Erica O'Rourke

Dissonance Blog Tour: Days 4 and 5

An abundance of excerpt riches today -- plus a bonus guest post for your summer reading pleasure:

First up, The Ravenous Reader! In which Simon saves the day.

Next, Me, My Shelf, and I! In which we meet Iggy the Very Bad Dog -- and Addie.

Last, Reading Lark asked me about my summer reads -- and I'd love to hear about yours!

Have a great weekend, everyone! I'll be writing and reading and cooking -- I'm making fennel jam and chocolate-hazelnut granola and all sorts of good things, since my fridge is overflowing with produce.

Deadly Destinations: Luc's Tour of New Orleans!

So, the winner of the Summer YA Scavenger Hunt is...

 

a Rafflecopter giveaway

! Congratulations, Sabine! I'll be emailing you later today to get your mailing address! If you didn't win, take a moment and have a cookie to console yourself. Then, head on over to All Things Urban Fantasy, where Luc is giving a tour of New Orleans as part of their Deadly Destinations series! You've got a chance to win one book from the Torn Trilogy, plus swag, and you'll see some of the real-life locations I used in the books.

Thanks again for participating in the Scavenger Hunt, and good luck to those of you entering the Deadly Destinations giveaway! I'm off to polish up another bonus scene for an amazing event later this month.

We call it "the stinkeye"

Very quickly, before I turn the internet off and get back to the writing of many, many words, I wanted to share this with you all. We rarely post pictures of my kids (where you can actually see them) but the nice people at Readers' Entertainment asked me to do a brief post and picture about why I write.

Here's what I wrote. As you can see, Big Marshmallow is not a huge fan of strange people taking her picture.

http://www.readersentertainment.com/blog/2012/for-the-love-of-writing-author-erica-orourke/

Happy Tuesday, all. I think Tuesday is the new Monday, so just surviving until bedtime is a win for me.

Destination Destinknitions

I'm over at Allie Pleiter's knitting blog today. Why? Because I knit. And Mrs. Fitzgerald knits, even if you don't see her with needles in hand. And because Allie is one of the nicest people I know and graciously invited me to stop by.

Also, there is a giveaway! How can you resist?

Click here for my knitterly interview.

(As always, I'd be so grateful if you could show some comment love to my hostess, so comments here are closed.)

The Upside of Spectacular Failure: Guest-blogging at Honestly YA

 I'm traveling again today, visiting the wonderful women of Honestly YA to talk about my greatest regrets and the fact that my taste in music hasn't changed much since the mid-90s. We're also giving away a copy of TORN and TANGLED, so swing by and check it out! I'll be back here for WIP Friday.

Click here for the interview.

Also, if this looks wonky, let me know -- I am trying out Blogsy + Typepad for the first time, and decided to throw caution to the wind and skip the instructional video. What could possibly go wrong?

Interview! Giveaway! Deadline!

I am deep into the drafting of Bound -- I have my daily goal written on the calendar by my desk, where it is staring at me balefully -- and so can only pop in for a moment to tell you that the kind and hilarious Tina Ferraro interviewed me at YA Fresh today. You can read a bit about what my writing schedule is like, what's next for Mo, and my go-to advice for writers.

If you comment, you'll be entered into a drawing for a signed copy of TORN, plus what we are referring to as the SEEKRIT SWAG pack. Why is it a seekrit? Because there's a code included that unlocks hidden content on my website. More about the hidden page next week, but trust me: you want that code.

And now...it is back to the deadline cave for me.

Torn Blog Tour: When I'm Not Writing

We are timeshifting today! The lovely Corrine at Lost For Words asked what I do when I'm not writing. Hint: NOT LAUNDRY. The post originally went up yesterday, but I totally spaced out about all things blog-related, so we will just pretend. 

Go forth and comment!

Torn Blog Tour: Meet Colin

Around here, we describe Colin as Strong of Jaw and Dark of Backstory. Want to know more? He's being interviewed over at Rex Robot Reviews today. Come by and leave a comment!

Also, thank you so much for the postcard love! There's more to come, and if you like the K Teen Facebook Page, you'll find special scenes and extras popping up there in the next few weeks as well.