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A YA dystopian thriller/romance...





Imagine waking up in a post-apocalyptic, nightmare world--and being told your whole life is but a dream. Skye Brown thought she was your typical college student--good grades, hot boyfriend, and an internship that pays her to play videogames. But then she started having the dreams. 

In her dreams, there is no Earth. Only Terra, a bleak, underground </atom:summary><link>http://teenshiver.blogspot.com/2012/10/release-day-alternity-by-mari-mancusi.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mari Mancusi)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736273893481525412.post-8105697538986370765</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2012 22:21:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-08-09T17:21:55.167-05:00</atom:updated><title>Dante Walker Website</title><atom:summary>

Hey guys! I just wanted to invite all of you to check out Dante Walker's new website. You may have seen passwords floating around the last few days, but it's now officially open to everyone. I'd love to hear your thoughts on the site!

Site Address: www.DanteWalker.com</atom:summary><link>http://teenshiver.blogspot.com/2012/08/dante-walker-website.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Victoria Scott)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8Jl5Wv1rGa8/UCQ30NLf91I/AAAAAAAAASo/1xMXV73Sr88/s72-c/DanteWalker.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736273893481525412.post-7546026223808470175</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-08-07T05:00:07.967-05:00</atom:updated><title>ANASTASIA FOREVER Launch Day GIVEAWAY!</title><atom:summary>

Today ANASTASIA FOREVER comes into the world!
Book 3 of the DREAMING ANASTASIA series is finally here (Dreaming Anastasia, Sourcebooks 2009; Haunted, Sourcebooks 2011, Anastasia Forever, Sourcebooks 2012) and I couldn't be prouder!

I am so excited for everyone to find out the end to Anne and Ethan's story and see if they get their happily ever after. Somehow Sourcebooks allowed me to create </atom:summary><link>http://teenshiver.blogspot.com/2012/08/anastasia-forever-launch-day-giveaway.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Joy Preble)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ed-kpB705oo/UCB_VE0gV3I/AAAAAAAABFY/VJD3RNDPHaY/s72-c/9781402268755-300-1-1.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>10</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736273893481525412.post-5146598477724320805</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2012 01:33:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-07-24T20:33:34.210-05:00</atom:updated><title>Launch Day for Alex Van Helsing: The Triumph of Death!</title><atom:summary>

Launch day for the latest Alex Van Helsing adventure is here, which means not only can you find a copy, but we got a new review from Examiner!

The Triumph of Death is a mixture of action, supernatural and mystery, and was reminiscent in some parts of the winding, clue-laden plot ofThe Da Vinci Code, with plenty of vampires, of course. Plot twists abound, the last of which has been building for</atom:summary><link>http://teenshiver.blogspot.com/2012/07/launch-day-for-alex-van-helsing-triumph.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jason Henderson)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736273893481525412.post-2613481497680783452</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2012 19:47:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-07-13T14:47:27.986-05:00</atom:updated><title>Paraskevidekatriaphobia</title><atom:summary>


Say what?







Paraskevidekatriaphobia. If you thought twice about leaving the house this morning, if you changed your plans and decided not to go to the salon or get that manicure, not to go out with that hot guy you’ve been fantasizing about for weeks, then that’s what you suffer from: paraskevidekatriaphobia.  It’s one of two official names for the fear of Friday the 13th (Paraskevi and </atom:summary><link>http://teenshiver.blogspot.com/2012/07/paraskevidekatriaphobia_13.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ellie James)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736273893481525412.post-7849643304511369092</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2012 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-07-13T14:39:50.285-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Psychic</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">midnight dragonfly</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Ellie James</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Broken Illusions</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Shattered Dreams</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Griffin Teen</category><title>Paraskevidekatriaphobia</title><atom:summary>

Say what? 



Paraskevidekatriaphobia.
If you thought twice about leaving the house this morning, if you changed your
plans and decided not to go to the salon or get that manicure, not to go out
with that hot guy you’ve been fantasizing about for weeks, then that’s what you
suffer from: paraskevidekatriaphobia.  It’s one of two official names for
the fear of Friday the 13th (Paraskevi
and </atom:summary><link>http://teenshiver.blogspot.com/2012/07/paraskevidekatriaphobia.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ellie James)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736273893481525412.post-4758498335828598958</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2012 14:07:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-07-12T09:07:57.516-05:00</atom:updated><title /><atom:summary>Hi, Everyone!  Today is Cover Reveal Day for Doomed, my Armageddon YA due out on January 8, 2013. It is ridiculous how excited I am about this book, so, with no further ado, here's the cover:





And here's a blurb:



Beat the Game, Save the World.



One Stuxnet
type worm,

One
Greek-themed MMO,

One real
world scavenger hunt,

Three
teenagers on the run

And a
ten-day countdown to total </atom:summary><link>http://teenshiver.blogspot.com/2012/07/hi-everyone-is-cover-reveal-day-for.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tracy Deebs)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tJ9X_uSHF-o/T_7aKwkaYOI/AAAAAAAAAcg/G5O18r-6UvE/s72-c/doomed1.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>3</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736273893481525412.post-8004226133570358601</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 20:37:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-07-03T08:03:20.048-05:00</atom:updated><title>Scifichick: Alex Van Helsing: Triumph of Death "wild ride of action-packed adventure, mystery, and fast-paced thrills."</title><atom:summary>We got our very first blog review of Alex Van Helsing: The Triumph of Death from SciFiChick, who says:


Alex Van Helsing teams up with a new classmate (who happens to be a witch) after discovering that a vampire queen is planning an apocalypse that will turn the world dark. ...


Henderson’s imaginative characters and historic literary foundation are a springboard for a wild ride of </atom:summary><link>http://teenshiver.blogspot.com/2012/07/scifichick-alex-van-helsing-triumph-of.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jason Henderson)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736273893481525412.post-4026434662616652890</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 14:55:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-07-03T17:14:35.817-05:00</atom:updated><title>Giveaway: Monument 14</title><atom:summary>

Fourteen kids. One superstore. A million things that go wrong. 

In Emmy Laybourne’s action-packed debut novel, six high school kids (some popular, some not), two eighth graders (one a tech genius), and six little kids trapped together in a chain superstore build a refuge for themselves inside. While outside, a series of escalating disasters, beginning with a monster hailstorm and ending with a</atom:summary><link>http://teenshiver.blogspot.com/2012/06/giveaway-monument-14.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Victoria Scott)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ndDlFlqEZwk/T9YGwtMj8uI/AAAAAAAAASY/jlqZR1m1Z1o/s72-c/12753231.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>39</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736273893481525412.post-8276968916043551846</guid><pubDate>Sat, 09 Jun 2012 01:58:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-06-08T20:58:20.150-05:00</atom:updated><title>Our First Newspaper Review Calls Triumph of Death "The Best Alex Van Helsing book so far"</title><atom:summary>Hey Gang-

Today we have our first print newspaper review of Alex Van Helsing: The Triumph of Death and it ROCKS.



Book 3, Triumph of Death, opens with a dizzying, James Bond-style action piece as the plane returning Alex to school is hijacked by vampires that hack a Polidorium computer and disable the cockpit, requiring Alex to fight them in freefall without a parachute. After surviving this </atom:summary><link>http://teenshiver.blogspot.com/2012/06/our-first-newspaper-review-calls.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jason Henderson)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736273893481525412.post-409568274956338230</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 20:07:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-06-06T15:07:17.658-05:00</atom:updated><title>The Best "Fahrenheit 451 Covers" from @Slate</title><atom:summary>Slate has a great slideshow on the best covers of Fahrenheit 451, the Ray Bradbury masterpiece that has sold over 10 million copies.

Check it out.


</atom:summary><link>http://teenshiver.blogspot.com/2012/06/best-fahrenheit-451-covers-from-slate.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jason Henderson)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736273893481525412.post-5488312597776126524</guid><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 13:38:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-06-04T08:44:02.984-05:00</atom:updated><title>THE COLLECTOR Cover Reveal!</title><atom:summary>



Hey guys! I'm super excited to finally share my cover for THE COLLECTOR: A DANTE WALKER NOVEL. I'm thrilled with the way it turned out, and am so very thankful to the team at Entangled Teen. March 2013 can't come soon enough! Woot!

Here's a little blurb about the book:

He makes good girls...bad. 

Dante Walker is flippin’ awesome, and he knows it. His good looks, killer charm, and stellar </atom:summary><link>http://teenshiver.blogspot.com/2012/06/collector-cover-reveal.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Victoria Scott)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-d62GyzSBHOo/T8y7J8H9TXI/AAAAAAAAASM/-IHEXl3GaYg/s72-c/THE+COLLECTOR+Cover.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>3</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736273893481525412.post-8978617642764456209</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 01:04:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-24T20:04:49.263-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Trinity</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">midnight dragonfly</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Ellie James</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Broken Illusions</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Shattered Dreams</category><title>Extreme Research!</title><atom:summary>&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;
 
  
 
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Happy book birthday, Broken Illusions! Today, our very own Ellie James has her second book birthday in her Midnight Dragonfly series! If you're into phsycics, Mardi Gras, ghost-y type things, and more, Go grab a copy, and while you're at it, tell Ellie a well-deserved congrats! :)

Buy a copy!
</atom:summary><link>http://teenshiver.blogspot.com/2012/05/teen-shiver-book-birthday.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Lindsay Cummings author)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736273893481525412.post-4715510877193271902</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 14:40:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-07T09:40:15.344-05:00</atom:updated><title>Denim-Jacket Librarian Dishes: Ellie James Guest Post: Broken Illusions Blog Tour...</title><atom:summary>Denim-Jacket Librarian Dishes: Ellie James Guest Post: Broken Illusions Blog Tour...: Hello and welcome, everyone!  I'm pleased to welcome YA author, Ellie James, during the launch of her blog tour for Broken Illusions , the ...</atom:summary><link>http://teenshiver.blogspot.com/2012/05/denim-jacket-librarian-dishes-ellie.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ellie James)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736273893481525412.post-2659263650575910354</guid><pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 20:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-06T15:18:21.123-05:00</atom:updated><title>Gothic Masters: Mistress of Mellyn (1960)</title><atom:summary>I found myself reading the 1960 Victoria Holt potboiler MISTRESS OF MELLYN because I've been on a gothic kick recently. I've been doing research for a new project and took a side trip to explore the origins of modern gothic literature, and MELLYN is a key book.



Eleanor Hibbert, the woman behind 
Victoria Holt.

Published in 1960, the book merges major themes from Daphne Du Maurier's 1948 </atom:summary><link>http://teenshiver.blogspot.com/2012/05/gothic-masters-mistress-of-mellyn-1960.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jason Henderson)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736273893481525412.post-159754826518963413</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 22:35:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-04-24T17:35:14.089-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Dracula</category><title>What I Forgot About Dracula</title><atom:summary>Since Alex Van Helsing takes place in the universe of Dracula, students I talk to often ask about the book. I'm happy to talk to any class about Dracula-- and for now, here are some thoughts on the book!


What I Forgot About Dracula
by Jason Henderson



Dracula has been on my mind recently and I've been reading "Dracula," the Stoker novel, again.... Dracula has always been a fascinating </atom:summary><link>http://teenshiver.blogspot.com/2012/04/what-i-forgot-about-dracula.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jason Henderson)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736273893481525412.post-2147977456743741352</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:14:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-16T09:45:38.374-05:00</atom:updated><title>Giveaway: ARC of The Gathering Storm</title><atom:summary>

St. Petersburg, Russia, 1888. As she attends a whirl of glittering balls, royal debutante Katerina Alexandrovna, Duchess of Oldenburg, tries to hide a dark secret: she can raise the dead. No one knows. Not her family. Not the girls at her finishing school. Not the tsar or anyone in her aristocratic circle. Katerina considers her talent a curse, not a gift. But when she uses her special skill to</atom:summary><link>http://teenshiver.blogspot.com/2012/04/giveaway-arc-of-gathering-storm.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Victoria Scott)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UrItETIWU_M/T5cW8-Q2c5I/AAAAAAAAARU/SGRe-rsCd04/s72-c/Stom.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>27</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736273893481525412.post-3836162401744441865</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-04-24T09:00:14.064-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">ya authors</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Dreams</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Psychic</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Ellie James</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">YA Thriller</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Griffin Teen</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">TeenShiver</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Trinity</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">trailer</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">writing life</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Broken Illusions</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">young adult</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">dark YA</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Shattered Dreams</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Teen Thriller</category><title>The Power of Music</title><atom:summary>






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We at TEEN SHIVER started our little group of Texas YA authors only a few months ago. Since then, we've toured together, shared resources, encouraged one another, and enjoyed many a' frosted beverages. It's been a great experience having a local writerly family to lean on. So we were thrilled to learn that a very similar YA author group, THE EDGE, existed in the UK. With a list of impressive </atom:summary><link>http://teenshiver.blogspot.com/2012/04/sister-site.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Victoria Scott)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zQOJAK-6c3s/T5WxzxfPj5I/AAAAAAAAARM/lOXY1mQ6hMM/s72-c/Edge.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736273893481525412.post-5744236405410967466</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 01:13:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-04-23T14:48:02.382-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">ready player one</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">ernest cline</category><title>Media Life: Listen to the Ernie Cline (Ready Player One) Interview!</title><atom:summary>You have a new episode of Media Life to listen to, and boy is it a doozy.
I was privileged to spend an hour talking to Ernie Cline, author of the simply awesome 80s-philic NY Times Best Seller Ready Player One, which I reviewed when it came out:






Ready Player One is a Great American Novel.



No joke. It really is. I just finished reading Ready Player One, the debut novel from Ernest Cline, </atom:summary><link>http://teenshiver.blogspot.com/2012/04/media-life-listen-to-ernie-client-ready.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jason Henderson)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item></channel></rss>
