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Hi! Today’s a little bit crazy, so I’m skipping the Superlative Blog Fest and linking you elsewhere. I did a post at Corsets, Cutlasses, & Candlesticks about why I’d love to visit the Victorian era (but I wouldn’t want to live there). There are pictures of some of my favorite dresses (hint: I love the 1890s designs from House of Worth!). You can also read my Cahill Christmas scene – now from Finn’s pov! And he thinks about kissing Cate! – and enter to win a BORN WICKED paperback! I’ll be doing another Superlative Blog Fest post tomorrow, and then a Christmassy post on Friday, and then taking a blog break for the holidays. But when I get back, I’ll be sharing lots of exciting things – my Top 10 reads of 2012, my 2013 Business Plan, and a super-exciting contest to celebrate the BW paperback release. You can win a Nook Simple Touch and... Read More

I’m having so much fun with this! Class Clown – Jason from MEANT TO BE Most Likely to Become a Rock Star – Gyver from SEND ME A SIGN *swoons* Mostly Likely to Start a Riot – Natalie & Ash from BLACK CITY Biggest Flirt – Catherine Howard from GILT Fashion King/Queen – Chloe from WELCOME, CALLER, THIS IS CHLOE *drools over her shoe collection* Girl You’d Most Want For Your BFF – Verity/Queenie from CODE NAME VERITY Boy You Wish You’d Dated in High School – Jase Garrett from MY LIFE NEXT DOOR Most Likely to Become President – June from PRODIGY Quirkiest Character(s) – Augustus & Hazel from THE FAULT IN OUR STARS Villain You Love to Hate – Mrs Cavendish from THE CAVENDISH HOME FOR BOYS & GIRLS (this is middle grade, but ooh, she’s so awful!) Coolest Nerd – Victoria from THE CAVENDISH HOME FOR BOYS &... Read More

  Because I can’t resist making lists! Favorite Dystopian: THE WAY WE FALL (with a nod toward 2013’s PRODIGY, which I got to read early!) Favorite Science Fiction: CINDER  Favorite Fantasy: BITTERBLUE (also my favorite book of the year, but I’ll do a Top 10 list later this month!) Favorite Contemporary: a tie between STEALING PARKER and SOMETHING LIKE NORMAL Favorite Action/Adventure: SCARLET (with a nod toward 2013’s ALTERED) Favorite Historical Fiction: a tie between GILT and THE WICKED AND THE JUST  Favorite Mystery: VENOM Favorite Romance: UNDER THE NEVER SKY Favorite Paranormal: BLOODROSE Favorite Family Drama: MY LIFE NEXT DOOR Favorite Genre Bender: BLACK CITY What are some of your superlatives? Share in the comments! And to read more, check out the Superlative Blogfest here, or the Atlantic Wire’s YA/MG Book Awards, where they voted BORN WICKED “Most (Literally & Figuratively) Magical!”

Hi! So, the awesome Marie Lu tagged me in “The Next Big Thing” meme, where I’m supposed to talk a little about what I’m working on and then tag 3 people whose next books I’m mega-excited for! Thanks, Marie, for saying such lovely things about BORN WICKED! I’m not going to tag Marie back, but I got to read the beginning of her new project, THE YOUNG ELITES, and it is SO COOL. I also got to read PRODIGY early and I think I might love it even more than LEGEND. It’s a crazy-good page-turner. Day and June’s voices are so distinct, their journeys so fascinating, their conflict so genuine (never contrived, as conflicts in romance can sometimes feel). I don’t know who to trust! I don’t know what’s going to happen in book 3 but I cannot wait to find out! As for my answers: 1. What is the... Read More

Hi! Today we’re celebrating the release of the final Fall 2012 Breathless Reads book – Morgan Rhodes’ FALLING KINGDOMS! Let’s find out more about it: In a land where magic has been forgotten but peace has reigned for centuries, a deadly unrest is simmering. Three kingdoms grapple for power–brutally transforming their subjects’ lives in the process. Amidst betrayals, bargains, and battles, four young people find their fates forever intertwined: Cleo: A princess raised in luxury must embark on a rough and treacherous journey into enemy territory in search of a magic long thought extinct. Jonas: Enraged at injustice, a rebel lashes out against the forces of oppression that have kept his country impoverished–and finds himself the leader of a people’s revolution centuries in the making. Lucia: A girl adopted at birth into a royal family discovers the truth about her past–and the supernatural legacy she is destined to wield. Magnus: Bred for aggression and... Read More