Wishful Wednesday: Tiny Pretty Things by Sona Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton

Wishful Wednesday was inspired by Waiting on Wednesday and Desperately Wanting Wednesday by Breaking the Spine and Parajunkee.

Wishful Wednesday is my own little version of "Waiting On Wednesday". Every week, I'll pick an upcoming book that I'm anticipating the release for and showcase it here on the blog. This week, that book is going to be Tiny Pretty Things by a couple of talented new to me author's Sona Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton. 

Black Swan meets Pretty Little Liars?! Um, yeah I think it's pretty safe to say I'll definitely be tearing into this one for sure. I'm all in for a soapy, drama fueled, crazy ride full of emotional backstabbing, manipulation, lies, sacrifice, and enemies. This looks like lots of fun!

Tiny Pretty Things by Sona Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton

Expected Publication: May 26, 2015

Publisher: HarperTeen

Age Demographic: YA Contemporary
Pages: 448

Black Swan meets Pretty Little Liars in this soapy, drama-packed novel featuring diverse characters who will do anything to be the prima at their elite ballet school.

Gigi, Bette, and June, three top students at an exclusive Manhattan ballet school, have seen their fair share of drama. Free-spirited new girl Gigi just wants to dance—but the very act might kill her. Privileged New Yorker Bette's desire to escape the shadow of her ballet star sister brings out a dangerous edge in her. And perfectionist June needs to land a lead role this year or her controlling mother will put an end to her dancing dreams forever. When every dancer is both friend and foe, the girls will sacrifice, manipulate, and backstab to be the best of the best.

To PreOrder Tiny Pretty Things by Sona Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton visit Amazon & Barnes&Noble!

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Sona Charaipotra is an entertainment and lifestyle journalist published by the New York Times, People, Parade, ABC News, MSN.com, iVillage.com. Sona received her MFA in Writing for Children from the New School. Thanks to a Masters from New York University (where her thesis project was developed for the screen by MTV Films), Sona is a strong believer that three-act structure can work in fiction, too. She is the co-founder of CAKE Literary, and her first novel, TINY PRETTY THINGS (with co-author Dhonielle Clayton), hits shelves Summer 2015 via HarperTeen. Find her on the web at SonaCharaipotra.com or CAKELiterary.com.

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Dhonielle Clayton was born in the suburbs of Washington, DC and spent her childhood Saturdays at the comic book store with her father and most evenings hiding beneath her grandmother’s dining room table with a stack of books. She earned a BA in English at Wake Forest University. She was an English teacher for three years and worked with educational curriculum. Being surrounded by children, Dhonielle re-discovered her love of children’s literature and earned a masters in children’s and young adult literature from Hollins University. Currently, she is working on both middle grade and young adult novel projects. She moved to NYC where she earned her MFA at the New School's MFA Program. She is co-founder of CAKE Literary, a literary development studio committed to bringing diversity to high concept content..

Wishful Wednesday: Illusionarium by Heather Dixon

Wishful Wednesday was inspired by Waiting on Wednesday and Desperately Wanting Wednesday by Breaking the Spine and Parajunkee.

Wishful Wednesday is my own little version of "Waiting On Wednesday". Every week, I'll pick an upcoming book that I'm anticipating the release for and showcase it here on the blog. This week, that book is going to be Illusionarium by the beautifully gifted and talented Heather Dixon. 

Not gonna lie, anything that is pretty much The Night Circus meets Pixar and takes place in alternate London, definitely has my attention. My fingers are literally itching to get a hold of this book and devour it in one sitting. Who in their right minds wouldn't want to read a sweeping cinematic story of a scientist desperately trying to save his family and the world he lives in?! This book promises to be both breathtaking and original and with Heather Dixon at the helm, I just don't think it can go wrong. Am, so dying to read this!

I see cogs and other mechanisms on the cover and it's alternate London guys, which means parallel universes, which also means I'm getting timey-whimey vibes here people! lol.

Illusionarium by Heather Dixon

Expected Publication: May 19, 2015

Publisher: Greenwillow

Age Demographic: YA Sci-Fi 
Pages: 368

From the author of Entwined, a brilliantly conceived adventure through an alternate London. This sweeping, cinematic tale of an apprentice scientist desperate to save his family—and his world—is The Night Circus meets Pixar.

Through richly developed parallel worlds, vivid action, a healthy dose of humor, and gorgeous writing, Heather Dixon spins a story that is breathtaking and wholly original.

To PreOrder a copy of Illusionarium by Heather Dixon please visit Amazon & Barnes&Noble!

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Heather Dixon grew up in a large family with four brothers and six sisters. She is a storyboard artist as well as a writer, and lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Viennese waltz is her dance of choice. She is the author of the novel Entwined.

Wishful Wednesday: Hold Me Like Breath (Once Upon A Crime Family #1) by Tiffany Schmidt

Wishful Wednesday was inspired by Waiting on Wednesday and Desperately Wanting Wednesday by Breaking the Spine and Parajunkee.

Wishful Wednesday is my own little version of "Waiting On Wednesday". Every week, I'll pick an upcoming book that I'm anticipating the release for and showcase it here on the blog. This week, that book is going to be Hold Me Like A Breath by the super  beautiful and talented Jessi Kirby. 

This book has totally sold me on "once upon a crime family". I love books like these, especially when the main character just wants a little freedom and independence. I'm really excited for this one, because black market donor organs should definitely make for an interesting read, plus an over-protective crime family that's a tad bit smothering, rival families, betrayal, and a lot of crazy stuff happening. Oh yeah, I'm definitely counting down the days for this one.

Hold Me Like A Breath (Once Upon A Crime Family #1) by Tiffany Schmidt

Expected Publication: May 19, 2015

Publisher: Bloomsbury

Age Demographic: YA Mystery Thriller
Pages: 400

Penelope Landlow has grown up with the knowledge that almost anything can be bought or sold—including body parts. She’s the daughter of one of the three crime families that control the black market for organ transplants.

Penelope’s surrounded by all the suffocating privilege and protection her family can provide, but they can't protect her from the autoimmune disorder that causes her to bruise so easily.

And in her family's line of work no one can be safe forever.

All Penelope has ever wanted is freedom and independence. But when she’s caught in the crossfire as rival families scramble for prominence, she learns that her wishes come with casualties, that betrayal hurts worse than bruises, that love is a risk worth taking . . . and maybe she’s not as fragile as everyone thinks.

To PreOrder Hold Me Like A Breath (Once Upon A Crime Family #1) by Tiffany Schmidt visit Amazon & Barnes&Noble!

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Tiffany Schmidt lives in Pennsylvania with her saintly husband, impish twin boys, and a pair of mischievous puggles. She's not at all superstitious... at least that's what she tells herself every Friday the thirteenth.

SEND ME A SIGN is her first novel. BRIGHT BEFORE SUNRISE will follow in Winter, 2014. The ONCE UPON A CRIME FAMILY series begins with HOLD ME LIKE A BREATH in 2015. 

You can find her on  Goodreads and Tumblr.

Wishful Wednesday: Magonia by Maria Dahvana Headley

Wishful Wednesday was inspired by Waiting on Wednesday and Desperately Wanting Wednesday by Breaking the Spine and Parajunkee.

Wishful Wednesday is my own little version of "Waiting On Wednesday". Every week, I'll pick an upcoming book that I'm anticipating the release for and showcase it here on the blog. This week, that book is going to be Magonia by a new to me author Maria Dahvana Headley. 

This book is being touted as Neil Gaiman's Stardust sort of meets John Green's The Fault In Our Stars, a fantasy about a girl who finds herself essentially caught between two different worlds and two destinies. Reader Confession time here, I haven't read anything by Neil Gaiman (I know, shocker!), but I have read TFIOS and absolutely loved it so much. So naturally I gravitated to this book like a magnet, the moment that I read what it was about and that it somehow involved parallel worlds and two different destinies. I have to read this book now, because seriously...it just looks that good!

Also, look at the pretty that is the cover, I love how simple and dark it is and the feather that looks like it's sort of breaking off into some kind of bird. Just gorgeous!

Magonia by Maria Dahvana Headley

Expected Publication: April 28, 2015

Publisher: HarperCollins

Age Demographic: YA Sci-Fi Fantasy
Pages: 320

Aza Ray is drowning in thin air.

Since she was a baby, Aza has suffered from a mysterious lung disease that makes it ever harder for her to breathe, to speak—to live.

So when Aza catches a glimpse of a ship in the sky, her family chalks it up to a cruel side effect of her medication. But Aza doesn’t think this is a hallucination. She can hear someone on the ship calling her name.

Only her best friend, Jason, listens. Jason, who’s always been there. Jason, for whom she might have more-than-friendly feelings. But before Aza can consider that thrilling idea, something goes terribly wrong. Aza is lost to our world—and found, by another. Magonia.

Above the clouds, in a land of trading ships, Aza is not the weak and dying thing she was. In Magonia, she can breathe for the first time. Better, she has immense power—and as she navigates her new life, she discovers that war is coming. Magonia and Earth are on the cusp of a reckoning. And in Aza’s hands lies the fate of the whole of humanity—including the boy who loves her. Where do her loyalties lie?

To PreOrder a copy of Magonia by Maria Dahvana Headley visit Amazon & Barnes&Noble!

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Maria Dahvana Headley is the author of the upcoming young adult skyship novel MAGONIA from HarperCollins, the dark fantasy/alt-history novel QUEEN OF KINGS, the internationally bestselling memoir THE YEAR OF YES, and THE END OF THE SENTENCE, a novella co-written with Kat Howard, from Subterranean. With Neil Gaiman, she is the New York Times-bestselling co-editor of the monster anthology UNNATURAL CREATURES, benefitting 826DC.

Her Nebula and Shirley Jackson award-nominated short fiction has recently appeared on Tor.com, and in The Toast, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, Nightmare, Apex, The Journal of Unlikely Entomology, Subterranean Online, Glitter & Mayhem and Jurassic London's The Lowest Heaven and The Book of the Dead, and will soon appear in Uncanny, Shimmer, and more. It's anthologized in the 2013 and 2014 editions of Rich Horton's The Year's Best Fantasy & Science Fiction, & Paula Guran's 2013 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, in The Year's Best Weird Volume 1, ed. Laird Barron, and in Wastelands, Vol 2, among others. She's also a playwright and essayist.

She grew up in rural Idaho on a sled-dog ranch, spent part of her 20's as a pirate negotiator and ship marketer in the maritime industry, and now lives in Brooklyn in an apartment shared with a seven-foot-long stuffed crocodile.

You can also find her over at her Blog.

Wishful Wednesday: Things We Know By Heart by Jessi Kirby

Wishful Wednesday was inspired by Waiting on Wednesday and Desperately Wanting Wednesday by Breaking the Spine and Parajunkee.

Wishful Wednesday is my own little version of "Waiting On Wednesday". Every week, I'll pick an upcoming book that I'm anticipating the release for and showcase it here on the blog. This week, that book is going to be Things We Know By Heart by the super  beautiful and talented Jessi Kirby. 

This is going to be one of those books that just gives me ALL THE FEELS and drags my feelings all around like a crazy rollercoaster. I love really great emotionally, well written, and meaningful books that are filled with life lesson's, learning to let go, and discovering new things - just embracing life and always believing in hope. That's pretty much what Golden was for me and I have no doubts that I'll love Things We Know By Heart just as much if not more!

Things We Know By Heart by Jessi Kirby

Expected Publication: April 21, 2015

Publisher: HarperTeen

Age Demographic: YA Contemporary
Pages: 304

When Quinn Sullivan meets the recipient of her boyfriend’s donated heart, the two form an unexpected connection.

After Quinn loses her boyfriend, Trent, in an accident their junior year, she reaches out to the recipients of his donated organs in hopes of picking up the pieces of her now-unrecognizable life. She hears back from some of them, but the person who received Trent’s heart has remained silent. The essence of a person, she has always believed, is in the heart. If she finds Trent’s, then maybe she can have peace once and for all.

Risking everything in order to finally lay her memories to rest, Quinn goes outside the system to track down nineteen-year-old Colton Thomas—a guy whose life has been forever changed by this priceless gift. But what starts as an accidental run-in quickly develops into more, sparking an undeniable attraction. She doesn't want to give in to it—especially since he has no idea how they're connected—but their time together has made Quinn feel alive again. No matter how hard she’s falling for Colton, each beat of his heart reminds her of all she’s lost…and all that remains at stake.

To PreOrder a copy of Things We Know By Heart by Jessi Kirby visit Amazon & Barnes&Noble!

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Jessi Kirby is a former English teacher and librarian. She lives in Orange County, CA with her husband and two kids, where she writes stories and runs the beach every day. Well, almost every day.

She has written three other YA contemporary books, In Honor, Golden, and Moonglass. She will be releasing Things We Know By Heart in April.

You can also find her here on Goodreads.

Wishful Wednesday: The Sin Eater's Daughter (The Sin Eater's Daughter #1) by Melinda Salisbury

Wishful Wednesday was inspired by Waiting on Wednesday and Desperately Wanting Wednesday by Breaking the Spine and Parajunkee.

Wishful Wednesday is my own little version of "Waiting On Wednesday". Every week, I'll pick an upcoming book that I'm anticipating the release for and showcase it here on the blog. This week, that book is going to be The Sin Eater's Daughter (The Sin Eater's Daughter #1) by the super talented Melinda Salisbury. 

A lead female progtag, who's also an executoner. OH, HELL YEAH! I was like O_O, when I first read the synopsis for this one on Goodreads. She instantly kills anyone that she touches, she's also promised to the Prince who doesn't seem all that interested in getting too close to her, and she has to choose between doing whatever it takes to protect her Kingdom or choose a doomed love interest. Um, yeah...I'm so there. I don't know about you, but I'm definitely excited for this one. And that cover, gah! It's so wickedly gorgeous, I have such a soft spot for pretty covers that catch the eye.

The Sin Eater's Daughter (The Sin Eater's Daughter #1) by Melinda Salisbury

Expected Publication: February 24, 2015

Publisher: Scholastic Press

Age Demographic: YA Fantasy
Pages: 336

Seventeen-year-old Twylla lives in the castle. But although she’s engaged to the prince, Twylla isn’t exactly a member of the court.

She’s the executioner.

As the Goddess embodied, Twylla instantly kills anyone she touches. Each month she’s taken to the prison and forced to lay her hands on those accused of treason. No one will ever love a girl with murder in her veins. Even the prince, whose royal blood supposedly makes him immune to Twylla’s fatal touch, avoids her company.

But then a new guard arrives, a boy whose easy smile belies his deadly swordsmanship. And unlike the others, he’s able to look past Twylla’s executioner robes and see the girl, not the Goddess. Yet Twylla’s been promised to the prince, and knows what happens to people who cross the queen.

However, a treasonous secret is the least of Twylla’s problems. The queen has a plan to destroy her enemies, a plan that requires a stomach-churning, unthinkable sacrifice. Will Twylla do what it takes to protect her kingdom? Or will she abandon her duty in favor of a doomed love?

To PreOrder a copy of The Sin Eater's Daughter by Melinda Salisbury visit Amazon & Barnes&Noble!

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Melinda Salisbury lives by the sea, somewhere in the south of England. As a child she genuinely thought Roald Dahl’s Matilda was her biography, in part helped by her grandfather often mistakenly calling her Matilda, and the local library having a pretty cavalier attitude to the books she borrowed. Sadly she never manifested telekinetic powers. She likes to travel, and have adventures. She also likes medieval castles, non-medieval aquariums, Richard III, and all things Scandinavian The Sin Eater's Daughter is her first novel. She can be found on Twitter at @AHintofMystery, though be warned, she tweets often.

You can also find her on Goodreads and Tumblr.

Wishful Wednesday: The Glass Arrow by Kristen Simmons

Wishful Wednesday was inspired by Waiting on Wednesday and Desperately Wanting Wednesday by Breaking the Spine and Parajunkee.

Wishful Wednesday is my own little version of "Waiting On Wednesday". Every week, I'll pick an upcoming book that I'm anticipating the release for and showcase it here on the blog. This week, that book is going to be The Glass Arrow by the super talented Kristen Simmons. 

Okay, so if The Handmaiden's Tale and Blood Red Road got together, this book would pretty much be the bastard offspring of that hook up. FREAKIN' HELL YEAH!!! Now, this what I'm talking about, I love a fantastic dystopian approach to a world where women are being sold for breeding rights and they're pretty scarce and being hunted down. Yep, I'm all over this baby!

The Glass Arrow by Kristen Simmons

Expected Publication: February 10, 2015

Publisher: Tor Teen

Age Demographic: YA Dystopia
Pages: 336

The Handmaid’s Tale meets Blood Red Road in Glass Arrow, the story of Aya, who lives with a small group of women on the run from the men who hunt them, men who want to auction off breeding rights to the highest bidder.

In a world where females are scarce and are hunted, then bought and sold at market for their breeding rights, 15-year old Aya has learned how to hide. With a ragtag bunch of other women and girls, she has successfully avoided capture and eked out a nomadic but free existence in the mountains. But when Aya’s luck runs out and she’s caught by a group of businessmen on a hunting expedition, fighting to survive takes on a whole new meaning.

To PreOrder a copy of The Glass Arrow by Kristen Simmons visit Amazon & Barnes&Noble!

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Kristen Simmons is the author of the ARTICLE 5 series and THE GLASS ARROW (Tor Teen). She loves her family, Jazzercise, and chocolate cupcakes. She currently lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.

You can also find her here on Goodreads and on her Blog.

Wishful Wednesday: I Was Here by Gayle Forman

Wishful Wednesday was inspired by Waiting on Wednesday and Desperately Wanting Wednesday by Breaking the Spine and Parajunkee.

Wishful Wednesday is my own little version of "Waiting On Wednesday". Every week, I'll pick an upcoming book that I'm anticipating the release for and showcase it here on the blog. This week, that book is going to be I Was Here by the beautifully talented Gayle Forman. 

Okay, I cannot even with this book, because it's Gayle Forman and nobody does contemporary like she does. And, because this looks like it's definitely going to have a hand in giving me ALL THE FEELS.

I Was Here by Gayle Forman

Expected Publication: January 27, 2015

Publisher: Viking Juvenile

Age Demographic: YA Contemporary
Pages: 288

Cody and Meg were inseparable. Two peas in a pod. Until . . . they weren’t anymore.

When her best friend Meg drinks a bottle of industrial-strength cleaner alone in a motel room, Cody is understandably shocked and devastated. She and Meg shared everything—so how was there no warning? But when Cody travels to Meg’s college town to pack up the belongings left behind, she discovers that there’s a lot that Meg never told her. About her old roommates, the sort of people Cody never would have met in her dead-end small town in Washington. About Ben McAllister, the boy with a guitar and a sneer, who broke Meg’s heart. And about an encrypted computer file that Cody can’t open—until she does, and suddenly everything Cody thought she knew about her best friend’s death gets thrown into question.

I Was Here is Gayle Forman at her finest, a taut, emotional, and ultimately redemptive story about redefining the meaning of family and finding a way to move forward even in the face of unspeakable loss.

To PreOrder a copy of I Was Here by Gayle Forman visit Amazon & Barnes&Noble!

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Gayle Forman is an award-winning author and journalist whose articles have appeared in such publications as Jane, Seventeen, Glamour, Elle, and The New York Times Magazine, to name just a few. She lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.

She has written If I Stay, Where She Went, Just One Day, Just One Year, Just One Night, and will be soon be releasing I Was Here. 

You can also find her on Tumblr and on Goodreads.

Wishful Wednesday: All Fall Down (Embassy Row #1) by Ally Carter

Wishful Wednesday was inspired by Waiting on Wednesday and Desperately Wanting Wednesday by Breaking the Spine and Parajunkee.

Wishful Wednesday is my own little version of "Waiting On Wednesday". Every week, I'll pick an upcoming book that I'm anticipating the release for and showcase it here on the blog. This week, that book is going to be All Fall Down (Embassy Row #1) by the super talented Ally Carter. 

Conspiracy theory, check. Kickass heroine who won't stop at nothing to uncover the truth, check. Possible international cover-up, check. This book has ALL THE THINGS that I want in a mystery. I need it now!

All Fall Down (Embassy Row #1) by Ally Carter

Expected Publication: January 20, 2015

Publisher: Scholastic

Age Demographic: YA Mystery Thriller
Pages: 304

Grace Blakely is absolutely certain of three things:

1. She is not crazy.
2. Her mother was murdered.
3. Someday she is going to find the killer and make him pay.

As certain as Grace is about these facts, nobody else believes her–so there’s no one she can completely trust. Not her grandfather, a powerful ambassador. Not her new friends, who all live on Embassy Row. Not Alexei, the Russian boy next door who is keeping an eye on Grace for reasons she neither likes nor understands.

Everybody wants Grace to put on a pretty dress and a pretty smile, blocking out all her unpretty thoughts. But they can’t control Grace–no more than Grace can control what she knows or what she needs to do.

Her past has come back to hunt her . . . and if she doesn’t stop it, Grace isn’t the only one who will get hurt. Because on Embassy Row, the countries of the world all stand like dominoes, and one wrong move can make them all fall down.

To PreOrder a copy of All Fall Down (Embassy Row #1) by Ally Carter visit Amazon & Barnes&Noble!

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Ally Carter is a writer living and working in the Midwest. She loved school so much she kept going...and going...and going...until finally she had to graduate. Now she has degrees from Oklahoma State University and Cornell University and a house and a job and other very grown-up things.

Her life is either very ordinary or the best deep-cover legend ever. She'd tell you more, but...well...you know...

You can also find her on Tumblr and on Instagram.

Wishful Wednesday featuring This Shattered World (Starbound #2) by Aime Kaufman and Megan Spooner

Wishful Wednesday was inspired by Waiting on Wednesday and Desperately Wanting Wednesday by Breaking the Spine and Parajunkee.

Wishful Wednesday is my own little version of "Waiting On Wednesday". Every week, I'll pick an upcoming book that I'm anticipating the release for and showcase it here on the blog. This week, that book is going to be This Shattered World (the second book in the Starbound trilogy) by the amazingly talented dynamic duo Aime Kaufman and Megan Spooner. 

Holy Crap! Words cannot even begin to express how freakin' excited I am for this book. GIVE ME THIS NOW, PLEASE! I really, really, really need it in my life. M'kay. I just...I don't know if I can hold out until December. I just want this in my hands so bad, so that I can see what happens next in this beautifully written world, what new characters pop up, and just ALL OF THE FEELS.

If you haven't read These Broken Stars yet, then check out my review here on Goodreads and add it to your list of must read now books.

This Shattered World by Aime Kaufman and Megan Spooner

Expected Publication: December 263 2014

Publisher: Disney-Hyperion

Age Demographic: YA Sci-Fi Romance
Pages: 390

The second installment in the epic Starbound trilogy introduces a new pair of star-crossed lovers on two sides of a bloody war.

Jubilee Chase and Flynn Cormac should never have met.

Lee is captain of the forces sent to Avon to crush the terraformed planet's rebellious colonists, but she has her own reasons for hating the insurgents.

Rebellion is in Flynn's blood. Terraforming corporations make their fortune by recruiting colonists to make the inhospitable planets livable, with the promise of a better life for their children. But they never fulfilled their promise on Avon, and decades later, Flynn is leading the rebellion.

Desperate for any advantage in a bloody and unrelentingly war, Flynn does the only thing that makes sense when he and Lee cross paths: he returns to base with her as prisoner. But as his fellow rebels prepare to execute this tough-talking girl with nerves of steel, Flynn makes another choice that will change him forever. He and Lee escape the rebel base together, caught between two sides of a senseless war.

The stunning second novel in the Starbound trilogy is an unforgettable story of love and forgiveness in a world torn apart by war.

To PreOrder a copy of This Shattered World by Aime Kaufman and Megan Spooner visit Amazon & Barnes&Noble!

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Amie Kaufman is the co-author of These Broken Stars, the first in the Starbound trilogy, and Illuminae, the first in a new series starting in 2015. She writes science fiction and fantasy for teens, and her favourite procrastination techniques involve chocolate, baking, sailing, excellent books and TV, plotting and executing overseas travel, and napping. 

She lives in Melbourne, Australia with her husband, their rescue dog, and her considerable library. She is represented by Tracey Adams of Adams Literary. 

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Meagan Spooner grew up reading and writing every spare moment of the day, while dreaming about life as an archaeologist, a marine biologist, an astronaut. She graduated from Hamilton College in New York with a degree in playwriting, and has spent several years since then living in Australia. She's traveled with her family all over the world to places like Egypt, South Africa, the Arctic, Greece, Antarctica, and the Galapagos, and there's a bit of every trip in every story she writes.

She currently lives and writes in Northern Virginia, but the siren call of travel is hard to resist, and there's no telling how long she'll stay there. 

In her spare time she plays guitar, plays video games, plays with her cat, and reads.

Wishful Wednesday featuring No Place To Fall by Jaye Robin Brown

Wishful Wednesday was inspired by Waiting on Wednesday and Desperately Wanting Wednesday by Breaking the Spine and Parajunkee.

Wishful Wednesday is my own little version of "Waiting On Wednesday". Every week, I'll pick an upcoming book that I'm anticipating the release for and showcase it here on the blog. This week, that book is going to be a new debut young adult novel,  No Place To Fall by the talented Jaye Robin Brown. I cannot begin to tell you how excited I am for this book to be out, so that I can binge read it in one sitting. I LOVE BOOKS LIKE THESE. Books like these give me all kinds of feels and I love the idea of a main character having to choose between her dream and the people she loves, throw in a little bit of self-discovery and some romance and you've got me hook, line and sinker. 

No Place To Fall by Jaye Robin Brown

Expected Publication: December 9, 2014

Publisher: HarperTeen

Age Demographic: YA Contemporary
Pages: 368

Amber Vaughn is a good girl. She sings solos at church, babysits her nephew after school, and spends every Friday night hanging out at her best friend Devon’s house. It’s only when Amber goes exploring in the woods near her home, singing camp songs with the hikers she meets on the Appalachian Trail, that she feels free—and when the bigger world feels just a little bit more in reach.

When Amber learns about an audition at the North Carolina School of the Arts, she decides that her dream—to sing on bigger stages—could also be her ticket to a new life. Devon’s older (and unavailable) brother, Will, helps Amber prepare for her one chance to try out for the hypercompetitive arts school. But the more time Will and Amber spend together, the more complicated their relationship becomes . . . and Amber starts to wonder if she’s such a good girl, after all.

Then, in an afternoon, the bottom drops out of her family’s world—and Amber is faced with an impossible choice between her promise as an artist and the people she loves. Amber always thought she knew what a good girl would do. But between “right” and “wrong,” there’s a whole world of possibilities.

To PreOrder a copy of No Place To Fall by Jaye Robin Brown visit Amazon & Barnes&Noble!

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Jaye Robin Brown, or Jro to her friends, lives and writes in the mountains north of Asheville, North Carolina. She is fond of horses, dogs, the absurd and the ironic. When not writing, you can find her in the art room of the high school where she teaches or roaming the mountains searching for inspiration.

Her debut young adult novel, NO PLACE TO FALL, comes out in the fall of 2014 from Harper Teen. It's about dreams, singing, friendship, love, betrayal, family, and mistakes. It's also a love song to small town girls and mountain music, both of which shape the area that Jaye now calls home.