Summer Giveaway Hop

Happy Summer! Thanks to I Am A Reader and BookHounds for hosting this giveaway hop! For this hop we've decided to giveaway copies of Songbird, Lie to Me, and Heal Me. 2 winners will receive copies of Songbird, while another 2 winners will receive copies of both Lie to Me and Heal Me. After entering don't forget to check out all of the other blogs participating in the hop for more chances to win great prizes!

Songbird  
There are defining moments in life when everything changes. For Dani Mays, it was the day she witnessed her father kill her brother. Now seventeen years-old, she still hasn't put it behind her. After Jace's death, she bounced between her alcoholic mother and foster homes, until she found a permanent place. And a reason to want to stay: Reece Tyler. He's her best friend, yet Dani wants more from Reece. Faced with losing Reece, Dani struggles to define his place in her life and escape the influence her memories of her brother's death have over her choices. Even as she weaves the pieces of her heart back together, the past becomes more than a memory when a former foster brother reappears and Dani begins receiving threatening phone calls.    

Lie to Me
With a Truth Telling gift that has never worked, Phoebe Matlin accepted long ago that she was broken. Then one simple lie changes everything and suddenly the whisper of liar is ripping through her. Some lies, though, cover darker truths than Phoebe ever imagined. But knowing when someone is lying is the easy part. It's convincing everyone else that's the problem.

Heal Me
Her sisters think Lily has the easy gift. Who wouldn't love to heal people with a touch? But all that pain has to go somewhere and Lily's the one taking it all in. Then someone close to her dies and Lily's life spins out of control. Desperate to feel something, she clings to her friend Micah. When she begins falling for him, she realizes healing others is easy. It's healing herself that is much harder.




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Book Blitz: Wicked Hunger by DelSheree Gladden

Wicked Hunger (SomeOne Wicked This Way Comes, #1)  
by DelSheree Gladden
Published: July 9, 2013  
Publisher: GMTA Publishing  

Synopsis:  
Vanessa and Zander Roth are good at lying. They have to be when they are hiding a deadly secret. Day after day, they struggle to rein in their uncontrollable hunger for pain and suffering in order to live normal lives. Things only get worse when Ivy Guerra appears with her pink-striped hair and secrets. The vicious hunger Ivy inspires is frightening, not to mention suspicious. Vanessa’s instincts are rarely wrong, so when they tell her that Ivy’s appearance is a sign of bad things to come, she listens. She becomes determined to expose Ivy’s secrets. 

Vanessa tries to warn her brother, but Zander is too enamored with Ivy to pay attention to her conspiracy theories. One of them is right about Ivy … but if they lose control of their hunger, it won’t matter who is right and who is wrong. One little slip, and they’ll all be dead.

 

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Wicked Hunger

by DelSheree Gladden

Giveaway ends July 31, 2013. See the giveaway details at Goodreads.

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Excerpt:  
Chapter 3: No Happy Endings  

"I want you to stay away from that girl,” I say. 
 
“But she’s Laney’s cousin. I can’t avoid her without doing the same to Laney.”  

“Maybe that’s just how it has to be, then.” Giving up friends, it’s something Van should get used to, now, because it isn’t going to stop any time soon.  

Van shakes her head. “No, Zander. She’s my best friend. I’m not going to bail on Laney like that.”  

“You think she’ll be happy you stayed friends with her when you kill her pretty little cousin?” I snap.  

Her head drops down, but I can still see the corner of her mouth twitching. “I can control it. I won’t hurt her.”  

“You can’t guarantee that.”  

“I won’t live like you,” she says quietly. “I won’t live alone for the rest of my life because I’m scared of hurting people.”  

I sigh and close my eyes. “It’s not about being scared, Van. It’s about being smart. Stay away from her.”  

For a long moment, she doesn’t say anything. Deep down, I’m hoping with everything I have that she’ll listen to me. I can’t go through it again. Oscar nearly broke me. She can’t expect me to go through that with her. I won’t make it. Please just listen to me, I beg.  

When she finally speaks, her voice startles me. “She knows something.”  

It’s just a simple sentence, but it ignites my anger like a match to a fuse. 

“She doesn’t know anything! Nobody does. Get that through your head and quit looking for answers, Van!”  
My sister’s head snaps up and my hands tighten into fists at the determination in her eyes. 

“She knows something, and I’m going to find out what it is.”  

Then she throws open the door of the truck and runs away.  

About the Author:  
I live in New Mexico with my husband and two children. I love expressing my creativity through writing and painting and I get a lot of my inspiration from my family and from the culture and beauty of New Mexico. I write mainly Young Adult urban fantasy, but my writing interests are ever expanding. I am also currently in the Dental Hygiene Program at San Juan College, so 90% of my waking hours are devoted to thinking about teeth for the time being!

Author Links: Website / Facebook / Twitter / Goodreads / Amazon 
 

Blog Tour: In the Winds of Danger

Linda Ulleseit breathes enchantment and beauty into her winged horses in book two in this spellbinding series

This book comes after ON A WING AND A DARE, (which I very much loved) but follows different characters. Although, I did get a glimpse of some of my favorite characters from the first book, such as Evan, Davyd and Emma, the page time Emma receives is strong with dedication, knowledge and the sound mind she has built in book one. Emma's strong personality is very helpful to the main plot of IN THE WINDS OF DANGER which focuses on a groom named Owain and a rider named Nia.

Owain was introduced in the first book as the young groom to Adain, Emma’s horse. Here he is older, more sure of his position in High Meadow among the barns of flying horses. That is, until Geoffrey arrives from Merioneth. The new man knows more about Owain’s past than Owain himself remembers. His frequent nightmares hint of great wrongdoing, of injury and death, and threat. And he recognizes Geoffrey from the dream. Owain decides to travel to Merioneth to find out the truth about the past he can’t remember. Owain’s story is about coming to grips with your past before you can embark on the future. As long as his past haunts him, Owain cannot move forward.

Nia, on the other hand, is a very confident young lady. Although she hasn’t been a rider very long, she’s very skilled and a natural leader. High Meadow is growing and will need a third barn of flying horses soon. The current leaders are determined to make sure the new leader is someone they can control. Both factions secretly approach Nia to lead. She is flattered to be asked, but angry that they think she is so easily manipulated. Now she has to figure out how to become a leader who is beholden to no one.

This book is full of mystery, deception, and true friendship. I recommend both books for all ages, and anyone who loves horses.

Susan Stec, author, The Grateful Undead series 

http://flyinghorsebooks.wordpress.com/

https://www.facebook.com/linda.ulleseit 

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4624551.Linda_Ulleseit 

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Cover Reveal for Wicked Hunger by DelSheree Gladden

Wicked Hunger: SomeOne Wicked This Way Comes

by DelSheree Gladden  
Release Date: July 9th
Genre: YA Urban Fantasy  
Length: 95,000 words/240 pages  
Publisher: GMTA Publishing LLC  
Presented by: As You Wish Tours

SYNOPSIS

Vanessa and Zander Roth are good at lying. They have to be when they are hiding a deadly secret. Day after day, they struggle to rein in their uncontrollable hunger for pain and suffering in order to live normal lives. Things only get worse when Ivy Guerra appears with her pink-striped hair and secrets. The vicious hunger Ivy inspires is frightening, not to mention suspicious. Vanessa’s instincts are rarely wrong, so when they tell her that Ivy’s appearance is a sign of bad things to come, she listens. She becomes determined to expose Ivy’s secrets. Vanessa tries to warn her brother, but Zander is too enamored with Ivy to pay attention to her conspiracy theories. One of them is right about Ivy … but if they lose control of their hunger, it won’t matter who is right and who is wrong. One little slip, and they’ll all be dead.

BLURB

Vanessa and Zander Roth have spent their lives battling an uncontrollable hunger for pain and suffering that will either gain them limitless power or lead them to their deaths.  

AUTHOR BIO 

DelSheree Gladden lives in New Mexico with her husband and two children. The Southwest is a big influence in her writing because of its culture, beauty, and mythology. Local folk lore is strongly rooted in her writing, particularly ideas of prophecy, destiny, and talents born from natural abilities. When she is not writing, DelSheree is usually teaching yoga, coaching gymnastics, reading, painting, sewing, or working as a Dental Hygienist. Her works include Escaping Fate, Twin Souls Saga, and The Destroyer Trilogy. DelSheree's newest series, The SomeOne Wicked This Way Come series, follows Vanessa and Zander Roth, siblings with an uncontrollable hunger for pain and suffering that will either gain them limitless power or lead them to their deaths.

AUTHOR LINKS 
  DelSheree’s Blog / DelSheree’s Website / Facebook / Twitter / Goodreads / Wattpad  / Amazon

Hot YA Books of 2013 - Angela's Picks

What are the hottest YA books you've read this year? Well, I've started compiling a list of my Top Hot YA books released this year! This is a growing, ever changing list of books and is based purely on my own opinions. With a quick recap of why I loved it. These are my "Loved It" books and all have been released in 2013.

Angela's Top Hot YA Books from 2013

1. Splintered by A.G. Howard

~ Very cool homage to Carroll's classic. Strong skater girl heroine, great love story, awesome action, and open for a sequel.

2. Hooked by Liz Fichera
 

~ Realistic characters, high school golf team, and a strong Native American heroine.

3. Stung by Bethany Wiggins

~ Tons of action, infection, and a touch of romance

4. The Rules (Project Paper Dolls, #1) by Stacey Kade

~ Aliens, romance, and an awesome twist at the end.

Feel free to make suggestions for 2013 releases I could read that might make it onto my Hot List!

Join our Road Trip

Welcome to or Chicks Writing Rocking YA blog which delves into the world of reading and writing YA novels. Some quick housekeeping, some of us live in the US and with a lone Australian. All unusual spelling  and spelling errors in gerneal will be attributed to the fact the Australian has written that particular post. Check out more about each of the Chicks on our profile page.

Our blog will give you an insight into the organised chaos of our life as writers creates. Yes there’s the character arcs, the plots and subplots, deciding just how good looking is too good looking for your characters, how many friends do they have, how old will they be, where do they live, is she into art or archery or both,  is he a  boxer or brief guy,.. (I’ll stop there as I’m feeling a little frantic at all the responsibility I’ve realised I have as a writer).  We must finding fresh and interesting ways to say someone walked over to their chair without adverbs while giving just the right sense of setting and of course there’s the editing for grammar, spelling and punctuation. (You either love or hate that last one – there’s no middle ground). There’s actually finishing a book, which sounds easy if you say it fast.

There’s also the days you spend googling and pinning pictures which inspire you, or going backwards and forwards over book cover graphics, colours and fonts. The blog tours and book signings. Updating your facebook page, updating your three blogs – personal, writing and reviewing, tweeting and of course more writing. (I was tempted to add visiting the set of the movie adaptation of your book – but none of us are presently doing this. If you are on set – we implore you to put down your coffee, get off the chair embossed with your name and let us know immediately J )

We would love for you to buckle up and come on our reading and writing road trip. Make sure you bring lots of snacks. A personal favourite – peanut M&M’s.