Posted by: harmonybookreviews on: December 3, 2009
Hey everyone. I want to apologize for posting VERY little in the past month. Things have just been so busy with school and everything else. However, I do have a few reviews to post and a new AOM to announce on Saturday. Plus, I have some exciting changes coming for the site.
The winner of the [...]
Posted by: harmonybookreviews on: November 21, 2009
I know I said I was going to be MIA this month but I just had to share my excitement tomorrow. I will be driving three plus hours to go to:
Sunday 22 November 2009, 1:00-3:00PM
A NOVEL IDEA:
A benefit for the
Philadelphia Free Library
summer reading program
Laurie Halse Anderson, Jay Asher,
T.A. Barron, Sarah Dessen,
Steven Kluger, Justine Larbalestier,
David Levithan, [...]
Posted by: harmonybookreviews on: November 3, 2009
You’re a published author! Yay! How does it feel to know that your book is finally on the shelves of bookstores, ready for a reader to pick up?
I’m feeling a whole bunch of emotions. Mostly, I’m just really excited and grateful to have this opportunity. It’s amazing to work so hard on something, to put [...]
Posted by: harmonybookreviews on: October 28, 2009
So. November is NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) and I, the crazy girl that I am, will be taking part. I’m SUPER excited. I’ve got a small start on an outline and I feel like I could start writing right NOW. But, you know, I can’t.
But, since I’m going to be writing 50,000 words in [...]
Posted by: harmonybookreviews on: October 27, 2009
“Flashback” is a new weekly feature here on the blog where authors write a guest blog on their teen years. Authors, if you’re interested, email me at harmonybookreviews[at]yahoo[dot]com.
Today, I welcome Jessica Blank, author of Karma for Beginners.
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It’s funny–I only started writing fiction about six years ago (I wanted something I could do on my own [...]
Posted by: harmonybookreviews on: October 26, 2009
Chasing Brooklyn by Lisa Schroeder. I’m a total Lisa Schroeder fan. She was the first author I interviewed on this blog and I just adore her books. But I have to say – Chasing Brooklyn is, hands-down, her best book yet. It makes her other books seem like they’re “just okay” because it is so [...]
Posted by: harmonybookreviews on: October 25, 2009
After posting the winners last time, very few emailed me with their addresses so I have to (once again) choose new winners.
The new winner of the journal from Elizabeth Scott is…DIANNA of Fictional Worlds.
The new winners of Haunted are…Emily Marshall, Lexie (of Lexile Words).
The new winner of a copy of Hush Hush is…CHELSIE (of bookluverreviews!)
Winners, [...]
Posted by: harmonybookreviews on: October 25, 2009
This month we’re giving away a signed copy of Beautiful by Amy Reed. To Enter:
+1 leave a comment on this post with your email
+1 comment on the guestblog (+2 if you already have)
+1 comment on the interview once it’s posted
+1 for Tweeting/blogging about this and leaving a link.
Deadline: October 31st
Posted by: harmonybookreviews on: October 17, 2009
Title: Beautiful
Author: Amy Reed
Rating: 9/10
Summary: (Taken fromAmazon)
When Cassie moves from the tiny town where she has always lived to a suburb of Seattle, she is determined to leave her boring, good-girl existence behind. This is Cassie’s chance to stop being invisible and become the kind of girl who’s worth noticing.
Stepping into her new identity turns [...]
As any of you who follow me on Twitter or who have talked to me much at all know, besides being a reader I’m also a blogger. I don’t like to talk about my writing too much on this blog because I write under yet another pen name. But, I felt I would get more [...]