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Today's Author Stop is from indie YA author Lexus Luke. Her debut novel, Manitou The Sky People Saga , was published on July 26 and Lexus Luke is offering one of our readers a FREE copy of her book. Details are below.  Book blurb: When her adoptive parents were murdered a year ago in New York City, fifteen-year-old Wray Sky moved home to Manitou Springs, Colorado to live with her Ute Indian great-grandmother. Wray’s faith in all that is logical gets rocked to the core by bones that never die, her sudden mind bending abilities and the realization that her parents' murder may not have been as random as everyone thought. With support from sweetheart, Kanaan, and best friend, Amaya, Wray faces danger from unknown sources and ultimately discovers that she isn’t who, or what, she thinks she is. Guest Post Do you know where you come from? What you are and who you are? Are you sure? What if that certainty was in doubt? Shaken by shocking information, Wray Sky, the fifteen year...

We welcome the In The Shadows Book Tour at Reader Girls today. Presented by Bewitching Book Tours, In The Shadows is the first novel in the Shadows Trilogy written by Julieanne Lynch. We welcome everyone and thank Ms. Lynch for her guest post. Book blurb: “In The Shadows”, the first of The Shadows trilogy, is an urban fantasy of vampires and the supernatural, and much, much more. In the shadows you will find lust and passion, battles for power and for blood, and death and fear around every corner. In the shadows you are carried away to an unknown future. Your destiny awaits, and you are no longer who you thought you were. You have a thirst, for blood perhaps, but a thirst for very much more than that. Giselle was a normal girl with an attitude common to most girls of her age. Her family might not have been perfect (whose is?) but she loved them, and her future looked bright. She had an awesome best friend and a steady boyfriend, but how could she possibly have been...

We passed on the news of the first contest Sea Lion Books held for a signed graphic novel of Hush, Hush and that cool purse and now Sea Lion has announced another contest in celebration of this upcoming release! They thought a graphic novel this epic deserved something extra special and as fans know, it does! Both covers for the first volume in this series are great (the other cover is below) but the Limited Edition is pretty spectacular and it has a prologue.  Becca Fitzpatrick's Hush, Hush Graphic Novel: Limited Edition Prologue will be released on October 1. You can only order this special edition for $10.00 from the Sea Lion Books store tab . If you're a fan of Patch and Nora, this is a great opportunity to order this special edition because there will only be 1,000 copies available . So not only is this an important piece to the contest puzzle but you will be one of only a thousand people to own this piece of Becca Fitzpatrick’s ...

Reader Girls welcomes debut author Becky McKinnon to our site today. McKinnon has written an intriguing and thought-provoking YA novel entitled Annexed , Book 1 of The Refuge Trilogy .  Blurb: Friends or family? Desire or responsibility? She thought she'd made her choice. Now, finding herself trapped in a world splintered from her own, Narissa is determined to return home. Learning that the means of crossing between realities has been lost, she vows to find the elusive gateway. Narissa doesn't plan to make friends. She certainly doesn't intend to fall in love. Faced with the decision, will she choose the life she wants, or return to the world where she belongs? We welcome Becky McKinnon. Thoughts On World Building One of my favorite parts of starting a new book is the world building. Whether the story takes place in the real world, or in a place that exists only in my imagination, it’s exciting to watch the city and landscape appear. I thought I’d share with you so...

YA   author   Shanna Norris is with us today. Shanna is the author of three YA books, Something to Blog About (2008), Troy High (2009), and the recently released The Boyfriend Thief (April 2011). Here's the blurb for The Boyfriend Thief: Avery James has her life planned out: this summer she'll work with a humanitarian program in Costa Rica, next year she'll graduate at the top of her class, and after that, college and medical school. Perfect, planned, total order. The only problem: getting the rest of the money she needs for the trip before the deadline. Hannah Cohen, her biggest competition for the valedictorian title, makes an unexpected offer: If Avery can win over Zac Greeley and make him break up with Hannah before the end of the school year, a check for five hundred dollars is all hers. Faced with the prospect of spending yet another summer working as a giant hot dog, it's an offer Avery can't refuse. Zac is nothing like Avery expected. Within his cha...

The Boyfriend From Hell Book Tour stops by Reader Girls today. Author E. Van Lowe has provided us with an interview with Satan. Read on to learn more about this humorous YA novel. We'll begin with the blurb. Aww, Hell No! Fifteen year-old Megan Barnett and her single mom, Suze, have a special relationship—they are friends, close friends, who do almost everything together. “But come on, guys, she’s my mother… Can I really tell her that while we’re snuggled up on the sofa watching Spider Man Three, I’m secretly undressing James Franco with my eyes? Of course not…” The special bond takes a turn for the worse when Suze decides to start dating again. She hasn’t had a man in her life since Megan’s father left ten years ago. Enter two mysterious young men, Megan’s new classmate, sinfully attractive bad boy, Guy Matson, and the dangerously handsome art dealer, Armando. Before long Megan and Suze both wind up in steamy relationships. But neither of the handsome guys is quite w...

Hardcover: 120 pages Publisher: Sea Lion Books (October 4, 2011) Story: Grant Alter Art: Dave Hamann  Original story: Richelle Mead Blurb: Eugenie Markham never asked for any of this. Until now, she's been content with her job as a freelance shaman, battling and banishing Otherworldly creatures. When a prophecy suddenly makes her the Otherworld's most popular bachelorette, Eugenie finds herself fighting off unwanted supernatural suitors, as well as the evils that begin emerging from her past... Our review: Richelle Mead's novels are always entertaining and it's great to see her stories come alive on the pages of graphic novels. I used to think graphic novels were a less respected format, usually categorized as just being 'comics'. Over time I've witnessed their change from merely being considered 'comic books' to becoming their own fully realized genre, one that is respected and admired. With the Dark Swan:   Storm Born Volume 1  g...