Welcome to YA Scavenger Hunt! This tri-annual event was first organized by author Colleen Houck as a way to give readers a chance to gain access to exclusive bonus material from their favorite authors...and a chance to win some awesome prizes! At this hunt, you not only get access to exclusive content from each author, you also get a clue for the hunt. Add up the clues, and you can enter for our prize--one lucky winner will receive one signed book from each author on the hunt in my team! But play fast: this contest (and all the exclusive bonus material) will only be online for 72 hours! Go to the YA Scavenger Hunt page to find out all about the hunt. There are THREE contests going on simultaneously, and you can enter one or all! I am a part of the BLUE TEAM--but there is also a red team and a gold team for a chance to win a whole different set of signed books! If you'd like to find out more about the hunt, see links to all the authors participating, and see the full list o
I know, I know. Celebrate rejections? Who likes being rejected? I admit when I first started seriously writing back in 2002, I was told to expect not just some but tons of rejections. Of course, being all excited about my decision to write my first novel, I figured I could deal with it. But actually getting the rejections at first did hurt. I felt like this: Or even like this: Sara Blakely, founder of Spanx, once shared this about what she learned about rejections: Life lesson learned as a child: My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail. Read more: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/219367#ixzz2WRD0M8mA Also from A YEAR OF WRITING DANGEROUSLY by Barbara Abercrombie: 25. Failing better: A couple writers I know have a quote by Samuel
I'm excited to be a part of Blogfest 2012! Link to the other blogs with contests: http://www.ajourneyofbooks.com/ Comment and have a chance to win some galleys and a $15 iTune card 1st winner: 2 galleys of your choice plus the $15 iTune card 2nd winner: 1 galley of your choice plus some swag! I might even throw in a 3rd place winner! **Available to US and Canada. There's ORIGIN that was an amazing dystopia: BREATHE another fab dystopia! WHO I KISSED-an amazing YA contemporary tale ENTICE with a matching purple bag I got from ALA12! Or: THE DIVINERS by Libby Bray. **Bonus, Libba signed it!
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