Jun 23, 2014

News from Martina

Giveaways, ALA, BEA, and a special subscriber giveaway!
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Hi ,

Time for the June newsletter! I've got a lot of great giveaways for you to catch up on before the end of the month, a BEA recap, and a little COMPULSION news to share. Check them out below, but first a quick note about my upcoming trip to ALA.

I’m excited to be heading out to Las Vegas to share COMPULSION at the American Library Association’s biggest national conference of the year. This one will be attended by more than 25,000 librarians, teachers, and publishing folks, all getting together to discuss books and programs to connect books to readers. Librarians are basically my heroes, so I’m looking forward to sitting in on some of the amazing and informative panels, including the Michael L. Printz Award Program, which will feature some incredibly talented authors. Hopefully, I’m also going to be catching up with a bunch of my fellow YASeriesInsiders.com authors who will be there, including Jennifer Armentrout, Claudia Gray, S.E. Green, Kimberley Griffiths Little, and Tracy Clark. I’ll also get to see some of my favorite critique partners and writing buddies.

As for why I’m actually going? I'm thrilled to be part of the Debut YA Author panel hosted by Scott Westerfeld. It will be on Saturday night, and that will be followed by the Simon & Schuster 90th anniversary dessert reception. That’s both exciting and nerve-wracking—my first author panel. Wish me luck, okay? And keep your fingers crossed that I don’t fall on my face.

If you are going to be out in Vegas, please let me know. I’d love to see you!

Have a great month and happy reading!
Martina
BEA RECAP
In case ALA isn’t enough excitement for me, I also went to my first BEA--Book Expo America--convention. COMPULSION went too, in giant poster size. Yes, that's my cover blown up six feet high or so, sandwiched between the posters of books by #1 New York Times bestselling authors. The whole thing was a wonderful and surreal experience.
Picture me at a table with Scott Westerfeld, Becca Fitzpatrick, Kresley Cole, and Christina Lauren (Christina and Lauren). Mentally, I kept doing that Sesame Street song in my head. You know, "One of these things is not like the other . . . " 
I had my first ever book signing, and there were actual people who wanted me to sign COMPULSION for them. I walked past the S&S booth about twenty times before I realized that my book’s cover was featured on the wall. That was another tear-worthy moment, trust me.
BOOK TWO NEWS
I sent off the manuscript to my fabulous agent this past Monday, and he turned around his notes by Tuesday. I’m working frantically to incorporate a few new scenes, and then it’s off to Sara Sargent, my editor, this Monday. And then I hold my breath and cross all my fingers and toes.
 
REVISED COVER
COMPULSION has a slightly updated cover! Booksellers like the tag lines: "Three plantations. Two wishes. One ancient curse." So we’re putting it right on the front. I'm super excited about this, because those lines were some of the first words I ever wrote when I was brainstorming this book. It goes to show that pitches and tag lines and query letters, as impossible as they seem to create at the time, truly are worth it.

EARLY PRAISE
I’m also deeply honored—and excited—to share blurbs about COMPULSION from two of my favorite authors:
“Compulsion is a stunningly magical debut with a delicious slow burn to be savored. I want to live in this story world!”
- Wendy Higgins, USA Today and NYT bestselling author of the SWEET EVIL Trilogy 
“Martina Boone’s COMPULSION is the perfect southern family saga, charming and steamy on the surface, with cold-blooded secrets buried down deep. What more do you want? More time to read it, that’s what.”
- Kendare Blake, author of ANNA DRESSED IN BLOOD and ANTIGODESS

EXCLUSIVE JUNE SUBSCRIBER ONLY GIVEAWAY

Enter to win a signed copy of THE ENCHANTER HEIR by Cinda Williams Chima!
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Win any YA Novel of your choice plus a signed COMPULSION bookmark and a chance to win the June giveaway Grand Prize - a full set of THE FOREST OF HANDS AND TEETH trilogy signed by Carrie Ryan, a key necklace, and an ARC of COMPULSION. Enter by June 30th at the blogs below:

Goodreads giveaway of a signed advance reader copy of COMPULSION. Enter here by May 27th.

Check out the current giveaways at YA Series Insiders here.

#SCANDAL, BLAZED, and SUMMER OF YESTERDAY. Enter here by 6/22.
IF I STAY and WHERE SHE WENT by Gayle Forman. Enter here by 6/23.

ATTACHMENTS by Rainbow Rowell - Enter here by 6/30.

RUIN AND RISING by Leigh Bardugo plus one of SEVEN new OneFour KidLit releases. Enter here by 6/30.

Don't forget to check out the additional giveaways at Adventures in YA Publishing. New ones are added every week!
If you've read COMPULSION already, or you're reading it now, and you'd like to share an early review, please see here.

If you're interested in joining the COMPULSION Street Team, check here.
Thinking about pre-ordering COMPULSION? Save your receipts! There will be an EPIC giveaway of AWESOMENESS so enormous it will blow your socks off, and it will only be available with a pre-order receipt. You do not want to miss out!
Preorder COMPULSION: IndieBound Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Book Depository (free worldwide shipping)
COMPULSION, coming October 28, 2014 from Simon Pulse
Three plantations. Two gifts. One ancient curse.
When loss is all you know, how do you find true love?
“Darkly romantic and steeped in Southern Gothic charm, you’ll be compelled to get lost in the Heirs of Watson Island series.” — #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Jennifer L. Armentrout
Copyright © 2014 Martina Boone, All rights reserved.

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