Cover Reveal | Dead Girl Running by Ann Noser

Happy Saturday everyone 🙂

Today I have the pleasure of participating in the cover reveal for Ann Noser’s latest book, Dead Girl Running. If you haven’t yet read her first How to Date Dead Guys and like a little macabre comedy mixed with witchiness, give it a read 🙂

Anyway, without further rambling, here’s Ann’s new cover:

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Dead Girl Running is a Young Adult/New Adult Crossover Dystopian, and a cross between The Giver, The Handmaiden’s Tale, and Agenda 21.

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Eight years ago, SILVIA WOOD’s father died in an industrial accident. After suffering through years of Psychotherapy Services and Mandated Medications for depression and multiple suicide attempts, she longs to work in Botanical Sciences. When the Occupation Exam determines she must work in Mortuary Sciences instead, she wonders if the New Order assigned her to the morgue to push her over the edge.

To appease her disappointed mother, Silvia enters the Race for Citizen Glory, in an attempt to stand out in the crowd of Equals. After she begins training with “golden boy” LIAM HARMAN, she discovers he also lost his father in the same accident that ruined her childhood. Then Silvia meets and falls for Liam’s older cousin, whose paranoid intensity makes her question what really happened to her father. As the race nears, Silvia realizes that she’s not only running for glory, she’s running for her life.

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Scheduled release date: October 26th, 2015

Want to reserve a copy? Here’s a PRE-PURCHASE LINK

 

Meet the Author:

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Just kidding, here she is:

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Ann M. Noser’s Bio:

My to-do list dictates that I attempt to cram forty-eight hours of living into a day instead of the usual twenty-four.  I’ve chosen a life filled with animals.  I train for marathons with my dog, then go to work as a small animal veterinarian, and finish the day by tripping over my pets as I attempt to convince my two unruly children that YES, it really IS time for bed.  But I can’t wait until the house is quiet to write; I have to steal moments throughout the day.  Ten minutes here, a half hour there, I live within my imagination.

Like all busy American mothers, I multi-task.  I work out plot holes during runs.  Instead of meditating, I type madly during yoga stretches.  I find inspiration in everyday things: an NPR program, a beautiful smile, or a newspaper article on a political theory.

I’d love to have more time to write (and run, read, and sleep), but until I find Hermione Granger’s time turner, I will juggle real life with the half-written stories in my head.  Main characters and plot lines intertwine in my cranium, and I need to let my writing weave the tales on paper so I can find out what happens next.

 

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Book Release | Archon’s Queen

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Greetings!

I’m up too late because I can’t sleep from excitement. The second book in the Awakened series is out now as an ebook. (Paperback will likely be up in about a week.) The second book in the Awakened series, Archon’s Queen, follows Anna Morgan (who you may remember from near the end of Prophet of the Badlands as Pixie) five years in the past from the events of Prophet. This is the story of how she went from a barely-alive denizen of the worst part of 2418 London to the right hand of the self-proclaimed master of the Awakened.

You can pick up a copy here: http://amzn.com/B013OBLFF0

I also hope to see you online today (8/10) on Facebook for the release party where we’ve got some lovely prizes made by Rhonda from Justplummy Swagit, as well as books (both signed and e-book) up for grabs.

6pm – 8pm EST online. Chat / comment / post on Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/events/419465848237712/

The Summer the World Ended Blog Tour

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Greetings!

We’re a few days away from the start of the blog tour for The Summer the World Ended, hosted by Xpresso blog tours.

The tour schedule is  here. Please take a minute to check out these blogs as they post. (Scroll to the bottom of this post to enter the giveaway for a $40 Amazon gift card & signed paperback 🙂 )

August 10th

–A.E. Albert: A Writer’s Blog >> Review
–nerdychampagne >> Review
–Authors You Want to Read >> Excerpt
August 11th
–Twisted Book Junkie >> Review
–Mythical Books >> Interview
–Girls With Books >> Excerpt
–Just Us Book Blog >> Playlist
August 12th
–We Do Write >> Interview
–Buried Under Books >> Review
–fuonlyknew >> Excerpt
August 13th
–Fandemonium Network >> Interview
–Fangirls Read it First >> Review
–Evermore Books  >> Review
August 14th
–StarAngels Reviews >> Review
–Suzy Turner, YA Author >> Top 10 List
–Pieces of Whimsy >> Guest post
–CBY Book Club >> Excerpt
Weekend break
August 17th
–Archaeolibrarian – I Dig Good Books! >> Review
–Reading Away The Days >> Interview
–A British Bookworm’s Blog >> Review
August 18th
–A Book Addict’s Bookshelves >> Guest post
–I Feel the Need, the Need to Read >> Review

August 19th
–Mom With A Kindle >> Review
–Seeing Double In Neverland >> Excerpt
–My Book Addiction >> Review
August 20th
–Book Lovers Life >> Top 10 List
–The Avid Reader >> Review
–James Wymore >> Review
August 21st
–Random Redheaded Ramblings >> Review
–Lisa Loves Literature >> Review
–City of Friendship Fangirl >> Review

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Cover Reveal | Vicki Leigh’s FIND ME IF YOU DARE

Happy Saturday all 🙂

Today, I’m helping  a fellow Curiosity Quills author spread the word about her new cover, by Dean Samed (who’s done a few of mine as well.)

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They may have won the first battle, but the Apocalypse has just begun.

Five weeks have passed since the battle that left Rome and Columbus in ruins. Sheltered in the hidden city of Caelum, Daniel and Kayla train alongside over one hundred Magus and Protectors, hoping that their unified ranks will be enough to take down their greatest threat yet: Richard, his followers, and his horde of Nightmares. Then a fallen comrade is returned to Caelum with a message carved into his chest and a note referencing the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and Daniel knows their time for training is over.

Finally understanding Richard’s plans for Kayla and the three other Magus born on Halloween, Daniel and the rest of Caelum’s volunteers scout the U.S. in a desperate attempt to stop their enemy before he can unleash his first Horseman. But when massive attacks claim thousands of lives, people all over the world begin to fall ill—including those Daniel and Kayla care about the most.

With the Horseman of Pestilence released, Daniel knows it’s time to step aside and let Kayla take the lead. Only she has the power to rival her father’s. But when Richard’s plot turns out to be darker than they imagined, their fight is met with more death and destruction—and an enemy who might be unbeatable, after all.

She’s also running a massive 22 book giveaway via her blog – vickileighauthor.tumblr.com, with the following prizes:

  • 20 copies of CATCH ME WHEN I FALL (Book One of the Dreamcatcher Series)
  • a signed copy of CITY LOVE by Susane Colasanti
  • a The Vampire Diaries wall poster of Damon Salvatore
  • a copy of SHADOW STUDY by Maria V. Snyder
  • 5 handmade dream catchers
  • a poster of the SORCERER HEIR series, signed by Cinda Chima
  • 2 posters of the cover of DOON, signed by Carey Corp and Lorie Langdon.
  • a poster of the cover of DAMSEL DISTRESSED, signed by Kelsey Macke
  • a poster of Melissa Lander’s ALIENATED cover

Randomness – 7/30/15

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Book Signing – On August 18th, I’ll be at the Barnes & Noble of East Brunswick from 7-9pm. If you can drop by, please do. The more people who show up, the more B&N likes me.

Brunswick Square Mall

753 Rt 18 Brunswick Square Space 318 East Brunswick, NJ 08816

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Things have been pretty busy lately, between writing and editing, so I haven’t set aside much in the way of time to post something here. With Hand of Raziel (Daughter of Mars 1) signed a short time ago by Curiosity Quills, I’ve been working on part three. Ghost Black (the current working title) is one chapter from finished.

browniesNormally, after I complete a first draft, it’s hard not to dive right back in and do another pass. I feel a bit like a kid sitting next to a jar full of dark chocolate brownies… unable to resist. At the moment, there’s enough going on to keep me distracted and give me the chance to let it sit. Taking a break to clear the mind lets a writer look at something with fresh eyes. Much better to let a manuscript sit for a while before going back through it, but it’s so damn hard to resist.

I should be getting final production copies of Archon’s Queen to review any day now (Awakened II), which is due for release on August 10. (Speaking of which, please join me on Facebook for the release party here.) A number of edits for CQ are waiting in line, as well as a handful of beta reads for friends. Hopefully, it won’t be too difficult to stop that kid from grabbing a brownie for a few weeks while I catch up.

 

Holy Eighties, Batman.

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It’s hard not to feel nostalgic lately. I recently read Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. If you’re somewhere between 35 and 50, and have even mild geek tendencies, this is a must read. It picked at a lot of old memories, and made me want to spend a few hours on an emulator site playing 30 year old video games.

On top of that, my all-time favorite cartoon strip, Bloom County, is back. Berkley Breathed has come out of the dark and resumed his beloved strip via Facebook. Apparently, the long hiatus he’d taken was due to growing tired of the overbearing PC police and fighting with skittish newspaper editors. I can’t wait to see where he takes the denizens of Bloom County with the freedom of publishing on Facebook.

Add to that we’ve got a Bush hoping for the White House, unrest overseas, Mad Max, Terminator, Star Wars, and Jurassic Park in the theaters… televangelists losing their grip on reality… egads. If leg warmers and big hair comes back, dive for cover and grab a helmet.

Looks like we’re in for a hell of a ride.

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New Release | The Summer The World Ended

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Hi all 🙂

This coming Monday, 6/29, my second foray into the world of young adult writing is coming out. The Summer the World Ended is an emotional rollercoaster ride. Fourteen year old Riley McCullough has been looking forward to the “most epic summer ever” between eighth grade and high school. An introvert by nature, she was eager to spend countless hours online with her best (and only) friend Amber Nelson, playing video games into the wee hours.

Amber’s parents surprise her with a surprise Mexico vacation as a graduation present, throwing a wet blanket of suck over Riley’s first two weeks of freedom. From there, things only get worse, and soon she’s on the other side of the country with a father she hadn’t seen since she was eight.

Of course, trying to fit in to a new town, adjust to the new routine of living with dad, and being thousands of miles away from anything familiar all seems trivial when the world plunges into nuclear war.
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Please join me on Facebook Monday for a release party – https://www.facebook.com/events/800375976744247/

Prizes include:

2 signed paperbacks of The Summer the World Ended
3 ebooks (winner’s choice) from my released titles.
2 $10 Amazon gift cards
1 The Summer the World Ended 24×36 poster (signed if desired)
(As yet undetermined cool trinkets made by Justplummy Swagit)

Other ebook prizes:

The Curse Merchant – by JP Sloan
The Curse Servant – by JP Sloan
Fairy Keeper – by Amy Rhoades Bearce
Catch Me When I Fall – by Vicki Leigh
Night of Pan – by Gail Strickland
How to Date Dead Guys – by Ann Noser
Exacting Essence – by James Wymore
The Undead – by Elsie Elmore
The Black Oracle – by Michael Cristiano

Add the book on Goodreads here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25732546-the-summer-the-world-ended