Dark Days News & The Calling Book Trailer!!

The Dark Darks are moving right along! This Sunday's event in LA, featuring Lauren Oliver, Dan Wells, and Claudia Gray will be livestreamed by Tiffany of http://www.abouttoread.com/. What that means is that we'll ALL get to watch the event live on http://www.livestream.com/epicreads! Don't miss it!

BUT in the meantime, if you can't wait until Sunday to hear some Pandemonium talk from Lauren Oliver, click HERE to see a video of her event Raleigh, NC !

If you missed any of leg 3 of the Dark Days blog apprearances, here's where you can find them:

2/21 Lauren Oliver at All Things Urban Fantasy

2/22 Claudia Gray at A Life Bound By Books

2/23 Alex Flinn at Mundie Moms

2/28 Dan Wells at Bookalicious

3/1 Lauren Oliver at All Things Urban Fantasy

3/6 Claudia Gray at A Life Bound By Books

3/7 Alex Flinn at Mundie Moms

3/8 Dan Wells at Bookalicious

Last but not least...I just spotted this trailer for The Calling by Kelley Armstrong at Natalia's Dazzling Reads---I just had to share it here, too. It's such an intense, exciting trailer---one of the best I've seen in a while! I can tell this story is going in a completely different direction than I thought it was from the climactic ending in The Gathering!! So excited to start reading it!

Dark Days of Winter 2012 - San Francisco Stop!

This week, I had the absolute thrill of attending the San Francisco stop of the Dark Days of Winters tour!! It was completely amazing! The event took place at Books, Inc at Opera Plaza---a great indie bookstore with so much character and an awesome staff. This is the second event I've attended there and I am always so impressed with how well run the event is and how well attended! With such amazing authors, and surprise drop in by Anna Carey, author of Eve---you can bet they had a packed house!


The event featured Ellen Schrieber, Tahereh Mafi, Veronica Rossi, and Anna Carey. All four authors did such a great Q & A where they discussed everything from their inspirations, research methods, creating worlds, and the blessing of a good copy editor. When the questions wound down, they all graciously visited with the fans, smiled pretty for photographs, and signed tons of books, bookmarks, and even a personal journal!

One of the big highlights of my time there was being the official live blogger! I live-tweeted the entire thing during the event and got to do a quick interview with the authors! Here's a video of a few of the questions---we had some "technical difficulties" so we missed the first part of it, and the sound is a bit low (LOL, it was my first time doing anything like this!). So turn up the volume and take a look :)

I also brought my best friend and pro photographer, Amy, with me to capture some cool pics! So, to show all the great shots she got of the event, I've made a little slideshow, featuring a song that will probably age me, but that I thought fit perfectly with the apocalyptic theme of Shatter Me, Under the Never Sky, and Eve! :D Some things to watch for:  invaded chocolates & and proof that authors know how to accessorize!

Find out more about the Dark Days Tour at Dark Days Central! I hope you all get a chance to catch one of these tour stops! They are a blast!!

Dark Days of Winter 2012!!

The Dark Days are almost here! Are you ready?

I am so excited to announce that I've been asked to be the official live blogger for the Dark Days stop in San Francisco on January 12, 2012!
I'll be live-tweeting the whole event so be sure to follow me @storiesweeties or check out the hashtag #pitchdarkdays at around 7PM PST! I am also super excited to get a few minutes with Tahereh, Ellen, and Veronica for a quick interview before the event, so look out for that in my event recap this weekend! And, please, if you are attending the San Fran event, come find me and say hello!!

More Dark Days Tour info:

Leg 1: Featuring Tahereh Mafi, Ellen Schreiber, & Veronica Rossi

Thursday, January 12^th SAN FRANCISCO

Books, Inc. Opera Plaza, NYMBC event at 7pm

Friday, January 13^th SAN DIEGO

Mysterious Galaxy, 7pm

Saturday, January 14^th PHOENIX

Changing Hands, 4pm

Leg 2: Featuring Courney Allison Moulton, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows & Cynthia Hand

Thursday, February 16^th

DALLAS

B&N Southlake, 5pm

Friday, February 17^th AUSTIN

B&N Austin, 7pm

Saturday, February 18^th HOUSTON

Blue Willow Book Shop, 4pm

Find out even more about the Dark Days event on Facebook:
http://harperteen.com/feature/darkdays/
or
https://www.facebook.com/PitchDarkBooks?v=app_267525279968452&app_data=%26wlbb%3D1

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Check out Chapter Excerpts from the Dark Days Featured Titles!