Drawing Amanda Cover Reveal and Giveaway

Today I'm excited to bring you the cover reveal for the YA novel, Drawing Amanda by Stephanie Feuer.  This novel is scheduled to release by Hipso Media in June 2014.

Inky draws his crush for a game–and paints her into real danger.

DRAWING AMANDA is set in the under-parented, high-expectation world of a Manhattan international prep school. Fourteen-year-old budding artist Inky Kahn is still smarting from the death of his father. He thinks he’s found his big break when he bonds with the developer of a new computer game and snags a coveted drawing assignment, for which he uses his secret crush–Amanda–as a model.

But unbeknownst to Inky, the developer has a dangerous past, and is using his computer game to lure and stalk teenage girls. And Inky has inadvertently led Amanda right into his path. Blinded by his own ambition and sulking from his father’s death, Inky hides from the truth. Will Inky, with the help of Rungs, his cybergeek pal, discover the treachery in time and save Amanda before the creep ensnares her–or anyone else?

Goodreads

About the Author:

Stephanie Feuer’s articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Herald, on bettyconfidential.com and in numerous anthologies and literary magazines. She serves as creative nonfiction editor of Conclave, a Journal of Character.

DRAWING AMANDA is her first published book of fiction.

Stephanie earned her Master’s in Journalism and Communication from Boston University, and her B.A. in sociology from Hamilton (Kirkland) College.

She lives in New York City with her husband, teenage son, Tibetan Terrier and an out of control collection of books and CDs.


About the Illustrator:

S.Y. Lee received her BFA in Illustration from Syracuse University. Her work has been 
featured in children’s books, textbooks, magazines, and on iPad® apps. She currently lives in New York with her two goldfish, One Fish and Two Fish. You can see more of her work on her online portfolio: http://callmelee.com

Giveaway:  

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My Week in Instagram: Busy Mail Week, YA, MG and Children's Books + Puppy Pictures!

Happy Sunday everyone!

This post is in my week according to instagram. It's mostly the books I got but I take random pictures sometimes too.  Also, make sure you follow me on instagram, I follow back! 

  

I got quite a few middle grade books for review this week. Minion is a companion to Sidekicked, which I read last year and Plague is the sequel to Treason, which I'll review this week.

Since You've Been Gone by Morgan Matson and To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han came for review from Amazon Vine. I'm excited to read both and am thinking I might start one of these now since I've kind of been in a slump.

Awesome package from MacMillan. Children's books with Spring/Summer releases. My kids were excited!

Also from MacMillan I got The Body in the Woods by April Henry. This comes out in June and I'm really excited to read it! I actually saw April (she's local, I see her fairly often) when she'd first got the ARC's, so I knew I wanted a copy!

I selected A Horse Called Hero by Sam Angus for review cause my daughter loves horses!  I thought this might be a good thought-provoking book for us to read together. It's a middle grade and also came from MacMillan.

 And a last minute for this week was a hardcover copy of Better Off Friends that Scholastic surprised me with.  YAY!  I already started it and am enjoying it!

 

I was quoted in the paperback of ICED by Karen Marie Moning! This is my quote from my Shadowfever review, which was also in the paperback of Shadowfever.  Very exciting!

We had some gorgeous weather here. The dog LOVED it and just wanted to lay out in the sunshine. It was cute to see him SO happy to be outside!

I've been SO busy I have had a really hard time finding time to comment. So I'm really sorry for slacking on that.  I'll also continue to try my hardest to stop by to visit you all! 

This week my youngest turned 5 and next week my oldest turns 9.  Super crazy busy around here!

Hope you're all having a wonderful weekend!

Take Control of Your TBR Pile Challenge

I don't know how I managed to let this one slip by me, but I had totally forgot I signed up for the Take Control of Your TBR Pile, hosted by Caffeinated Book Reviewer.  Suddenly it's March 1st and the challenge has started! 

I have been horrible about keeping up with series. I get so many review books that many of them fall to the wayside.  I have every intention of reading them, but just don't get to it.

This is bad timing really, my review pile is literally topping over. That's just for review books I need to read asap.  But, I need to take time to read some of the books I have been wanting to read for ages.  So here's a picture of the books I'd like to squeeze in. It won't be all of them. But hopefully I'll get to as many as possible.  I didn't really know where to start.  I have so many books that I want to read that I can't even go around gathering them. So I'll start with these two piles. Vitro came for review and I just never got to it. All Our Yesterdays is one I've heard great things about and a friend gave me the ARC. These Broken Stars was the same. Insignia, Starters and The Night Circus was loaned to me over a year ago so I NEED to read them.

 Taste of Darkness, Cress, Curtsies & Conspiracies, Allegiant and Beautiful Chaos are all series I need to keep up with. Well, I'm already behind in one of them. Divided we Fall was sent for review in January and Meant to Be and Witchstruck I've wanted to read for ages. Haunting a Witch is one I won but thought it sounded great so I would like to read it as well.  So wish me luck people!

Here's the rules:

• Link-up! This is open to everyone. If you do not have a blog then link your Facebook or Goodreads account.
• Make a Goals/updates/Results post (can be combined)
• Beginning March 1st, 2014 and ending March 31, 2014 at midnight read books from your TBR pile ALL books must have been published before March 2014.
• Post a review to Goodreads, your blog or Facebook then link it to the Rafflecopter for an entry. (review only needs to be a short one)
• You can combine events, challenges etc.
• No novellas for this one peeps
• The rafflecopter will allow you to enter up to two books daily, so update as soon as you finish a book.
• Earn an extra entry for adding Take Control Button to your blog, or facebook (with link-back)
• Use hashtag #TakeControlTBR
• Rafflecopter will close on April 2, 2014 at midnight and a winner will be chosen. Open internationally as long as Book Depository or Barnes and Noble ship to you. Prize: New 2013 release. I will do pre-orders as well. (may request eBook copy)

Sign up for this challenge HERE.