*closed!* ✨SIGNED ARC GIVEAWAY✨ To kick off the Roaring 20s, who wants a chance to win an autographed copy of TWO 2020 ARCs? @dianaurban and I have teamed up for a “Where Twisted Secrets Descend” giveaway—a YA fantasy and thrilled mashup! ❤️🖤 One lucky winner will receive one signed ARC of each:
WHERE DREAMS DESCEND: Phantom of the Opera meets Moulin Rouge and The Night Circus! An ambitious showgirl, a mysterious club owner, and a secretive showman take center stage in a magicians competition that quickly turns into a dangerous game behind the scenes.
ALL YOUR TWISTED SECRETS: A locked-room thriller R.L. Stone called “a frightening page-turner”— six teens are locked in a room and find a syringe of poison, a bomb, and a note saying they have to pick one of them to kill within an hour, or else they’ll all die. 🚨 HOW TO ENTER 🚨
1. Comment on this post tagging TWO (2) readers who would enjoy these books
2. Follow both @dianaurban and me
3. Like this post ✨BONUS ENTRY: share this post in your stories or feed. Tag both @dianaurban and me so we see it!
RULES:
✅ International ok!
✅ Ends 1/11/20 at 11:59 pm est
✅ Giveaway not sponsored or endorsed by Instagram or FB
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Roaring 20s starter pack: good friends, good vibes, and a good jumpsuit 🔥
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The past decade has been such a ride—one filled with lots of highs and lows, losses and joys, hopes crushed and dreams followed and actually realized. My biggest dream has been more than a decade in the making—years of long hours at my desk, endless nights and weekends in to get the work done, reading and rereading words a hundred times over to get them just right—and now, that dream is finally approaching. Since I started writing #WhereDreamsDescend in 2015, I honestly didn’t think it would sell. Since it sold in 2018, I thought surely there’s enough time for everything to go wrong and the book deal to disappear before it even took off. And now in 2020, I want to break that cycle of constant underestimation and self-doubt. “Expect the worst but for hope the best” has always been a mantra for me, but out of habit, I’ve always given more weight to the worst than the best. I hope I can change that by enjoying the best of this year and beyond, and cherishing each moment, good and bad, of the dream I’ve been working toward for over half my life. I hope to also change that by breaking the habit of always saying sorry for things I don’t have to apologize for, by screaming about my book whenever I can, by being loudly proud of it and myself for getting this far. More self-love and unapologetic confidence—that’s the energy I want to bring into the new year. What’s yours?
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The stage is set, the spectacle awaits, and the show begins June 2, 2020 🎩🌹
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I bow down to the book magicians at @wednesdaybooks for creating this STUNNING animated cover for #WhereDreamsDescend! The movement, the music, those flames, and those SPARKLES. As if the cover couldn’t get any prettier. And we’re only just at the beginning of all the pretty things still to come, so stay tuned for more!! There’s a quite a few things in the works 😉 Link in my bio for those who want to preorder their ~tickets~ to the show today!
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Cover design: Kerri Resnick, Cover art: Micaela Alcaino
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Past the point of no return...
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Oh pass pages. Aka the step in the publication journey where it’s most likely the last time I *really* get to read and tweak the book before it becomes A Book. As soon as I got this beast in the mail, I hugged it. And then I promptly hid from it out of panic. I hadn’t read this book in months, and was terrified by the prospect of reading it again now, only to realize OH BOY THIS WAS A MISTAKE I HATE EVERYTHING. But as soon as I read the first page, the next one came easier. And then the next, and the next. Fear of the blank page is just as real as fear of a page full of words, but all it takes is just one leap into it to get the ball rolling. There are characters and scenes I can’t wait to revisit in these pages, and I’m thrilled that this means I’m one step closer to sharing them with the world!
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