Laura Elliott

Wordless Wednesday: The Tip Machine

YA Winter Scavenger Hunt: ‘Tis the season of the squeeee!

Need a little me time this holiday season? Colleen Houck has put together an amazing YA Winter Scavenger Hunt.  This online Scavenger Hunt is a fun way to learn about what’s new and exciting in the world of YA books.  You’ll get to read/watch EXCLUSIVE bonus material, solve puzzle challenges and enter to win individual author prizes, as you hunt …

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YA Indie Carnival: A Thanksgiving Story

This week at the YA Indie Carnival, our posts are about Thanksgiving. Some of us will post excerpts set at Thanksgiving, others might contain a pie or two, or turkeys. Some of us will post Thanksgiving memories or stories. Take a ride with us and share your favorite Thanksgiving stories. This Friday we givie thanks …

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Golden Blood’s Gemma Dishes Her Teen Time Travel Guide, with Author Melissa Pearl

My name is Gemma Louise Hart and yes, I can travel through time. Freaky, I know. Man, I can’t believe I just told you that! My parents would kill me. I’m not supposed to tell anybody what I can do. It all goes back to this ancient oath. You see the first of my kind, the …

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Teaser Tuesday: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: Grab your current read Open to a random page Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t …

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YA Indie Carnival: The Rise of YA Fantasy or Thank you Tokien, Rowling & Meyers

Why is there a rise in YA Fantasy? I guess there are three main reasons. Peter Jackson’s LOTR trilogy and the much-anticipated prequel, The Hobbit, due out soon. HP, of course. And today at the box office, part 1 of the last episode in The Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn. These have all come around one …

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YA Author Dee White, Writing Classes For Kids & A Writing Competition

Today, I am thrilled to have Dee White, an amazing young adult novelist. She’s a gifted storyteller and I was fortunate enough to meet Dee at SCBWI LA last August. She is passionate about writing classes for kids and adults. I’m so happy that she’s here on Laurasmagicday to tell us a little bit about …

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[Almost] Wordless Wednesday LOL!

Teaser Tuesday: The Plot Whisperer

I had the great good fortune to receive an email from my local San Francisco South SCBWI chapter to let me know that Martha Alderson, author of among many other books her latest The Plot Whisperer : Secrets of Story Structure Any Writer Can Master, would be speaking free for members of SCBWI in Palo …

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YA Indie Carnival: 11 ways to put the SOCIAL in your media. Or how Social Media rocked my world!

Happy 11-11-11! Here are the 11 ways SOCIAL media rocked my world this year 🙂 1. It hooked me up with the most incredible group of authors that became true friends and it all started at the YA Indie Carnival! 2. This lead to The Paranormal Plumes Society. 3. And lead to The Pacific Northwest …

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