Friday, December 30, 2011

Goodbye to 2011 giveaway!

Tevya's Top 2011 Reads
Giveaway #2
* You must be 13+ years of age to enter to win YA & Adult Books
* You must be 18+ to enter to win a Mature Book
* You must be a Reading Lark follower
* You must live in the US or Canada
* You must fill out the Tevya's Goodbye to 2011 Form
* You can leave a comment on this post for +1 extra entry

Click below to enter contest!

Thursday, December 29, 2011

Stuck in Books Existence giveaway!!!!

Thanks to Abbi, I have presents to giveaway for my birthday.  We have an eBook copy of Existence & a SIGNED poster.  What's a birthday without presents.

Just follow StuckInBooks and fill out the rafflecopter below.  Normal rules apply.  This one is US only. 
Ends 30th hurry and enter!!!


Click below for link to entry fourm:
Stuck in books Existence giveaway!!!!!

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Top 10 Best Books of 2011

Seeing as many bloggers are listing their best reads of 2011 I might as well list my own. I love books, I've read so many it's hard to count them all, the only time I count them is when my sister does it for me lol! So here is the books of 2011!

#10 
Tiger Curse
Colleen Houck
#9
Forever - Wolves of Mercy Falls 
Maggie Stiefvater

 #8
Nocturne - Clair de Lune 2 
Christine Johnson 

#7
Plague - Gone Series
Michael Grant 

#6
Low Red Moon
Ivy Devlin

#5
Wolfsbane - Nightshade Series
Andrea Cremer

#4
With Abandon - With or Without series
J.L Langley

#3
Destined
P.C Cast and Kristin Cast

#2
A Beautiful Dark
Jocelyn Davies

#1
Shadow Fever - Fever series
Karen Marie Moning 
Great beginning middle and end to this series!
I couldn't put this book down at all, I was hooked from start to finished. When I finished the book I wished there was more. (luckily there is spin off's) The ending was so unexpected. The chemistry between the characters were well done. Not to mention the songs that go with the book makes me love the series more and more. I recommend reading this series if you love Romance, Faries and hot hot hot boys!! :D

Monday, December 26, 2011

Reading Lark's 2011 goodbye giveaway!

Andrea's Top 2011 Reads - YA Edition
Giveaway #1
Open to U.S and Canada
Come enter here at:

Reading Lark

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Annabell's book nook 300 Follower Giveaway!!!

Come join this awesome giveaway!!!!
Two books given to the winner!
You must be from U.S in order to win.
Click the link below to enter the contest:

Word Spelunking 500 follower giveaway!!!!!

In honor of Word Spelunking  500+ followers, there will be 5 winners and 5 prizes given away.
This will be a short giveaway, running from Dec. 17 - Dec. 31. 
To find this giveaway click the link below:
Word Spelunking

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Manga/Graphic Novel/ Video Game challenge 2012




Challenge Details:


  • This challenge will run from January 1, 2012 to December 31, 2012. You can sign up at any time.
  • You do NOT need a blog to participate as long as you have a Goodreads page or somewhere that you can review the books that you have read. Nor do you have to live in the United States.
  • You do NOT have to read an ARC, or books published in 2012. And all book formats are acceptable, print, digital/ebooks, etc.
  • Any book counts as long as it fits into one of the 3 chosen categories: Manga (all types of comic books are acceptable), Graphic Novels, Video Game Based Novels (Such as books based off of Warhammer, World of Warcraft, HALO, Mass Effect, Dungeons and Dragons, etc).
  •  If you are participating in more than one challenge, books are allowed to cross over into this challenge.
  • Every month in 2012, I will make a post for the Manga/Graphic Novel/Video Game Novels Reading Challenge 2012 (M/G/V for short) on the last day of the month so you can link your reviews.  Based on participation, monthly link ups may be combined.

Going to go for the highest Level which is:
Level 5 HALO Style – Legendary Player
Going to have to do 60 books cause all I read is Manga from all the options ^^



 Manga Reviews:
Desire/Yabai Kimochi
  1.  Little Butterfly
  2.  Only the Ring Finger Knows/ Sono Yubi Dake ga Shitteiru
  3. Seven
  4.  Freefall Romance/ Rakka Sokudo
  5.  Devil's Ridge, The Dark Earth 
  6.  Spell
  7. Desire/Yabai Kimochi
  8.  G Senjou no neko
  9.  Rin!
  10.  Words of Devotion/Ai no Kotodama
  11.  Hot Steamy Glasses/Lens Goshi no Binetsu
  12.  Mr.Convenience/Benriya-san
  13.  Storm Flower/Hana no Arashi wa
  14.  Private Teacher/ Katekyo vol 2
  15.  The Tryant falls in Love/Koisuru Boukun vol 5
  16.  Dash!
  17.  The Paradice on the Hill/Oka no Ue no Rakuen
  18. Kikenchitai Danshi - Kedamono Black & White
  19.  Abarenbou Kareshi
  20.  Kimi Note
  21.  After I Win/Hoshigarimasen! Katsumade wa
  22.  Love Skit
  23.  Enslaved Love
  24.  Ai Ore 1-4
  25.  After School Nightmare/Houkago Hokenshitsu
  26.  Love Mode
  27. Konbini-kun
  28.  The end of Youth
  29.   Flowers
  30.  Touch Blue
  31.  No Tea Room 
  32. Boku wa Ookami
  33.  Tsuki ni Hoero
  34.  As the Death God Dictates
  35.  Lovers Doll
  36.  Pink
  37.  Wasuremono
  38.  Constellations in My Palm
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Elizabeth Bunce’s STARCROSSED Giveaway!!

Elizabeth Bunce’s STARCROSSED is now $2.99 on e-book!!!!!

For a chance to win a hardcover + LIAR'S MOON and Check out this blog for your chance!

http://chavelaque.blogspot.com/2011/12/behind-book-three-things-writers-can_12.html

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

FALALALA Giveaways!

Today giveaway is a Nikon D5100 D-SLR Camera!!!
http://www.sparklingreviews.com/2011/12/falalala-giveaway-nikon-d5100.html

What's a FALALALA giveaways you ask? Well you see I love the Christmas season, so in the month of December I will be having FALALALA giveaways in the spirit of Christmas... all you need to do is enter the giveaway by using the Rafflecopter form below. Come back daily for a new awesome giveaway! I will give a hint on Twitter at 6pm and on each giveaway, as to what the next item might be! Both hints will be different from each other. If you guess it correctly in the comment section, you will get 100 extra entries in that giveaway!

I suggest everyone come join the contests!

Monday, December 12, 2011

Young Adult Blog Tour Children of Creation Giveaway (International)

What's Beyond Forks?

It's a great contest and it's open anywhere! come enter and Good luck to all!

Readaholic

Readaholic


Learning how to work buttons is hard XD but check out this cool Blogging site and her giveaway that's going on now!

FALALALA Giveaways!

Today giveaway is a Panasonic Toughbook 31!!!
http://www.sparklingreviews.com/2011/12/falalala-giveaway-64gb-ipad-2.html

What's a FALALALA giveaways you ask? Well you see I love the Christmas season, so in the month of December I will be having FALALALA giveaways in the spirit of Christmas... all you need to do is enter the giveaway by using the Rafflecopter form below. Come back daily for a new awesome giveaway! I will give a hint on Twitter at 6pm and on each giveaway, as to what the next item might be! Both hints will be different from each other. If you guess it correctly in the comment section, you will get 100 extra entries in that giveaway!

I suggest everyone come join the contests!

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Letters inside out contest Team Clary!


YA Sisterhood

Team Clary, all the way, unless there is team Alec then I'm diffidently him!
I love Clary from the start, even though the other characters are cool I'm still a main girl type of person haha.

FALALALA Giveaways!

Today giveaway is a Ipad2!!!!!!!!
http://www.sparklingreviews.com/2011/12/falalala-giveaway-64gb-ipad-2.html

What's a FALALALA giveaways you ask? Well you see I love the Christmas season, so in the month of December I will be having FALALALA giveaways in the spirit of Christmas... all you need to do is enter the giveaway by using the Rafflecopter form below. Come back daily for a new awesome giveaway! I will give a hint on Twitter at 6pm and on each giveaway, as to what the next item might be! Both hints will be different from each other. If you guess it correctly in the comment section, you will get 100 extra entries in that giveaway!

I suggest everyone come join the contests!

Saturday, December 10, 2011


YA Sisterhood

Team Clary, all the way, unless there is team Alec then I'm diffidently him!
I love Clary from the start, even though the other characters are cool I'm still a main girl type of person haha.

Friday, December 9, 2011

Mother/gamer/writer

Check out this great blogger, she holds contests and talks about books and lots of other things!

http://empyreanedge.com/

FALALALA Giveaways!

What's a FALALALA giveaways you ask? Well you see I love the Christmas season, so in the month of December I will be having FALALALA giveaways in the spirit of Christmas... all you need to do is enter the giveaway by using the Rafflecopter form below. Come back daily for a new awesome giveaway! I will give a hint on Twitter at 6pm and on each giveaway, as to what the next item might be! Both hints will be different from each other. If you guess it correctly in the comment section, you will get 100 extra entries in that giveaway!

You can find the give away here: http://www.sparklingreviews.com/2011/12/falalala-giveaway-toshiba-thrive-tablet.html#comment-form

Monday, August 15, 2011

Maggie's Stiefvater Newest Book
THE SCORPIO RACES
is the newest book from the author of 'Shiver'. With the newest book coming to stores October 18!!!!!!!!!
Here is the book trailer to be sure to catch everyone's interest!!!!



Don't miss your chance to read this book it's sure to leave you wanting more!

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Tiger Curse Contest

Alright So Here is my contest entry!!!
I had so much fun doing these two, both Kishan and Ren were hard to make since this was my first time making a Tiger out of clay!
Yes!! its clay!!!
Lmao I started this last week so I'm happy I got to finish it for today!!
Yes Kishan has black stripes the pictures won't make them appear, so he kinda looks like a panther, but at least he's done!
They just look so cute together!!











Sunday, April 3, 2011

Chad W. Beckerman



  • He grew up in Connecticut town in Litchfield hills.
  • He graduated from Rhode Island School of design in 2000
  • Traveling to New York City he was hired at Scholastic books as a assistant designer.
  • After he moved to Brooklyn, New York where he later was hired at Greenwillow books where he was promoted to designer and later Senior designer.
  • Soon he left and became the new art director for Abrams books for young readers and Amulet books and has been there to this day.





Covers made by Beckerman

He designs book covers for Adults, Young Adults and even Kids books.

For the book “Fell by David Clement-Davies” he designed it all on his own, he design and illustrated the book Jacket. He also illustrated the interior of the book adding the designs along the sides to match the cover as much as possible. The target market is for teenagers 14 and up; because of how dark the jacket is it’s more suited for teenagers and up then for children. So far there is only one language printed for “Fell” and that is English. You can find this book at any bookstore as well as you can buy it online.




Interview

1) What is a typical day like?

10:09pm on a Sunday ha no
, working with editorial staff, illustrators, designers, and sometimes authors on various stages of books and picture books.


2) What is your role as the Art director for Abrams Books for young Readers and Amulet Books?


I find illustrators for both imprints, I create the visual books of the two imprints as a whole. Creating the aesthetic of the two. I work with three other designers and direct their designs.



3) How many concepts were presented to the client? How Long was the process? Who was it targeted towards?


Unique because it was kind of of , for the first idea was the eyes, I illustrated the eyes first. There were two concept to the story that the drawing had to show. From there I made the illustration, I sent them to the author, he said one of the eyes was a different color, so I changed that.


I don’t think about when I do the cover globally, because other country they can design the cover how they want. It depends on the rights to sell the books those countries.


Yes mainly for novels there is two groups 8- 12 and YA-13- above then there is the

in between market 10-12. YA you can use photo’s there is no rules but it’s not a bad idea cause photo’s tend to look older while illustrations for are more for young audience, while some illusions could be use for older, you have to design accordingly.


Dairy of a wimpy kid was a long process. That one was a little harder because the illustration was a sick figure and there was curtain rules I had to follow. It was a journal but not a journal because it was a diary. You have to think of it logically. Originally it was a piece of paper but then we put it so it was like someone else came and diary so that was his logic on why it was created like a stick figure.



4) What’s a great day at work?


Any day that I feel like a idea that I come up with that clicks and start working that’s a pretty good day. Cause I have a idea and click is one thing , that works is if the editor likes it or designer. Working with a illustrator working together, making it click or work. Moving around and making a book work is pretty cool. Basically any day that your idea actually work.



5) Do you like what you are doing now working for Abrams Books for young Readers and Amulet Books?


Yeah, it’s a job that I think why are they paying me to do this. I was working on a cover where I had to make type with cheese. I went to a chief to see how the cheese was made. I’m getting paid to mess around and play with my food. so Yeah I like what I do.



6) Where do you see book design's going in the future?


I think recently I did a blog post on jacket cases where you take the jacket off and there is the case underneath. Some books designers forget about the case or repeat the cover of the jacket onto the case, I feel its a shame cause they don’t think or believe it’s a whole package. I think of it all as a whole thing being a beautiful object.


I don’t find ebooks as a threat, it’s something to be talked about and to be taken seriously. It only pushes book design further. Future book designs with ebooks will be taking it to making it more interactive, with more animation, pop up video’s, having it be more interactive. It’s there but not out in the world at the moment. What it is then people will ajust to it. ebooks can’t handle a lot of things. Just like having a image in a novel can’t handle that. It’s pretty much taken the design out of the ebook. That’s it.



7) Is there anything you would like to say to future book designers?


Looking at not only the design of things but WHY it’s really hard question cause u got to look at the job. Like the a kids books between a adult, going out and look at the market. Big picture stuff, that’s how I fell into it. When I was in school, After school I go to a book store and look at the designs of books, the idea of creating one image that tells a story though that one image. Just stay with it, I tell this to illustrators even if your in school you have to just do it. Do design whether it’s for a client or not, if you don’t you just lose it. I was up 11:00 working on a book it’s not because it’s work but because I want to do it. Just little thing like that will shine though.


Monday, January 31, 2011

New Year

So this is a new year and decided to make my blog real, to put down my views on book covers that I like or declike. Probably no one will watch this but I think doing this will help me in someway so stay tune for book cover reviews.