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Friday, July 26, 2013

#ZoeLettingGo Sweepstakes & Giveaway

What goes along perfectly with a good book? A good snack of course. Today I'm helping spread the word about Penguin Teen's #ZoeLettingGo sweepstakes. Haven't heard of Zoe Letting Go by Nora Price? Let me tell you a little bit about the book, which was released yesterday and then I'll share some recipes with you and tell you how to enter the exciting sweepstakes.



A girl's letters to her best friend reveal two lives derailed by anorexia in this haunting debut that's Laurie Halse Anderson's Wintergirls meets The Sixth Sense. 

Zoe knows she doesn’t belong in a hospital—so why is she in one?

Twin Birch isn’t just any hospital. It’s a strange mansion populated by unnerving staff and glassy-eyed patients. It’s a place for girls with serious problems; skinny, spindly girls with eating disorders who have a penchant for harming themselves.

Zoe isn’t like them. And she can’t figure out why she was sent here. Writing letters to her best friend Elise keep her sane, grounded in the memories of her past—but mired in them, too. Elise never writes back.

Zoe is lost without her, unsure of how to navigate tenuous new friendships and bizarre rules without Elise by her side. But as her letters intertwine with journal entries chronicling her mysterious life at Twin Birch, another narrative unfolds. The hidden story of a complicated friendship; of the choices we make, the truths we tell others, and the lies we tell ourselves. The story of a friendship that has the potential to both save—and damage beyond repair. And Zoe finds she must confront the truth about her past once and for all, before she can finally let go.

Nora Price’s debut young adult book is a heart-wrenching meditation on the bonds of friendship with a gripping psychological twist.

The Sweepstakes:
To celebrate yesterday's paper back release of Zoe Letting Go, Penguin Teen has shared with us, and those participating in the blog tour 5 recipes from the book itself. They want to know your favorite "emotional" receipe. To Enter to win a copy of Zoe Letting Go, simply tweet a picture of your "emotional recipe" and include #ZoeLettingGo to be entered to win. Check out the recipes below for examples:




*click to enlarge each recipe

The Giveaway:
I've got 3 copies of Zoe Letting Go to giveaway. 

To enter, simply send me your link to adminmundiemoms AT gmail DOT com and in the subject link include #ZoeLettingGo. Don't forget to include the link to your tweet in the email. This giveaway ends on 8/24/13 *US residents only. 



Cassandra Clare on The Bane Chronicles


Cassie took to her Tumblr page this week to answer fans questions about her upcoming series, writing, and our beloved The Bane Chronicles. Here's what was asked and what Cassie replied with:

The Bane Chronicles
"Okay why oh why aren’t The Bane Chronicles out in actual book form?! I’m a pledge.. (I pledge to read the printed word) so I buy books. I never download books, I never use a tablet/nook/kindle for reading, and I don’t but anything I can’t physically have. So whhyyyy have these not been printed yet… — the-zstein"
Well, they haven’t been printed yet because they haven’t been written yet. The thing we’re doing with the Bane Chronicles is really unusual in publishing. Usually you write a book, turn it in, it gets edited and then eventually … published! For a really long disquisition on how this works, I wrote it up here.
For the Bane Chronicles, we’re writing as we go — we have outlines for all the stories, but basically each story is completed and turned in, edited, then turned into a digital file and posted. We’re racing very fast deadlines, which is why sometimes we have an audio reader in time for the audio version to come out, and sometimes we don’t. 
But basically, we’re only about a story and a half ahead of you, so there’s no way to print the Bane Chronicles because there’s no time to ship them to the printer and have them printed. That time just doesn’t exist. They will be printed a collected set of linked stories when they’re all finished, in the fall of next year. So you certainly can buy the print version eventually, but for the moment you’re in the unique position of literally reading a work in progress, being posted as it’s being written.

Co-Author, Sarah Rees Brennan followed up Cassie's reply with one of her own:


Retumbl’d to agree that this is not all a cunning plot to deprive people of the printed word. The printed word will come—but for now I think it’s kind of fun that people get to read along, and to contribute, too.

I love serialised fiction. I think it’s why people get so into book series rather than standalones (Harry Potter, Twilight, Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Fifty Shades, all serieseses…es)—you want to follow along, find out what happens next, speculate on what happens next—and what you *want* to happen next.
I love being published. It’s the way to get your work out to the most readers, it’s the way to make that work your best work, and also it pays the electric bill. But I also have-and do still, behold online story I am currently writin’ (http://sarahtales.livejournal.com/209287.html)—written online, because it’s fun to have swift responses and responses you can react to, because publishing schedules mean I *can’t* be affected by what readers want. By the time they read book 1, I’m done with book 2. 
And in some ways that’s good—one should be True to One’s Story. We still have audience response affecting TV, sometimes in good ways and sometimes in bad ways. (Spike was meant to be killed off early in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but he was so popular he stayed. AWESOME RESULT. )
But I do think it’s good, and valuable, and fun, to do something like this, and have the stories evolve and respond to audience response. (See who likes them a little bit of Ragnor Fell, for instance. ;))
In fact, it was the lovely readers on the Magical Bus Tour who inspired the Midnight Heir—which was not originally a part of the Bane Chronicles lineup.
MANY A READER: Well, *after* the Infernal Devices… I mean, the children…
(some time later, in a hotel room taking off our makeup)
CASSIE: My editor asked that also. 
SARAH: Well, I know Infernal Devices was a Tale of Two Cities. But you and I both know your true Dickens love is Great Expectations.
CASSIE: So…
SARAH: So…
CASSIE AND SARAH: WHAT IF!
One of my favourite stories is actually a Dickens story, too: novels used to be put out in serialised form, and a boat was arriving bearing the latest installment of the Old Curiosity Shop, a book whose heroine was called Nell. And a MOB ran down to the harbour and they all yelled to the sailors: ‘DOES LITTLE NELL DIE?’
(Presumably the sailors were like: HER MAJESTY’S NAVY DOES NOT GIVE SPOILERS, or something.)
But the energy that’ll propel the mob of readers to wonder and to care is in the not knowing, and feeling you’re a part of the story as it happens.
Once you’ve read the whole book, there it is: Little Nell, dead or not dead. But while the story’s still going on, there’s a mystery. 
It’s not just Maureen and I who have joined in the conversation. You guys get to have more of a voice, too.
I think that’s cool.

Get Your Own Clary & Simon Shirt

Remember back when the movie had just begun filming, and fans went crazy over some of the cast's clothes? Where now Brooklyn Industries.com has made it possible for fans to own one of Clary and Simon's shirts.

Check out the articles below.


Be sure to grab your shirts while supplies last! I have a feeling that those won't be in stock for long. Source

International TMI Movie Posters

Check out two of the latest TMI movie posters that have been spotted on Tumblr.

Daily Lily Collins shared this on via their tumblr page

 Cassie recently posted this one on her tumblr

I'm loving all the international love TMI is receiving. There are a variety of international TMI sites, Tumblr and Twitter accounts fans can follow to keep up with the global shadowhunter love.



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