Welcome
to Lady Reader's Bookstuff's Top Ten Tuesday!!
This
week we got a freebie!! A Thanksgiving Themed freebie that is... Amy & I are going to give you 10 Authors
(total) that we are thankful for, because let’s face it without them where
would we be?!
Authors Tiffany's Thankful for
Ali Cross is a ninja novelist with a black belt in awesome. She lives in Utah with her kickin' husband, two sparring sons, one ninja cat, one sumo dog and four zen turtles.
Ali writes middle grade fiction under the pen name Alex Banks.
Ali helped give me the courage to blog. Without her I may very well not be here today... Plus she is a strong woman that I admire. No matter how long we go without chatting, I know she is there.
I'm a dreamer, believer in the unbelievable, and author of The Merworld Water Wars series: FINNED (Wave One), OVERFALLS (Wave Two), and RIFTED (Wave Three), with two more 'waves' to follow.
Hook (pun totally intended): "Take a fish-phobic girl, divide her by one hot merman, add a splash of his crazy ex-merbitch, and you get one stinky school year."
I'm a handbag-loving gal who LOVES to watch sports--football, baseball, basketball, NASCAR, you name it. I take being a fan very seriously. ;)
One thing I love most is trying to make people smile, even if it means making a fool out of myself (trust me, my inner idiot is bound to make multiple appearances).
I have a completely irrational fear of grasshoppers, worry that piranha may secretly lurk in lakes, and try to find the bright side in everything, even if I annoy myself doing so.
Sutton Shields is honestly a light in my life. She has made it a life goal of mine to meet her and own everything she ever writes (probably even her grocery list), because she is so full of smiles and quirks <3
D.T. Dyllin is a bestselling author who writes both paranormal and contemporary romance. Anything with a love story is her kryptonite. Her obsession with affairs-of-the-heart is what first drove her to begin twisting her own tales of scorching romance.
D.T. was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Black & Gold for life, baby!) She now lives in Little Rock, Arkansas with her husband and two spoiled German Shepherds.
This woman is all kinds of awesome! There is not one book of hers that I could/would put down willingly. She writes these amazing romance novels that EVERYONE should own!! Plus I've been with her since Hidden Gates was Enemy Through the Gates. I am thankful for not only Dara but every single one of her books!
Julie Anne Nelson... She is an honest to goodness inspiration and I adore her and her work. Julie has a writing style that is nothing short of beautiful and I clear my schedule before picking her work up :) This woman never gives up, even when things are at their most difficult and her hard work shows.
Authors Amy's Thankful For
Andrew
Smith is the award-winning author of several Young Adult novels, including the
critically acclaimed Winger (Starred reviews in Publishers Weekly, Kirkus,
Booklist, and Shelf Awareness—an Amazon “Best of the Year”) and The Marbury
Lens (A YALSA BFYA, and Starred reviews and Best of the Year in both Publishers
Weekly and Booklist).
He is a
native-born Californian who spent most of his formative years traveling the
world. His university studies focused on Political Science, Journalism, and
Literature. He has published numerous short stories and articles. He lives in
Southern California. Find more at http://www.authorandrewsmith.com.
A.S. King
is the author of the highly-acclaimed GLORY O'BRIEN'S HISTORY OF THE FUTURE,
REALITY BOY, 2013 LA Times Book Prize winner ASK THE PASSENGERS, 2012 ALA Top
Ten Book for Young Adults EVERYBODY SEES THE ANTS, and 2011 Michael L. Printz
Honor Book PLEASE IGNORE VERA DIETZ. She is also the author of the ALA Best
Books for Young Adults THE DUST OF 100 DOGS as well as a collection of
award-winning short stories for adults, MONICA NEVER SHUTS UP.
Look for
Amy's work in anthologies DEAR BULLY, BREAK THESE RULES, ONE DEATH NINE
STORIES, and LOSING IT. (And brace yourself for 2015's novel, I CRAWL THROUGH
IT.) Find more at www.as-king.com.
Ann Marie
("Annie") Frohoff grew up in sunny Southern California. As a teen and
young adult she spent her time frequenting and living in nearly every beachside
city up and down the coast. She settled in Hollywood at 19 working in film and
TV. Soon her itch to keep moving took over again, taking her to Hawaii for a
time and then back to LA. She’s now settled in the South Bay area of Los
Angeles. Her wanderlust and propensity to live life out loud has brought her
many life experiences so many of us only dream about. Always the storyteller,
it would be of no surprise to those who grew up with Annie, that she made the
transition into a book and screenplay author. You could say that she woke up
one day and had an epiphany, deciding to go to school for screenwriting. It’s
with this inner fire she set out to write her first screenplay. Soon after,
such work made it into the hands of an agency creative executive who challenged
her to write a novel to support the complex cast of characters she’d created.
Thus, after only a couple of years and many hours on the road immersing herself
in her subject matter; her edgy modern day "Walk The Line" meets John
Hughes Classics, Heavy Influence series is on it's way!
The first
installment in her Heavy Influence Series, FIRST KISS(#1) released in 2013,
FEVER PITCH(#1.5) 2013 and BROKEN NOTES (#2) in Dec. 2014. ~
The series
is a story of young, reckless love between a rising rock star and his younger
muse, spanning 10 years of their tumultuous and passionate relationship. An
original soundtrack has been written and recorded for this series, of which the
lyrics appear in the pages of the books. (Alternative Rock Genre).
Annie has
now also delved into the supernatural fantasy world with her writing partners
Shaun Barger and songwriter/musician Matthew Reich. Taking inspiration directly
from song lyrics and building an entire realm of vastly complex characters and
plot lines; weaving history, fantasy and heavy doses of romance together. You
will be kept turning the pages of “The Zodiac Wars" and “Precious Metal:
The Prince and the Gypsy” book series. Both series of books are currently in
development.
Learn
more at https://www.facebook.com/authoramfrohoff/.
Ellen Hopkins is the New York Times bestselling
author of Crank, Burned, Impulse, Glass, Identical, Tricks, Fallout, Perfect,
Triangles, Tilt, and Collateral.
Ellen lives
in Carson City, Nevada, with her husband and son. Hopkin's Facebook, Twitter,
Tumblr and Pinterest pages get thousands of hits from teens that claim Hopkins
is the "only one who understands me", and she can be visited at
ellenhopkins.com.
Shaun David Hutchinson is a major geek and all about
nerdy shenanigans. Shaun Hutchinson is the author of The Deathday Letter, FML,
The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley, the forthcoming book We Are the Ants (Spring
2016), and editor of the anthology, Violent Ends (Fall 2015).
He can be reached at
shaun@shaundavidhutchinson.com.
He
currently lives in South Florida with his partner and dog and watches way too
much Doctor Who.
S. Chris
Shirley is an award-winning writer/director and former President of the Board
of Lambda Literary. His debut novel, PLAYING BY THE BOOK, was the first coming
out novel to win a National IPPY Medal in religious fiction. He directed Roger
Kuhn’s music video, “What’s Your Name,” which aired nationally in the US and
made the annual MTV-Logo Top 10. He also
wrote/directed “Plus,” an award-winning short film that played at film
festivals internationally.
Chris
graduated from Auburn University where he served as photo editor of The Auburn
Plainsman. He later received a graduate degree from Columbia University and
studied filmmaking at New York University. He was born and raised in
Greenville, Alabama and now resides in Manhattan.
These
people are all more than just authors.
They're my friends. Such good friends
that I find myself considering them family, and each one is important to me in
their own way.
Are there any authors that you are
thankful for this Thanksgiving? What
types of Bookish things are you thankful for?
Let us know in the comments or link us up because we want to hear.
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