Sunday, February 8, 2015

'Dearest's Aletha Kontis Interview

A themed tour with Prism Book Tours.

Dearest (Woodcutter Sisters, #3)Dearest
(Woodcutter Sisters, #3)
by Alethea Kontis
YA Fantasy
Hardcover & ebook, 320 Pages
February 3rd 2015 by HMH Books for Young Readers

?A fabulous fairy-tale mashup that deserves hordes of avid readers. Absolutely delectable.? ?Kirkus Reviews, starred review of award-winning series debut Enchanted

Readers met the Woodcutter sisters (named after the days of the week) in Enchanted and Hero. In this delightful third book, Alethea Kontis weaves together some fine-feathered fairy tales to focus on Friday Woodcutter, the kind and loving seamstress. When Friday stumbles upon seven sleeping brothers in her sister Sunday?s palace, she takes one look at Tristan and knows he?s her future. But the brothers are cursed to be swans by day. Can Friday?s unique magic somehow break the spell?

What is your favorite fairy tale?


My favorite fairy tale has always been “The Goose Girl.” It's the reason Conrad is one of the main characters in Dearest! Conrad was the clever boy who reported to the king that there was something 

fishy about the girl he tended the geese with...like the fact that she knew how to call the wind. 

My second-favorite fairy tales are “Snow White and Rose Red” and “The Twelve Dancing Princesses.”

Where did you get the idea for your stories?


Goodness...for ALL my stories? For the Woodcutter Sisters in particular? Or just for Dearest? I have a 

bit of a twisted mind that can't stop making up stories, so this is a tough question to answer. 

Typically, my ideas for stories come from a combination of things—like ingredients in a recipe. I know 

I'm going to make a cookie, so I start with butter, flour, and sugar. What else have I got in the pantry? 

Here's some almond flavoring...ooh, and some honey...I love honey. I've got some powdered sugar 

leftover from last time...and score! Greek brandy! And maybe a few other secret ingredients, because 

the best recipes always have a surprise. 

Dearest is a good example of this. I started with “The Wild Swans.” But “The Goose Girl is my 

favorite, so that had to be in there too, in no small part. I had already seeded elements of “Rapunzel,” 

and I knew the romance would totally involve “A Weave of Words” and “Tristan and Isolde”...in fact, 

why don't I just name my hero Tristan? Oh, and since I'm already writing swans...score! “Swan Lake!” 

And then about a dozen other myths and rhymes and fairy stories I can't tell you about or it would ruin 

the surprise. <grin>

What's the most whimsical place that you would like to see?


Most WHIMSICAL. Hmm. My aunt and uncle and cousin did a Gaudi tour in Barcelona one year that 

I've always been envious of...oh, wait, I know! Duh. My DREAM destination is to get a car and travel 

the German Fairy Tale Route from Hanau to Bremen. Oh, the adventures I will have there. ONE DAY 

THIS WILL HAPPEN!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Fairy_Tale_Route

Who is your favorite princess/prince?


Amy and Peregrine from M. M. Kaye's The Ordinary Princess. Hands down. 

(Footnote: This is also the reason the male protagonist of Hero is named Peregrine.)

Who gets the best happily ever after? (In your books or in someone else's.) 


Amy and Peregrine are definitely up there. Also, Alleluia and Caleb from Jovah's Angel. Ooh...or Cale 

and Kane from Jude Deveraux's novella “Matchmakers.” No! Wait! I've got it! Alanna of Trebond and 

George Cooper from Tamora Pierce's Lioness Quartet. I have been in love with George Cooper pretty 

much my whole life. (And Tamora knows it!)

The Other Woodcutter Sisters Books
 Hero (Woodcutter Sisters #2)
Links for Enchanted

Alethea Kontis courtesy of Lumos Studio 2012
New York Times bestselling author Alethea Kontis is a princess, a fairy godmother, and a geek. She?s known for screwing up the alphabet, scolding vampire hunters, and ranting about fairy tales on YouTube.

Her published works include: The Wonderland Alphabet (with Janet K. Lee), Diary of a Mad Scientist Garden Gnome (with Janet K. Lee), the AlphaOops series (with Bob Kolar), the Woodcutter Sisters fairy tale series, and The Dark-Hunter Companion (with Sherrilyn Kenyon). Her short fiction, essays, and poetry have appeared in a myriad of anthologies and magazines.

Her YA fairy tale novel, Enchanted, won the Gelett Burgess Children?s Book Award in 2012 and the Garden State Teen Book Award i 2015. Enchanted was nominated for the Audie Award in 2013, and was selected for World Book Night in 2014. Both Enchanted and its sequel, Hero, were nominated for the Andre Norton Award.

Born in Burlington, Vermont, Alethea currently lives and writes in Florida, on the Space Coast. She makes the best baklava you?ve ever tasted and sleeps with a teddy bear named Charlie.

Check out Alethea's Road Tour HERE!


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3 Woodcutter Sisters Prize Packs (signed copies of Enchanted, Hero, & Dearest - US Only)
Ends March 8th



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Saturday, February 7, 2015

January Wrap-Up

This January I Read:


OFFICIAL TOTAL: 

18 books (Oh man! I read fast!)

20455682 22375388 20958632 117973652146910817237214Killer Instinct (The Naturals, #2)208209941576840923645630181960409361589Parched158399841607594913597723


Recommendations: 


For the Fantasy Lover: 
The Darkest Part of the Forest

For the Science Fiction Lover:
Polaris

For the Dystopian Lover:
The Walled City

Monthly Update: 

LGBTChallenge2015

3/10
I'll Give You the Sun
Two Boys Kissing
The Darkest Part of the Forest

Dive into Diversity Reading Challenge
The Walled City
Second Impact
I'll Give You the Sun
Two Boys Kissing
Ghosts of Heaven
Gilded
The Darkest Part of the Forest


AroundTheWorld2015

'The Way We Bared Our Souls' by Willa Strayhorn

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If you could trade your biggest burden for someone else’s, would you do it?
 
Five teenagers sit around a bonfire in the middle of the New Mexico desert. They don’t know it yet, but they are about to make the biggest sacrifice of their lives.
 
Lo has a family history of MS, and is starting to come down with all the symptoms.
Thomas, a former child soldier from Liberia, is plagued by traumatic memories of his war-torn past.
Kaya would do anything to feel physical pain, but a rare condition called CIP keeps her numb.
Ellen can’t remember who she was before she started doing drugs. 
Kit lost his girlfriend in a car accident and now he just can’t shake his newfound fear of death.
 
When they trade totems as a symbol of shedding and adopting one another’s sorrows, they think it’s only an exercise.
 
But in the morning, they wake to find their burdens gone…and replaced with someone else’s.
 
As the reality of the ritual unfolds, this unlikely group of five embarks on a week of beautiful, terrifying experiences that all culminate in one perfect truth: In the end, your soul is stronger than your burdens.

I really liked this book. It was achingly heartbreaking. A tale of true understanding and forgiveness. It was a story about friendship and staying together. About bravery in the worst, and best, of times. Of loss and gain. Of love and hate. Of truly finding your soul among the lies and deceit. 

It was diverse. We have Kaya who is the descendant of the Native Americans who came before the European settlers. We have Liberian child soldier Thomas. We have MS-riddled Lo. Drug-addicted Ellen. (I said there were two with health problems and three with psychological ones. Kaya and Lo had the health problems. Kit had depression. I think Thomas had PTSD. And Ellen had a drug addiction.) We had more than Caucasian males. We had a Native American girl. And an African. (If I got my geography right. Liberia is in Africa.) 
I liked the diversity. We had many different people. I like that. The world is diverse. We need diversity. We can't just accept the guidelines. We need to break free and become a new generation of writers and readers. This book is the epitome of diversity. (Well...for this year...) Thank you, Willa Strayhorn. Thank you for that. 

The characters are more human. They have problems. They have pasts. They aren't two dimensional. 
I didn't particularly like Lo. She was caring, though. She cared for her friends. She was worried for them. (In her own special way.) She was just a bit...too annoying at first. A tad whiny. Just a tad. She grew into a new character, though. Someone entirely different. She saw the world differently. She wasn't whiny. She was brave. 
Kaya was interesting. Her analgesia was fascinating to read about. (Even though I hadn't heard of it before.)  She was interesting. But her personality wasn't set in stone before the ritual. And after? I don't know. She seemed to be jumping from out of it to hyper. It was confusing. She was supposed to have taken Thomas's burden. But it didn't seem that way. I still liked her, though. 
Kit...I'm not sure what to think. He doesn't seem that mopey in the beginning. Out of it, maybe. But mopey? And depressed? Not exactly. He seemed to think too much. But...I really liked hyper-Kit. Man. That was just amazing to read. I loved it. I wanted to laugh and smack him on the head at the same time. Kit was actually pretty well written. But a bit too flirty with Ellen. And a bit too reminiscent. Also, I felt like the brotherhood between Kit and Thomas was missing.
Thomas. Wow. Thomas. Great character. Absolutely fantastic. I adored his character. A haunting backstory. Aloof personality. He was fantastic. He had a dark past he was trying to hide. And it kept running at him. He couldn't hide his past. And when he took on Kit's fear? Wow. He turned into a new person. And while he had to be comforted, he was still brave. He is a brave and strong character. Anyone has to be when they go through the pain of war. I am mildly reminded of two people as I think of Thomas. One is my brave friend. (I won't name names.) But I also think of Shin from the nonfiction book 'Escape from Camp 14'. Stuck in real life, these two had to become someone else. Someone who didn't have compassion. (No offense to them, of course.) They had to turn off their minds and just fight. Some might even say they aren't human. (Even though they are. Emotionless or not.) This is what I look for in characters. A character you can care for. Someone who grows on you. Someone who makes you care and feel for them. 
Ellen. Ah. I don't know what to think of Ellen. She is like...a female Kit. If that makes any sense. I didn't exactly like her. She wasn't someone I would like. In general. She was a bit annoying. And a little whiny. And she didn't really shake that. But...people will like her. I just didn't.
These characters all changed. That was something amazing. They all became someone else. They found the path. That was truly amazing. 

It wasn't too heavy with the romance. The romance was, actually, kind of cute. (Between Thomas and Lo, I mean.) They were two people who were struggling through life. They complemented each other. One was darker. Another breaking in the darkness. They were like two halves of the same whole. And, if you know me, I don't like romance. (Practically ever. There are only a handful of couples I don't mind. Only a few I like. Only...one or two I ship undoubtedly.) 
They weren't absolutely adorable. They were cute. Not bad. But not fantastic. There were things I didn't like. For example, how fast they moved things along. They were fast. They kissed. And barely did any talking before it. Wow. Physical attraction is a lot these days.
Other than that, I was fine with the romance. Between Lo and Thomas.
Ellen and Kit is a whole other story. I didn't like that. Where is the spark? The chemistry? When did they ever talk? I don't see it. 

The only thing I didn't like was the ending. I mean...wow. The action tumbling over your head in the last few chapters. Things were thrown at you. It was a surprise ending. And then...things rolled down the resolution. And it wasn't the best resolution. I wish there was something better. 
I didn't want Kaya to die. (Not a spoiler, guys. It's within the first chapter. I didn't ruin anything.) She wasn't a bad character. She was important to Lo. Lo had too much pain to begin with. (Aunt Karine. Hint hint.) There was so much happening. Goodness...

And how the story started at the end. I didn't like that. It was a bit odd for me. I prefer to have stories that start with the beginning. Chronological order is better for me. It's confusing when you just jump into the end, or the middle. It's just a nuisance, though. Not completely terrible. Only...meh. 

Weather:
Clear skies
5/5

Thursday, February 5, 2015

'Me, Earl, and the Dying Girl' by Jesse Andrews

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Greg Gaines is the last master of high school espionage, able to disappear at will into any social environment. He has only one friend, Earl, and together they spend their time making movies, their own incomprehensible versions of Coppola and Herzog cult classics.

Until Greg’s mother forces him to rekindle his childhood friendship with Rachel.

Rachel has been diagnosed with leukemia—-cue extreme adolescent awkwardness—-but a parental mandate has been issued and must be obeyed. When Rachel stops treatment, Greg and Earl decide the thing to do is to make a film for her, which turns into the Worst Film Ever Made and becomes a turning point in each of their lives.

And all at once Greg must abandon invisibility and stand in the spotlight.
Let me tell you this upfront.
I did NOT like this book.
But I'm not trying to offend the author. 

It was a bit funny... I'll say that. If there were cameras shadowing me, they would catch my laughing. This was a pretty funny book. But it was mostly awkward jokes. Not a lot of people might call it funny. I laugh easily...so it's not hard to make me laugh. (But it's hard to make me stop.) 
The book made some nice jokes. Greg tried his best to cheer Rachel up with awkward jokes along the lines of pulling up his shirt and making his tummy rolls/fat rolls talk or making an on-going joke about alien barf. If you like these jokes, then you'll laugh. But while they were funny, they were also immature. I felt a bit childish when I laughed at the book. These weren't jokes that seemed sophisticated. 
The thing is...the jokes suited the awkward Greg. I think that's the more important thing. The author didn't just slap in jokes. He tried to make them sound from the narrator. 

The characters were hard to take seriously. 
I couldn't take Greg seriously. As a narrator, he has to be one of the worst I've read. He didn't take things seriously. He was a bit childish. He didn't seem to have lots of emotions. He tried his best to stay on the outer edge. He never made true friends. (Earl makes great points about Greg.) I didn't like him. Greg didn't take his life seriously until the end. He didn't take the world seriously. He slid by with average grades and an average attitude. People like him don't try. They don't try until they have to. But I'm happy he started to take his life seriously. He changed and started to rein in control. 
And Earl... I know that teenagers curse and all, but Earl is too much. I can handle cursing. (I've learned to.) He kept cursing. And while I know of anger issues, Earl was something else. You'll be surprised when you see Earl caring, in his own way, for Rachel. But Earl... He's one of those characters who can be better. If he only applied himself to school. If he only tried harder. He would have been an A student, a bit busier, and maybe less mediocre. 
Rachel...gosh. I don't want to say anything bad. She isn't the worst. But she isn't developed enough. (As seen in Rachel the Film.) There isn't much to say about her... 

There didn't seem to be a plot. Really. 
What was going on? Jokes. Greg being idiotic. Anything else? Not really. There didn't seem to be a set plot. It was a lot of ramblings. I understand that there was something underneath, but I didn't see it. There were small peaks at the plot, but it was hard to follow. This book was mostly jokes.
I would have preferred if it had more on Rachel. Maybe if Greg learned about her more. (Though, him not knowing much is important to the story.) If there was something more than teenage antics, I would have liked it better. If I needed teenage antics, I could have gone to a high school. 

The ending wasn't the best. It wasn't happy. Or sad. It just was...flat. I didn't enjoy the ending. Nor did I hate it. I didn't have questions. (That might be because the story didn't raise questions.) I felt mildly done with the book when I reached the Fin. I felt like the ending could have been better if the plot was better. I guess this can be linked to the plot. I'm not entirely sure. 

The book tried to deal with a serious topic, but it just made me laugh. I felt like the theme wasn't there. We were talking about cancer. I thought it would be a different type of cancer story.
But it wasn't. 
This book danced around cancer. It wasn't in-depth. It wasn't detailed. We didn't get Rachel's point-of-view. We didn't get anything about her struggle. Greg was an outsider to her mind. He didn't understand her. 
It was a comedy book. A light-hearted book. A joke book. Essentially, you can tell, I didn't like that. As much as I needed this light-hearted book, I didn't enjoy it. I prefer more tough and solemn books. 
This book promised a cancer story. But Greg wasn't close enough to Rachel to get a cancer story. I thought that it would be better. 
(To be honest, 'The Fault In Our Stars' is a...how to put it...better cancer book. We get more of the emotional pain. But the uplifting romance as well.) 

I couldn't stand the way the book was written. Not in the words.
But in the script. In the format. There was movie script-style parts. 
Let me say this first. I don't like to read stories in other formats. I prefer the chapter-paragraph format. I don't like straying.
So there is a reason the book's format annoyed me. We had script-style. Chapter-paragraph. We even had bulleted lists. (What...) I can't stand it. It was a nuisance to read. I could read it. I just didn't like it. I didn't want to read it in that format. 

Weather:
Cloudy with a 10% chance of rain
2/5

Wednesday, February 4, 2015

'The Graveyard Book' by Neil Gaiman

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After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of their own.

Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead. There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man Jack—who has already killed Bod's family . . . 

Beloved master storyteller Neil Gaiman returns with a luminous new novel for the audience that embraced his New York Times bestselling modern classic Coraline. Magical, terrifying, and filled with breathtaking adventures, The Graveyard Book is sure to enthrall readers of all ages.

I'm not entirely sure what to think of this book.

I liked the characters.
Bod was pretty cool. You read his story as he grew up. He was curious. An explorer. He wanted to know things. He wanted to go on adventures. He went to trouble, not letting it come to him. I liked that he was childish and outgrew it like a normal guy. He was interesting. He had a backstory. (The killer, remember?) He had magical powers. (Not really superpowers. Just powers. More like gifts.) He didn't overuse his gifts. He didn't seem snooty because of them. He was quite down-to-earth in a way. 
I liked Scarlett. And was even more pleased when she didn't end up a love interest. She was pretty cool. An adventurer as well. But I didn't like that she was so rude to Bod. She was pretty interesting. She was adventurous. I liked that. Why stay at home when you can go around to places? I mean, that's why I read. 

The theme of growing up is throughout. People grow up. That's a simple fact. Showing someone growing up in snippets of adventures shows him maturing. Sure, he's still a bit reckless. Sure, he doesn't seem all grown up. But he became more adult-like.
The theme is important. Growing up is part of life. You have to grow up. Showing this in a character is an easier way to digest it. You have to accept it. The same way Bod does. Children can read this. They see his adventures. They see his curiosity. They see it. And they know they have to grow up. 
I liked that. 

The little pieces of action, of drama, were good. They were mini adventures. Showing a child growing up as he ran about through life. Explored and discovered. He went through action. The fear. The thrill. 
They were exciting. I liked them. They brought me a little zip of joy. 
They carried the story along. They made the little adventures very interesting. I wanted to learn more. I wanted to read more. 
They were very good. Well written. And even if they were small, they still were enough.

The ending...was bittersweet. Admittedly, I liked it. 
Well...kinda.
It was a good ending. It made me smile. It suited the story. 
I would have preferred something else. Or if he had actually gone off. He grew up. He had to move on. I didn't like it. I wanted a happier ending.
But life isn't always about happy endings. You have to see the terrible things to see the good. This book had a perfect example of a happy but not happy ending. He had to leave. But he did so with a smile and hope for the future. You can tell he wanted to explore the world. (He mentioned it, after all.) 
The ending suited the book. A book about tales and stories. We had our main character going into the best, or worst, adventure yet.
The real world. 

I didn't like the plot. There didn't seem to be a connected narrative. It was more along the lines of many short stories. I didn't particularly like that.
I wanted a narrative told from one age. I wanted it to be a straightforward story. It was a bit convoluted because it leaped from age to age. This was confusing. The ages were hard to keep track of. I wasn't entirely sure of the plot. There didn't seem to be typical plot arc. Not sure if the Jacks-of-all-trades coming in is the climax or not. I wasn't sure about the plot. It was an interesting plot, but there wasn't anything that seemed to follow the typical plot line. (The mountain? What is it called? I forgot.)
A question comes to mind. What genre would this be? Juvenile fiction? Young adult? I'm not exactly sure. 

Weather:
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4/5

Monday, February 2, 2015

King of Ash and Bone Blitz


We're Blitzing the Release of
King of Ash and Bone
By Melissa Wright
The first book in The Shattered Realms Series.

Writing a book or series of books is a substantial commitment. Authors spend a lot of time and effort avoiding the temptation of shiny new ideas, because chasing other stories will never get you a finished manuscript. But the best inspirations hang around, waiting in the corners of your mind, tugging at your attention until they've grown too monstrous and delightful to be ignored. These are the stories that are most fun to tell, the ideas that will not be turned away.

I'm happy to report my newest title is just one of these monsters. King of Ash and Bone began niggling at me about midway through the Descendants Series as a simple idea: a magical apocalypse. A heroine with steadfast determination came in next, followed quickly by the handsome anti-hero who just might have what it takes to break her resolve. And of course he would have something to hide that might test them both. I found myself researching end-of-days scenarios in my spare time, gathering images of winged beasts and deserted cities as this new world grew and grew, forming its own brand of chimera and bursting into a second realm, complete with problems of its own.

The Shattered Realms series is certainly lined up to be the most complex I've ever written, and I can only hope it catches readers' hearts and imaginations the way it has mine.

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Do so HERE!

King of Ash and BoneKing of Ash and Bone
(Shattered Realms, #1)
by Melissa Wright
YA Urban Fantasy, SciFi
February 2nd 2015

When flying monsters break through the veil into her world, Mackenzie Scott has nothing left to lose. Her brother has been taken, her future has vanished, and all that remains is a desperate need for revenge. After discovering the breach the creatures used as a gateway, Mackenzie devises a plan to stop them, whatever the cost.

When she finds an injured stranger in the street, he just might be the key she needs to succeed. What Mackenzie doesn't know is that this stranger isn't the helpless boy he appears to be. He's one of the monsters. And he's got plans of his own.

Thrown into a dying city in another realm, Mackenzie is powerless to get back. With the gateway closing, time is not on her side. But the stranger is, and if they can escape execution, this girl and her monster might be able to save both their worlds.

You can read a teaser here.

Melissa Wright is the author of the Frey Saga and Descendants Series. She is currently working on the next book, but when not writing can be found collecting the things she loves at Goodreads and Pinterest.


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$50 Amazon Gift Card
Open internationally
Ends February 9th


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Sunday, February 1, 2015

Dearest Book Launch

A themed tour with Prism Book Tours.

Dearest (Woodcutter Sisters, #3)Dearest
(Woodcutter Sisters, #3)
by Alethea Kontis
YA Fantasy
Hardcover & ebook, 320 Pages
February 3rd 2015 by HMH Books for Young Readers

?A fabulous fairy-tale mashup that deserves hordes of avid readers. Absolutely delectable.? ?Kirkus Reviews, starred review of award-winning series debut Enchanted

Readers met the Woodcutter sisters (named after the days of the week) in Enchanted and Hero. In this delightful third book, Alethea Kontis weaves together some fine-feathered fairy tales to focus on Friday Woodcutter, the kind and loving seamstress. When Friday stumbles upon seven sleeping brothers in her sister Sunday?s palace, she takes one look at Tristan and knows he?s her future. But the brothers are cursed to be swans by day. Can Friday?s unique magic somehow break the spell?

The Other Woodcutter Sisters Books
 Hero (Woodcutter Sisters #2)
Links for Enchanted

Alethea Kontis courtesy of Lumos Studio 2012
New York Times bestselling author Alethea Kontis is a princess, a fairy godmother, and a geek. She?s known for screwing up the alphabet, scolding vampire hunters, and ranting about fairy tales on YouTube.

Her published works include: The Wonderland Alphabet (with Janet K. Lee), Diary of a Mad Scientist Garden Gnome (with Janet K. Lee), the AlphaOops series (with Bob Kolar), the Woodcutter Sisters fairy tale series, and The Dark-Hunter Companion (with Sherrilyn Kenyon). Her short fiction, essays, and poetry have appeared in a myriad of anthologies and magazines.

Her YA fairy tale novel, Enchanted, won the Gelett Burgess Children?s Book Award in 2012 and the Garden State Teen Book Award i 2015. Enchanted was nominated for the Audie Award in 2013, and was selected for World Book Night in 2014. Both Enchanted and its sequel, Hero, were nominated for the Andre Norton Award.

Born in Burlington, Vermont, Alethea currently lives and writes in Florida, on the Space Coast. She makes the best baklava you?ve ever tasted and sleeps with a teddy bear named Charlie.

Check out Alethea's Road Tour HERE!


Tour-Wide Giveaway

3 Woodcutter Sisters Prize Packs (signed copies of Enchanted, Hero, & Dearest - US Only)
Ends March 8th



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3 - Special post @ Waterworld Mermaids

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Wishful Endings
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Biggest Literary Crushes post on Teen Reads
15 - The Written Adventure
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22 - Miss Little Book Addict YA House of Books
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