Welcome to YA Scavenger Hunt! This bi-annual event was first organized by author Colleen Houck as a way to give readers a chance to gain access to exclusive bonus material from their favorite authors…and a chance to win some awesome prizes! On this hunt, you not only get access to exclusive content from each author, you also get a clue for the hunt. Add up the clues, and you can enter for our prize–one lucky winner will receive one book from each author on the hunt in my team! But play fast: this contest (and all the exclusive bonus material) will only be online for 120 hours!
Go to the YA Scavenger Hunt page to find out all about the hunt. There are SEVEN contests going on simultaneously, and you can enter one or all! I am a part of the RED TEAM –but there is also a blue, green, gold, orange, pink, and a purple team for a chance to win a whole different set of books!
If you’d like to find out more about the hunt, see links to all the authors participating, and see the full list of prizes up for grabs, go to the YA Scavenger Hunt page.
SCAVENGER HUNT PUZZLE
Directions: Below, you’ll notice that I’ve listed my favorite number. Collect the favorite numbers of all the authors on the red team, and then add them up (don’t worry, you can use a calculator!).
Entry Form: Once you’ve added up all the numbers, make sure you fill out the form here to officially qualify for the grand prize. Only entries that have the correct number will qualify.
Rules: Open internationally, anyone below the age of 18 should have a parent or guardian’s permission to enter. To be eligible for the grand prize, you must submit the completed entry form by SUNDAY, October 7th, at noon Pacific Time. Entries sent without the correct number or without contact information will not be considered.
Today I am hosting the lovely and talented Amy Fellner Dominy for the YA Scavenger Hunt!
I’m a big fan of Amy’s, so I’m thrilled to tell you more about her and her latest, wonderful book (which I LOVED), The Fall of Grace!
Now, more about Amy: Amy is the award-winning author of novels for teens and tweens. Amy writes stories that will make you laugh, sigh, swoon…and if she breaks your heart just a little, she’ll patch it up by the end!
Find out more information by checking out the author website here!
COVER LOVE !!!
When Grace’s mother is accused of running a financial scam, a search for answers leads Grace to the mountains of Colorado. She’s followed by Sam who thinks she knows where $45 million dollars are hidden. To survive the mountains, they must learn to trust each other. But what answers wait for them at the top? Can the connection growing between them survive the truth? Can they?
This book is SOOOO good! You will love it!!!
EXCLUSIVE CONTENT:
From the wonderful Amy Fellner Dominy:
In the same way that music captures an emotion, a mood, a theme…quotes do that for me. I’ve got notecards with quotes on the walls in my office, on my computer desk, and even by my bed. Some quotes are more traditional sayings, some I pull from music lyrics or books and movies. All of them inspire me in my life, and they inspire me as an author.
For each book I write, I pull quotes that relate to my characters and the situations they face. You can find boards for each of my novels (with quotes) on Pinterest: Check them out and if you have favorite quotes that you think fit, let me know so I can add them!
The Fall of Grace, on the surface, is an adventure-survival story, a road-trip-romance with mystery and suspense. But at the heart of the book is a story of trust, betrayal, love and forgiveness. Here are a few of the quotes that I pinned as I wrote this novel. They were quotes that spoke to the experience of the two main characters, Grace and Sam. I hope you’ve never experienced betrayal, but if you have, they might speak to you, too.
Along with stealing amazing quotes from other people, I also like to come up with my own. Occasionally there’s a line from the book, spoken by a character, which begins to feel like a tagline for the story. This is one that stuck for The Fall of Grace.
Add The Fall of Grace to your TBR List on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35618373-the-fall-of-grace
Order Your Copy:
Amazon: The Fall of Grace
Barnes & Noble: The Fall of Grace
Or for an autographed / personalized copy, order through Amy’s home Indy bookstore, Changing Hands here
Connect with Amy online:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amydominy/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/amyfellnerdominyauthor/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/amydominy
Erin here again, and I really loved reading those quotes! They provide such great insight into the book. I especially love the one from The Fall of Grace.
And don’t forget to enter the contest for a chance to win a ton of books including a hardcover of UNCHARTED by me, Erin Cashman, and many more! To enter, you need to know that my favorite number is 9! Add up all the favorite numbers of the authors on the red team and you’ll have all the secret code to enter for the grand prize!
Go Team Red!!!!
And now, for my personal giveaway!!!
One winner will receive a hardcover of my new novel, Uncharted! Uncharted is a page-turning blend of fantasy, mystery, and romance, in which a young woman’s search for her missing father exposes her to an ancient secret that some would die to protect and others would kill to expose.
Winners in the separate giveaway will be contacted by Monday, October 8th and posted on the YASH website along with the grand prize winners.
Thanks for hunting with me today!! Good luck!
CONTINUE THE HUNT
To keep going on your quest for the hunt stop, you need to check out the next fabulous author – Caitlin Sangster!
Welcome to YA Scavenger Hunt! This bi-annual event was first organized by author Colleen Houck as a way to give readers a chance to gain access to exclusive bonus material from their favorite authors…and a chance to win some awesome prizes! On this hunt, you not only get access to exclusive content from each author, you also get a clue for the hunt. Add up the clues, and you can enter for our prize–one lucky winner will receive one book from each author on the hunt in my team! But play fast: this contest (and all the exclusive bonus material) will only be online for 120 hours!
Go to the YA Scavenger Hunt page to find out all about the hunt. There are SIX contests going on simultaneously, and you can enter one or all! I am a part of the RED TEAM –but there is also a blue team, a gold team, a green team, a purple team, and a pink team for a chance to win a whole different set of books!
If you’d like to find out more about the hunt, see links to all the authors participating, and see the full list of prizes up for grabs, go to the YA Scavenger Hunt page.
SCAVENGER HUNT PUZZLE
Directions: Below, you’ll notice that I’ve listed my favorite number. Collect the favorite numbers of all the authors on the red team, and then add them up (don’t worry, you can use a calculator!).
Entry Form: Once you’ve added up all the numbers, make sure you fill out the form here to officially qualify for the grand prize. Only entries that have the correct number will qualify.
Rules: Open internationally, anyone below the age of 18 should have a parent or guardian’s permission to enter. To be eligible for the grand prize, you must submit the completed entry form by SUNDAY, APRIL 8th, at noon Pacific Time. Entries sent without the correct number or without contact information will not be considered.
SCAVENGER HUNT POST
Today, I am hosting Anna Hecker on my website for the YA Scavenger Hunt! Anna Hecker grew up at the dead end of a dirt road in Vermont, and moved to New York City as soon as she possibly could. She holds an MFA from The New School and spent a decade writing ad copy and chasing beats before returning to fiction, her first love. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, son, and fluffy bundle of glamor, Cat Benatar. Follow her @HeckerBooks on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.
Find out more information by checking out the author website here and find more about the author’s book here!
EXCLUSIVE CONTENT
And don’t forget to enter the contest for a chance to win a ton of books including an ARC of UNCHARTED by me, Erin Cashman, and many more! To enter, you need to know that my favorite number is 904 – (the date UNCHARTED will be published!) Add up all the favorite numbers of the authors on the red team and you’ll have all the secret code to enter for the grand prize!
Hey, before I send you guys on your way, take a moment and enter my bonus giveaway! I’m giving away a signed copy of UNCHARTED, coming 9/4/18 from Page Street/Macmillan.
Seventeen-year-old Mira has always danced to her own beat. A music prodigy in a family of athletes, she’d rather play trumpet than play ball–and with her audition to a prestigious jazz conservatory just around the corner (and her two best friends at music camp without her), she plans to spend the summer focused on jazz and nothing else.
She only goes to the warehouse party in a last-ditch effort to bond with her older sister. Instead, she falls in love with dance music, DJing… and Derek, a gorgeous promoter who thinks he can make her a star. Suddenly, trumpet practice and old friendships are taking a back seat to packed dance floors and sun-soaked music festivals, outsized personalities and endless beats.
But when a devastating tragedy plunges her golden summer into darkness, Mira discovers just how little she knows about her new boyfriend, her old friends, and even her own sister. Music brought them together. Will it also tear them apart?
How wonderful does this book sound? I can’t wait to read it!!! And, you are in for a special treat – a deleted scene from WHEN THE BEAT DROPS!!!!
My experience with makeup begins and ends with my sister Britt giving me a smokey eye for my tenth grade recital, but I’ve watched her do her own dozens of times. It can’t be hard, right? I swipe the pencil across my lid. My hand shivers and the line screeches upward, jabbing into the crease.
I swear, glance in the mirror, and swear louder. I look like a deranged mime.
A car rumbles into the driveway and my phone buzzes. Of course it’s Derek, and of course he’s here. I scrub frantically at the mime makeup with soap and water. It doesn’t budge.
“What’s wrong with you?” I scream, squinting at the eye pencil through the soap that’s trickled into my eye. Its small lettering swims into focus. Waterproof. Great.
Be right there, I text Derek with one hand while throwing Britt’s cosmetics all over the bathroom with the other, looking for eye makeup remover. When I can’t find any I hobble-jog, squinting, to the downstairs bathroom where Mom keeps her stuff. I grab a small bottle labeled Eye Makeup Remover and dump it directly onto my skin, rubbing with my fingers. The line finally fades, leaving an oily patch around one bloodshot eye.
Coming? Derek texts from my driveway.
One minute!
Soap and water bring the oil down to a dull sheen but there’s nothing I can do about the scarlet veins on my eyeball. I’m just going to have to meet the hottest guy ever looking like I got stabbed in the eye with a fork.
I’m running excuses through my head (“I had an allergic reaction to bananas.” “I got stabbed in the eye with a fork”) when I spot Dad’s Ray-Bans on the kitchen table on my way out. Perfect. I nestle them over my nose, even though the sun has already gone down and I can barely see with them on. Half-blind, I step into the driveway, locking the door behind me.
“Sunglasses at night, huh?” Derek opens the door of a two-tone Chevy Astro, releasing a blast of intricate downtempo trip-hop. “You’re even cooler than I thought.”
“You’re ripping on my sunglasses? Check out your ride.”
The van looks like it drove here straight from the 1990s. The upholstery sags, the dashboard is fake wood, and the bucket seats up front are the only ones that haven’t been ripped out. The entire back is a jumble of sound equipment, posters, and random bolts of fabric.
“Damn right.” Derek shoots me a half-grin that turns my insides to molasses. “This thing is half moving truck, half VIP lounge, and all class. So, where to?”
And don’t forget to enter the contest for a chance to win a ton of books including an ARC of UNCHARTED by me, Erin Cashman, and many more! To enter, you need to know that my favorite number is 904 – (the date UNCHARTED will be published!) Add up all the favorite numbers of the authors on the red team and you’ll have all the secret code to enter for the grand prize!
CONTINUE THE HUNT
To keep going on your quest for the hunt, you need to check out the next author – Cole Gibsen!
Go Team Red!!!!
