Bad Blogger Giveaway: ARC Anna Dressed in Blood!

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Contest Details
Okay so normally I post a synopsis, book info, etc but seeing as I'm finishing up getting over the flu and strep, and since I'm pretty sure most all of you know what this book is about, I figured I'd skip all that. Since I've been a bad blogger, I decided to have a giveaway for you all to say sorry. So, one lucky ducky will win my ARC of Anna Dressed in Blood.

Rules:
~Comments are appreciated but you must fill out the form for entry.
~Must be 13 or older.
~Open to US! However, if international and willing to pay shipping, you can enter as well.
~Contest will end at 11:59PM EST on October 7th.
~Winner will be notified shortly after.

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Author Interview: Kristy Berridge

Hello everyone. Today I would like to welcome the lovely Kristy Berridge, author of the indie YA novel, The Hunted, to my blog.

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TBP: Tell us a little bit about yourself.

KB: I was born in Perth, Western Australia, but moved to tropical far north Queensland when I was three. Since early childhood I’ve delighted in the Supernatural, be it film or book, and to this day I’m still obsessed with reading the genre. Trained as an interior designer, I now have a deep love of writing, but I still adore getting my hands dirty, going outside and renovating something on my old shack of a house. I’m also deathly afraid of cockroaches, I’m addicted to chocolate, and I love to travel.

TBP: Describe The Hunted in nine words or less.

KB: The Hunted is intricate, gripping, surprising and hopefully moreish.

TBP: What inspired you to write The Hunted?

KB: A deep love for the genre and an idea I’d been toying with since my early twenties. I just kept thinking, what if the vampires and werewolves made no apologies for whom or what they were? What if there was magic, and how would people react knowing angels and demons had a hand in everyone’s destiny?

TBP: Do you have any other books currently in the works?

KB: The Hunted is the first book in a series of five. I’m currently writing the fifth book and my publisher has just given me the go ahead to publish all of them – very exciting!

TBP: When did you first realize you wanted to be an author?

KB: I still don’t look at myself as an author. It’s so surreal. I have a day job. I still have a mortgage and car payments. To me I’m just story telling in my free time and hoping it will one day pay the bills.

TBP: In an epic battle against all things evil, what would be your one weapon of choice? (Can be a person, animal, item, etc)

KB: I’d choose to be a chameleon. It would be pretty damn handy to mimic your opponent’s best attributes and whip their backsides with it.

TBP: If you could bring any fictional character to life and marry him, one not of your own creation, who would it be and why?

KB: Dracula. We’ll have a quickie wedding, I’ll convince him to turn me, and then we’ll finish the night with a quickie divorce, namely me with a bloodied stake in my hand and immortality to look forward to without the excess baggage. Goodbye Dracula.

TBP: You killed a celebrity. Who was it and why?

KB: Spencer Pratt from the Hills. Sorry, but that guy makes me want to poke my eyes out.

TBP: You are now facing death row for killing said celebrity. The warden takes pity on you and tells you that you can have anything for dinner and watch any movie you want. What do you choose?

KB: I’ll be watching True Blood from beginning to end (should give me time to plot my escape) and eating Creme Brulee and my mum’s chocolate ganache. I really don’t need anything healthy, I’m about to die, unless of course I do manage to escape or the warden realises my decision to whack bad reality TV stars was not such an error in judgment.

TBP: Anything else you'd like to add?

KB: Please take a look at my book, you won’t regret the decision to turn the first page and keep on reading!

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Thanks you Kristy for letting me interview you. And thank you readers for stopping by. I hope you all enjoyed the interview and be sure to check out Kristy's YA novel, The Hunted.

Money Savin' Mondays (19)

Y'all ready for some YA book bargain awesomeness?! It's time for the nineteenth edition of Money Savin' Mondays. To find out more on why I started this you can read the first post. If you decide to use the Money Savin' Mondays title, I'd appreciate a small mention for coming up with the name. Also, you can stay up to date on the latest bargains through out the whole week by following my twitter @PixieBookDeals. Other bargains can also be found in sidebar. Now, onto the deals.

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In My Mailbox (102)

In My Mailbox
IMM is a weekly meme hosted and created by Kristi at The Story Siren and was inspired by Alea at Pop Culture Junkie.

For Review from Macmillian
~ARC The Fox Inheritance by Mary E. Pearson

For Review from HarperTeen
~Sweet Venom by Tera Lynn Childs

For Review from Author
~Brightest Kind of Darkness by P.T. Michelle (Kindle edition)

Free for Kindle
~Meant to Be by Tiffany King
~The Emerald Talisman by Brenda Pandos
~Breathless by V.J. Chambers
~Reckless Magic by Rachel Higginson

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So that is what I got in my mailbox. Be sure to check out those free kindle books. Hope you've all had a lovely weekend and got some great goodies in your mailbox this past week. :D

More Free Kindle Books!

Guess what everyone? I just stumbled across 4 YA indie books that have been recently made available for free! I just grabbed all of them myself. And to make it better, I'm also including some free ones I posted about previously in case you missed them.

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Money Savin' Mondays (18)

Y'all ready for some MG & YA book bargain awesomeness?! It's time for the eighteenth edition of Money Savin' Mondays. To find out more on why I started this you can read the first post. If you decide to use the Money Savin' Mondays title, I'd appreciate a small mention for coming up with the name. Also, you can stay up to date on the latest bargains through out the whole week by following my twitter @PixieBookDeals. Other bargains can also be found in sidebar. Now, onto the deals.

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In My Mailbox (101)

In My Mailbox
IMM is a weekly meme hosted and created by Kristi at The Story Siren and was inspired by Alea at Pop Culture Junkie.

For Review from HarperTeen
~ARC The Invisible Tower by Nils Johnson-Shelton
~ARC Kiss Crush Collide by Christina Meredith
~ARC The Secret Sisterhood of Heartbreakers by Lynn Weingarten
~ARC Emily the Strange: Piece of Mind by Jessica Gruner & Rob Reger
~ARC Love and Leftovers by Sarah Tregay

For Review from Sourcebooks
~ARC Embrace by Jessica Shirvington

For Review from NetGalley
~ARC Every Other Day by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Kindle)

Free for Kindle
~Bright Young Things by Anna Godbersen

Won from Sandy
~ARC Bunheads by Sophie Flack

RAK Gift from Ashley
~ARC Clarity by Kim Harrington
~Tons of Swag

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So excited about everything I got in the mail last week. Sadly, some stuff I'm going to have to wait for my mom to send me since I'm at college but it isn't like I have nothing to read here. lol. Looking forward to all these awesome books and hope you all got some great books in your mailbox as well. :D

10 Years Later: In Remembrance of 9/11

Today is the 10th Anniversary of 9-11. The day when terrorists attacked the USA by flying passanger planes into the twin towers, killing thousands of people. I am posting this picture (though it is far from great) in memory of those who were taken and in honor of their friends and family. 9-11 was a nightmare come true and will never be forgotten.

I can remember the day it happened like it was yesterday. I was in 3rd grade when Mr. Cowart came into music class and told us the news. I was the only one who cried and sometimes I wonder if any of the others truly understood just what the attack meant. I can remember the number countdown from 10 to 1 on the news when they annoucnced that we were at war. The chill of fear that went down my spine when I saw and heard that is something I'll never forget.

In 7th grade, I got to visit Ground Zero when my Discovery class went to NY. It is impossible to explain how it felt to stand there, knowing what had happened. The piece of metal in my picture was found in the shape of a cross among the rubble after the attack. Some people believe God wasn't there, but I believe this cross is proof He was. Many survivors remember feeling like they were being led out of the burning towers by people who weren't really there or by an unseen presence. My papa (grandfather) died the year before on September 15th, four days before my mom's birthday. He was a war veteran and we all knew that if hadn't have died from RA, 9-11 would have killed him for sure. I like to believe, and maybe this is childish, that God brought my papa to heaven so he could help lead people out of the towers.

I know some of you aren't exactly the religious sort, but for those of you who are I would like to ask you to take a couple of minutes to say a prayer. Everyone else, I only ask that you take a brief, or long, moment of silence to remember those who were lost and all others affected by this attack. Whether you are American or not, it doesn't matter. I would like to thank you all for stopping by and taking the time to read this. God bless America.

God bless America,

Land that I love.

Stand beside her, and guide her

Thru the night with a light from above.

From the mountains, to the prairies,

To the oceans, white with foam

God bless America, my home sweet home.

(For those of you who recognize this post, yes it is the same one I posted the last two years but I feel I still have the same things to say. I plan to make this an annual post for as long as I continue blogging.)

Money Savin' Mondays (17)

Y'all ready for some MG & YA book bargain awesomeness?! It's time for the seventeenth edition of Money Savin' Mondays. To find out more on why I started this you can read the first post. If you decide to use the Money Savin' Mondays title, I'd appreciate a small mention for coming up with the name. Also, you can stay up to date on the latest bargains through out the whole week by following my twitter @PixieBookDeals. Other bargains can also be found in sidebar. Now, onto the deals.

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In My Mailbox (100)

In My Mailbox
IMM is a weekly meme hosted and created by Kristi at The Story Siren and was inspired by Alea at Pop Culture Junkie.

For Review from HarperTeen (Last Week)
~Vanish by Sophie Jordan

For Review from Tor Teen
~Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake

For Review from NetGalley
~ARC Double by Jenny Valentine

Won from Kid Lit Frenzy
~The Gathering by Kelley Armstrong

Free for Kindle
~Anathema by Megg Jensen
~Death Whispers by Tamara Rose Blodgett

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So these are the books I got in the past two weeks. Really excited about everything. Currently reading Double and it is pretty good so far. Was so glad to see Amazon had Anathema and Death Whispers free for kindle. Hope you all got some great books this week too. :D

Free YA books for Kindle!

So I've come across a few YA books that are free for kindle. Three of which are by some awesome indie authors. Check em out:

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Check Out My RAK! (August)

I know you wanna see my RAK. *waggles eyebrows* Okay so first off, RAK stands for Random Acts of Kindness and is hosted by Vanessa and Isalys at Book Soulmates. RAK gives you the chance to randomly do something nice for another book lover, like surprising them with a book, e-book, etc. Plus who knows, someone just might surprise you with something you've been wanting too.

August was my seventh month participating.

I Gave:

To Harpreet
~Evermore by Alyson Noel

To Hilde
~Death of a Musketeer by Sarah D'Almedia (For kindle)

I Received:




From Candace
~ARC A Need So Beautiful by Suzanne Young

From Harpreet
~The Iron King by Julie Kagawa

From Hilde
~She Smells the Dead by E.J. Stevens (For kindle)

From Aislynn
~Illicit Magic by Camilla Chafer (For kindle)

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A big thanks to Candace, Harpreet, Hilde, and Aislynn for the RAKs and to Vanessa and Isalys for hosting this awesome event! I'm already signed up for September and even though I'm now officially a broke college student, I have two books in my possession that I'm planning to get sent out this month. Maybe more if I can. :). If you aren't already, sign up for September HERE. And here are my Amazon wishlists HERE and HERE.