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Hey all! I'm blogging on a Saturday to announce the winners of my RWA 2012 giveaway! The first winner on the Raffle gets first pick of three books and the second gets the remaining three books. I'll email the first winner, and as soon as I here back from them I'll email the second :D
Winner must respond within 48 hours, or the second pick will get bumped up to first pick!
Well, one thing I just LOVE about these writing conferences is that authors just love giving their books away! So, to spread the love I like to giveaway a lot of the copies that I get :D
I received many books at RWA 2012 this year, and here's my follow up giveaway post. I'll run this one for about two weeks to give people plenty of time to enter. So here it goes.
I have the following stack of YA books and NA books to giveaway. Love Story by Jennifer Echols is signed.
So, how this giveaway will work is that there will be two winners. The first drawn will get their pick of three books and the second person drawn will get what's left. The giveaway ends 8/17.
Rules:
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Hey all! I know I promised this for yesterday's post, but I was having some audio visual issues, haha.
*Note - If the video doesn't work I'm sorry. I'll keep toying with it this weekend and see what I can do.
So here's the VLOG I suckered Jaycee into making with me (Oh, so sorry my friend =D). Pardon how tired we both are. We made it LATE, LOL.
Anywho, RWA was outstanding! I got to go to some stellar classes and learned a lot. I wanted to share some of the pictures I took below. It was a long week, but it was amazing. It was so cool to meet my critique partner Jaycee and I can't wait until my next conference.
We went to Disneyland on the last day. I am a Disney FREAK so it was too much fun and I spent way too much money.
OMG! I went totally fan girl here. This is Jennifer Echols. She wrote the first New Adult book I ever read. It's called Love Story and it's a romance about a college student who lives in NYC.
Of course, I had to pester her about New Adult and she happily listened to my babble, haha. No but seriously, she not only is a huge supporter of NA, but fights for it, too. She continues to write her edgy romances despite what the industry says about them not selling and her books sell like hot cakes.
I got her to sign a few of her books and guess what??? I'm doing another giveaway, baby! Stay tuned for more details ;D
Okay so I really can't do this post without this next part. Through the creation of NA Alley I have met so many cool and stellarific NA authors and one of which is Alysia Gray Painter. Her fun emails brighten my day and I'm happy to call her a dear friend. Well, she heard Jaycee and I were going to be in Cali (where she just happens to reside) and she wanted to meet up. Unfortunately, she had to go out of town and we couldn't schedule the meet. So imagine what I felt when Jaycee and I get a knock on the door after a long day. There was a man with a cart of milk and cookies.
Here's me: "Um, we didn't order this, sir." *Laughs nervously*
Man at the door with the cart: "Oh, miss, a guest outside of the hotel ordered this for you."
Me: *mouth agape*
Then I remembered that Alysia kept asking me where we were staying. I told her, but didn't really think much of it. Well, SHE sent the milk and cookies!!!!
This woman is so sweet and you should all go out and read her awesome books.
I have copies of her first two reads and can't wait to dive in! Thanks so much Alysia. You're a gem. Muah!
So on a final note. I have GREAT news for all you New Adult peeps! It's really happening! Not only did pretty much all the editors and agents I spoke to take it, but they are rooting for it.
Everyone, was really excited about it and I couldn't believe how supportive everyone was.
Here is a list of some of the people I spoke to:
St. Martin's Press
Grand Central Publishing
Month 9 Books
Samhain Publishing
I will soon add this list to the NA Alley page, but go ahead and look them up. Oh, and certain editors of St. Martin's Press take unagented manuscripts!!!! I was in shock. They are a Big Six! They don't list that on their site, so now you know. And Dan Weiss from St. Martin's is looking for e-serials and I heard through the grapevine that he's taken at least 3 NA authors for this, so jump on it!
Well, that's all I have for now. I can't wait until my next conference and I'll keep you updated when I head to the next one.
Special Announcement!
Tune in Friday for a special post-RWA 2012 giveaway! I got some major swag peeps and I've completely lost my mind. My craziness is your gain. I'm giving out signed and unsighed copies of YA and NA books. So come back Friday for details :D
Don't forget about my indie giveaway. Ends 8/6. + Sign up to be a part of The Crimson Hunt cover reveal - email me at: victoria.smith775@gmail.com to take part! :)
First off, let me give you an official welcome to the new blog! Tis' now an author blog as you can see!!! Squee! Not much of my blogs content will change right away. The title and look has just changed for now and I will still do a few reviews here and there, but soon those will be discontinuing and I will be recommending books instead, which is why I have titled the review tab "20-Something Reads" :D More on that and more changes later though friends!
To get a blog design like this and at a really reasonable price check out Sheila! She's so stellar peeps and she is so reasonably priced. She did my last design, too. Thanks, Sheila ;D (Click on the pick for more info!
So I'm officially back from Cali and RWA Nationals 2012!!! I learned a lot and got some awesome info about the future for new adult fiction! Tune in Wednesday for a special VLOG (yep, I'm at it again ;D) details post and tune in Friday for a bonus surprise giveaway post!!!
For now, I'm over at NA Alley today talking about the importance of Goodreads.com for new adult fiction and how YOU as a reader can advance the category. So head over friends! See you Wednesday!
Happy Monday to you! I wanted to drop by and do a final post before I head off to RWA Nationals 2012 woohoo!
This is my first time to California and I'm super excited about it :) I won't be blogging the rest of the week, so the next time you see me will be next Monday.
I'm also going to be officially meeting my critique partner Jaycee Delorenzo!!! Super excited about that, so there will be lots of pictures.
A few reminders. Don't forget to enter my giveaway for a chance to win up to 10 indie reads. For every 50 Facebook "likes" I get on my FB author page I'm throwing in another book. The giveaway ends 8/6/12, so you still have a little bit of time.
We are only two "likes" away from hitting two books. So head over now!
The Crimson Hunt Updates!!!
I just handed my pre-edits to my editor and things are looking good. We might just see a October release for the book... Squee!!!
If you're a blogger or book blogger and you want an ARC (Advanced Readers Copy) of the book just fill out the form here. Also, if you want to be a part of the cover reveal that's happening in a few weeks, fill out the form as well or email me at victoria (dot) smith775 (at) gmail (dot) com
You can add The Crimson Hunt to your TBR pile on Goodreads here.
I think that's it! Wish me luck at RWA and have a good week :D
Hey all! So today for the Blog me MAYbe Blogfest I'm supposed to share something about me, well I am pleased to announce that just last week I booked a trip for my second writer's conference!
This is a big one! It's the official Romance Writer's of America Writer's Conference in Anaheim! I'm so excited to go. There's going to be so many great seminars to attend and after my last great experience in Chicago at my first writer's conference (see here) I'm even more ubber excited. Oh and one more thing...
I get to meet my critique partner and fellow NA Alley sister...
Yeah!!!! We're meeting up and hanging out the whole time together! It's going to be great and I'm going to make a HUGE post about it when I get home. Hopefully I'll have some swag I can give out to my readers like I got last time. For all of you that don't know I'm giving away SIGNED swag from Simone Elkeles in my giveaway here. Enter now my friends!
Oh and one more thing...
Thanks for the 30,000 plus page views! I've only been blogging since November and you all have been so supportive. Thanks for the love ya'll!
