YA Spooktacular: 2011 Master Post

YASpooktacular 2011 will be hosted by me and Wicked Awesome Books. It starts October 24 and ends on October 31! Check it out below to follow along with THREE different Choose-Your-Own-Adventure stories and lots of prizes.

You can follow all the action on twitter at  #YASpooktacular hastag and read along with three stories.

Story One posts on October 24 at midnight. You can start the beginning of the story at Pure Imagination.

Beth Revis
Lia Habel
Kate Kaynak
Shannon Delany
Ty Drago
Jen Nadol
Kim Welchons

Caroline Richmond
Christina Ferko
Zoraida Cordova

Nova Ren Suma

Since the stories are choose-your-own-adventure style, they can go in a number of different ways

Story Installment Links:

Pure Imagination - Story by Beth Revis - GIVEAWAY
Candace's Book Blog - Story by Lia Habel
Heise Reads & Recommends - Story by Kate Kaynak - GIVEAWAY
The Non-Reluctant Reader - Story by Shannon Delany - GIVEAWAY
The Reading Fever - Story by Ty Drago - GIVEAWAY

Stories To Be - Story by Ty Drago
Reading Nook - Story by Jen Nadol- GIVEAWAY 


Mrs. Readerpants - Story by Shannon Delany - GIVEAWAY 
The Story Queen - Story by Kim Welchons

Paperback Dolls - Story by Kate Kaynak - GIVEAWAY 
Books Complete Me - Story by Zoraida Cordova - GIVEAWAY  

YA Bookmark - Story by Zoraida Cordova

Young Readers - Story by Christina Ferko - GIVEAWAY  

365 Days of Reading - Story by Caroline T. Richmond - GIVEAWAY  

Ezine of a Random Girl - Story by Jen Nadol

Frenzy of Noise - Story by Nova Ren Suma - GIVEAWAY

ALL GIVEAWAYS OPEN UNTIL OCT. 31st AT MIDNIGHT

Tangled Up In Words - Story 1 Giveaway - Open until Nov. 3rd at midnight

Story One Prize Pack

• Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children book/poster 
• Quirk Books Tote Bag 
• Signed copy Swoon/Swear by Nina Malkin 
• finished copy of Fury by Elizabeth Miles
• signed copy of Cryer's Cross by Lisa McMann 
• After Obsession (ARC) by Carrie Jones 
• Liesel & Po (ARC) by Lauren Oliver 
• Envy (ARC) by Gregg Olsen 
• Deadly Cool by Gemma Halliday 
• The Mark/The Vision by Jen Nadol 
• Undertakers: Rise of Corpses by Ty Drago 
• SWAG

Story Two will post on October 26. You can start the beginning of the story at Reading Teen.

Tessa Gratton
Gretchen McNeil
Ariane Mandell
Leigh Fallon
Leanna Renee Hieber
Heidi R. Kling
Amy Garvey
Cindy Thomas
Ilsa J. Bick
Jennifer L. Armentrout
Lani Woodland

Story Installment Links:

 Reading Teen - Story by Tessa Gratton - GIVEAWAY
The Haunting of Orchid Forsythia - Story by Gretchen McNeil - GIVEAWAY
Read This Instead - Story by Ariane Mandell

Reading Angel - Story by Leigh Fallon

Mundie Moms - Story by Leigh Fallon - GIVEAWAY
Fallen Archangel - Story by Lani Woodland & Melonie Piper - GIVEAWAY
YA Bookie Monster - Story by Leanna Renee Heiber

Overflowing Shelf - Story by Gretchen McNeil - GIVEAWAY
Red House Books - Story by Heidi R. Kling - GIVEAWAY
I Like These Books - Story by Cindy Thomas - GIVEAWAY
Hooked To Books - Story by Ilsa J. Bick - GIVEAWAY

The Book Cellar - Story by Heidi R. Kling
Two Chicks On Books - Story by Amy Garvey - GIVEAWAY


Ticket to Anywhere - Story by Amy Garvey
Supernatural Snark - Story by Jennifer L. Armentrout - GIVEAWAY

ALL GIVEAWAYS OPEN UNTIL OCT. 31st AT MIDNIGHT

story 2 giveaway goes up on 10/27

Lisa Potts - Story 2 Giveaway - Open until Nov. 3rd at midnight

Story Two Prize Pack

• Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children book/poster 
• Quirk Books Tote Bag 
• Signed copy Swoon/Swear by Nina Malkin 
• finished copy of Fury by Elizabeth Miles
• signed copy of Cryer's Cross by Lisa McMann 
• After Obsession (ARC) by Carrie Jones 
• signed copy of Ashes by Ilsa Bick 
• Entice/Need/Captivate by Carrie Jones 
• signed copy of Carrier of the Mark by Leigh Fallon 
• copy of Cold Kiss by Amy Garvey
• finished copy of Darker Still by Leanna Renee Heiber 
• SWAG

Story Three will post on October 28. You can start the beginning of the story at Page Turners Blog.

Nick James

Jessica Spotswood

Scott Tracey

Patricia Osei

Jennifer Rush

Elizabeth Miles

Kimberly Derting

Kristi Cook

Victoria Schwab

Danielle Bunner

Adele Griffin

Story Installment Links:

Page Turners - Story by Nick James - GIVEAWAY
Good Books and Good Wine - Story by Jessica Spotswood - GIVEAWAY
Wicked Awesome Books - Story by Kimberly Derting - GIVEAWAY
Portrait of a Book - Story by Kristi Cook
Christi the Teen Librarian - Story by Adele Griffin - GIVEAWAY

Pirate Penguin's Reads - Story by Jessica Spotswood - GIVEAWAY
Chick Loves Lit - Story by Scott Tracey - GIVEAWAY

Ivy Reads - Story by Scott Tracey - GIVEAWAY
The Fable Faerie - Story by Jennifer Rush - GIVEAWAY

The Book Scoop - Story by Jennifer Rush - GIVEAWAY
Book Probe - Story by Patricia Riley
LaFemme Reader - Story by Elizabeth Miles - GIVEAWAY

Frenzy of Noise - Story by Elizabeth Miles

Bloggers Heart Books - Story by Kimberly Derting - GIVEAWAY
Mindful Musings - Story by Victoria Schwab - GIVEWAY

Fiktshun - Story by Victoria Schwab - GIVEAWAY
A Tale of Many Reviews - Story by Kristi Cook - GIVEAWAY

A Beautiful Madness - Story by Danielle Ellison - GIVEAWAY

ALL GIVEAWAYS OPEN UNTIL OCT. 31st AT MIDNIGHT

Christina's Books - Story 3 Giveaway - Open until Nov. 3rd at midnight

The Grand Prize giveaway will go up on October 31st both here at Wicked Awesome Books and at Frenzy of Noise.

After everything has posted, you can come back here to Frenzy of Noise or go to Wicked Awesome Books to enter the GRAND PRIZE PACKS. They will be posted on October 31 and end on November 3!

International Prize Pack:

• $25 from Book Depository/Amazon 
• Witch Eyes by Scott Tracy 
• Falling Under by Gwen Hayes
• swag

US/Canada Prize Pack:

• Beautiful Creatures shirt
• Fateful by Claudia Gray (ARC)
• Betrayal & Deception by Lee Nichols 
• Click anthology 
• The Shadowing by Adam Slater (ARC) 
• Lips Touch Three Times by Laini Taylor 
• Signed copy of Ashfall by Mike Mullen 
•  The Eleventh Plague by Jeff Hirsch 
• The Power of Six by Pitticus Lore 
• Legend by Marie Lu (ARC) 
• The Girls of No Return (ARC) by Erin Saldin 
• The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson 
• The Alchemy of Forever by Avery Williams (ARC) 
• Witch Eyes by Scott Tracy 
• A Million Suns (ARC) by Beth Revis 
• Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children + poster 
• Quirk Books tote bag
• Immortal + Betrayal by Gillian Shields 
• A Beautiful Dark (ARC) by Jocelyn Davies
• signed Charlaine Harris novel 
• Prom Nights from Hell anthology 
• Between the Sea and the Sky by Jaclyn Dolamore 
• The Mark + The Vision by Jen Nadol 
• The Vanishing Game by Kate Kae Meyers 
• Signed copy of The Pledge by Kimberly Derting 
• Signed copies of Swoon/Swear by Nina Malkin 
•  Fury by Elizabeth Miles 
• Signed copy of Cryer's Cross by Lisa McMann 
• Loads of swag!!

Many, many, many thanks to the following people for making this possible:

David--who did all the graphics! 

All the authors listed!!

All the bloggers

Sourcebooks

Bloomsbury

Scholastic

Flux Books

SimonPulse

HarperTeen

Quirk Books

Random House

BookEnds Winchester

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Candlewick

Past years:  2010

Grand Prize Giveaway for #YASpooktacular

It's been a fun week. The YA Spooktacular has been all over twitter and we thank all of you for following along, entering, and reading! It's a lot of work so it's good that people enjoy it.

Click on the banners below to start a story from the beginning! You can find a full listing of each piece of the story and all the tricks and treats along the way, go here. All story prize packs and the grand prize pack ends on November 3.

 Story 1 Prize Pack

 Story 2 Prize Pack

Story 3 Prize Pack

Now, it's time to enter the grand prize pack. There are two---one for international participants and one for US only.  And if you tweet a link to this, then you can get one more entry into the prize pack! Just leave a link to your tweet in the comments!!

US ONLY!! Giveaway ends November 3 at midnight!!

International Prize Pack!!! Giveaway ends November 3 at midnight.

Did you see the international giveaways? There's one for each story. These close on Oct 31 at midnight!

• A copy of Dick and Jane and Vampires from Red House Books.
• Your choice of: Frost, The Name of the Star, Anna Dressed in Blood or Zombies Don't Cry from The Reading Fever
• $25 egift card for Amazon from Rachel at Fiktshun

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

My story is up!!

Hey lovelies!!

So the YA Spooktacular continues! Today's the last day and story 3 has been released into the wild!

My piece is right here---http://abeautifulmadness.blogspot.com/2011/10/yaspooktacular-corn-stalker.html

And I am so excited. The formatting is a little weird, but the story was so much fun to add to. I hope you all like it. You should follow along today because there are a LOT of great prizes up for grabs.

The story starts at Page Turners Blog. And there are like, 7 optional endings. See what happens. :)

Tomorrow, the Story Three Prize Pack goes up at Escape from Reality. 

And then on Monday, come back here--because I will have the grand prize giveaway!!

#YASpooktacular Story 2 is up!!!

Check out Story 2 of the #YASpooktacular!!!

It starts at Reading Teen with Tessa Gratton. Then you can move in other directions and get more of the story from authors like:

Gretchen McNeil
Ariane Mandell
Leigh Fallon
Leanna Renee Hieber
Heidi Kling
Amy Garvey
Cindy Thomas
Ilsa Bick
Jennifer Armentrout
Isla Black
Lani Woodland

Make sure you check it out because there are also LOTS of Tricks and Treats and Prizes, ike a signed copy of Blood Magic.

YA Spooktacular: Story 1

Welcome to my stop for the second annual #YASpooktacular, which I get to co-host with my friend Nikki from Wicked Awesome Books.

This year, there are THREE stories written by some of your favorite authors that will be posted throughout the week. Each story is a choose your adventure, where you get to decide what happens to the character.

There are also some TRICKS or TREATS scattered throughout the story, where you can enter to win prizes and get bonus points toward the prize packs. The prize pack for this story (#1!) will be up tomorrow! On Halloween day, the grand prize pack will be posted. You can click the banner above to see a full list of the YASpooktacular prize packs--all the bloggers, authors and goodies that you can win.

 I really hope you enjoy this piece, written by the fantastic Nova Ren Suma!

 Nova Ren Suma has an MFA in fiction from Columbia University and a BA in writing & photography from Antioch College. 
She has published short stories for adults in literary journals including Gulf Coast, LIT, Small Spiral Notebook, and more, and is the author of the middle-grade novel Dani Noir. Imaginary Girls, which marks her YA debut, garnered four starred reviews, including Kirkus and Publishers Weekly, and praise from The Los Angeles Times. 

Nova grew up in small towns across the Hudson Valley and can currently be found in New York City and online. She is at work on a new YA novel. 

You can find Nova on Twitter, on her blog, on Goodreads and you can order her books here.

To start the story from the beginning, click on this image!

Laura blinked, and a drop of blood dangled from her eyelashes, streaking her vision in red. As it landed on her cheek, dribbling down to the corner of her mouth so she could taste it, she turned to Raven.

Raven sensed the question on her tongue and was ready to tell her about her mother if she asked. How her mother had been a part of this, too. How even when you escape, you’re drawn back—as Laura was. As she always would be.

But Laura didn’t want to hear it. Everyone was trying to fool her, and use her, and make her do horrible things she didn’t know she had in her. Now she did one last horrible thing, and after—after she took care of Raven—she dropped the sword. When it hit ground, she saw it wasn’t a sword at all but a sharp, ragged piece of metal, mangled and bent as if rescued from a car wreck. Raven himself was a man, a dead one, as was Brian, who’d unknowingly brought her here.

Only, Brian wasn’t dead, not just yet. His mouth let out a faint, keening whimper. Then a gurgle that sounded a lot like her name.

As she crouched over him, trying to separate what was real and what wasn’t, she heard a clumsy rustling in the woods. It was coming through the trees, in the distance, near the more civilized section of the park. The part of the park where most people stayed, because they—without knowing why—were afraid to go any farther into the forest.

They should be afraid.

The noise became louder as the two got close. A girl and a boy, so careless the way they laughed, so stupid the way they crunched loudly through the leaves. Laura knew they’d step through the trees any moment now. Then they’d be hers.

* * *

Marly felt Alex take her hand and her heart leaped from his touch. She heard herself giggle at something stupid he said, she couldn’t help it. She needed to remember that he hadn’t held her hand when they were in the main part of the park, where other people could see. He made sure never to touch her at school, never ever in front of his friends. He’d deny they were together to the grave.

But weren’t they? Together?

Because now that they’d found their way off the path and into this forest thick with trees and away from any people, he was all over her.

The night seemed heavier outside the reach of their flashlights. His light was brighter than hers; hers was only a pinprick of faint light from the little blue flashlight that hung off her ring of keys. What Marly wanted was to tell Alex how she felt about him. To tell him and make him tell her back. But now, just the two of them, she couldn’t find the words. Besides, she was noticing how the trees had grown more spindly the deeper they’d gone into the forest, how the leaves had fallen as if it were winter already, though it wasn’t.

How it was too quiet. The sky too dark overhead.

And there was a smell in the air now. Something wet. Something rotting.

She stopped short, and his hand dropped from hers. When their feet ceased shuffling through the leaves, when they were utterly quiet for the first time since entering this part of the woods, that’s when they heard it.

“Is that . . . somebody . . . crying?” Alex asked. He gripped her shoulder now in the dark, like he’d throw her in front of him, using her as a human shield if he had reason to.

Marly thought it sounded more like whimpering than crying, but it was too dark to see, and the weak beam of her flashlight couldn’t find where the noises were coming from.

Alex’s flashlight beam jittered and jumped, betraying his nerves. It circled, showing skeletal tree branches and her sneakers and more tree branches and now the night sky itself, the stars, and then the ground again. He couldn’t find where the sound was coming from either.

“Hello?” he called. “Who’s out there?”

“Shh,” she said, trying to get him to be quiet. “Listen.”

A gurgling, choking sound came from the darkness, down at level with the ground.

Alex’s light flashed on a pool of red. And the next thing she knew he was running—abandoning her, and taking his light with him.

With her little flashlight, barely bright enough to illuminate her own arm, she found the shallow pond at her feet, the water glistening with movement. Her sneakers were wet, she realized, because she was standing in it.

“It’s just a pond!” she called back to Alex. “A pond with goldfish in it,” she said that last part in a lower voice, and only to herself, because Alex was long gone. What was a goldfish pond doing in the middle of the forest?

What Marly didn’t know—because she couldn’t see the bodies in the dark, because she couldn’t see the blood, because she didn’t know Laura Lester was out there, the new Laura Lester, the Laura of the forest who now could never leave—was that she should have followed Alex.

She should have run.

She shouldn’t have made it so easy for someone to push her in.

THE END 

If you're brave enough, you should start again from the beginning. 

And tomorrow, you can enter the Story One Prize Pack by going to Tangled Up in Words
 

Complete this TRICK to win:

-ARC of Embrace by Jessica Shirvington

-finished copy of Fury by Elizabeth Miles

-SIGNED copy of Cryer's Cross by Lisa McMann

-1 extra entry into the Story 1 prize pack 

YA Spooktacular Starts Monday! Spread the word AND WIN!

So there's this HUGE event happening on October 24. You may have heard it.

Can I just tell you HOW AWESOME all this is going to be? Because it's going to be wicked awesome. So awesome that I'm hosting the event with Nikki at Wicked Awesome Books.


This is a labor of love for me and I'm pumped that's it here! This year we have THREE Choose-Your-Own-Adventure stories, with a prize pack for each one that posts the day after the story. Three stories, LOTS of prizes and some of your favorite authors participating. You can click here to see the full run-down of the authors, the bloggers and even some of the prizes. You won't want to miss it!

Story One starts on October 24 at Pure Imagination.

Story 1 Authors:

Beth Revis
Lia Habel
Kate Kaynak
Shannon Delany
Ty Drago
Jen Nadol
Kim Welchons

Caroline Richmond
Christina Ferko
Zoraida Cordova

Nova Ren Suma

Story Two starts on October 26 at Reading Teen.

Story 2 Authors:

Tessa Gratton
Gretchen McNeil
Ariane Mandell
Leigh Fallon
Leanna Renee Hieber
Heidi R. Kling
Amy Garvey
Cindy Thomas
Ilsa J. Bick
Jennifer L. Armentrout
Lani Woodland

Story Three starts on October 28 at Page Turners Blog.

Nick James

Jessica Spotswood

Scott Tracey

Patricia Osei

Jennifer Rush

Elizabeth Miles

Kimberly Derting

Kristi Cook

Victoria Schwab

Danielle Bunner

Adele Griffin

Now, you can help us spread the word--and win!!

Tweet! Use the #YASpooktacular hash tag on twitter. We'll be there all week!

Or post something on your blog/faceboook. Feel free to grab our YA Spooktacular button, header, or write another post telling all your followers about the event. The more people that know about it, the better!

If you leave a comment on this post or the one at Wicked Awesome Books with a link to where you posted/tweeted/etc about the #YASpooktacular, then you can be entered to win a mini-prize pack before the event even starts! It runs from now until Sunday, October 23 at 10pm.

• ARC of In Darkness by Nick Lake
• ARC of The Radleys by Matt Haig
• ARC of Enthralled anthology
• ARC of Going Underground by Susan Vaught
• ARC of A Long, Long Sleep by Anna Sheehan
• Welcome To Bordertown anthology
• ARC of The Unwanteds by Lisa McMann
• Generation Dead & Kiss of Life by Daniel Waters

Happy Tweeting! Get ready for the #YASpooktacular!

Call to Bloggers for the YA Spooktacular 2011

Last year the YA Spooktacular took over the blogosphere with over 100 people involved to bring it to fruition.

And I'm SO EXCITED to host it again this year with Nikki from Wicked Awesome Books.

We're still pulling it all together, but there are already several incredible authors on board--as well as some of the best bloggers I know. 

But we need you now! We're still looking to fill a handful of spots for blog hosts.

What would this require?

You'd host an part of a story, a giveaway, a little challenge, or maybe a combination of any of those. There is no requirement for number of followers, we just ask that you blog regularly, are a YA book blog, and would be able to post on time on your selected date (between October 24-31). If you're interested, please fill out the form below and we will be getting back to our selected bloggers by the end of the month.

ALSO, we need some people to make graphics. If you're interested in doing that--please email us with "Graphics" in the subject line. The email is: YASpooktacular (at) frenzyofnoise (dot) net. Include a couple design samples or a link to some of your design samples. 

Thanks lovelies!! Nikki and I are looking forward to seeing who else will be a part of 2011 YA Spooktacular!

YAspooktacular Winners!!!

Thanks to everyone who was part of the YAspooktacular! It was SO much fun and we hope you enjoyed it. Come back again next year because are definitely doing it again.

Anyway, here are the winners!! If your name is here, make sure you email us your address so we can send you the prize! :) We've already emailed you.

Vladimir Tote Bag and ARC Through Her Eyes by Jennifer Archer---Julie Daly

Imogen Rose Prize Pack--Jane

Teeth: A Vampire Anthology--Chelsey

Intrisical by Lani Woodland and Deception by Lee Nichols--Day

The Mark, ARC of Dreams of the Dead, ARC of Gothic! and Spooky Swag--Jennelle S (sablelexi)

Signed copy of The Dark Divine--Katiefogle07

The Daughters Break the Rules: Lauren M

Afterlife---Lesley 

PRIZE PACK 1: Katie Tilton

PRIZE PACK 2: Lauren M   

TRICK 5: Cover collages (We drew two names from everyone who got all the titles correct and both are receiving a surprise book.)  Jennelle S (sablelexi)  and Emily aka WilowRaven 

Paperbackdolls (necklace)  ReadingTeen (Kiss Me Deadly) & GoodBooksandGoodWine (Nightshade ARC)  also hosted their own treats and provided the prizes. I don't have the winners for those so I'm sure they will contact you if you won!

YA Spooktacular 2010

The YAspooktacular 2010 is over but it was so much fun! Thanks to everyone who participated. We look forward to next year. You can read the stories in full just by clicking on the titles. 

Read Darkness
featuring writing by:
Heather Brewer
Kimberly Derting
Courtney Allison Moulton
Chad Kallauner
Jennifer Archer
Ariane Mandell
Kevin James Breaux
Lani Woodland
Christina Ferko
Amanda Hocking
Danielle Bunner
Christine Johnson

Read A Soul Laid Bare
featuring writing by:
Moni Enderli
Bree Despain
Jen Nadol
Danielle Tauscher
Jordan Deen
Myra McEntire
Samantha Rowam
Saundra Mitchell
Kelsey Dickson
Heidi R. Kling
Amber Skye
Jennifer Murgia
Lee Nichols


Check out THE COMPETITION
A tie-in story by Anastasia Hopcus

YAspooktacular Prize Packs

That was a ton of fun! Thanks so much for being part of the first ever YAspooktacular. We look forward to next year! And what about those stories?!? I hope you enjoyed them as much as we did.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, then you need to catch up. Go read the stories! The buttons are to the right or you can click here for story 1: Darkness and here for story 2: A Soul Laid Bare.

Below you will find the entry forms to the grand prize packs for each story--and the one combined pack for all International people! Before you fill it out, double check this list and make sure you did everything you need to so you can enter.

1. Did you comment on every piece of the story? There are 13. If there's not a comment on each piece and your name is chosen by random, then you won't win. That will be sad. So, you should go check and see. A complete list of all the blogs can be found here.

2. The final TRICK. You won't want to miss this one. Really. Click the picture and then come back here to fill out your form! 

See? That was fun. Thanks to that person in that trick for taking on that linking challenge!

Here are the forms. Find the one that corresponds with the story you read and fill it out. If you did both, you'll have to do both forms. If you are international, yours is all the way at the bottom.

 DARKNESS pack includes:

*ARC of Nightshade by Andrea Cremer

*Thirsty by M.T. Anderson
*ARC of Karma Bites by Stacy Kramer & Valerie Thomas
*The Robe of Skulls by Vivian French
*Vampireology
*Prom Nights From Hell (anthology)
*ARC of The Poison Bible 

*Swag 

 

 A SOUL LAID BARE pack includes: 

*The Dark Ground (book 1) by Gillian Cross

*ARC of Dead Beautiful by Yvonne Woon

*Blue Bloods by Melissa De La Cruz

*ARC of Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness

*The Saga of Larten Crepsley

*Vampire Crush 

*A SURPRISE BOOK

*Swag (see above for example)

 *$15 Gift Card to The Book Depository! (courtesy of Greyz)

The last thing is a survey. It's anonymous and optional but your feedback would be helpful. You can click here if you want to fill it out.

Thanks for participating! Winners for all ToTs and the grand prize packs will be announced by Nov. 6 via email and a blog post. This contest officially closes on October 31 at 11pm EST.

Until then, spread the word and, take a second to let me know what you liked most!

YAspooktacular story 1: DARKNESS, part 1

Welcome to the first ever YA Spooktacular event!! This is going to be a crazy-awesome adventure. I'm the lucky beginning of story 1: Darkness. 

Before we get started with the story, you should know that on October 29th, the grand prize packs will up for grabs! We have two of them--one for each story--and one for internationals. To enter them you must comment on every post in the story you are reading. We will be checking! When that day comes, you'll have to fill out an entry form here on my blog or on this one. You may enter for both Prize Packs by reading both stories! You can win extra entries and extra prizes along the way by clicking on the TRICK or TREAT buttons that you see. All of the ToTs are optional but a great chance to win more prizes and entries! For all the rules, the full rundown click HERE.

If you don't know how this whole event works, here's the gist. We've compiled some great authors (known and aspiring) to write a spooky story. One author starts by writing 200-800 words, and then another adds. On and on until it ends. (Only, times it by two since there are two stories!) Basically...it's 7 days, 2 stories and more prizes than you can count! It all starts now. Part one of this story was written by the amazing Heather Brewer.

by Heather Brewer

The sun had never appealed to Jeremy Grainger. No, he was made of darker things. Things that glared with pure disgust at the slight golden hint of morning. Things that growled at passersby. Things that balked at the very idea of the light. Jeremy was made of darkness.

There are things in this world that people—humans, mostly—take for granted. They believe that the sun rises and sets every day, that up is up and down is down, and that they are the only intelligent life on earth.

They’re wrong on all counts.

At least where Jeremy is concerned.

He stepped from the edge of the building, wind brushing back his hair as he fell, but no fear gripped him, no terror. His feet hit the ground softly, as if they were made of the shadows upon which they now stood. It wasn’t a long way to the cemetery, but he had to get going, had to move through the darkness, be one with it, before the sunrise came and ruined everything.

With soft steps, he wound his way through the city streets, his thoughts never far from his goal. The girl. The headstone. The end of all light.

It wouldn’t be long now.

Catch the next part of the story over at http://readingorbreathing.blogspot.com/

Remember those Trick or Treats I mentioned? You can enter a win a treat now just by clicking the button below. What's the treat....?

A Vladimir Todd tote bag, an ARC of Ghost Town by Rachel Caine and an ARC of Through Her Eyes by Jennifer Archer! Just click the happy pumpkin to enter!

Don't forget to check out the other story!



Happy Halloween! 

 Enjoy the YA Spooktacular.

Follow all the action on Twitter at #YAspooktacular

YA Spooktacular starts Friday!

Yay! Yay! Yay! The first annual (hopefully) YA Spooktacular: Tales From Under the Grave starts this Friday. We are so excited. It's time to share some of the information with you.

What is the YA Spooktacular? Stories! We have compiled TWO spooky YA stories by some of your favorite authors, debut authors and aspiring writers. You will get to trick-or-treat to other blogs and follow the story of your choice--or even both stories! At the end of the stories, you will have a chance to enter to win a grand prize pack! (We will even have a Book Depository gift card for international participants to win!)

Beware. Some of the blogs may contain a "Trick" or "Treat" along the way. These ToTs will give you the chance to win extra entries into the grand prize giveaway and some more great prizes! Some of them will require nothing and some may cost.....your soul! muahhahahaha.

Ok. Not really. But the tricks are tricky! It's going to be a blast.  

The rules are pretty simple:  

• You must comment on EVERY post in a story to be eligible to win the grand prize pack. 
• You MAY enter for both stories.
• The forms are a must to be entered.
• Winners will be selected at random.

We're so pumped about this event. We hope that you are too! Follow the hashtag on Twitter #YAspooktacular to get teasers that lead up to the story premiere on Friday, October 22. The last piece of the stories will be posted on the 28th. The prize packs will go up on the 29th and the contest closes on the 31st. Basically, clear your calendar. 

This is the list of bloggers that are hosting the story for us! You can follow them to make sure you are ready for the story

http://www.frenzyofnoise.blogspot.com 

http://readingorbreathing.blogspot.com

http://agoodaddiction.blogspot.com

  http://booklabyrinth.blogspot.com

http://onceuponareview.blogspot.com 

  http://papaerbackdolls.blogspot.com

http://www.ataleofmanyreviews.blogspot.com

http://courtneyreads.blogspot.com

http://booksandmakeup.blogspot.com

http://www.tickettoanywhere.net

http://yaaddict.blogspot.com

http://mundiemoms.blogspot.com

http://www.goodbooksandgoodwine.com

http://www.pageturnersblog.com
http://www.fallenarchangel.com
http://yabreviewed.blogspot.com
http://virginsheets.blogspot.com
http://yabookiemonster.blogspot.com
http://cladestinesanctuary.blogspot.com
http://thesecretlifeofabibliophile.blogspot.com
http://goddessofthelibrary.blogspot.com
http://thebookscoop.com
http://overflowingshelf.blogspot.com
http://christinasbooks.blogspot.com
http://www.readingteen.net
http://abookadventure.blogspot.com