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Barnes & Noble Fest
This June, hundreds of authors will appear at Barnes & Noble stores nationwide for B-Fest™, a three-day event celebrating the best books for teens. Join us for the biggest weekend of author events in B&N history, plus trivia, exciting sweepstakes, giveaways (while supplies last), and more. Be the first to sample upcoming teen novels, take part in games, and discover great new reads. Follow along with the fun at #BFestBuzz!
Here are the FIERCE authors that will be at B-Fest!
- Anna Banks
- Destin,Florida
- June 11, 2:00 PM
- Lindsay Smith
- Washington,DC
- June 11, 3:30 PM
- Lynne Matson
- Jacksonville, Florida
- June 11, 2:00 PM
- Mary Pearson
- San Diego, California
- June 11, 2:00 PM
- Emma Mills
- Indianapolis, Indiana
- June 12, 2:00 PM
- Jessica Brody
- Glendale, Colorado
- June 11 at 7:00 PM
- Sandy Hall
- East Brunswick June 11 from 3-5 PM
- Ledgewood: June 10 at 7 pm
- North Brunswick: June 11, 5-7 pm
- Emmy Laybourne
- Poughkeepsie, New York
- June 10, 7:00 PM
- June 11, 2:00 PM
- Heather Swain
- New York,New York
- June 12, 4:30 PM
- Jenn P. Nguyen
- Baton Rouge: June 12, 12-2 p.m.
- Metaire: June 11, 1 pm
- Kim Savage
- Newington/Portsmouth June 11, 1:00PM
- Salem 12pm & 2pm
- Marisa Reichardt
- Huntington Beach,California
- June 11 and June 12 at 1 PM
- Lish McBride
- Lakewood, Washington
- June 11, 2:00pm
- Jenny Moyer
- Des Moines, Iowa
- B.T. Gottfred
- Oceanside, California: June 10
- Studio City, CA: June 11
- Leopoldo Gout
- New York,New York
- June 11th at 12:00 PM
- Caragh O'Brien
- Canton, Connecticut
- June 10 at 7:00 PM
Joyride by Anna Banks blog tour!
A
popular guy and a shy girl with a secret become unlikely accomplices
for midnight pranking, and are soon in over their heads—with the law and
with each other—in this sparkling standalone from NYT-bestselling
author Anna Banks.
It’s
been years since Carly Vega’s parents were deported. She lives with her
brother, studies hard, and works at a convenience store to contribute
to getting her parents back from Mexico.
Arden
Moss used to be the star quarterback at school. He dated popular
blondes and had fun with his older sister, Amber. But now Amber’s dead,
and Arden blames his father, the town sheriff who wouldn’t acknowledge
Amber’s mental illness. Arden refuses to fulfill whatever his
conservative father expects.
All
Carly wants is to stay under the radar and do what her family expects.
All Arden wants is to NOT do what his family expects. When their paths
cross, they each realize they’ve been living according to others. Carly
and Arden’s journey toward their true hearts—and one another—is funny,
romantic, and sometimes harsh.
The Blog Tour is happening now! Full schedule below:
- May 7- The
Reader Bee
- May 8- A Perfection Called Books
- May 9- The Young Folks
- May 10- Love Is Not a Triangle
- May 11- The Eater of Books
- May 12- Xpresso Reads
- May 13- WhoRU Blog
- May 14- Bewitched Bookworms
- May 15- A Book and A Latte
- May 16- Green Bean Teen Queen
- May 17- Gone With The Words
- May 18-Bumbles and Fairytales
- May 19-Fiktshun
- May 20-Curling Up With A Good Book
- May 21-Swoony Boys Podcast
- May 22-A Reader’s Adventure
- May 23-The Irish Banana
- May 24-Exlibris Kate
- May 25-Love At First Page
- May 26-Adventures of a Book Junkie
- May 27-Dana Square
- May 28-Rather Be Reading
- May 29-Paper Riot
- May 30-Mundie Moms
- May 31-Mary Had A Little Book Blog
- June 1-Alice Marvels
- June 2- FierceReads Tumblr
Tonight the Streets Are Ours Blog Tour Schedule
Recklessly loyal. That’s how seventeen-year-old Arden Huntley has always thought of herself. Taking care of her loved ones is what gives Arden purpose in her life and makes her feel like she matters. But lately she’s grown resentful of everyone–including her needy best friend and her absent mom–taking her loyalty for granted.
Then Arden stumbles upon a website called Tonight the Streets Are Ours, the musings of a young New York City writer named Peter, who gives voice to feelings that Arden has never known how to express. He seems to get her in a way that no one else does, and he hasn’t even met her.
Until Arden sets out on a road trip to find him.
During one crazy night out in New York City filled with parties, dancing, and music–the type of night when anything can happen, and nearly everything does–Arden discovers that Peter isn’t exactly who she thought he was. And maybe she isn’t exactly who she thought she was, either.
Check out the TONIGHT THE STREETS ARE OURS Blog Tour for author interviews, giveaways, and more!
1-Sep: Reader of Fictions
2-Sep: Forever Young Adult
3-Sep: Ticket to Anywhere
4-Sep: Alexa Loves Books
5-Sep: The Book Cellar
6-Sep: The Irish Banana
7-Sep: Adventures of a Book Junkie
8-Sep: Supernatural Snark
9-Sep: The Compulsive Reader
10-Sep: Miss Print
11-Sep: Book Rock Betty
12-Sep: Reading Teen
13-Sep: Ageless Pages Reviews
14-Sep: Perpetual Page Turner
15-Sep: Books and Whimsy
16-Sep: Fierce Reads
Deleted Scene from NIL ON FIRE by Lynne Matson
Hi everyone! Today I’m sharing a scene I deleted from NIL ON FIRE during the revision process. Here is a scene from early in the book, where Skye reaches out to Charley, calling her in the middle of the night. Skye, who is struggling with terrible nightmares from her time on Nil, is seeking reassurance that everything will be okay. That she will be okay…
Here you go! Happy reading!
I gently set my journal on the bedside table. My favorite pen followed. Sometimes I actually woke up with my pen in hand. It reminded me of waking up clutching my rock sling on Nil.
Why does everything go back to Nil? I thought.
I wished I could let it go.
But Nil refused to let me go, or at least that’s how it felt lately.
And it made absolutely no sense.
Maybe it’s not making sense because you’re so tired, I scolded myself. It was after two in the morning, my bedtime long past.
In the bed, Rives lay asleep, silent and beautiful, the sheet casually thrown over one leg. Despite myself, I smiled. This was Rives. The gorgeous boy I loved more than life itself, a boy who had retained his kindness and humanity after surviving a year at Nil’s mercy. He faced me, eyes closed, his chest rising and falling in sleep. I still felt grateful for the gift Nil had given us—a future, together. The way Rives looked at me when he was awake made the rest of the world disappear; the intensity of his gaze always reflected his heart, and his depth of feeling took my breath away. I didn’t have to tell him I felt the same. He knew. We both knew, thanks to a parting gift from Nil.
Lately though, Rives’s expression had shifted. I caught him studying me at odd moments, as if he were working out a puzzle, trying to make something fit. But my haunting darkness didn’t fit anywhere in this world; it belonged in the past, so rather than bringing my nightmares into the open, I poured them into my journal instead. Surely the cathartic release would come any day now, the release that would banish my dream, taking the darkness with it.
I didn’t want to bring the darkness into the daylight or into Rives’s head.
Sometimes I wondered if he saw it too: the darkness, and the dreams. I couldn’t be the only one haunted by Nil. Surely everyone struggled after returning from that crazy place, a place where you left friends behind. A place where you lost friends like clockwork, some to gates, some to death. Surely every Nil survivor had nightmares. I know Jillian did when she first got back. Zane, too.
But they don’t have them every night, my conscience whispered. And not the same one.
Then again, maybe they did. Maybe they’d all already beaten the darkness. Maybe they could tell me how.
But I didn’t want to ask Jillian. She knew what I’d done, the choice I’d made, and I knew she’d had enough pain. I didn’t dare risk dragging her back through her nightmares if she’d managed to banish them for once and for all. And if she hadn’t, she couldn’t help me.
But there was one Nil survivor who could.
Hoping for a lifeline and feeling exceptionally sneaky, I crept into the bathroom, closed the door, and dialed Charley.
She answered on the second ring. “Skye!” Her drawl oozed through the line. “How’s Europe? How’s Rives?”
“Great,” I whispered. “Both are great.”
“Tell Rives I said hey, okay?” I could hear her smile. “Wait,” Charley said abruptly. “It’s the middle of the night. What are you doing up? And why are you whispering?”
“Because I’m in the bathroom, trying not the wake Rives.” It sounded as ridiculous as it felt. “Charley, this might sound crazy, but did you have nightmares when you got back? Like maybe even the same nightmare? And when did they stop?” Please say they stopped.
When she finally spoke, her voice was so soft she may as well have been whispering in a closed hotel bathroom too. “When I first got back,” Charley whispered, “it was awful. I dreamed about Thad, every night.” Buried pain rippled though her voice, a reflection of the Charley I’d first met. “I’d dream I was back on Nil, searching for Thad, desperate to find him. But I never did.” She paused. “Why? Are you dreaming about Paulo?”
I was surprised Charley remembered his name.
“At first. But now—” I stopped, unable to put the darkness into words. “It’s hard to explain.”
“Oh Skye, I know it’s awful coming back. I promise it gets better. The thing is, when I left Nil, I wasn’t expecting to leave yet, as weird as that sounds. So not only was I missing Thad, but I felt like I’d left things—unfinished. In hindsight, I think it was a bit of survivor’s guilt. But it’s different for Paulo, okay? You didn’t abandon him. Remember, unlike the rest of us, Paulo chose to go to Nil. And he chose to stay.”
Did he? I wondered. Both choices felt forced to me, for different reasons.
“Skye?”
I realized I’d drifted, again.
“Charley,” I heard the tremor in my voice and I hated it, “I don’t dream about Paulo anymore; I haven’t in weeks. But I still dream of Nil, at least I think I do. I dream of blackness, the kind inside the gates. Just pure black.” I sighed. “It’s weird. Who dreams of darkness?”
Charley took a moment to answer. “What does Rives think about your nightmares?”
“I haven’t told him,” I admitted. “I don’t want to worry him. He carried more burdens on Nil than anyone ever should’ve carried. He doesn’t deserve more worry weight here.”
“I know what you’re saying, but I guarantee you’re worrying him to death anyway. Nightmares don’t hide well, Skye. Neither do secrets.”
For a long moment, neither of us spoke.
“Can I ask you something?” she said.
“Of course.”
“That last day on Nil. When everyone was leaving through the gate. After Rives left, did you talk to Paulo for a while?”
I thought back. “Define ‘a while.’”
“Minutes,” Charley said without hesitation.
“I don’t think so. Why?”
“Because until you and Rives, everyone came through like clockwork. At least that’s what Zane told me. Jillian, too. They said it took so long for you to show up after Rives that they were terrified you didn’t make it. Jillian said Rives was going crazy waiting for you.”
Did it take me longer to come through that last gate?
So much of that day was a blur, obscured by fear and purpose and smoke and death. But I clearly remembered the sense of being held inside the gate for one heartbeat too long, feeling trapped between before Rives pulling me through.
“But I made it,” I said brilliantly. Duh. I closed my eyes. Sleep deprivation was clearly taking its toll.
“I know, Skye.” Charley’s voice was quiet. “All I’m saying is give yourself credit for surviving something awful, and give yourself time to grieve and to heal. I think you spent more time in that darkness between worlds than anyone, and so you have some memories and ghosts to battle that others don’t. The time between is a dark, dark place.”
There are no coincidences on Nil, Johan had once said.
I shivered.
Had the island done something to me in the darkness? Had it touched me, somehow left a mark on me, like an invisible island brand? Or just kept me long enough for its shadow to cling to me like invisible sludge when I finally escaped? Had it read my mind?
Abruptly I felt vulnerable, more exposed than when I’d woken naked on Nil. I also felt crazier than ever. Lovely.
“Wow, I almost freaked myself out there.” Charley’s forced laugh crackled through the line. “Sorry, Skye. I just meant, don’t be too hard on yourself. And please, give yourself credit. You’re one of the toughest people I know. Rives would agree with me.” I heard the true smile in her voice. “So do me a favor, okay?”
“Sure.”
“Talk to Rives. And more than anything, don’t give that terrible place any more power over you here, okay Skye?”
“Okay,” I said.
But that’s two favors, I thought. And the latter seemed beyond my control.
I hope you enjoyed that deleted scene! Thank you to all my readers, for loving the Nil world, and for staying until the end. NIL ON FIRE is for you.:)
xo
Lynne
SWEET by Emmy Laybourne Blog Tour
Solu’s luxurious celebrity-filled Cruise to Lose is billed as “the biggest cruise since the Titanic,” and if the new diet sweetener works as promised — dropping five percent of a person’s body weight in just days — it would be the answer to the world’s obesity problem. But Laurel is starting to regret accepting her friend Viv’s invitation. She’s already completely embarrassed herself in front of celebrity host Tom Forelli (otherwise known as the hottest guy ever!), and she’s too seasick to even try the sweetener. And that’s before Viv and all the other passengers start acting really strange.
Tom knows that he should be grateful for this job and the chance to shed his childhood “Baby Tom-Tom” image. His publicists have even set up a “romance” with a sexy reality-TV star. But as things on the ship start to get a bit wild, he finds himself drawn to a different girl. And when his celebrity hosting gig turns into an expose on the shocking side effects of Solu, it’s Laurel that he’s determined to save.
Emmy Laybourne takes readers on a dream vacation that goes first comically, then tragically, then horrifyingly, wrong.
The blog tour kicks off right here on May 19th! There will be reviews, interviews, giveaways, and more from great book bloggers. See the full schedule below!
- May 19-Fierce Reads Tumblr
- May 20-Fiktshun
- May 21- Working for the Mandroid
- May 22- The Young Folks
- May 23-Adventures of a Book Junkie
- May 24-The Irish Banana
- May 24-Exlibris Kate
- May 25-Love At First Page
- May 26- Ray Kay Books
- May 27-Page Turners Blog
- May 28-Bibliophilia Please
- May 29-Reading Nook Reviews
- May 30-Melissa’s Eclectic Bookshelf
- May 31-Tales of the Ravenous Reader
- June 1-Dark Faerie Tales
- June 2- Swoony Boys Podcast
- June 3- All the Write Notes
Reading an older book series and trying to find the fandom like…
Where are they?! Where are they?!
Celebrating the release of After the Woods with a TRAVELING ARC tour!
The Fierce Reads team sent a single advanced reading copy (otherwise known as an ARC, or galley) across the United States to several bloggers who were incredibly anxious to read this thrilling, stunning debut. If you missed the blog tour in which each of these bloggers reviewed the book, you can find that schedule here.There’s also interviews, a dream casting, book playlist, guest posts, and much more!
We asked the bloggers to write their notes, ideas, theories, reactions in the ARC as they were reading and now, it’s back in our hands! Scroll down to see pictures of this well-traveled, well-loved, YA thriller by Kim Savage. There are even doodles!
The ARC traveled from New York City to upstate New York, Boston, Pennsylvania, Chicago, northern Illinois, Texas, Louisiana, and then back to New York City!
If you haven’t read the book yet (where have you been?! It’s already been out for ONE WHOLE DAY), I hope you weren’t reading too closely, or you might learn something too important, too early! You can now order your copy of After the Woods immediately, find out more here.
How beautiful is this finished book? Pictured below without the jacket and with the ARC.
The Anatomical Shape of the Heart by Jenn Bennett BLOG TOUR
Check out the blog tour schedule for THE ANATOMICAL SHAPE OF A HEART by Jenn Bennett. Blog tour will include reviews, interviews, giveaways, and more!
11/1/2015
Adventures in Reading
You could rattle the stars
Beatrice Learns To Read
Marissa Nicole Reads
One Night Book Stand
11/8/2015
Mischievous Reads
Books in my suitcase
Batool’s Book Feels
Boundless Bookaholic
fANGIRLconfessions -
I Turn the Pages
11/15/2015
Awkwordly Emma
Never Judge a Book by its Cover
Captain Swan Bookishhh
Books & Other Happy Ever Afters
Divergent Gryffindor
sdavreads
11/22/2015
Happy Cloud Reviews
Books As You Know It
Olivia’s Catastrophe
We’re All Bookish Here
The Petite Book Blogger
Live, Love, Read
11/29/2015
Otakutwins
The Story Goes…
Oreos & Books
Readwritelove28
Books & Prejudice
It’s NEW BOOK TUESDAY!
ON SALE TODAY:
‣ SWITCHBACK by Danika Stone, perfect for fans of wilderness survival stories
‣ THE KINGDOM by Jess Rothenberg, a must-read for fans of Disney (but think Maleficent, not Snow White), Westworld, and excellent plot twists
‣ FAKE IT TILL YOU BREAK IT by Jenn P. Nguyen, the hate-to-love, swoon-worthy, boy-next-door romance you NEED in your life
Which one of these stunners would you read first?