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Hi! Thanks to everyone who entered the ORIGIN contest. The winner was Amanda P! I’ll be having interviews and giveaways with each of the Breathless Reads fall authors, so stay tuned! This is an exciting week for my writing friends! First: Andrea Lynn Colt’s debut book, TORCHED, is out today! It’s a fantastic contemporary mystery with a great romance full of banter (I love banter). I’m going to post an interview with Andrea tomorrow, but you should check out her website for more info on TORCHED. (It’s only $3.99 on Kindle or Nook. Awesome deal, I promise!) Second: Robin Talley wants your help picking an author photo. If you’re like me and you love seeing author photos (and voting in polls), go here! Robin’s book LIES WE TELL OURSELVES recently sold to Harlequin Teen. I got to read an early draft and it is amazing and she’s definitely an author to watch! The PM announcement describes...

Sep

Book Recommendations – Summer 2012

Jessica

Here are all my summer book recommendations! I’m sorry this post is so enormous. I seriously vow to write these once a month instead of quarterly! (See my spring book recommendations here. I said the same thing then but SERIOUSLY this time, I mean it. Eep.) PUSHING THE LIMITS by Katie McGarry: Noah – the school bad boy, determined to get his brothers out of the foster-care system that’s abused him – and Echo – the former popular girl who can’t remember what happened the night she almost died – are brought together by a school social worker. The romance between them develops in alternating povs, and it’s definitely smoldering. Noah and Echo are both so broken at the beginning of the book; the adults in their lives have let them down in horrible ways. I was particularly empathetic to Echo’s problems – not just the mystery of what happened...

Sep

Breathless Reads – ORIGIN Contest

Jessica

Hi! Today we’re celebrating the release of Jessica Khoury’s ORIGIN. I’m especially excited about this book because it’s the first of the fall Breathless Reads, and Penguin has generously donated a copy for a contest! “I loved Origin’s action, romance, and mystery–and I couldn’t stop thinking about the questions it raised.” –Beth Revis, New York Times bestselling author of Across the Universe An electrifying action-romance that’s as thoughtful as it is tragic. Pia has grown up in a secret laboratory hidden deep in the Amazon rain forest. She was raised by a team of scientists who have created her to be the start of a new immortal race. But on the night of her seventeenth birthday, Pia discovers a hole in the electric fence that surrounds her sterile home–and sneaks outside the compound for the first time in her life. Free in the jungle, Pia meets Eio, a boy from a nearby village....

Sep

Fall To-Do List

Jessica

Fall is my absolute favorite season, so I thought I’d make a list of a few of the things I’m looking forward to this year. (Note: my version of fall starts Labor Day and lasts until November 30.) outlet shopping with the BFF in November visiting a few northern VA wineries some weekend doing something fun with The Playwright for our anniversary (we’re contemplating going to the zoo or the Baltimore aquarium) going to the Renaissance Festival baking chocolate-chip pumpkin muffins Friendsgiving Thanksgiving at home with football, crab cakes, mac & cheese, board games drinking apple cider making butternut squash-apple soup & Moroccan vegetable stew shopping at Eastern Market during perfect jeans/sweater/scarf weather going for walks and taking pictures of the trees baking apple dumplings (I’ve never done this before, but I love my mom’s) picking & carving pumpkins going to the NEA Heritage Concert napping during football games on...

Aug

Thrice Interview: DEFIANCE

Jessica

Hi! Today we’re celebrating the release of C.J. Redwine’s DEFIANCE. I haven’t had a chance to read this one yet, but doesn’t it sound fantastic? Within the walls of Baalboden, beneath the shadow of the city’s brutal leader, Rachel Adams has a secret. While other girls sew dresses, host dinner parties, and obey their male Protectors, Rachel knows how to survive in the wilderness and deftly wield a sword. When her father, Jared, fails to return from a courier mission and is declared dead, the Commander assigns Rachel a new Protector, her father’s apprentice, Logan—the same boy Rachel declared her love for two years ago, and the same boy who handed her heart right back to her. Left with nothing but fierce belief in her father’s survival, Rachel decides to escape and find him herself. But treason against the Commander carries a heavy price, and what awaits her in the...

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Book Recommendations – Summer 2012

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Fall To-Do List

Thrice Interview: DEFIANCE

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