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Heading to the beach? Relaxing by the pool? Need some fun summer reading? Check out The Fixer Upper by Mary Kay Andrews. The Fixer Upper was just released in paperback yesterday (June 15). Dempsey Killebrew is a 20-something law school graduate,  working as a lobbyist in Washington, D.C. When her boss gets caught up in [...]

We look forward to chatting with Lesley Livingston, author of Wondrous Strange and Darklight. Watch this space for details about chat giveaways! We look forward to seeing you there! ~~Maryanne~~

My daughter’s high school sent out their newsletter today – full of last minute reminders and summer reading lists. It was very exciting to see that three of our previously featured books are included on the 2010-2011 Florida Teens Read! list. Congratulations to Kristin Cashore (Graceling), Gayle Forman (If I Stay) and Maggie Stiefvater (Shiver) [...]

Lesley Livingston’s Wondrous Strange and Darklight , mix tales of faerie  with Shakespeare.  The main character, Kelley, is a young actress trying to eke out a living in New York City. She is cast in an off-Broadway production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The characters come to life and become a part of the story.  [...]

Well I thought yesterday’s interview with Simone Elkeles was going to be my last with the authors I met at TBF Live, but then I opened my email this morning and there was an email from Martin Wilson, author of the wonderful book What They Always Tell Us. I did have a chance to see [...]

At TBF Live I had the chance to sit in on Simone Elkeles presentation, actually it was standing room only, so I stood in the corner with my notebook and tried to soak it all in. She gave a wonderful presentation, showing off her hysterical book trailers and giving some insight into her books. Before [...]

Today we have a wonderful guest post by Beth Fantaskey, author of Jessica’s Guide To Dating On The Dark Side, and Jekel Loves Hyde.  On occasion we have a guest blogger on Eve’s Fan Garden, we wanted to start something new here and have begun to ask our bloggers to write about strong female characters.  [...]

While at The Book Fest 2010, I had the opportunity to meet Lisa Schroeder, author of I Heart You, You Haunt Me, Chasing Brooklyn, Far From You and It’s Raining Cupcakes. She gave a great presentation and was nice enough to do an interview with us. I can’t say enough how wonderful all the authors [...]

As I said in the recap of the Teen Book Fest yesterday (if you need a refresher, check here)- I simply had way too much stuff to put in all one post, so for the next few days I will be posting additional author interviews. I was amazed at how many great authors were willing [...]

Ok- so this is going to be a loaded post. In fact I have so much stuff that I can’t even fit in one post, so there will be more posts to follow later this week. This past weekend I had the opportunity to attend an amazing event that is held annually in Rochester, NY, [...]

Come join us as we chat with Melanie Jeschke author of Jillian Dare on May 26th at 8:30pm est. The chat will take place in our chat area here at Eve’s Fan Garden. Plus, enter our Jillian Dare contest. Melanie was nice enough to have some books, bookmarks and autographed cards sent to us, so [...]

We are really excited to offer FOUR copies of the awesome book called Jane Slayre! ONE OF THEM WILL BE AUTOGRAPHED!!! All you have to do is retweet this contest or promote it some way on your blog, on facebook, etc… and post a link and you will be entered. Fill out the form below [...]

Come join us on May 25th at 5:30pm to discuss her mash up Jane Slayre! The chat will take place in our chat area here on EFG. Also, be sure to check out our Jane Slayre contest going on right now, right here on EFG!

It’s Raining Cupcakes It’s Raining Cupcakes is the first middle grades novel by our February Book of the Month Author, Lisa Schroeder. Lisa’s Young Adult genre books, I Heart You, You Haunt Me,  Far From You and Chasing Brooklyn are all written in verse. It’s Raining Cupcakes is her first book in prose. It’s Raining [...]

After posting the blog about Mash-ups yesterday, I got news about this: LINWOOD PUBLICITY “Among female readers and especially writers, there is no more sacred a cow in all of literature than Little W omen.” —Caryn James, New York Times, December 25, 1994 “With a teenage daughter in the house, I have been alternately intrigued [...]