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Extra! Extra!: Don't Miss #TeaTime a la #Divergent Today to Celebrate #Allegiant!
Its #Allegiant Day!
The wait is finally over! Allegiant is now out in the wild.
In case you missed it last night, here is Veronica Roth reading the 1st chapter of Allegiant that's in Tris POV.
This made my year!! All the names of those who were teamed up last year to promote Insurgent have been acknowledged in Allegiant including the team I was part off: TEAM DAUNTLESS!!!
Countdown to #Allegiant: It's the Eve before Allegiant is Officially Out!
Its almost time everyone. In less than 24 hours #Allegiant will be out nationwide. For those catching up and rereading the series, hurry up. For anyone who hasn't started this series, now would be the prefect time to begin reading the Divergent series. You will have all 3 books out and can read back to back without having to wait for a book release.
Those attending midnight release parties, HAVE FUN! Can't wait to see pictures on twitter or Facebook. Don't forget those that are able to watch, at 11:59pmEST on the Divergent Page, Veronica Roth will read the 1st chapter of #Allegiant. I for one will download it at midnight to begin reading, I have a feeling tonight will be a long night of reading.
In case you missed it this weekend, a new quote was released:
What a quote that is, huh? OMG!!! What could possibly change things FOREVER?
In celebration and countdown to Allegiant I plan to tweet all day long different quotes from Divergent and Insurgent.
Countdown to #Allegiant: Allegiant Like You Never Seen Before!
With only 3 days left until we have Allegiant in our hands (or eReader devices). I wanted to share with you pictures of Allegiant like you have never seen before. Thanks to Epic Reads for sharing these very sexy-revealing pictures.
Countdown to #Allegiant: 4 More Days to GOOOOOOOOO!
4 days left only, can you believe that Initiates? I feel like we have been waiting forever but our time is almost here. I truly hope NONE of you have read or have been following any of that leaked stuff, don't let someone petty ruin it for you. Keeping holding on for Veronica, Four and Tris.
Here are two updates from Divergent Official:
You can see the post these updates refer to HERE.
- The Twitter chat with iBooks will begin at 3PM pacific time (6PM eastern time) on 10.23.
- The midnight video will release at 11:59PM eastern time on 10.21 here on DivergentOfficial.com. Join us in counting down the last few seconds until ALLEGIANT!
I Am Divergent has a running list of midnight release parties. So if you haven't found a party near you yet, just click here to be taken to the master list.
Countdown to #Allegiant: Ask Veronica Roth!
On October 26th, Veronica Roth will be appearing at the Tivoli Theater in Chicago. While tickets to the show have sold out, Epic Reads will be broadcasting the event LIVE on Ustream at 2PM central time.
Here’s your chance to get your question answered! Submit a question for Veronica Roth HERE and you may be one of a few lucky fans that will have their question answered during the live event!
Countdown to #Allegiant: How to Get the Most Out of ALLEGIANT Week
This list is provided by Divergent Official:
1. Watch Veronica Roth’s midnight video message to fans (where she’ll read the first pages of ALLEGIANT)! Check DivergentOfficial.com at midnight (12:00AM eastern time, to be exact) on 10.22.13.
2. Tune in to “The Today Show” on Wednesday, 10.23 during the 8AM hour (eastern time) to see Veronica Roth talk about ALLEGIANT.
3. Join the Veronica Roth Twitter Chat with iBooks between 4:45PM and 5:30PM eastern time on 10.23.
4. Submit your questions for Veronica Roth on the ALLEGIANT tour. Veronica will answer your questions during the LIVE Ustream event from Chicago on Saturday, 10.26, at 2PM central time. Stay tuned to DivergentOfficial.com for how to submit your questions.
5. Celebrate with the Epic Reads Divergent Tea Party on at 3:45PM eastern time on Wednesday, 10.23. Chat about what made you fall in love with the Divergent series and see an exclusive video from Veronica Roth!
The Countdown to #Allegiant: Veronica Roth Talks about Tris and More
The countdown continues towards the highly anticipated release of Allegiant. So with 6 days left to go, Veronica Roth talks Tris and Divergent movie in the video below.
If you missed my post yesterday, then you missed this:
The Countdown to #Allegiant: 7 Days To Go! + Allegiant Giveaway
We are only days away from one of the most anticipated releases in 2013.
And it's not this Allegiant I am talking about. No its this
ONLY 7 DAYS TO GO! But who's counting right?
And just in case you haven't heard already. Veronica Roth herself at 11:59pm EST on 10/21, will read the 1st chapter of Allegiant that's in Tris POV (pre-recorded). It will be posted HERE.
You can pre-order if you haven't yet!!!
Now because I'm super excited for Allegiant to be released, I am giving away 1 copy of Allegiant. The giveaway will start today and end on release day (10/22). Winner will have a choice of physical copy or ebook. Open International but the physical copy choice is for a winner from US only.
#AreYouAllegiant - Veronica Roth and the Birth of #Divergent
New York Magazine shares with us Veronica Roth and how Divergent came to be.
On March 31, 2010, 21-year-old Veronica Roth wrote a blog post titled “You + $$$ = ?” Roth was a creative-writing major at Northwestern who planned to support herself as a proofreader after graduation. The exercise on her frequently updated blog was about imagining success: What would she do if she suddenly had the resources of Stephenie Meyer or J. K. Rowling? Roth’s answers were unapologetically practical—buy a house in Wisconsin, invest, donate to charity—and her wildest dream involved jumping into a pool of mini-marshmallows. Mostly, the aspiring young-adult author just wanted to work. “Day jobs? Pshh. Who needs them? If I could set up a nice little room in which I could write all day and supply myself with infinite tea, I’d be pretty much good.”
Two weeks later, Roth sold her first book, a dystopian YA novel about a society segregated by moral virtues and a girl who doesn’t fit in. Divergent was published in May 2011 and spent eleven consecutive weeks on the New YorkTimes’ children’s best-seller list; the sequel, Insurgent, debuted at No. 1 a year later. The series has remained there ever since, thanks to a wildly enthusiastic, bordering on maniacal, audience that includes not just teenage girls but their brothers, their mothers, and a growing number of childless adults (Divergentcoincided with the rise of The Hunger Games, the industry-wide scramble to succeed Twilight, and the resultant YA dominance in the pop-cultural landscape). Since no popular YA series is without a movie franchise, Summit Entertainment—the studio behind Twilight—will release Divergent early next year, and its cast (Kate Winslet, Next Big Thing Shailene Woodley) suggests similar expectations for the film version. Meanwhile, the contents of the trilogy’s upcoming final book, Allegiant (coming out October 22), are being guarded like Katniss Everdeen in the first half of Mockingjay. So if Roth isn’t quite at Twilight or Hunger Games levels, then she would seem to be on her way—or far enough along, at least, to tackle a few things on the list she wrote three years ago. Find a house, maybe. Figure out what else grown-ups do with large sums of money.
She went for the mini-marshmallows instead. At the mention of her otherwise unfinished list, Roth shrugs politely. “Dreams change,” she tells me, which is a fair point coming from a 25-year-old. I keep forgetting this fact, since in person Roth is almost six feet tall and intimidatingly serious; at first, it is hard to picture her bathing in a tub of candy or spazzing over a book meant for teenagers. She could reasonably be hired as my babysitter. Then she suggests we get some ice cream, frets over the flavors, and is soon covered in “cookie monster.” Roth and I have come to Coney Island on a bright September day to stare at a Ferris wheel like the one that Tris, the heroine of Divergent, climbs without thinking. We’re staring at it because the amusement park is closed and also because Roth wouldn’t want to ride it, especially with a stranger. The action-book author is afraid of heights.
She’s afraid of a lot of things, actually, and fear, or how to overcome it, is what first inspired Divergent. “I was in Psych learning about exposure therapy,” she recalls. “I wondered what would happen if there was a group of people who tried to create fearlessness using the technique.” She started writing about those people instead of doing her college homework, and within 40 days she had a completed draft. The fear-chasers from class became the Dauntless, one of five factions in the crumbling future Chicago where Tris lives. Each faction has a different moral credo that governs its members’ lives; they are like Harry Potter houses, minus the magic. So you have Tris’s adopted Dauntless, who value bravery; the selfless Abnegation, in which she was raised; Amity (peace); Erudite (intelligence); and Candor (honesty). The division, established long ago by a mysterious group, is supposed to teach humans how to be good again, one value at a time—but Roth’s point is that none of these values is effective all by itself, and the order is disintegrating. Tris, unable to conform and in danger because of it, rebels against society in order to save herself.
Divergent sold quickly—after four days, to the first editor who finished reading it—thanks to a familiar premise: stubborn teenage girl, divided society, kids fighting kids, civil war. “The Hunger Games was just becoming a thing when I was finishing writing it,” Roth says, and Divergent led the next wave of YA dystopian fiction. The timing worked in her favor, and so did the current distaste for fragile YA heroines like Twilight’s Bella Swan; Tris is strong and uncompromising (and a pain in the ass, really, but that’s popular too, as surly, “regular” teenagers are more relatable). Despite its trendiness, Roth seesDivergent less as a traditional “point a finger at society” novel and more of a personal critique. “Those virtues are the ones I believe in. And to kind of dismantle my own understanding of those virtues, or what it would be like to live this way, was a little bit like delving into my own psyche.”
She didn’t recognize it at the time, but Tris also became a test case for Roth’s own life. Not long after selling Divergent, Roth broke up with one boyfriend, started dating another, got married within a year, and moved (temporarily) to Romania (for her new husband’s work). “This is just a theory, but Divergentwas sort of good for me, because it was a safe place to explore taking bold action,” she offers. “The things that Tris does”—jump off trains, fly down zip lines, leave her family—“are insane, and she comes from a sort of repressed environment. And I think my internal environment at the time I was writing it felt sort of repressed.” It is Roth’s particular gift that she could experience this as a peer and then write it as an adult. “It was a way to explore the possibility of making those kinds of big steps. And then when it was finished, I started making them.”
As we wander around the boardwalk, I notice that Roth is dressed in head-to-toe black, like a member of the Dauntless, and that I’m wearing Abnegation gray. This seems like a good excuse to go full fan-fic on Roth, so I begin quizzing her about Four, the curt, mysterious older boy who becomes Tris’s mandatory love interest. Roth drops a bomb: She wouldn’t date Four. “Too many secrets, not enough jokes,” she says, laughing at my immediate outrage. On behalf of message-board readers everywhere, I keep at her, pointing out how dreamy Four is, how he’s so sweet to Tris and such a jackass to everyone else. “He appeals to her,” Roth explains patiently, as if she’s done this a thousand times—as if she is used to grown women confusing her fictional world for a real-life dating pool.
She is certainly used to obsessive questions about the third book in theDivergent series, and she deflects most of mine with ease. The closest I come to a spoiler is on the topic of sex, which Tris and Four haven’t had, because Tris is deeply afraid of intimacy. The barrage starts again: Are YA characters allowed to have sex? (Yes.) Have Tris and Four had sex off the page? (No.) Is this an abstinence series? (No. Roth’s Christianity has nothing to do with it; the characters just aren’t ready.) So there’s a chance they could have sex sometime soon? It’s not out of the question? Roth breaks into a grin. This is the only time she’ll yell at me, but it’s loud, and she’s clearly not nervous anymore. “Maybe you have to wait!”
• This article originally appeared in the October 14, 2013 issue of New York Magazine.
What's Hot: All That's #Allegiant
HarperTEEN is bring you 3 ways to celebrate Allegiant!
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Get graphics, backgrounds, and other online bling. Be sure to use the #AreYouAllegiant hashtag for opportunities to win prizes!
More HERE.
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Re-read DIVERGENT & INSURGENT with Epic Reads.
The DIVERGENT re-read will be the first week of October, and the INSURGENT re-read will be the second. We'll send three participating bloggers copies of DIVERGENT & INSURGENT to give away on their sites. So quickly! Identify yourselves!
3.
Follow @HarperTeen for details about the New York Comic Con Divergent Series Takeover on Saturday, October 12th at 10AM (Booth #2118). Promote the Takeover on your blog for a chance to win a NYCC prize pack, including THESE snazzy new movie posters.
#AreYouAllegiant - USA Today Interviewed @VeronicaRoth - #Allegiant
USA Today featured an interview with New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth. These are the questions/topics she is asked.
- What is the most memorable fan reaction you've had?
- Why did you not write a love triangle?
- Why do people love the heroine, Tris?
- Do you have any quirky writing habits?
- What was it like seeing actors in your first film adaptation?
Today grab your hardcopy of USA Today for more about Allegiant in the Fall Books Preview.
Remember, always jump first!
#AreYouAllegiant - Sneak Peek Inside #Allegiant by @VeronicaRoth + The World of Divergent: The Path to Allegiant
We have our first peek inside Veronica Roth's third and final installment in the New York Times bestselling Divergent Series. Allegiant will release on Tuesday, October 22nd nationwide. Get ready to be ultimately teased with this short peek.
Coming September 24th 2013 a free eBook will be available for download that will contain 8 quotes from Allegiant, interview with Veronica Roth, Faction Manifestos, a Faction quiz and more.
Book Description via Amazon:
Don't miss Divergent, soon to be a major motion picture in theaters March 2014!
Fascinated by the world of the Divergent series? This fifty-page bonus, previously only available in the Divergent Series Box Set, includes faction manifestos, a faction quiz, Q&A with #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth, book playlists, discussion questions, series inspirations, and much more! It also contains ten enticing teasers from Allegiant, the final book in the Divergent series.
#AreYouAllegiant : Be the First to Grab the Official #Divergent Tumblr Theme
We are excited to share with all initiates, the Official Divergent Tumblr theme. You have first Dibs on converting your tumblr to this basass theme featuring Allegiant graphics.
The Official Divergent Theme features:
- Custom color
- Custom images
- Disqus comments
- High res
- Localization
- Search
- Tags
- All post types
All you have to do to install this unique theme, is click the link below and hit the install button. You can preview it before installing first.
I Am Allegiant! - #AreYouAllegiant
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We have proven our self to be apart of Veronica Roth's most enthusiastic online group of supporters and because of that we were named as one of the core group of blogger brand ambassadors to kick off the #AreYouAllegiant campaign!
Here is the first set of online exclusive assets!
Click here to download background images, static and animated blog graphics, and a FB cover image! These images will be going live tomorrow, so be sure to download them now and be the first to have them!
We're really excited to share this with you, so be sure to keep an eye out for more of these exclusives!
And remember - Always Jump First!
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