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ICYMI, here’s the beautiful cover of the signed, limited Collector’s Edition of The Song Rising, designed by the reigning king of cover design, David Mann. All of the remaining books in the Bone Season series will have a Collector’s Edition available in hardback. They’re available to pre-order globally now from Amazon and Bloomsbury, and links will appear on other retailers, including the Book Depository, over the next few days. 

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Enter for a chance to win our collection of the best children's books of all time featured in Time Magazine!

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I entered to win a VIP trip to #TheBookCon in NYC and to meet Marissa Meyer and you can too!

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Enter to win @Candlewick’s 6 YA books featured on the TIME 100 Best YA Books list -

Recently, TIME named its picks for the 100 Best YA Books (of all time). And while I — and plenty of others — may have some issues with the list (namely its lack of diversity and the questionable...

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WIN A WINTER WITCHES BREW prize pack

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To enter the Blizzard of Books Giveaway & have a chance to win a fabulous stack of **SIXTEEN** signed YA books including THE WITCH HUNTER!

1. Reblog this post.

2. Follow the author on Tumblr.

3. You must follow *every* author in the giveaway to be entered.

*Signed* giveaway books, authors, & Tumblr pages:

RED QUEEN by Victoria Aveyard http://vaveyard.tumblr.com/

ZODIAC by Romina Russell http://rominagarber.tumblr.com/

UNDER A PAINTED SKY by Stacey Lee http://staceyleeauthor.tumblr.com/

THE YOUNG ELITES by Marie Lu http://marielubooks.tumblr.com/

LOOP by Karen Akins http://karenakins.tumblr.com/

THE BODY ELECTRIC by Beth Revis http://bethrevis.tumblr.com/

AN EMBER IN THE ASHES by Sabaa Tahir http://sabaatahir.tumblr.com/

THE WITCH HUNTER by Virginia Boecker http://virgboecker.tumblr.com/

THE WRATH & THE DAWN by Renée Ahdieh http://rahdieh.tumblr.com/

SNOW LIKE ASHES by Sara Raasch http://sararaasch.tumblr.com/

KALAHARI by Jessica Khoury http://jesskhoury.tumblr.com/

WRITTEN IN THE STARS by Aisha Saeed http://aishacs.tumblr.com/

BEWARE THE WILD by Natalie C. Parker http://nataliecparker.tumblr.com/

TINY PRETTY THINGS by Sona Charaipotra & Dhonielle Clayton http://tinyprettythingsballet.tumblr.com/

THE CONSPIRACY OF US by Maggie Hall http://maggieehall.tumblr.com/

THE WALLED CITY by Ryan Graudin http://ryangraudin.tumblr.com/

The giveaway will end 12/18 at 5:00 pm EST. Winner will be announced within 48 hours. US entries only. GOOD LUCK!

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WINTERIANS!!

The Winter Join the Blizzard contest is IN FULL SWING, but if that isn’t enough for you…

ANOTHER BLIZZARD HAS STARTED!

I’m one of SIXTEEN authors participating in the Blizzard of Books giveaway. The rules for this one are SUPER SIMPLE:

To enter the Blizzard of Books Giveaway & have a chance to win a fabulous stack of **SIXTEEN** signed YA books including SNOW LIKE ASHES:

1. Reblog this post.

2. Follow me on Tumblr.

3. You must follow *every* author in the giveaway to be entered.

*Signed* giveaway books, authors, & Tumblr pages:

RED QUEEN by Victoria Aveyard http://vaveyard.tumblr.com/

ZODIAC by Romina Russell http://rominagarber.tumblr.com/

UNDER A PAINTED SKY by Stacey Lee http://staceyleeauthor.tumblr.com/

THE YOUNG ELITES by Marie Lu http://marielubooks.tumblr.com/

LOOP by Karen Akins http://karenakins.tumblr.com/

THE BODY ELECTRIC by Beth Revis http://bethrevis.tumblr.com/

AN EMBER IN THE ASHES by Sabaa Tahir http://sabaatahir.tumblr.com/

THE WITCH HUNTER by Virginia Boecker http://virgboecker.tumblr.com/

THE WRATH & THE DAWN by Renée Ahdieh http://rahdieh.tumblr.com/

SNOW LIKE ASHES by Sara Raasch http://sararaasch.tumblr.com/

KALAHARI by Jessica Khoury http://jesskhoury.tumblr.com/

WRITTEN IN THE STARS by Aisha Saeed http://aishacs.tumblr.com/

BEWARE THE WILD by Natalie C. Parker http://nataliecparker.tumblr.com/

TINY PRETTY THINGS by Sona Charaipotra & Dhonielle Clayton http://tinyprettythingsballet.tumblr.com/

THE CONSPIRACY OF US by Maggie Hall http://maggieehall.tumblr.com/

THE WALLED CITY by Ryan Graudin http://ryangraudin.tumblr.com/

The giveaway will end 12/18 at 5:00 pm EST. Winner will be announced within 48 hours. US entries only. GOOD LUCK!

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Day 10 of the Twelve Days of YA!

Today’s featured book is Love is the Drugby Alaya Dawn Johnson!

Giveaway: Click here to enter the giveaway for a chance to win TWO copies of Love Is the Drug — one as a gift from us to you, and one for you to give to a fellow book lover!

Bonus Content: Author Alaya Dawn Johnson recently moved to Mexico, so we asked her to tell us about some new holiday traditions that she’s looking forward to experiencing this year. Click “Read More” to read on!

About a month ago, I was lucky enough to spend one of the nights of the day of the dead in a small village in Xochimilco, on the southern outskirts of Mexico City. I stayed with a traditional Nahua family and watched as they made blue corn tamales (I had never seen blue corn tamales before, and neither had any of my other Mexican friends) and sat around and laughed together. In the other room a table was laden with apples and mandarins and liter bottles of soda and dozens of little sugar skulls and pan de muertos, which is a sugared bread baked to have the shape of a crossbones on the top. The dead were visiting, they told me, but of course the living couldn’t see them. At the end of the two nights the food would be tasteless and bland, which meant that the dead had come and eaten the flavor. That night, Isabel, one of the granddaughters of my host, took me and my friend up to the graveyard where some neighbors were keeping vigil. We talked about a lot of things, but she was particularly interested in Taylor Swift.  "You know who she is?" she asked, almost reverently. I admitted that I did, but that I couldn’t place one of her songs. She was rapturous.  "No one here knows her, but I love her. She’s the best." She asked me if I knew any Mexican musicians, and I said l liked Lila Downs.  "Who’s she?" she asked, and my friend and I just laughed. Where the culture gap meets the generation gap, I guess.  We kept talking about the US— was it prettier there than here? Watching the flickering glow of candlelight among the flower-laden graves, which ranged from small hand-lettered crosses to tiny brick houses, and beyond that, the sea of lights of the city below us, I could only manage an emphatic negation. No, the most beautiful things I’ve seen in my life, I’ve seen in Mexico.  What about US traditions? Do we have day of the dead? I told her about the Halloween parade in New York’s West Village. Then I told them about my family’s Thanksgiving, which they seemed to find fascinating and strange. Of course they had heard about Thanksgiving, but not about sweet potato pies and dancing to James Brown in the kitchen—and definitely not about black Friday. “Does your mother make tamales?” Isabel asked me. As I had at that point eaten about six of them (pineapple, peppers with cheese, green salsa), I honestly wished she could.  When we got to Christmas, however, I was completely astonished. “Here,” my friend told me, “Christmas lasts for a month. It starts with the day of the Virgin of Guadalupe, then the posadas and goes until the day of the kings.”  I could vaguely place the Virgin of Guadalupe and the day of the kings, but I had never heard of posadas, which previously I’d only thought was another word for bed and breakfast. “Then the what?” "The posadas are like the calaveras," Isabel told me, referring to the groups of kids who came by every few minutes to sing a prayer in front of the offering and then receive their fruit and tamales (and sometimes candy). "You go to houses and sing and then they let you in." "For nine days," my friend added. "You have Christmas caroling for nine days?" I asked. "What’s Christmas caroling?" they asked, and I tried to explain. "Sure," my friend said. "But in this case the people outside sing because they represent the Virgin and Joseph looking for a place to stay right before Jesus was born, and the people inside sing to refuse them, and then eventually they give in." Later, when I got back home, I asked another friend about the posadas. She told me that they represented the 9 months of the Virgin Mary’s pregnancy.  "Wait, wait," I said, "they celebrate Christ’s gestation?” She nodded. “And I think it might have something to do with an Aztec festival, too.” So I looked this up. Apparently, the festival of Panquetzaliztli, which celebrated the Mexica sun and war god, Huitzilopochtli, took place around the same time of year, and was one of the most important in the Mexica calendar. I couldn’t discover if it involved walking around to people’s doors and singing, but the posadas are clearly a centuries-old Mexican tradition. We’re about six days away from the first day of the posadas, and I can’t wait to drink my Mexican punch (which is warm and sweetened with pure sugarcane and fruit) to see it. 

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My biggest giveaway ever: with three major prize packs, including 29 signed books, 15 ARCs, and more! 

Where: Check out full details—and the entry form—at my blog. Reblogging this post counts as an entry!

Bonus! Every sale of my latest book, The Body Electric, though out this month (Dec.’14), will donate $1 to a World Vision charity benefitting struggling families in developing nations. More details here.

Spread the word! Reblogging this post counts as an entry!

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If I Were Enlightened - Donnalou Stevens & Birdz of Play

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While you’re catching up on reading this weekend, enter to win a copy of Scarlet Tides before time runs out!