Top Ten Tuesday (50)- My Top Ten Blogging Friends That I'm Thankful For

Hi thanks for stopping by!!! And welcome to my Top 10 Tuesday post! 

Thanks to the lovely ladies at The Broke And The Bookish for creating this weekly meme!

Here's this week's topic.

November 24: Thanksgiving themed Freebie -- ten books I'm thankful for, authors I'm thankful for, Ten fictional families I'd like to celebrate Thanksgiving with, a personal non-bookish thankful list, etc. etc.

I'm going to do blogger friends I'm thankful for! I'm going to link to their twitter's and blogs so you can follow them if you'd like!

1. Rachel from Fiktshun. She's one of my bff's and my business partner. I don't know what I would do if I didn't have her ear to bend.

2. Mindy from Magical Urban Fantasy Reads. Another bff IRL. She's one of the first bloggers I met in person (we drove to a Melissa Marr event together without even knowing one another) and we have been friends ever since.

3. Nancy from Tales of A Ravenous Reader. Another bff IRL. What she doesn't know is that she was the inspiration for me to start blogging! I met her at the Smart Chicks Kick It tour before I had a blog and she and I became fast friends.

4. Sophie from Mundie Moms and Page Turners. Sophie is another local and when I first met her I have to admit to being a bit intimidated, I mean she blogged for such huge sites! But she one of the sweetest people and I adore her!

5. Amber from Me My Shelf and I. We weren't close in the beginning but have become great friends and I honestly don't know what I'd do if I didn't have her as a sounding board.

6. Rachel from A Perfection Called Books. Rachel is a newer friend but she's always around to help out and she is co-captain of the Tsar's Guard with me!

7. Bridget from Dark Faerie Tales. If I had a book twin I swear Bridget would be it! We love all the same books and hate all the same books. So when I need a reading rec I reach out to her first.

8. Brittany from Please Feed The Bookworm.  Brittany is another newer blogger friend (not that her blog is new it just took a while for us to connect) she's always there for a book rec and I love her blog!

9. Jenna and Crystal from Bookemoji. I've known these two for what seems like forever back when each had their own blogs! I love these ladies for their book recs and their creativity!

10. Leydy, Bri, and Yara from Once Upon A Twilight. OuAT is the same age as Two Chicks on Books so I feel like we've grown up together in the blogging world (although OuAT is a much huger blog than mine lol) but I love these ladies they're always there for a blog tour stop or a crazy idea like the Nefarious Nine lol.

So what about you? What are your favorite book To Movie or TV Adaptations? And come back next week for my Top Ten 2016 Debuts Novels We Are Looking Forward To!

Hugs,

Jaime

Top 10 of 2013- Sign up for all the fun!!!!!!

WOW! Has the year flown by or what? 

I can’t believe we’re ready for another fun filled week where we look back at some of the best of all things books of 2013 and what books we’re looking forward to in 2014. Last year was a blast co-hosting the event with some of my favorite fellow bloggers –Lisa from A Life Bound By Books, Jessica from Confessions of a Bookaholic, Rachel from Fiktshun, and Mindy from Magical Urban Fantasy Reads! This year unfortunately Lisa and Jessica will not be hosting the event with us due to their busy lives but they both hope to be back in 2014! We will miss you ladies! *Hugs*

The event runs for five consecutive days, the last week of the year. Five days of some of our favorite lists and we invite ALL of YOU to join in on the fun and share your lists with everyone too!

Each day of the event we hope you’ll visit one of the hosting blogs and share your list with the Linky that will be provided. Just be sure you follow which lists goes on which day. Speaking of... here’s what we’re doing for this years event !


Monday, December 23^rd – Best Books I’ve Read in 2013 (Doesn’t have to be released in 2013, just a book you’ve read in 2013)

Tuesday, December 24^th – Best Book Covers of 2013 (MUST be a book released in 2013. Would be best if it’s a book you’ve READ in 2013, but it’s not required)

Wednesday, December 25^th – Best ________ Of 2013 (Readers/Bloggers choice. Please fill in the blank with ONE or More of these topics – Villains, Contemporaries, Dual POV’s, Novellas, Adult titles, New Adult titles, Love Triangles, Couples, Bad Boys or Debuts. REMEMBER – this list MUST be from books you’ve READ in 2013)

Thursday, December 26^th – Best Book Boyfriends of 2013 (MUST be from a book released in 2013 and from a book you’ve READ in 2013)

Friday, December 27^th – Top 10 Books I’m looking forward to in 2014. (This list should be comprised of books released ONLY in 2014)


How you do these posts/lists is totally up to you. What books, covers and characters you pick are all your own.

The only rules to follow are posting the topics on the dates we’ve provided.

Now, I know what you’re all thinking. That this will be hard to keep to 10. Some of you might like to break the lists up a bit. Working with a Top 10 for YA books and then a Top 10 for Adult titles. Feel free to add honorable mentions if you’re also having a hard time sticking to 10. However, with the honorable mentions, please try to keep it to a minimum or it kind of defeats the whole purpose of things.

Our main focus of this event is for YOU to join in and share your lists with us all and for everyone to visit each other’s blogs’ and see what books have made it on THEIR lists.

The event is simple. Follow the dates and list topics as provided and fill out the linky below. This gives us an idea who will be joining us for the Top 10 week. THEN, be sure to come back to one of our blogs on each of the five days and link up your post for that specific day! Just remember, each day will have a linky for THAT Top 10 topic.

Also, you don’t want to miss a day during the event. We just might have some giveaways up our sleeves and joining in the event, keeping up with our and everyone lists just might help you enter to win! Additional giveaway details to follow, so keep checking back to find out what we’re giving away and when!

And don’t forget to snag our button and to help spread the word for the event. We’d love to have anyone and everyone join us this year. The more the merrier! 

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NOTE: this is the SAME Linky on each of the Co-Hosts Blogs, so please only enter your Name, Blog Name and URL on one blog. Thanks!

Be sure to take the button provided for the event and display it on your blog and link it back to this post so anyone who wants to find out more info about the event easily knows how to find us.

We hope everyone who reads this will be as excited for this event as we are and we can't wait to check out all of your lists!

Authors Are Rockstars- It's a Wrap!

August has ended and so has the 2nd Annual Authors Are Rockstars Tour. This year’s event, with over 160 authors on tour, was a bit more of a challenge, but still a lot of fun.

There were guest posts, interviews, dueling interviews in which two authors interviewed each other, playlists, top ten lists, deleted scenes, excerpts, a chat and much, much more.

This year’s author participants sent along some amazing posts for their blog hosts, proving our point that authors are in fact rockstars. And the bloggers that hosted their favorite rockstar authors did a phenomenal job of showing those who stopped by exactly why their author was a rockstar.

In the end we had 168 participating authors plus one author spotlight and 155 bloggers involved in this event. Which was totally surprising and absolutely amazing. Even with a few mishaps along the way we definitely consider this event a success.

If August was as crazy a month for you as it was for us and you didn't get a chance to visit all the stops, CLICK HERE for the full lineup with direct links to each of the stops on tour. There may even be a few giveaways still open, so be sure to check them out.

For this year's event we were honored to welcome back a number of authors from last year and were thrilled to welcome a number of new authors to the tour. Some of the author participants have long been on our rockstar authors list but we are totally stoked to be able to call many new or new-to-us authors rockstars this year.

We hope, for both readers and author and blogger participants alike, that this event was a lot of fun. And we hope that with this year's tour we were able to put a few new authors and bloggers on your radar.

The authors on tour this year are all ones we consider rockstars, but they are not all the authors we consider rockstars. While we would have loved to include every single rockstar author on our tour, we are only three bloggers and can only do so much. But we were super excited to be able to add to the number of authors we had on tour last year.

When we hosted this event last year it was only ever intended to be a one-time event. And while we decided to do this again this year, we currently do not have plans to do this again next year. It's eleven months away and who knows where we'll be. But you never know... anything is possible....



The Tour Giveaways

We will each be announcing the winners of our tour "kick-off" giveaways on our respective blogs next weekend. So be sure to stop by to see if you won. Winners will also be contacted by email after the announcements have gone live.

To Those We Owe Thanks

Firstly we cannot thank the authors enough for generously giving of their time to this event. Taking the time away from their busy writing and editing schedules to create the posts and answer the questions and to support this event means the world to us.

Without them there would be no event. And we are eternally grateful.

Once again we have to thank the wonderful team at Harlequin TEEN for their unfailing support of each and every one of their authors by offering their books for giveaway and for helping to spread the word about this event.

And, of course, we have to thank the wonderful blog hosts who wrote such heartfelt passages about why their author was a rockstar, who came up with interesting topics and questions for the authors they adore, and who put together some pretty fantastic posts which gave readers the chance to learn a bit more about each of the participating authors on tour.

We'd also like to give a special thanks to Lost at Midnight Reviews for putting together an amazing post spotlighting her rockstar author when circumstances prevented her from being able to participate. If we hadn't already considered her author a rockstar, we most certainly would have after reading her post.

And last, but absolutely not least, we would like to thank all of the readers who followed the tour, left comments sharing their thoughts about the rockstar authors on each of the blog stops, who helped to spread the word about this year's event, and who share their enthusiasm and love for the authors year after year by reading their books and spreading the word to anyone who will listen.

Every single one of you totally rocks!

From One Host to Another

This year's event couldn't be the success it was without both Rachel of Fiktshun and Mindy of Magical Urban Fantasy Reads co-hosting with me.

There is no way we could have pulled off an event as large as this year's event without being able to work together as a team. And I felt like together we were an amazing, rockstar, awesomesauce team!

Rachel and I definitely couldn't have done this with just the two of us like we did last year; with the crazy amount of authors who said yes . But with the three of us we rocked it and Rachel and Mindy were absolutely amazing to work with! I'm so glad to have had Mindy on board this year. I'm sure I speak for Rachel when I say that we couldn't have done this without you.

I have always considered Rachel a rockstar and without a doubt Mindy totally rocks, too. So I cannot thank you both enough for making this event a rockstar event and picking up the slack when I got sick or had a crazy amount of work to do.



Well, that just about does it....

If we've forgotten to thank anyone, we are so, so sorry. While the event has ended, we are still knee-deep in giveaways, so we are still just a bit frazzled. So... just in case someone was missed, we'd like to thank everyone!

Thank you everyone!

The Authors Are Rockstars Giveaway Winners will be posted next weekend, so be sure to stop by each of our blogs to see if you've won.

But for now... it’s a wrap.

Bloggers ARE Rockstars, Too Giveaway!

In less than two days we'll be kicking off the 2nd Annual Authors Are Rockstars Tour. We have some seriously amazing authors on this year's tour. But the blog hosts we have for this year's event are also awesome.

Yes, we think bloggers can be rockstars too!

And so, before the event kicks off, we wanted to thank the bloggers who are hosting all of these incredible authors throughout the month of August.

You have all been amazing and without you, too, this event couldn't be the success it will be and already is!

So....

THANK YOU!

And while we'd have loved to be able to give something to each of the participating bloggers, as we have well over 150 blogger hosts on tour, it's just not feasible.

So, instead, we're offering up a couple of signed books for giveaway as a way of saying thank you. It is ONLY open to the blogger hosts on tour. And we're keeping it open until August 15th just in case any of the hosts who are interested in entering can enter.

What's up for grabs?

A SIGNED copy of THE TESTING by Joelle Charbonneau + a SIGNED copy of THE 5th WAVE by Rick Yancey and some Authors Are Rockstars stickers - to ONE Winner

  The Deets

- MUST be an Authors Are Rockstars Blog Host!

- Giveaway IS International

- There will be ONE Winner

- There are NO requirements to like or follow, but leaving a comment is always appreciated!

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AUTHORS ARE ROCKSTARS ON TOUR- Announcing the Tour Stops!

We are super thrilled to announce the line-up for the 2ND ANNUAL AUTHORS ARE ROCKSTARS TOUR! While there are a few spots still available, should we get any last-minute adds, we wanted to post the list of participating authors and bloggers now!

Currently we have 166 confirmed stops on tour this August. Which means that most days will have five or more stops. And who knows? We may just reach our magic number of 186 before the tour is over.

We are so excited for this tour to begin on August 1st. As it's just a couple of weeks away we don't have too much longer to wait. Which is a good thing. The anticipation is killing us!

The tour will consist of guest posts and interviews - and a few bloggers have even mentioned they'll be adding reviews to their posts. Some of the stops may even have giveaways hosted by the author or the blogger or both. And every blogger will also be sharing their reason why they think the author they're hosting is a rockstar.

So if you want to know why the bloggers on tour think their author rocks, be sure to visit all the stops.

When we started this event last year, we wanted the community to be able to join in something fun together and we wanted to put the authors that make each and every day of blogging worthwhile in the spotlight. We think we accomplished that. And we hope that we can achieve that again this year.

And what would make this event even more awesome is for you to check out a few - or all - of the stops on tour, say "hi" to the authors and blogger hosts on the tour and to share your thoughts about your favorites in the comments.

The tour will kick-off on each of our blogs with information about the upcoming tour and with the month-long giveaways we are hosting on August 1st. We will also be hosting the first three authors on the tour that day.

If we have any new adds to the tour, we will update the schedule in this post. So be sure to check back before August 1st to see the most up-to-date schedule!

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The Tour

August 1st

Tour Kick-off Posts at Fiktshun, Two Chicks on Books and Magical Urban Fantasy Reads

Rachel Vincent stops at Fiktshun
Page Morgan stops at Two Chicks on Books
Andrea Cremer stops at Magical Urban Fantasy Reads

August 2nd

Leigh Fallon stops at A Soul Unsung
Dawn Metcalf stops at Kaidan's Seduction
Kim Harrington stops at Stories & Sweeties
Amanda Sun stops at I Am, Indeed
Cecily White stops at A Dream Within A Dream
Katlyn Duncan stops at Two Chicks on Books
Katie McGarry stops at Bewitched Bookworms (also on 8/9, 8/16, 8/23, 8/30)

August 3rd

Karen Ann Hopkins stops at A Bookish Escape
Lisa Burstein stops at Jenna Does Books
Corrine Jackson stops at NightlyReading (Priscilla)
Hannah Moskowitz stops at Book Jems
Jennifer Banash stops at Bittersweet Enchantment
Miranda Kenneally stops at Book Nerd Canada

August 4th

Jessica Spotswood stops at Fiktshun
Katherine Longshore stops at A Glass of Wine
Amy Butler Greenfield stops at The Eater of Books!
Cat Winters stops at Carina's Books

August 5th

Dan Wells stops at Magical Urban Fantasy Reads
Elana Johnson stops at Fire and Ice
Joelle Charbonneau stops at The Book Cellar
Lisa M. Stasse stops at Downright Dystopian
Mike Mullin stops at Paranormal Reads
Ammi-Joan Paquette stops at Word Spelunking

August 6th

Amanda Hocking stops at Just Another Rabid Reader
Chloe Neill stops at Avery's Book Nook
Anna Banks stops at Icey Books
Shannon Messenger stops at Musings of a Blodger
Gabrielle Zevin stops at YA Romantics
Heidi Kling stops at Burning Impossibly Bright
Robin LaFevers stops at Once Upon a Twilight

August 7th

Amy Tintera stops at Emily's Crammed Bookshelf
Dan Krokos stops at Step Into Fiction
Heather Anastasiu stops at Shortie Says
J.A. Souders stops at Little Read Riding Hood
Jennifer Rush stops at The Book Hookup

August 8th

Becca Fitzpatrick stops at The Reading Geek
Cynthia Hand stops at Kari's Crowded Bookshelf
Leah Clifford at Me, My Shelf and I
Wendy Higgins at Reading with ABC
Suzanne Lazear stops at What the Cat Read
Gina Damico stops at Lili Lost in a Book

August 9th

Jodi Meadows stops at That Artsy Reader Girl
Renee Collins stops at Book Labyrinth
Sherry Thomas stops at Moonlight Gleam's Bookshelf
Cinda Williams Chima stops at Tsk, Tsk, What to Read? (Shelley)

August 10th

Sarah Ockler stops at Katie's Book Blog
Jennifer Echols stops at In the Best Worlds
Kimberly Sabatini stops at Just a Booklover
Chelsea Pitcher stops at The Phantom Paragrapher
Jennifer Castle stops at Confessions of a Bookaholic
Jenny Han stops at Blog-o-rama

August 11th

Kasie West stops at Fic Fare
Julie Cross stops at Turning Pages
Lauren Miller stops at A Book Obsession
Elizabeth Norris stops at Shiirleyy's Bookshelf
Myra McEntire stops at Jenuine Cupcakes

August 12th
Sophie Jordan stops at IB Book Blogging
Kathleen Peacock stops at The Book Belles
Jordan Dane stops at Paranormal Book Club
Laura Toffler-Corrie stops at I'll Tumble for YA
Michelle Zink stops at FIKTSHUN

August 13th

Aimee Carter stops at Never Too Fond of Books
Lesley Livingston stops at Emilie's Book World
Talia Vance stops at BookPics
Tessa Gratton stops at Lisa Loves Literature
Josephine Angelini stops at Books As You Know It
Jackie Morse-Kessler stops at Chapter by Chapter

August 14th

Claudia Gray stops at Realm of the Sapphired Dragon
Cara Lynn Shultz stops at Tar Heel Bibliobabe
Danielle Ellison stops at Tater's Tall Tales
Sarah Beth Durst stops at Magical Urban Fantasy Reads
Scott Tracey stops at The Fake Steph Dot Com
Brittany Geragotelis stops at BookMark Belles

August 15th

A.G. Howard stops at Dark Faerie Tales
Gena Showalter stops at Parajunkee
Bethany Griffin stops at The Bookish Brunette
Mary Lindsey stops at Nocturne Romance Reads
April Lindner stops at Curling Up With A Good Book
Sarwat Chadda stops at Bookalicious

August 16th

Sarah J. Maas stops at Fictitious Delicious
Susan Dennard stops at The YA Sisterhood
Chloe Jacobs stops at Readers Live A Thousand Lives
Rachel Harris stops at We All Make Mistakes In Books
Fiona Paul stops at Fiction Freak
Kami Garcia stops at Bookalicious

 

August 17th

Kiki Hamilton stops at Tsk, Tsk, What to Read? (Kathryn)
Amanda Ashby stops at Rampant Readers
Alex Kahler stops at Sweet Southern Home
Tara Fuller stops at City of Books
Cyn Balog stops at I Heart YA Books
Megan Shepherd stops at Daydreaming bookworm

August 18th

Jennifer Bosworth stops at The Reading Nook Reviews (Jess)
Jus Accardo stops at NightlyReading (H. Lee)
Kelly Keaton stops at Into the Mystic
Victoria Schwab stops at Wholly Books
Jennifer Archer stops at Book Chic Club

August 19th

T. Michael Martin stops at The Reading Nook Reviews (Elliot)
Alexandra Monir stops at The Bo0ki3
Trisha Wolfe stops at Bookish Things and More
Mary Gray stops at Say It With Books
Georgia McBride stops at Books of Love

August 20th

Elsie Chapman stops at Sparkles and Lightning
Suzanne Young stops at Peace, Love, Teen Fiction
Mindy McGinnis stops at WinterHaven Books (Amber)
Emmy Laybourne stops at Paper Cuts
Kristen Simmons stops at Stuck in YA Books

August 21st

Josin McQuein stops at Another Novel Read
Gennifer Albin stops at BookHounds YA
Erin Bowman stops at Good Choice Reading
Lenore Appelhans stops at Scott Reads It
Jessica Brody stops at Good Books and Good Wine

August 22nd

Michelle Gagnon stops at The Princess of Storyland
Julia Karr stops at Mostly YA Books Obsessed
Debra Driza stops at Justin's Book Blog
T.M. Goeglein stops at Read-A-holicZ
Tiffany Truitt stops at Book Loving Mom
Mari Mancusi stops at Hopelessly Devoted Bibliophile
Alexander Gordon Smith stops at Smiling Ina's Bookish Corner


August 23rd

Gayle Forman stops at WinterHaven Books (Crystal)
Megan Miranda stops at Chick Loves Lit
Nova Ren Suma stops at Lost At Midnight Reviews
Marni Bates stops at Alexa Loves Books
Robin Mellom stops at My Guilty Obsession

Elana K. Arnold stops at The BookBarbies
Kendra Highley stops at Book Soulmates

 


August 24th

Liz Coley stops at Inspiring Insomnia
Sarah Guillory stops at Kate's Tales of Books and Bands
J.K. Rock stops at Beauty and the Bookshelf
Ann Redisch-Stampler stops at Living in a Bookworld
Claire LaZebnik stops at Owl Always Be Reading

August 25th

Jennifer L. Armentrout stops at Mundie Moms
Tahereh Mafi stops at Some Like It Paranormal
Stacey Kade stops at Books With Bite
Melissa West stops at K-Books
Karri Thompson stops at Dizneeee's World of Books

August 26th

Gretchen McNeil stops at Gone Pecan
Jeri Smith-Ready stops at The Reader's Antidote
Jessi Kirby stops at My 5 Monkeys
Louise Rozett stops at Books are Magic

August 27th

Ann Aguirre stops at Supernatural Snark
Lauren Oliver stops at Fantasy Book Addict
Melissa de la Cruz stops at In Wonderland
Sarah Crossan stops at Singing and Reading in the Rain
Veronica Rossi stops at The Happy Booker

August 28th

Lisa Desrochers stops at Page Turners
Kristi Cook stops at Debbie's World of Books
Victoria Scott stops at The Book Goddess
Elizabeth Miles stops at Read My Breath Away
Cristin Bishara stops at Two Chicks on Books 
Naomi Canale stops at Fiktshun
 
August 29th

C.J. Redwine stops at A Life Bound By Books
Elizabeth Richards stops at Literary Exploration
Leigh Bardugo stops at Cuddlebuggery
Michelle Rowen/Morgan Rhodes stops at Tales of the Ravenous Reader
Rae Carson stops at The Reviews News
Ilsa J Bick stops at Parajunkee 
Vivi Barnes stops at FIKTSHUN

August 30th

Heather Brewer stops at Two Chicks on Books
Rachel Caine stops at Poisoned Rationality
C.C. Hunter stops at Tween 2 Teen Book Reviews
Allison van Diepen stops at Magical Urban Fantasy Reads
Christine Johnson stops at Melissa's Eclectic Bookshelf
Aimee Agresti stops at Ali's Bookshelf

August 31st

Simone Elkeles stops at Fiktshun
Maria V. Snyder stops at Two Chicks on Books
Karsten Knight stops at Magical Urban Fantasy Reads



Tour Wrap-up Posts at Fiktshun, Two Chicks on Books and Magical Urban Fantasy Reads

Giveaway!!! Signed Sets of Wake and Lullaby by Amanda Hocking!

Hey ya’ll I have an awesome giveaway for you! The lovely Rachel from Fiktshun is a huge fan of Amanda Hocking and Amanda is a huge supporter of Rachel! So she decided to send her a boat load of signed books! And Rachel being the generous one that she is wanted to share the love. Yep that means she has given me books to give away here at Two Chicks on Books! I have 5 signed sets up for grabs so make sure to fill out the Rafflecopter form below.

Want to see the boat load of books? Look at the slideshow and then come back here to enter!

Click to view slideshow.

Oh and not only do I get to share the love but Rachel has asked Rachel of Parajunkee’s View and Mindy of Magical Urban Fantasy Reads to host giveaways as well so you have 4 different blogs you can enter to win a signed set from. So make sure to check their blogs in the near future for more chances to win!

The Giveaway

The Giveaway

What’s Up for Grabs

A signed set of WAKE and LULLABY in paperback format for (5) Winners.

Details:

There will be FIVE  winners

Giveaway is US Only

Must be 13 or older to enter

Winners will be chosen by Rafflecopter

Winners will be announced in the Rafflecopter and contacted by email

Winners will have 48 hours after notification to respond

As always there is no requirement to like or follow, just click the free entry button, but there are a few extra entry opportunities.

Enter in the Rafflecopter below…

About WAKE (Watersong #1)

Fall under the spell of Wake—the first book in an achingly beautiful new series by celebrated author Amanda Hocking—and lose yourself to the Watersong.

Gorgeous. Fearless. Dangerous. They're the kind of girls you envy; the kind of girls you want to hate. Strangers in town for the summer, Penn, Lexi and Thea have caught everyone's attention—but it’s Gemma who’s attracted theirs. She’s the one they’ve chosen to be part of their group.

Gemma seems to have it all—she’s carefree, pretty, and falling in love with Alex, the boy next door. He’s always been just a friend, but this summer they’ve taken their relationship to the next level, and now there’s no going back. Then one night, Gemma’s ordinary life changes forever. She’s taking a late night swim under the stars when she finds Penn, Lexi and Thea partying on the cove. They invite her to join them, and the next morning she wakes up on the beach feeling groggy and sick, knowing something is different.

Suddenly Gemma is stronger, faster, and more beautiful than ever. But her new powers come with a terrifying price. And as she uncovers the truth, she’s is forced to choose between staying with those she loves—or entering a new world brimming with dark hungers and unimaginable secrets.

GOODREADS | AMAZON | BARNES & NOBLE

About LULLABY (Watersong #2)

Harper only wanted a safe, normal life. But when her younger sister Gemma runs off with a dangerous clique of beautiful girls, Penn, Thea, and Lexi, everything changes. Vowing to get her sister back no matter what the cost, Harper must face dangers unlike any she's ever experienced. Fortunately, she has Daniel by her side, a gorgeous guy who's devoted to helping her find her sister—and who's immune to the girls' dark powers.

While Harper searches for her sister, Gemma struggles to adjust to her new life. Gemma's powers are growing by the day, and the longer she lives with her new "sisters," the harder it is to resist entering their magical world. It's a realm both dark and beautiful, and where she's plagued by strange hungers and unspeakable needs. Just as she's drifting far away from her old life, Harper and Daniel find her...but no one can deny how much she's changed. All she wants is to return to her family and the mortal world, but how can she do that when she's become something else entirely—and will they still love her once they learn the truth?

Prepare to fall under the spell of Lullaby, the second book in the Watersong series from New York Times bestselling author Amanda Hocking.

GOODREADS | AMAZON | BARNES & NOBLE

The Watersong Series

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About the Author

Amanda Hocking is the USA Today bestselling author of the Trylle trilogy and six additional self-published novels. After selling over a million copies of her books, primarily in eBook format, she is widely considered the exemplar of self-publishing success in the digital age.


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