I just got to meet Beth Revis in person at the end of her Breathless Reads tour with Marie Lu, Andrea Cremer and Jessica Spotswood. It was one of the best book events I’ve seen, because the chemistry was so good between these funny and fun authors.Denise Hamilton did the Q and A at Once Upon a Time Bookstore and the packed house loved hearing details of how they each got published and how different their writing processes were. Yes, those are questions you’ve heard before but their candid and often hilarious answers made this evening fly.
In the audience were YA authors Tahereh Mafi (SHATTER ME), Marissa Meyer (CINDER) and others. We all left with a cupcake and a chance at winning prizes using the code on our lanyards. That’s how you do a book signing!
I am coming into the home stretch here, with the release of my YA dystopian thriller debut STARTERS on March 13. I am feverishly writing book two up until my tour.
This is where I’ll be. If you can come visit me at one of the stops, please tell me you’re a Leaguer.● 3/13 Vroman’s Bookstore - Pasadena, CA @ 6:00 PM
● 3/14 Books Inc. - Berkeley, CA @ 7:00 PM with Nina LaCour and Caitlin Kittredge
● 3/17 University Book Store - Mill Creek, WA @ 11:00 AM - Teen book brunch with Marissa Meyer
● 3/18 WonderCon 2012 - Anaheim Convention Center @ 3:00 PM - Q&A Session with Andrea Cremer, Ann Aguirre, Kami Garcia, Gretchen McNeil, Ransom Riggs, Veronica Rossi
BOOK SIGNING immediately after at the Mysterious Galaxy Booth – 4:00 PM.
Note: WonderCon Badge Required - $10 Online/$15 Onsite (Adults) | $5 Online/$13 Onsite (Junior/Senior)
● 3/19 Barnes & Noble - West Jordan, UT @ 7:00 PM
● 3/21 Anderson’s Bookshop - Chicago, IL @ 7:00 PM
● 3/28 New York Public Library - New York, NY - 7:00 PM - Author Panel
● 3/29 Barnes & Noble - Princeton, NJ 7:00 PM
● 4/21-22 LA Times Festival of Books - University of Southern California @ Time to be Determined
● 4/25 Barnes & Noble - Huntington Beach, CA @ 7:00 PM
To get you all in the mood, I’m giving away an ARC of STARTERS here. All you have to do is comment on this thread. And, I’ll make it international.
The winner will be announced here on March 9. Good luck!
Aaaaawww no Phoenix stop?? Next tour? Yes? :)
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Starters sounds great! All the reviews I've read have been fantastic! I am just trying to find where I can get it in OZ!!!
ReplyDeleteCheers guys!
So excited to read Starters! :D Such a gorgeous cover. <3 And it seems amazing :) Thank you for giving away a copy :D Would love to win it :)
ReplyDeleteLove, Carina
It looks like you had a great time at this tour!
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot for the giveaway. I'd love to read this book.
I would so love to meet you all. Wish the tour came to Ann Arbor.
ReplyDeleteI would SO love to win your ARC. I've heard fantastic things about your book on other blogs. Can't wait to read it.
Thank you for the giveaway - this book is already on my TBR list and I'd love to win an ARC! :)
ReplyDeleteooh, a NJ stop! Adding to my calendar now!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the giveaway!
Thanks for the giveaway!
ReplyDeleteThough your not coming near me I'm still looking forward to reading the books!!
Sounded like a great event. I hope you have fun on tour and good luck with Enders.
ReplyDeleteI just finished Portrait of a Starter. It's a great set up for the series and I like the connection between it and the Starters book cover. Thank you for the chance to win an ARC.
Safari Poet
I'd love to play please.
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Sounds awesome. I hope I can make the Chicago event!
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks for the giveaway!
The story and cover of Starter are amazing! Thank you for the giveaway!
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I wish I could attend the events. School is always in the way! Have fun and enjoy :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for much for this giveaway :)
xjessirae(at)gmail(dot)com
@xjessirae
:( WHY NOT TULSA OKLAHOMA!!! Sigh!!! Would love to met you!!
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Bummer, not near here. Near where I once lived. Love the badge, very cool.
ReplyDelete● 3/28 New York Public Library - New York, NY - 7:00 PM - Author Panel
ReplyDelete● 3/29 Barnes & Noble - Princeton, NJ 7:00 PM
Are you kidding me!? LISSA! I am definitely going to see you in one or BOTH of these events. Okay, the NJ one is more realistic but THANK YOU SO MUCH! I can't believe your the first author I'll meet!!
It's a bummer people so rarely come to New Mexico. Though we do get to claim George R.R. Martin and a few others, so I guess that's something.
ReplyDeleteBut I would love to win an ARC!
I'm not anywhere close!!! Gah!! Hope you have a great time :)
ReplyDeleteVivien
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So glad you're coming to New York for the Teen Author Festival! I plan to make the most of that week ;)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the giveaway!
rivkarno1 (at) hotmail (dot) com
Monica, how exciting, love to meet you!
ReplyDeleteMost of you may know, authors don't get to pick their tour cities. I wasn't even able to hit my bff's city or my MIL's city. But I'm grateful to be touring!
I LOVE New Mexico! Would be great to tour there. Phoenix is also a great city. Never been to Tulsa, would love that. But it's really up to Random House.
Thanks for all the kind words. Look forward to meeting those of you coming to events.
Thank you for making it international :-)
ReplyDeleteWish I could go to one of these :( But this is so exciting! I need to move to NY or CA lol xD
ReplyDeleteYay for international comps! :)
ReplyDeleteWish I lived in US though, so I could come to one of your stops!
I love my international readers! I've traveled a lot, LOVED NZ. So beautiful.
ReplyDeleteCheck my site too, I also list contests there.
1. I went to one of the Breathless Reads tour stops! They were all so fantastic. It was my first YA book signing, and I absolutely loved it.
ReplyDelete2. I really, really, really love the sound of Starters. I've seen so many glowing reviews of it in the past few weeks. Would absolutely love a copy. *-*
Three of those CA stops are near me. How funny. Hopefully I can go to at least one! :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the giveaway.
Kristi S.
quailsrock23(at)yahoo(dot)com
I've died! Tahereh and Marissa in the audience?????!!!
ReplyDeleteAt times like this I sooo wish I lived in the US!! T_T
thanks for this!!! I've been dying to get a chance to read Starters :D
Hope you had FUN!!!
Next it'll be youuuuuuuuuu!!
(@alba_solorzano)
Yay, I can't wait to see you in Berkeley!!! XD
ReplyDeleteOMG awesome! So wish I could go! You guys need to come to Ottawa, Canada!
ReplyDeleteEeee! I've been dying to read Starters since your ever so wonderful Editor read aloud from it at the SCBWI conference!!! I may have to also figure out a way to get to the NY or NJ signing!
ReplyDeleteThat is so cool! Why do I live overseas? I would've loved to see you and Tahereh Mafi and Marissa Meyer (two of my favorite authors!)
ReplyDeleteAnd you're awesome for making this contest open internationally. I think that Starters ARC looks fab!
I wish I could go to the WA stop but I have to work :( I hope that you will come back to WA for another future signing.
ReplyDeleteWahooo!!! I'll see ya in Utah=) I'd love to win an ARC of Starters!
ReplyDeleteI'm bummed I won't get to meet you at a signing in Florida, but I'm still super excited to read STARTERS! Thanks :0)
ReplyDeleteThanks for opening this up Internationally!! Any tours coming to Canada (Ontario specifically?)
ReplyDeleteThank you for the amazing giveaway! <3
ReplyDeleteI'm so jealous! How I wish to come to the book signing! Maybe someday? *finger crossed :)
Ooh ive had my eye on this book for a while now and would love to get my hands on it! :p
ReplyDeleteThank you for the giveaway :)
I am so jealous and sometimes I wish I wouldn't live in Europe. These tours always sound amazing!
ReplyDeleteMeeting with my favorite authors and capcakes? I would pay a huge amount for that :)
Thank you for the giveaway and for thinking of your international readers, too :)
Thanks for the givaways. I hope you'll come to Canada in the future.
ReplyDeleteI love Canada! And have friends in Vancouver. Let's hope my publisher sends me there next year.
ReplyDeleteI will likely tour again in Jan of 2013 for the sequel.
Awww, international giveaway! Thank you so much, Lissa! Maybe this time the odds will be with me? ;D
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I have been seeing this book around and the cover and blurb are awesome. The cover is beautiful and the blurb sounds great! I would love to read this book. Thanks so much for the giveaway, and good luck on release of Starters!
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to read Starters! Also, I hope your tour can make it to Nashville sometime. :-)
ReplyDeleteOh I forgot to leave my e-mail lol kayla.s.graham at gmail dot com
ReplyDeleteThanks again :D
Twitter: @KaylaShantee
Can't wait to read Starters!! Thank you for the giveaway! :)
ReplyDeleteBriana
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I have Starters on my TBR list it sounds great! The cover gives of an interesting eerie vibe which I like. I look forward to your release!
ReplyDeleteWish you were coming to San Diego cause I see mysterious galaxy our local book store is the booth your signing at for WonderCon, maybe youll come to Comic Con in July?
Thanks for the giveaway!!
seeingnightreviews@gmail.com
I've been excited for Starters for a while now, I'd be so excited to win! Love the cover and the video so much. Creeeepy. evafortuna 0 at gmail dot com
ReplyDeleteHi all! Yes, I will do a Mysterious Galaxy signing sometime, I love that store! It might be more like May, just watch their schedule.
ReplyDeleteGood chance I will be at ComicCon in July too. :)
Thank you for the Giveaway!
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I would love to read Starters! I wish I could come to the tour! Alas, I live in England.
ReplyDeleteGFC-Kulsuma
k_anon[at]hotmail[dot]co[dot]uk
I will most likely be at the Princeton stop. Can't wait!
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How exciting!
ReplyDeleteBTW Marissa came back from dinner after you left - she was sorry she missed you! But we passed your message on.
Sad, the tour will not be stopping anywhere near me.
ReplyDeleteStarters sounds like a fabulous read!
GFC= Orchid
hauntingorchid(at)aol(dot)com
Alas, no stops near me. I wish you all safe travels while coming out to meet us (the readers)!
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Thanks, Sophia, I heard.
ReplyDeleteJessy, I hope to meet you - tell me you know me from the League.
Kulsuma, there was talk at one point about me going to England so maybe next time. I love GB!
Thanks, Sophia, I heard.
ReplyDeleteJessy, I hope to meet you - tell me you know me from the League.
Kulsuma, there was talk at one point about me going to England so maybe next time. I love GB!
LOVED this book! Hope to see you up here in Toronto in the near future!
ReplyDeleteThank you for this lovely giveaway! *w*
ReplyDeleteI also envy you because you could go to the tour.
blanshire140@gmail.com
Umm...would you by any chance be willing to visit AUSTRALIA?! Looking at all those stops is making me sooo jealous of the US fans!
ReplyDeleteBut, THANK YOU SOOO MUCH FOR THIS GIVEAWAY <3
shiirleyyx@gmail.com
I can't wait to read Starters!!! I've been hearing great things about it! Thank you so much for the giveaway, Lissa!!!
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Thanks for the awesome giveaway!!
ReplyDeleteand wow, I have never seen the other black cover for starters! very unique
- juhina
mc.jay.jay(at)hotmail(dot)com
thanks for the giveaway!! i can't wait to read the book!
ReplyDeletethere never seem to be any stops down south near me, so i'll just pretend i'm there : )
ame1184 at gmail dot com
Looks like a interesting book cant wait for it to come out
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to read for this book!
ReplyDeleteI would love to visit AUSTRALIA! I've never been. My publisher did sent Lauren Kate there, of course she's a huge bestselling author (and very nice, cool person too!). So if we build a fan base there, it could happen in the future.
ReplyDeleteIt's up to you to spread the word. ;)
Toronto, love to go also.
The dark cover is a rich dark blue. It is the German hardback. I love that it comes with an attached ribbon bookmark! For international fans, tell your friends to look for it because it will be published in over 21 countries - so many languages.
How I wish I lived in America so I could meet all these amazing authors!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the giveaway! The book sounds really good :)
Oh awesome!!! I'd love to win an ARC! So excited that you're headed to UT...I'm going to try my hardest to make it down!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the chance to win!
I've been wanting to read this book for a while now. Washington is the closest I can get to see you. Thanks for the giveaway.
ReplyDeleteAwesome! Thanks for the giveaway!
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STARTERS is one hell of a great book! Even though I've read it in eARC form, I really wanted to have a physical copy of it! I do hope I win.
ReplyDeleteTo those of you whose still thinking of reading it, check out my review here.
Thank you so much, Mr. Book Wonder, for the great review. btw, you might want to look at the faq on my site (www.lissaprice.com) as #6 was inspired by you!
ReplyDeleteOmg, so many CA stops! If I could drive, i'd be at all of them. :/ Waah!
ReplyDeleteWell, thanks so much for the giveaway!
booksoverboys at hotmail dot com
I want, I want!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for this wonderful giveaway!
fallendream03 AT gmail DOT com
Thank you again for another great giveaway Lissa :) !! I wish I live in the US so I could meet you in person .. :) !!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for making this international !! Have an awesome tour !!
Here's my email address : ninie2310@hotmail.fr
:)
Lissa! You have NO idea how often I have tried to get my hands on an ARC for STARTERS! It's become an all-out mission---one of course, that has become part-frustation-part-addiction. I don't know whether to laugh or cry. (Seriously.)
ReplyDeleteAt least, your book will be coming out soon so that I can get my pretty little hands on it (if I don't WIN this giveaway!).
Book tours sound almost as addictive as book giveaways. Unfortunately, I won't be anywhere near your stops. That said, I am extremely grateful that you are hosting this giveaway internationally! Thank you. (I'm from Canada, so I'm not THAT far.) :D
Congratulations on your book. I might just hope in being able to "rent" my own teenage body---so that I can make a faster dash to the book store for a copy.
Zara D. Garcia-Alvarez
zgarcia(dot)alvarez(at)gmail(dot)com
On Twitter: @ZaraAlexis
My blog: http://zaraalexis.wordpress.com
No stops close to me=( However this book looks amazing!
ReplyDeleteZara, and everyone, check my site www.lissaprice.com for the "contests" page. I try to list all the STARTERS ARC giveaways at various blogger sites. Or my FB page (Lissa Price Author - or see link on my site.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on being published and so jealous you got to see the Breathless read tour. I have been dying to go see it!
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I was there at Once Upon A Time, Too! It was a lot of fun. I was hoping to go to your signing at Vromans but it looks like I have a prior commitment. I'm bummed. Can't wait to read Starters, though. I'd love to do an interview with you on my blog. laurisawhitereyes at yahoo dot com
ReplyDeleteI'd love a chance to win the ARC!
ReplyDeleteThanks for making it international! <3
ReplyDeleteYou need to make some New England tour stops! I'd make sure it was sold it!
ReplyDeleteThis cover is absolutely fierce. And it would look so nice sitting open in my handsssss... just saying!
Thanks for the giveaway opportunity!
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Thank you so much for the giveaway. I really want this bad. I love the cover.
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Me me me. imogenhowson AT gmail DOT com
ReplyDeleteI'm going to buy it the minute it comes out over here in the UK anyway. :-)
I want to read this book! Pick me, pick me!
ReplyDeleteaikychien at yahoo dot com
Oh,wow international giveaway!
ReplyDeleteI've read so many great reviews about this book.
That's the kinda book signing I like to go to!
ReplyDelete- Jessica @ Book Sake
I would love some New England stops. I just go where I'm told.
ReplyDeleteI am planning on having some giveaway swag for the first questions at my stops. :)
I read the sample and would love win the ARC.
ReplyDeleteAHHH! I can't wait to read Starters! It looks fantastic, and thanks for the giveaway. :D
ReplyDeletetotally cant wait to read this book soo interesting and also thanks for a giveaway:)
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to read Starters! Thank you so much for the giveaway!
ReplyDeleteNEED to read this book now!
ReplyDeleteI'd love to win one! Thanks for the giveaway!
ReplyDeleteGFC: Kara D.
supersonic182@gmail.com
Really want to see you when your in Berkley!! I'd love to read this book and I love the cover!
ReplyDeleteThis was such a good book! I can't wait for its sequel!
ReplyDeleteEmily (Ed and Em's Reviews)
Tara at Mar 4, 7:06 pm, you are the winner! Can you email me at lissapriceauthor@gmail.com please with your mailing address? Put ARC WINNER in the subject header as I'm really crazy busy getting ready for the tour and writing book 2.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! Thank you everyone for playing. Don't worry, starting Monday, there will be a contest every day with different swag packages for STARTERS! Tuesday is the launch day - wait till you see the fun swag that day!