Blog Tour Highlights: Falling by Design by Valia Lind + Giveaway

Title: Falling by Design
Author: Valia Lind
Genre: YA contemporary
Published: March 12, 2014

Brooklynn Summers has a plan for her life: graduate from high school, get into a top fashion school, prove to her family that she’s not a failure. She wishes someone in her life understood her need to create because her parents sure don’t support her dreams, her sister hates her, and the deadlines are soon approaching.

Enter Grayson Banks.

There are a few things in life Brooklynn can’t stand: mismatched patterns, cheap polyester, and Grayson. No boy has ever publicly humiliated Brooklynn like Grayson has. When he suddenly moved away in eighth grade, Brooklynn happily wished him good riddance. But on the first day of senior year, Grayson comes back, with his piercing blue eyes and a smile that melts icebergs, he is not exactly the boy Brooklynn remembers. She quickly realizes that Grayson’s intentions have completely shifted, but she’s not sure if she can put their past behind her.

Grayson understands Brooklynn’s creative ambitions and he devises a plan to showcase her work to the world. When the two agree to work together, suddenly, there is more than just fabric paint that’s having a chemical reaction to its environment. Brooklynn cannot help but feel pulled into Grayson’s arms, but memories and misunderstandings surface, putting in danger whatever small comradeship these two childhood enemies have constructed.

Can Brooklynn overcome her own insecurities, finally making her dreams come true? Even a dream she didn’t know she had.

This is a story about a girl with big dreams and a boy who helps her achieve them.

Purchase:

Amazon | B&N | CreateSpace 

 Apple | Smashwords

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Tour Schedule

April 2^nd

TotalBook Geek | Top 5

YABook Madness | Review

April 3^rd

MyFavorite Things (http://heffroberts.blogspot.com) | Review

CamisadoMind | Teaser

April 4^th

ThatFandom Chick | Excerpt

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April 7^th

ShortieSays | Excerpt

Booksare Love | Teaser

April 8^th

WOrkSof FiCTioN<3 | Excerpt

April 9^th

{BooksShe Reads} | Top 5

ALeisure Moment | Excerpt

April 10^th

AvidReader Musings | Excerpt

GoodChoice Reading | Review

April 11^th

TheCover Contessa | Top 5

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April 14^th

OnceUpon a Twilight | Review

Paulette'sPapers | Top 10

April 15^th

It'sA Book Thing | Review

BajgajkaLoves Books And Giveaways | Review

April 16^th

BoricuanBookworms  | Review

BookAngel Booktopia | Highlight

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About Valia

Author. Photographer. Artist. Born and raised in St. Petersburg, Russia, Valia Lind always had a love for the written word. She wrote her first full book on the bathroom floor of her dormitory, while procrastinating to study for her college classes. Upon graduation, she has moved her writing to more respectable places, and have found her voice in Young Adult fiction. Falling by Design is her debut young adult novel. You can visit her online at www.valialind.blogspot.com or follow her on twitter, where she spends way too much time, @ValiaLind.

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Spring #IntoTheFuture Houston Recap! Interview+Pictures+Giveaway

HI!!!!  Today we recap the super fun event that came to Houston for Spring Into The Future. The event was April 25th at Blue Willow Bookshop. We had authors Taherah Mafi and Veronica Rossi visit. Taherah is the author of Shatter Me and Veronica is the author of Under the Never Sky. Both books are debut books for each authors and are planned trilogies. 

I did get to hang out with the authors before the event but was able to conduct the interview at that time. See Veronica's luggage had been lost and she had just arrived a few minutes before it was time to head to Blue Willow. But don't fear, the lovely ladies, did stay after the event and we did a impromptu interview right outside Blue Willow. I took a few pictures during the event as well. I hope you followed me on twitter that night and read all the juicy details about their books and future books. Here are a few tweets I posted:

They were asked what is harder to write the first or sequel?
@TaherehMafi deadline is huge and shutting voices when.writing sequel is hard because she feels the need to please the fan
@V_Rossibooks says its the sequel. the deadline is the killer. no luxury to day dream

They were asked if they had to cut any scenes from their books
@V_Rossibooks did have to delete scenes but feels nothing was left out
@TaherehMafi actually had to add scenes

This event was jam packet and so much fun. These lovely authors will crack you up. The crowd had great questions for them and they had great answers right back. They both got to sign the walls of Blue Willow.

Here is our impromptu interview that Taherah and Veronica did outside of Blue Willow Bookshop. Enjoy!

Pictures from the event

You can stay up to date with the full tour and all the features by 

visiting the official SPRING INTO THE FUTURE Facebook page. 

Make sure you hit LIKE and enjoy all the content on the page. You can 

download logos and read about all the authors on tour. 

Now thanks to Taherah Mafi, Veronica Rossi and HarperTEEN, today 

we are able to provide a giveaway to one of our readers. What you may

ask can this prize be? Well Prizes may include any and/or all of the 

following: signed books, signed posters, spring totes, ARCs, swag, etc.

To Enter:

• Fill out the Form below
• US Giveaway
• Giveaway ends Sunday May 11th at midnight
• Must be 13 years or older to enter
• No PO BOXES
• Read our Giveaway policy HERE
• Do not leave email or any personal information below
• CHECK OUT THE REST OF THE GIVEAWAYS GOING ON NOW HERE

Blog Tour: Blood Born Mid-Way Recap

Happy Saturday!!  Today is the half-way mark of Jamie Manning's Blood Born blog tour. We hope you have benign enjoying all the stops so far. You still have time to check a stop out if you missed it. Tomorrow the tour will continue over at The Reading Date blog with a review + giveaway. Remember the tour ends Friday the 13th right here at Once Upon a Twilight, with a grand prize. To enter this grand prize, you make sure you have commented in each stop, plus visited Jamie's blog too. Then 4/27 right here also will have a live chat with Author Jamie Manning and talk all things Blood Born. Maybe even Ava will stop by. You can follow Ava his main character on twitter. 

2nd: Girls in the Stacks - Review + ARC/Swag Giveaway

3rd: Refracted Light Reviews - Playlist + Swag Giveaway
4th: Fire & Ice - Review + Ebook/Swag Giveaway
5th: I Am A Reader, Not A Writer - Teasers + Swag Giveaway
6th: Hypable - Review + Ebook/Swag Giveaway
7th: Oodles of Books - Author Interview + Swag Giveaway

Thats the first part of the tour for you all to check out if you haven't yet. Mark those calendar for the other dates, so you don't forget. Happy Reading!!!

Blood Born

Blood Prophecy #1

Author: Jamie Manning

Reading Level: YA

Genre: Paranormal

Released: ebook version 3/14/12 - Hardcover version 4/24/12

Publisher: Pendrell Publishing

Available: Amazon <~~~ BUY THE BOOK!!!!

Summary: (from goodreads) Waking up in a coffin hungry for blood is only the beginning for sixteen-year-old Ava Blue. When Chance Caldon, the hottie who dug her up, tells her that she’s half vampire, Ava’s world really turns upside down.

Half vamp? Ava can’t believe it...she doesn't even know what that means! Not until Aldric, a thousand-year-old vampire, shows up and tells her it’s true--and that he’s the one who turned her. Then Ava truly begins to believe what she is. Now, she has to deal with a sudden and powerful bloodlust, the desire to see Aldric dead, and her growing crush for Chance. Ava knows she's a monster now, she can feel it; and her life is over.

But redemption isn’t lost. Aldric is giving her a chance to regain her humanity. The price? Kill a hundred vampires, or remain a bloodsucker forever.

So Ava sets out to get her life back. But killing vampires begins a battle that could destroy everything she is working toward. In the end, Ava's decisions will forever change her life and the lives of those she loves.

Dark Days of Winter 2012: Houston 2/18/12 Recap! Interview+Pictures+Giveaway!

Hey Everyone!!! Today we celebrate my (Yara) birthday with my recap from the Pitch Dark Days stop that happen here in Houston on 2/18/12. This stop featured Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, Jodi Meadows and Courtney Allison Moulton. Thanks to Harper Teen, I was able to sit down with the lovely authors before the event and interview on video, I took several pictures and tweeted live for you all the day of the event. I had help with the interview from fellow Houston blogger Trini @ A Book Lovers Review. We had such a great time filming the interview, lots of laughs and ooops took place. Then at 4pm we headed to Blue Willow Bookshop to begin the event. 

The event was a HIT as soon as you walked in the door. Their was such a large crowd that the bookstore sold out on the books from the authors. The authors decided since it was such a large crowd they would introduce themselves and then jump into taking questions. Tons of great questions were asked and the crowd was awarded with candy from Brodi and Courtney. Cynthia awarded some of her fans with cowboy hats and beanies. Jodi gave out some cute stuff she knitted herself. The crowd loved it. The picture was taken after the event.

The crowd asked if it was hard to write the beginning of the series first or the ending?

Pretty much all the authors agreed in answer saying the ending is the hardest. You sort of don't want to let go of the story. Tears were shed!

Then they were asked how many books do they plan or have planned out to write in the series.

They each said 3

Below you can watch the video interview with the authors before the event. I think that Trini and I did a good job with the interview and editing for being our first time at both. We hope you enjoy watching as much as we enjoyed filming it for you all. 

During the event I was able to tweet and take pictures for you all. If you want to see what I tweeted you can find it under the hashtag #pitchdarkdays or @twilightsdance. If you would like to find out if Blue Willow has any signed books or swag left from the event, just visit their page HERE. We hope you liked this recap. It was such a great way to spend a Saturday. I got to see quite a few bloggers and even an author or two in the audience. Then went home to edit the video with Trini until 2am. All worth it!

Here are all my pictures from the event!

I want to thank Harper Teen for letting me be a part of this wonderful Pitch Dark Days tour.  Thank you to Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, Jodi Meadows and Courtney Allison Moulton for a great interview and event. Thank you to Blue Willow Bookshop for helping with the interview location. Last but not least Trini @ A Book Lovers Review blog for helping me with the interview and event. Can't wait until the next tour begins!!!!

Make sure you continue to follow the Pitch Dark Days tour as the 3rd leg begins with new authors and new places. This new leg features Lauren Oliver, Claudia Gray and Dan Wells. 1st stop will be at Coral Gables in FL on 3/9 at 6:30PM.

(Here I am with Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Courtney Allison Moulton and Jodi Meadows after the event. )

Now I said that we would celebrate since its my birthday today. Thanks to Harper Teen we have a complete set of all 4 books from each author to give one lucky winner. So you get a copy of Hallowed, Everneath, Wings of the Wicked and Incarnate. 

To Enter:

• Fill out the FORM
• Giveaway ends on March 3rd
• Open to US only
• Must be 13 years or older to enter
• No PO BOXES
• Read our Giveaway policy HERE
• Do not leave email or any personal information below

Blog Tour: Eternal Starling Full Blog Tour Recap

Angela Corbett's Eternal Starling Blog Tour has come to a end. Here you can find the full blog tour schedule. Make sure to stop by each stop, quite a few stops still have giveaways going on. Here at OUaT we were thrilled to host the Eternal Starling blog tour. Mark your calenders for December 6th to visit OUaT. December 6th is the official release of Eternal Starling and we are celebrating the release with a live chat with Angela. Angela will have surprises throughout the chat. You don't want to miss it. 

Here is the tour recap:

November:

1st: Once Upon a Twilight - Review + giveaway

2nd: My Life with Books - Interview + giveaway

3rd: SupaGurl Books Review + giveaway 

4th: Mundie Moms - First Chapter + giveaway

5th An Avid Reader's Musings - Review + giveaway

7th: Fire and Ice - Review + giveaway 

8th: Books with Bite - Excerpt + giveaway 

9th: Whats Your Story - Review + giveaway

10th: Book Portrait - Interview + giveaway

11th: Good Choice Reading - Guest post + giveaway

12th: Ivy Reads - Review + giveaway

14th: Author Lani Woodland - Review + giveaway

15th: Most Important Letter - Playlist + giveaway

16th: Late Bloomers Online - Review + giveaway 

17th: Read My Mind - Cover Interview + giveaway 

18th: Author Jamie from Writers Write, Right? - review + giveaway

One more note, don't forget about Angela hosting a pre-order contest to win a kindle. Anyone who pre-orders Eternal Starling can be entered to win a kindle. They just need to email Angela a photo of the receipt, or a copy of the email receipt for proof of purchase. The contest will begin the day the tour kick-off on November 1st and will continue until the Eternal Starlings release date on December 6th. The email used to send proof is EternalStarlingContest@gmail.com.

Eternal Starling Blog Tour 1st Week Recap

Hi everyone, so the 1st week in the Eternal Starling blog tour has ended. I hope you have all been following the tour, so you don't miss out on the posts and daily giveaways. On Monday the tour will continue once again at Fire and Ice blog with a review and giveaway.  So stick around as the fun continues. 

This week we kicked-off the tour right here with a review and a giveaway for a ARC of Eternal Starling plus a signed bookplate & bookmark. 

OUaT's Review + Giveaway

Then on Tuesday the tour hop over to My Life with Books blog with a interview with Angela. After reading review you can enter to win a signed cover jacket and bookmark. 

My Life with Books Review + Giveaway

Then on Wednesday SupaGurl Books Blog posted a great review for Eternal Starling plus giveaway. You have a chance of winning Eternal Starling Jewelry plus signed bookmarks.

SupaGurl Books Review + Giveaway

Then we hopped over to Mundie Moms on Thursday. There you can catch a excerpt from the 1st chapter of Eternal Starling. Then don't forget to enter the giveaway for book thong and signed bookmark. 

Mundie Moms First Chapter look + Giveaway

Then to close out the week we stop at An Avid Reader's Musings blog. There you will find a review and exciting giveaway. How does a Eternal Starling magnet and signed bookmark sound?

An Avid Reader's Musings Review + Giveaway

There you have the first week's recap. Hope you continue to follow the blog tour this upcoming week. Also don't forget to mark your calender for December 6th when we chat Live with Angela here on the blog. 

FYI: Angela Corbett is hosting a pre-order contest to win a kindle. Anyone who pre-orders ETERNAL STARLING can be entered to win. Just EMAIL Angela a photo of the receipt or a copy of the email receipt for proof of purchase. Enter from now until the Eternal Starling's release date on 6 December 2011.

Blood Drive Blog Tour 1st Week Recap

HI everyone, here is a recap of Traci Houston's Blood Drive blog tour. This Monday the tour continues over at Good Choice Reading blog with a review and giveaway. So make sure you continue to follow the tour.

So this week started right here at OUaT with my review for Blood Drive and your chance to win a ARC copy of Blood Drive.

OUaT's Review + ARC Giveaway

Then on Tuesday the tour stopped at At Random blog with a Interview with Traci and a giveaway for a final copy. 

At Random Review + Giveaway

Then we hit hump day over at Bibliognome blog with a review and a giveaway for final copy. 

Bibliognome Review + Giveaway

Then Thursday came and the tour stopped at The Nerdy Katie blog with a review and a giveaway for a final copy. 

The Nerdy Katie Review + Giveaway

Then its TGIF over at Me, My Shelf and I blog. Rosmelie from the blog reviewed and also has a final copy up for giveaway. 

Me, My Shelf and I Review + Giveaway

So there is the all the action from the 1st week of the tour. Stick around we still have one more week to go. Don't forget to order or buy Blood Drive when it releases on October 16th (tomorrow). You can download it already from Amazon here: Blood Drive: A Vampire Otherkin Novel.

To see the full tour schedule just click HERE. 

Blog Tour: Indelible Full Blog Tour Recap + Indelible Book Trailer

Today we celebrate the last day of Lani Woodland's Indelible Blog tour. I will do a full recap of the tour and also you will see premier of Indelible's Book Trailer. This tour has been great and so much fun to host. I thank Lani for trusting in OUaT and thank you to all the participants. 

Here is the tour recap:

5th: OUaT Kicks-Off tour with review +  Intrinsical & Indelible giveaway (Ends today 9/30)
6th: Most Important Letter - Character Interview - Yara Silva
7th: One Book at a Time - Review
8th: Mindful Musing - Author book picks
9th: Fire and Ice - Author Playlist + ARC giveaway

12th: Reading Teen - Review + ARC giveaway
13th: Good Choice Reading - When Lani's not writing
14th: Manga Maniac Cafe - Into the Past
15th: Most Important Letter - Review
16th: The Reading Date - Character book picks- Yara Silva
17th: One Book at a Time - Author This or that

19th: Manga Maniac Cafe - Review
20th: Fire and Ice - Review
21st: Mindful Musing - Review
22nd: Read for your Future - Author Interview
23rd: Reading Teen - Vlog Interview
24th: The Reading Date - Review

26th: Writers Write, Right? - Review
27th: OUaT Live Chat & Lani's In Her Own Words
28th: Read for your Future - Review
29th: Writers Write, Right? - Character This or That
30th: Good Choice Reading - Review + ARC giveaway

Click on all the links aboce to see all the stops in the tour. Then pick up Indelible and Intrinsical if you haven't yet. Its perfect for a October read. Now I'm very excited to that I get to premier Lani's book trailer for Indelible. 

ENJOY! Let us know what you think. 

Indelible Blog Tour 2nd Week Recap

Hey everyone and welcome back. Today lets recap the second week in Lani Woodland's Indelible Blog Tour. The tour continues this Monday with a review over at Manga Maniac Cafe. Then mark those calenders for a live chat with Lani on the 27th. 

This week the tour started over at Reading Teen with a review and a giveaway. I'm sure Andye review will convince you of how great Indelible is.

Reading Teen Review + Giveaway 

Then on Tuesday the tour went over to Good Choice Reading's blog where Lani's told us what she does when she is not writing. 

Good Choice Reading When I'm Not Writing Post

Then we jump to Wednesday over at Manga Maniac Cafe with a post from Lani. She talks about her book influences from the past. Also a chance to win a signed bookmark too. 

Manga Maniac Cafe Into the Past Post

Then we hit Thursday at Most Important Letter blog with a review by Linda. You can also win signed bookmarks here as well. 

Most Important Letter Review

It's Friday and The Reading Date shared with us Book picks that Yara Silva would be reading. 

The Reading Date Character Book Picks Post

Then we close out on Saturday with One Book At A Time where Lani shares her This or That choices. I really love some of Lani's choices. 

One Book At A Time This or That Post

What a great week it was, so make sure you visit the ones you missed and see you back on Monday. 

Indelible Blog Tour 1st Week Recap

Hi everyone. I hope you all are following Lani Woodland's Indelible Blog tour. I wanted to do a recap of the 1st weeks posts. On Monday it continues with a review and ARC giveaway over at Reading Teen. So make sure to stop by then.

So this week started off right here at OUaT with my review and a giveaway for a copy of Intrinsical and Indelible. If my review doesn't convince you to read Indelible or even pick up Intrinsical for the 1st time, then I don't know what will. 

OUaT's Review + Giveaway (Intrinsical + Indelible)

then on Tuesday the tour continue over at Most Important Letter where Linda brings a fun character interview with Yara Silva herself. The interview questions take place after Intrinsical. 

Most Important Letter Character Interview Post

then on to Wednesday over at One Book at a Time blog with Page and her review of Indelible. Another great review for Indelible. 

One Book at a Time Review

Moving on to Thursday, Natalie over at Mindful Musings had Lani share with everyone her favorite book picks. Its quite a list, you wont want to miss it. 

Mindful Musings Author Book Picks

Then we close out the week on Friday with Heather from Fire and Ice blog sharing Lani's playlist. Plus a chance to win a ARC copy of Indelible. 

Fire and Ice Playlist + ARC Giveaway

SO there you have this week's post in case you missed any. Hope you continue with us this week on the tour. 

Happy Weekend!!!!