Troy CLE Q&A!

Here's an fun interview with the award-winning author of The Marvelous Effect, Troy CLE!

Who pwns everything?
Olivion owns EVERYTHING. In fact Olivion says "I am everything and all things come from me." SERIOUSLY!

If someone suddenly threw a wad of twenty thousand dollars at you, how would you respond?
Is this all you have? I am not sure if this will hold me over until my next royalty check or book advance. You really need to ante up!

If 'they' decided to make a movie of your life, which actor would you want to play you?
I guess I would play myself since I have studied acting and it would take a "special" kind of person to play me.

What's the most random question you can think of? Answer it.
Why do I love Twizzlers so much?
I really have no idea what the answer to that question is. Can you offer me an answer?

(Lorena) Because they're made of sinfully-delicious sugars?

Can you do the Time Warp again?
Time WARP? I need to learn and you all need to teach me! In the meantime I guess I will just have to watch the videos.

We'd also like to encourage you to watch the newest trailer for the The Marvelous World Saga! It's made of awesome!

Radiant Shadows Trailer

Hey guys, Lorena here. Just thought I'd share this trailer I made for Melissa Marr's upcoming novel, Radiant Shadows. She's holding a contest over on the Rath&Ruins forums that you still have time to enter!

Enjoy!

-Lorena

Fantasy Road Trip Contest!

We found out about this really cool contest with three of our favorite authors and just had to share it with you!

Listening Library is having a contest to win an iPod Touch and a collection of signed audiobooks!!! Hooked already? Here's the brief details, but you can find more on the contest site: 

Authors Involved:

• Libba Bray- The Gemma Doyle Trilogy
• Tamora Pierce-  the Beka Cooper series (though she's also written many others)
• Rick Riordan- the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series

Some of the details:

• You have to be between 13-18  years old. 
• In a video between 30 seconds and 5 minutes answer the question “If you could go on a road trip with a character from your favorite audio series, where would you go?  What would you do along the way?  How would you travel?” Though as a catch you have to include a reference to Florida, a reference to audiobooks, and a clip of dialogue from your chosen audio (from the above three authors) that can be downloaded on the contest site.
• Submit the video between June 1st and August 17th. 

 So visit www.fantasyroadtripcontest.com for more information and to submit your video! Good luck and have fun!

-The YAthenaeum Team

 

Rick Riordan Contest!

This Contest is Closed

All year the half-bloods have been preparing for battle against the Titans, knowing the odds of victory are grim. Kronos’s army is stronger than ever, and with every god and half-blood he recruits, the evil Titan’s power only grows. While the Olympians struggle to contain the rampaging monster Typhon, Kronos begins his advance on New York City, where Mount Olympus stands virtually unguarded. Now it’s up to Percy Jackson and an army of young demigods to stop the Lord of Time in The Last Olympian.

To honor the conclusion of this epic series, Books & Books will be hosting an author event at the Coral Gables Congregational Church. Where author Rick Riordan will read, and sign books for admiring fans. But as the final preparations are installed for the weekend's event, we realized we forgot the most important part. We don't have anyone to introduce Rick!

Normally one of us would gladly do it, but we figured, hey why not let the fans give Rick a proper intro, along with a FREE copy of The Last Olympian to the chosen winner.

Again however, this contest will be limited to those who will be able to attend the event.

So how about we get straight to the rules? To enter, just write up a short intro, which you would use to introduce the author. Please no longer than 4 minutes.

.:Rules:.

• Write an intro to introduce Rick Riordan. 4 minutes max.
  
• E-mail entry to yathenaeum@yahoo.com
• You must be present at the event on May 17th.
  
• Contestants are limited to 1 entry
  
• Deadline is Friday, May 15th at 7:00 p.m. Eastern

.:Prizes:.
1 entrant will receive:

• 1: Chance to introduce Rick Riordan at The Last Olympian signing on May 17th.
• 1: Copy of The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
  

Winners will be chosen on Friday, May 15th at 8:00 p.m. and announced shortly after.

-The YAthenaeum Team

This Week in YA- December 27, 2008

Random:

• Libba Bray finally faced her fear from Lauren Myracle's Halloween Scare-a-Thon. Due to her fear of dolls, she went to the American Girl store along with Maureen Johnson (so she could film the evidence)
  
• The first 80 pages of Forever Princess by Meg Cabot were posted online by HarperTeen and Meg Cabot posted parts of Holiday Princess on her blog.
• Lauren Myracle posted a video with dancing books and what they do for the holidays!

Book Trailer Contests:

• Shannon Hale announced on her blog there will be one for Rapunzel's Revenge.
• Meg Cabot announced on her blog she will be having one for Forever Princess.

Books that came out last week:

• Wicked 2: Legacy & Spellbound by Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguié
• Deadly Little Secret by Laurie Faria Stolarz
• The Musician's Daughter by Susanne Dunlap
• Need by Carrie Jones
• Wondrous Strange by Lesley Livingston
• Far From You by Lisa Schroeder
• Parties & Potions by Sarah Mlynowski
• Eon: Dragoneye Reborn by Alison Goodman

Books that come out this week:

December 28- From Somalia with Love by Na'ima B. Robert

December 28- Angel Boy by Bernard Ashley

December 29- Does This Book Make Me Look Fat? by Marissa Walsh

December 30- The Teashop Girls by Laura Schaefer and Sujean Rim

December 30- Privilege by Kate Brian

December 30- What Would Emma Do? by Eileen Cook

-The Yathenaeum Team