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Monday, July 29, 2013

YA Book News: The 1st Chapter of Richelle Mead's The Fiery Heart is Up!

I realize this Summer has been insane, and I've been lagging a great deal with posting YA book news posts. Today I'm making up for it, because I can not miss posting THIS exciting news!


Oh my book heart can't take the wait any longer! I need this book to already be in my hands please. Thankfully EW's Shelf Life treated fans to the 1st chapter of Richelle Mead's The Fiery Heart today. Here's a snippet from the first page, from Adrian's pov:
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"I'm no expert," I began, choosing my word carefully. "Well-actually, I am. And I'm pretty sure there are certain things we have to do before you need to be reading that."

For the love of everything that is Adrian this book needs to be out already. You can read the complete first chapter here or read the full screen version here

SIGOURNEY WEAVER in Talks to Join The Cast of City of Ashes!

I might have just died a fan girl death over this news! Hollywood Reporter has reported that SIGOURNEY WEAVER is in talks to join the cast of City of Ashes!


Here's what they reported:


Sigourney Weaver is in negotiations to join the cast ofThe Mortal Instruments: City of Ashes, Constantin's sequel to its upcoming supernatural fantasy, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones.
The project continues the story of a girl (Collins) who discovers she is a demon-slaying Shadowhunter and enters a world filled with warring vampires, werewolves and faeries, while also falling for another Shadowhunter (Bower).
In one of the few new roles, the veteran actress will play the ruthless leader of the Shadowhunters who will stop at nothing to destroy the man who killed her son.
An October start date is being eyed. 
A legend in the genre world for her Aliens work, Weaver’s recent appearances include AmyHeckerling's romantic vampire comedy Vamps, Cold Light of Day with Henry Cavilland cult hit Cabin in the Woods.


!@#$%^&*!@$ sums up my excitement! I am seriously fangirling over this news, and I HOPE that she does. She would be AWESOME!!!! Seriously, please let this happen.

The Mortal Instruments City of Bones TV Spot: Family Secret


Sony Pictures has shared another awesome #TMIMovie TV spot. This clip is titled Family Secret and aired a few days ago. I have no idea how I missed posting it here on the blog.

 

Only a couple more weeks till the movie hits theaters!

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City of Bones Perfume Launch


Check it out Shadowhunters! Laurelle London has announced their line of Mortal Instruments perfume! They've partnered with Sony Pictures to bring fans a new line of exclusive TMI fragrances that will be available to fans in August. I seriously love the runes on the perfume bottles! I don't care how they smell, I'm totally getting a bottle with the runes on it. 


Toronto City of Bones Movie Premiere Set For August 15th!


Global News announced today that The Mortal Instruments City of Bones Toronto premiere will be on August 15th, 2013! Also mentioned in the article is filming for City of Ashes which will begin on September 23rd! Added to the producer role is Don Carmody, who as Global News reported, has filmed dozens of movies in Canada. We can't wait to see sneak peaks from the City of Ashes set. 

Earthbound by Aprilynne Pike, Blog Tour


Hello & welcome to the first stop in Penguin Teen's EARTHBOUND blog tour! I'm so thrilled to be apart of the tour to help celebrate the upcoming release of Aprilynne Pike's newest YA book. 

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We pretty much can’t WAIT for everyone to read Aprilynne Pike’s latest book, Earthbound. To celebrate the start of a brand new saga, follow along the Earthbound blog tour to find out inside scoop from Aprilynne. We’ll also reveal an image from our beautiful Earthbound fortune-video (yes, it’s a thing) at each stop. Follow us all the way to the end, when we’ll reveal the full video on the Penguin Teen Tumblr!



Thoughts from Aprilynne:

One of the top, oh . . . probably three questions I get at any signing is, “What was your inspiration for . . .” whatever book I’m promoting. After Stephenie Meyer’s famous dream and J.K. Rowling’s budding world written on a napkin, it seems like everyone’s inspiration story needs to be as exciting as their novel! But I suspect Earthbound’s origin story is a bit more typical. I admit, I like sharing it for that very reason.

I was inspired to write Earthbound because I needed to write something new. It’s really as simple as that. Destined was finished, I was certain that was the end of Laurel’s story, and I had to come up with something new.

Luckily, as an already-published author, I had an editor to lean on. I came up with seven very basic pitches and I sent them to my editor and asked her which one she thought sounded the most interesting. The pitch was so bare-bones I can even share most of it here:

Sixteen year old Tavia never expected to wake up after her plane went down. As one of a handful of survivors, her parents decided a quiet, small town away from the intrusive media would be the best place for her to rehabilitate. And for the most part, they were right. Long, calm days with nothing but her home-study course to distract her allows Tavia to recover physically and begin to put together her mostly intact, but shaky memories. Tavia has no reason to believe that the rest of her life can’t be perfectly normal. Until she starts seeing people. People who aren’t there. 


(Obviously, some of the details changed; parents, dead. :D) After we decided on the pitch, I had top come up with a story and mythos to go with it! (You know, the hard part.) I bounced ideas off my husband for days and eventually came up with the basic mythos you’ll find in the story. But even then, the magic system, the rules, the history, all of that continued to evolve as the writing process went along and even into edits. On top of that, I switched editors in the middle of this and she had some ideas that made a huge difference in the story! (For the better!)


So I guess Earthbound is less a sparkly story that burst into existence, and more a tiny snowball that slowly gathered snow and got bigger and bigger and really didn’t stop changing or become complete until I turned in that very last round of edits. Do I love it any less than Wings because it was a story I purposely created? Not a bit. Trust me. Is it any less mine because so many people were involved in its creation? No, no, no! Actually, it’s one of my favorite things I’ve ever written! But it definitely has a less-flashy origin. And I’m okay with that.


ABOUT EARTHBOUND:
#1 New York Times bestselling author Aprilynne Pike has created a heart-stopping romance built on a love triangle like you’ve never seen before and filled with epic stakes and a centuries-long conspiracy. Give it to fans of Beautiful Creatures and Nightshade.


Tavia Michaels is the sole survivor of the plane crash that killed her parents. When she starts to see strange visions of a boy she’s never spoken with in real life, she begins to suspect that there’s much about her past that she isn’t being told.

Tavia immediately searches for answers, desperate to determine why she feels so drawn to a boy she hardly knows. But when Tavia discovers that the aunt and uncle who took her in after her parents' death may have actually been responsible for the plane crash that killed them--and that she may have been the true intended victim--she flees for the safety of Camden, Maine, where the boy she sees in her visions instructs her to go.

Now, Tavia is on the run with no one to trust. No one, that is, except for her best friend and longtime crush, Benson. Tavia feels torn between the boy who mysteriously comes to her at night and the boy who has been by her side every step of the way. But what Tavia doesn't know is that the world is literally falling apart and that to save it she will have to unite with the boy in her visions. Only problem? To do so would mean rejecting Benson's love. And that's the one thing Tavia Michaels swore she'd never do.




ABOUT APRILYNNE:
Aprilynne Pike has been spinning faerie stories since she was a child with a hyperactive imagination. At the age of twenty she received her BA in Creative Writing from Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho. When not writing, Aprilynne can usually be found at the gym; she also enjoys singing, acting, reading, and working with pregnant moms as a childbirth educator and doula. Aprilynne currently lives with her husband and three kids in Utah, and dreams of warmer climates.

Aprilynne Pike's #1 New York Times best-selling debut, WINGS, is the first of four books about a seemingly ordinary girl with a not-so-ordinary destiny. In this tale of magic and intrigue, romance and danger, everything you thought you knew about faeries will be changed forever...


You can find Aprilynne on her Facebook and her website 

Follow along the Earthbound blog tour to see every fortune and Aprilynne’s response!

Monday 7/29: Mundie Moms 
Tuesday 7/30: The Mod Podge Bookshelf 
Wednesday 7/31Page Turners Blog 
Thursday 8/1Bibliognome
Friday 8/2Hobbitsies

Monday 8/5Confessions of a Book Addict  
Tuesday 8/6IB Book Blogging 
Wednesday 8/7The Book Hookup 
Thursday 8/8Addicted 2 Novels  
Friday 8/9Tales of the Ravenous Reader 


The Mortal Instruments Mall Tour Kicked off at Mall of America on Sunday 7/28

Source: Mortal Movie

The Mall of America kicked off The Mortal Instruments City of Bones mall tour yesterday in MN with a HUGE showing of Shadowhunter fans. Some fans turned out as early as Saturday to get their spot in line. Here's a brief re-cap of yesterday's events in pictures shared on Twitter yesterday from Mortal Movie and Mall of America. 

Sony's Mortal Movie twitter account shared these pictures with fans yesterday:

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Mall of America tweeted a picture of the Cast 


Just Jared shared this picture of Jamie, Lily & Kevin



This by far is my favorite picture that was posted from the tour! Kevin Zegers's tweeted this pic yesterday here


Were you there? We'd love to hear what you thought of the tour stop yesterday.



Shadowhunters, don't forget to check out Wednesday's stop in Miami! Our friends at TMI Source will be there reporting LIVE from the event. While there, Alyssa will be presenting Jamie with the Jamie is Jace campaign book we told him about while at the TMI panel signing in Comic Con. He's looking forward to seeing it.

Cassandra Clare Talks TMI Movie News With The Mortal Instruments UK


We're only a few weeks away from The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones movie hitting theaters and the excitement is mounting by the day! I don't know about you guys, but I'm getting ready to start counting down the hours. haha

While we wait patiently for the movie to hit our local theaters, watch this interview The Mortal Instruments UK recently had with Cassie, talking about the movie. 



August 21st needs to be here already!

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