Melissa de la Cruz, Alyson Noel and Margaret Stohl book signings at National Book Store

National Book Store brings three New York Times bestselling authors—Melissa de la Cruz, Alyson Noel and Margaret Stohl—for book signing events on September 13 at 6 pm in the Activity Center of Ayala Center Cebu, on September 14 at 4 pm in The Podium Atrium and on September 15 at 2 pm in the National Book Store booth at the Manila International Book Fair in the SMX Convention Center.

Filipino-American Melissa de la Cruz is the author of the Blue Blood series, a popular vampire novel which has three million copies in print. Her latest novel Frozen is the first book in the Heart of Dread series, co-authored by her husband Michael Johnston. It narrates Natasha Kestal’s journey out of New Vegas, a city blanketed in ice, to the paradise-like and mythical land called “the Blue,” where the sun shines and where she will not be persecuted even if her darkest secret comes to light.

Alyson Noel is the bestselling author of the Immortals series and its spinoff the Riley Bloom series. Her books have been translated into 37 languages and sold in over 50 countries with over seven million copies in print. She is currently working on her latest series The Soul Seekers, which includes Fated, Echo and Mystic. It tells the story of Daire Santos, who after setting out to harness her powers as a Soul Seeker, one who can navigate the worlds between living and dead, is forced to discover if the boy from her dreams is the one she’s meant to be with or is allied with the enemy she’s destined to destroy.

Margaret Stohl is the co-author of the Beautiful Creatures series with Kami Garcia. It was named as Amazon’s #1 Teen Book of 2009, and its movie adaptation was released by Warner Bros. earlier this year. Her latest novel Icons, the first book in a new young adult dystopian series, follows the story of four teens, who use their superpowers to save the world after an alien invasion referred to as “The Day.” Dol, Ro, Tima and Lucas try to piece together the mysteries of their pasts and discover that their uncontrollable emotions may actually be their greatest strengths.

The events are made possible in partnership with Raffles Makati, The Podium and Ayala Center Cebu.

Books by Melissa de la Cruz, Alyson Noel and Margaret Stohl are available in National Book Store, Powerbooks and Bestsellers branches. Shop online at nationalbookstore.com. Follow National Book Store on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram (@nbsalert) for the latest events, promos and contests.  

Book Signing Events at Ayala Center Cebu and The Podium 

Frequently Asked Questions 

When and where are the book signings? 
September 13, 6:00 pm, at the Activity Center of Ayala Center Cebu September 14, 4:00 pm, at The Podium Atrium 

When will the registration be? 
Registration opens at 10:00 am on September 13 at the Activity Center of Ayala Center Cebu and at 10:00 am on September 14 at The Podium Atrium. Each guest will be asked to fill out the registration form upon arrival. Separate registrations for each event is required should you wish to attend both events. First come, first served. 

Is there a limit as to how many people can have their books signed? 
We do not have any preset limit. However, should there be an excessive number of people, we reserve the right to limit the number of people who can have their books signed. 

Is there a registration fee? 
No. There is no registration fee. 

How many books can I have signed? 
You may have up to 6 books total signed. The 6 books can be in any combination as long as the total number of books to be signed is 6. For example, 3 with Melissa De La Cruz, 3 with Alyson Noel and 0 Margaret Stohl; or 6 with Margaret Stohl and 0 for Melissa De La Cruz and Alyson Noel. Only books purchased from National Book Store, Bestsellers or Powerbooks will be accommodated. 

Can I bring old books or other editions of the books? 
Yes, as long as the books were purchased from National Book Store, Bestsellers or Powerbooks. 

Do I need to buy on-site? 
No. You can buy books before or during the events. 

Can I have other items signed? 
No. Only books will be allowed to be signed by the authors. 

Can we have our photo taken with the authors? 
Yes, you can have your photo with each author when they sign your book. However, we strictly allow only one photo per person for each author. 

How much are the books? 
Melissa De La Cruz titles: 
BLUE BLOODS 1: BLUE BLOODS (Trade Paperback – P325) 
BLUE BLOODS 2: MASQUERADE (Trade Paperback – 325) 
BLUE BLOODS 3: REVELATIONS (Trade Paperback – P325) 
BLUE BLOODS 4: VAN ALEN LEGACY (Trade Paperback – P325) 
BLUE BLOODS 5: MISGUIDED ANGEL (Trade Paperback – P285) 
BLUE BLOODS 6: LOST IN TIME (Trade Paperback – P315) 
BLUE BLOODS 7: GATES OF PARADISE (Hardcover – P589) 
BLUE BLOODS: KEYS TO THE REPOSITORY (Trade Paperback – P325) 
BLUE BLOODS: BLOODY VALENTINE (Trade Paperback – P299) 
WITCHES OF EAST END and SERPENT'S KISS BUNDLE (Trade Paperback – P565) 


Alyson Noel titles: 
EVERMORE (Trade Paperback – P395) 
BLUE MOON (Trade Paperback – P395) 
SHADOWLAND (Trade Paperback – P465; Hardcover – P649) 
DARK FLAME (Trade Paperback – P465; Hardcover – P675) 
NIGHT STAR (Trade Paperback – P465) 
EVERLASTING (Trade Paperback – P465; Hardcover – P789) 
RADIANCE (Trade Paperback – P345) 
SHIMMER (Trade Paperback – P345) 
DREAMLAND (Trade Paperback – P345) 
WHISPER (Trade Paperback – P345) 
FATED (Trade Paperback – P465; Hardcover – P879) 
ECHO (Trade Paperback – P465) 
MYSTIC (Trade Paperback – P465) 
KISS & BLOG (Trade Paperback – P465) 
KEEPING SECRETS (Trade Paperback – P465) 


Margaret Stohl titles: 
BEAUTIFUL CREATURES (Trade Paperback – P399) 
BEAUTIFUL DARKNESS (Trade Paperback – P399) 
BEAUTIFUL CHAOS (Trade Paperback – P399) 
BEAUTIFUL REDEMPTION (Trade Paperback – P399) 
BEAUTIFUL CREATURES (Movie Tie-in, Mass Market Paperback – P325) 
BEAUTIFUL CREATURES THREE BOOK BOXED SET (Trade Paperback – P1,159) 
ICONS (Trade Paperback – P399) 

Book Signing Event at the Manila International Book Fair 

Frequently Asked Questions 

When and where is the book signing at the Manila International Book Fair (MIBF)? 
The MIBF signing will be on Sunday, September 15 from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm in the National Book Store booth. For more information on the MIBF, you can go to www.manilabookfair.com. 

Do I need a separate ticket to get into the MIBF? 
Yes, you will still need a separate ticket to get into the MIBF. 

When will the registration be? 
Registration for the book signing at the Manila International Book Fair opens at 10:00 am. Only the first 200 registrants will be given a signing slot. Each guest will be asked to fill out the registration form upon arrival. First come, first served. 

Is there a registration fee? 
No. There is no registration fee. 

How many books can I have signed? 
You may have up to 6 books total signed. The 6 books can be in any combination as long as the total number of books to be signed is 6. For example, 3 with Melissa De La Cruz, 3 with Alyson Noel and 0 Margaret Stohl; or 6 with Margaret Stohl and 0 for Melissa De La Cruz and Alyson Noel. Only books purchased from National Book Store, Bestsellers or Powerbooks will be accommodated. 

Can I bring old books or other editions of the books? 
Yes, as long as the books were purchased from National Book Store, Bestsellers or Powerbooks. 

Do I need to buy on-site? 
No. You can buy books before or during the events. 

Can I have other items signed? 
No. Only books will be allowed to be signed by the authors. 

Can we have our photo taken with the author? 
Yes, you can have your photo with each author when they sign your book. However, we strictly allow only one photo per person for each author. 

How much are the books? 
Melissa De La Cruz titles: 
BLUE BLOODS 1: BLUE BLOODS (Trade Paperback – P325) 
BLUE BLOODS 2: MASQUERADE (Trade Paperback – 325) 
BLUE BLOODS 3: REVELATIONS (Trade Paperback – P325) 
BLUE BLOODS 4: VAN ALEN LEGACY (Trade Paperback – P325) 
BLUE BLOODS 5: MISGUIDED ANGEL (Trade Paperback – P285) 
BLUE BLOODS 6: LOST IN TIME (Trade Paperback – P315) 
BLUE BLOODS 7: GATES OF PARADISE (Hardcover – P589) 
BLUE BLOODS: KEYS TO THE REPOSITORY (Trade Paperback – P325) 
BLUE BLOODS: BLOODY VALENTINE (Trade Paperback – P299) 
WITCHES OF EAST END and SERPENT'S KISS BUNDLE (Trade Paperback – P565) 


Alyson Noel titles: 
EVERMORE (Trade Paperback – P395) 
BLUE MOON (Trade Paperback – P395) 
SHADOWLAND (Trade Paperback – P465; Hardcover – P649) 
DARK FLAME (Trade Paperback – P465; Hardcover – P675) 
NIGHT STAR (Trade Paperback – P465) 
EVERLASTING (Trade Paperback – P465; Hardcover – P789) 
RADIANCE (Trade Paperback – P345) 
SHIMMER (Trade Paperback – P345) 
DREAMLAND (Trade Paperback – P345) 
WHISPER (Trade Paperback – P345) 
FATED (Trade Paperback – P465; Hardcover – P879) 
ECHO (Trade Paperback – P465) 
MYSTIC (Trade Paperback – P465) 
KISS & BLOG (Trade Paperback – P465) 
KEEPING SECRETS (Trade Paperback – P465) 


Margaret Stohl titles: 
BEAUTIFUL CREATURES (Trade Paperback – P399) 
BEAUTIFUL DARKNESS (Trade Paperback – P399) 
BEAUTIFUL CHAOS (Trade Paperback – P399) 
BEAUTIFUL REDEMPTION (Trade Paperback – P399) 
BEAUTIFUL CREATURES (Movie Tie-in, Mass Market Paperback – P325) 
BEAUTIFUL CREATURES THREE BOOK BOXED SET (Trade Paperback – P1,159) 
ICONS (Trade Paperback – P399) 

 

(Blog Tour) Going Under by S. Walden Guest Post & Giveaway!

Going Under by S. Walden

Paperback: 344 pages
Publisher: Penny Press

Release Date: March 19th 2013

Blurb:

Brooke Wright has only two goals her senior year at Charity Run High School: stay out of trouble and learn to forgive herself for the past. Forgiveness proves elusive, and trouble finds her anyway when she discovers a secret club at school connected to the death of her best friend. She learns that swim team members participate in a “Fantasy Slut League,” scoring points for their sexual acts with unsuspecting girls.

Brooke, wracked with guilt over her friend’s death, decides to infiltrate the league by becoming one of the “unsuspecting girls,” and exact revenge on the boys who stole away her best friend. An unexpected romance complicates her plans, and her dogged pursuit of justice turns her reckless as she underestimates just how far the boys will go to keep their sex club a secret.

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S. Walden's Top 5 Pick of Most-Emotionally Moving Books

Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya

Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima enters his life. She is a curandera, one who heals with herbs and magic. 'We cannot let her live her last days in loneliness,' says Antonio's mother. 'It is not the way of our people,' agrees his father. And so Ultima comes to live with Antonio's family in New Mexico. Soon Tony will journey to the threshold of manhood. Always, Ultima watches over him. She graces him with the courage to face childhood bigotry, diabolical possession, the moral collapse of his brother, and too many violent deaths. Under her wise guidance, Tony will probe the family ties that bind him, and he will find in himself the magical secrets of the pagan past—a mythic legacy equally as palpable as the Catholicism of Latin America in which he has been schooled. At each turn in his life there is Ultima who will nurture the birth of his soul.

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff

This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world—and did. Was he a destroyer or the greatest of liberators? Why did he have to fight his battle, not against his enemies, but against those who needed him most, and his hardest battle against the woman he loved? What is the world’s motor—and the motive power of every man? You will know the answer to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling events that play havoc with the lives of the characters in this story.

Tremendous in its scope, this novel presents an astounding panorama of human life—from the productive genius who becomes a worthless playboy—to the great steel industrialist who does not know that he is working for his own destruction—to the philosopher who becomes a pirate—to the composer who gives up his career on the night of his triumph—to the woman who runs a transcontinental railroad—to the lowest track worker in her Terminal tunnels.

You must be prepared, when you read this novel, to check every premise at the root of your convictions. This is a mystery story, not about the murder of a man’s body, but about the murder—and rebirth—of man’s spirit. It is a philosophical revolution, told in the form of an action thriller of violent events, a ruthlessly brilliant plot structure and an irresistible suspense. Do you say this is impossible? Well, that is the first of your premises to check.

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

William Golding's compelling story about a group of very ordinary small boys marooned on a coral island has become a modern classic. At first it seems as though it is all going to be great fun; but the fun before long becomes furious and life on the island turns into a nightmare of panic and death. As ordinary standards of behaviour collapse, the whole world the boys know collapses with them—the world of cricket and homework and adventure stories—and another world is revealed beneath, primitive and terrible. Lord of the Flies remains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, igniting passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. Though critically acclaimed, it was largely ignored upon its initial publication. Yet soon it became a cult favorite among both students and literary critics who compared it to J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye in its influence on modern thought and literature.

Labeled a parable, an allegory, a myth, a morality tale, a parody, a political treatise, even a vision of the apocalypse, Lord of the Flies has established itself as a true classic.

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

First published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is regarded as Jack London's masterpiece. Based on London's experiences as a gold prospector in the Canadian wilderness and his ideas about nature and the struggle for existence, The Call of the Wild is a tale about unbreakable spirit and the fight for survival in the frozen Alaskan Klondike.

Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson

Esau have I hated . . . Sara Louise Bradshaw is sick and tired of her beautiful twin Caroline. Ever since they were born, Caroline has been the pretty one, the talented one, the better sister. Even now, Caroline seems to take everything: Louise's friends, their parents' love, her dreams for the future.

For once in her life, Louise wants to be the special one. But in order to do that, she must first figure out who she is . . . and find a way to make a place for herself outside her sister's shadow.

  

Author Bio

S. Walden used to teach English before making the best decision of her life by becoming a full-time writer. She lives in Georgia with her very supportive husband who prefers physics textbooks over fiction and has a difficult time understanding why her characters must have personality flaws. She is wary of small children, so she has a Westie instead. Her dreams include raising chickens and owning and operating a beachside inn on the Gulf Coast (chickens included). When she’s not writing, she’s thinking about it. She loves her fans and loves to hear from them. Email her at swaldenauthor@hotmail.com and follow her blog at http://swaldenauthor.blogspot.com where you can get up-to-date information on her current projects.

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(Blog Tour) Burning by Elana K. Arnold Spotlight & Giveaway!

Burning by Elana K. Arnold

Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Delacorte Press

Release Date: June 11th 2013

Blurb:

Ben: Having just graduated from high school, Ben is set to leave Gypsum, Nevada. It's good timing since the gypsum mine that is the lifeblood of the area is closing, shutting the whole town down with it. Ben is lucky: he's headed to San Diego, where he's got a track scholarship at the University of California. But his best friends, Pete and Hog Boy, don't have college to look forward to, so to make them happy, Ben goes with them to check out the hot chick parked on the side of Highway 447.  

Lala: She and her Gypsy family earn money by telling fortunes. Some customers choose Tarot cards; others have their palms read. The thousands of people attending the nearby Burning Man festival spend lots of cash--especially as Lala gives uncanny readings. But lately Lala's been questioning whether there might be more to life than her upcoming arranged marriage. And the day she reads Ben's cards is the day that everything changes for her. . . and for him.

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Author Bio

ELANA K. ARNOLD completed her M.A. in Creative Writing/Fiction at the University of California, Davis. She grew up in Southern California, where she was lucky enough to have her own horse–a gorgeous mare named Rainbow–and a family who let her read as many books as she wanted. She lives in Long Beach, California, with her husband, two children, and a menagerie of animals. She is represented by Rubin Pfeffer of the East/West Literary Agency. Sacred is her debut novel.

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1 Winner will receive a Surprise ART Poster and Bookmark by James Vallesteros.
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Book Blast: In Defense of the Queen by Michelle Diener

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Adventure, intrigues and assassins, a wild ride against time. Historical fiction with a flair is what Diener does best! - Nocturnal Book Reviews

Title: In Defense of the Queen 

Author: Michelle Diener

Genre: Historical Fiction
Release Date: August 1st 2013

Blurb: An artist never betrays her patron . . . especially one of the world's most powerful kings. 

Susanna Horenbout has learned this lesson from the cradle. But when she receives a letter from her father telling her to do just that, she faces a dilemma. Betray Henry VIII, or carry out the request of her father’s employer, Margaret of Austria, and pass secret information to Henry’s queen, Katherine of Aragon. 

Caught between the machinations of her husband and her nephew, the Emperor Charles, Queen Katherine needs all the allies she can get. But what can Susanna really do to help her, and even if she does, will it be enough? 

Susanna and her betrothed, Parker——one of Henry's most trusted courtiers——balance on the knife’s edge of treason as they try to make sense of both international and domestic conspiracies. Sometimes, it's better the enemy you know . . .

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Praise for the previous books:

With its richly detailed historical setting and intrigue-filled plot, “In a Treacherous Court” is simply irresistible. Chicago Tribune

“Awesome! History woven flawlessly into riveting fiction.” - Tammy J. Schneider (Special Features Editor and book reviewer at Affaire de Coeur Magazine)

“Just when readers think there is nothing new to be learned about Henry VIII, debut author Diener delivers a taut suspense . . . that will keep you turning the pages.” - Kathe Robin (4 star review in RT Magazine August 2011 issue)

Diener’s writing style is beautiful, to the point, vivid and exciting. This author is one to watch if you love the likes of Philippa Gregory or Anne Easter Smith. The characters are going to hook you first, and the intrigue will keep you turning the pages. - Reader’s Entertainment

Keeper offers a compelling, page-turning mystery packed with unexpected twists and turns, solid prose, always-fascinating court intrigue, and a unique story that feels like a classic mystery wrapped in a Tudor setting. - Book Addict Diary

  

Author Bio

Michelle Diener writes historical fiction. Her Susanna Horenbout and John Parker series starts with IN A TREACHEROUS COURT. Set in the court of Henry VIII, it features the real historical figures of artist Susanna Horenbout and Henry’s Keeper of the Palace of Westminster and Yeoman of the King’s Robes, John Parker. It was followed by KEEPER OF THE KING'S SECRETS, also featuring Susanna Horenbout and John Parker, and DANGEROUS SANCTUARY, a short story with the same characters, set between the two books, is currently available as an ebook only. 
 THE EMPEROR'S CONSPIRACY, set during the Napoleonic Wars in London in 1811, was released on November 27th, 2012. 
 DAUGHTER OF THE SKY, set at the outbreak of the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, was released on March 1st, 2013. 
 Michelle also contributed a short paranormal story to the ENTANGLED Anthology entitled BREAKING OUT. All the proceeds of the sale of ENTANGLED go to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. 
 Michelle grew up in South Africa, and now lives in Australia with her husband and two children.

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* $50 Amazon Gift Card. International

* 2 Print copy sets of In a Treacherous Court, Keeper of the King's Secrets & In Defense of the Queen. USA, Canada & UK only.

* 10 eCopies of In Defense of the Queen. International. 

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