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October 2, 2018

Boo! Time for treats and the Fall 2018 @YAScavengerHunt #TeamGreen #YASH

Hi and welcome to the YA Scavenger Hunt! This bi-annual event was first organized by author Colleen Houck as a way to give readers a chance to gain access to exclusive bonus material from their favorite authors…and a chance to win some awesome prizes!

This contest has ended

Hi! I’m Julie Reece, your host for this stop on the hunt.

I like animals, kids, books and movies. Okay, but not in that order.

Be sure to check out the additional, personal book giveaway I’m doing at the bottom of this post!

At this hunt, you not only get access to exclusive content from each author, you also get a clue for the hunt. Add up the clues, and you can enter for our prize–one lucky winner will receive one book from each author on the hunt in my team! But play fast: this contest (and all the exclusive bonus material) will only be online for 72 hours! Tuesday, Oct 2nd, 12 pm Pacific Time to Sunday, Oct 7th at noon Pacific time.

You can visit the YA Scavenger Hunt page to find out all about the hunt. There are seven contests going on simultaneously, and you can enter one or all! contests going on simultaneously, and you can enter one or all!

I am a part of but there is also a RED, BLUE, GOLD, ORANGE, PINK, & PURPLE team for a chance to win a whole different set of books!

If you’d like to find out more about the hunt, see links to all the authors participating, and see the full list of prizes up for grabs, go to the YA Scavenger Hunt page.

SCAVENGER HUNT PUZZLE

Directions: Below, you’ll notice that I’ve hidden my favorite number somewhere in this post. Collect the favorite numbers of all the authors on the RED TEAM, and then add them up (don’t worry, you can use a calculator!).

Entry Form: Once you’ve added up all the numbers, make sure you fill out the form here to officially qualify for the grand prize. Only entries that have the correct number will qualify.

Rules: Open internationally, anyone below the age of 18 should have a parent or guardian’s permission to enter. To be eligible for the grand prize, you must submit the completed entry form by Sunday, Oct 7th at noon Pacific time. Entries sent without the correct number or without contact information will not be considered.

Today, I have the great pleasure of hosting the fabulous ALICE REEDS!

Part figure skating lover, book addict, and psychology and space nerd, Alice Reeds lives in Europe and spends most of her time typing away on another manuscript or watching one too many YouTube videos.

And now, for some awesome cover

Blurb:

They wake on a deserted island. Fiona and Miles, high school enemies now stranded together. No memory of how they got there. No plan to follow, no hope to hold on to.

Each step forward reveals the mystery behind the forces that brought them here. And soon, the most chilling discovery: something else is on the island with them.

Something that won’t let them leave alive.

Buy the book!

And here’s her EXCLUSIVE CONTENT!

Take it away, Alice …

Hi everyone!

I’m really excited to share some ECHOES related music with you for the YA Scavenger Hunt. I’ve loved music since I was a child, grew up with Pink Floyd and Led Zepplin playing almost daily, and now I’m obsessing over BTS and SHINee, whatever Tomorrowland set I can get my hands on, or the latest albums my favorite bands and artists have released. I have playlists for basically anything and everything and can’t write, outline, or plot without something playing in the background.

So, today I have three playlists for you, the official ECHOES playlist, as well as one short one for each of my main characters. To be quite honest, putting together the character specific ones was way harder than the book playlist. How do you summarize a character through the use of just three songs? I barely even know which songs I would pick for myself! But, somehow, I’ve managed to do it.

Hope you’ll enjoy this musical insight into my book and happy hunting!

Alice

ECHOES

Sleeping At Last – The Ash Is In Our Clothes
Seeed – Dickes B
X Ambassadors – Litost
Peter Fox – Schwarz zu blau
Kaleo – Vor í Vaglaskógi
Emma Blackery – Agenda
Panic! At The Disco – Far Too Young To Die
The Neighbourhood – R.I.P 2 My Youth
Amber Run – 5AM
Dotan – Home
Placebo – H.K. Farewell

Fiona

Fewjar – Tapirsupper
The Pretty Reckless – Going to Hell
Royal Blood – Figure It Out

Miles

Jamie xx feat. Romy – Loud Places
Eddy de Pretty – Random
Alex Clare – Too Close

Hey, ya’ll, it’s your host Julie Reece again.

Awesome playlist, right? If you want to know more about Alice Reed and her books, check out these links!

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And don’t forget to enter the contest for a chance to win a ton of books

by me, Jessica Brody, Mindy McGinnis and many more!

To enter, you need to know that my favorite number is

Add up all the favorite numbers of the authors on the green team and you’ll have all the secret code to enter for the grand prize!

And now, for my personal giveaway …

One winner will get a signed paperback copy of my YA southern romance ONE SUMMER WITH AUTUMN, two more will receive an ebook copy of THE ARTISANS from Amazon!

Amazon Goodreads

Amazon

To enter, leave a comment telling me what you love most about Autumn (the season, not the heroine in my book, ha ha). That’s it! Just PLEASE make sure you leave me your name and email (or some way to reach you) to contact you if you win. Sometimes, the winner forgets to leave contact info and I have to chose someone else. Bummer.

Winners in the separate giveaway will be contacted by Monday, Oct 8th and posted on the YASH website along with the grand prize winners.

Thanks for hunting with me today. Good luck!

TO CONTINUE THE HUNT …

To keep going on your quest for the hunt, you need to check out the next amazing author H.M. Gooden Just look for the contest post on her blog to keep playing. Good luck!

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October 1, 2015

Go #TeamGold! 11th YA Scavenger Hunt is LIVE! #YASH @YAScavengerHunt

By Julie Antonovich Reece

Welcome to the 10th YA Scavenger Hunt!

This contest is over.

Winners announced soon!

Welcome! I’m Julie Reece,

your host for this stop on the hunt.

You are currently hunting on

TEAM GOLD!

YA Scavenger Hunt is a bi-annual event first organized by the super-awesome author Colleen Houck as a way to give readers a chance to access exclusive bonus material from their favorite authors…and a chance to win some awesome prizes! At this hunt, you not only get access to exclusive content from each author, you also get a clue for the hunt.

Play fast, ya’ll! This contest (and all the exclusive bonus material) will only be online for 72 hours!

SCAVENGER HUNT PUZZLE RULES

Directions:

Below, you’ll notice that I’ve listed my favorite number somewhere in this post. Collect the favorite numbers of all the authors on TEAM GOLD, and then add them up (don’t worry, you can use a calculator!)

HINT: THE SECRET NUMBER IS HIGHLIGHTED IN GOLD!

Entry Form:

Once you’ve added up all the numbers, make sure you fill out the form here to officially qualify for the grand prize. Only entries that have the correct number will qualify.

Rules:

Open internationally, anyone below the age of 18 should have a parent or guardian’s permission to enter. To be eligible for the grand prize, you must submit the completed entry form by October 4, at noon Pacific Time. Entries sent without the correct number or without contact information will not be considered.

There are EIGHT contests going on simultaneously, and you can enter one or all! I am a part of the GOLD TEAM, but there is also a RED TEAM, PINK TEAM, PURPLE TEAM, ORANGE TEAM, TEAL TEAM, BLUE TEAM & GREEN TEAM! Check out each team for a chance to win eight different sets of signed books!

If you’d like to find out more about the hunt, see links to all the authors participating, and see the full list of prizes up for grabs, go to the YA Scavenger Hunt page.

Now that the rules are out of the way, we can get on to the SCAVENGER HUNT PUZZLE.

I’m so excited to be hosting … dun, dun daaaa …

T.A. Maclagan!

Bio: T.A. Maclagan is a Kansas girl by birth but now lives in the bush-clad hills of Wellington, New Zealand with her Kiwi husband, son and four pampered cats. With a bachelor’s degree in biology and a Ph.D. in anthropology, she’s studied poison dart frogs in the rainforests of Costa Rica, howler monkeys in Panama and the very exotic and always elusive American farmer. It was as she was writing her ‘just the facts’ dissertation that T.A. felt the call to pursue something more imaginative and discovered a passion for creative writing.

For more information you can find her online at:

The book is showcasing in the YA Scavenger Hunt this season is her very first novel

They Call Me Alexandra Gastone

Amazon| Barnes & Nobles| iTunes| Kobo| Goodreads

Blurb: Alexandra Gastone has a simple plan: graduate high school, get into Princeton, work for the CIA, and serve her great nation. She was told the plan back when her name was Milena Rokva, back before the real Alexandra and her family were killed in a car crash.

Milena was trained to be a sleeper agent by Perun, a clandestine organization from her true homeland of Olissa. There, Milena learned everything she needed to infiltrate the life of CIA analyst Albert Gastone, Alexandra’s grandfather, and the ranks of America’s top intelligence agency. For seven years, “Alexandra” has been on standby and life’s been good. Grandpa Albert loves her, and her strategically chosen boyfriend, Grant, is amazing. But things are about to change. Perun no longer needs her at the CIA in five years’ time. They need her active now.

Between her cover as a high school girl—juggling a homecoming dance, history reports, and an increasingly suspicious boyfriend—and her mission in this high-stakes spy game, the boundaries of her two lives are beginning to blur.
Will she stay true to the country she barely remembers, or has her loyalty shattered along with her identity?

Wow! How much do you love that cover, people? And the blurb makes me want to read it even more! I’d give away >> 22 << birthday wishes to have it in my hands right now!!! Did you see what I did there? With the number >> 22 <<?