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Friday, April 3, 2015

RT's Teen Day Will Feature 100 YA Authors


Spring is upon us, and that means it's book convention season. From local book festivals, to TLA (Texas Library Association), YALLWEST, RT (Romanic Times Convention), BEA (Book Expo of America), and ALA (American Library Association), it can be hard figuring out which book festivals/conventions are worth attending. The great thing about book conventions is getting to connect with book friends, authors, and publishers. It can become costly when trying to figure out and plan for the best book convention. They're all fun and great to experience for different reasons. I am bias when it comes to book conventions, and love the book festivals/conventions that happen here in Texas. Living in Texas, I'm spoiled to have so many amazing book events happening here within my own state, including TLA.

This year the Romantic Times (RT) Booklovers Convention is happening here in Dallas! Did you know that RT has a TEEN DAY? I didn't realize this until a year or so ago. Mark your calendars! Saturday, May 16th, is TEEN DAY at RT! In addition to the Giant Book Fair, there will panels, games, and parties. If that's not enough, 100 Young Adult authors will be signing in YA alley at the Giant Book Fair! Trust me book fans, you won't want to miss this. 

Some of the authors attending TEEN DAY include:
  •  Meg Cabot
  • Stephanie Perkins
  • Jennifer L. Armentrout 
  • Kiera Cass
  • Scott Westerfeld
  • Tamora Pierce
  • Lauren Oliver
  • Richelle Mead
  • Melissa de la Cruz
  • Alyson Noel
  • Becca Fitzpatrick
  • Kasie West
  • Kami Garica
  • Margaret Stohl
  • And many more!
Fans will be able to purchase autographed copies of the author's latest books at the Book Fair. To attend this event, purchase a Teen Day pass. The cost of the ticket is $30. Check out the Full Teen Day workshop scheduleFor more information on Teen Day, please go hereDon't forget to register

This year I am so thrilled to announce that I'm the RT Teen Day YA track Assistant!! We have a lot of exciting giveaways planned between now, and to Teen Day! Be sure to follow the Teen Day via our Facebook page www.facebook.com/RTTeenDay, and Instagram @RTTeenDay, for photos, giveaways & interviews with your favorite authors! Starting tomorrow, and going through May 15th, we'll have HUGE giveaways happening twice a week. Be sure to follow us HERE to find out when and where our giveaways are taking place. One of which will be here on Mundie Moms on May 1st! Trust me, you don't want to miss winning a package full of books and swags, many of them signed. Check out RT's Teen Day Facebook page for our first giveaway announcement in the morning.

See you at RT's Teen Day!

Cassandra Clare Shares A Snippet From Copper Gauntlet, The Next Book In Her Magisterium Series


Cassandra Clare treated fans of her and Holly Black's Magisterium Series with a teaser from The Copper Gauntlet, the next book The Magisterium Series. If you're not familiar with their middle grade series, the first book The Iron Trial released last year. The Copper Gauntlet will be released later this summer.
Hey miz Clare!!!! I love your books! Seriously, they mean a lot to me. So…I was wondering Since you put out quite a few dark artifices snippets maybe you could put out some copper gauntlet ones??? Maybe. You know if you had some lying around and Miz black doesn’t mind. Just a thought Have a lovely afternoon! Your books are my moon and stars — venus-backpack
Miz Black doesn’t mind! From The Copper Gauntlet:
Call’s head hurt.
"I don’t want anything bad to happen to Aaron," Call said. That was the one thing he was sure about. "I never did."
Aaron looked miserable. “Well, we’re not going to get anywhere tonight,” he said. “It’s late and we’re all tired. Maybe if we sleep for a couple of hours, we can figure something out in the morning.”
They looked at the two beds. Each was about big enough for one adult or two kids.
"I call that one," said Jasper. He pointed at Tamara and Call. "And I call Aaron, because you’re creepy and you’re a girl."
"I can sleep on the floor," Aaron offered, looking at the expression on Tamara’s face.
"That doesn’t help anyone but Jasper," said Tamara crossly, and got onto the leftmost bed. "It’s fine, Call; we’ll just sleep on top of the covers. Don’t worry about it."
Call thought that maybe he should offer to sleep on the floor like Aaron had, but he didn’t want to. His leg already hurt and, besides, he knew for a fact that there were sometimes rats hiding in the barn.
"Okay," he said, climbing in gingerly beside her.
It was weird.
In the other bed, Jasper and Aaron were trying to share a single pillow. There was a muffled cry as someone was punched. Call pushed the pillow on his bed over to Tamara, and laid his head down on his crooked arm.
He closed his eyes, but sleep didn’t come. It was uncomfortable trying to keep to one side of the bed, making sure that even his toes didn’t stray over to Tamara’s side. It didn’t help that he kept seeing the words in the letters Master Joseph had written, painted on the backs of his eyelids.
"Call?"
He opened his eyes. Tamara was looking at him from a few inches away, her eyes big and dark.  ”Why are you so important?” she whispered. 
He felt the warm gust of her breath on his cheek.
"Important?" he echoed. Jasper had started to snore.
"All those letters," she said. "From Master Joseph. I thought they’d be about Aaron. He’s the Makar. But they were all about you. Call is the most important thing.”
"I mean …I guess because he’s my dad," Call said, floundering. "So I’d be important to him."
"It didn’t sound like that kind of important," Tamara said softly. "Call, you know, you can tell us anything, right?"
Call wasn’t sure how to answer her. He was still trying to decide when Havoc began to howl.

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