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Welcome to this week’s M9B Friday Reveal! But wait it's a Thursday you're probably asking yourself! Yes it is but we have a super special reveal for you today and we will have a reveal tomorrow as well!
For a ticket to Earth, seventeen-year-old Anna-Maria “Ann” Solano is willing to jettison her birth planet, best friend, and the boy who loves her. Especially since all she’s required to do is escort Dace Keeling, a young naturalist, through the wilderness of the partially terraformed planet Eco. Ann‘s determination to escape the limitations of her small, frontier colony never falters, until Dace’s expeditions uncover three secrets. One offers riches, one shatters Ann’s perceptions of herself, and one reveals that the humans stranded on Eco are not its only inhabitants.
Ann’s willing to sacrifice friendship and love for a new life on Earth. But when an entire species is placed in jeopardy by her actions, she must make a choice – fulfill the dream that’s always sustained her, or save the planet she’s never considered home.
Now here's the trailer!
Vicki L. Weavil is represented by Fran Black of Literary Counsel. Her Young Adult Fantasy, CROWN OF ICE -- a dark YA retelling of H.C. Andersen's "The Snow Queen" -- is published by Month9Books. Two companion books to CROWN OF ICE -- SCEPTER OF FIRE and ORB OF LIGHT -- will be published in 2016 and 2017.
Her YA SciFi -- FACSIMILE -- will be published by Month9Books in 2016, with a sequel, DERIVATION, to follow.
A new YA Fantasy, THE DIAMOND THIMBLE, will be published by Month9Books in 2018.
She also writes adult SciFi.
Hey y’all!
Happy Super Bowl Sunday and welcome to my stop on the Scarlet Blog Tour!!!! I have an awesome guest post for you today
from Marissa about why she chose France as a setting and some wolfish
information too. Also make sure to check out my review of Scarlethere!
I also have a giveaway US/Canada only for a paperback of Cinder and a hardcover of Scarlet
to one lucky winner!
Cinder
returns in the second thrilling installment of the New York Times-bestselling
Lunar Chronicles. She’s trying to break out of prison—even though if she
succeeds, she’ll be the Commonwealth’s most wanted fugitive.
Halfway
around the world, Scarlet Benoit’s grandmother is missing. It turns out there
are many things Scarlet doesn’t know about her grandmother and the grave danger
she has lived in her whole life. When Scarlet encounters Wolf, a street fighter
who may have information as to her grandmother’s whereabouts, she has no choice
but to trust him, though he clearly has a few dark secrets of his own.
As
Scarlet and Wolf work to unravel one mystery, they find another when they cross
paths with Cinder. Together, they must stay one step ahead of the vicious Lunar
Queen who will do anything to make Prince Kai her husband, her king, her
prisoner.
Why France? Scarlet
and the Beast of Gévaudan
By Marissa Meyer
I get asked a lot about the
settings I’ve chosen for The Lunar Chronicles: China, France, the Sahara Desert…
Having been born and raised in America, it would have been easiest for me to
keep the series in a futuristic version of America, but setting the books in locations
around the globe was a decision I made very early on in the planning of this
series.
One of my main reasons was that I
wanted the series to feel big. A lot of problems that are facing the
characters—the plague, the war being threatened by the Lunars—are problems that
would impact every person on the planet. So by spreading out the story
locations I felt I could better convey the idea that these are big, scary,
global issues.
However, I still had to decide where,
exactly, to set each book. I’ve talked about my choice for China for Cinder on
my web site (http://www.marissameyer.com/faq),
and I’m sure I’ll talk more about choosing Africa for Cress in the future, but
for the purpose of this blog tour and the launch of Scarlet, today I’m answering:
Why France?
When I was first outlining Scarlet,
I had a vague idea that werewolves were going to play a part, taking on the
villainous role of the Big Bad Wolf. I wasn’t yet sure how “wolfy” they would
be or how that very paranormal creature was going to tie into my very
tech-oriented world, but I did know that I wanted a setting that would support
some sort of werewolf beings.
Specifically, I wanted a location
that already had a history of werewolves. Somewhere I could play up an almost
subconscious terror of these mythical beasts, even in a society in which no one
has given in to such superstitions for hundreds of years.
That didn’t exactly narrow it
down, though, as werewolf mythologies are found all over the world. Then one
evening, as I was skipping through channels on TV, I came across a documentary
on the Beast of Gévaudan.
The Beast of Gévaudan was an
animal described as being as large as a horse, with features resembling those
of a wolf, bear, or hyena. It was thought to be responsible for at least sixty
deaths in the farm areas surrounding Gévaudan in southern France in the
1760s—though some accounts put the death toll into the hundreds.
Many of the victims were
children, including a young girl who was found to have had her heart ripped out
of her chest.
However, the beast also attacked
and killed numerous women and even men—sometimes it would attack large hunting
groups, leaving multiple eye-witnesses behind.
The killings were never truly
solved, and it’s impossible to tell how much of the story was peasant
superstition and how much was fact. If the beast was real, it was like no
animal we know of today—both with regards to its physical description, but also
in the way that it hunted and devoured its prey. If the beast was a costumed human
doing the killings, it did not follow any sort of victim pattern that would fit
the modes of serial killers today.
In the 1760s, though, the
townsfolk were convinced that the Beast was a Loup-Garou—a Werewolf. They
believed that it was a human sorcerer who transformed into a vile beast in
order to prey on humans and eat their flesh.
Eventually, King Louis XV himself
put together a team of professional wolf hunters and charged them with finding
and killing the Beast. The hunt continued for months, while the killings piled
up. The hunters did kill an enormous wolf—the largest anyone had ever seen—and
they believed they had finally brought down the notorious Beast. However, a few
months later, two more children were killed…
When the Beast was finally killed
for real (at least, in theory), it was by a local hunter named Jean Chastel. As
the myth goes, Chastel shot the beast with a silver bullet after receiving a
tip from God himself.
(And thus began the mythology of
silver bullets alone being able to kill a werewolf.)
When I finished watching that
documentary, it seemed the choice had been made for me. Southern France not
only had a history of werewolf mythology, but it had a history that had
influenced the mythologies we still talk about today. A history that is still
largely based on an unsolved mystery, that merges elements of truth and legend,
that combines the reality of horrific killings and eye-witness accounts with
stories that have been skewed by superstition and terror.
So Scarlet came to be set in the
rural farmlands of southern France, where the Beast of Gévaudan had roamed the
countryside long before there was any notion of Queen Levana and her merciless
werewolf army.
Hey everyone! I’m so excited to reveal the
trailer for Opal (Lux Series#3) today! I absolutely love this series and can’t
wait to get my hands on Opal after
the ending of Onyx!
Opal (The third book in the Lux Series)
Available in both print and digital version on December 18, 2012 Goodreads Amazon Barnes and Noble
No one is like Daemon Black.
When he set out to prove his feelings for
me, he wasn’t fooling around. Doubting him isn’t something I’ll do again, and
now that we’ve made it through the rough patches, well... There’s a lot of
spontaneous combustion going on.
But even he can’t protect his family from
the danger of trying to free those they love.
After everything, I’m no longer the same
Katy. I’m different... And I’m not sure what that will mean in the end. When
each step we take in discovering the truth puts us in the path of the secret
organization responsible for torturing and testing hybrids, the more I realize
there is no end to what I’m capable of. The death of someone close still
lingers, help comes from the most unlikely source, and friends will become the
deadliest of enemies, but we won’t turn back. Even if the outcome will shatter
our worlds forever.
Together we’re stronger... and they know
it.
USA TODAY Bestselling
author, Jennifer L. Armentrout,
lives in Martinsburg, West Virginia. All the rumors you’ve heard about her
state aren’t true. When she’s not hard at work writing, she spends her time
reading, working out, watching really bad zombie movies, pretending to write,
and hanging out with her husband and her Jack Russell, Loki. Her dreams of
becoming an author started in algebra class where she spent most of her time
writing short stories….which explains her dismal grades in math. Jennifer
writes young adult paranormal, science fiction, fantasy, and contemporary
romance. She also writes adult romance under the name J. Lynn.
Ok y’all so to say I’m excited is not even close to how I feel right
now! I have not one but two book trailers for you today!!!! I’ve saw them both months
ago and it’s been really hard sitting on the awesomeness! But now I can finally
share both of the trailers with you! I am really excited for the Luminosity one
seeing as I’m Stephanie’s publicist and I’ve read the book. I can’t wait for
all of you to read it! And y’all know I’m dying to get my hands on Gravity!
So without further ado here are the trailers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Luminosity
Gravity
Haven’t heard of the books yet? Here’s the info…..
My name is Beatrice. When I was born, I was blessed with the Sight. I
was immediately removed from my parents and enrolled in the Institution. At the
age of twelve, I had my first true vision, earning my raven’s wings. And when I
turned seventeen, one of my visions came true. Things haven’t been the same
since.
The Institution depends on me to keep the City safe from our enemy,
the Dreamcatchers, but I’m finding it harder to do while keeping a secret from
everyone, including my best friend Gabe. It is a secret that could put us all
in danger. A secret that could kill me and everyone close to me.
But the enemy has been coming to me in my dreams, and I think I’m
falling in love with him. He says they’re coming. He says they’re angry. And I
think I’ve already helped them win.
Seventeen-year-old Ari Alexander just broke that rule and saw the last person
she expected hovering above her bed — arrogant Jackson Locke, the most popular
boy in her school. She expects instant execution or some kind of freak alien
punishment, but instead, Jackson issues a challenge: help him, or everyone on
Earth will die.
Ari knows she should report him, but everything about Jackson makes her
question what she’s been taught about his kind. And against her instincts,
she’s falling for him. But Ari isn’t just any girl, and Jackson wants more than
her attention. She’s a military legacy who’s been trained by her father and
exposed to war strategies and societal information no one can know — especially
an alien spy, like Jackson. Giving Jackson the information he needs will betray
her father and her country, but keeping silent will start a war.
About Stephanie:
Stephanie Thomas has been writing ever since she could put letters
together to form words. When she was a small child, she would present her
mother and father with self-made newspapers filled up with make believe stories
and pictures. Her love for writing followed her all throughout her schooling,
where she entered and won writing contests of all sorts. Stephanie decided to
become an English teacher and completed her B.A. at The Pennsylvania State
University. While teaching, she later went on to get her Master’s in writing
from The Johns Hopkins University. She completed her very first manuscript
during her graduate studies, and by the end of the program, she had completed
two more. Stephanie is quick to tell anyone that she’s a born and raised
Philadelphian, and her heart will always belong there. She moved to Baltimore
with her husband, and they’ve been living there for the last five years with
their doggie, Sailor, and their rabbit, Buns (aka “T Sizzle).
Melissa lives in a tiny suburb of Atlanta, GA with her husband and
daughter. She pretends to like yoga, actually likes shoes, and could not live
without coffee. Her writing heroes include greats like Jane Austen and
Madeleine L'Engle.
She holds a B.A. in Communication Studies and an M.S. in Graphic
Communication, both from Clemson University. Yeah, her blood runs orange.
