ORANGE COUNTY CHILDREN'S BOOK FEST 9.30.12 @kidsbookfest #OCCBF

PLEASE JOIN ME TOMORROW!  

I will be on the Bloggers Panel.

2012 Teen & YA Stage

Orange County Children’s Book Festival

9:45am Panel: "On The PRE End of Teen"

Moderator: Derek the Ghost - Scary School Series

Shelley Moore Thomas - The Seven Tales of Trinket

Benny Alano - Hand Puppet Horror

Russ & Nancy Rodrigue - Hidden Mickey

10:15am EJ Altbacker - Shark Wars Series

10:30am Greg van Eekhout - The Boy At The End Of The World

10:45am Gitty Daneshvari - Monster High: Ghoulfriends Forever

This is a BRAND NEW Monster High Series, introducing 3 new characters!

11:00am Panel: "Suspense, Alternate Worlds and a Teen Wolf?"

Moderator: Nancy Holder - Teen Wolf Series

Lissa Price - Starters

Gretchen McNeil - Ten

Jessica Therrien - Oppression

11:30am Sarah Maas - Throne of Glass

11:45am Lisa Desrochers - Last Rites

Noon Panel: "School, Love & Honor!"

Moderator:  Jessi Kirby - In Honor

Jessica Brody - 52 Reasons To Hate My Father

Carol Tanzman - Circle of Silence

Janet Tashjian - For What It's Worth

Max Doty - Surviving High School

1:00pm Panel:  "Will Work For Books"

Local Teen & YA Book Review Bloggers

Moderator: Ishita The Reading Fish - http://omgitsfishy.blogspot.com/
Zareen - Reach for the Stars...and the Books! - http://reachforthebooks.blogspot.com/

Ashlyn - Teenage Reader - http://teenagereader.com/
Mary - BookHounds Young Adult - http://foreveryoungadult.blogspot.com/

1:30pm Jennifer Bosworth - Struck

1:45pm Andrew Smith - Passenger (Marbury Lens)

2:00pm Panel: eBooks - Keeping It Interactive!

Teen & YA Authors from Coliloquy Publishing

Moderator: Heidi R. Kling - Witches Brew

From - The Spellspinners of Melas County Series

Kira Snyder - Parish Mail

Jessica Ettling - Georgetown Academy

3:00pm A Very Steampunk High Tea & Book Signing

You are invited to a Tea Party with Steampunk Authors

Your hostess: Suzanne Lazear - Innocent Darkness

Nancy & Belle Holder - Furry Fantastic

Kailin Gow - Steampunk Scarlet series

GIVEAWAY: *signed* Beautiful Chaos by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl (OC BOOK FEST)

Description

Ethan Wate thought he was getting used to the strange, impossible events happening in Gatlin, his small Southern town. But now that Ethan and Lena have returned home, strange and impossible have taken on new meanings. Swarms of locusts, record-breaking heat, and devastating storms ravage Gatlin as Ethan and Lena struggle to understand the impact of Lena's Claiming. Even Lena's family of powerful Supernaturals is affected - and their abilities begin to dangerously misfire. As time passes, one question becomes clear: What - or who - will need to be sacrificed to save Gatlin?

For Ethan, the chaos is a frightening but welcome distraction. He's being haunted in his dreams again, but this time it isn't by Lena - and whatever is haunting him is following him out of his dreams and into his everyday life. Even worse, Ethan is gradually losing pieces of himself - forgetting names, phone numbers, even memories. He doesn't know why, and most days he's too afraid to ask.

Sometimes there isn't just one answer or one choice. Sometimes there's no going back. And this time there won't be a happy ending.

About the Author

Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl live in Los Angeles, California, with their families. Beautiful Chaos is the third book in the Beautiful Creatures series, following Beautiful Creatures and Beautiful Darkness.

Details

• Reading level: Young Adult
• Hardcover: 528 pages
• Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (October 18, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0316123528
• ISBN-13: 978-0316123525

I had the pleasure of seeing Kami Garcia and listen to her read from her latest book at the Orange Country Children's Book Festival yesterday!  I have a copy of Beautiful Chaos that she signed for my followers. This is the first copy of BEAUTIFUL CHAOS that  she even autographed!   How cool is that?  Even cooler, she mentioned that there is a fourth book in the works AND the title contains the word "beautiful"!  I have read Beautiful Chaos and I haven't told anyone about it at all, well, I did try to tell my husband about it, but his eyes glazed over. My review will be posted  closer to the release date. 

WANT TO WIN THIS *SIGNED* BOOK?

 Contest is open to anyone over 13 years old with a reliable mailing address (PO Boxes OK!)
This ends 10.17.11 midnight Pacific Time and the winner will be chosen by Random.org on 10.18.11.
Winner will have 48 hours to respond to email or a new winner will be chosen
This giveaway is sponsored by Little Brown and me for ONE WINNER.


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GIVEAWAY! *Signed* Beautiful Darkness by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl (OC BOOK FEST)

Description

Ethan Wate used to think of Gatlin, the small Southern town he had always called home, as a place where nothing ever changed. Then he met mysterious newcomer Lena Duchannes, who revealed a secret world that had been hidden in plain sight all along. A Gatlin that harbored ancient secrets beneath its moss-covered oaks and cracked sidewalks. A Gatlin where a curse has marked Lena's family of powerful Supernaturals for generations. A Gatlin where impossible, magical, life-altering events happen.

Sometimes life-ending.

Together they can face anything Gatlin throws at them, but after suffering a tragic loss, Lena starts to pull away, keeping secrets that test their relationship. And now that Ethan's eyes have been opened to the darker side of Gatlin, there's no going back. Haunted by strange visions only he can see, Ethan is pulled deeper into his town's tangled history and finds himself caught up in the dangerous network of underground passageways endlessly crisscrossing the South, where nothing is as it seems.

About the Author

Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl live in Los Angeles, California, with their families. Beautiful Darkness is the sequel to their debut novel, Beautiful Creatures.

Details

• Reading level: Young Adult
• Paperback: 528 pages
• Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; Reprint edition (September 19, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0316077046
• ISBN-13: 978-0316077040

I had the pleasure of seeing Kami Garcia and listen to her read from her latest book at the Orange Country Children's Book Festival yesterday!  I have a copy of Beautiful Darkness that she signed for my followers.  How cool is that?

WANT TO WIN THIS *SIGNED* BOOK?

 Contest is open to anyone over 13 years old with a reliable mailing address (PO Boxes OK!)
This ends 10.17.11 midnight Pacific Time and the winner will be chosen by Random.org on 10.18.11.
Winner will have 48 hours to respond to email or a new winner will be chosen
This giveaway is sponsored by Little Brown and me for ONE WINNER.


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OC Children's Book Festival SPOTLIGHT: Readings & Signings

11:00 am PJ Haarsma - The Soft Wire
Frank Beddor - Looking Glass Wars Series - Hatter M Graphic Novels
11:30 am Lisi Harrison & Garret - Monster High Dolls Designer, Mattel - Monster High
11:45 am Holly Goldberg Sloan - I’ll Be There
1:00 pm Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan (Fug Girls) - Spoiled
1:15 pm DJ MacHale - Monster Princess - Morpheus Road Series
1:30 pm Kailin Gow - Premiere of NEW Series - Fire Wars
1:45 pm Kami Garcia Reading Beautiful Chaos - Signing Beautiful Creatures/Beautiful Darkness
2:45 pm Hope Larson - Mercury (Graphic Novel)
3:00 pm Lisa Desrochers - Personal Demons and Original Sin
3:15 pm Katie Alender - Bad Girls Don’t Die - From Bad To Cursed
3:30 pm Heather Brewer - The Slayer Chronicles (Penguin)
3:45 pm Nancy Holder - Chicks Kick Butt - Damned (Crusade Ser.) - Unleashed (Wolf Springs Chron.)
4:00 pm Amber Benson - Calliope Reaper Jones Series 1-3 - Blood Stained Sword (Graphic Novel)

If things work out right, I will have *signed* books from the highlighted authors to give away in the upcoming weeks!  

If you plan on going, please find me!  You can send me a tweet @maryinhb!

OC Children's Book Festival SPOTLIGHT: Noon Teen Lit - “Keeping It Real” Panel:

Noon Teen Lit - “Keeping It Real” Panel:

Heidi Kling (Moderator) Sea - Truth and Dare - Visitors Guide To Mystic Falls
Jessi Kirby - Moonglass
Lindsey Leavitt - Sean Griswold’s Head and Princess For Hire Series
Kirsten Hubbard - Like Mandarin
Andrew Smith - Marbury Lens and Stick

I haven't read any of these authors, but can't wait to hear about their books! 

GIVEAWAY & OC Kids Book Fest SPOTLIGHT: School of Fear by Gitty Daneshvari *signed*

Description

For the first time--maybe ever--Madeleine, Theo, Lulu, and Garrison are not looking forward to the start of summer, and three little words are to blame: School of Fear. In what they're sure will be the longest and most terrifying six weeks of their lives, the foursome must face their phobias head-on as students of the exclusive and elusive school. There's no homework or exams. But if they don't conquer their fears by the end of the summer, they'll find out just how frightening failing can be.

About the Author

Former Contrafilms Director of Development, Gitty Daneshvari is the author of the adult novel The Makedown. This is Gitty's debut children's book, and it was inspired by her many childhood fears. She hoped that one day they'd help her, and, as it turns out, they have. She lives in New York.

Carrie Gifford spent many years teaching and directing children's theater before starting Red Cap Cards with her husband. Her signature pencil-and-ink style is inspired by her childhood memories. She lives in Los Angeles.

Details

• Reading level: Ages 9-12
• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; Reprint edition (September 7, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0316033278
• ISBN-13: 978-0316033275

Gitty will be heading up the the "IN BE TWEEN" panel at 10am!  The Orange County Children's Book Festival in at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, CA, this Sunday, 
October 2.

WANT TO WIN THIS *SIGNED* BOOK?

 Contest is open to anyone over 13 years old with a reliable  mailing address (PO Boxes OK!)
This ends 10.13.11 midnight Pacific Time and the winner will be chosen by Random.org on 10.14.11.
Winner will have 48 hours to respond to email or a new winner will be chosen
This giveaway is sponsored by ME for ONE WINNER.


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GIVEAWAY! Orange County Children's Book Festival October 2

 

 

Do you know about the Teen & YA Stage Giveaway?

 

 

We will be raffling off a set of books (most of the presenting authors are participating) at the end of the day!  

So around 20 - 25 books!!!!

How do you enter?  come over and support your favorite author!  the more authors you support - the more chances of winning!

You get a raffle ticket for EVERY presentation you attend!

So you stop by to see Lisi & Garret show off the Monster High Dolls & Books - One Entry!

You stop by later to see Kami Garcia read from Beautiful Chaos!!!!  One More Entry!!

You return to see Heather Brewer read from the first book in her latest series Slayer Chronicles - Another Entry!!!

....at the end of the day, stop by and see Amber Benson - you remember her from Buffy, the Calliope Reaper series, Among the Ghosts....and you get another entry!!!

We will be drawing the winner at the end of the day - winner doesn't need to be present - so be sure to clearly write your name and phone number on the ticket you deposit in the box - if we can't read it we will draw another ticket until we can!!!

Orange County Children's Book Festival October 2 Schedule

10:00 am Tween Lit - "NEW In-Be-Tween" Panel:
Gitty Daneshvari (Moderator) - School of Fear Series
Greg Taylor - Killer Pizza Series
Helen Stringer - SpellBinder and Midnight Gate
Greg van Eekhout - Kid vs Squid and The Boy At The End Of The World
Mark Jeffreys - Max Quick
11:00 am PJ Haarsma - The Soft Wire
Frank Beddor - Looking Glass Wars Series - Hatter M Graphic Novels
11:30 am Lisi Harrison & Garret - Monster High Dolls Designer, Mattel - Monster High
11:45 am Holly Goldberg Sloan - I’ll Be There

Noon Teen Lit - “Keeping It Real” Panel:
Heidi Kling (Moderator) Sea - Truth and Dare - Visitors Guide To Mystic Falls
Jessi Kirby - Moonglass
Lindsey Leavitt - Sean Griswold’s Head and Princess For Hire Series
Kirsten Hubbard - Like Mandarin
Andrew Smith - Marbury Lens and Stick
1:00 pm Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan (Fug Girls) - Spoiled
1:15 pm DJ MacHale - Monster Princess - Morpheus Road Series
1:30 pm Kailin Gow - Premiere of NEW Series - Fire Wars
1:45 pm Kami Garcia Reading Beautiful Chaos - Signing Beautiful Creatures/Beautiful Darkness

2:00pm Teen Lit - “Paranormal Tendencies” Panel:
Emma Michaels (Moderator) - The Thirteenth Chime and Anasazi
Inara Scott - Delacroix Academy
Cindy Pon - Kingdom of Xia Series
Jeff Mariotte - Dark Vengence
Gretchen McNeil - Possess

SPECIAL GUESTS


2:45 pm Hope Larson - Mercury (Graphic Novel)
3:00 pm Lisa Desrochers - Personal Demons and Original Sin
3:15 pm Katie Alender - Bad Girls Don’t Die - From Bad To Cursed
3:30 pm Heather Brewer - The Slayer Chronicles (Penguin)
3:45 pm Nancy Holder - Chicks Kick Butt - Damned (Crusade Ser.) - Unleashed (Wolf Springs Chron.)
4:00 pm Amber Benson - Calliope Reaper Jones Series 1-3 - Blood Stained Sword (Graphic Novel)

I have special posts planned for the highlighted authors!  Look for a few giveaways as well over the next two weeks!