Supportive Authors and fansites

I LOVE how supportive Cassandra, and many of the other YA authors are towards us and their publishing companies like Simon and Schuster and Scholastic. I also love how supportive fansites are of each other as well. I've got some wonderful friends who have started some awesome sites (they're our affiliates).

Today, one of my friends who started Page Turners let me know that Aprilynne Pike made a reference to us in her post. Thank you Stacie for letting me know! http://apparentlyaprilynne.blogspot.com/2009/09/late-bloomers.html
What an honor for me to see that Aprilynne Pike (whom we all adore here) referenced us in her blog. I also that she referenced another site I help Moderate (Twilight Moms) and my friend's new site-Late Bloomers, which is a fan site for Aprilynne. Much like our site here for Cassandra, their site will be for Aprilynne.

I just had to blog that I love how supportive everyone is of each other. It's so awesome to me!!

Magnus & Alec City of Glass Outtake

Cassandra shared this today on her Google Group.
Seriously, this was one of my favorite scenes between Magnus and Alec.

Magnus, Alec breathed silently. The warlock was hurling spears of blue
fire at the Iblis demons; one spear struck an advancing demon in the
chest. With a sound like a pail of water poured onto flames, it
shuddered and vanished in a burst of ash. The others moved to fill his
place — Iblis demons weren’t very bright — and Magnus hurled another
spate of fiery spears. Several Iblis fell, but Magnus was beginning to
tire, Alec could tell even from this distance — and now another demon,
more cunning than the others, had drifted around Magnus and was
coalescing behind him, ready to strike.
Alec didn’t stop to think. Instead, he jumped, catching the edge of
the roof as he fell, and then dropping straight down to seize the
metal pole and swing himself up and around it, slowing his fall. He
released it and dropped lightly to the ground behind the Iblis demon.
The demon, startled, began to turn, its yellow eyes like flaming
jewels; Alec had only time to reflect that if he were Jace, he would
have had something clever to say, before he snatched the seraph blade
from his belt and ran it through the demon. With a dusty shriek, the
demon vanished, the violence of its exit from this dimension
splattering Alec with a fine rain of ash.
“Alec?” It was Magnus, staring. He had dispatched the remaining Iblis
demons and the square was empty but for the two of them. There was a
scratch running the length of his handsome face, and Alec was vaguely
surprised to see that his blood was red — he had wondered if warlocks
bled red or not, since they were part demon and demon’s blood could be
a variety of colors. “Did you just — did you just save my life?”

Please read more of it-http://mundiemoms.freeforums.org/outtake-from-cog-t765.html
If you have a google account, you can also join her goole group.

The Hollow book review

When Abbey’s best friend, Kristen, vanishes at the bridge near Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, everyone else is all too quick to accept that Kristen is dead…and rumors fly that her death was no accident. Abbey has never felt so desperately alone. Then she meets Caspian, the gorgeous and mysterious boy who shows up out of nowhere at Kristen’s funeral, and keeps reappearing in Abbey’s life. Caspian clearly has secrets of his own, but he’s the only person who makes Abbey feel normal again...but also special.

Just when Abbey starts to feel that she might survive all this, she learns a secret that makes her question everything she thought she knew about her best friend. How could Kristen have kept silent about so much? And could this secret have led to her death? As Abbey struggles to understand Kristen’s betrayal, she uncovers a frightening truth that nearly unravels her—one that will challenge her emerging love for Caspian, as well as her own sanity.

The Hollow is book 1 of THE HOLLOW TRILOGY. Learn more at jessicaverday.com
(taken from goodreads)

I was so sucked into to this story when I read the first chapter off Jessica's site. I was hooked. Shandra (Shasta) and I were at the bookstore on Saturday night and we got it and I finished the book today (it will be in the mail for your tomorrow S). I was so sucked into the book. It is a breathtakingly, haunting, love story that will have you crying as this first book in the trilogy ends.

I loved how Jessica put a wonderful spin and wove a love story around the legend of Sleepy Hollow. The story takes place in the town of Sleepy Hollow. The town is full of their traditions and very proud of their town's legends. It's the story of Abbey that will pull at your heart string as she's coping with the lost of her best friend. As she's trying to put the pieces together she meets Caspian and Nikolas (who's the keeper of the cemetery, which Abbey lives by). I have to say, that I love Nikolas's character. That totally surprised me too. As Abbey's journey to find out more into the death of her best friend the secrets she kept from her, she'll also learn that everyone has secrets and some of those secrets will come at a cost.

I'm eagerly awaiting the next book in this series.