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Ricochet Reviews entered Emlyn Chand's FB photo contest for Farsighted! The entries are included below. Here's more about Farsighted: RR's Farsighted Review . Leave a comment with a link to your entry or letting me know what you think! :) Haven't posted yet? You still have time to enter! Take a picture of yourself with a copy of Farsighted - whether it be a paperback, hardcover, or on your e-Reader - and post it on Emlyn Chand's FB page! Find Emlyn Chand: TWITTER , BOOK BLOGS , BLOG , GOODREADS , FACEBOOK , GOOGLE PLUS , NOVEL PUBLICITY Find Farsighted:    FACEBOOK , AMAZON , SMASHWORDS 

Ricochet Reviews now has its very own Formspring! For readers and followers not contacting for direct review requests (though messages are always welcome in any comment section!) this is a great resource for blog questions, trivia, and anything else your lovely bookie minds can fathom!  Socialize with Ricochet Reviews via Formspring here. Feel free to drop a line in the comments with links, so RR can keep up with you too!

Description: The strength of Sloane’s heart is about to be put to the ultimate test. After the Eclipse – the night vampires began openly slaughtering human victims – everything changed. Out of fear, the government salvaged what remained of the human population and enclosed them in massive, security-laden cities called White Sectors, while marking the vampire infested territory as Red Sectors. When seventeen-year-old Sloane McAllister’s twin brother disappears, she seems to be the only one who thinks he isn’t dead, and vows to stop at nothing to find him. Gathering her courage, she braves the Red Sector to search for clues to his whereabouts. By chance, she encounters Aden, a handsome, charismatic vampire with a hidden agenda. He turns Sloane against her will, and whisks her away to his underground city. Enemies quickly become friends as Sloane struggles against her attraction to Aden, and resists her growing loyalties to the creatures that ruined her life. But the vampires themselves

"I am Switzerland. I refuse to be affected by territorial disputes between mythical creatures." - Bella, Eclipse p. 143  Lately, I've been wondering if I'm the only one who firmly believes it's okay to love Harry Potter AND Twilight. While both young adult and phenomenon-level works, they are not even the same sub-genre. Why does it seem so important to pick one? I loved both book series, as well as the movies, and have never been able to select a personal favorite. I've never been able to choose between William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, either. D o you have a team? Or are you Switzerland?  Leave a comment below with your thoughts and you might be featured in a follow-up post for Ricochet Reviews! Visit the Facebook page to vote in the poll.

Check out RR's review for Farsighted ! Announcing the Farsighted Social Media Whirlwind Tour! As part of this special promotional extravaganza sponsored by Novel Publicity, the price of the Farsighted eBook edition is just 99 cents this week. What’s more, by purchasing this fantastic book at an incredibly low price, you can enter to win many awesome prizes, including lots of Amazon gift cards (up to $100 in amount) and 5 autographed copies of the book. Be sure to enter before the end of the day on Friday, December 30th, so you don’t miss out.

Hey there! This is just a quick update for authors waiting on reviews scheduled for this month that haven't yet been posted. Due to some family and holiday chaos, some of the reviews have been belated or generally missing. Regretfully, a few have been rescheduled later this week and early January. I sincerely apologize for any inconvenience, and thank you all for the patience, understanding, and good-natured responses to the missing posts. I'm currently flying through the piles, and will try to as many reviews as possible up, posted, and cross-posted beautifully. With thanks and well-wishes for the holiday season, Miranda of Ricochet Reviews

Check out Ricochet Reviews' review of Farsighted here. Announcing the Farsighted Social Media Whirlwind Tour! As part of this special promotional extravaganza sponsored by Novel Publicity, the price of the Farsighted eBook edition is just 99 cents this week. What’s more, by purchasing this fantastic book at an incredibly low price, you can enter to win many awesome prizes, including lots of Amazon gift cards (up to $100 in amount) and 5 autographed copies of the book. Be sure to enter before the end of the day on Friday, December 30th, so you don’t miss out.

Ricochet Reviews was contacted by some publicists for this awesome contest with a request to share all about it! If you're an aspiring author and a YA or middle-grade reader, you could win advice by huge people in the publication-business on any YA/middle grade manuscript. Best yet? It's for an amazing cause, helping refugees and other suffering people in Darfur and eastern Chad. Here's a letter from the Pres. of this awesome organization. ______________________________ Win a literary agent or acclaimed author's feedback on your unpublished manuscript for young adult or middle grade readers.  This rare opportunity is being offered to the six winners of an essay contest recently announced by the literacy charity Book Wish Foundation.  See http://bookwish.org/contest for full details. You could win a manuscript critique from:   Laura Langlie, literary agent for Meg Cabot Nancy Gallt, literary agent for Jeanne DuPrau Brenda Bowen, literary agent and editor of Ka

Announcing the Scorpio Rising Social Media Whirlwind Tour! As part of this special promotional extravaganza sponsored by Novel Publicity, the price of the Scorpio Rising eBook edition has dropped to just 99 cents this week. What’s more, by purchasing this fantastic book at an incredibly low price, you can enter to win many awesome prizes, including 2 Kindle Fires, Amazon gift cards up to $100 in amount, 5 autographed copies of the book, and 5 autographed copies of its recently released sequel, The Sting of The Scorpio . Be sure to enter before the end of the day on Friday, December 23rd, so you don’t miss out. To Win the Prizes: Purchase your copy of Scorpio Rising for just 99 cents on Amazon or Barnes & Noble Fill-out the form on Novel Publicity to enter for the prizes Visit today’s featured event; you may win an autographed copy of the book or a $50 gift card! BONUS: If you leave a comment on this blog post, you have another chance at $100!

Problem: The stores are insane, but online shopping seems too limitless to make a decision. Solution: Ricochet Reviews. Duh.   Tuesday's Top 10 is revealing the Top 10 YA Bookie Gifts in Dystopian , Apocalyptic , and Assortments !

Announcing the Scorpio Rising Social Media Whirlwind Tour! As part of this special promotional extravaganza sponsored by Novel Publicity, the price of the Scorpio Rising eBook edition has dropped to just 99 cents this week. What’s more, by purchasing this fantastic book at an incredibly low price, you can enter to win many awesome prizes, including 2 Kindle Fires, Amazon gift cards up to $100 in amount, 5 autographed copies of the book, and 5 autographed copies of its recently released sequel, The Sting of The Scorpio . Be sure to enter before the end of the day on Friday, December 23rd, so you don’t miss out. To Win the Prizes: Purchase your copy of Scorpio Rising for just 99 cents on Amazon or Barnes & Noble Fill-out the form on Novel Publicity to enter for the prizes Visit today’s featured event; you may win an autographed copy of the book or a $50 gift card! BONUS: If you leave a comment on this blog post, you have another chance at $100!

Announcing the Scorpio Rising Social Media Whirlwind Tour! As part of this special promotional extravaganza sponsored by Novel Publicity, the price of the Scorpio Rising eBook edition has dropped to just 99 cents this week. What’s more, by purchasing this fantastic book at an incredibly low price, you can enter to win many awesome prizes, including 2 Kindle Fires, Amazon gift cards up to $100 in amount, 5 autographed copies of the book, and 5 autographed copies of its recently released sequel, The Sting of The Scorpio . Be sure to enter before the end of the day on Friday, December 23rd, so you don’t miss out. To Win the Prizes: 1. Purchase your copy of Scorpio Rising for just 99 cents on Amazon or Barnes & Noble  - 2. Fill-out the form on Novel Publicity to enter for the prizes. - 3. Visit today’s featured event; you may win an autographed copy of the book or a $50 gift card! - BONUS: If you leave a comment on this blog post, you have another chance at $100!

The first taste of IMM on Ricochet Reviews ! It's a popular meme throughout the book blogger world, and will typically be done by-weekly on Mondays ! In My Mailbox features review requests sent by authors for the week.

Announcing the In Leah’s Wake Social Media Whirlwind Tour! As part of this special promotional extravaganza sponsored by Novel Publicity, the price of the In Leah’s Wake eBook edition has dropped to just 99 cents this week. What’s more, by purchasing this fantastic book at an incredibly low price, you can enter to win many awesome prizes, including Amazon gift cards of up to $500 in amount and 5 autographed copies of the book. Be sure to enter before the end of the day on Friday, December 16th, so you don’t miss out. To Win the Prizes Purchase your copy of In Leah’s Wake for just 99 cents on Amazon or Barnes & Noble Fill-out the form on Novel Publicity to enter for the prizes Visit today’s featured event; you may win an autographed copy of the book or a $50 gift card! BONUS: If you leave a comment on this blog post, you have another chance at $100!

Tuesday's Top 10: YA Book Blogs You've seen them in my blog roll and you've heard them on my rants: young adult book blogs! They're awesome, and they post the new read before I've even heard about it. They're kin and peers! They've got the look, they've got the name. Here's a list (alphabetecal, of course) of what's hot, who I stalk, and some blogs you seriously need to check out if you're loving Ricochet Reviews!

Announcing the In Leah’s Wake Social Media Whirlwind Tour! As part of this special promotional extravaganza sponsored by Novel Publicity, the price of the In Leah’s Wake eBook edition has dropped to just 99 cents this week. What’s more, by purchasing this fantastic book at an incredibly low price, you can enter to win many awesome prizes, including Amazon gift cards of up to $500 in amount and 5 autographed copies of the book. Be sure to enter before the end of the day on Friday, December 16th, so you don’t miss out. To Win the Prizes Purchase your copy of In Leah’s Wake for just 99 cents on Amazon or Barnes & Noble Fill-out the form on Novel Publicity to enter for the prizes Visit today’s featured event; you may win an autographed copy of the book or a $50 gift card! BONUS: If you leave a comment on this blog post, you have another chance at $100!

Click on the buttons to check out the holiday giveaways on some fellow blogger's pages. Don't you just love the holidays? :) Leave a comment telling me about your favorite holiday memories, or if you've discovered any other giveaways on your blogging travels ! :)

Announcing the In Leah’s Wake Social Media Whirlwind Tour! As part of this special promotional extravaganza sponsored by Novel Publicity, the price of the In Leah’s Wake eBook edition has dropped to just 99 cents this week. What’s more, by purchasing this fantastic book at an incredibly low price, you can enter to win many awesome prizes, including Amazon gift cards of up to $500 in amount and 5 autographed copies of the book. Be sure to enter before the end of the day on Friday, December 16th, so you don’t miss out. To Win the Prizes Purchase your copy of In Leah’s Wake for just 99 cents on Amazon or Barnes & Noble Fill-out the form on Novel Publicity to enter for the prizes Visit today’s featured event; you may win an autographed copy of the book or a $50 gift card! BONUS: If you leave a comment on this blog post, you have another chance at $100!

Description: When Lexie's mother announces she is marrying a Romanian immigrant, Lexie leaves behind her life in Connecticut for her penance in "The Moose Capital of the World." Small town living is strange enough, now Lexie must cope with her overbearing stepfamily monitoring her every move. They disappear into the woods and keep a secret locked in their shed. Her calm mother is now having violent outbursts and Lexie's sister is hearing sinister sounds coming from the forest behind their home. She soon discovers the boy she has been dreaming about is living in Maine. Despite Torin's reputations, Lexie cannot resist the attraction pulsating between them. Animals and people are turning up dead and Lexie learns the strange, new world she lives in has real-life monsters. When she decides she wants to be with Torin forever, she must fight to protect her family from a formidable evil.

As part of this special promotional extravaganza sponsored by Novel Publicity, the price of The Gaia Wars eBook edition has dropped to just 99 cents this week. What’s more, by purchasing this fantastic book at an incredibly low price, you can enter to win many awesome prizes, including a Kindle Fire, Amazon gift cards up to $100 in amount, 5 autographed copies of the book, and 5 autographed copies of its recently released sequel, Battle for Cascadia . Be sure to enter before the end of the day on Friday, December 9th, so you don’t miss out. To Win the Prizes: Purchase your copy of The Gaia Wars for just 99 cents on Amazon or Barnes & Noble Fill-out the form on Novel Publicity to enter for the prizes Visit today’s featured event; you may win an autographed copy of the book or a $50 gift card! BONUS: If you leave a comment on this blog post, you have another chance at $100!

My Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Deadly secrets have been buried in the Cascade mountain wilderness for centuries. Hidden. Out of sight and out of mind. Until today... Warren Wilkes, age 13, doesn't like what a greedy housing developer has done to his peaceful mountain community, so he vandalizes the developer's property, flees into the wild, and stumbles upon an ancient human skeleton revealed by torrential rain. More than old bones have been exposed, however, and the curious artifact Warren finds makes him question his own identity, and his connection to an ancient terror. A terror destined to rise again and annihilate all that Warren loves. He must fight or see his whole world destroyed.  "He wished it would slow down. The systems were so beautiful, so real, and so startlingly different. He wanted to linger." Kenneth G. Bennett. The Gaia Wars (Kindle Location 834).

As part of this special promotional extravaganza sponsored by Novel Publicity, the price of The Gaia Wars eBook edition has dropped to just 99 cents this week. What’s more, by purchasing this fantastic book at an incredibly low price, you can enter to win many awesome prizes, including a Kindle Fire, Amazon gift cards up to $100 in amount, 5 autographed copies of the book, and 5 autographed copies of its recently released sequel, Battle for Cascadia . Be sure to enter before the end of the day on Friday, December 9th, so you don’t miss out. To Win the Prizes: Purchase your copy of The Gaia Wars for just 99 cents on Amazon or Barnes & Noble Fill-out the form on Novel Publicity to enter for the prizes Visit today’s featured event; you may win an autographed copy of the book or a $50 gift card! BONUS: If you leave a comment on this blog post, you have another chance at $100!

From Bonnie Erina Wheeler, the author who brought you Fate Fixed, comes her first contemporary fiction novel, Body of Ash. Angela Jones is preparing for her marriage to end. She knows her husband is having an affair and not living up to the expectations required of his position as a church official. During a family dinner, her husband’s lover shows up and complicates the already strained relationships. But when Angela’s daughter disappears, revenge is the last thing on her mind. In her attempts to find Rachel, Angela reluctantly seeks help from her domineering mother while Brian’s addiction to sin courses through everyone he touches, sweeping them all into a world of uncertainty and obsession.

As part of this special promotional extravaganza sponsored by Novel Publicity, the price of The Gaia Wars eBook edition has dropped to just 99 cents this week. What’s more, by purchasing this fantastic book at an incredibly low price, you can enter to win many awesome prizes, including a Kindle Fire, Amazon gift cards up to $100 in amount, 5 autographed copies of the book, and 5 autographed copies of its recently released sequel, Battle for Cascadia . Be sure to enter before the end of the day on Friday, December 9th, so you don’t miss out. To Win the Prizes: Purchase your copy of The Gaia Wars for just 99 cents on Amazon or Barnes & Noble Fill-out the form on Novel Publicity to enter for the prizes Visit today’s featured event; you may win an autographed copy of the book or a $50 gift card! BONUS: If you leave a comment on this blog post, you have another chance at $100!

Ricochet Reviews tied for fifth place as a winner of "Best Blog Entry"  with the Farsighted blog tour via the fabulous Novel Publicity! Yay! This is so incredibly awesome! As some of you know, I've only been blogging since the last week of September 2011, and I've only known about the online readers' community since August, when my lovely mother published Fate Fixed . That being said, I've only written maybe thirteen or fourteen reviews (yes, I'm a baby blogger!), and I certainly didn't expect this! What a wonderful way to kick off December!

My Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Goodreads Description: The Rapture has occurred - the end of the world. The faithful have risen up to Heaven. Those left behind are in a living hell. Armed only with his swords and his wit, a teenage boy wanders this post-apocalyptic world alone, separated forever from everyone he loves. Cursed by his demonic heritage, he must now embark on a quest that will take him across the US to the City of Angels. There he will confront his destiny. There he must fight to save a friend ... and for the souls of the living." Earthquakes, Tsunamis, plague, famine. Animals mysteriously dying. All the signs are there. The Rapture is coming. How would you survive in this dystopian, post-apocalyptic world? A world whose conditions now mirror those in Hell. A world where Demons emerge at night to take those who remain to Hell. Read Rapture before the Rapture. Be prepared.