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Cover Reveal == Parallel Triangles
by MaureenMcGowan •
Introducing Parallel Triangles
Title: Parallel Triangles
Release date: April 28th 2015
Publisher: Spencer Hill Press
Formats: Paper, e-book
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20656543-parallel-triangles
Parallel Triangles
How does a cruise change your life?
By sailing through the Bermuda Triangle.
Carly Carmichael has one goal in life–to perform on Broadway. She refuses to have a Plan B because she’s never needed one–until now. When Carly’s parents send her on a cruise as a graduation present, she takes her best friend and their boyfriends along with her. Once the ship sails into the Bermuda Triangle, Carly finds herself unable to sing or walk, much less preform. And things just go downhill from there. Hoping for help from the ship’s doctor, she ends up with more questions than answers about the mystery behind the Bermuda Triangle and why her life is now unrecognizable. If Carly can’t get her real life back on track, she may end up spending the next sixty years trapped in a life the Triangle chooses for her.
Author Bio:
Kimberly Ann Miller received Bachelor’s degrees from Georgian Court University and Rutgers University and a Master’s degree from The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. She’s an avid reader and particularly enjoys true crime and young adult novels. She grew up in New Jersey and currently lives in Monmouth County with her husband and three cats. When she’s not writing, she loves to travel to sunny islands where she snorkels by day and stargazes by night. She always takes her Nook.
Books, Cover Reveal, Giveaway
Prequel Short Stories!
by MaureenMcGowan •
THE DUST CHRONICLES ORIGINS — now available! This short anthology contains two short stories, which are loose prequels to my The Dust Chronicles series. And are my first foray into the world of self publishing.
One of the stories “Valley of Dust” is brand new, and the other “Out of the Ashes” was previously published by McGraw-Hill Ryerson as part of an educational anthology for high school English classes.
THE DUST CHRONICLES ORIGINS is available for kindle only at the moment. But if you don’t have a kindle e-reader, free kindle apps are available for almost all computers, tablets and phones. Or… you can enter to win a Kindle Paperwhite! (More on that in a moment.)
Here is the cover for THE DUST CHRONICLES ORIGINS and links to buy in Canada, US, and the UK. The stories should also be available on most Amazon stores worldwide. Let me know if you can’t find it on yours.
Order from: Amazon.com Amazon.ca Amazon.co.uk
And I’m running a new giveaway!!! My publisher is kindly providing three customized kindle paperwhite to thank my awesome readers for supporting the series and I’m giving away one each month this summer. Enter the July giveaway now! Tell your friends!
Oh, and as always, if you’ve read any of my books, authors love to get honest reviews, especially on Amazon and Goodreads. (Reader reviews really do matter.)
Books, New Release
One More Sleep!
by MaureenMcGowan •
GLORY comes out tomorrow!
GLORY, The Dust Chronicles Book 3, comes out in one sleep! Less than one sleep if you order it for kindle, and stay up late enough tonight.
This trilogy has consumed much of my life over the past three and a half years. And it’s a little hard to for me to believe that the final book is coming out.
That said, I’m super excited that readers will be able to experience the final chapter in Glory’s story, soon. Like tomorrow. (And don’t worry, it’s not that kind of final chapter. I won’t promise much, but I will promise that I didn’t go all Veronica Roth on readers. Glory lives. And that’s the only spoiler I’ll offer. But I guess I just gave a huge spoiler for the Divergent trilogy. Sorry.)
To celebrate, I’m planning a huge, SUMMER OF GIVEAWAYS, with books, swag and…. 3 Kindle Paperwhites!
The details for the June giveaway will be up on this blog tomorrow!
If you haven’t read any of my series yet, the first 2 books are on sale at amazon.com for only $1.99, and book 3 is on sale for $3.99.
Also, as of tomorrow, all 3 books will be available in paperback, with these gorgeous new covers!
What are they about?? Well…
The Dust Chronicles is a sci-fi thriller trilogy, set in a post-apocalyptic world, with elements of paranormal, dystopian, fantasy and a good dose of romance. Think X-Men meets Firefly meets Mad Max, with the pacing and high stakes of The Hunger Games, or Divergent, and the emotional intensity of The Forest of Hands and Teeth.
They are fun, fast-paced reads for teens or adults. (In fact… most of my readers are adults.)
The contest goes live, tomorrow!
Books, Giveaway
Hunting Author Paula Stokes
by MaureenMcGowan •
It's YASH time!!!
I’m excited to be hosting Paula Stokes and her novel The Art of Lainey! Welcome to those of you who are visiting my website for the first time. I hope you’re enjoying the hunt!
To participate in the Spring 2014 Young Adult Scavenger Hunt, and win up to 50+ books, you can start here. Follow the directions below and hop from post to post until you’ve seen all the authors on my team. Then you can begin on team two!
If you get lost, don’t worry. You can always check in on the Hunt’s main webpage.
Welcome to YA Scavenger Hunt!
THE HUNT IS NOW OVER!!! GOOD LUCK IF YOU ENTERED!!!
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Hi! Paula Stokes here, so psyched to be a part of YASH!
Soccer star Lainey Mitchell is used to getting what she wants, and when her boyfriend Jason breaks up with her for no reason, what she wants is to win him back before the start of their senior year. Lainey and her friend Bianca check the interwebz for tips and tricks, but the online dating advice is all pretty lame.
Then the girls stumble across a copy of The Art of War. Didn’t someone once say that love is a battlefield? Jason isn’t going to stand a chance once Lainey and Bee go all Zhou Dynasty on him…
Old school strategy and subterfuge meet modern-day dramarama in the story of a girl who sets out to win at all costs and ends up discovering what’s really worth fighting for.
And… here is an exclusive excerpt!
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“The secret,” Micah says, turning down the radio volume, “is to look for the bears at the very top of the hill.” I peer across him at the steep incline on the left side of the road. I don’t see anything but tall grass, leading up to a tree line. The sun breaks through a low ribbon of clouds. A beam of light reflects off Micah’s eyebrow ring, highlighting the scar on his temple and the faintest hint of beard stubble on his jaw.
The car moves around another bend in the road and starts slowly up the hill. A rustle in the shrubbery catches my eye. A fat-tailed squirrel emerges from beneath a bush, scampering across the crushed gravel.
Micah pulls the Beast over to the side of the road at the very top of the hill.
“Now what?” I ask.
He turns the music up just slightly. “Now we wait.”
I resist the urge to fill the silence with idle chatter. There’s something kind of otherworldly about hanging out at sunrise, the two of us on a random hunt for bears. I can see the beginnings of a ravine through a thin opening in the trees. I watch the opening, sneaking peeks at Micah every so often. If he’s lured me out here for anything other than high-quality bear spotting you wouldn’t know it.
I snuggle back in my bucket seat, humming along to one of the songs by Arachne’s Revenge. And then, something black crosses in front of my vision. Without thinking, I grab Micah’s arm.
“Did you see that?” I ask. Before he can answer, I see the black blur again. A bear cub peeks its head through the trees. I gasp. It stares curiously at Micah’s car. I fumble in my purse for my phone, cursing at how long it takes my camera function to start up.
The bear cub disappears from view. Crap. I start to open the car door.
“Lainey. We’re not supposed to get out of the car.”
“It’s just a little baby,” I scoff. “Not like it’s going to hurt me.”
Micah mutters something that sounds like “annoying drunk chicks” under his breath. “Okay,” he says. “But I’m going with you.”
We sneak around to the front of the Beast, crouching down to peer into the foliage. The bear cub runs across the opening again. I stifle a giggle. “Ohmygod, Micah,” I say. “It’s totally cute.”
“Yeah, it’s adorable.” He runs a hand through his mohawk. “Go on and get your picture.”
I hold my phone up but the bear waddles down into the rocky ravine. I creep forward a couple more steps and angle my phone down toward the rocks. The cub peers up at me with big brown eyes. Just as I snap the photo, I hear a deep growl. Mean. Menacing. It couldn’t have come from that sweet little…
“Lainey,” Micah’s voice sounds far away. “Don’t move.”
I turn to look at him over my shoulder and that’s when I see it. A bigger, blacker, momma bear, just inside the tree line. My brain deconstructs it into pieces. Disproportionally small Mickey Mouse ears. Snout. Fuzzy black coat. Giant paws with five-inch claws. White teeth, dripping with saliva.
“Don’t run,” Micah says.
Too late.
I’m already turned around, making my way up the far side of the ravine in my platform sandals faster than I ever thought possible. Micah swears loudly. My heart lodges in my throat. Behind me, the bear growls again. Micah lets out some kind of primal scream. I flick a look over my shoulder, just to make sure he’s not being eaten. He’s scooping up rocks from the side of the ravine and throwing them at the bear one after the next. The bear cub cowers behind its mother, probably traumatized for life.
“Go,” Micah yells. “Get in the car.”
He doesn’t have to tell me twice. I race up the grassy incline, plunge through the trees, and skid to a stop in front of the Beast. I’m hyperventilating, half from the run and half from the shock of almost getting mauled to death.
I watch Micah slowly retreat back up the hill, still flinging rocks one after the next. When he hits the gravel road, he drops his remaining stones to the ground. His hands are shaking so bad he can barely get his car door open.
“Ohmygod,” I say, as we both slide back into the Beast. “I’m sober now, if there was any doubt.”
“Are you okay?” he asks.
“Are you okay? I thought you were going to get eaten,” I say, looking at Micah in sheer amazement. His hands are dirty and his face is slick with sweat.
“I’m good,” he says. “But that better be one hell of a picture.”
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For more Lainey and Micah fun, check out my YA contemp releasing on May 20, 2014. If you like books with heart, humor, hot boys, and happy endings, you’ll love The Art of Lainey.
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Bonus Giveaway!
For the next stop on the Hunt, visit Kay Honeyman
Books, Giveaway
YASH Spring 2014
by MaureenMcGowan •
The Spring 2014 YA Scavenger Hunt starts on Thursday, April 3rd!
50 books up for grabs.
Exclusive content from 50 YA authors.
Lots of secondary contests!
The YASH is always so much fun! And *spoiler alert* my exclusive content (hosted on author Lea Nolan’s site) will be the newly redesigned covers for DEVIANTS and COMPLIANCE!! I can’t wait for everyone to see them.
Here are the authors and books involved:
Here’s a sneak peek of the books that will be featured on the upcoming hunt.
THE BLUE TEAM
LUCY CONNORS
SHELLEY CORIELL
SARA B. LARSON
LEA NOLAN
C. J. REDWINE
P. J. HOOVER
LYNNE MATSON
AMALIE HOWARD
MY NOT SO SUPER SWEET LIFE
RACHEL HARRIS
KAY HONEYMAN
RACHEL CARTER
SARA RAASCH
PAULA STOKES
KRISTI HELVIG
ANGELA CORBETT
KRISTEN LIPPERT-MARTIN
JAYE ROBIN BROWN
MARI MANCUSI
RITA ARENS
JESSICA SPOTSWOOD
MAUREEN MCGOWAN
AMY CHRISTINE PARKER
APRIL TUCHOLKE
SASHI KAUFMAN
JEN MCCONNEL
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THE RED TEAM
JESSICA BRODY
TERA LYNN CHILDS
STACEY KADE
JESSICA SHIRVINGTON
SUSANNE WINNACKER
AMY PLUM
GRETCHEN MCNEIL
CLAIRE LEGRAND
JENNY LUNDQUIST
TRACY DEEBS
J. A. SOUDERS
KIMBERLY DERTING
MEGAN SHEPHERD
LIZ CZUKAS
Firebird Trilogy: A THOUSAND PIECES OF YOU
CLAUDIA GRAY
ALYXANDRA HARVEY
LEANNA RENEE HIEBER
CAT PATRICK
COLE GIBSEN
DEBRA DRIZA
JERI SMITH-READY
LISSA PRICE
COLLEEN HOUCK
AMBER ARGYLE
JENNIFER TRESSEN
Make sure you stop back on April 3-6 to take part!
Books, Cover Reveal
Cover Reveal!
by MaureenMcGowan •
Glory Cover and Giveaways!
I’m super excited to reveal the cover for GLORY, which is hitting the shelves on June 10, 2014. You can pre-order, and see more details here: GLORY
There will be new looks for DEVIANTS and COMPLIANCE soon, too!
GIVEAWAYS
And I wanted to make sure everyone knows about a couple of GIVEAWAYS happening now!
DEVIANTS giveaway hosted by Live To Read
COMPLIANCE giveaway hosted by Live to Read
And a COMPLIANCE giveaway hosted by the wonderful Christina Farley whose debut YA fantasy GILDED just came out!
Books, Giveaway
TEAM BURN Giveaway!
by MaureenMcGowan •
I’m running a giveaway from now until Christmas!
If you sign up for my newsletter (one of the entry options) there will be additional newsletter-list-only chances to win!
Books, New Release
Compliance release day!
by MaureenMcGowan •
Yes, my book with the business-like and/or kinky title (depending on your perspective) has been released into the wild!
Speaking of the title, I’m busy answering some FAQs for my soon to be revamped website and so I thought I might address the title one right here.
Q: The title for the second book in The Dust Chronicles is Compliance. What’s that about?
A: To be honest, we struggled to come up with a great title for Book Two. In the world of the series, the defacto police are called Compliance Officers, or Comps. In the second book *minor spoiler alert* Glory is training to be a Compliance Officer so it seemed like an apt title.
Initially, Book Two was called Shredders. Shredders are the sadistic scab-covered monsters that exist in the world, but since they don’t play a large part in the plot of Book Two (there will be more–lots more–about Shredders in Book Three) I didn’t think that Shredders would properly represent the story, even though I thought it was an awesome title.
I also like the meaning of the word Compliance and how it fits with some of the themes of the book. i.e. How long will people continue to comply, when the rules and regulations are unreasonable? When do the ends justify the means? And, to risk getting spoilerish, can someone force compliance on others?
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The Dust Chronicles has it all!
To celebrate the release, I’m running a Giveaway!!! Tell your friends. (Even if that might decrease your odds of winning, you’ll win karma points, which is way better.)