I'm author ELLE STRAUSS and welcome to my website!

I write fun, lower Young Adult (teen) fiction to do with whimsical things like time-travel, fairies and merfolk.

When my serious side peeks out, she's called LEE STRAUSS. She likes to write upper YA about real things that have happened in the past, or made up things that could quite possibly happen in the future.

This blog is about books, mine and other fab authors', but occasionally I'll share about other topics.

Thanks for dropping by!

Friday, October 29, 2010

Friday Free For All: Contests, Contests!

1. Yes, I’m hosting two—I know! It was my first blogiversary on Wednesday and to celebrate I’m offering up your choice of FOUR (from a selection of 12) books. All you have to do is comment. Click HERE to enter.

2. And yesterday I hosted Janice Hardy on her blog tour for her second book, BLUE FIRE in her Healing Wars trilogy. I’m offering my copy of the first book, THE SHIFTER. In order to send more people her way to discover her excellent blog (she also blogs a lot on the process of writing and publishing) you need to follow her blog as well as mine to enter to win. Easy Peasy. And since there aren’t a lot of entries right now, your chances are really good. Click HERE to enter.

3. I've added a list on my blog for Authors Who Blog About Writing and Publishing. There are way too many authors who blog for me to list, so I'm highlighting ones who focus more on the technique and business of things, plus share their own journey. This list will probably grow over time. Go check it out!

4. Next week is the beginning of the craziness known as NANO. Since I’m already crazy enough, I’m not officially entering but I will be surfing on the nano energy, writing away on my formerly trunked novel.

How about you, are you doing Nano this year?

Happy weekend, everyone!

9 comments:

  1. I'm doing NaNo, sort of :)
    I actually have The Shifter in my pile. I haven't read it yet, but I plan to soon. Happy blogiversary!

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  2. I hope you enjoy Nano, and I'm pretty sure you'll enjoy The Shifter!

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  3. I'm doing a quasi-NaNo thing -- like you, I plan to ride the motivation-high of NaNo and work like mad to finish the 2nd draft of my WIP.

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  4. I'm going to be cleaning for NaNo (and writing) with a friend. My house and family will really appreciate that.

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  5. Shari - I love the quasi-Nano title ! We can do this together, I'd really like to get this draft finished too. I have quite a few new scenes to write (after cutting a whole character POV that was oh so boring!)

    lotusgirl -- cleaning instead of writing, or in addition to writing? More power to you either way!

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  6. Oh, man. No NaNo for me. But good luck!!

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  7. Jennifer - No nano for me either, sort of a pseudo-nano!

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  8. I'm doing NaNo- First Year so it should be pretty interesting. I am going to check out your nest section of authors and I JUST got Shifter : )

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  9. Not doing NaNO since I'm still rewriting the novel I wrote for last year's marathon. But I'm going to try to do the rewrite during November--all that energy streaming through the writing universe. :) Happy blogiversary!

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