tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90860928602150912702024-03-16T11:52:21.653-07:00Sara B. Larson"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."- Eleanor RooseveltSara B. Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14213313028658810705noreply@blogger.comBlogger344125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9086092860215091270.post-69505395540140975872019-10-01T10:30:00.000-07:002019-10-01T10:30:03.878-07:00YASH Fall 2019!!<div style="text-align: center;">
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You can pre-order <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sisters-of-shadow-and-light-sara-b-larson/1130016102?ean=9781250208408" target="_blank">SOSAL by clicking HERE</a>!!! or <a href="https://www.kingsenglish.com/book/9781250208408" target="_blank">HERE *for a signed copy*</a>!! (And make sure to check out my preorder incentive -- if you submit your preorder proof of purchase you will get gorgeous character cards created by Diana Dworak + unique signed swag! Info on my website and IG!)</div>
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">Directions:</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"> Below, you'll notice that I've listed my favorite number. Collect the favorite numbers of all the authors on the</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #f1c232;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">Gold Team</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">, and then add them up (don't worry, you can use a calculator!). </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Here's a little trivia for you - my all time FAVORITE number has always been </span><span style="color: #7f6000;">21</span><span style="color: #666666;">!!!</span><br />
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<i>Gallean agreed to train Gigi and Scott, but the Shadow Moon is two weeks away. If they don’t learn how to control their power, Alaric and Lizzie will be lost to them forever. </i></div>
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<i>Caer watched Gigi and Scott in the seomra de’ ruin. Gallean doesn’t know she exists, but Caer considers him her mentor. He’s trained her into the warrior she is today. If Balor finds her, she’ll be ready for him.</i></div>
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**To celebrate the release of Dark Moon, The Goddess Chronicles Book Three, KB Anne is running some super awesome giveaways. First, Wide Awake, The Goddess Chronicles Book One is FREE. Yep, you read correctly Wide Awake is FREE for a limited time. Snag your copy of Wide Awake today! <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://amzn.to/2T4qL6V&source=gmail&ust=1569796240677000&usg=AFQjCNEiVe08uXedk3pezZ_38ykwvKGxoQ" href="https://amzn.to/2T4qL6V" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">AMAZON </a>**</div>
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Blood Moon, The Goddess Chronicles Book Two is $.99 for the next few days, and then it increases to $1.99 by the weekend. Grabby hands for Blood Moon people! <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://bit.ly/BloodMoon2&source=gmail&ust=1569796240677000&usg=AFQjCNFqVqM6avAQxJcwA6WTgkFFKagK8g" href="http://bit.ly/BloodMoon2" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">AMAZON</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">To continue the hunt, <a href="http://liviablackburne.com/news/" target="_blank">CLICK HERE to visit Livia Blackburn's websit</a>e! </span></div>
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Sara B. Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14213313028658810705noreply@blogger.com36tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9086092860215091270.post-34239925389717099192019-04-02T11:30:00.000-07:002019-04-02T13:28:54.708-07:00YASH Spring 2019!<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">It's that time of year again!! When we all go crazy for a few days, trying to win piles of awesome books! This year, I'm also doing my own personal giveaway, so make sure to read all the way to the VERY BOTTOM of the post for your chance to win a signed ARC of my new release coming November 5th from Tor Teen - SISTERS OF SHADOW AND LIGHT!</span><br />
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<i style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18pt;">On that same night, a massive, magical hedge grew and imprisoned them within the citadel. Inara inherited their father’s Paladin power; her eyes glow blue and she is able to make plants grow at unbelievable rates, but she has been trapped in her own mind because of a “roar” that drowns everything else out—leaving Zuhra virtually alone with their emotionally broken human mother.</i></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">Directions:</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"> Below, you'll notice that I've listed my favorite number. Collect the favorite numbers of all the authors on the</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #f1c232;"> </span><span style="color: lime;"><span style="background-color: white;">Green</span><span style="background-color: white;"> Team</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">, and then add them up (don't worry, you can use a calculator!). </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: 13.2px;">Here's a little trivia for you - my all time FAVORITE number has always been </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: lime;">21</span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-size: 13.2px;">!!!</span><br />
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Lisa is the author of :<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Ooooh, that sounds so intriguing!! </span></div>
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You can buy <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0807569445/" target="_blank">RESURRECTING SUNSHINE by clicking HERE</a>!! </div>
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And if you're a fan of the book - today is your lucky day because Lisa is sharing a deleted scene with us for her bonus material! </div>
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RESURRECTING SUNSHINE, I found myself writing a number of pretty surreal dream
sequences. Not only do I love writing these types of scenes because writing
about dreams gives me the freedom to really play with words and imagery and to
be a little, well, out there, but because it also provides a way to explore
what’s happening inside a character. In this particular dream sequence, as with
several others in SUNSHINE, Adam explores in some depth his grief over losing
Marybeth—aka Sunshine—as well as his fears and reservations about bringing back
the girl she loves through this crazy process.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">While the
following scene was always one of my favorites, it never made it into the book
in its entirety (although you may find pieces of it scattered here and there). I’m
glad to have the opportunity to share it with you today.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I will warn you
that this deleted scene contains some potential spoilers...or maybe I should
say it hints at spoilers, but when I had the opportunity to share a deleted
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I hope you enjoy
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">~ Lisa A. Koosis<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I wake into the dream with Marybeth kissing me on the
cheek. When I open my eyes she brushes hair back from my forehead and says,
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">She’s wears her Sunshine get-up, that yellow dress
that never stopped reminding me of funerals. Her feet are bare and black with
dirt, as if she walked barefoot all the way from her own tomb. But she’s so
gentle and attentive, so with me in the moment and not lost inside her grief,
that my eyes burn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Please.” She holds out her hand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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you’re dead?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">She sighs. “Adam, head out of the sand. I am dead.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I kick the sheets back, feeling suddenly,
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Forward,” she says. “Backward.” As if it’s all the
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Sure we can,” she says. “You’re getting tame, Adam.
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“I wouldn’t know about that,” she says. “I’m always
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">With her words, though they’re completely
off-the-cuff, all the crossness goes out of me. She pushes open the door to the
nursery. Apparently, you don’t need keycards in dreams.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I expect the tank to be empty since Marybeth is here,
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tightly together. Whatever she’s reliving right now isn’t pleasant. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Probably that day Daddy Jacobsen decided my bed was
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“God, MB! How can you say it like that, so
matter-of-factly?” How hard I’ve been trying not to think about her reliving
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“How else can I say it, Adam?” she says, almost
gently, as if she’s protecting me more than herself. “It was my life. Now she’s
stuck living it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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side by side makes my chest squeeze. Or maybe it’s the thought that even now
Mr. Jacobsen is sliding between the sheets of fourteen-year-old Marybeth’s bed as
she pretends to sleep, hoping he’ll come to his senses and go away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Not all of my life experiences happened with you
there to try to protect me.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">We look at each other, me and this girl I love with my
whole heart, this girl so long in the ground.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“But that’s not what I wanted to show you.” She pulls
me away from the tank. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Beyond the bank of computers that nobody’s tending to
right now, a door appears. It wasn’t there a second ago. It swings open on its
own.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">From inside, I hear bubbling, like Marybeth’s nursery
tank, only a hundred times over. My feet feel heavy in the way of dreams, and I
force myself forward, reminding myself that that’s exactly what this is. No
matter what’s in the room, no matter what fear-brought-to-life exists in there,
it’s only the product of my thoughts and worries and paranoia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I step into a room filled with tanks. In each one, a
clone of Marybeth floats.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Go on,” Dream Marybeth says. Her fingers press
lightly against my shoulder, nudging me forward.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I move toward the first tank. The Marybeth inside is
identical to the Marybeth standing beside me. Her eyes are open, staring
through the pale fluid as if she’s really seeing me rather than just whatever
exists inside the current memory being piped into her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“MB.” I put my hands against the glass. Up close I see
the faraway look in her eyes that I know so well, and my mind supplies an image
of her sitting in the tour bus, her dress traded for jeans, her head tipped
against the tinted windows, looking out at something only she can see. I
can’t...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I move to the next tank. The Marybeth in that one is
younger, but only slightly, judging by the shoulder-length of her dark hair.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Marybeths in each one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Marybeths.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">As if she’s a product rather than a person. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I look to the Marybeth next to me. “Am I taking away
from who you were by doing this?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Does it matter?” She shrugs, and then points to the
tanks where the older Marybeths float, Marybeth when she was Sunshine. “Hadn’t
I lost who I was by then anyway? Wasn’t I already a commodity?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I shake my head. “Not to me.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">She smiles, the kind of smile you give someone you’re
sad for. “I know. Thank you for that.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Together, we walk to the far end of the room. I can
pick out the ages of each by the hair length, the roundness of her cheeks, her
height. My dream-guide Marybeth accompanies me, speculating on what memory
might be getting pumped into each particular clone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Marybeths get younger, until they’re younger than
the first time I met her. I see Marybeth at maybe the age of seven or eight,
cigarette burns running up the length of her bare arms. I see Marybeth at
around four or five, her hair short and choppy, as if she cut it herself. In
some of the tanks she’s nothing more than a baby.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“This doesn’t make sense,” I tell the original
Marybeth as we stare in at the young clone. “Her hair wouldn’t change in the
tank.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Dummy,” she says affectionately, “this is a dream.
Your mind has to make its dream-points somehow. Duh.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“But what is the point? That she had a life before me?
That she’s reliving everything?” I feel that crossness again, and suddenly I’m
cross with her, even though I kind of realize that the dream her is really just
my subconscious pretending to be her. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Sure,” she says. “That. But maybe the point is this.
When would it make a difference to stop the memories? When we were with the
band? Before I met them? The day I met you? Or before? Or was it something just
inside me, Adam? A ticking bomb that started the day a sperm met an egg,
something in my genetic code that’ll be there no matter what you do?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“And there it is,” I say. My pulse pounds in my jaw.
“Poor me. Right, MB? You had a hard life. Well you weren’t the only one. You
weren’t the only one who lost your family, who lost LaLa and Jeddy. You weren’t
the only one who got stuck in shitty foster homes. You’re not the only one who
had scars. You’re not the only one who’s ever thought about…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I can’t say it. But Marybeth just keeps on looking at
me, her gaze steady. In fact I feel all of the Marybeths watching me from their
tanks. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Go on,” she says.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“What is it you want to say to me, Marybeth?
That it’s my fault you’re dead? That I gave up on you? You gave up first,
Marybeth. You gave up a long time before me.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I bang my fist against the nearest tank. It
shudders, but neither the Marybeth inside nor the one next to me so much as
flinches.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“I followed you onto that stage, Marybeth. I
followed you into that ridiculous fame we had. I would have followed you to the
ends of the earth. And still it wasn’t enough. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">You quit, Marybeth. You quit us. You quit
life. And you left me to live without you. You left me when you knew it was
going to hurt me the most. When it would look like it was my fault and not
yours.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Go
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“And I am so mad at you, Marybeth. I am so mad at you
for leaving me here all alone, just like everyone else did.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="color: #666666;">Directions:</b><span style="color: #666666;"> Below, you'll notice that I've listed my favorite number. Collect the favorite numbers of all the authors on the</span><span style="color: #f1c232;"> </span><span style="color: red;">Red Team</span><span style="color: #666666;">, and then add them up (don't worry, you can use a calculator!). </span></div>
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<b>Entry Form:</b> Once you've added up all the numbers, <a href="http://www.yash.rocks/p/enter-here.html" style="color: #888888;" target="_blank">make sure you fill out the form here to officially qualify for the grand prize</a>. Only entries that have the correct number will qualify.</div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><b>Rules:</b> Open internationally, anyone below the age of 18 should have a parent or guardian's permission to enter. To be eligible for the grand prize, you must submit the completed entry form by </span><span style="color: magenta;"><b>Sunday October 7th</b></span><span style="color: #666666;">, at noon Pacific Time. Entries sent without the correct number or without contact information will not be considered.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: 13.2px;">Here's a little trivia for you - my all time FAVORITE number has always been </span><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">21</span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-size: 13.2px;">!!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span data-sheets-userformat="{"2":515,"3":{"1":0},"4":[null,2,16711680],"12":0}" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Teacher by day, award-winning author by night, J.M. Sullivan is a fairy tale fanatic who loves taking classic stories and turning them on their head. Although known to dabble in adulting, J.M. is a big kid at heart who still believes in true love, magic, and most of all, the power of coffee. If you would like to connect, find JM on social media at @jmsullivanbooks -- she’d love to hear from you!"}" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">She is the author of ALICE: </span></span></div>
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--><span data-sheets-userformat="{"2":515,"3":{"1":0},"4":[null,2,16711680],"12":0}" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Alice Carroll hardly remembers life before the plague. When the undead first crawled from their graves, it was like a nightmare. When they killed her mother, the nightmare became shockingly real. Now her sister Dinah has contracted the 'un-deadly' virus and without a cure, soon she'll be worse than dead. She'll be momerath.\n\nTo save her sister, Alice must leave the safety of the Sector and venture into Momerath territory in search of an antidote - if it exists. Chasing a rumor about a mysterious doctor with a cure, Alice falls down the rabbit hole into Wanderland, where ravenous momerath aren't the only danger lurking."}" style="font-size: 10pt;">Alice Carroll hardly remembers life before the plague. When the undead first crawled from their graves, it was like a nightmare. When they killed her mother, the nightmare became shockingly real. Now her sister Dinah has contracted the 'un-deadly' virus and without a cure, soon she'll be worse than dead. She'll be momerath.<br /><br />To save her sister, Alice must leave the safety of the Sector and venture into Momerath territory in search of an antidote - if it exists. Chasing a rumor about a mysterious doctor with a cure, Alice falls down the rabbit hole into Wanderland, where ravenous momerath aren't the only danger lurking.</span><div style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif;">
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">You can buy her book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Alice-Wanderland-Chronicles-J-Sullivan/dp/1948583038/ref=sr_1_1_twi_pap_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1535734597&sr=8-1&keywords=alice+the+wanderland+chronicles+jm+sullivan" target="_blank">ALICE by CLICKING HERE!!</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial";">You're in for a treat today, because J.M. is giving you a sneak peek of the first chapter from BROKEN GLASS! Read on for that sneak peek -- and make sure you continue past it for my giveaway of a signed book!</span><br />
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LOOKING GLASS HOUSE<br />
CHAPTER ONE<br />
My sister is gone, and it’s all my fault.<br />
Alice buried her face in her pillow, trying to chase away the thoughts that refused to<br />
yield. The darkness didn’t help—she was still haunted by the vision of Dinah’s beautiful<br />
almond eyes flashing from a rich, radiant brown to a mottled, murky grey.<br />
A frustrated scream ripped from her chest and she flung the pillow across the room,<br />
lashing out against the fresh wave of memories threatening to drown her. The projectile hit<br />
her desk with a crash, toppling Alice’s family picture with Dinah and her mother. She winced<br />
as the frame fell, smacking against the hard wood. Alice rushed to her desk, overcome with<br />
a fresh surge of emotion as she looked at the picture and saw the fractured image of her<br />
family—infinitely separated by shards of broken glass.<br />
Alice gently removed the largest shard, clearing the splintered marks from Dinah’s<br />
face, revealing the unmarred image of her sister. A harsh laugh ripped from Alice’s chest.<br />
If only it was that easy.<br />
In reality, things were much more complicated. In reality, her mother was dead, and<br />
her sister was something worse. She was a momerath.<br />
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Alice shivered, remembering the way the virus had come for Dinah, changing her<br />
from a healthy, vibrant woman into a shambling monster in a matter of days. Alice glanced<br />
down at the image of her sister, and was hit with a sharp pang of guilt as she studied her<br />
smiling face. She hadn’t even been there for the worst of it. She had left the Sector and went<br />
to Phoenix, leaving Dinah all alone.<br />
Alice bit her lip to still her trembling chin, then set the photo back in its place. She<br />
stooped to retrieve her pillow, then scuffled across the floor to flop mournfully onto her<br />
bed, overcome with shame.<br />
She had gone to Wanderland to save Dinah, but all she’d succeeded in was making<br />
things worse. The rumor of a cure had only brought more questions about the undeadly<br />
virus, along with the undesired side effect of the death of too many good people. The guiltreel<br />
whirred through Alice’s mind again, fresh with images of the people who had helped her<br />
through Wanderland. Dr. Abbott, Indi, Johnny, Big Mike. So many lost in a failed attempt to<br />
find a cure, and it was all her fault.<br />
No. Alice strangled the pillow in her hands. It was the Red Queen. If she hadn’t<br />
interfered, Chess and I would have made it back in time to properly administer the antidote.<br />
If it wasn’t for her, Dinah wouldn’t have —<br />
Alice’s nose pricked as she swallowed the lump in her throat. It was hard to believe<br />
that only a week ago, she had been sitting in this same room, mentally preparing for a<br />
simple scouting trip.<br />
If that was all I had to worry about now, Alice thought with a bitter sigh. She couldn’t<br />
believe how much she had whined at Dinah. Unbidden, a fresh wave of tears surged<br />
forward, carried on the memory of the last conversation she had with her sister.<br />
‘I only talk to myself because I don't have anyone else to talk to. It’s a coping<br />
mechanism.’<br />
‘You can talk to me. I'm always here for you, little sister.’<br />
The tears Alice fought so hard to hold back spilled over her cheeks and onto her<br />
pillow. She couldn’t believe how selfish she had been. How much she had taken for granted.<br />
How little she had done. Maybe if she were braver or smarter or faster, Dinah would still be<br />
there.<br />
But she wasn’t. She was the same quiet, timid girl she’d been her whole life. And<br />
Dinah was gone.<br />
“Knock, knock.” Chess appeared as he rapped the inside of the already opened door.<br />
He peeked at Alice from under the messy ash hair falling in front of his amber eyes. He<br />
brushed it away and a nervous grin twitched his lips, showing a bright smile that stood out<br />
against his dark olive skin. “I come bringing gifts,” he said, setting a peanut butter sandwich<br />
and a warm soda on the table beside her bed. Alice gave it a blank stare.<br />
“Thanks.” She tried to smile, but it collapsed halfway through the gesture.<br />
“You have to eat,” Chess chided as he flopped onto the bed beside her. “I know you<br />
miss your sister, but it’s been three days and you haven’t left the room once.” He screwed<br />
his lips together as he leaned in to sniff her shoulder. “You’re starting to stink.”<br />
“I am not!” Alice pushed him back as she shot away from him and her long, silverblonde<br />
hair tumbled over her shoulder, revealing a collection of tangled strands. Her eyes<br />
widened and she grasped it into a low ponytail and brushed her fingers through the ends to<br />
quickly smooth the snarls. Chess snickered.<br />
“Alright, the smelly thing wasn’t true.” He coughed out another laugh before he<br />
looked at her disheveled state, then his expression softened. “But honestly, Princess? This<br />
isn’t healthy.”<br />
“I’m not hungry.” Her stomach let out a contending growl and Chess’ lips quirked in a<br />
knowing smile. Alice huffed and flopped onto the bed, turning her back to him. Behind her,<br />
his chest rumbled with a low laugh.<br />
“Sure, you aren’t,” he sighed, but didn’t press the issue. “At least drink the soda.” He<br />
waved it enticingly over her shoulder. “It’s practically a delicacy.”<br />
Alice stared at the can. How could she care about food at a time like this? Her sister<br />
was outside the Sector running God-knows-where, disguised as a monster. Except, it wasn’t<br />
a disguise. It was her.<br />
Kind of.<br />
A frustrated growl escaped her throat. Her mind stuck in a cruel loop, forcing her to<br />
endlessly relive Dinah’s transformation from Carrier to momerath to . . . Alice wasn’t quite<br />
sure what. A million questions buzzed behind the gruesome memories accompanying the<br />
reel with a disparaging soundtrack. She twisted her neck to face Chess.<br />
“You don’t understand,” she argued. “You didn’t see what happened to her. The way<br />
she looked at me. I—” Her voice broke her explanation, and she turned away to hide her<br />
impending tears. “I lost her.”<br />
“And you’ll find her,” Chess encouraged. “I mean, you found a plague antidote in the<br />
middle of a momerath haystack.” He nudged the small of her back. “You can find your<br />
sister.”<br />
“We found half an antidote,” she reminded him. “It didn’t work—not all the way.”<br />
Chess sighed. Alice could picture him scratching the back of his head as he decided what to<br />
say next. She knew she was being difficult, but she wasn’t finished with her self-loathing.<br />
“Listen, Princess,” Chess’ voice hardened, employing a different approach, “you can<br />
mope over what happened and how you’re a failure for as long as you want, but that isn’t<br />
the girl I know. And it won't help. If anything, it will only make finding Dinah harder later.” He<br />
caught his breath before continuing, “Because you'll get over this and then you’ll be upset<br />
that you sat around and waited so long to kick ass.” He nudged her in the back again.<br />
“That’s my Alice.”<br />
Alice chewed her lip, considering his words. Chess was right. Her sulking wasn’t<br />
accomplishing anything. It wasn’t even making her feel better. Resigned, she slowly scooted<br />
to join him at the edge of the bed. Her shoulders slumped as she studied her knuckles to<br />
avoid Chess’ gaze, embarrassed by her tantrum.<br />
“What are we going to do?” she moaned. “She could be anywhere.”<br />
Chess’ features scrunched together as he deliberated. “Where do you think she<br />
would go?”<br />
Alice shrugged. Whenever Dinah had taken her scouting before, they always took<br />
different paths. They never went the same way twice. It was too dangerous. Instead, they<br />
followed an alternating pattern, tracing an invisible circle around the Sector. The last time<br />
they went out, they went north, towards Glendale. If Dinah followed the same route, this<br />
time she’d travel more east.<br />
She’d be heading towards Phoenix.<br />
“I think I know where she’s going,” she gasped. “But,” she paused and turned to<br />
Chess, whose amber eyes narrowed as her face curled into a grimace. “I don’t think you'll<br />
like it.”<br />
Chess’ brows knotted deeper together. “Why?” he asked. “Where’s she going?”<br />
Alice sucked in a breath, bracing for his reaction. She knew it was the last place either<br />
of them wanted to go. Yet, something inside her screamed that she was right. Her breath<br />
whooshed from her lips as she met his bronze gaze.<br />
“She’s going back to Wanderland.”<br />
“What?” Chess jumped from the bed, his eyes blazing as he gaped at her in shock.<br />
Though her own insides were swirling, she calmly met his gaze, confident in her suggestion.<br />
Finally, he dropped beside her with a heavy sigh.<br />
“It’s never easy with you, is it?”<br />
A small laugh escaped Alice’s throat. “I never said it would be.”<br />
Chess scrubbed his eyes and flopped dramatically onto the bed. He peeked out at<br />
her through one hand, then quirked the corner of his lips. “It’s a good thing you’re pretty.”<br />
Alice’s breath stalled as she choked over Chess’ quip and its possible interpretation.<br />
Her face warmed and she dropped her gaze, busying herself with freeing the stray fluffs<br />
from her blanket to cover the flush burning her cheeks.<br />
“Yeah, well,” she countered in a strangled reply, “you’re the one who followed me, so<br />
this is on you.”<br />
Chess laughed. “That’s because a gentleman always keeps his promises.” He sprang<br />
from the bed and extended his hand with a wink. “Are we ready to go find ourselves a<br />
sister?”<br />
Alice accepted his hand with a quick nod. “Let’s go get Lewis,” she said. “I promised<br />
him an ‘exclusive’ when I got home. Guess it’s time to pay the Piper.”<br />
“He’s getting one hell of a payback,” Chess muttered.<br />
“And then some,” Alice agreed. She moved toward the door, but was stopped when<br />
Lewis turned the corner and barged inside, his chest heaving. He stuttered to a stop in front<br />
of Alice and clutched his side, his brown eyes bulging under his mop of mousy brown hair.<br />
He gasped in a ragged breath as he stared at Alice before finally rasping out his words.<br />
“We have to go.”<br />
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For all of you WONDERFUL readers who pre-order books (something that <i><u>really</u></i> helps authors), I am doing another giveaway!<br />
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<b><u>ALL</u></b> pre-orders will receive signed bookmarks of both DARK BREAKS THE DAWN and BRIGHT BURNS THE NIGHT! **If you order a hardcover, you will also receive a signed bookplate to put in your copy of any of my books!** (Ebook orders will not receive the bookplate as there will be no book to put it in!) <br />
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And you'll be entered into the drawing to be one of 6 GRAND PRIZE winners who will get one of the following BRIGHT BURNS THE NIGHT inspired items!!<br />
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1 - Hawk necklace with a red gemstone (hmmmm...wonder who that represents! ;-) )<br />
2 - Hawk keychain<br />
3- Swan necklace with a purple gemstone<br />
4 - Swan earrings (not the best picture, but I've shown them on my IG stories - they are gorgeous, delicate earrings, with Swarovski Crystals!)<br />
5 - A swan necklace with meaning card<br />
6 - A large gold swan necklace with multiple gemstones<br />
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All you have to do is email me a copy or picture of your receipt to DarkBreaksTheDawn (at) gmail (dot) com and put "<u>BRIGHT BURNS THE NIGHT pre-order giveaway</u>" in the subject. Include your mailing address in the email, and BOOM! You're done!<br />
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<u>If you would like a personalized/signed copy (and support a truly remarkable indie bookstore in the process, please call The King's English at 801-484-9100 to pre-order your copy and I will sign it the night it releases at my launch!</u><br />
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*Rules:<br />
*EVERY purchase is an entry, so if you buy more than one copy, you will receive more than one entry - but you MUST email the receipts separately. All formats count, but only hardcover orders will receive the bookplate.<br />
*Open international<br />
*Giveaway is open until Monday May 28th at 11:59 pm<br />
*Grand Prize winners will be announced and notified within a week of giveaway end date, but please allow for time to prepare and ship items as it tends to be quite busy right after a book release.<br />
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<br />Sara B. Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14213313028658810705noreply@blogger.com72tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9086092860215091270.post-19172092636925959582017-04-04T11:00:00.000-07:002017-04-04T11:00:31.363-07:00YA Scavenger Hunt Spring 2017!!<div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: 13.2px;">Here's a little trivia for you - my all time FAVORITE number has always been </span><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">21</span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-size: 13.2px;">!!!</span></div>
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NOW, for those of you who want an extra chance to win an ARC of DARK BREAKS THE DAWN, just follow the instructions below! And may the odds be ever in your favor! ;-) </div>
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I am SO excited to share the pre-order giveaway details with you all! I've been working on this for months, and I hope you will be as thrilled with the MANY options of what you could win as I am! </div>
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1. PRE-ORDER DARK BREAKS THE DAWN and take a screenshot or picture of your receipt!</div>
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<a href="http://www.kingsenglish.com/search/site/Dark%20Breaks%20the%20Dawn" target="_blank">Support Indie Book stores by ordering a Signed/Personalized copy </a></div>
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<b>Dark Breaks The Dawn</b> is a fantasy re-imagining of Swan Lake with some new twists. I've always loved Swan Lake, it's my favorite ballet and <i>that music</i>. Wow. Also, swans have always been my favorite birds. (I guess I have that in common with Evelayn, the main character in the book.) So you can imagine how thrilled I was when I saw my cover for the first time -- I actually got emotional, I loved it so much. And that image, along with the story's roots in Swan Lake, and Evelayn's love for swans inspired the items in the giveaway. Are you ready??</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Welcome to YA Scavenger Hunt! This bi-annual event was first organized by author </span><a href="http://www.colleenhouck.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; text-decoration: none;">Colleen Houck</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"> as a way to give readers a chance to gain access to exclusive bonus material from their favorite authors...and a chance to win some awesome prizes! At this hunt, you not only get access to exclusive content from each author, you also get a clue for the hunt. Add up the clues, and you can enter for our prize--one lucky winner will receive </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">one signed book from each author on the hunt in my team</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">!</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"> </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">But play fast: this contest (and all the exclusive bonus material) will only be online for 72 hours!</span><br />
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<b style="color: #666666;">Directions:</b><span style="color: #666666;"> Below, you'll notice that I've listed my favorite number. Collect the favorite numbers of all the authors on the</span><span style="color: #f1c232;"> </span><span style="color: orange;">Orange</span><span style="color: blue;"> </span><span style="color: orange;">Team</span><span style="color: #666666;">, and then add them up (don't worry, you can use a calculator!). </span></div>
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<b>Entry Form:</b> Once you've added up all the numbers, <a href="http://www.yash.rocks/p/enter-here.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">make sure you fill out the form here to officially qualify for the grand prize</a>. Only entries that have the correct number will qualify.</div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><b>Rules:</b> Open internationally, anyone below the age of 18 should have a parent or guardian's permission to enter. To be eligible for the grand prize, you must submit the completed entry form by </span><span style="color: magenta;"><b>Sunday October 9</b></span><span style="color: #666666;">, at noon Pacific Time. Entries sent without the correct number or without contact information will not be considered.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Here's a little trivia for you - my all time FAVORITE number has always been </span><strong><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: orange;">21</span></span></strong><span style="color: #666666;">!!!</span></div>
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<b style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18.48px;"><span data-sheets-userformat="{"2":515,"3":{"1":0},"4":{"1":2,"2":16750848},"12":0}" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Julie Eshbaugh once produced an online video series for teens which received several honors from the Webby Awards. Now, she focuses her time on writing. Her debut YA novel, IVORY AND BONE, was released by HarperTeen in June 2016. Its sequel will follow in 2017."}" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hunting, gathering, and keeping his family safe—that’s the life seventeen-year-old Kol knows. Then bold, enigmatic Mya arrives from the south with her family, and Kol is captivated. He wants her to like and trust him, but any hopes of impressing her are ruined when he makes a careless—and nearly grave—mistake. However, there’s something more to Mya’s cool disdain…a history wrought with loss that comes to light when another clan arrives. With them is Lo, an enemy from Mya’s past who Mya swears has ulterior motives.<br /><br />As Kol gets to know Lo, tensions between Mya and Lo escalate until violence erupts. Faced with shattering losses, Kol is forced to question every person he’s trusted. One thing is for sure: this was a war that Mya or Lo—Kol doesn’t know which—had been planning all along.</span></b></div>
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<b style="color: #666666;">Directions:</b><span style="color: #666666;"> Below, you'll notice that I've listed my favorite number. Collect the favorite numbers of all the authors on the</span><span style="color: #f1c232;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">Blue Team</span><span style="color: #666666;">, and then add them up (don't worry, you can use a calculator!). </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><br />Here's a little trivia for you - my all time FAVORITE number has always been <strong><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">21</span></strong>!!! </span></div>
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Vicki Weavil and her book: <br />
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<strong><u><span style="font-size: large;">Facsimile (Facsimile #1)</span></u></strong><br />
<em>by Vicki L. Weavil</em><br />
<em>Publication Date: March 8, 2015</em><br />
<em>Publisher: Month9Books</em><br />
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For a ticket to Earth, seventeen-year-old Anna-Maria “Ann” Solano is willing to jettison her birth planet, best friend, and the boy who loves her. Especially since all she’s required to do is escort Dace Keeling, a young naturalist, through the wilderness of the partially terraformed planet Eco. Ann‘s determination to escape the limitations of her small, frontier colony never falters, until Dace’s expeditions uncover three secrets. One offers riches, one shatters Ann’s perceptions of <br />
herself, and one reveals that the humans stranded on Eco are not its only inhabitants.<br />
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Ann’s willing to sacrifice friendship and love for a new life on Earth. But when an entire species is placed in jeopardy by her actions, she must make a choice – fulfill the dream that’s always sustained her, or save the planet she’s never considered home.<br />
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**WHOA!!! That sounds so good, doesn't it??***<br />
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Here's a little bit more about Vicki: <br />
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<strong>Vicki L. Weavil</strong> is represented by Fran Black of Literary Counsel. Her Young Adult Fantasy, CROWN OF ICE – Book One in the Snow Queen Saga-- was published by Month9Books in 2014. Two companion books to CROWN OF ICE -- SCEPTER OF FIRE and ORB OF LIGHT -- will be published in fall 2016 and in 2017.<br />
Her YA SciFi -- FACSIMILE – was published by Month9Books in March 2016. A sequel, DERIVATION, will release in 2017. A new YA Fantasy, THE DIAMOND THIMBLE, will be published by Month9Books in 2018.<br />
She also writes adult SciFi.<br />
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Author Links: <a href="http://vickilempweavil.com/" target="_blank">Website</a> | <a href="http://twitter.com/VickiLWeavil" target="_blank">Twitter</a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/VickiLempWeavil" target="_blank">Facebook</a> | <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7091425.Vicki_L_Weavil" target="_blank">Goodreads</a> |<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">An Interview with Anna-Maria “Ann” Solano
from FACSIMILE<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 160%;">How
old are you, Anna-Maria – or is it Ann?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 160%;">I prefer “Ann.” I
am seventeen-and-a-half, almost as old as my parents when they got married. But
I have no intention of marrying so young, even if there isn’t much else to do
on Eco.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 160%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So what’s your life like?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 160%;">Okay, you ready
for this<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">? </b>Basically, I am a nobody
on a nowhere world<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">. </b>My dad’s parents,
who were originally from Peru on Earth, were contracted to terraform my birth planet,
Eco. But the company that recruited, educated, and trained them went bankrupt
and stranded them on Eco. Yeah, we have enough infrastructure to scratch out a
subsistence living in our little frontier colony, but we don’t have any
spaceships, so we can’t leave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We also
can’t earn enough credits to pay any passing spacecraft to take us on as
passengers. This means we’re stuck on Eco, with no real future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All we can do is follow in our grandparents’
and parents’ footsteps and live our simple lives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 160%;">Do
you have a lifelong dream or aspiration?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 160%;">Sure – to get off this dead-end planet and travel to Earth. Once I’m
there, I believe a world of opportunities will open up for me. My grandparents
claim Earth is too segregated into the “haves” and “have nots” for that to
happen, but they haven’t been back in so long, I think they’re mistaken.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 160%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 160%;">Can you share one vivid memory from your childhood?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 160%;">I remember when I
was little, there was one time my parents seemed really “in sync.” I’d found an
unusual stone, with a perfect circle carved through the middle.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>I sat nestled between my parents and
said I’d found something “alien,” but my dad – who’s an engineer – and my mom –
who’s a geologist – explained how wind, sand, and time had simply worn away the
center of the stone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was one of the
few times I felt like we were a real family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(My parents don’t get along very well most of the time).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 160%;">What’s<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> your
favorite thing to eat?</span><br />
</span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 160%;">Anything different from the stuff we grow
in our hydroponic greenhouses. I am a vegetarian, though, because raising
animals for food wastes too many resources, so I never got used to eating meat.
We do have chickens (for eggs) and goats (for their milk, which we also use to
make cheese).<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 160%;">I guess my most prized
treat is the rare chocolate bar we acquire by bartering our fresh produce with
passing space traders.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 160%;">Do you have any siblings?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 160%;">No, but I have a
best friend. Her name is Emie, and we’re probably closer than most sisters,
actually. She’s really, really, smart – a genius at working with computers and
anything digital. She’s apprenticed to our communication and data expert.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 160%;">What’s your town or city like?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 160%;">There isn’t anything
remotely like a city or town on Eco – just our settlement. Our living quarters
were built from the spacecraft used to transport my grandparents and the other
terraformers to Eco. (Which is why we don’t have any space ships now). Our
settlement is basically ramshackle metal-siding buildings surrounded by a
simple fence. We have living quarters – which are small, so extended families
live together – a kitchen and group dining space, a meeting/recreation hall,
two hydroponic greenhouses, some workshops, garage space for our big machinery
(mostly broken now), a dairy, a building that houses a couple of labs and our
com room, and some domes that cover our animal pens. That’s about it. We do
have windmills that help provide electricity, along with our solar collectors.
I mean, we can get along, but we are basically living in a frontier settlement.
No luxuries, and not that much to do, outside of daily chores.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 160%;">Do you go to school or do you have a job?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 160%;">Both. I am
apprenticed to my grandmother, who’s a botanist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She manages our hydroponic greenhouses. (We
really depend on the produce grown in the greenhouses because you can’t grow
anything in Eco’s thin soil). I also take classes over the ‘sphere and study any
holographic discs we can get in trade from passing spacers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 160%;">What do you do for fun?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 160%;">Mostly the younger
people play immersive holographic videogames. The entire colony watches a lot
of movies, too, because my other grandmother (mom’s mom, who died before I was
born) brought along digital copies of every film she could lay her hands on –
even really old, 2D stuff. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 160%;">I also like to
ride my solar-powered electric bike out across Eco’s rather barren landscape.
Sometimes I stop and search for these purple crystals that I trade to spacers
for stuff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The crystals look like
amethysts. They aren’t, but don’t tell the spacers that!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 160%;">Do you have a boyfriend?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 160%;">Well, uhm… Yes,
sort of.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There aren’t very many people
my age on Eco, so I don’t have many choices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There’s Raiden Lin, of course. We hang out sometimes, and we kiss, but …
I want more options, so I’m going to wait until I can get to Earth to commit to
someone. (Even though Raid is really, really, hot, and smart, and his kisses
can make me swoon, I need to meet other people before I dive into anything too
serious!) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 160%;">Okay, Ann. Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us,
and good luck to you!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 160%;">Thank you. Nice to
talk to someone different. Now I gotta run. I hear a trading ship will be
landing on Eco soon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hope this ship – the
Augusta Ada – will offer me a chance to trade my purple crystals for something
new and fun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mean, you can always hope
for a change, right?!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sara B. Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14213313028658810705noreply@blogger.com110tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9086092860215091270.post-75597565541024868172016-02-23T14:48:00.001-08:002016-02-23T14:50:51.833-08:00What's next?? (HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!) I've had so many of my fans and readers asking me "what's next?" and it has been SO hard to bite my tongue and keep this secret...I've been sitting in this announcement for months but I finally get to share my big news!<br />
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I sold a new duology to Scholastic for publication in Summer 2017!<br />
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DARK BREAKS THE DAWN is being pitched as GRACELING meets SWAN LAKE and I can't wait to share Evelayn's story with you all!<br />
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I've always loved the music and story of Swan Lake, and I've tried to do a retelling of it multiple times over the last six or seven years, but it just never seemed to work or come together the way I hoped. Until last summer. I was going through a difficult time. In talking about it, one person asked me, "how did you come up with the idea for DEFY?" I explained that I had merely been trying to put into words what I was feeling after Josh passed away, and he suggested I try the same thing, only for the new situation I was in at that time. And suddenly, it all clicked! My Swan Lake idea finally had the right characters and the right world and the right plotline - and I sold it a few months later to my editor at Scholastic!<br />
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It has been so fun to explore a new world and go on this adventure with these characters. And I'm very visual so I've put together a Pinterest Board of images that inspired me while plotting and drafting this series. Here are a few to whet your interest: <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/sarablarson/dark-breaks-the-dawn/" target="_blank">CLICK HERE to see the full board</a><br />
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If you want to see more, check the board out by <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/sarablarson/swan-lake-inspired-story/" target="_blank">CLICKING HERE</a>!<br />
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Signing my new contract!<br />
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Can't wait to share more soon!! :-)Sara B. Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14213313028658810705noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9086092860215091270.post-90924214486494203402015-10-01T11:00:00.000-07:002015-10-01T11:00:02.975-07:00YA Scavenger Hunt Fall 2015!!<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">It's that time of year again!! When we all go crazy for a few days, trying to win piles of awesome books! This year, I'm also doing my own personal giveaway, so make sure to read all the way to the VERY BOTTOM of the post for your chance to win a signed ARC of ENDURE!! (The final book in the DEFY trilogy!) </span><br />
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<b style="color: #666666;">Directions:</b><span style="color: #666666;"> Below, you'll notice that I've listed my favorite number. Collect the favorite numbers of all the authors on the</span><span style="color: #f1c232;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">Blue Team</span><span style="color: #666666;">, and then add them up (don't worry, you can use a calculator!). </span></div>
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<b>Matthew Phillion!!</b> Welcome Matthew! I hear that he will only eat donuts if he can have<b> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">21</span></span></b> at a time. (Or maybe that's just a rumor...) Here's more about Matthew:<br />
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<span data-sheets-userformat="[null,null,515,[null,0],[null,2,4884200],null,null,null,null,null,null,null,0]" data-sheets-value="[null,2,"Matthew Phillion, author of the Indestructibles superhero series, is a writer, actor, and film director based in Salem, Massachusetts. An award-winning journalist by trade, he has also appeared in feature films including the sci-fi romance Harvest Moon and the independent horror flick Livestock. His screenwriting and directing debut, the romantic comedy Certainly Never, premiered in 2013 at the Massachusetts Independent Film Festival, where it was nominated for five awards including best screenplay and best New England film. An active freelance writer and journalist, Phillion continues to write about both local issues and the medical industry."]" style="font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">Time travel is a long-standing tradition among superheroes, and so when Anachronism Annie, a friend and ally of Doc Silence, asks the Indestructibles to journey with her to save an alternate future where everything has gone terribly wrong, the team agrees. In this other timeline, a few small decisions have led to a much darker and more tragic world, and the adult versions of themselves the Indestructibles meet—Solar, the Dancer, Straylight, Whispering, and Entropy Emily—are nothing like they expected. Are they heroes? Martyrs? Or perhaps even villains? And what happens when the young Indestructibles discover that the alternate future’s version of one of their own team has been turned into the very weapon that will be used to destroy the whole world? Can they team up with these darker versions of themselves to save an entire future? It's said that when you time travel, you can never come back the same. How will journeying through time change the Indestructibles? Will they ever be the same? The Entropy of Everything is the third book in the Indestructibles series.</span> </span></div>
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<span data-sheets-userformat="[null,null,515,[null,0],[null,2,4884200],null,null,null,null,null,null,null,0]" data-sheets-value="[null,2,"Matthew Phillion, author of the Indestructibles superhero series, is a writer, actor, and film director based in Salem, Massachusetts. An award-winning journalist by trade, he has also appeared in feature films including the sci-fi romance Harvest Moon and the independent horror flick Livestock. His screenwriting and directing debut, the romantic comedy Certainly Never, premiered in 2013 at the Massachusetts Independent Film Festival, where it was nominated for five awards including best screenplay and best New England film. An active freelance writer and journalist, Phillion continues to write about both local issues and the medical industry."]" style="font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">For Matthew's bonus content, he's offering a sneak peek of book 4 in his series! Check it out here: </span></div>
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by Matthew Phillion and PFP Publishing. Books 1, 2 and 3 are available in both
print and e-book formats through all major retailers. You can buy them by<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Matthew-Phillion/e/B00K05MDWI" target="_blank"> clicking HERE</a>! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Prologue: Big sky <o:p></o:p></div>
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Billy Case landed in a field outside the City, an old
playground gone to seed where his parents used to bring him on those rare days
they both could get away from work. Rusted swing sets creaked softy in the
light breeze, the entire field cast in a dark pink light as the sun set,
turning the City’s skyline into shadowy spires. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Billy, the superhero known to the world as Straylight,
looked up into the sky, deep blue darkening to indigo and black, stars so faint
as to be almost invisible. A city sky, the sort where the ambient light all
cities cast off devour the glimmer of stars and turn the night into a
neon-bathed day. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“You know, I didn’t really notice stars till that time Jane
took us to her parents’ farm,” Billy said, as if to no one. But he wasn’t alone.
Billy Case was never alone, not with the symbiotic alien sharing his body
acting as his constant companion, his conscience, his Jiminy Cricket. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>This is something you
Earthlings do far too often</i>, the alien, whom Billy had dubbed Dude, much to
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on your planet a long time, and I’ve never understood how you look up so rarely</i>.
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“We get busy,” Billy said. “We get distracted. And then, I
guess… then it’s too late. The stars pass us by.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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They had not long ago returned from a trek into an alternate
future, Billy and Dude and the rest of the Indestructibles team, and none of
them had come back the same. Billy, in particular, felt more pensive, more
inclined to melancholy. But then again, he’d suffered a unique trauma there,
sharing memories with his future self, witnessing his own death in that
timeline. Things just seemed a little less funny now, though he did his best to
keep those worries to himself when he was with the others. <o:p></o:p></div>
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And then a few days ago an alien had crash-landed on Earth,
an alien sharing Billy’s powers, with a symbiotic alien just like Dude living
inside him. The alien had been more than half-dead, desperate to find his
counterpart here, to warn him. An invasion was coming. Another species, and not
the friendly and charming kind like Dude. Headed for Earth-fall. Dude called
them the Nemesis. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Billy spent a lot of time the past few days looking up at
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Now he saw the others approaching, Jane flying through the
evening air like a ball of fire, Entropy Emily far less gracefully drifting
behind her in one of her “bubbles of float.” They were looking for him, Billy
knew. They needed to figure out what to do. How to stop this invasion. If they
could stop this invasion. Billy sat down on a rusted swing, hoping it would
hold his weight, and let himself rock back and forth, taking unexpected comfort
in the soft squeaking of the chains as he moved. Jane landed nearby, then
Emily. Together the girls approached him. Jane stopped in front of him and
folded her arms across her chest, her hair moving and dancing like open flame.
Emily plopped down on the swing next to him and began to swing for real, legs
kicking to stay in motion. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“You know I’m going to have to go up there and scout things
out,” Billy said to Jane. Her mouth was a tight line of worry across her face. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“I can go with you,” Jane said. “You shouldn’t go into space
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“Can you believe we’re talking about this?” Emily said.
“Going into space? I mean, seriously. Eighteen months ago I was getting in
trouble for jaywalking and now we’re talking about interstellar travel. Space.
The final frontier.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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Emily began whistling the theme song to Doctor Who softly. When Billy gave her
a dirty look, she immediately switched gears to the “Binary Sunset” theme song
from Star Wars. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“What?” Emily said. “Tell me that’s not apropos.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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Billy smiled at her then turned back to Jane. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“No, I have to go alone,” Billy said. “You’re the big gun.
Everyone will need you here if I don’t come back.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“I think we’re both the big guns on this team, Billy,” Jane
said. “Especially after what happened to you in that other timeline.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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She had a point. They had always been the two most powerful
members of the Indestructibles, and Jane seemed to get stronger every day as
her solar-powered abilities built up over time. But Billy had absorbed some of
the strength of his future self while they were in that other timeline, and it
seemed to be permanent. He could do things he hadn’t been able to before. It
had changed him physically, too; his eyes glowed blue-white all the time now,
the way their mentor Doc Silence’s glowed violet. They both had scars from
trying to take on too much power now. Billy wondered if he should get some
signature sunglasses like Doc wore. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“I’ll be fine on my own, Jane,” Billy said. “I won’t engage
them. I’m just going to get some eyeballs on whatever is headed our way and
then come right back.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Maybe the alien will wake up and tell us that,” Jane said,
referring to the Straylight-like creature who had come here to warn them of the
pending invasion. The being remained unconscious at the Tower. Dude told Billy
the other symbiotic alien would try to heal its host, but for now, both were in
a state of stasis, unable to tell them anything else about what was headed
their way. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Billy said nothing, listening intently to the creaking of
Emily’s swing, rocking his own to create a call and answer between the two.
Creak swing, creak swing, creak swing. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“The two of you,” Jane said, smirking. “You can’t even help
it when you’re together to do stuff like that.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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“We’re a team, yo,” Emily said. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Billy leaned back and looked into the night sky again. It
felt so overwhelming, looking up there. Like it went on forever. <o:p></o:p></div>
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It makes me feel insignificant, Dude, Billy thought. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>It makes us all feel
insignificant, Billy Case</i>, Dude said. <i>And
it should. If outer space doesn’t make you feel insignificant I would be
worried about your ego</i>. <o:p></o:p></div>
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You already worry about my ego, Billy thought. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>True enough</i>, Dude
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“It’s amazing how big it is, isn’t it?” Billy said. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“What,” Emily said. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“The sky.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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“That’s kind of what it is. ‘Big’ is its defining
characteristic,” Emily said. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“I know what you mean,” Jane said. “On my parents’ farm I
used to lay on my back and just look up and be amazed at how it felt so
endless. Just stars and blackness.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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“I was born in the City,” Billy said. “I grew up there. The
sky was just that sliver of blue you saw between buildings on those rare
occasions you looked up. We didn’t have stars. We didn’t have big sky.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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“This is known,” Emily said. “Seriously, the first time I
went somewhere without ambient urban light I thought I was struck blind.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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“If you want, I can go to scout and you can stay here,” Jane
said. From anyone else it would have felt like a taunt. From Jane is was simply
an honest offer to take away some of your own pain and fear. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“No,” Billy said. “This one’s my job.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Okay,” Jane said. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Billy and Emily continued their rhythmic swinging as the sun
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“You’re not leaving right now, are you?” Emily said. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“No,” Billy said. “Got a few things I should do first.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Like write a will?” Emily said. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Emily!” Jane said. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Billy laughed. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Like I have anything to leave behind,” he said. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“You do,” Emily said. “I, William Byron Case, bequeath to
Entropy Emily <i>sole custody </i>of our dog
Watson in the event I die tragically in a battle in outer space.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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“It’s all about the dog with you, isn’t it, Em,” Billy said.
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“Don’t get me wrong. I’d rather you come home,” she said.
“But you better make sure the dog stays with me if you don’t.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span data-sheets-userformat="[null,null,515,[null,0],[null,2,4884200],null,null,null,null,null,null,null,0]" data-sheets-value="[null,2,"Matthew Phillion, author of the Indestructibles superhero series, is a writer, actor, and film director based in Salem, Massachusetts. An award-winning journalist by trade, he has also appeared in feature films including the sci-fi romance Harvest Moon and the independent horror flick Livestock. His screenwriting and directing debut, the romantic comedy Certainly Never, premiered in 2013 at the Massachusetts Independent Film Festival, where it was nominated for five awards including best screenplay and best New England film. An active freelance writer and journalist, Phillion continues to write about both local issues and the medical industry."]" style="font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i>So cool! Thank you for sharing Matthew!</i> </span></div>
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<script src="//widget-prime.rafflecopter.com/launch.js"></script>Sara B. Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14213313028658810705noreply@blogger.com87tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9086092860215091270.post-4628597665673240542015-09-29T08:00:00.000-07:002015-12-10T09:40:03.078-08:00ENDURE pre-order giveaway!!I can hardly believe we're at this point again... but this time, it's for the last book in the DEFY trilogy! That's right, the end is almost here. ENDURE is only 3 months away, and that means it's time to announce my super awesome pre-order giveaway!! I can't wait for you to all find out how Alexa's story concludes--when you'll finally get to discover everything I've been building toward, planning for and planting through DEFY and IGNITE. It's bittersweet to be sure. Every time I listen to the playlist for this book or open up the ARC and flip to a page, it's hard not to get emotional.<br />
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I'm SO excited to announce what I've done for my giveaway this time! I know many of you have noticed there isn't a map in any of the DEFY books...well, that's about to change! I've had a map made and turned into a bookplate that you can stick in whichever of the three books you prefer! And guys it. is. GORGEOUS.<br />
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So how do you get this map??<br />
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ANYONE who pre-orders a hardcover of ENDURE will get one mailed to them, just for ordering the book in advance, along with a signed set of bookmarks for DEFY, IGNITE, and ENDURE!! That's right EVERYONE who pre-orders a hardcover of ENDURE will get a signed bookplate of the map!!! How awesome is that?!?<br />
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Plus, anyone who pre-orders an ebook of ENDURE will get a signed set of bookmarks of DEFY, IGNITE, and ENDURE just for ordering in advance! YAY!!<br />
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And then, once you've pre-ordered your book in either format, you can come back here and fill out the rafflecopter form to be entered for the GRAND PRIZE:<br />
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My LAST DEFY dagger necklace!! That's right - at this time, this is the last one in existence! You can't buy these anywhere. This is the necklace that my family had made for me and surprised me with when DEFY was released. (Yes, I totally ugly cried in the middle of the restaurant when they gave it to me.) They had a few extras made, and this is the last one. One lucky person will win this one-of-a-kind necklace, plus all the swag!<br />
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Is there any way to increase my chances of winning???<br />
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Well, yes, there is! If you pre-order more than one hardcover, you can get more than one entry! The option to get an entry for a hardcover pre-order is set to allow you to do it once a day. So if you buy three copies, make sure you come back and fill out that option 3 times!<br />
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And of course, as always, I'd love it if you supported my local independent bookstore The King's English by pre-ordering through them. You can order online by<a href="http://www.kingsenglish.com/search/author/%22Larson%2C%20Sara%20B.%22" target="_blank"> CLICKING HERE</a> or by calling them: 801-484-9100. By ordering through them you can also get your book signed and/or personalized and then they'll ship it to you! Make sure to specify who you want it signed to (or if you have any specific requests) when you order!<br />
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Pre-Order at<a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/endure-sara-b-larson/1121798251?ean=9780545644907" target="_blank"> B&N by clicking HERE</a><br />
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Pre-Order at <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Endure-Defy-Book-Sara-Larson/dp/0545644909/ref=sr_1_2_twi_har_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1449769106&sr=8-2&keywords=endure" target="_blank">Amazon by clicking HERE</a><br />
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Thank you so much for taking this journey with me and for being willing to pre-order ENDURE! It really helps authors to pre-order their books and it means so much to me! And good luck!<br />
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Isn't it absolutely gorgeous?!?! I am SO in love with it. So symbolic and powerful. An epic cover for an epic conclusion to this series.<br />
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Add ENDURE to-read on Goodreads by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24208498-endure" target="_blank">clicking HERE!</a><br />
Pre-order ENDURE on Amazon by <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Endure-Defy-Book-Trilogy/dp/0545644909/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=8-1-fkmr0&qid=1432088505" target="_blank">clicking HERE!</a> Watch for it on B&N soon! Or order a signed copy through The King's English (info below)!!<br />
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I'm dying to share this book with you, but alas, we must endure the wait until Jan. 5, 2016 together. (See what I did there? hee hee...I'm so clever. Or punny. Either way.) HOWEVER, for a few lucky readers, you have the chance to win an ARC from YABooksCentral (who hosted my cover reveal). <a href="http://www.yabookscentral.com/blog/it-s-live-cover-reveal-endure-by-sara-b-larson-giveaway-us-only" target="_blank">CLICK HERE for the synopsis of the book (be warned, there are major spoilers for anyone who hasn't read DEFY and IGNITE yet!!) and to enter the giveaway on their website</a>. Just PLEASE PLEASE promise me not to post any spoilers (or give the ending away to your friends) if you win. There are some big ones in this book and I truly hope my awesome readers and fans will give everyone the chance to experience the ending to Alexa's story on their own!<br />
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I will also be doing giveaways for ARCs on my different social media sites, so make sure you're following me on Instagram (@SaraBlarson), Twitter (@SaraBLarson), Facebook (www.facebook.com/authorsarablarson), and Tumblr (AuthorSaraBLarson.Tumblr.com).<br />
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There will also be a pre-order giveaway that I'm still working on the details for, but basically it will be EPIC. Every pre-order will get something VERY cool and the grand prize will be something you will ALL want, trust me!! (And remember, you can always pre-order signed copies through my local independent bookstore The <a href="http://www.kingsenglish.com/search/site/Sara%2520B.%2520Larson" target="_blank">King's English by CLICKING HERE</a> or calling them 801-484-9100.)<br />
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I can't quite believe the end is almost here!<br />
So tell me, what do you think of the cover??Sara B. Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14213313028658810705noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9086092860215091270.post-81072682607627959392015-04-02T12:00:00.000-07:002015-04-02T13:51:28.333-07:00YA Scavenger Hunt Spring 2015!! QjIt's that time of year again!! When we all go crazy for a few days, trying to win piles of awesome books! This year, I'm also doing my own personal giveaway, so make sure to read all the way to the VERY BOTTOM of the post for your chance to win a signed copy of DEFY & IGNITE!!<br />
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<b style="color: #666666;">Directions:</b><span style="color: #666666;"> Below, you'll notice that I've listed my favorite number. Collect the favorite numbers of all the authors on the</span><span style="color: #f1c232;"> gold team</span><span style="color: #666666;">, and then add them up (don't worry, you can use a calculator!). </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: 13.1999998092651px;">Today, I am hosting </span><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: 13.1999998092651px;">FONDA LEE</span><span style="color: #666666; font-size: 13.1999998092651px;"> on my website for the YA Scavenger Hunt! I can't tell you her real age, or she might beat the tar out of me, but I think she looks </span><b><span style="color: blue;">21</span></b><span style="color: #666666; font-size: 13.1999998092651px;">, don't you?? She's so beautiful and talented, too! A double whammy! Here's more about Fonda and her book!</span></div>
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<b>Author bio: </b><br />
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Fonda Lee writes science fiction and fantasy for teens and adults. <i>Zeroboxer </i>(from Flux/Llewellyn) is her debut novel. Fonda is a recovering corporate strategist, an avid martial artist, a fan of smart action movies, and an Eggs Benedict enthusiast. Originally hailing from Canada, she now lives in Portland, Oregon. You can find Fonda at <a href="http://www.fondalee.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">www.fondalee.com</a> and on Twitter @fondajlee.<br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;">ZEROBOXER SYNOPSIS:<br /><br /><b>A Sci-Fi Thrill Ride Set in the Action-Packed Sports Arena of the Future</b><br />A rising star in the weightless combat sport of zeroboxing, Carr “the Raptor” Luka dreams of winning the championship title. Recognizing his talent, the Zero Gravity Fighting Association assigns Risha, an ambitious and beautiful Martian colonist, to be his brandhelm––a personal marketing strategist. It isn’t long before she’s made Carr into a popular celebrity and stolen his heart along the way. </span><br />
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As his fame grows, Carr becomes an inspirational hero on Earth, a once-great planet that’s fallen into the shadow of its more prosperous colonies. But when Carr discovers a far-reaching criminal scheme, he becomes the keeper of a devastating secret. Not only will his choices place everything he cares about in jeopardy, but they may also spill the violence from the sports arena into the solar system.</div>
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Amazon: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Zeroboxer-Fonda-Lee/dp/0738743380" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/<wbr></wbr>Zeroboxer-Fonda-Lee/dp/<wbr></wbr>0738743380</a><br />
Barnes & Noble: <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/zeroboxer-fonda-lee/1119693789?ean=9780738743387" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.<wbr></wbr>barnesandnoble.com/w/<wbr></wbr>zeroboxer-fonda-lee/<wbr></wbr>1119693789?ean=9780738743387</a><br />
Indiebound - <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780738743387" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.indiebound.org/<wbr></wbr>book/9780738743387</a><br />
Powell’s - <a href="http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-9780738743387-0" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.powells.com/biblio/<wbr></wbr>62-9780738743387-0</a></div>
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While writing ZEROBOXER, I had a lot of fun envisioning not just how a zero gravity combat sport would actually work, but the whole culture and industry behind it, one that mirrors what we’re familiar with today. </div>
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Carr “the Raptor” Luka competes in the Zero Gravity Fighting Association, the pre-eminent professional fight promotion company in Greater Earth orbit. Headquartered on Valtego city station and run by the influential Martian, Bax Gant, the ZGFA Cube is where every amateur Terran zeroboxer dreams of competing. </div>
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I just <i>had</i> to design ZGFA and WCC logos. Dar Albert at <a href="http://www.wickedsmartdesigns.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Wicked Smart Designs</a> helped me create these, and I still bounce up and down and grin every time I look at them. The star in the ZGFA logo, and the Cube (the zero-g arena) shape behind the WCC are perfect. </div>
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Sara B. Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14213313028658810705noreply@blogger.com140tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9086092860215091270.post-55906564342078486202014-12-30T04:00:00.000-08:002014-12-30T07:31:29.695-08:00IGNITE is here!!!I've really been struggling to write this post. There is just too much to say and I'm completely overwhelmed.<br />
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IGNITE is officially published. I truly hope that you will all love what happens next for Alexa, Damian, and Rylan. It's a strange and wonderful thing, publishing a book. These characters, this story, it feels like mine...until now. Now, they are yours. We all bring something different to a book when we pick it up, open to the first page, and begin to read. What happens next will be a little bit different for everyone. But my wish is that you will find a piece of yourself somewhere within its pages, and maybe, just maybe, a piece of your heart, too. My goal as an author is to try and make each book I write better than the last, and I hope you will find that I succeeded with IGNITE. </div>
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You can purchase IGNITE in many places!<br />
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For a SIGNED/PERSONALIZED copy order through The King's English and they will ship it to you! Call 801-484-9100 or through their website: <a href="http://www.kingsenglish.com/search/apachesolr_search/IGNITE%20Sara%20B.%20Larson" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ignite-sara-b-larson/1119689431?ean=9780545644747" target="_blank">BARNES & NOBLE CLICK HERE</a> <br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ignite-Defy-Sara-B-Larson/dp/0545644747/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0" target="_blank">AMAZON CLICK HERE</a><br />
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<i>And for my local friends and fans: I have 2 launch parties coming up. I hope to see you at one!</i><br />
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<b>LAS VEGAS BARNES & NOBLE JANUARY 15th w/ Lindsey Leavitt! </b><br />
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Sara B. Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14213313028658810705noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9086092860215091270.post-84168701717621714222014-12-17T11:55:00.000-08:002014-12-17T11:56:58.291-08:002 weeks until IGNITE!!!I can't believe I just typed those words. IGNITE comes out December 30th, which means it's actually less than 2 weeks until it's officially released!! I've already heard from one blogger who said she got notified that her pre-order of IGNITE shipped already, so some of you might even be getting it earlier than that! How's that for a fun holiday surprise??<br />
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My finished hardcover!!! OH. MY. GOSH. It is GORGEOUS. Even more gorgeous than I anticipated. It's seriously just stunning. I'm not even kidding. Wait until you see it in person. Pictures can't do it justice. And the inside flap! And the bow and arrow on the actual hardcover! So many details I just adore! Scholastic has truly outdone themselves. If you don't believe me, read what David Levithan wrote about it on my Facebook post:<br />
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DAVID LEVITHAN people!<br />
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What was I saying? Oh yeah! If you have pre-ordered (or decide to before Dec. 30th), make sure and enter the pre-order contest for your chance to win a DEFY dagger necklace just like mine!<a href="http://sarablarson.blogspot.com/2014/11/ignite-pre-order-awesomeness.html" target="_blank"> CLICK HERE for details or to enter!!</a><br />
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But, enough of that! Let's get on with announcing the winners!<br />
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You guys are so amazingly talented, you made this<i> so</i> hard on me! I loved all of the entries so much I couldn't decide on my own. So I assembled a panel of judges including other authors, my family members, and some friends who are avid readers to decide on a winner. And then THEY had a hard time, too!<br />
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So, I've decided to do something extra special. My judges were split on who they felt should win, so I'm going to call it a tie and give away TWO signed ARCs of IGNITE! PLUS I'm going to award signed swag to 2 runners-up who had amazing entries that also got a lot of votes!<br />
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That makes FOUR winners! WOOHOO!!!<br />
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So without further suspense, here are your winners:<br />
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Kathy and her DEFY Mood Board! I can't post a pic of it here, but here's a link to the blog post she did with the very cool mood board! I love the pictures and colors she chose! http://mynookbooksnmore.com/2014/11/bookish-mood-board-defy.html<br />
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Runner - Up #2 -- Signed Swag Pack<br />
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Mandy_T for her construction paper dagger:<br />
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How cool is that?? And I just love the quote she picked. A truly fabulous entry!<br />
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Enjoy your swag packs and thank you for your entries!! I hope you both enjoy IGNITE when it comes out!<br />
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MontanaSky with her stunning drawing of Alexa when she startles the Macaws! Such beautiful detail and stunning color! So, so amazing. Congrats to you as well!<br />
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SEE HOW HARD THIS WAS?! Everyone is so talented, thank you ALL for entering and congrats to the winners!<br />
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All four winners, please email or message me your mailing address and I will send out your prizes as soon as possible!!<br />
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3 WEEKS YOU GUYS. AAAGGGHHH!!!!<br />
<br />Sara B. Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14213313028658810705noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9086092860215091270.post-86428126096643616912014-11-25T08:36:00.000-08:002014-11-25T08:39:07.785-08:00DEFY in Paperback!Today DEFY is officially released in paperback - just in time for holiday shopping!<br />
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If you'd like a signed copy, I will be at The King's English from 12-2 this Saturday, November 29 for Small Business Saturday, helping them sell books! (I'm so excited to help get some of my favorite books into reader's hands!)<br />
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If you're not in UT, you can always order from The King's English by calling or going to their website, and requesting to have me personalize it for you. They will let me know and make sure I come in to sign it and they will then ship it to you! (This is the same if you want to pre-order a signed copy of IGNITE!) <a href="http://www.kingsenglish.com/search/apachesolr_search?author_filter=Larson%2C%20Sara%20B." target="_blank">CLICK HERE for their website!</a><br />
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I've been celebrating in a few different ways: My<b><span style="font-size: large;"> DEFY BOOK TRAILER</span></b> was released last week:<br />
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**I've been posting<span style="font-size: large;"><b> bonus scenes from the DEFY </b></span>world every two weeks leading up to IGNITE's release on December 30th, including the most recent one from Rylan's point of view yesterday on Wattpad! <a href="http://www.wattpad.com/user/SaraBLarson" target="_blank">CLICK HERE TO READ THEM ALL!</a> (I try to respond to all comments, so feel free to let me know what you think!)<br />
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**My <b><span style="font-size: large;">#DEFYfanArtContest </span></b>goes until December 6th. Post your entry on Twitter or Instagram and tag me (@SaraBLarson on both) and use the hashtag. If you win, you'll receive a signed copy of DEFY + IGNITE! Here are the details:<br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">I'm grateful for so many things this year, and at the top of my list are my amazing readers and fans! You are all incredible! I can't thank you enough for your support and excitement for Alexa, Damian, and Rylan. I hope you continue to enjoy their journey when IGNITE comes out next month!! HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! </span></span></div>
Sara B. Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14213313028658810705noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9086092860215091270.post-28486301764062640582014-11-13T06:21:00.004-08:002014-11-13T06:21:51.634-08:00EXCITING stuff headed your way!!<span style="font-size: large;">Is everyone enjoying their November so far? It's the month to think about your blessings, to look for ways to show gratitude, and to remember to be thankful for everything we have in our lives. And I want to take a minute to thank ALL of YOU. It means so much to me that anyone would take time out of their busy life to read something I wrote, whether it be a blog post or my books. And then when you take the time to let me know how much you loved it...well, wow. I just can't even express how much that means to me and how grateful I am for the fans of DEFY. You are all <b>AMAZING</b>!! Thank you for loving DEFY and sharing that love with others. I am grateful for all of you, more than I could ever say!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">DEFY releases in paperback on <b>November 25th</b> and in case you hadn't heard yet, <b>IGNITE is now releasing on DECEMBER 30th</b>!! That means you get it a whole week earlier! How's that for some holiday cheer? (That also means the pre-order contest where one lucky pre-orderer will win a <b>very rare DEFY dagger necklace</b> ends sooner, too! So make sure to<a href="http://sarablarson.blogspot.com/2014/11/ignite-pre-order-awesomeness.html" target="_blank"><b> CLICK HERE For all the details and enter for your chance to win</b></a>!!!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">(Again, for my local friends and fans - my signings will remain the same as I know the holidays are crazy busy. So: launch party at The King's English on January 6th and Provo Library signing on January 8th, both at 7pm with goodies, giveaways, swag, and me trying to be entertaining or something. Both events are on Facebook with all the details <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/687013061377180/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a> or <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/594785260649935/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a>.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have SO many exciting things planned leading up to the paperback release and IGNITE's release! Have you been reading the bonus scenes I'm posting on Wattpad? I hope so, because they give you some really cool insight into the character's lives and how others view them and a few things that you didn't see in DEFY that might give you even greater understanding of the events and characters in the books! </span><b style="font-size: x-large;">You can <a href="http://www.wattpad.com/user/SaraBLarson" target="_blank">FOLLOW ME AND READ THEM BY CLICKING HERE</a></b><span style="font-size: large;">!! </span><i><span style="font-size: large;">And you might want to do it soon, because there are two more coming in the next month or so, and I've saved the <b>best two scenes for last</b>....Here's a hint: one is from the point of view of someone whose name starts with "R" and the other is from the point of view of someone whose name starts with "D"... !!!!! </span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">AND that's not all!!! Next week, I have a <b>VERY special treat</b> to help celebrate the <b>paperback release of DEFY on November 25th</b>! I can't WAIT to share this with you guys!! Remember that cryptic tweet I posted, freaking out about seeing something that was so amazing I couldn't stand it?? Well, THIS is it! You get to find out what it was on Wednesday!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And finally, I'm DYING to see all of your entries for the <b>DEFY Fan Art Contest</b>! Remember, you only have until December 6th to enter and this is my <b>ONLY INTERNATIONAL IGNITE ARC giveaway</b>. So start posting those entries, tag me, and use the right hashtags! Here's the info again in case you need it: </span><br />
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<br />Sara B. Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14213313028658810705noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9086092860215091270.post-53300255667831122002014-11-03T13:00:00.000-08:002014-11-03T19:05:32.136-08:00IGNITE Pre-order AWESOMENESS!OOOOOH you guys, I'm SO excited about this!! I have such a treat in store for you all...and without any further teasing, I'll just get right to it.<br />
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Yes, you can pre-order IGNITE from all major retailers, including Book Depository (<a href="http://www.bookdepository.com/Ignite-Sara-Larson/9780545644747" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a>), Amazon (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ignite-Defy-Sara-B-Larson/dp/0545644747/ref=sr_1_1_bnp_1_har?ie=UTF8&qid=1414526743&sr=8-1&keywords=ignite+sara" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a>), and Barnes & Noble (<a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ignite-sara-b-larson/1119689431?ean=9780545644747" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a>)... but if you want a signed or personalized copy, make sure to order from my local indie store <b>The King's English</b> and I will sign it however you'd like the night of my launch and they'll ship it to you!<b> <a href="http://www.kingsenglish.com/event/sara-larson-ignite" target="_blank">CLICK HERE to order online</a></b> or you can call them: <b>801-484-9100</b> to tell them how you'd like your book personalized!<br />
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Once you've done that, make sure to come back here and enter to win some awesome prizes for pre-ordering! <b>EVERYONE</b> who pre-orders automatically gets signed bookmarks from both books + a special postcard with a personalized message (make sure you fill out the form in the rafflecopter giveaway to receive your gifts!) - buuuuut <b>THREE </b>lucky winners will get even more!<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">And I'm starting with a bang, giving you 2 - count 'em TWO - giveaways at once!! (So make sure you read all the way until the end!)</span><br />
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But first, I wanted to give you the info on pre-ordering IGNITE. I am going to be announcing the details of my pre-order campaign very soon (still waiting to finalize a few details) - but trust me, it's going to be worth the wait!<br />
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If you want to get a head start on it, you can<b><span style="font-size: large;"> pre-order IGNITE</span></b> from all major retailers, including <b>Book Depository (<a href="http://www.bookdepository.com/Ignite-Sara-Larson/9780545644747" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a>)</b>, <b>Amazon (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ignite-Defy-Sara-B-Larson/dp/0545644747/ref=sr_1_1_bnp_1_har?ie=UTF8&qid=1414526743&sr=8-1&keywords=ignite+sara" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a>)</b>, and <b>Barnes & Noble (<a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ignite-sara-b-larson/1119689431?ean=9780545644747" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a>)</b>...<br />
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HOWEVER if you want a <i><b>signed </b></i>or <i><b>personalized</b></i> copy, make sure to order from my local indie store <b>The King's English </b>and I will sign it however you'd like the night of my launch and they'll ship it to you!<b><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.kingsenglish.com/event/sara-larson-ignite" target="_blank">CLICK HERE to order online</a> or you can call them: 801-484-9100 </span></b>to tell them how you'd like your book personalized!<br />
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This one will last until December 6th (the 1 month mark until IGNITE comes out!!!). This is a fan art contest! Show me your best drawings, paintings, sculptures, music videos, fan trailers, interpretive dances (I'm lenient on the definition of "art" here), or whatever kind of art you excel at, inspired by DEFY and you could win a signed/personalized ARC of IGNITE + a signed/personalized paperback of DEFY*! Tweet me your picture/video or post it on Instagram and make sure to tag me (@SaraBLarson on both sites) so that I see your entry along with hashtags: #IGNITE #ARCgiveaway #DEFYFanArtContest. I will comment or reply to let you know I saw it and that you're entered. If I don't respond, I didn't see it so try again and make sure to tag me! Can't wait to see what you come up with!<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And make sure to check back here later this week - I will be announcing the details for the </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">IGNITE pre-order giveaways</span><span style="font-size: large;">, as well as</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> 2 IGNITE ARC giveaways</span><span style="font-size: large;">!!! </span>Sara B. Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14213313028658810705noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9086092860215091270.post-48036676337065068452014-10-06T09:27:00.000-07:002014-10-06T09:27:49.781-07:00YASH winner + more chances to win coming soon!Thanks to everyone who entered my bonus contest for the YA Scavenger Hunt - it's so great to see so much enthusiasm for IGNITE! Seriously, it means the world to me you guys. I am so excited to share this book with you!!<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Woohoo!! Congrats Michelle! I hope you enjoy IGNITE! Email me at SaraBLarson21 (at) Gmail (dot) com with your adress to claim your prize!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So....Exactly <b>3 months</b> from today <b>IGNITE </b>comes out!! Can you believe it?? Definitely keep an eye out, because there are a lot of fun things headed your way very soon, including more never-before-seen bonus scenes from different character's POVs (just you wait to see who they are!!)...more giveaways...a pre-order contest...and more!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The first bonus scene will be posted on Wattpad at the end of this month, so make sure you're following me <a href="http://www.wattpad.com/user/SaraBLarson" target="_blank">by clicking HERE</a>. I will also be doing 2 simultaneous giveaways of signed ARCs of IGNITE at the end of October!! The first giveaway will be an easy Rafflecopter giveaway -- however, the reason I'm telling you now is because the second one is going to be a Fan Art contest! (So I wanted to give you a warning to give you time to work on it!) Any kind of "art" you want - paintings, drawings, music, video, whatever you can think of and want to do! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And if you have pre-ordered IGNITE (or are thinking about it) you're in luck - keep an eye out for the announcement about my IGNITE PRE-ORDER contest! If you want to order a signed copy of IGNITE (or DEFY) you can do so through my amazing local indie <a href="http://www.kingsenglish.com/search/apachesolr_search/IGNITE%20Sara%20B.%20Larson" target="_blank">THE KING'S ENGLISH by clicking here</a>! I will sign it at my launch party and then they'll ship it to you! </span><br />
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This time I'm hosting this beautiful lady:</div>
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Can you believe she's only <span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: x-large;">21</span>?? (Okay, I don't actually know how old she is, but she *could* be that young based on this lovely picture, right?)</div>
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<i><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Time is slipping away. . . .</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Tella Holloway is losing it. Her brother is sick, and when a dozen doctors can't determine what's wrong, her parents decide to move to the middle of nowhere for the fresh air. She's lost her friends, her parents are driving her crazy, her brother is dying--and she's helpless to change anything.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Until she receives mysterious instructions on how to become a Contender in the Brimstone Bleed. It's an epic race across jungle, desert, ocean, and mountain that could win her the prize she desperately desires: the Cure for her brother's illness. But all the Contenders are after the Cure for people they love, and there's no guarantee that Tella (or any of them) will survive the race.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">The jungle is terrifying, the clock is ticking, and Tella knows she can't trust the allies she makes. And one big question emerges: Why have so many fallen sick in the first place?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Victoria Scott's breathtaking novel grabs readers by the throat and doesn't let go.</b></i><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fire-Flood-Victoria-Scott/dp/0545537460/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1391779246&sr=1-1" target="_blank">FIRE & FLOOD</a></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><a href="http://www.victoriascottya.com/" target="_blank">Victoria Scott</a></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 19.0909080505371px;">We are SO SO lucky because for her bonus content, Victoria is giving us a look at the very first excerpt released of SALT & STONE, the sequel to FIRE & FLOOD! I'm dying to get my hands on this book...</span></span></div>
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from the injection. My words slur together, but I gather that I’m screaming,
prying the rope from the man’s hand, running. Someone grabs me around the
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cheek. A grizzly bear on his feet, roaring a warning. An iguana flat on my stomach.
I don’t have much time before my thoughts are gone from me. So I fill my lungs,
and I think of Caroline. And Dink. And of Ransom and Levi and all the friends
who aren’t here for one reason or another. I think of Harper, too, of whether
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into fists. I close my eyes. And I whisper my brother’s name inside the folds
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I saw him well. He was drinking pickle juice from the jar and wincing from the
sourness. Has he always liked pickle juice? I can’t remember, but I want to see
him drink it again. I want to see him drink <i>anything </i>without the use of
a straw and small sips. I want to take back every bad thing I’ve ever said to
him and replace it with this: <i>I look up to you.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The woman appears.
She says something. She’s holding something. She lifts her slender arm into the
air to show the men her prize.<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">I narrow and widen my
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">And then I know
exactly what she’s holding.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">It’s a life jacket.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p>WHOA. Now I want this book even MORE!! </o:p><br />
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<script src="//widget.rafflecopter.com/load.js"></script>Sara B. Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14213313028658810705noreply@blogger.com49tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9086092860215091270.post-35925834870778596882014-09-03T17:47:00.001-07:002014-09-03T17:50:53.009-07:00Salt Lake Comic ConThis week I will be at Salt Lake Comic Con Thursday, Friday, and Saturday! Will I see you there?<br />
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<b>Sara B. Larson Schedule</b><br />
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<i>Signings:</i><br />
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Friday 4:30 - 5:30, Shadow Mountain booth #111 on main expo floor<br />
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Saturday 12:30-1:30, Shadow Mountain Booth #111 on main expo floor<br />
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<u>***I WILL have an ARC of IGNITE to giveaway to one lucky person who purchases DEFY and gets it signed (which earns you an entry into the drawing). Winner will be drawn at the end of the signing on Saturday!*** </u> (I will also have signed swag for both DEFY and IGNITE for free.)<br />
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<i>Panel Schedule: </i><br />
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*Thursday September 4, 3:00 pm 3:50 pm Katniss Revealed: A Closer Look at The Hunger Games on Film and in Print Room 251A ::<br />
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*Thursday September 4, 6:00 pm 6:50 pm Women of Sci- Fi and Fantasy: More Than Just Strong Room 255E ::<br />
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*Friday September 5, 1:00 pm 1:50 pm Build a Story Room 255B ::<br />
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*Saturday September 6, 2:00 pm 2:50 pm Your Own Visit to Hogwarts: Real- World Potter Magic in Florida and England Room 255F ::<br />
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*Saturday September 6, 7:00 pm 7:50 pm The Whedonverse: Why Writers and Creators Love Buffy, Angel, Firefly and the Rest Room 251A ::<br />
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*Saturday September 6, 8:00 pm 8:50 pm Dark and Dangerous: The Appeal of the Bad Boy Hero Room 255F ::Sara B. Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14213313028658810705noreply@blogger.com0