March Photo and Announcement(s)!

First things first...

 

Happy almost spring everybody! Hope the days are getting warmer, sunnier, and the snow has melted, if you got snow. Us northeasters got a lot of it. 

Here's our March photo and here's hoping it provides some cool stories or inspiration for whatever medium you choose. This image is courtesy of graur codrin from Freedigitalphotos.net.

In addition....

It's been exciting and busy times for the ladies of Fiction Femme Fatale. With good news all around.

If you didn’t already know Amy and Krystalyn both have new, bright & shiny (and fabulous) books coming out later this year!

Last August Amy’s debut YA contemporary thriller GATED published with Random House Books for Young Readers. And just a few weeks ago Amy publicized the paperback cover for it along with the cover for the sequel, ASTRAY where Lyla’s intense story of being raised in a cult continues. This is a thriller you don’t want to miss as Lyla tries to navigate two worlds and finds herself a stranger in both.

In preparation for ASTRAY’s release on August 26th Amy is going on tour with authors Jessica Khoury, Christina Farley, Jessica Brody, and Anna Banks. You can see a teaser trailer here on YouTube. Amy will also continue to do regular video blogs over at YA Rebels on Tuesdays.

You can already preorder copies of ASTRAY on Amazon.com or make sure to request that your local, indie booksellers have it when it comes out.

Krystalyn debuted two YA fantasy novels last year. LEGASEA with Curiosity Quills and SPIRIT WORLD (both are available on Amazon). Her new book is a middle grade fantasy adventure, and frankly the main character is adorable as well as spirited. TRACY TAM: SANTA COMMAND will release with Month9Books in October. We can’t wait to share the cover with you once it’s officially official.

TRACY TAM follows Tracy as she seeks to dispel the myth of Santa in order to win a contest and help her sick cousin. But when she follows Old St. Nick's elves she realizes he may not be a myth after all.

We’re also happy to congratulate Jennifer on being one of the winners of the 2013 SCBWI On-the-Verge Emerging Voices Award for her speculative YA manuscript, THE FACILITY! SCBWI’s executive director Lin Oliver stated, “We were very impressed with The Facility and believe that [it will be] a valuable contribution to children’s literature.” The Emerging Voices Award seeks to foster the emergence of diverse voices in children’s books. As a winner of this award Jennifer will get an all-expense paid trip to attend this summer’s SCBWI conference in L.A. Jennifer was recently featured on the SCBWI blog in an interview with Lee Wind.

We’d also love to hear news from fellow writers as well. Sharing means caring after all. :-)

GATED's GIANT BOOK B-DAY Giveaway!!!

It's here, it's here!! GATED's birthday month is officially here! I can't quite believe it, but I am over the moon excited. In honor of GATED's release into the wild I've got a giant book giveaway for you guys. I wanted to do something special and I thought what better way to celebrate my book's release than to celebrate other fellow Random House authors too? So I have collected eight recently released or about to release Random House books for you (along with some signed bookmarks)! One lucky winner will get the lot! And a few others will win signed bookmarks from Elsie Chapman, Gina Linko, and Tessa Gratton!!

The books:

1 signed hardcover of GATED filled with personalized comments from me about the writing process and inspirations for scenes.

A hardcover of THE TRAGEDY PAPER by Elizabeth LaBan
A hardcover of DUALED by Elsie Chapman
A hardcover of SCOWLER by Daniel Kraus
A hardcover of THE LOST SUN by Tessa Gratton
A hardcover of THE DARK BETWEEN by Sonia Gensler (It's the cover printed on white paper because it doesn't come out for a few more weeks)
A hardcover of BELLE EPOQUE by Elizabeth Ross
A hardcover of FLUTTER by Gina Linko

There is enough awesome reading here to keep you busy all fall! Unfortunately due to the size of this giveaway the main prize is limited to the USA and Canada, but you can still be considered for bookmarks if you are international and I promise there are other GATED giveaways coming that will be international so if you're not following me on Twitter ( @amychristinepar ), now would be a good time to start.

The contest will run from August 1 through the 23rd. There are several ways to enter and the only restriction is that your entry will not count if you create a Twitter account for the sole purpose of entering this contest. Enter as many times as you like.




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Good Luck!

Hot Diggity, GATED Is About To Release!!

In just a matter of days now my very first book, GATED, will be out in the world!! I am beyond excited and am hoping that you are too. In order to celebrate the release, I've got a very special, very large giveaway planned for the month of August. It'll go live on this site on August 1st at noon, right after our August inspiration picture posts. So check back with us then!!

June Giveaway!

Now that Book Expo of America (BEA) and school are over the summer has officially begun! Which means...lots of summer reading. And we want to help you in this endeavor. So, we'll be holding another giveaway. Also, stay tuned, because we have more BEA goodies to share in addition to celebrating the debut publication of Amy's YA thriller GATED from Random House in August.

For this giveaway you can choose from the following items:

Scholastic Tote Pack
A nice, handy-dandy red Scholastic tote which includes the following Scholastic publications:

Signed ARC of Year of the Jungle by Suzanne Collins
(Illustrated by James Proimos)

ARC of Duke by Kirby Larson

ARC of Torn by David Massey

Paperback movie tie-in edition of

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

OR

Individual ARC (or copy) of one of the following titles: 

ARC of Awaken (book 3 in Abandon series)
by Meg Cabot 

ARC of Treasure Hunters (an illustrated novel)
by James Patterson

Hardcover of The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau

The contest runs for three weeks and we'll post winners here via the Rafflecopter widget. Those who do not get back to us within 24 hours of contact will forfeit the prize and we'll choose another winner.

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It's the Possible End of the World!

It's the possible end of the world and we have exciting news!

 One of our own femme fatales, Amy Christine Parker, will reveal the cover of her upcoming book on December 21, 2012.

That's right, the Mayan's last recorded calendar day.

And you wanna know what's supremely perfect about this?

Amy's book is about an apocalyptic cult!!!

She couldn't have picked a more perfect day for her cover reveal if she tried (which she didn't, oddly enough, the date choice was purely chance, no one realized the significance of it until later--can you say weird and creepy and meant to be?).

You can get her take on things on her blog and we've put all the other pertinent information right here for you. You don't want to miss this cover. Amy LOVES it and we just know that we will too. So, assuming you're still here next Friday, go check out her shiny, new cover at ICEYBOOKS! She's planning a very cool giveaway too...one you won't want to miss!