Harper Teen Winter 2016 Tour

Welcome, welcome, to The Isle aka the next stop in the Harper Winter 2016 Blog Tour. This will come in handy later, but today's daily word (or safe word, whatever you'd like to call it) is: HAVE. Anywho, let's get the show started!

"The heart-racing and thrilling sequel to The Ward about a teenage female drag racer who will do anything to save her sister—and a flooded futuristic Manhattan.


Drought season is coming....

The Ward is in trouble—its streets filled with seawater after a devastating flood and its impoverished inhabitants suffering from a deadly disease called the Blight.

Ren, with the help of her scientist friend, Callum, and her racing buddy, Derek, has discovered a cure—miraculous spring water—administering it to her sick sister, Aven. But when Aven is kidnapped by Governor Voss, the malevolent dictator of the United Metro Isles (UMI), Ren must go on a dangerous mission to save her sister, again.

The mysterious healing water is the only source of freshwater throughout the entire UMI—water that Ren had been tasked by the government to discover. Although she refuses to give up the water’s location, Governor Voss has his own selfish reasons for wanting it. And he will do anything to satisfy his thirst for unquenchable power.

But Ren and Aven have more enemies than the governor. An ancient order, the Tètai, has been guarding the magical water for hundreds of years. And they will kill to protect it. With the Ward in desperate need of freshwater and wracked by disease—and deadly enemies at every turn—the sisters face a dangerous journey, marred by mysterious secrets and horrifying truths, to save their friends and neighbors, and a city. "

About the Author: Jordana Frankel is a Jersey native and does not enjoy nonsense in the least (please refer to exhibit A). She is fluent in procrastination, has a deep and abiding respect for dogwalkers, and was once fearful of fire. She pretends she is invisible from time to time, pretends she is visible from time to time, likes to spin things (fire, her wheels, stories, her keychain when poi are inappropriate), and she lies for a living, but can't lie to save her face.

(This stuff is true though, she promises.)

She's been a camp counselor, a salesperson of diamonds, a hostess at a southwestern grill, an archivist of rare books, a yoga instructor, and a reading teacher, but her shining moment was when she got to hang out in Walmart for 12 hours a day as the AXE girl. (Does your man have hard, spiky hair? DOES HE?!? No, but really, ewww. That's gross.)

Etcetera, etcetera, she received her B.A. in English from Goucher College, graduated, ate lots of pasta, accumulated much laundry, and then went to live in Italy for a year. (You see, Jordana hoped to be an artiste someday. Le sigh.) But then she decided that poetry was more practical, what with poetry reality TV shows becoming all the rage, and those poetry dance clubs with the smarmy, handlebar moustached bouncers. Those guys are awesome. So she went for her MFA in Poetry at Hollins University. Naturally.

But then she graduated, as all students must one day let go of the safe hands of academia, and she moved back to NYC. Which eats people. But hallelujah! She got her first big-girl job at The Literary Group International (bless their hearts for taking a chance on a poetry grad), a literary agency, where she'd started as an intern reading queries and then assisted editorially. At Linn Prentis Literary, also a literary agency, she handled foreign sales, picked up gems from unsolicited mail, and helped authors through the publishing process. And then it was onto The Book Report Network where she handled ads and promos for features on Teenreads.com, Kidsreads.com, and GraphicNovelReporter.com.

Jordana's debut novel, THE WARD, (KT Books/HarperCollins) is in stores now.

She hopes never to have to write in third person again.

It was weird.

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Giveaway and rules: There are actually TWO giveaways going on. Let's start with the first one. The crazy awesome people at Harper Teen are giving away a copy of each title on this tour. That's right, that's the entire Harper Teen Winter 2016 catalog which is well over 30 books (I lost count after 30). Be sure to check out all of the other stops (listed below) to see all of the other books coming out and what you can possibly win!

How to enter: Simple fill out the Rafflecopter form listed below. The more authors you follow, the higher your chances are in winning.

The second giveaway. You can win 5 Finished Copies from the Harper Teen Fall 2015 Catalog. Those 5 books are: The Lies About Truth, Walk on Earth A Stranger, Dreamland, Dumplin’, and Da Vinci’s Tiger

How to enter:

Collect the daily word from each blog stop during the Harper Winter 2016 Tour (a total of 45). Once you’ve collected them all, email the complete saying to: HarperTeenTour@gmail.com



1.) Winner must have a valid US mailing address to receive the prize

2.) Winner must be over 13

3.) Only one (1) entry per person for Prize #2 – duplicates will be deleted.

4.) Only a completed phrase will be accepted as an entry – do not email each word/phrase daily. Wait until you have the complete saying and then email in.

5.) All email submissions must be received by 11:59 PM EST 11/30/2015.

6.) Winners will be selected 12/1/2015 and will have 48 hours to claim their prize before another is selected.

7.) Participating blogs and bloggers are not responsible for unsent, damaged, and/or stolen prizes offered by the publisher.



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This is the Harper Winter 2016 Tour!

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1. 10/11 - The Irish Banana Review	2. 10/12 - No BS Book Reviews	3. 10/13 - Once Upon A Twilight
4. 10/14 - The Book Belles	5. 10/15 - FictionFare	6. 10/16 - The Reading Date
7. 10/17 - The Book Cellar	8. 10/18 - Swoony Boys Podcast	9. 10/19 - Eater of Books
10. 10/20 - For the Sake of Reading	11. 10/21 - Reads All the Books	12. 10/22 - Katie's Book Blog
13. 10/23 - Addicted 2 Novels	14. 10/24 - A Book and A Latte	15. 10/25 - Such A Novel Idea
16. 10/26 - Paperback Princess	17. 10/27 - Two Chicks on Books	18. 10/28 - Reading Teen
19. 10/29 - Lili's Reflections	20. 10/30 - YA Bibliophile	21. 10/31 - Owl Always Be Reading
22. 11/1 - Intellectual Recreation	23. 11/2 - Cuddlebuggery	24. 11/3 - Mundie Moms
25. 11/4 - On Starships & Dragon Wings	26. 11/5 - Good Books and Good Wine	27. 11/6 - Jenuine Cupcakes
28. 11/7 - Kimberly Faye Reads	29. 11/8 - Resch Reads & Reviews	30. 11/9 - Step Into Fiction
31. 11/10 - One Way or An Author	32. 11/11 - Bookiemoji	33. 11/12 - Love At First Page
34. 11/13 - Krista's Dust Jacket	35. 11/14 - Across the Words	36. 11/15 - Words Like Silver
37. 11/16 - Bookish Antics	38. 11/17 - Novels & Necklaces	39. 11/18 - Reading w/ABC
40. 11/19 - The Cover Contessa	41. 11/20 - Supernatural Snark	42. 11/21 - Kelly Vision
43. 11/22 - Andi's ABCs	44. 11/23 - Winterhaven Books	45. 11/24 - Stuck In Books

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