A Cover Winner

August 6th, 2009

Turning the blog over to Intern Jenny for her announcement of the winner of the cover design contest! Take it away, Jenny!
All of your cover designs were so great that it was hard to choose just one. Ultimately I had to envision myself perusing the YA section of the book store, not tough [...]

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Having Some Fun with Book Covers

July 30th, 2009

There’s been lots of serious talk about book covers recently, so let’s have a little fun today, shall we? I’m totally stealing my idea for this post from the Alien Onions, who blogged:
CREATE YOUR DEBUT YA COVER
1 – Go to Fake Name Generator. The name that appears is your author name.
2 – Go [...]

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A Hook for a Book!

July 7th, 2009

Wow — you guys kept me reading all day! I’m thrilled so many of you took up the Writing Prompt challenge, but in the end, I’m afraid there can be only one winner. The winning hook:
Levi’s got the charm, the looks and the right amount of naughty to get Jess into illegal sorts [...]

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EVERMORE news

March 4th, 2009

Wow, the news just keeps getting better! Alyson Noel’s Evermore jumps up to #1 on the New York Times bestseller list next week. Wooot! *dances around*

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Linkapalooza time again!

February 27th, 2009

Double entry today, since the links are piling up fast and furiously. So let’s get right to it!

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