Welcome to Smugglivus 2011! Throughout this month, we will have daily guests – authors and bloggers alike – looking back at their favorite reads of 2011, and looking forward to events and upcoming books in 2012.
Who: Karen Healey, YA author, writer of one of our favourite 2010 books (one of Ana’s top [...]
Joint Review: The Shattering by Karen Healey
Author: Karen Healey
Genre: Speculative Fiction, Horror, Contemporary, Young Adult
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Publication date: September 5 2011
Hardcover: 320 pages
Seventeen-year-old Keri likes to plan for every possibility. She knows what to do if you break an arm, or get [...]
Happy Sunday, everyone! Before you get your Oscar Party on, we’ve got a bunch of news…
Giveaway Winner:
The lucky winner of A Lot Like Love by Julie James is…
Lindsay Elizabeth (comment #27)
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Welcome to Smugglivus 2010: Day 6
Throughout this month, we will have daily guests – authors, bloggers and publishers alike – looking back at their favorite reads of 2010, and looking forward to events and upcoming books in 2011.
Who: Karen Healey, a New Zealander living in Australia whose spirit animal is the [...]
Welcome to our latest guest post in the YAAM – 2010 edition. As part of our celebration of all things YA, we invited authors from different genres to write about the books and the genres they write.
Today’s guest is Karen Healey, author of one of our favourite 2010 books, Guardian of the Dead. [...]
Author: Karen Healey
Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy
Publisher: Little, Brown (US & UK)
Publication Date: April 2010 (US) / May 2010 (UK)
Hardcover: 352 pages
“You’re Ellie Spencer.”
I opened my mouth, just as he added, “And your eyes [...]
Today we bring you debut author extraordinaire, Karen Healey. Karen has written one darn impressive debut novel (possibly one of our joint favorite reads of 2010 so far!) with her supernatural, young adult title Guardian of the Dead. Blending M?ori and Greek mythologies, featuring a truly awesome heroine, Guardian of the Dead totally rocks. And [...]
Hi y’all!
As I recuperate myself from the sheer awesomeness that was Kick-Ass last night, we get ready for another busy week!
Giveaway winners
We have a couple of winners to announce. First, the winner of one copy of Evernight by Claudia Gray is:
[...]
Welcome to Smugglivus – Day 24!
Throughout this month, we will have daily guests – authors and bloggers alike – looking back at their favorite reads of 2009, and looking forward to events and upcoming books in 2010.
Today’s Guest: The lovely Sarah Kuhn, one of the good, hardworking folks behind the geektastic blog
For the past few months, we have been including an “On our Radar” section in our weekly stash for books that have caught our eye; books we heard of via other bloggers, directly from publishers, and/or from our regular incursions into the Amazon jungle. This is how the Smugglers’ Radar was born, and because there [...]
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