I am hosting an Edgar Nominee Reading Challenge! Details and the 10 nominees are on the Sleuths, Spies, and Alibis blog. You can enter each time you’ve finished a book either in the rafflecopter below, or in the rafflecopter on the SSA blog.
Hope you join me and take the challenge!
Today is the day!
Blind Spot is now out there, on the shelves of bookstores and online, in hardcover and ebook, for anyone to purchase!
This week is a busy one for me. I will be having my launch party tonight, October 23rd, at Nicola’s Books in Ann Arbor, MI at 7 pm. There’ll be door prizes and a book signing and . . . CAKE! Before the party though, I will be spending the day with high school students at Skyline High School and Chelsea High School.
October 24th kicks off my blog tour. I will be stopping by several blogs through November 2nd. See the schedule below for details.
On October 25th, I will jet over to Los Angeles to read at the LAPL Central Branch at 6:30 pm.
If you are able to attend one of my events, or if you bought Blind Spot and brought it out and about with you, take a picture and post it on my Blind Spot or YA AUthor Laura Ellen facebook page. I’d love to see more ‘Blind Spot in the wild’ pics 🙂
To celebrate the release of Blind Spot, I am giving away two signed hardcovers. Just enter in the rafflecopter box on the bottom of this post.
Laura’s on tour with Blind Spot! Here’s a schedule of where she’ll be over the next week and a half. Stop by for fun and, yes, PRIZES!! In addition to announcing the five lucky winners of the ‘What’s Your Blind Spot’ Promotion on the 26th and announcing one Blogger Love Giveaway winner at each blog stop, and leaving swag bags at each stop, Laura is giving away TWO signed hardcovers of Blind Spot. For your chance to win see the rafflecopter entry on the bottom of the sidebar.
October 24 — Laura will be kicking off the blog tour over at Authors are Rockstars. Come by and hang out with Allison and Michelle as they help Laura introduce Blind Spot.
October 25 — Laura will be having a little coffee with Giselle at Xpresso Reads as they discuss the characters in Blind Spot. When they are done, they’ll be taking your nominations for a Blind Spot Dream Cast.
October 26 — Don’t miss the ‘What’s Your Blind Spot’ contest winners! Laura and Jen Bigheart will be making that announcement over at I Read Banned Books, as well as sharing some great ‘blind spot’ stories.
October 29 — It’s all about setting over at The Write Path today as Laura unveils ther Top 10 (Often Crazy) Alaska Questions.
October 30 — We’re getting musical today at Pretty In Fiction. Laura will talk about the role music played in writing of Blind Spot.
October 31 — It’s Halloween! Stop by My Neurotic Book Affair for a character interview with Roz — Halloween-style!!
November 1 — Jenni at Alluring Reads is helping Laura put together a Blind Spot Dream Cast based on your votes! Make sure you’ve nominated some celebs at Xpresso Reads by today.
November 2 — Its the last stop of the Blind Spot Blog Tour 🙁 I’ll be talking a little bit about macular degeneration on The Story Siren.
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Welcome to my stop in the YAmazing Race with MGnificent Prizes! I am so excited to be participating again. If this is your first time ‘hopping’ — welcome! If you are a seasoned vet, welcome back! And if you don’t know what I am talking about — maybe you popped by here because you know Blind Spot is minutes away from being released and that I’m going on a blog tour soon — lucky you! You stumbled upon a great opp to win some awesome prizes.
What it is: The Apocalypsies (a group of 2012 debut authors) is hosting a blog hop in which you go from one blog to the next, reading about each book, and then at the end of each leg of the race, you answer questions about the books to win some awesome prizes. Details and the race starting line can be found on the Apocalypsies site. The race officially starts at Noon (EST) on October 22, 2012— so if you’re a tad early, just chill a bit 🙂
If the race has already begun, and you’re ready to race on, this is the next stop! Before you leave, be sure to enter your name in my Blind Spot giveaway! You can enter at the bottom of this post.
Winter stops hiding Tricia Farni on Good Friday
When a truck plunges through the thinning ice of Alaska’s Birch River, Tricia’s body floats to the surface– dead since the night she disappeared six months earlier.
The night Roswell Hart fought with her.
The night Roz can’t remember.
Missing things is nothing new to sixteen-year-old Roz. She has macular degeneration, an eye disease that robs her central vision. She’s constantly piecing together what she sees– or thinks she sees–but this time her memory needs piecing together. How can Roz be sure of the truth if her own memory has betrayed her? Can she clear her name of a murder that she believes she didn’t commit?
— Blind Spot releases this week (Tuesday, 10/23) from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Make sure you’ve read the above synopsis carefully — you’ll be asked a question about Blind Spot at the end of this leg! The next stop is here, but WAIT! Before you go, would you like to enter to win a signed hardcover of Blind Spot? Two lucky winners will be drawn when my blog tour ends November 2. Enter in the rafflecopter below. I’m also giving away bags of swag at each of my blog tour stops beginning 10/24. See me blog tour schedule I’ll be posting 10/24 for details. Thanks for stopping by — Happy Hopping!
**Note– I understand what it’s like to have a full inbox 🙂 so I don’t use newsletter subscription as a bonus entry for prizes anymore. If you want to receive news from me about books, events, contests and more though, I’d love to share! Just subscribe here.
ENTER TO WIN A SIGNED HARDCOVER OF BLIND SPOT!
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Getting the buzz going about your book isn’t easy — especially when it’s your first! I owe a debt of gratitude to all the bloggers who have helped to get the word out thus far about Blind Spot — from the WOW picks to the debut features and reviews — you’ve all helped so much. I am especially thankful for the handful of bloggers who dropped everything to help with my book trailer premiere and ‘What’s Your Blind Spot’? promotion. Thank you!
But thank you isn’t quite enough so. . . I am hosting a massive Blogger Love Giveaway!
Through November 1 at midnight EST bloggers can enter to win one of 8 Blogger Love prize packs which will include a gift card for a blog badge or button (or other item up to $15 value) designed exclusively for you by Giselle at Xpresso Design OR your choice of any YA or MG book (up to $15 value), plus a bag full of swag!
What are the rules and how do I enter?
Rules: You must be a blogger with a website or facebook page that you use to promote books through reviews, interviews, blog tours, etc.
How to enter: If you have ever featured Blind Spot in some way on your blog, you’ve been entered already! But if you haven’t featured Blind Spot in some way, or if you want more chances to win, here’s how:
(There will be two contest periods to make keeping track of entries easier.) You will receive (1) entry for each blog post, facebook post, or tweet about any of the following:
PERIOD 1 (ENDS OCTOBER 16):
a) ‘What’s Your Blind Spot’ promotion (details found here)
**Sample tweet: What’s Your Blind Spot? Share and win!https://lauraellenbooks.com/blind-spot-book-trailer-contest/
b) The Blind Spot book trailer (youtube link here)
c) anything Blind Spot related 🙂
PERIOD 2 (BEGINS OCTOBER 17 -NOVEMBER 1):
a) The Blind Spot Blog Tour October 24-November 2
b) The Blind Spot book trailer (youtube link here)
c) anything Blind Spot related 🙂
Be sure to include @lauraellenbooks in the body of the tweet. You must leave a link to your blog or facebook post in a comment as well as your twitter name so I can keep track of each entry.
Four winners will be chosen from Period 1 (October 2-16) and four from period 2 (October 17-November1). I will announce a winner on each stop of my blog tour beginning October 24th and ending November 2nd. Yes, the giveaway is international 🙂
Big smooches and good luck my lovelies!
As a member of the fab group of authors and teens we lovingly call ‘TeamTeenAuthor’ I am required, as the author of an October release, to perform a dare! The dares are mandated by our teen members, The Perfect 10. They gave me a choice of three things:
1) Cover my face in either peanut butter or marshmallow creme and share the picture.
2) Write my most embarrassing teen moment in Shakespearian language.
OR
3) Post pictures and other links all about your celebrity teen heartthrob crush from middle school/high school. Your own Justin Beiber so to speak.
Can you guess which one I chose?
This was my favorite album! And yes that is ALBUM as in record player.
Shaun Cassidy was my HEARTHROB! OMG did I love him. Okay, so I was in elementary school, not middle or high school — but he was my one and only true celebrity crush.
I played his records over and over while singing into my curling iron. I watched every episode of The hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries tv show, in which he was the sexy Joe Hardy (and you wonder why I write mysteries!)Truth? I still watch those episodes 🙂
Look at these photos and tell me YOU wouldn’t have been in love with him. He is irresistable.
Still not convinced he was heartthrob-worthy? Well check him out on stage. If he doesn’t have you at his shirt being thrown off, he’ll get you with that butt-wiggle, just watch!
And here he is singing and acting in my favorite show back then,The Hardy Boys :
I would’ve been his baby . . .
We are also running a Scavenger Hunt with awesome prizes! See Julie’s blog for info and to enter! And have you shared your ‘blind spot’ with me yet? Enter to win here by Octoer 16.
Rady to see some more dres?
Janci Patterson
Hilary Weisman Graham
I’m headed to the Writer’s Police Academy, but you can find me on the web today talking banned books on E Kristin Anderson’s site and in a debut author interview with Nova Ren Suma.
I apologize for the lack of material lately on my website. Long story short, I have been moving across country. In June my family decided to move from Michigan to Arizona and becaise of that my life has been crazy, crazy busy.
We are settled, for the most part, in Arizona now. I still have boxes in my office, but it is unpacked and decluttered enough for me to focus on work once again. I am now trying to catch up on things neglected, like my writing!
One of the things I am also catching up on is the preparation for the Blind Spot book trailer! The wonderfully talented Vania Stoyanova at VLC Productions is in the midst of casting for it. How weird it is to comb over headshots of teens looking for just the right actresses and actors to play my characters!
My son James and his guitar teacher Steve ‘Oz’ Osburn actually composed the music for the trailer. Before we left Michigan (the WEEK before in fact) they recorded “Decision Point” at Sage Court Studios, a local recording studio owned and operated by the legendary Muruga Booker, who played at Woodstock and with greats like Jimi Hendrix and Jerry Garcia. The experience was so awesome for me but even more so for my son. I can’t wait for people to hear his music 🙂 Here’s a picture of my son jamming with Muruga prior to the recording session. The trailer should be finished next month so stay tuned for that 🙂
Author Laurisa White Reyes is hosting a Super Swag Sunday giveaway!
SUPER SWAG SUNDAY is a celebration of the best in new kids and teens literature. What is swag? Swag is all the fun stuff authors giveaway to promote their books: signed bookmarks, postcards, tattoos, stickers, pins, magnets, pens, frishbees, rubber bugs, origami, guitar picks, fortune cookies, and more. Laurisa has TONS OF IT from 32 authors — including me!
Every day for 7 days Laurisa will spotlight 4 or 5 new titles from the most amazing up and coming children’s and teen authors. Then, next Sunday, June 10th seven (7) giveaway winners will be announced. Each winner will receive a MEGA SWAG PACK containing swag from every spotlighted author!
You can enter the giveaway just once or every day for more chances to win! This is great way to kick off your child or teen’s summer reading! Come on by first thing tomorrow morning and join in the fun!
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Thank you to everyone who participated in the YAmazing Race! I had so much fun, and . . .WOW! I can’t believe how many people stopped by and entered to win a signed ARC of Blind Spot.
Speaking of that – I do have a winner:
Congratulations to Shauna O!
I’ll be contacting you shortly 🙂
To the rest of you, I promise to have more giveaways soon, so if you ‘liked’ my author or Blind Spot facebook page, or added me on twitter — keep watch! You can also add yourself to my mailing list to get advance notice of events, contests, and other great news 🙂
Thanks again for all the love and enthusiasm you are showing for Blind Spot!
Welcome to my stop in the YAmazing Race with MGnificent Prizes! How are you feeling? Revved up? Excited? Is your brain full of lots of books you can’t wait to read? AWESOME!
If you happened to pop by here and are wondering what all the whooping and hollering is about though — let me explain. We’re doing a blog hop featuring over 50 debut authors with prize packs that include ARCs, gift certificates, swag, and more! To participate, please go to the Apocalypsies website here for complete rules and the starting line. The race officially starts at Noon (EST) on May 2, 2012 — so if you’re a tad early, just chill a bit 🙂 If the race has already begun, and you’re ready to race on, this is the next stop! Before you leave, be sure to enter your name in my Blind Spot arc giveaway!
Winter stops hiding Tricia Farni on Good Friday
When a truck plunges through the thinning ice of Alaska’s Birch River, Tricia’s body floats to the surface– dead since the night she disappeared six months earlier.
The night Roswell Hart fought with her.
The night Roz can’t remember.
Missing things is nothing new to sixteen-year-old Roz. She has macular degeneration, an eye disease that robs her central vision. She’s constantly piecing together what she sees– or thinks she sees–but this time her memory needs piecing together. How can Roz be sure of the truth if her own memory has betrayed her? Can she clear her name of a murder that she believes she didn’t commit?
— Blind Spot releases October 2012 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Make sure you’ve read the above synopsis carefully — you’ll be asked a question about Blind Spot at the end of this leg! The next stop is here, but WAIT! Before you go, would you like to enter to win an ARC of Blind Spot? One lucky winner will receive a signed Advance Reading Copy of Blind Spot when the race ends at noon, EST, on May 8th. Enter below, and thanks for stopping by — Happy Hopping!
**Note– I understand what it’s like to have a full inbox 🙂 so I don’t use newsletter subscription as a bonus entry for prizes anymore. If you want to receive news from me about books, events, contests and more though, I’d love to share! Just subscribe here.
