The Smart Chicks Kick It Tour now has dates, check it out:

September 13th: Austin/TX: Kelley Armstrong, Melissa Marr, Alyson Noel, Holly Black, Rachel Caine and Cassandra Clare 7:00 pm BOOKPEOPLE BOOKSTORE.

September 14th: Houston/TX: Kelley Armstrong, Melissa Marr, Alyson Noel, Holly Black, Cassandra Clare, and Rachel Vincent. 7:00 pm B&N, THE WOODLANDS.

September 15th: Houston/TX: Kelley Armstrong, Melissa Marr, Alyson Noel, Holly Black, Sarah Rees Brennan, and Cassandra Clare 7:00 pm BLUE WILLOW.

September 16th: Lemuria Jackson/MS: Kelley Armstrong, Melissa Marr, Alyson Noel, Holly Black, Cassandra Clare, and Sarah Rees Brennan 6:00 pm LEMURIA BOOKS.

September 17th: Phoenix/AZ: Melissa Marr, Alyson Noel, Kelley Armstrong, Holly Black, Sarah Rees Brennan, Kimberly Derting, and Becca Fitzpatrick 7:00 pm POISONED PEN.

September 18th: Keplers SF/CA: Melissa Marr, Alyson Noel, Kelley Armstrong, Melissa de la Cruz,, Becca Fitzpatrick, and Rachel Vincent KEPLERS.

September 20th: Melissa Marr, Alyson Noel, Kelley Armstrong, Rachel Caine, Melissa de la Cruz, and Mary Pearson 6:00 pm VROMANS BOOKSTORE.

September 21st: Encinitas/CA: Melissa Marr, Alyson Noel, Kelley Armstrong, Mary Pearson, Rachel Caine, and Carrie Ryan ENCINITAS COUNTY LIBRARY.

September 22nd: Chicago/IL: Alyson Noel, Kelley Armstrong, Melissa Marr, Jackson Pearce, Jennifer Barnes, and Carrie Ryan 7:00 pm ANDERSON’S BOOKSHOPS.

September 23rd: Dayton/OH: Alyson Noel, Kelley Armstrong, Melissa Marr, Jackson Pearce, Jennifer Lynn Barnes, and Kami Garcia 7:00 pm “BOOKS & CO: AT THE GREENE”

September 24th: Cincinnati: Alyson Noel, Kelley Armstrong, Melissa Marr, Jessica Verday, Jeri Smith-Ready, & Margaret Stohl 7:00 pm JOSEPH BETH.

September 25th: Toronto: Alyson Noel, Kelley Armstrong, Melissa Marr, Jeri Smith-Ready, Kami Garcia, and Margaret Stohl 2:00 pm CHAPTERS BRAMPTON.

Who is planning to go? To which location? Let us know, leave your comment!

LifeAfterTwilight.net is bringing to you one more time EXCLUSIVE INFO. You won’t find detailed info about Kiss me Deadly anywhere but here!

Kiss me Deadly: 13 Tales of Paranormal Love is the follow up anthology to The Eternal Kiss: 13 Tales of Blood and Desire.

Only two writers return from The Eternal Kiss, with other 11 wonderful YA authors. Kiss me Deadly is set to be released July 27, 2010

Contributions

Becca Fitzpatrick – (to be announced)

Caitlin Kittredge – story is called Behind the Red Door. It’s a ghost story/fairy tale in the tradition of Charles Delint. Girl meets boy, boy turns out to be dead, girl wonders how far is too far to go for the love of her life, especially when sinister forces start affecting her family and friends.

Diana Peterfreund – titled Errant, is an 18th century French feminist killer unicorn story about a nun and a bride and a forest full of monsters.

Karen Mahoney – title The Spirit Jar, it’s the tale of what happens when Moth (from Falling to Ash) goes to London to retrieve an ancient Arabic text, but ends up caught in the middle of a fight between a heartbroken (cute) Djinn and an evil magician. (check out her comment on our post!)

Justine Musk – (to be announced)

Sarah Rees Brennan – story  is called The Spy Who Never Grew Up . It is about Peter Pan in a tux with a dead leaf as a bowtie, the Queen of England, and the captain of a crack team of killer fairies called Ninja Star.

Michelle Rowen – titled Familiar,  it’s about a teen-witch-in-training who picks out her animal familiar, which turns out to be a shape-shifting boy in hiding.

Carrie Ryan – (to be announced)

Maggie Stiefvater – author said: “*grin* It’s a secret.” The story will be angsty and will involve neither vampires nor werewolves.

Rachel Vincent – still untitled. It is set in my Soul Screamers universe, a couple of years before the beginning of the series. It feature Nash (a male bean sidhe) and his (now former, then current) troubled girlfriend, Sabine.

Daniel Waters – (to be announced)

Michelle Zink – The Assassin’s Apprentice. Set in the late 1800’s, it features Rose, one of the last descendants of the original angels, whose quest for revenge over the execution of her parents is threatened by a mysterious man with the same mission.

Daniel Marks – (to be announced)

As soon as the info to be announced is released we’ll be posting here. Come back often to check it out!

James Patterson, author of  the Maximum Rider Series, is giving away 25 advance copies of Fang! To enter the sweepstakes clique HERE.

Fang is the 6th book of the Maximum Ride Series. Read Fang’s sneak peek HERE.

If you’re a fan of the Maximum Ride Series, you can join their exclusive community HERE.

Fang is coming out March 15, 2010

IMDB Movie Page
Pretty Little Liars Book Site

 The new drama is based on the Pretty Little Liars Novels, in which the lives of five adolescent girls who are best friends are tragically disrupted when one of them disappears. Three years later, the remaining teens find that secrets of theirs that could only have been known by the missing, presumed-dead girl are being exposed.  The show will be directed by Lesli Linka Glatter, and is set to premiere on ABC in June of this year 

Stars of the show include
Lucy Hale as Aria Montegomery
Trojan Avery Bellisario as Spencer Hastings
Ashley Benson as Hanna Marin
Shaye Mitchell as Emily Fields

Here are the finalists for the 2010 American Indies Next Book Award

Young Adult Book of the Year:

Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)
Going Bovine, by Libba Bray (Delacorte Books for Young Readers)
If I Stay, by Gayle Forman (Dutton Juvenile)
Leviathan, by Scott Westerfeld, Keith Thompson (illus.) (Simon Pulse)
Shiver, by Maggie Stiefvater (Scholastic)
Wintergirls, by Laurie Halse Anderson (Viking Juvenile)

Who are you rooting for? Let us know, leave your comment!

The cover of The Specter Key is revealed in celebration of 7 years since Kaleb Nation started writing his first words to Bran Hambric: The Farfield Curse (03/03/2003).

Read a synopsis of Bran Hambric: The Specter Key HERE.

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Becca Fitzpatrick, author of the NY Times Best Seller Hush, Hush together with Eve’s Fan Garden is giving away a FLIP CAMERA!

All you have to do is complete the tasks requested HERE and cross your fingers to be the luck one!

The drawing will happen March 23, 2010.

In September 2010, the author organized Smart Chicks Kick It Tour will be visiting 6-8 cities. Once it’s organized by the authors, you can suggest cities you want them to visit! Check out the official site for the tour HERE.

Authors in tour:

Appearing at every stop: Melissa Marr, Alyson Noel and Kelley Armstrong.

Appearing at 3 stops: Holly Black and Cassandra Clare

Appearing at 1-2 stops: Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Sarah Rees Brennan, Rachel Caine, Melissa de la Cruz, Kimberly Derting, Becca Fitzpatrick, Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohi, Jackson Pearce, Mary Pearson, Carrie Ryan, Jeri Smith-Ready, Jessica Verday, Rachel Vincent.

Cities confirmed:

Brampton (Toronto), Austin/TX, San Diego/CA, Phoenix/AZ, San Francisco/CA, Los Angeles/CA, Jackson/MS.

You can also follow the Smart Chicks Kick It Tour on twitter – @SmartChicksTour.

Kelley Armstrong, Melissa Marr and Alyson Noel talk about the tour HERE.

Harper Teen released one more chapter of the final book of the Darkest Powers Series. Read The Reckoning chapter 7 HERE.

Title releasing 04/06/2010.

The Darkest Powers is not completely over. Kelley Armstrong announced that a second series featuring the Edison Group is coming, it will be called Darkness Rising (a suggestion made by a fan) . If you missed that post, read it HERE.