Last weekend I had the chance to stop by the Chills & Thrills Teen Book Tour at Book People. This leg of the stop featured TX YA authors, Sophie Jordan, Tera Lynn Childs, Lara Chapman, Tracy Deebs, Jennifer Archer, Mari Mancusi and Jordan Dane.
(From left to right: Lara Chapman, Jennifer Archer, Jordan Dane, Tracy Deebs, Sophie Jordan, Tera Lynn Childs, Mari Mancusi)
These ladies were so much fun! We all shared in a lot of laughs and enjoyed talking to them about their writing process, YA books, and the authors asked us in attendance how we find out about new books. There were a lot of bloggers there and many of us agreed that we find out about new books from other bloggers via their reviews, Waiting on Wednesdays, In My Mailbox and Goodreads, as well as recommendations from other authors.
(Sophie Jordan, Me, Tera Lynn Childs, Team #yaamer)
It was a lot of fun visiting with each author, being able to talk to them about their books. They had a lot of books to sign and I was so excited to talk to a few of the debut authors who's books I just received in the mail a few days before. Each author gave me some wonderful swag to giveaway on MM's. Here's what I'm giving away.....
- Signed Tempest Rising chapter sample & swag from Tracy Deebs
- bookmarks, temp. tattoos and signed Sweet Venom bookmark from Tera Lynn Childs
- signed Through Her Eyes book mark from Jennifer Archer
- signed Flawless bookmark from Lara Chapman & a pen
- signed bookmark from Jordan Dane
- Firelight bookmark from Sophie Jordan
Two winners will be drawn via random.org. The 1st winner will receive everything shown in the picture of above and the second winner will receive everything shown, except the signed Tempest Rising chapter sample & the Tempest Rising swag.
You can visit their site here to see more pictures from the Austin stop. If you've missed their first few stops don't worry, they have three more stops. You can visit them at the following places:
May 22, 2011
B&N NE Mall
2:00pm
Hurst, TX
May 28, 2011
Murder By The Book
4:30pm
Houston, TX
May 29, 2011
Katy Budget Books
2:00pm
Houston, TX