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Friday, December 10, 2010

BIR2010- Day 5 Author Interview & Giveaway With Author Shannon Delany


It's now Day 5 of our BIR celebrations and while the celebrations will continue through the 14th on the other participating blogs, today is our last day to be apart of the BIR 2010. We're ending a little early as we've got some fun giveaways planned for next week for part of our Mundie Moms 2010 Favorite Reads. Don't worry, just because we're ending a few days early doesn't mean we gave away less books. We just had more books to giveaway each day. You can still enter ALL the contests through December 15th. All our links our under our giveaway section in our right hand side bar.

If you're just joining our celebrations, here's a little history about it: We, along with 8 other bloggers have come together to collectively bring you our favorite reads for 2010. Each blog came up with a small list of their favorites and every blog will be featuring the list. We, along with the other bloggers will be featuring BIG giveaways, I'm talking more than 30 books, along with author interviews. This event will be running from now through December 14th, though on MM's our events will be running now through Friday. That means more giveaways each day! To follow all of our BIR2010 posts, just click on the BIR2010 button on the top right hand corner of our blog. Be sure to visit the BIR site to see the list of bloggers taking part in this huge giveaway.

Today we have more great giveaways and an author interview with Shannon Delaney!

All giveaways are open to residents of the US only, unless other wise noted. If you are an International follower and have someone in the US we can send your winnings to, please feel free to enter. All giveaways will end on December 15th. All winners will be announced on Monday December 20th. This is to ensure that we don't have winners winning the same books on the other participating blogs. **Publishers will be mailing out most of the winnings and with Christmas and the holiday rush, books may not be received until after the first of the year.

Thank you to all the wonderful publishers and authors who have allowed us to host such wonderful giveaways!
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13 to Life
By Shannon Delany
Published by St. Martin's Griffin

Book Summary:
(from Goodreads)
Everything about Jessie Gillmansen’s life changed when her mother died. Now even her hometown of Junction is changing. Mysterious dark things are happening. All Jessie wants is to avoid more change. But showing a hot new guy around Junction High, she’s about to discover a whole new type of change. Pietr Rusakova is more than good looks and a fascinating accent—he’s a guy with a dangerous secret. And his very existence is sure to bring big trouble to Jessie’s small town. It seems change is the one thing Jessie can’t avoid…



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Secrets and Shadows
By Shannon Delany
Published by St. Martin's Griffin
Release Date: February 15, 2011

Book Summary:
(from author's website)
The supernatural stakes are higher than ever now that more than just werewolves prowl the town of Junction--friendships will be formed, choices will be made and allies may become enemies...

Nothing's simple when you run with werewolves. Jess Gillmansen thinks she's seen it all but her eyes are about to be opened to even more danger and a reality far more paranormal than she's suspected.


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We are excited to have Shannon with us on our blog today!.

With all the fantastic new releases this year, what new release has become your guilty pleasure?

I loved hush, hush by Becca Fitzpatrick. Patch was a great bad boy.

If you were able to add in a favorite literary character to your book, who would you pick and why?

I'd bring Huck Finn in, update him and send he and Max off on some adventures together. I'm sure that make for lots of trouble.

What inspired to become a writer?

I was inspired to be a writer by an excellent teacher, a supportive mother and a creative father (although the latter two wanted me to be a teacher so I had a dependable income ;).

As a teen, if you were friends with one of your characters, who would it be and why?

I would have argued philosophy and ethics with Pietr (as good friends do) but I would have completely kicked back with Max--if I'd had the courage to approach him.

If you could have a paranormal power, would it be or what would you want to be (ie. shadowhunter, werewolf etc)

Ohhh. Being a shadowhunter would be a great temptation--I love Cassie Clare's books! But I think I'd be happy as a werewolf. I'd be able to have the best of two distinct worlds and potentially blend into both.

Thank you Shannon for being with us today! I have to say, I'm with you on being torn between a Shadow Hunter and a Werewolf.
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Today's giveaway is for a LIMITED EDITION signed chapter book of the SECOND book in this series, Secrets and Shadows, which is due out February 15, 2011. ** This is open to residents of the US only. Don't worry, next week we've got some great International giveaways coming up and current International giveaways going on right now for BIR.


Thank you to Shannon for being with us today and for the wonderful giveaway!

9 comments:

  1. I absolutely LOVED 13 to Life. I hope I win the sequel. I can't wait to find out what happens next.

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  2. I liked Hush, Hush too! I think Patch was too much of a jerk though. He gets much better in Crescendo.

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  3. Thanks, Mundie Moms, for being a part of the BIR2010! I love visiting with you all. :)

    Jennifer, I'm so glad you loved 13 to Life! I can't believe Secrets and Shadows is coming out so soon!

    Jessy, Patch definitely had the aloof, arrogant thing going for him in hush, hush--I can't wait to read Crescendo. :)

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  4. I seriously need to meet Max! Great interview!

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  5. Great giveaway! Thanks for the chance to win.

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  6. Yay for SECRETS AND SHADOWS! I've been looking forward to this book so much!

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  7. Shannon seems to talk Max up quite a bit, so I'm excited to see him more in Secrets and Shadows. Thanks for the giveaway!

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