“Fast Fiction is full of strategies and insights that will inspire and motivate writers of every experience level — and best of all, it provides them with a solid plan to quickly complete the first draft of their next novel.”
— Mindi Scott, author of Freefall

“Fast Fiction provides writers with the perfect mix of practical guidance and the kick in the pants they need to finish that draft. This book is a must-have for writers of all levels.”
— Eileen Cook, author of The Almost Truth

Practical and down-to-earth, Denise Jaden’s Fast Fiction makes a one-month draft seem doable, even for beginners, any month of the year.”
— Jennifer Echols, author of Endless Summer and Playing Dirty

“One of the greatest challenges any writer faces is getting a great idea out of one’s brain and onto the page. Fast Fiction breaks that process down into concrete, manageable steps, each accompanied by Denise Jaden’s sage advice and enthusiastic encouragement. And anything that helps streamline the drafting process is a-okay by me! Fast Fiction is a great addition to any writer’s toolbox — I’ve got it in mine!”
— Catherine Knutsson, author of Shadows Cast by Stars

“Forget the fact that this resource is directed at those wanting to complete a fast draft — if you’re out to get your novel done, period, Jaden’s Fast Fiction will be the kick in the butt that gets you there, from story plan to ‘The End’. . . and beyond.”
— Judith Graves, author of the Skinned series for young adults

Where you can find Fast Fiction:

Help an author out:
Can't get a copy of FAST FICTION right now? I wonder if you'd consider helping out in other ways. I'd really appreciate any way that you can help!

  • Ask your library or bookstore to bring in FAST FICTION
  • Leave a review on Amazon (the more books are reviewed on Amazon, the more they will show up as suggestions for readers).
  • Mention FAST FICTION on Facebook, Twitter, your blog, or pin a link to Amazon on Pinterest

Blog Tour Stops:
Comment on any of the following blog posts celebrating Fast Fiction's release to be entered to win prizes galore! 
(All Fast Fiction blog posts should be live by March 9th, or sooner. Contest will be open until March 15th.)

GCC Blogs:

Additional Participating Blogs:


Remember, all you have to do is leave comments to get lots of extra entries to win some great prizes. 
Don't know what to comment about? Tell us the name of your favorite writing book!

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Monday, February 10, 2014

Heartbreakers Blog Tour!

In case you've missed me on Facebook and Twitter, I just thought I should mention this hear as well:

The Heartbreakers Blog Tour is on!

It all started at Judith Tewes Blog (you can find out more about it there) and it includes 14 YA/NA authors.

The prize? A new KINDLE LOADED WITH OUR EBOOKS!

If you haven't stopped by yet to enter, you still have all week. My first two stops were at:

Day 1 (Sunday) - A Life Bound By Books Where you can find out which fictional character(s) I'd like to spend Valentine's Day with!

Day 2 (Monday) - For What it's Worth Blog  Where you can find out my thoughts on soul-mates!


And here's where I'll be for the rest of the week:

Day 3 (Tuesday): http://Jennzah.net
Day 4 (Wednesday): http://judithteweswrites.blogspot.ca
Day 5 (Thursday): http://ashleynposton.com
Day 6 (Friday): http://littlelibrarymuse.blogspot.com
Day 7 (Saturday): www.simpleloveofreading.blogspot.com

I hope you'll drop by, find out a little more about me and some other YA/NA authors, and enter to win!






Monday, July 23, 2012

Never Enough Blog Tour - Thanks, Everyone!

Congratulations again to Daniela, our grand prize winner and to Kathleen and Annmarie, our other winners! As you'll notice the big box of books and Prize Packs A & B are now gone.

Here is what's still up for grabs:



Prize Pack C includes:

Blood Red Road by Moira Young
Torn by Margaret Petersen Haddix
Dust & Decay by Jonathan Maberry
Wrecked by Anna Davies
The Limit by Kristen Landon





And the last winner is...
  Tiffany!

Congratulations! Please send me your address at d(at)denisejaden(dot)com.

A reminder to international winners: While I cannot afford to ship boxes of books to you, please do contact me if you are a winner, because I have some other prizes for you to choose from!

Congratulations again to all of our winners and thank you so much for participating in my blog tour and for spreading the word about Never Enough! I really appreciate it!

Very soon I will be back as part of the YA Scavenger Hunt, where you'll have a chance to win some really wonderful prizes, including a copy of Never Enough!

Saturday, July 21, 2012

Another Winner: Never Enough Blog Tour!

Eeeppp! So sorry! Time got away from me and I didn't get back here to award more prizes.

Congratulations again to Daniela, our grand prize winner and to Kathleen, our second winner! As you'll notice the big box of books and Prize Pack A are now gone.

Here is what's still up for grabs:







Prize Pack B includes:

Being Friends With Boys by Terra Elan Mcvoy
Dust Lands by Moira Young
The Alchemy of Forever by Avery Williams
This Dark Endeavor by Kenneth Oppel
The Demon's Surrender by Sarah Rees Brennan


Prize Pack C includes:

Blood Red Road by Moira Young
Torn by Margaret Petersen Haddix
Dust & Decay by Jonathan Maberry
Wrecked by Anna Davies
The Limit by Kristen Landon





And our next winner is...
Read, Write, Read!

Congratulations! Please send me your choice of the above prizes at d(at)denisejaden(dot)com.

A reminder to international winners: While I cannot afford to ship boxes of books to you, please do contact me if you are a winner, because I have some other prizes for you to choose from!

Congratulations again to today's winner, and I'll be back soon with another winner!

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Another Winner! Never Enough Blog Tour!

Congratulations again to Daniela, our grand prize winner! She chose the big grand prize box of books, but don't despair! I still have three awesome boxes of books right here, just waiting to be given away. Here is what's still up for grabs:


Prize Pack A includes:

Second Chance Summer by Morgan Matson
Hush Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
Black Heart by Holly Black
Lifted by Wendy Toliver
Perfect by Ellen Hopkins











Prize Pack B includes:

Being Friends With Boys by Terra Elan Mcvoy
Dust Lands by Moira Young
The Alchemy of Forever by Avery Williams
This Dark Endeavor by Kenneth Oppel
The Demon's Surrender by Sarah Rees Brennan


Prize Pack C includes:

Blood Red Road by Moira Young
Torn by Margaret Petersen Haddix
Dust & Decay by Jonathan Maberry
Wrecked by Anna Davies
The Limit by Kristen Landon





And our next winner is...

Kathleen!

Congratulations, Kathleen! Please send me your choice of the above prizes at d(at)denisejaden(dot)com.

A reminder to international winners: While I cannot afford to ship boxes of books to you, please do contact me if you are a winner, because I have some other prizes for you to choose from!

Congratulations again to Kathleen, and I'll be back tomorrow with another winner!

Monday, July 2, 2012

Blog Tours and Entries and Prizes Oh My!

This contest is now officially closed. I'm busy slowly tabulating and will be back drawing names soon! I hope you will nevertheless keep spreading the word about Never Enough. It will come back to you, I promise :-)

If you missed my Prize Vault Post from this morning, not to worry. I'll tempt you all over again at the bottom of this post!

The excitement is starting, friends! My blog tour officially starts today. Thanks so much to Kari from A Good Addiction for organizing it! And why should you care about following this blog tour? Good question! First of all, because many of these blogs will be sharing my brand new book trailer for Never Enough! But more importantly, because for each of the following blog posts that you comment on, I will enter you into my Enormous Super-Spectacular Prize Draw!


Monday, July 2: Kari at A Good Addiction(Author Interview)
Tuesday, July 3: Crystal at My ReadingRoom (Into the Past)
Wednesday, July 4: Oops, this day is missing, but I've seen lots of wonderful posts today!
Thursday, July 5: Tara G at Hobbitsies (Tens List)
Friday, July 6: Zoe at Zoe’s Book Reviews(Author This or That)
Sunday, July 8: Jamie L at Bookmarked (When I’m Not Writing)
Monday, July 9: Angela at Reading Angel (Author Interview)
Tuesday, July 10: Tara G at Hobbitsies (Review)
Wednesday, July 11: Lauren M at 365 Days of Reading (Tens List)

But wait! There are also more ways to win! There are many other blogs who will be featuring Never Enough between July 2-15th! Comment on ANY OR ALL OF THEM and then come back here and share the links to the blogs spotlighting Never Enough, and that will earn you TWO entries--one for commenting, and one for sharing the link.

Highlight Never Enough on your own blog, and then come back here and share the link in the comments, and that will earn you FIVE entries! Tweet and spread the word about this giveaway, using @denisejaden or tag denisejaden in your Facebook post and I will add an entry for every time you do that!

So the thing is, there are plenty of EASY ways to win. And if I haven't convinced you yet, let me just remind you of The Prize Vault...

As I mentioned in an earlier post, Simon Pulse has been extremely generous in donating a whole lot of books to my prize vault to celebrate the release of Never Enough. It's time for a look at what's up for grabs...

Prize Pack A includes:

Second Chance Summer by Morgan Matson
Hush Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
Black Heart by Holly Black
Lifted by Wendy Toliver
Perfect by Ellen Hopkins











Prize Pack B includes:

Being Friends With Boys by Terra Elan Mcvoy
Dust Lands by Moira Young
The Alchemy of Forever by Avery Williams
This Dark Endeavor by Kenneth Oppel
The Demon's Surrender by Sarah Rees Brennan


Prize Pack C includes:

Blood Red Road by Moira Young
Torn by Margaret Petersen Haddix
Dust & Decay by Jonathan Maberry
Wrecked by Anna Davies
The Limit by Kristen Landon






In case you missed it, that's THREE packs of five books. But that's not all! I have one grand prize box of books, and this is a very special box because it includes TWO celebrations! Half of the books are from Simon Pulse, or from my own bookshelf, and are celebrating the birth of NEVER ENOUGH. The other half of the books have been donated by my most amazing critique partner, Shana Silver, and I'd like to include those to celebrate a much more precious birth...the birth of her first baby!

Here's what the Grand Prize Pack includes...

White Cat by Holly Black
Wrapped by Jennifer Bradbury
Paper Towns by John Green
Fury by Elizabeth Miles
Perfect by Ellen Hopkins
The Season by Sarah MacLean
The Absolute Value of -1 by Steve Brezenoff
A Curse As Dark As Gold by Elizabeth C. Bunce
Shadow Hills by Anastasia Hopcus
Red Glove by Holly Black
Wings by Aprilynne Pike
Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce
Kitty Kitty by Michele Jaffe
Suite Scarlett by Maureen Johnson
Golden (audiobook) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin 
(not pictured because I'm sneaking in a quick read!)
I'm very excited about these upcoming couple of weeks and my chance to give away these fabulous prizes! The box sets can only go to someone with a U.S. mailing address, due to exorbitant international mailing costs, but because I SO HIGHLY VALUE my international readers as well, if I draw one of your names, you will still definitely get a prize (some extra-special Never Enough swag, or a book of your choice from Book Depository!)
There's plenty of incentive! So go get busy, learn more about me and my new book, and help spread the word! I'll also have other extra-special things to share with you, like a video highlighting different authors and how they never felt like enough as teens. I can't wait to share this and much more with you!!!

Monday, March 19, 2012

Blog Tour Stop: SECOND SKIN by Judith Graves

I'm excited to welcome one of my Class of 2k10-mates as she releases her second book. Judith Graves's novel SECOND SKIN, the sequel to UNDER MY SKIN, is out this week!


Description from GoodReads:
 Sequel to Under My Skin.

With FIENDS like Eryn…

Monsters. Bloodsuckers. The evil. The damned. Eryn McCain knows they exist— she’s been hunting them since she was a child. At sixteen, she’s ready to take on all comers. Being a shapeshifter gives her an advantage when it comes to her unusual part-time job. The hours suck and the pay is, well, non-existent, but bonuses like inhuman strength and night vision make tracking scary beasties a dream come true. Especially in a town like Redgrave.

When an ancient demon targets Redgrave High, Eryn and her crew of hunters must face their innermost fears to prevent the Harvest Moon Dance from becoming one serious Monster Mash. Loyalties are tested and temptations abound. With questions ever brewing, can Eryn share a future with the brooding, noble, human Alec—the hunter after her heart? Or will she succumb to her enemy’s son, Wade, a seductive predator as bloodthirsty as she is?

What happens when you’re both the beauty and the beast?
Sounds intense, right?! And here's a short interview with Judith:

Second Skin is a sequel to Under My Skin. Did you know from the beginning of writing your first book what the second one would be about? How did the plotting of more than one book in a series work for you?
I originally outlined three books before starting to write Under My Skin, so I always knew I was writing a series. However, once I actually landed a publisher, the first book went through some extensive edits. Plot twists intended for Second Skin were pushed forward to crank up tension. This resulted in subsequent changes to book three, Skin of My Teeth. Of course, all the shuffling of action and infusion of conflict has made for better storytelling. Gotta love the ripple effect.
 
Under My Skin was the first book I’d written and as with most initial efforts, I was holding back. Keeping the big-ticket items of the plot a secret because I thought that was the way to hook a reader. I’ve since learned it’s far better to toss the big plot guns out there as soon as possible and let the chaos ensue. You have to hook your reader much like gawkers at a crime scene – make it impossible for them to turn away.


Will there be any more books in the series?
 There will be at least four books, the fourth is titled, The Hour of the Wolf. I have a fifth planned if it gets the green light.

Your first two novels have been paranormal YA. Do you plan to stick with this genre or branch out into others?
 I love writing YA fiction and have delved into other genres: horror, steampunk, and edgy contemporary. I also write screenplays for television and film.

Anything you’re working on right now you can tell us about?
In addition to the SKINNED series, I have a new steampunk ghosthunter series launching in 2014 with the first book, Strangeways Versus The Blood Brothers. The prequel story, Strangeways Versus The Wraith, which introduces the main character, Amelia Strangeways, appears in SPIRITED, an anthology of 13 ghost stories published by Leap Books and featuring other authors such as, Maria V. Snyder, Candace Havens, Shannon Delany, Dawn Dalton, and more! Proceeds from SPIRITED go to 826 National, a literacy-based charity.

What did you read and write as a teen?
 Would it surprise you if I said Victorian poetry, classics like Wuthering Heights, and the much loved Canadian favourite, Anne of Green Gables? Cause it was kind of a shock for me that I enjoyed period pieces, being that I also consumed as many horror, science-fiction and fantasy titles as I could – Ray Bradbury and Stephen King being stand outs. Yet this blend likely led to my fascination with steampunk – a genre that fuses science fiction / fantasy with alternate histories and its stories are usually set in a pseudo-Victorian world.

What’s the last thing you read that you really loved?
 I continue to read voraciously and chow down at least a book a week. Which means there are many titles to love and new authors to discover. Sometimes it’s the not so new authors who really dazzle. As a horror/paranormal writer I felt I’d been neglecting a major part of my genre related education – I’d never read a single Clive Barker title. So I snagged a copy of Abarat and my world was rocked. What world building! What words! What fantastical adventures and quirky characters. I’d say I fell in love with that book and I’m working through the rest of the Books of Abarat series.

If people want to find out more about you and your books, where can they look?
I’m always sharing too much information on my website: judithgraves.com, or on Facebook / Twitter: @judithgraves. There's also the Strangeways sites: strangewaysnovels.com and Twitter: @AStrangeways

You'll want to stop by Judith's site during the blog tour, as there will be tons of fun and prizes. Congrats Judith!