YAY! Great books and a contest! Okay folks, let’s do something a little different today. I just took my afternoon coffee break and stopped by Literary Rambles, Casey McCormick’s blog, and saw that she was participating in YA author Elana Johnson’s Spread the Awesome festival celebrating the best of YA books. Over 60 bloggers (posted so far) have named a book they felt deserved 10 stars–go here to check them out. Casey did a wonderful review of Wintergirls and, like the other participants, added a giveaway for anyone who commented on the post. I love this whole idea. BUT I was writing all day and didn’t get the memo until very late.
Sooooo….
If you’re a memo-misser like me, here’s your chance. Do you know any UNDERAPPRECIATED young adult authors? Any books that didn’t generate the buzz they deserve? Something you think is absolutely wonderful but didn’t make everyone else’s list?
Please share it with us! We’ll run this contest for two weeks taking nominations, and then we’ll compile a list of the submissions and ask everyone to pick their top five favorites. Hopefully, we’ll all come away with some great new books and encourage authors who deserve exposure.
To reward your nominations, we’ll follow the Spread the Awesome example add some prizes. We’ll draw five random winners and give away goodie bags each containing a great YA book (Fallen, Beautiful Creatures, Shiver, Hex Hall or Body Finder) for inspiration along with some tension-taming writing essentials like bath soak, aromatherapy stuff, and chocolate.
Winners will be selected at random. We’ll submit one entry for you for each of the following:
- Following the blog
- Commenting with a book recommendation (you can duplicate someone else’s recommendation, but we will only count one recommendation for each commenter per book. If you comment twice with the same recommendation, we will enter you only once. If you comment twice with two different recommendations, we will enter you twice.)
- Posting a link to this contest on your blog or website
- Retweeting a link to this contest
If you link to the post or tweet, please comment including the Twitter name you used or the page URL on your blog. Hopefully, we’ll find some great new blogs and tweeples at the same time we promo some fantastic authors.
This is going to be fun. Come recommend and comment and enjoy!
Martina & Marissa
