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Have you seen the INTENSE new trailer for Angela J. Townsend’s Amarok? If not, catch it now. We’re all super excited about it.

Anticipating the release of Triangles in 6 months, author Kimberly Ann Miller will host a monthly giveaway through her blog. Find out more here: http://writersbytheshore.blogspot.com/2012/12/six-month-countdown-to-release-of.html

Triangles on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TrianglesYA

A cruise ship. A beautiful island. Two sexy guys. What could possibly go wrong?

In the Bermuda Triangle—a lot.

Hoping to leave behind the reminders of her crappy life—her father’s death years ago, her mother’s medical problems, and the loser who’s practically stalking her—seventeen-year-old Autumn Taylor hops on a ship with her sister for a little distraction. When she wakes up in the Bermuda Triangle, she fears she’s gone nuts for more than one reason: that loser’s suddenly claiming they’re a happy couple… a hot guy is wrapping his arms around her and saying “Happy Anniversary”… and suddenly, she’s full of bruises, losing her hair, and getting IV medication. Autumn visits the ship’s doctor, hoping for a pill or a shot to make the craziness go away. Instead, she’s warned that these “alternate realities” could become permanent.

She just has to ask herself one question—how the hell is she going to get out of this mess?

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Kendra L. Saunders of Spencer Hill Press will attend AAC (Another Anime Con) this month and will host two helpful literary panels. One is the popular Five-Headed Muse panel, which gives attendees tons of insider information about the writing, publishing and marketing process. The other panel focuses on what writers can learn from the world of fan fiction (What You Can Learn From Fanfiction). Both panels will include chances for questions and for the attendees to snag some Spencer Hill Press SWAG, sign up for the SHP mailing list and possibly snatch up an ARC/free book or two!

Kendra is the marketing coordinator at Spencer Hill Press and has a special passion for sharing tips about writing and social media for both new and experienced writers alike.

A few members of Spencer Hill Press and Spence City attended Wednesday and Thursday of NEIBA this week. It was quite fun to meet booksellers in person and hear their thoughts and opinions on the book industry and on bookseller/publisher relations.

Here’s a picture from the event:

Here is a picture from Providence’s historic Biltmore hotel:

Among other things we talked about during the NEIBA conference was that booksellers and bloggers would like to have more open dialogue with publishers, since all of us love books. No matter if we’re a reader, blogger, seller, publicist, author, publisher or distributor, we should work together to promote literacy, imagination, great ideas, dreams and the future of our world.

I’d love to hear from you. Ask box us some more information about you, or your opinions on the relationship needs between the publisher and YOU. Are any of you booksellers? Are any of you bloggers? Does your bookstore want to get more ARCs, more bookmarks, more SWAG?

Tonight I wrote this and wanted to share it, as there are so many wonderful book people here who will understand. -Kendra

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For some reason children’s books make me quite melancholy. Sometimes I shed a tear, sometimes a flood. I can’t even pinpoint why but they just feel like these sweet, half-forgotten treasures that get left on shelves because they’ve been ‘outgrown’ and that breaks my heart.

If I see my little sister at the library looking through books I used to read when I was little, it’s even worse. Those stories were my life at one time, and now they’re just little plastic-cover-protected books on a shelf in some library. Does anyone ever still go to the library and see all of the colorful spines and think, “I’m gonna read EVERY ONE of these books”? Do people still sit and read books in the library on fall afternoons, after school? Does anyone ever turn 14 and realize they have read almost all of what their local library has to offer in the way of tween and teen books and go explore the adult books for the first time? Does anyone ever pull down a water-stained copy of a science fiction novel for the first time and feel your mind expanding along with the words, sending you over that dangerous edge from child to grown-up?

Does anyone ever crack open “A Wrinkle in Time” and just cry because Meg is still shy and sad, and you feel even more like her now that you’re all grown up, and the attic still isn’t safe and you still have a big adventure ahead of you, and you still don’t know if it will all be alright in the end?

Oh, books. Oh, libraries. The power of books should never be forgotten, because the stories we love as children are the breadcrumbs that lead us through life later.

http://angelatownsendbooks.blogspot.com/

Anything with Aiden St. Delphi in it. Anything. ;)

Pure!

I’m sensing some big time Aiden love here… any Seth fans out there…??

Oh guys, this is gonna be FUN! Kate Kaynak of Spencer Hill Press is putting together a book Olympics, in the spirit of all of that fun Olympics stuff going on right now.

Join, join, and represent your country— and we’ll see if we can get Matt Bellamy to make the theme song for it.

(Kidding on the last part- but if you know Matt Bellamy, get in touch with me asap, kk? -Kendra)

http://thedisgruntledbear.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-book-blog-olympics.html

On Friday, a special edition of 13 1/2 Minutes goes live, starring our very own one and only Jennifer L. Armentrout!

Head over to www.ipmnation.com/13 on Friday for this hilarious interview… and find out about Jennifer’s real life zombie hamster, her new book release and what song she loves to write battle scenes to.