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Saving Mars by Cidney Swanson Jessamyn must make a choice: save her beloved brother or her planet? Click the cover to buy When an accidental fire destroys ninety percent of their food supply, Marsians trust aspiring pilot Jessamyn, her genius brother Ethan, and a select few others to fly to Earth and smuggle out precious ration bars.  However, TerraMarsian relations have been either hostile or nonexistent for over a century.  When the raid goes south, Jess finds herself facing some hard choices: go with her gut or her heart with the Terran boy?  Focus on saving her brother or her planet?  Can she even manage to do either? This book was written by Cidney Swanson, author of the Amazon bestselling Ripple trilogy and nice writer friend of mine.  I raved about her previous books, hosted a guest post by her, interviewed her , and held giveaways of her books.  She's one of those writers that (even though you know all writers a...

All Things Different by Shawn Underhill Click the cover to buy Jake's dad let Sara into their lives; he never expected her to come so deeply into their hearts. It's a rare thing for an author to contact me personally and directly to request a book review; when it does happen, I always want to say yes and love the book.  With such a beautiful cover, how could I go wrong?

When I recently redid my blog design, I found this sitting on one of my pages.  When or why I wrote it, I can't remember.  But there wasn't room for it with my pages, and I thought it'd be a shame to delete it.  So I'm editing and re-posting it here for all my lovely readers. Heroes.  We all have them. They're the people we look up to, the people we strive to be like, the people who are, in our eyes, the epitome of all that is good and pure, true and honest, just and godly.  They are the parents we want to be like, the teachers we want to talk like, the older friends we want to look like. They seem to have accomplished the ultimate task in life : being Christ-like. We think they are perfect.

Click the cover to buy Starring Me by Krista McGee Kara McKormick is told she's auditioning to star in a new teen variety show. It's what she isn't told that could change her life. Kara McKormick is a normal American teenager... well, except that she's been in a reality television show competing for a date with the First Son.  This happened in McGee's First Date , for which this book is a sequel.  Now, in Starring Me , Kara is aiming for the role of co-host in a new teen variety show.

The first reader to correctly guess both what my fanfiction series was based on and how it was different from the original will win an ecopy of Cidney Swanson's new book, Saving Mars . But nobody guessed both!

I have a new blog design!  Last night I decided to simplify and change up several things.  The results are more suited to my and my personality, I think What do you, my lovely readers, think?

Read Part One here , Part Two here, Part Three here, and Part Four here.  Also, don't forget to return on Thursday to find out who won the contest! The day after the ball, Danielle struggled to hide her fatigue. She managed to pass the Baroness's suspicion, and the next day Marguerite and the Baroness left to call on a courtier who they met at the ball. Jacqueline, Gustave, and Danielle took this opportunity to sit in the attic and discuss the excitement. "I was so worried! When Mother came to fetch me, and I went to warn you - I could not find you anywhere! Then I thought perhaps you had gone already, but Gustave came to me to ask if I had seen you. Wherever were you?" Danielle sighed. She didn't want to share her conversation with the prince, but she had nothing to hide. There was no reason not to tell. "I met the prince."

Read Part One here , Part Two here , and Part Three here .  Don't forget about the contest!  First person to correctly guess both what this is a fanfiction of (easy part) and how this fanfiction ends (i.e, what sets this apart from simply a novelization of the movie) will receive an ecopy of Saving Mars , Cidney Swanson's new book, provided by Cidney herself.* The winner will be announced on August 23. Open to all readers, all ages, all countries. The luxury of a carriage ride made it seem a much shorter ride than it was. All too soon Danielle and Gustave were pulling up to the palace. Gustave jumped down from the driving seat to help Danielle out of the carriage. He spoke quickly and quietly to her as he did, not letting go of her hand even after she was safely on the ground. "Remember, Elly, you mustn't let the Baroness or Marguerite too close. If anyone asks about your invitation, you're a guest of Jacqueline's. I doubt it will come to that, tho...

Read Part One here and Part Two here.  Don't forget about the contest! First person to correctly guess both what this is a fanfiction of (easy part) and how this fanfiction ends (i.e, what sets this apart from simply a novelization of the movie) will receive an ecopy of Saving Mars , Cidney Swanson's new book, provided by Cidney herself.* The winner will be announced on August 23. Open to all readers, all ages, all countries. The next day, Danielle took the hog to find truffles in the woods. She decided to take a swim in the lake, and returned home late as a result. When she did arrive, she found Margeurite and Jacqueline playing dice in the living room. "Somebody's in trouble," Marguerite sang softly. Danielle glanced quizzically at Jacqueline, but the Baroness chose that moment to burst into the room. She clasped onto Danielle's ear and thrust her into the nearest chair. "You stupid, stupid girl! How dare you do this to me! To Marquerit...

Read Part One here.  Don't forget about the contest! First person to correctly guess both what this is a fanfiction of (easy part) and how this fanfiction ends (i.e, what sets this apart from simply a novelization of the movie) will receive an ecopy of Saving Mars , Cidney Swanson's new book, provided by Cidney herself.* The winner will be announced on August 23. Open to all readers, all ages, all countries. Dropping her skirts and the apples, she kept a few firmly in her arms and ran to the field where the man was headed. She called out to him as she threw, hitting her mark with every apple thrown. "Thief! This shall teach you to steal my father's horse!" The man fell off the horse and hid under his velvet robe as he hobbled past Danielle. "Please! My own has slipped his shoe, and I have no choice!" "And our choice is what? To let you?" She continued throwing apples at this strangely dressed criminal, picking up those that...

Once again, my lovely readers, I'm joining the Teens Can Write, Too! blog chain.  The link: http://teenscanwritetoo.wordpress.com/2012/07/20/tcwt-august-2012-blog-chain/ This month's prompt: Write a retelling of your favorite fairytale, myth, or legend. I could never pick one favorite from those categories.  Anytime I try to do a retelling of a story, it ends up too long.  So I'm bending the prompt while sticking to the word-limit rule by using this post to start a fanfiction miniseries, a first for this blog, with hopes that John doesn't banish me from this blog chain forever. Can you guess what this is a fanfiction of?  It should be instantly recognizable to anyone at all familiar with it.  Since I haven't had a giveaway in far too long, let's make this into one, shall we?  First person to correctly guess both what this is a fanfiction of (easy part) and how this fanfiction ends (i.e, what sets this apart from simply a novelization of the mo...

Today we end the 30 Day Challenge, which has certainly taken much longer for me than 30 days or even 30 weeks.  However, I've managed to pull through and complete it, so I'm happy with how it went.  If you'd like to read the previous days, just scroll down until you see my cloud of tags or post categories in the right-hand sidebar and click on "30 Day Challenge."

Read A Summary, Part One ; A Summary, Part Two ; Lessons Learned ; and Dominica vs. America. the campsite we stayed on and ran for the dominicans

Read A Summary, Part One ; A Summary, Part Two ; and Lessons Learned . On July 31 at 11:16 PM while on the last flight home, I wrote a comparison between Dominica and America.  All week I'd been keeping a list of categories with noticeable differences and paying close attention during my conversations with the Dominican campers.  Obviously, this is not a comprehensive list.  A person can't learn everything about a culture in only ten days, and I can't share every single detail I did learn - it's simply too much, and a lot has to be learned firsthand through experience.  Below is what I did share in my final journal entry.

Read A Summary, Part One  and A Summary, Part Two . On July 27 at 5:58 PM I wrote this in my Mission Trip 2012 journal: Today was... interesting. Definitely busy, but not the good kind of busy.  Lunch was good - fish cooked three ways.  I learned Americans, myself included, don't like breadfruit.  Then during free time was the girls' hike, and that's when things went south.  The hike was divided in half so those who wanted could go back to camp midway.  By the time we got to that point I was out of breath and very weak and tired, so I went with Jonathan, Katie, Andrew, Ashlee, Alex, Adina, Zach, and later Mrs. Bartow.  I never made it back to camp - I pretty much collapsed on the side of the road. 

Read A Summary, Part One. July 27 6:17 AM  Adina and I get up for the sunrise to see only a golden glow through all the clouds.  The world is wet and it rains again. 11:25 AM   More rain, camp games, and Dominicans using my camera.  They love taking photos!

As many of you know, I just got back very early yesterday morning from a ten-day mission trip to the island of Dominica.  When you spend ten very busy days with almost thirty other people immersed in a third-world island country - no cell phone, internet, computer, television, air conditioning, or hot water; plenty of bugs, sweat, heat, strange foods, new people, new lingo (but thankfully still English) - it takes time to adjust to your life. A simple example is the fact that I'm writing this post in August wearing long socks, a wool head wrap, and a hoodie because the air conditioning is freezing my nose off. All that to say: I'll try my best to share my experience with my lovely readers, but you really had to be there.