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July 20th, 2009
Blog award, congrats and happy Monday!
What a fun weekend! First things first… if you haven’t checked out the update to Tina Ferraro’s great Author Spotlight interview on Friday, be sure to do that. Many of you guessed her lie correctly, giving you a bonus entry into the monthly contest! Second, HUGE CONGRATS (!!!) to the awesome ladies who won the RITA and Golden Heart awards this weekend at the annual RWA National Conference. You make YA look gooood! Monster congrats go to: – Tera Lynn Childs for winning the Best First Book RITA for Oh. My. Gods. – Rosemary Clement-Moore for winning the Best Young Adult Romance RITA for Hell Week – Shoshana Dawn Brown for winning the Best Young Adult Romance Golden Heart for Stage Fright What an exciting night! Tera sat next to me when I won the Best Young Adult Romance Golden Heart award last year, so I was very sad not to be able to be in D.C. this year cheering her on. Tera and I texted back and forth during the ceremony though, so it was wonderful to *be* there with her in spirit. Ah, technology. I also want to give a shout-out to Sheila over at the fab BookJourney blog. She gave me my very first blog award! (Thanks, Sheila!!!)
So now it’s my turn to pay it forward. (I know! I would love this award for that reason alone.) 1. My family And now I get to nominate 7 bloggers for the Kreativ Blogger award! I thought it would be fun to nominate some authors who are also awesome bloggers. I hereby nominate: 1. Becca Fitzpatrick Happy Monday!!
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Project FMGM proposalCOMPLETE! 
A 16 year old outsider gets tapped to join a secret society of good populars dedicated to defeating the mean girls of the world.
On shelves now! IndieBound   I’m the author of teen fiction that I wish was based on my real life. My debut novel    
 #1 – GOOD GRIEF by Lolly Winston #2 – THE HUNGER GAMES by Suzanne Collins #3 – CATCHING FIRE by Suzanne Collins #4 – THE NAUGHTY LIST by Suzanne Young #5 – THE MAGICIAN’S ELEPHANT by Kate DiCamillo #6 – WINGS by Aprilynne Pike #7 – EIGHTH GRADE SUPERZERO by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich #8 – THE MIRACULOUS JOURNEY OF EDWARD TULANE by Kate DiCamillo #9 – HOW TO TRAIN A DRAGON by Cressida Cowell #10 – THE SEASON by Sarah MacLean #11 – THE SEVEN RAYS by Jessica Bendinger #12 – WHISPER by Phoebe Kitanidis #13 – SHADOW HILLS by Anastasia Hopcus #14 – NIGHTSHADE by Andrea Cremer #15 – MOLLY MOON’S INCREDIBLE BOOK OF HYPNOTISM by Georgia Byng #16 – GRACELING by Kristin Cashore (This is a second reading which is super rare for me. One of my all-time faves!) #17 – FIRE by Kristin Cashore #18 – THE REPLACEMENT by Brenna Yovanoff #19 – HEIST SOCIETY by Ally Carter #20 – NEED by Carrie Jones #21 – BRIGHTLY WOVEN by Alexandra Bracken #22 – CAPTIVATE by Carrie Jones #23 – PROPHECY OF DAYS by Christy Raedeke #24 – THIS WORLD WE LIVE IN by Susan Beth Pfeffer #25 – THE LOST SYMBOL by Dan Brown #26 – PLAIN KATE by Erin Bow #27 – THE OVERTON WINDOW – by Glenn Beck #28 – THE THIEF by Megan Whalen Turner #29 – PARANORMALCY by Kiersten White #30 – THE DUFF by Kody Keplinger #31 – MOCKINGJAY by Suzanne Collins #32 – ONLY THE GOOD SPY YOUNG by Ally Carter #33 – THE LONELY HEARTS CLUB by Elizabeth Eulberg |
I’m supposed to list 7 of my favorite things and then nominate 7 other bloggers for the award.
I love romantic comedies, too!
Congrats Tera, Rosemary and Shoshana!
Congratulations on your first award! It couldn’t have been a better one either – I’m sure everyone can agree that thinking up the Teen Author Challenge was brilliant!
Yay! You got an award!
I love your blog. I can’t wait to read your next event!
Books that can evoke such different emotions like laughing and crying are always great.
So are romcoms. Congratulations on your award!
Congrats on your first award
Aw, thanks Kay! That’s so nice of you to pass on the love!
Congrats! Awards are always so fun
-Briana
Hi
Thank you for sharing a fun witty blog post.
Also thanks for the recommendations for the other blogs!
Love from Canada
twitter.com/RKCharron
xoxo
And I will give you another award!
http://www.bookworminginthe21stcentury.com/2009/07/i-forgot-award.html
Awww… thanks so much for the cheers, you guys.
You’re all so nice!!!
Like you, I love books that make me laugh and cry! Three that had that effect this year: The Actor and the Housewife by Shannon Hale, When You Reach Me by Rebecca Steadman and Fire by Kristin Cashore.