Free Kindle Contest by Lisa Kuehne June 15

Lisa Kuehne, author of True Intentions (see my recent mini-review), is hosting an awesome contest!  She is giving away a free Kindle!!!!  And who could not use one of those!  All you have to do is go over to her author website and click away.  Good luck to all of you and here is the email she sent me for more specific directions. 

Hi Minnie,
In case you want to tell your readers, I'm giving away a free kindle.


They would go to http://lisakuehne.com website and click on the "e" in the top (by facebook/twitter/etc)

This is the everybizbook site where my contest tracking is held.

Click to register and it will ask you to describe your first kiss in 500 words or less. It will list all the entries (with only first name and last initial).  Your readers/friends/neighbors/etc can go to the same place and vote. Contestants will be able to log in and see how they are doing with votes.


The winner (first kiss with the most votes) takes home the Free, brand new kindle
2nd place gets a FREE True Intentions e-book.


The contest will end July 31st. On Aug 3rd the winners will be announced...


Thanks much,
Lisa

 
Enjoy and write an amazing flash over her topic...sounds fun.  But, I have a Nook...Yay!  It was my mother's day and graduation gift all wrapped up in one.  There are only two books I have bought since then...The Dark and Hollow Places (spectacular zombie fare) and The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (fabulous children's chap book my kids said I had to buy).  What's next?  Hmmm...it has to be something I really want to read and that I haven't read and that I know will be good.  Then again I have 20 books here at home to read and my own stuff to work on...

New YA Books in May 2011

1.  First, Between Here and Forever by the fabulous Elizabeth Scott!

I am very excited about this book, since she is one of my favorite authors.  Hopefully, I will buy it for my Nook very soon...but I already love the story line and the complications. 

Story of a girl who has always found her identity in being everything her sister is not, but now she has to discover who she is without her sister and in the process also discover things about her sister she did not know and might not have ever known. 

Of course, the love story...makes it better for me.  So, another coming-of-age story, but that's what I love to write. 

Isn't a lot of YA all about this is some way or another...the identity story, the growing up story, the remember when story, the coming-of-age story.  Luv It!

Enjoy the video...very interesting for all you aspiring authors, including me!

Elizabeth Scott on Between Here and Forever

2.  Ok, all you die-hard paranormal romance/Twilight fans, here's one for you by newcomer Lisa Kuehne with her debut YA, True Intentions.

(From author's website)

Ava is unaware she possesses a rare and unique gift, a soul with the ability to influence mankind toward virtue instead of sin. Unfortunately, Satan will stop at nothing to gain control of her special ability.

Ava's faith is seriously shaken when she is the sole survivor of the car accident that kills her twin brother and dad. When she relocates and faces the ultimate temptation in Samuel Perry, her mysterious classmate living on earth as a soldier of Satan since 1798 to tempt and damn mankind; Ava isn’t sure she can do the right thing— resist. Sam must choose if he will lead her straight into the devil’s trap or place his immortal existence on the line in order to keep the girl he is falling for alive.

What ultimate price is Ava willing to pay for love? What if it means giving up her life or turning over her soul straight into Satan’s hands— for the boy of her dreams?

 

I've only read a brief excerpt of this novel online, but I will say the Prologue gets you into Ava's story right away and her doomed, fated attraction to a someone who can only mean bad.  It seems the ultimate conflict will be between the forces of bad and good with love mixed in...reminds me of the frog's lines in the animated film Gnomeo and Juliet..."Your love is doomed, your love is dead" as she rips petals off a flower.  

So will Ava turn her boy to good or will Samuel turn Ava to evil? 

 

I would hope somehow Samuel becomes a friendly ghost, gives her an unforgetable kiss, and gives her up to his own blissful eternal sleep as someone who once lived as a human. But this is not likely since True Intentions is the first book in a series.

 

My favorite line so far?  He will remain here, an angel among us.

 

And the cover?  Fabulous look I think.