This week is full of shivers and screams. The first read is,

REQUIEM by Heather S. Ingemar


Hattie Locke has a gift: when she sings, the dead dig themselves from their graves to listen. As a death-siren, her life has always been this way.

Then the dead begin to show up in numbers far beyond expected. With each song she sings, they grow pushy and demanding, rushing the stage to reach her. Trapped in a place where her dreams of music become her nightmares, Hattie is left with nowhere to turn.

But then she meets a boy, who promises freedom from her curse.

Now Hattie wonders: is ridding herself of her voice worth losing the music she’s lived to create?

Buying information: http://www.amazon.com/Requiem-ebook/dp/B003LBRJEK/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=books&qid=1277493791&sr=1-9

QUESTION: Tell us a bit about yourself and your novella, “Requiem”?

In some ways, Hattie reminds me of myself. I came from a musical family, and I delved right into all of it. By the time I was a sophomore in high school, I’d mastered seven different instruments, and it was pretty much thought a guarantee that I’d pursue Julliard, or Berkeley, or some other prestigious music school. Imagine everyone’s surprise when I decided to major in English lit!

Thankfully, I had a more-or-less understanding family who allowed me the space to pursue my words (they knew I wasn’t leaving music completely, and they were right; I still play now and then) – however, I faced extreme opposition from others. It was these experiences that I drew on in creating Hattie’s unusual situation. What if my family hadn’t let me do my own thing? What if they reacted like these vehement strangers and teachers and friends who all thought they knew best for me?

Combine that with my morbid streak (zombies! death! magic!), and “Requiem” was born.

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H e a t h e r S . I n g e m a r

Requiem voted Top Ten Young Adult Book for 2009! Learn more!
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Vacation Reads week 3
Posts for the weekend three are up, with more titles, more features, and more author interviews.

Check out these participating blogs:

http://blog.annakashina.com/2010/07/17/july-vacation-reads–weekend-3.aspx

http://apenandfire.com/?p=796

More links coming up!

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This sounds like steampunk taken to a whole nother level. What if they had these technologies that long ago what road would they have taken. Come read with us and find out. Zanna



AETHER AGE ANTHOLOGY


A past remade…

Millennia ago, Greece, Egypt, and other civilizations experienced industrial revolutions beneath a sky that, in a blink of history, burgeoned into life and mystery…

With one intervention to human progress, technological civilizations arose. With one more fantastic change in Nature, humanity broke the bonds of Earth and ventured out into the aether…

Take flight on airships, balloons, and wooden rockets. Soar with winged hoplites, exiled princesses, explorers and philosophers. Witness the struggle for equality, freedom, and power like you never have before.

Explore a history transformed and travel into the heavens to discover what awaits the civilizations of Humanity in…

The Aether Age: Helios

Book One of the Aether Age Codex

See the book at: http://www.Aether-Age.com

Watch the trailer at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdoYnhCqtp0&feature=player_embedded

Who has never wondered what is going on in the lives of people they see. Alix takes us there in this book. Open the door and step in. Zanna


BASED UPON AVAILABILITY by Alix Strauss



“This sharp and brilliant novel shows that truth cannot be seen from the outside. You’ll absorb every anecdote’s last detail as real human connection resurfaces and these women take steps to become the people they’ve always dreamed they’d be.” – Elle

“Stellar….” – Publishers Weekly

“This is the classic read-it-in-one-big-gulp book. Or spend several days at the beach with it; compelling from first page to last – edgy, moving, human.” – Liz Smith.

“A mesmerizing novel. ….the characters in this moving novel are achingly sympathetic, their plights imminently relatable.” – Booklist (starred review)

“These New York stories will remind some readers of Parker—as in Dorothy, not Sarah Jessica.” Kirkus Review

Based Upon Availability delves into the lives of eight seemingly ordinary women, each who pass through Manhattan’s swanky Four Seasons Hotel. While offering sanctuary to some, solace to others, the hotel captures their darkest and twisted moments as they grapple with family, sex, power, love, and death. Trish, a gallery owner, obsesses over her best friend’s wedding and dramatic weight loss. Robin wants revenge after a lifetime of abuse at the hands of her older sister. Anne is single, lonely, and suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder. Drug-addicted rock star Louise needs to dry out. Southerner-turned-wannabe Manhattanite Franny is envious of her neighbors’ lives. Sheila wants to punish her boyfriend for returning to his wife. Ellen so desperately wants children, she’s willing to pretend to be pregnant. And Morgan, the hotel manager— haunted by the memory of her dead sister—is the thread that weaves these women’s lives together. In this an utterly original read, I try to ask and answer the age-old question; ‘what happens behind closed doors’ while examining the walls we put up as we attempt intimacy, and inspecting the ruins when they’re knocked down.

Alix Strauss, Journalist/Author www.alixstrauss.com

Paranormal is soooo... hot now days. I know I enjoy a good read in this venue. Zanna


DEADLY LUCIDITY by Julie Achterhoff


DEADLY LUCIDITY is a paranormal thriller. Julie Achterhoff’s other work includes the paranormal thrillers Native Vengeance and Quantum Earth. She grew up reading such
authors as Stephen King and Dean Koontz, which influenced her own writing. She
has been writing since childhood, scaring her teachers with her horror stories.
Reading has also been a great influence on her. Her books can be found on
amazon.com in regular form, and now on Kindle for $3.19 a piece. They can also
be purchased from the publisher at allthingsthatmatterpress.com. You can read
parts of her books on BookBuzzr.

Week 2

JULY VACATION READS — WEEKEND 2
Jul 9th, 2010
by Ania.
Don't forget to go to Vacationreads.com and leave a comment for prizes. Zanna

Hi, everyone,

Weekend 2 of July Vacation Reads features more great titles to be taken on vacation. Check these posts at our participating blogs:

http://blog.annakashina.com/2010/07/09/july-vacation-reads–weekend-2.aspx

http://nithska.blogspot.com/2010/07/weekend-2-of-vacation-reads.html

http://joelysueburkhart.com/?p=2870

http://meredithholmes.com/?p=168

http://apenandfire.com/?p=788

http://shaunjeffrey.blogspot.com/2010/07/vacation-reads-blog-tour-week-2.html

More links coming up!

And, don’t forget to leave comments to enter our drawing to win great prizes! Or, better yet — join our tour and feature our titles on your blogs!

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I forgot the link to the vacation reads site. If you comment here and there you are eligable for free stuff. vacationreads.com