Book Tour: Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff+Giveaway(PH)

Hi everyone! Today I'm so happy to be a part of the book tour for Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff. I've got  an exclusive excerpt from the book below, so check it out and also there is a wide Philippine giveaway for the tour :)

Illuminae (The Illuminae Files #1)

by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

Pub. Date: October 20, 2015

Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

Blurb:

This morning, Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the hardest thing she’d have to do.

 This afternoon, her planet was invaded.

 The year is 2575, and two rival megacorporations are at war over a planet that’s little more than an ice-covered speck at the edge of the universe. Too bad nobody thought to warn the people living on it. With enemy fire raining down on them, Kady and Ezra—who are barely even talking to each other—are forced to fight their way onto an evacuating fleet, with an enemy warship in hot pursuit.

 But their problems are just getting started. A deadly plague has broken out and is mutating, with terrifying results; the fleet's AI, which should be protecting them, may actually be their enemy; and nobody in charge will say what’s really going on. As Kady hacks into a tangled web of data to find the truth, it's clear only one person can help her bring it all to light: the ex-boyfriend she swore she'd never speak to again.

 Told through a fascinating dossier of hacked documents—including emails, schematics, military files, IMs, medical reports, interviews, and more—Illuminae is the first book in a heart-stopping, high-octane trilogy about lives interrupted, the price of truth, and the courage of everyday heroes. 

IlluminaeFiles.com Excerpt by Random House Teens

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We're giving away THREE (yes, three!) gorgeous and bigass finished copies of ILLUMINAE to Philippine residents!

Thank you to Random House Children's Books for sponsoring the giveaway!

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Blog Tour: Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between by Jennifer E. Smith+ Giveaway

Hi everyone! Today I'm so happy to be a part of the book tour for Jennifer E. Smith new, Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between that releases today! I've got  an exclusive excerpt from the book below, so check it out and also there is a wide giveaway for the tour, unfortunately this is for Philippine resident only. Click this link to follow the HGaEiB tour by Pinoy Book Tours! ;)

Hello,Goodbye, and Everything in Between

by Jennifer E. Smith

Pub. Date: Sept. 1st, 2015

Publisher: Poppy

Pages: 256 pages

Blurb:

On the night before they leave for college, Clare and Aidan only have one thing left to do: figure out whether they should stay together or break up. Over the course of twelve hours, they'll retrace the steps of their relationship, trying to find something in their past that might help them decide what their future should be. The night will lead them to friends and family, familiar landmarks and unexpected places, hard truths and surprising revelations. But as the clock winds down and morning approaches, so does their inevitable goodbye. The question is, will it be goodbye for now or goodbye forever?

This new must-read novel from Jennifer E. Smith, author of The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight, explores the difficult choices that must be made when life and love lead in different directions. 

The High School

6:24 PM

In the car, Aidan pauses before turning the key in the ignition, and for a brief second, Clare lets herself imagine that they're on their way out to dinner or a movie, or anywhere, really, even just the kind of aimless, purposeless drive that's been the only thing on the agenda so many times before. Their nights always seem to begin in this way: the two of them sitting in Aidan's dusty Volvo, trying to decide what to do.

But tonight is different.

It's not a beginning at all. Tonight is an ending.

Aidan's hand is still hovering over the keys, and Clare glances down at the piece of notebook paper on her lap. During the short walk over to the Gallagher's house -- a walk she's made about a thousand times in the past two years -- she folded and refolded the page so many times that it's already soft and wrinkled.

"Maybe we should just take off or something," Aidan says, looking at her sideways. "Just keep driving till we hit Canada."

"Canada, huh?" Clare says, raising her eyebrows. "Are we going on the lam?"

He shrugs. "Fine. Maybe just Wisconsin, then."

She reaches over, resting a hand on the back of his neck, where his reddish hair is newly trimmed, cut close in a way that makes him look older somehow. "I'm leaving first thing in the morning," she says gently. "The car's already packed. And your flight's at noon."

About the Author

  

Jennifer E. Smith is the author of The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight, The Storm Makers, You Are Here, and The Comeback Season. She earned her master's degree in creative writing from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, and currently works as an editor in New York City. Her writing has been translated into 28 languages.(from goodreads)

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Blog Tour: Love, Lucy by April Lindner (Excerpt)

LOVE, LUCY

by April Lindner

Pub. Date: January 27, 2015

Publisher: Poppy

Pages: 304 pages

Blurb:

While backpacking through Florence, Italy, during the summer before she heads off to college, Lucy Sommersworth finds herself falling in love with the culture, the architecture, the food...and Jesse Palladino, a handsome street musician. After a whirlwind romance, Lucy returns home, determined to move on from her "vacation flirtation." But just because summer is over doesn't mean Lucy and Jesse are over, too.

In this coming-of-age romance, April Lindner perfectly captures the highs and lows of a summer love that might just be meant to last beyond the season. 

Today, though, Charlene wasn’t there to spoil her fun, so Lucy drew closer to the source of music. A smattering of people surrounded the young man with the guitar. She maneuvered her way through the crowd, hiding out near the back, then slipping a bit closer, her camera at the ready.

The singer had a warm, deep voice, and Lucy had to hold herself back from singing along. The song ended and she was reaching into her pocket for loose change when the couple in front of her picked up their daypacks and slipped away. Nudging forward into their vacated place, Lucy lifted her camera. She got a shot or two as the musician bent to gather up a five-euro note somebody had flung at his feet. Dark, longish hair obscured his face. Just as she emerged from behind the camera, he straightened and caught her eye.

Shockingly, it was someone she knew. How could that be, in a city where she knew hardly anyone? From his expression, she could tell he recognized her, too. It was Jesse – Nello’s roommate. He looked as surprised to see her as she was to see him.

“You,” she said. She didn’t mean to be rude, but that was the first word that popped into her mind.

“You,” he replied. “How’s your new room?”

Was this a reproach? She wasn’t sure. “I like it,” she said.

“Good.” Then he smiled – a wary smile, but not at all sarcastic. He might not be her favorite person in the world, but bumping into him like this when she’d been arguing with Charlene made him feel, oddly enough, like an old friend.

Lucy dimpled in return. “The view’s great,” she added. “Thank you for trading with us.” Bystanders were watching them now. Somehow she’d become part of Jesse’s act.

“You’re all by yourself?” Jesse scanned the crowd. “Where’s your friend?”

“I lost her.” But this wasn’t the whole truth. “Or maybe she ditched me. I seem to be driving her crazy. Actually, it’s mutual.”

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About the Author 

I'm April Lindner, author of two young adult novels,Catherine, a contemporary retelling of Wuthering Heights, and Jane, a retelling ofJane Eyre, both published by Poppy.  A third YA novel, Love, Lucy, is due out from Poppy in January 2015.  

I'm also a poet, with two collections in print: This Bed Our Bodies Shaped, from Able Muse Press, and Skin, winner of the Walt McDonald First Book Prize from Texas Tech University Press.  I write literary criticism and edit poetry anthologies too.

By day, I'm a mild-mannered English professor at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia. By night, I attend way too many rock concerts and travel wherever and whenever I can.  I also lavish attention on my rescued pets--two wonderful mutts and two exciteable guinea pigs. I'm a wife, mother, a lover of all things Italian, and a New Yorker at heart though I haven't lived there in quite a while.  

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FALL LIKE RAIN BLOG TOUR+GIVEAWAY

Fall Like Rain
by Ana Tejano

Release Date: September 29th, 2014

Blurb:

Rain De Castro has been in love with her best friend, Mark Velasco, for almost the entire time she has known him, but she’s clearly in the friend zone because he’s happily in a relationship. Or so she thought, until the news of his break-up reaches her. 

Now that Mark’s single again, she decides that it’s time to get out of the zone. But when her cousin Lissa comes into the picture and sets her eyes on Mark, Rain feels troubled when he gets a little too friendly with her. 

Rain is determined to fight for what she feels this time, but is it worth the effort if it's a losing battle from the start? 

Will she back off to give way for her best friend's happiness, even if it means losing him to someone else again? 

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"Songs that remind you of characters from 

Fall Like Rain"

I listened to a lot of music I was writing Fall Like Rain, usually to get the appropriate ~feels~. I’m not a melody girl, though, so my choice of songs for a particular project relied mostly on the lyrics, and how these words would fit a specific scene or emotion that my characters are feeling.

I made a little soundtrack of Fall Like Rain on Spotify (http://bit.ly/flrplaylist), but like I said, they set for the mood for certain scenes (example: I Can Feel Your Heartbeat by A New Normal for that specific scene in a certain convenience store, Landslide by Fleetwood Mac for that major #creys scene). I didn’t really think of songs for characters, but if I were to choose songs that remind me of them, they would be:

RAIN: Migraine by Moonstar88

Being my main character and having hung out with her in my head for the past year and a half, I had a lot of songs that remind me of Rain. It was hard to choose first, but I think this one fits her best. Rain is an over thinker, and all her thinking could sometimes give her a headache (I should know, because I tend to over think, too)! This song’s first lines also captured Rain’s confused and frustrated feelings for Mark: Oo nga pala, hindi nga pala tayo / Hanggang dito na lang ako / Nangangarap na mapasayo. </3

(For the benefit of non-Filipinos, that song lyric translates roughly to, “Oh yeah, we’re not together, so I’ll just stay here and dream about you.”)

MARK: Better With You by Kris Allen

I had a bit of a hard time choosing a song for Mark because I had more interaction with how Rain felt for Mark than being in Mark’s head. What song would fit smiley-faced boy? And then this song played on shuffle, and there, it reminded me of how he felt for his best friend. This song could also be the answer to a little game that Mark and Rain played at a certain scene. :)

MEAH: Be Okay by Oh Honey 

You know how some people are the 3am friends, the ones you’d call at that time because you need a friend and they would pick up and listen and talk to you through things? That’s Meah. She’s the kind of person who will make sure you’re okay, and is willing to dish tough love when needed. Meah is one of the most fun characters I’ve written, and yes, she will have her own story, soon. :)

FAITH: Set the World on Fire by Britt Nicole

Rain and Meah are opposites, and Faith acts as kind of the equalizer between them. I also consider Faith as the nicest one among them, so this song by Britt Nicole reminds me of her. I didn’t write it in this book, but Faith is a social worker for a Catholic NGO, so in essence, she really does want to set the world on fire by helping out.

LISSA: Ain’t It Fun by Paramore 

The original Lissa in the NaNoWriMo version of Fall Like Rain is an indie band manager, so she was usually out in late night gigs, wore a lot of black, leather, and dark make-up (so stereotypical, I know. Forgive my 20-year old self, please). Lissa lost a little of that edge in this version, but sometimes in my head, she’s still that rocker chick from 2006. Perhaps she still has dreams of that, too.

FRANCIS: King of Anything by Sara Bareilles

When I first chose this topic for the guest post, I thought I’d have a hard time choosing a song for Francis because I think I spent the least time with him while I was writing. Then I started writing this post and this song jumped out at me without me even thinking too much. Just perfect.

CAMS: You and Me by Ben Rector 

I wrote this little piece about Cams a year ago, and I really had this other song for her but it felt a little too emo now that I thought about it. I realized that this song fit her more, specifically on what happened to her before the start of the story. I am obviously trying to be vague here because it’s kind of a little spoiler-y if I talk about her too much. :)

Bonus track!

Slow Love by Michael Alvarado

  

In one of the chapter of Fall Like Rain, Meah mentioned a song that Mark posted on Rain’s timeline. This is the song. Mark’s comment was, “Think we can do something like this for your grandfather’s video? ” Innocent comment, but of course there’s subtext. :)

Thanks so much for having me over! This was fun. :)

About the Author 

Ana Tejano has been in love with words and writing ever since she met Elizabeth Wakefield when she was in Grade 3. She has contributed several non-fiction pieces in print and online publications, and has been blogging for years. When she’s not writing, she works as a marketing lead for a multinational company by day, manages a book club, and serves in her church community in every other time that she doesn’t spend reading or sleeping. She lives in Metro Manila and is also known by another name in her other circles (but it’s not a secret identity, really).

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Tour schedule

November 3:
Liana of Like Love Blog - Review
Hazel of Stay Bookish - Review
Paula of Her Book Thoughts - Review

November 4:
Cary of Lodiversity - Review
Tricia of In Lesbians with Books - Review
Kai of Amaterasu Reads - Excerpt

November 5:
Monique of Marginalia - Excerpt
Kristelle of Amiabooklover - Review
Biena of Library Mistress (Review)

November 6:
Mary Ann of Teen Readers Diary (Guest post)
Maricar of Black Plume (Review)
Precious of Fragments of Life (Review)

November 7:
Lynai of It's A Wonderful Bookworld (Interview / Guest post)
Dianne of Oops I Read A Book Again! (Review & Excerpt)
Geeky Chiquitas (Review)

1 of 5 ebook copies of Fall Like Rain (Open Internationally!)
1 of 2 signed paperback copies of Fall Like Rain (PH Only!)

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