Erica O'Rourke

Spring Scavenger Hunt is Here!

I am so thrilled to be participating in the Spring Scavenger Hunt! It was so much fun to hear from everyone last time around, and this Hunt promises to be even more exciting. We have sixty YA authors participating, and the amazing Colleen Houck and Beth Revis have been hard at work streamlining the Hunt to make it easier for you. (Click here to see a list of all sixty authors -- so many pretty shiny covers!)

To make the Hunt a little more manageable, we've split it into three teams of twenty authors each. That means THREE grand prizes (of at least twenty books) and you can enter all three, if you want to. I am on the Blue Team; so if you get lost along the way, you can go back to the original site and pick up where you left off.

 

 

You can get more details about the Spring Scavenger Hunt by clicking here or on the banner  below, but the most important thing to remember is this:

The YA Scavenger Hunt begins Thursday March 29th at noon PACIFIC TIME and ends Sunday April 1st at noon PACIFIC TIME. That gives you only 72 hours to complete the hunt!

 

 

Like before, I'll be offering a special prize here on the day of the hunt, and I'll have more about that later. But for now, I have a question:my bonus content for the previous hunt was an extra scene. This time, I'm taking a scene from one of the books and rewriting it from another character's point of view. And I'm curious: what scene from TORN or TANGLED would you like to see through someone else's eyes? Hit the comments and let me know!

 

Good luck, and happy Hunting!

WIP Friday: Luncheon Edition (And BOUND FAQ's)

WELL.

That was a bit of an unintended blog break, and to be honest, it's likely to continue for a bit longer. We have been smacked upside the head with all sorts of scheduling craziness on the home front, and last night I looked at my schedule for April, wept at how many days will require me to dress like a grownup, mistook April for May, and then had a panic attack at the number of days I'd double-booked stuff.

Rest assured, I didn't double-book. I just can't read a calendar.

Sometime next week, I'll post an update to the Event page, because I am going to be all over the place in April and it would be wonderful to see a friendly face. But in the meantime, here's the one that's most time-sensitive:

Barbara Vey's Reader Appreciation Luncheon
Tuesday, April 10th, 10:30 AM
Oak Creek, WI

Barbara Vey, among other things, is a Contributing Editor to Publishers' Weekly, author of the "Beyond Her Book" blog, and a huge, huge supporter of the romance community. She's hosting an AMAZING luncheon (details above) where you get to meet and mingle with thirty-eight authors from all sorts of genres and then have a sit-down lunch with one of the authors, so you can grill them all about what's happening in their next book. You'll get a ton of free books and swag, and most importantly, a good chunk of time to talk with your author.

(Is it likely I'll tell you some spoilers for BOUND? Anything's possible, guys.)

The reason it's time-sensitive is that you need to buy tickets, and they stop selling tickets on March 31st. It's a great event -- you get a bag full of books and swag, and all the proceeds go to support local libraries. So, come and have lunch with me! You can click the link above to find out more.

In the meantime, I have gotten a lot of questions about BOUND, and I figured now was as good a time as any to answer them. Ready, steady, GO!

Are you done writing BOUND?

Yep. Done writing, copy editing, proofing...it's finished!

When does it come out?

June 26th, 2012. (This summer!) Someone told me that on Goodreads, the release date is listed as sometime in October. This is incorrect, but I don't use Goodreads, so I don't know how to fix it. If you DO know how to, feel free to go ahead and change it.

You'll have ARCs, right?

Um...I don't know, actually. I hope so, but like 98% of things in publishing, this is not up to me. Rest assured, if I have ARCs, we'll definitely be holding giveaways.

How does it feel to have finished a trilogy?

Weird.  A little sad. A little exciting. I'll talk more about this in another post, I think.

Will you write more in this series?

I'm not currently planning on writing any more novels set in this universe, but I'll definitely be writing write some short pieces/extra content. Mo's story is done -- her journey is complete at the end of BOUND, so I don't envision writing another book about her. I do think it would be fun to write about some of the secondary characters, like Lena, or even Constance. I feel like Jenny Kowalski isn't done yet, either. But for now, I'm taking a break from the Arcs and Flats to play with some other stuff.

Do people die in this one?

Yep. Much higher body count in this book than the others.

Does Mo choose Colin or Luc?

Spoilers, sweetie.

Can't you tell us anything?

Three things:

• Mo's dad comes back from prison.
• Three months have passed since the end of TANGLED.
• As I mentioned on twitter last night, somebody's hipbones get ogled.

Questions? Hit the comments! Have a great weekend -- and I hope to see you at the luncheon!

 

In Which I Master The Ukelele

And by "master," of course, I mean "learn three notes on a cheap kid's ukelele that untunes itself every time I play a note."

But! It's all in good fun! The awesomesauce Saundra Mitchell, author of THE VESPERTINE and THE (soon-to-be-released) SPRINGSWEET asked if I sould like to be part of the YA Winter Wonderland Mashup of DOOM.

Naturally, I said yes. And offered to play the ukelele we were giving Big Marshmallow for Christmas. Which meant I had to learn how to play the ukelele. In secret. Three notes, and it took me days. DAYS.

Then I sent it off to Saundra and she worked her magic. Then her computer ate the video and she worked her magic AGAIN. And...here you go! Watch all the way to the end, okay?

 

 

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Long Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blxabUY29Q0
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Happy Holidays from YA to you!