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Welcome to New Adult Scavenger Hunt! This bi-annual event was inspired 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! At 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 72 hours! Go to the  New Adult Scavenger Hunt  page to find out all about the hunt.  There are THREE contests going on simultaneously, and you can enter one or all! I am a part of the  TEAM RED  but there is also a blue team and a purple team (but we all know TEAM RED is the best)  for a chance to win a whole different set of books! If you’d like to find out more about the hunt, ...

Dear Alison, I do love book recommendations. Sometimes my #TBR pile resembles the leaning tower of Pisa. If I discover that a book towards the bottom of pile is a MUST read such as PAX, I pretend I'm playing Jenga and yank that book out. Normally, I manage to win the teetering game. Other times, I lose and need to re-stack.  This past month, I've been eyeball deep in writing Book Two of the Starr Fall series , Starr Lost . Happily, I submitted Book Two last Friday, and now I'm catching up on all the work I've neglected including my TB-Reviewed pile. My TB-Reviewed pile closely resembles my #TBR pile.  Exhibit 1:  Yep, it ain't pretty. Well, the books are certainly pretty, but the size of the pile is unsightly. You see Alison, as an author, I've come to realize just how important book reviews are. The more reviews a book receives, the more likely search engines, including the all-powerful Amazon, will bring that book to the top of their lists rather t...

Dear Kim, Thank you for the sweet cheer up video. Hearing all of the good fortune that our little region has experienced thanks to SCBWI did make me feel a bit better (though I think Dr. Man might like to take the credit). I was spoiled with lots of uninterrupted reading time over the last week and I took full advantage. Call it research, call it recovery, whatever, it was good for the soul. I'll pass along two of the three books that I read (sorry the last, PAX, is promised to my favorite 8 year old.) I started the week with Nicola Yoon's   Everything, Everything . This beautifully designed book caught my eye in September and then promptly sat in my teetering TBR pile for months.  I made up for those months in reader-purgatory because once I started Everything, Everything I couldn't stop. One night and done. I loved the art design and feel of the pages (you get that, right?) Madeline's voice reminded me of other great contemporary teen voices that I l...