Waiting On Wednesday No. 158: Even if the Sky Falls, by Mia Garcia

This is a weekly event hosted by

Jill @ Breaking the Spine!!

It showcases future releases which

we book bloggers

are eagerly anticipating!!

Here's my choice for this week!

Even if the Sky Falls  

Mia Garcia

Hardcover, 304 pages

Katherine Tegen Books

May 10, 2016

Contemporary Romance, Young Adult Fiction

All she needs is one night to be anyone she wants.

Julie is desperate for a change. So she heads to New Orleans with her youth group to rebuild houses and pretend her life isn’t a total mess. But between her super-clingy team leader and her way-too-chipper companions, Julie feels more trapped than ever.

In a moment of daring, she ditches her work clothes for DIY fairy wings and heads straight into the heart of Mid-Summer Mardi Gras, where she locks eyes with Miles, an utterly irresistible guy with a complicated story of his own. And for once, Julie isn’t looking back. She jumps at the chance to see the real New Orleans, and in one surreal night, they dance under the stars, share their most shameful secrets, and fall in love.

But their adventure takes an unexpected turn when an oncoming hurricane changes course. As the storm gains power and Julie is pulled back into chaos she finds pretending everything is fine is no longer an option.

Mia García’s Even If the Sky Falls is a whirlwind twenty-four-hour romance about discovering what it means to feel alive in the face of life’s greatest danger: love. 

Why I'm waiting on this one!

This is the type of story that all of us 
romantic girls love -- that love-at-first-sight-in-
the-middle-of-chaos-thing. 
We really want to let loose and find that
soul mate in the most improbable place ever!
We also want to win the heart of that wild and  
crazy boy that makes our own hearts
go pitter-patter.....
Will this book give me what I 
desperately crave? I aim to find out!!!!!      

I've already pre-ordered my copy!!!!!      

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Book Tour + Giveaway: Prescient, by Derek Murphy

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Prescient: A Time Travel Dystopia

(Part One)

Derek Murphy

Kindle Edition, 260 pages

Urban Epics

April 1, 2016

Dystopian Fiction, Science Fiction, 
Young Adult Fiction

The first time I saw the future I lost hope.

It wasn't just that the future sucked; that civilization had gone and ruined itself; that we'd altered our own DNA and devolved into predatory monsters that fed on the few remaining survivors. That was all awful enough, but it was more than that. I remember being young and thinking, when I grow up, I'll have a nice big house. I'll get an exciting, interesting job. I'll meet the man of my dreams and we'll fall in love and stay together forever.

But that all disappeared the first time I tripped 20 years into the future and found the houses burned, the handsome boys dead, and hairy old survivors in tents. Nobody asked little girls what they wanted to be when they grew up anymore. Nobody wanted to draw attention to the fact that most of them wouldn't live that long.

There was no hope, no peace for anyone. At least I had it better than they did. When my trip was over, I would get to go back. Back to the normalcy of 2015. Back to iPhones and Twitter and buying so much food it went bad before you could eat it. Back to laughing over foamy cappuccinos and iced lattes at the mall, window shopping and flirting with hot guys (not that I ever did that, mind you - but I always wanted to). And I still could. That was the point. Unlike everybody else, for whom 2015 was 20 years ago - long before humanity was destroyed - it was my reality. At least, it was some of the time.

But after seeing the future; after struggling to make it to the end of the day; after my first kill - none of those other things were the least bit enjoyable. All I could think of when I got back to the real world, was how can I stop what's coming?

Prescient is a Young Adult time-travel dystopia; this is Part One of the first book in the series.

Purchase Links

 Amazon US/Amazon UK
Amazon CA

BEST SCIFI TIME TRAVEL BOOKS FOR TEENS 2016

Here are some great Young Adult time travel books. If you think writing is hard, try writing time travel fiction -- it's so much more challenging! To honor these authors, and to launch the book I'm working on (Prescient), I'm giving away a package of time travel books, and a Harry Potter time turner. It's the coolest time-travel related object I could find.

I'll choose 3 winners and give each winner e-book copies of each book, plus a time turner. Everybody who signs up to my list will get my book (Prescient) for free.

(CLICK ON IMAGE FOR GIVEAWAY LINK.)

I wrote my MA thesis on Harry Potter, and am working on my PhD in literature while secretly writing YA novels and designing book covers. I blog about self-publishing, book design and book marketing, and am renting a castle for Nanowrimo 2016. I hope you like my writing!

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Book Blogger Hop No. 42: Contact With Authors

Welcome to the Book Blogger Hop,

hosted by Billy @

Ramblings of a Coffee-Addicted Writer!

For more information, click HERE.

What to Do

1.) Post on your blog answering this week's

question:

Has your contact with authors usually

been in person, via e-mail, social

media, or something else?

(submitted by Elizabeth @ Silver's Reviews)

2.)  Enter the link to your post in the

Linky list on Billy's blog.

3.)  Visit other blogs on the list and

comment on their posts. 

4.)  Be sure to find out next week's

question when you visit

Ramblings of a Coffee-Addicted Writer!

My Answer

I have met authors through all of the ways  mentioned above; the 'something else' has been through blog tours that I've hosted. Authors have dropped by to thank me for hosting them, and have also commented on how much they liked my post. Not all authors do this, unfortunately, but the real nice ones do. 

I have interviewed quite a few authors as part of blog tours (check out my "Author Interviews" tab, beneath my header).   I have always tried to ask interesting questions, and have gotten very interesting answers from several authors.

Usually, I'll 'meet' an author that's new to me through a blog tour. If they don't comment on my tour post, though, there will probably be no further contact between us. If they do comment, then I will follow their blog and Twitter page, as well as like their Facebook page. 

I rarely meet authors in person, but it has happened. For instance, in July, 2011, I met YA authors Maggie Stiefvater   and Meg Cabot at a book signing in South Florida. It was at a bookstore named "Books and Books". I bought Forever from Maggie, and Abandon from Meg, and had pictures taken with both of them!  You can access that post HERE.

Maggie Stiefvater and I

Meg Cabot and I 

  
At the 2013 Miami International Book Fair, I met YA authors  Kami Garcia, Alex Flinn, and Holly Black, got pics taken with all three, and also bought  signed copies of Beautiful Redemption and Towering.  You can access that post HERE.

Kami Garcia and I

Alex Flinn and I

Holly Black and I

Also, at the 2015 Miami Book Fair, I met  YA author Melissa de la Cruz, who had just released her new title, The Isle of the Lost. I bought the signed book from her. You can access that post HERE.

Melissa de la Cruz and I

I hope to be able to continue meeting authors in any way possible, as I continue my adventures in Book Land!! 

 

     

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