caution for the vain

your name is CHESRA and you have been addicted to HOMESTUCK for a couple of months now. You are also an avid fan of DOCTOR WHO and MERLIN.

You enjoy DRESSING UP AS FICTIONAL CHARACTERS. You also enjoy READING BOOKS books, particularly of the YA GENRE.

April 4, 2012 7:06 pm
steampunkd: “The Friday Society” by Adrienne Kress An action-packed tale of gowns, guys, guns—and the heroines who use them all.Set in Edwardian London, The Friday Society follows the stories of three very intelligent and talented young women, all of whom are assistants to powerful men: Cora, lab assistant; Michiko, Japanese fight assistant; and Nellie, magician’s assistant. The three young women’s lives become inexorably intertwined after a chance meeting at a ball that ends with the discovery of a murdered mystery man.It’s up to these three, in their own charming but bold way, to solve the murder—and the crimes they believe may be connected to it—without calling too much attention to themselves.Told with Adrienne Kress’s sharp wit and a great deal of irreverence, this Steampunk whodunit introduces three unforgettable and very ladylike—well, relatively ladylike—heroines poised for more dangerous adventures. (Pre-order the book here.)

steampunkd:

“The Friday Society”
by Adrienne Kress

An action-packed tale of gowns, guys, guns—and the heroines who use them all.

Set in Edwardian London, The Friday Society follows the stories of three very intelligent and talented young women, all of whom are assistants to powerful men: Cora, lab assistant; Michiko, Japanese fight assistant; and Nellie, magician’s assistant. The three young women’s lives become inexorably intertwined after a chance meeting at a ball that ends with the discovery of a murdered mystery man.

It’s up to these three, in their own charming but bold way, to solve the murder—and the crimes they believe may be connected to it—without calling too much attention to themselves.

Told with Adrienne Kress’s sharp wit and a great deal of irreverence, this Steampunk whodunit introduces three unforgettable and very ladylike—well, relatively ladylike—heroines poised for more dangerous adventures.

(Pre-order the book here.)

April 2, 2012 10:36 pm

(via abitlovely)

March 30, 2012 10:48 pm

It’s Official! New book in May 2013

authorsarahdessen:

From PW Children’s Bookshelf: 

Regina Hayes at Viking Young Readers has signed YA novelist Sarah Dessen’s 11th novel, The Best After Ever, which will be released in May 2013. Set in the fictional beach town of Colby, where several of Dessen’s novels take place, it features 18-year-old Emmeline, who is spending her last summer before college working for her family’s vacation rental business and enjoying a summer romance with a young aspiring filmmaker. Leigh Feldman at Writers House brokered the deal for world rights. 


OMG. NEW SARAH DESSEN BOOK TO LOOK FORWARD TO! ♥

March 17, 2012 9:02 am

sarahreesbrennan:

I will never be worthy of the beauty of my Unspoken cover. Never. Behold it in all its effects-y glory, the final cover with gold foil roses, falling leaves and words!

But something I WILL be is at the Romantic Times convention in Chicago in April, and I will have advance copies of BOTH my beauties in hand. I shall give them away and then dart behind a shirtless man in a golden cloak. ‘Who was that mysterious book-hurling author?’ the populace will wonder…

oh god i just want these books NOW

March 14, 2012 11:04 pm

Unspoken Cover…

sarahreesbrennan:

http://thebooksmugglers.com/2012/03/a-smugglerific-cover-unspoken-by-sarah-rees-brennan-arc-giveaway.html/comment-page-1#comments

Finally I use tumblr for the purpose it was always intended… to show you all the MOST BEAUTIFULLEST pictures!

And the official cover copy:

“Kami Glass loves someone she’s never met … a boy she’s talked to in her head ever since she was born. She wasn’t silent about her imaginary friend during her childhood, and is thus a bit of an outsider in her sleepy English town of Sorry-in-the-Vale. Still, Kami hasn’t suffered too much from not fitting in. She has a best friend, runs the school newspaper, and is only occasionally caught talking to herself. Her life is in order, just the way she likes it, despite the voice in her head.

But all that changes when the Lynburns return.

The Lynburn family has owned the spectacular and sinister manor that overlooks Sorry-in-the-Vale for centuries. The mysterious twin sisters who abandoned their ancestral home a generation ago are back, along with their teenage sons, Jared and Ash, one of whom is eerily familiar to Kami. Kami is not one to shy away from the unknown—in fact, she’s determined to find answers for all the questions Sorry-in-the- Vale is suddenly posing. Who is responsible for the bloody deeds in the depths of the woods? What is her own mother hiding? And now that her imaginary friend has become a real boy, does she still love him? Does she hate him? Can she trust him?

Sarah Rees Brennan brings Gothic romance kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century with a funny, modern heroine who can take care of herself, an angry, beautiful boy who needs to be saved, and the mysterious forces that bring them together and tear them apart.”

And the reason Unspoken is coming out September 11… I’m going to be on THIS TOUR: http://www.SmartChicksKickIt.com/schedule.html

I AM SO EXCITED! And I will be hangin’ around the internet answering Unspoken questions all day! 

SCREAMING

ALSO THAT COVER IS /GORGEOUS/

AAAHHH I’M SO EXCITED