And Collegiate Bookworm (who made the awesome widgets in my last post), made a trailer that is so cute!
If you read either of the books and post a review on amazon, or tweet about it, or post on goodreads or your blog, or make a trailer or ANYTHING, please let me know by commenting on this post or emailing me at laurenbarnholdtsummer (at) gmail.com because you could win an ipad. Details at laurenbarnholdtsummer.com
Also I’m going to be giving away tons of stuff on twitter this week, so come follow me at @laurenbarnholdt
I cannot believe the books are out in the world! I’m so excited to finally be able to share them with you, and I really hope you love reading them.
And now I am getting back to writing, because in the midst of all this release craziness, I have a book due. (And I think it might have finally gotten a title!)
Only one week until ONE NIGHT THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING and WATCH ME come out! Eeek!!!!
Collegiate Bookworm made these awesome widgets, and she gave me permission to post them here. Post them on your blog and leave me a comment to be entered to win an iPad and a bunch of other cool stuff.
Luckily I have been keeping my mind occupied from OMGONEWEEKUNTILMYBOOKSCOMEOUT freak out by finishing up my new YA book. I am going to be finished with it today! I only have one and a half more scenes, and then I’m going to give it a comb through and tighten, then send it off to Editor Jen (some people call her The Klonsky.)
Also we’ve been sort of halfway kind of condo hunting. We had our realtor show us a couple, and then on Sunday we went to a few open houses. I know you’re not supposed to buy the first one you see, but how many should you look at before you buy something? And what if you just really like the first one you see? And you miss out! LIke this article I read that said if you don’t put in an offer and someone else snatches up the condo you want, it wasn’t just “not meant to be,” it means that you were slow and lazy. Hmmm…
I have been busy writing, and so I haven’t blogged in a while. I have a book due, like, NOW, and I am so close to finishing it that I’ve been immersed in writing, writing, writing.
I’ve been writing so much that June just flew by! And now, ONE NIGHT THAT CHANGES EVERTHING and WATCH ME will be out in two weeks. Two. Weeks. Fourteen days. Seven hundred and eight minutes. Forty six thousand, eight hundred seconds.
(FYI, I had to use my calculator to do that. It’s so easy on your Mac dashboard! Although somehow I have a picture of the High School Musical cast on there that I can’t get off, hmmm..)
Anyway! To celebrate my three releases this summer – ONE NIGHT THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING, WATCH ME, and ACES UP, I’m having a huge summer contest!
AND I’M GIVING AWAY AN IPAD!!! If you help get the word out about any or all of the books and post to your blog, facebook, or twitter, email me at laurenbarnholdtsummer (at) gmail (dot) (com) or leave a comment on this post, linking to whatever you’ve done. There are also more prizes to give away, including copies of my books, a Best Buy gift card, and more! You can find all the details (and read a sneak peek of all the books) here – www.laurenbarnholdtsummer.com
Also, on twitter, I’m giving away gift cards almost every single day! You can follow me there at @laurenbarnholdt
And now I have to get back to work on the book with no name. Because it really doesn’t have a name yet. But it will be out next summer. As long as it finds a name. And as long as, you know, I finish it.
We have no water because of the big water pipe break! Actually, we do have water, we just can’t drink it unless we boil it first.
We’re kind of lucky that we didn’t die or anything, because we didn’t find out about the bad water until hours after it started. The Boy’s friend sent us this really ominous text that just said “don’t drink ur tap water.” Yikes! Luckily we hadn’t had any tap water in the past few hours. But we totally could have. (I’m exaggerating, obvi, about the dying – they don’t even really know if the water is contaminated, but it could be. I guess the water we have now is kind of like lake water.)
Anyway, at least we had our new TV to cheer us up, even though The Boy almost broke it when it fell over in the back of the van he rented to transport it home. (The place we bought it from has free set-up and delivery, but we just HAD to have it before the fight on Saturday night. And by we, I mean he, so he rented a van and brought it home. And then had trouble setting it up, so I had to take over.)
Plus this weekend I got to see HAILEY TWITCH in the bookstore!!
Yay!
The book is officially out, and should be on shelves everywhere!
So to celebrate, I’m having a contest. The first twenty people to paste the below code into their blog will win a surprise book of my choice. (It could be Hailey, or it could be something else. It might be one of mine, it might not. Yay for surprises!) When you’ve pasted the code below into your blog, send an email to Lauren (at) laurenbarnholdt (dot) (com) and link to the post. The rules: You have to have had your blog for at least three months, and update it on a regular basis. And I’ll only ship to the US.
I’m not sure how much response I’ll get, but if you don’t hear from me, it means you weren’t one of the first twenty. And if you do, then yay for you!
Here’s what will appear on your blog once you paste in the code:
Seven-year-old Hailey Twitch knows three things for sure: who she’s the boss of, how to throw a tantrum, and above all, how to get exactly what she wants. But all that changes when Hailey gets paired up with annoying Addie Jokobeck on the class project. No matter what Hailey does, she can’t seem to change her teacher’s mind.
At home, a cranky Hailey is feeling sorry for herself when – poof! — Maybelle, a magic sprite, comes flying out of Hailey’s dollhouse. Maybelle’s on probation with the Department of Magic, and on a special mission to get Hailey to have fun.
The only problem? The invisible Maybelle starts causing a lot of trouble, and when Hailey’s teacher wants to know who’s to blame, Hailey takes responsibility. After all, Hailey Twitch is not a snitch! Now if only Hailey can convince the Department of Magic that Maybelle has reformed…
You can buy Hailey Twitch from amazon by clicking here, and find out how to win a free book from Lauren by clicking here!
So to enter, paste the code below into your blog, then email me! Good luck!
So I blogged here about the new cover of ACES UP, and I blogged here about the new cover of WATCH ME, and now it’s time for the new cover of ONE NIGHT THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING!
First, here’s what the book is about:
Four dares – Two secrets – One night
Eliza is in a full-blown panic. Her notebook has been stolen—the one that lists everything she wants but is afraid to go after. And the absolute worst person in the world has it: her ex-boyfriend, Cooper.
Like it’s not enough Cooper was lying to Eliza for their entire relationship, now he and his friends are blackmailing her. They’re giving her just one night to complete the most humiliating tasks on her list or they’ll post her secrets online—including the ones that aren’t just about her.
Eliza’s sure of only one thing: she isn’t going down without a fight. Cooper may have what’s left of her dignity, but she’s not the only one with something to hide …
And here was the original cover:
I have to admit that I literally gasped when I saw this cover. I loved it. It was my favorite cover of all of my books, EVER. It’s just really striking, and I loved the colors and the image.
But when the fab team at S&S went to sell the book to bookstores, there was some concern that the book looks like something BAD happens in it. And I do have to admit that the first itme I saw it (after I gasped), I did think, ‘hmm, does it look like something BAD happens in this book?’
I mean, there ARE bad things that happen in the book, — poor Eliza is getting blackmailed by her ex-boyfriend — but there is nothing BAD that happens. It’s not a dark book. It has the same kind of fun, light voice that all my books have.
So I definitely saw their point, and even though I loved this cover, I agreed that it needed to be changed.
I waited and waited for S&S to come up with something else. I trust them completely, so I wasn’t too worried, but I did wonder if I would love the new cover as much as I loved the first.
And here’s what they came up with:
And this will be the new cover!
I LOVE IT. I love that they kept the elements I liked most about the first cover – the city lights, the night scene, the colors of the title – but made the image fit the book a more, so that it looks fun and more dynamic. Like I said, I loved the first cover, but I think this one represents the book accurately, and will attract the right kind of audience.
It’s my new fave cover ever, and I cannot wait for the book to come out on July 6th!
Also, I’m planning a huge contest next week to celebrate the release of HAILEY TWITCH IS NOT A SNITCH, along with posting some events I’ll be doing for the book, so I hope you’ll check back!
I will probably also be blogging over the weekend about our new TV, which we kind of sort of bought on a whim, and which we are picking up today in a truck that The Boy rented. It could definitely be a disaster…
