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Monday, April 16, 2012

The Springsweet Blog Tour: Guest Post with Author Saundra Mitchell & a Giveaway

"Do you know what I've missed since coming here? Books. I do miss reading novels, don't you?" -Zora, The Springsweet

Pretty much every writer started out as a reader; now that we're writers, we can't help but write about people who love books. Sometimes IN the books. It's meta upon meta, but it makes perfect sense to us. 

To celebrate books, Saundra Mitchell's blog tour is all about sharing two great things that go great together: books + free.  We're working the historical connection today—there's just something about corsets and magic that go great together. 


Today, you can enter to win a copy CLOCKWORK ANGEL, and a signed set of Saundra's THE VESPERTINE and THE SPRINGSWEET. All you have to do is comment in this entry, and leave an e-mail address where we can contact you. (US & Canadian residents only, please.)

And tell us about your favorite book, too. Growing a TBR pile is the best gardening there is!


THE SPRINGSWEET
A Companion to
The Vespertine
by Saundra Mitchell
Hardcover & E-book


“A lovely historical romance takes readers back to the 1890 Oklahoma territory. (T)he author conjures a convincing picture of life on the Oklahoma prairie, painting an absorbing portrait of the landscape and of the people there. A high-quality, absorbing drama.”



It’s a long way from Baltimore to Oklahoma Territory. But Zora Stewart will go any distance to put the tragic events of her sixteenth summer behind her. So this city girl heads to the tiny frontier town of West Glory to help her young widowed aunt keep her homestead going.

When another Baltimorean shows up in West Glory, Zora couldn’t be more surprised. Theo de la Croix made the long trip out west hoping to court Zora, whom he has long admired from afar.
But Zora has developed an attraction to a rather less respectable fellow: Emerson Birch, a rough-mannered young “sooner” whose fertile land is coveted.

As Zora begins to suspect that there may be more than luck behind Emerson’s good land, she discovers an extraordinary, astonishing power of her own: the ability to sense water under the parched earth. When her aunt hires her out as a “springsweet” to advise other settlers where to dig their wells, Zora feels the burden of holding the key to something so essential to survival in this unforgiving land.

Even more, she finds herself longing for love the way the prairie thirsts for water. Maybe, in the wildness of the territories, Zora can finally move beyond simply surviving and start living.
THE SPRINGSWEET 
is available at Indiebound |Amazon| Barnes & Noble
Saundra Mitchell has been a phone psychic, a car salesperson, a denture-deliverer and a layout waxer. She's dodged trains, endured basic training, and hitchhiked from Montana to California. She teaches herself languages, raises children, and makes paper for fun. She's the author of Shadowed Summer, The Vespertine, The Springsweet, and the forthcoming The Elementals and Mistwalker. She's also the editor of the forthcoming YA anthology Defy the Dark. She always picks truth; dares are too easy.

38 comments:

  1. :D I hope I win!!!!!

    rickijill@gmail.com


    I have so many favorite books, and I love the Infernal Devices series (of course). Another author I would like to share is Katherine Howe. She is not necessarily YA, but I know several young adults who read The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane and loved it. Her new book, The House of Velvet and Glass was just released last Tuesday. I cannot wait to read it!

    xo,
    RJ

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  2. May the odds be ever in my favor...

    hayy6747@gmail.com

    My favorite books are probably The Hunger Games, Anna and the French Kiss, Divergent, the Gone series, The Mortal Instruments series, and Infernal Devices series.

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  3. Thanks for holding this giveaway! I'd love to win these books. THE SPRINGSWEET sounds particularly perfect for me, since my dad learned how to dowse for water as a little boy and just taught me to do the same last year. My email address is kim(at)kimharristhacker(dot)com.

    I generally read YA or MG fiction, and a few of my recent favorites are Maggie Stiefvater's THE SCORPIO RACES and Terry Pratchett's NATION. But I recently read two "outlaw" novels by Leif Enger (I love outlaws!), called PEACE LIKE A RIVER and SO BRAVE, YOUNG, AND HANDSOME. They're not a series--they're just both about outlaws. I really loved the writing style, and both books had endings that were both surprising and perfect, which is a hard combination to achieve, I think.

    Thanks again for holding this giveaway! I hope I win! :)

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  4. I've read so many good reviews of The Vespertine and The Springsweet that I should really put them in my TBR queue! (extemter at hotmail dot com)

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  5. My current TBR pile is growing faster than the boxes that try to contain it. I've started collecting next year's Young Hoosier books to read over the summer. I'm so excited Laurie Halse Andesron's FORGE is on the list! My students also had to my growing list. Several are recommending Pittacus Lore's I AM NUMBER FOUR and Charlie Higgson's ENEMY. I am currently reading Peter Abraham's BULLET POINT and just finished Patricia McCormick's SOLD. My students love THE VESPERTINE and I would love to share SPRINGSWEET with them before summer break! My email is kaymcgriff at gmail dot com.

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  6. Saundra's books have been on my to-read list for awhile now. So many favorites, I'll choose a couple of older ones: The Book Thief and A Northern Light.

    Thanks for the giveaway!
    kristinbartleylenz at gmail dot com

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  7. Awesome giveaway. I would love to read these books. Some of my favorite YA novels are Julie Kagawa's Iron Fey series, Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games trilogy and Maggie Stiefvater's Shiver trilogy.
    Crystal816[at]hotmail[dot]com

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  8. I absolutely recommend Wanderlove by Kirsten Hubbard. Fabulous! Triangles by Ellen Hopkins is great too.

    Vivien
    deadtossedwaves at gmail dot com

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  9. I enjoyed the Vespertine and wonder where they will end up in future. The cover is also stunning.
    A growing TBR pile is the best gardening? I never thought of it like that. Interesting.
    Most recent favorite is Grave Mercy.

    hopelovehappyendings at gmail dot com

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  10. Wow cool! I loveddddd The Vespertine, especially because of the fact that it was held in Baltimore, which is where i was born and raised and live!!! The whole time i was like, ive been there! or i know where that is!!!!
    Some of my favorite YA books are Obsidian (Jennifer Armentrout), Abandon (Meg Cabot), The Hunger Games series (Suzanne Collins), Graceling and Fire (Kristin Cashore), Article 5 (Kristen Simmons), Across the Universe and A Million Suns (Beth Revis), Grave Mercy (Robin LaFevers), and Die For Me (Amy PLum). But those are just a few. I actually don't have that much of a TBR pile, because i want to read a book that has come out, then i go and get it from the library or buy it. I'm not very big on waiting months after the book comes out :D
    But anyway, thanks for the giveaway!!!!

    Alyssa Susanna
    EMAIL: lilleetleet@verizon.net

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  11. Thanks for the giveaway! I have been wanting to read the Vespertine since it came out. I love fantasy, so some of my favorite reads are Cinda Williams Chima's Seven Realms series, Kiristin Cashore, I have been dying to read Bitterblue, The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae cxarson and Robin LaFevers Grave Mercy swept me off my feet!

    Susan Light
    books4susie@aol.com

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  12. Thank you so much. I think my favorite YA so far this year is Bloodrose by Andrea Cremer followed by Every Other Day by Jennifer Lynn Barnes.

    Victoria Sloboda
    vsloboda(at)gmail(dot)com

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  13. The best gardening, I like that, so true. And yay for Springsweet!!! I've been looking forward to this one SO much! The Vespertine was one of the best novels I've read in the last decade, so that qualifies as one of my favorite books.

    hmccorkle (at) wildblue (dot)net

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  14. I have a lot of favorite books, but so far this year's fave is Edenbrooke by Julianne Donaldson.

    Margay1122ATaolDOTcom

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  15. My favorite book is usually the current one I am reading....I really love all books, rarely find one that disappoints. Currently re-reading Cassandra Clares Mortal Instruments...awaiting the release of City of Lost Souls...
    StephAnnee

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  16. I am constantly reading something. Actually have a pile that I am trying to get through. My favorite recent read has to be Forgiven, the latest in Jana Oliver's Demon Trapper series.

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  17. Thanks for an excellent giveaway!! :)

    A few of my favorite books are Finnikin of the Rock, Looking for Alaska, and the Demon's Lexicon series.

    Oh, and the Name of the Star. And Daughter of Smoke and Bone. And...many many more!

    ~Ana
    bluestar22yl@gmail.com

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  18. Thanks and I really love the Unearthly series by Cynthia Hand!

    ashtreygonesmokeya@yahoo.com

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  19. My favorite book has to be either "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green or "North of Beautiful" by Justina Chen Headley.

    amycoke@gmail.com

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  20. Thank you so much for the fantastic giveaway - this is epic! As for my favorite book, I don't know. I love the Iron Druid Chronicles by Kevin Hearne. My favorite upcoming YA release is Dust Girl by Sarah Zettel. :-)

    pherlaithiel (at) gmail (dot) com

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  21. The cover is lovely and thank you for the chance to read your book!

    Cambonified(at)yahoo(dot)com

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  22. The cover of The Springsweet is gorgeous and definitely makes me want to pick it up and read it. This seems like an especially good giveaway since you receive the two books that go together. I've read The Infernal Devices and it's wonderful.

    puttputt1198eve@comcast.net

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  23. Thank you for the giveaway!
    My favorite book will always be Twilight. Not because of the book itself, but because of the amazing friends and places it brought into my life.
    Sonya
    cocojaz at hotmail dot com

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  24. Springsweet looks very interesting and the premise is a classic. I'd enter to win this book alone. A favorite book, somewhat along these lines might be John Steinbeck's East of Eden. If you don't happen to have a copy of the book available you can catch the great movie instead with James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson.
    Thanks!
    carlscott(at)prodigy(dot)net(dot)mx

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  25. Thanks for the giveaway!
    My favorite book will always be Significance by Shelly Crane. The story line and the unique qualities of the series have kept me reading and rereading it over and over again.
    doodlesbookblog at gmail dot com

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  26. Oh this is awesome! I loved The Vespertine! :)

    My all-time favorite book will always be THE BOOK THIEF. It's perfect, beautiful, and I just love it so much. :)

    sondok@msn.com

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  27. I would have to say my favorite books lately are Divergent, Daughter of smoke and bone, and I loved Angelfall. I am sure I will have many more favorites soon. Slowly getting through my TBR pile. Thank you for the Giveaway! I haven't read anything by her, she would be a new author for me!

    myheroin01 at gmail dot com

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  28. I really loved The Vespertine. Saundra Mitchell's writing was so beautiful. I'm really looking forward to reading The Springsweet and learning more of Zora's story. Thanks so much for the chance to win copies! Plus she is an Indiana author (I'm a hoosier) so I think that is pretty cool too.
    amy dot swihart at gmail dot com

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  29. My favorite book right now is Anna and the French Kiss

    great giveaway
    follow via gfc
    drakebdog@gmail.com

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  30. I don't know if they're my *favorite* books, but I'm re-reading the Anne of Green Gables series and they're just as good now as they were when I first read them, 15+ years ago. They're definitely the best books I've read this year.

    whatinabox at gmail dot com

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  31. Loved the Vespertine! Nice to see a Victorian-set book that doesn't take place in London. Can't wait to read the Springsweet.

    bluej4oxox@aim.com

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  32. My favorite book? Ever? The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis. Okay, that's seven books... But that's as narrow as I can get. :) I love it when authors mention the series in other books, like Julie Kagawa in THE IMMORTAL RULES, which is the only one I can think of right now...

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  33. Oh, you might want my email... iLiveiLaughiLoveBooks @ gmail dot com

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  34. I love historical fiction!
    I'm reading the Iron Fey series right now and loving it!
    lexie.bookbug at gmail dot com

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  35. I have many favorite books but my absolute favorite is The Georgia Nicolson series, they make me laugh when I have terrible days!

    Thanks for the giveaway!
    korra_950@hotmail.com

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  36. Some of my favorite books are Poison Study, The Demon Trapper's Daughter, and Chime. My favorite from this year is The Fault in Our Stars.
    aldiss87[at]gmail[dot]com

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  37. My favorite book is The Naming by Alison Croggon. As well as the rest of the series. If you haven't read them, you should! :)
    Thanks for being part of the tour!

    Lily Sooklal
    Email: lilypi@verizon.net

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  38. There is a lot of books I love, but my favorite has to be Firelight by Sophie Jordan. I completely adore the Firelight series it's awesome. Thanks for the giveaway! :)

    linda_flor019 [at] hotmail [dot] com

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