Thanks to everyone who entered! I'm so excited MERCY LILY is out and finding its way into the hands of readers! I'll be shipping copies this week!
Jocelyn, please send me the address where you'd like me to ship your books to! Congratulations and thanks for entering!
writes4kids (@) wi (dot) rr.com
*Final month to enter! Win TEN COPIES of Lisa Albert’s debut young adult novel, MERCY LILY!*
Thanks for joining me to celebrate during this final month of my 2011 Debut Novel Giveaway! The release of my YA novel, MERCY LILY, is just weeks...DAYS away and the anticipation is so exciting!
I have several events planned to kick off the debut. I’m going to be attending the Wisconsin Book Festival’s TEEN FRIDAY with Ilsa Bick on October 21st. Then off to the American Association of School Librarians convention in Minneapolis with my publisher, Flux, October 27th & 28th . I’ll have my official book signing and launch in November and am waiting on confirmation. I’m also doing a radio interview in the coming weeks. Writing this all out is kind of freaking me out! I’m so very thankful though!!!
So...the contest! Remember...there’s three ways to enter. I’ve updated the entry dates and the official release date since MERCY LILY will now be out October 8th, 2011, slightly earlier than I thought! Yeah! Thanks for entering & good luck!!
(In case you want to, you can pre-order it HERE! Squee! Pre-orders make my day!! I hear they’re being shipping already, too!!)
Three ways to enter. Three chances to win!
- Enter any time up until October 7th.
- Enter in one place, or all three for maximum entries!
- Final drawing and announcement of the single winner of
ten copies will be held
October 9th. (Because I’ll be celebrating October 8
th - Mercy Lily’s release date!! LOL!)
*Be sure to leave your contact information and check back on the 9th to see if you've won!* Comments on LJ without contact info will not be included in the drawing, sorry! For more information email Lisa at writes4kids (@) wi.rr.com
Thanks again and please spread the word!!
Lisa~
www.lisaalbert.com
The Nine Months Until Mercy Lily Debuts Giveaway is winding down! I'm in the nesting phase and knitting booties for my baby! One month to go!
The winners of the August (late because of technical difficulties) and September copies are: Sandy Brehl and Laura Menardi Jacobsen. Come on down! He-he. Ladies, please PM or email me with your addresses. Thanks for entering!
October will be the final month of the celebration and I'm giving away TEN copies! Please spread the word to teens, teachers, librarians, books clubs, and YA lovers. Details for the October Giveway will be posted on Monday.
Thanks a bunch!!
Lisa~
(NOTE: Due to server trouble on LiveJournal (again!) in August, my pre-dated post did not appear so I will be drawing TWO winners this month. :-) Also, LJ doesn't seem to have formatting or preview buttons anymore and my links to Facebook and Goodreads aren't showing up. Frustrating!
Welcome to my 2011 Debut Novel Giveaway to celebrate the release of my YA novel, MERCY LILY! Thanks for entering & good luck!! Be sure to read the updated ways to enter. Three ways to win! I’ve also updated the entry dates and the official release date since MERCY LILY will now be out October 8th, 2011, slightly earlier than I thought! Yeah!
Contest deets:
*2011 Debut Novel*
Enter to win Lisa Albert’s young adult novel, MERCY LILY, a FREE Skype Author Visit, & Prizes!
Three ways to enter. Three chances to win!
• Leave a comment on my LiveJournal blog.
• "Like" my Facebook author page.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lisa-Albert-Author-Page/101681669918167
• Add Mercy Lily to your want list on Goodreads.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10752116-mercy-lily
Enter between the 1st and 7th of each month through October.
Enter in one place, or all three for maxium entries!
Drawings are held on the 8th of each month.
(Update: Because many readers have added MERCY LILY to their Goodreads lists after the 8th,
I will count those as entries for the following month. So, basically adding it Goodreads counts all month long. THANKS!!)
One copy given away monthly.
Ten copies to one winner will be announced October 8th, 2011 - Mercy Lily’s release date!
It is available for pre-order HERE though! Squee! Pre-orders make my day!! ;-)
Grand Prize Skype Visit winner will be drawn from all 2011 entries
and will be announced on 11-11-11.
*Be sure to leave your contact information or plan to check back on the 8th of each month to see if you've won!*
For more information email Lisa at [email protected]
Thanks and spread the word!
Lisa~
www.lisaalbert.com
What a conference! My awesome roomies, Shawn McGuire and Tammi Sauer, were so much fun! Thanks, ladies!!
I hadn’t been to LA for the conference since 2007 so it felt great to return. I was awarded a full International Conference Scholarship back in 2003 (they weren’t officially announced back then) and retruned several years in a row.
Once I arrived at the Hyatt on Thursday, I slid right back into Writer’s Camp mode, because being surrounded with 1,000 other publishing industry people makes me feel right at home. Ahhhh!
Shawn and I were exhausted from only getting 2 to 3 hours sleep, so we hit the pool and lounged. Thursday night was dinner in Beverly Hills with a group of amazing and fun authors.
After Friday’s opening talks and keynotes, I went to my critique. The editor who was given my middle grade novel was amazing. She gave me two pages of comments and said my character is super-likeable, the family dynamics are realistic and terrific, and compared it to 11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass – a great thing!! I came away feeling very inspired and grateful.
I attended the afternoon workshop Know Your Rights: Making the Most of Your Subsidiary Rights with Tracey and Josh Adams . This was very interesting and informative and I came away with deeper knowledge and a better understanding of this part of the business. I wasn’t exactly sure what World English Rights or North American Rights meant going into the workshop and their explanation cleared up a lot for me. Basically, World English Rights covers anything printed in English, regardless of the territory. Foreign Rights for printing in another language, such as German or Italian, goes beyond that and is Translation Rights. I was lumping World English and Translation Rights all together so now I understand the why and how they are separate. Flux holds World English Rights to my novel, Mercy Lily, and I’ve heard they do a great job exploiting those rights. I’ll cross my fingers and whisper my motto, high hopes – little expectations. J
Friday night I participated in the PAL Member Cocktail Party and Book sale and had a great time. It was my first official event with Mercy Lily and even though I didn’t have copies to sell, I gave away bookmarks and chatted with a lot of people who came to my table. Super fun!! After that, the Wisconsin SCBWI members got together and had pizza and drinks and then we went to the X Bar. Lots of fun and shenanigans!!
Saturday was whirlwind of keynotes and workshops and it was go-go-go until the big 40 Winks Poolside Gala. The day was packed with informative and inspiring talks! The evening was gobs of fun. I danced until my feet hurt and got up on stage and sang a bit of “Brick House.” Believe me when I tell you I was sober but intoxicated from the energy of 1,000 attendees.
I had a chance to catch up with writer pals on Sunday before the Golden Kite luncheon and then was treated to the amazing line-up of speeches by the winners and the always charming and inspiring Richard Peck. I adore him!
Ellen Hopkins was at my table and even though it’s hard to talk across a table for twelve, it was great to spend a little time with her and my writer friends. After the meal, a few seats opened up and Sonya Sones and Judy Blume sat with us! I’m a huge fan of both and have had the pleasure of meeting Sonya before (she’s super nice and even sent me photos she’d taken of me – some of which I use online.) Going over to say “Hi” to Sonya, I said a quick hello to Judy Blume a
Kristi, The Story Siren, is a well known and well respected blogger of teen literature and she's giving MERCY LILY a nice shout out on her blog! Check it out HERE.
Kristi showcases five Fall 2011 titles and I am honored to have MERCY LILY be one of them! Wow!!
It's been a little sercet up until now, but now that ArCs are floating around I'm happy to report that Kristi read MERCY LILY and provided a lovely blurb for the cover. She reads zillions of novels and I am very thankful and lucky she made time for my book! Thanks, Kristi!
Quick...before LJ crashes on me again...here's the winners for the May Giveaway of a copy of MERCY LILY and bookmark swag from 2011 debut authors.
Winner: Sloan over on Goodreads! http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1892892-sloan
Bookmark winners: Nancy E. Davis, Amy Haffner on Facebook, and Lindsay on Goodreads http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2323502-lindsay .
Facebook "Likes" on my author page and adding Mercy Lily on Goodreads seemed to be the hot ticket this round with 59 entries! Nice!!
Copies will come before the actual release (Oct. 8, 2011) because I just heard it's going to print August 1st! Wahoo!!
Thanks, everyone!!! Good luck next month!!
xo Lisa
Welcome to month four of my 2011 Debut Novel Giveaway! Thanks for entering & good luck!! Be sure to read the updated ways to enter. Three ways to win!
14 members of the Elevensies Debut Novel Group have sent in book marks and postcards and I'll again be randomly drawing three entries to receive some free swag. Thanks, 2011 Debut comrades! Check us all out HERE.
Contest deets:
*2011 Debut Novel Giveaway*
Enter to win Lisa Albert’s young adult novel,
MERCY LILY, a FREE Skype Author Visit, & Prizes!
Three ways to enter. Three chances to win!
Enter between May 1st and 10th. Enter in one place, or all three for maxium entries!
Drawings are held on the 11th of each month in 2011.
One copy given away monthly.
Ten copies to one winner on October 11th, 2011 -- Mercy Lily’s official release date!
It's availbable for pre-o
Thanks to everyone who entered and added Mercy Lily over on Goodreads, too!
LiveJournal has experienced a lot of technical difficulties so I may not use that venue next month. We'll see! I'd like to host the giveaway on my new author page on Facebook, so please spread the word for readers to "like" it in order to see my updates. Thx!! https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lisa-Albert/101681669918167
The winner the April giveaway for a copy of Mercy Lily is.... deenaml!
Winners who will be sent bookmarks are... Tamarak (Tammi Sauer), akosset, and tehacomb! Congrats and please email your addresses to me so I can pop the 2011 debut author bookmarks in the mail.
May will be five months until Mercy Lily's release and I'm expecting to see production/copy edits soon. After that I expect I'll be hearing from the publicist. Then expect review copies to go out, etc... Having these giveways really helps with my book baby count down and all this expecting!! :-)
Congrats and keep entering!
xo Lisa
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(Due to technical difficulties, this post is late. *shakes fist* at LJ!)
Welcome to month three of the 2011 Debut Novel Giveaway! Thanks for entering & good luck!! 14 members of the Elevensies Debut Novel Group have sent in book marks and postcards and I'll again be randomly drawing three entries to receive some free swag. Thanks, 2011 Debut comrades! Check us all out HERE.
Contest deets:
*2011 Debut Novel Giveaway*
Enter to win Lisa Albert’s young adult novel,
MERCY LILY, a FREE Skype Author Visit & Prizes!
Drawings are held on the 11th of each month in 2011.
One copy given away monthly.
Ten copies to one winner on October 11th, 2011 -- Mercy Lily’s official release date! It's availbable for pre-order now though! Squee!
I have been quite the slacker when it comes to blogging these days and I’m going to try to do better! Life gets so busy and right now, taxes are on the top of my to-do list. Ugh.
I fine-tuned an author visit program and visited with a group of eight graders earlier this month and it was a blast!! I think doing author visits and presentations at author events is one of my favorite parts of being an author.
I’m working on my middle grade novel and have noted my daily goals on my calendar and have set a deadline for myself. Then, I’ll be passing it on to a few writer friends for critique before sending it off to Super Agent.
I have several writer friends and one who really inspires me is my pal, Lisa Schroeder. Lisa and I swap manuscripts from time to time and I read her middle grade novel, IMPOSSIBLY SMALL when she completed it. I loved it and offered a few ideas, one being a fun twist to the ending. Lisa loved the idea and used it and I can’t wait to read the final version because she just SOLD it to Holt. Yay!! Congrats, Lisa!!
I’m also doing research for a couple of nonfiction projects. One of the perks of working at my school library job is that I’m able to see gaps in the market. Not just the school library market, but the market as a whole. It just so happens that one of my projects will fill a gap and this is a really good thing! I won’t go into platform and competing books here, but I am working behind the scenes on all that market research, too. There’re several databases I use and my findings are keeping me going.
So, I’m still here, working and writing. Tell me what you’re up to!!
XO Lisa
Between Facebook and LJ, the March giveaway brought in 22 entries! Thank you and if you haven't entered, there's six more months to do so! I know I'm crazy!! :-)
The random drawing results are:
Mercy Lily winner...Liza Wiemer!
2011 debut author bookmarks... Pam Beres, Christine Kohler, and Christine M. Hendersen!
Please email your addresses to me asap at writes4kids (at) wi.rr (dot) com
....now if LJ will play nice and let me show my cover... (this is try #3!)
It's so stunning!!!!!!!! And it's available on Amazon today for pre-order! Wahoo!!
Drawing tomorrow for a free copy of Mercy Lily! I'll post the winners and show off my beautiful cover, too!
Enter by commenting here or go to the original post with contest deets and enter there: http://lisaalbert.livejournal.com/38068.html
Good luck and please spread the word to teens, teachers and libraries!
Thanks!!
Lisa
Welcome to month two of the 2011 Debut Novel Giveaway! Thanks for entering & good luck!! 14 members of the Elevensies Debut Novel Group have sent in book marks and postcards and I'll again be randomly drawing three entries to receive some free swag. Thanks, 2011 Debut comrades! Check us all out HERE.
Contest deets:
*2011 Debut Novel Giveaway*
Enter to win Lisa Albert’s young adult novel,
MERCY LILY, a FREE Skype Author Visit & Prizes!
Drawings are held on the 11th of each month in 2011.
One copy given away monthly.
Ten copies to one winner on October 11th, 2011 -- Mercy Lily’s official release date!
Grand Prize Skype Visit drawing includes all 2011 entries and will be announced on 11-11-11.
Enter by leaving a comment below once per month
anytime between the 1st and the 10th.
*Be sure to leave your contact information or
plan to check back on the 11th of each month to see if you've won!*
Look who's here! Jen K. Blom! She's awesome as possum...okay, bad rhyme on my part...but I'm excited about her debut and being part of the blog tour! Isn't that cover just so sweet? Here we go....
Welcome to the POSSUMS ARE AWESOME blog tour for the middle-grade book, POSSUM SUMMER, coming out in March! (Have you
preordered yet?)
Hey everybody! Lisa was kind enough to host me on her blog for the little blog tour we've been having for POSSUM SUMMER! I thought I'd given P the slip but no, she's totally here, and ready to rumble! So without further ado,
a little about the book:
a lonely kid.
an orphaned baby possum.
a dad that says no way.
how do you keep that kind of secret?
and what happens when you’re found out?
Here we go!
LA: What's your drafting process like? Seat of your pants? Outlining?
JKB: Well, usually it's pretty seat of my pants. I start out with the character, their animal, and what the main problem is. Then usually things just crop up. I've tried to synop before and I always find myself going back and adding things after. I just can't do that whole outlining garbage! Ha!
LA: What book character are you most like and why?
JKB: This is a hard one. Deep down, I think I'm more like Jay Berry from SUMMER OF THE MONKEYS, or Lawrence in LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, than I'd like to admit. I live in town, and work in town, but I'd still like nothing more than to live somewhere wild and free and have a horse. I don't think that's ever changed.
LA: What is your favorite scene from a book?
JKB: HM. This is HARD. I think I'll give a couple, so you can then psychoanalyse me all you want ... :-D ... Jay Berry and his sister Daisy running at the end of SUMMER OF THE MONKEYS, Alex's first ride on the Black in THE BLACK STALLION, Rascal examining the soda bottle in RASCAL, Lawrence dancing on the sands in his new Arab gear in LAWRENCE OF ARABIA ... these are some of my faves.
Princess: A boy? Dancing? Not where I come from!
JKB: It's a classic, you rat.
P: Classic doo-doo! Ha! Miss Lisa, how are y
The Cooperative Children's Book Center is a fantastic resource here in Wisconsin and I'm on the listserv with two hats on, my library aide hat and my author hat. For the second half of February, the discussion is focused on 2011 debuts and they've included a link to direct participants here! *waves* to CCBC members.
From the CCBC site:
The CCBC-Net Community includes librarians, teachers, university educators and students, authors, artists, editors, publishers, and other adults with an interest in literature for the young.
Here's a link to join the listserv and read posts or join the discussion. http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/ccbcnet/default.asp
It's an exciting year! Congratulations, everyone!
Lisa
Lisa Rondinelli Albert
www.lisaalbert.com
http://lisaalbert.livejournal.com
-Lois Lowry, The Giver of Stories & Memories, Enslow, (2007)
-So You Want to Be a Film or TV Actor?, Enslow (2008)
-Stephenie Meyer: Author of the Twilight Saga, Enslow (2009)
-Mercy Lily, debut YA novel coming October 2011 from Flux Books
Pam Gardow is the winner for February! Congrats, Pam, and thank you for entering!
Thanks to everyone who entered! All entries this month will be included in the grand prize drawing on 11-11-11. If you didn't enter, there's still plenty of time because I'm giving away one copy each month uo to September 11, 2011. On my "Due Date" aka release day, October 11, 2011, I'm giving away ten copies to one winner. Then the Grand Prize of the free Skype visit will be held 11-11-11.
Several of my awesome 2011 debut author comrades have also donated bookmarks and postcards of their 2011 releases! I'm adding these as bonus prizes to three people who entered but who didn't win the copy of the month. This is also a random drawing. Swag is always fun!! I'll continue to add the extra prizes until I run out. If I have some left at the end, I'll include them in the grand prize!
Winners of the bookmark drawing are: Sandy Brehl, gsarnak, and Kim Sprengle! As soon as I get addresses, I'll send them out your prize! (except for Kim, who I work with! Ha!)
2011 Swag!
Rival
by Sara Bennett Wealer
Between Shades of Gray
by Ruta Sepetys (who has the coolest stationary ever!!)
Haven
by Kristi Cook
Like Mandarin
by Kirsten Hubbard
Under the Mesquite
by Guadalupe
*2011 Debut Novel Giveaway*
Enter to win Lisa Albert’s young adult novel,
MERCY LILY, a FREE Skype Author Visit & Prizes!
Drawings held on the 11th of each month in 2011.
One copy given away monthly.
Ten copies to one winner on October 11th, 2011, Mercy Lily’s official release date.
Grand Prize Skype Visit drawing includes all 2011 entries and will be announced on 11-11-11.
Enter once per month anytime between the 1st and the 10th.
For more infomation write Lisa at [email protected]
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