Lisa Burstein's Prom Dress and Gift Card Giveaway

To celebrate PRETTY AMY entering the world on May 15th, Entangled Publishing sister, Lisa Burstein,  is giving away 3(!) Size 8 Phoebe Couture evening dresses, generously donated by Kay Unger and 2(!) $20 Sephora gift cards.
4 lucky people will win! Contest starts 4/17 and goes until 5/17

See more at Lisa Burstein’s website!

To make this even MORE fun, some brave Entangled authors, editors, publicists and interns have given Lisa their prom photos. She will be posting them on her Facebook page over the next month as well!

Author Interview with Lisa Burstein

Yay! Lisa Burstein has agreed to be my very first interview! Isn't she brave?!


Thanks for the interview, Lisa, it's awesome to have you here!

Let's start with something fun. I hear that you're pretty funny, and judging by the snippets of PRETTY AMY I've read, I'm sure that rumor is true! So, could you give us your favorite joke? Well, I have to admit, I'm not really a jokey kind of person. I prefer one-liners myself. But I do love to laugh and make other people laugh. How about I list some of my favorite funny writers: Lorrie Moore, Laurie Notaro, Helen Fielding, and the KING Phillip Roth. I can only dream to make people laugh as much as these authors have made me laugh.

I will definitely have to check those writers out. I've also heard you say you and Amy are a lot alike. How so? I would say we are both cynical and snarky. Amy's voice is like mine times 1,000x, the very hyperbole of who I am. I was also a lot like her in high school: scared, unsure, lost. Wondering if I would ever figure out who I was. Wondering if I would ever find people who liked me for me. Wondering if I would ever like me for me.

If you could go back to high school, knowing what you know now, would you? If so, what would you do differently, if anything? Go back to high school, that sounds like torture! ;) But, if I knew then what I know now, I would definitely have NOT dated some of the boys I dated. I had very low self esteem and was amazed that any boy liked me. I pretty much never said, no (to a date, get your minds out of the gutter). But guess what? My mother was right, a lot of them were TOTAL LOSERS! 

What has been your favorite part of your publishing journey, so far? Working with my editor Stacy Cantor Abrams. It is honestly so amazing to have someone who can see your work and make it 100x's better than what it is. And guess what? She did! She helped me shape this book into something that makes people think and feel and for an author I don't think there is a greater experience than that your book resonates with readers. PRETTY AMY was a completely different book before I started working with Stacy and its been an incredible journey making it what it is now.

That is wonderful! Stacy sounds awesome! What are you most looking forward to? Holding my book in my hands, which I get to do THIS WEEK! I still can't believe I am having a book published! A dream of mine since I was a little girl. 

I can relate to that :) Can you talk about what we can look forward to seeing from you in the future? A companion novel to PRETTY AMY, titled DEAR CASSIE about the aftermath of the girls’ arrest and its effect told through diary entries of Amy’s best friend Cassie.

Oooo, that sounds interesting! Now, how about a quick game of Top Two? 

What are your top two:

-Desserts? Carrot Cake and ANY type of candy

-Movies you could watch at any time? BETTER OFF DEAD. My absolute favorite! I have it on DVD and watch it at least two times a year. (I also have the movie poster in my office at home).

-Obsessions right now? As a debut author- Twitter and Goodreads.

Thanks for the interview, Lisa! I can't wait to read PRETTY AMY!

Pretty Amy is on Goodreads, plus there's a Goodreads Giveaway right now!

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Hang out with Lisa on Twitter, Facebook, and on her website!

Greta and the Goblin King Cover Reveal!!!

Y'all are going to LOVE this one! I was gobsmacked by this covers beauty! GRETA AND THE GOBLIN KING by Entangled sister Chloe Jacobs releases November 13, 2012, and is about, well... Here, read this:


While trying to save her brother four years ago, Greta was thrown into the witch’s fire herself, falling through a portal to a dangerous world where humans are the enemy, and every ogre, goblin, and ghoul has a dark side that comes out with the full moon.


To survive, seventeen-year-old Greta has hidden her humanity and taken the job of bounty hunter—and she’s good at what she does. So good, she’s caught the attention of Mylena’s young Goblin King, the darkly enticing Isaac, who invades her dreams and undermines her determination to escape.


But Greta’s not the only one looking to get out of Mylena. The full moon is mere days away, and an ancient evil knows she’s the key to opening the portal. If Greta fails, she and the lost boys of Mylena will die. If she succeeds, no world will be safe from what follows her back…


Doesn't that sound freaking AWESOME?!?!?! And here's what you've been waiting for. Rest your weary eyes on this:

A Shufflin' Saturday Request

There won't be a Shufflin' Saturday post today because I actually have places to go and people to see (shocking, I know). Instead, maybe you guys could give me some music suggestions. What songs do you know of that when you hear them you think, "High school"?

Fangirl Friday!

Happy birthday to Zach Braff (a.k.a JD on Scrubs, a.k.a. Stefanie's alter-ego), Paul Rudd, and John Ratzenberger!

So, lots of news on the superhero movies front.

The Captain America sequel will be released on April 4, 2014! YAY and BOO! I have to wait two freaking years to see more of this:

The X-Men: First Class sequel will start shooting in January which means we'll have to wait even longer for more McAvoy and Fassbender. It's kinda easier for me to deal with this since I'm loving the X-Men titles from Marvel. AND I'm only up to 2010 in those. I was on a comic binge the other day and realized I was missing a couple of issues because the next one in line was this:

*RECORD SCRATCH!* Right! To put it simply, I was astonished (nudge, nudge, get it?!).

Anyway, that's enough of that. Let's continue with what I started last week. Today, I'm discussing:

The Best Time-Suck: TV 101, Part 1

Shufflin' Saturday: WIP Playlist

Yay! Shufflin' Saturday! So, I've been working hard, trying to get my playlist down for this WIP. So far, I've only found a few songs that click. Here they are! Enjoy!

Fangirl Friday!

Happy Birthday to Robbie Coltrane, Warren Beatty, and John Astin!!!

So, I'm still coming down from the awesomeness of The Hunger Games. Despite the fact that I had to sit in the third row, all the way to the right, and in front of two chatterboxes (at least the girl was asking her guy questions about the story which led me to believe he had read the book), I still loved the movie! I only have two small criticisms, but they're not really worth mentioning.

I'd like to try something a little different today. I usually talk about up and coming fangirl events like new movies or books, but today I'd like to talk about some things that I feel every nerdgirl should know about. I wouldn't judge you if you didn't know about these things, of course. This article, On the Fake Geek Girl, from The Mary Sue got me to thinking about how wrong it is to look down on someone who calls themselves a geek, but doesn't seem to know the things they should. Geekdom is an all inclusive club! Anyone can join!

So, let's start with:

The Classics: Movies 101