LINGER ARC Giveaway!

In Maggie Stiefvater's Shiver, Grace and Sam found each other.  Now, in Linger, they must fight to be together. For Grace, this means defying her parents and keeping a very dangerous secret about her own well-being. For Sam, this means grappling with his werewolf past . . . and figuring out a way to survive into the future. Add into the mix a new wolf named Cole, whose own past has the potential to destroy the whole pack.  And Isabelle, who already lost her brother to the wolves . . . and is nonetheless drawn to Cole.

At turns harrowing and euphoric, Linger is a spellbinding love story that explores both sides of love -- the light and the dark, the warm and the cold -- in a way you will never forget.

Comes out in stores everywhere July 20th. Pre-order here.

Enter to win an advanced review copies of LINGER, Sisters Red, The Dead-Tossed Waves, and The Replacement on Maggie's blog.

Oh, and, I love contests!

Back in October, I entered in Nathan Bransford's Stupendously Awesome First Paragraph Contest, and was one of ten finalists out of 2200+ entries *toots horn*. I ended up placing in the top five, which made me super, super happy because:

1) That contest was the first time someone other than my lovely friends and family read any part of my manuscript and said "hey, this sounds interesting in a good way." And that someone happened to be an incredibly well known, well respected literary agent.

2) Strangers voted for my paragraph. One of those strangers was a published YA author of an awesome book, Shadowed Summer, (*waves to Saundra Mitchell*). Other strangers were YA bloggers whose posts I read every day (*waves to YA Highway ladies*).

And now, there's another contest I'm entering: literary agent Kathleen Ortiz is going to be slicing and dicing the query letter of 3 lucky contest participants! You can join in the fun here: http://kortizzle.blogspot.com/

Another reason I love contests? Getting my first paragraph ready for Nathan's contest in October sparked me to take my book in a completely new direction; the direction it should have gone from the beginning. This contest might help do the same for my query.

Carry on.

Back in the saddle again!

Anyone out there? Bueller? Bueller?

*clears cobwebs*

Well. Hello there. I am resurfacing from my revision cave since I'm in the home stretch (I hope, please G-d) before Mara Dyer is sent out beyond the inboxes of my Beta Army. And I just wanted to pop in and say hello, and hi, and if you're still following me, BIG HUGS and YOU WILL BE REWARDED. Hilarity shall ensue forthwith.

Love and kisses,

~M

*crawls back into jar*