APRIL GIVEAWAY for "My YA Debut Year Celebration"!

Hello, dear friends! How are you all? I hope your Easter weekend was fabulous. Are you reading anything wonderful? Tell me in the comments. I've got STACKS of exciting books to read. Well, a whole bookcase actually . . . but we won't talk about that because . . .I have this looooming, crazy-making deadline for Book 2 due to my Harpercollins editor in two weeks. Plus more conference speaking later this week in gorgeous Utah at www.ldstorymakers.com

But I'm adding two new items to the monthly 2014 Giveaways! Now that I have 2 HUGE boxes of ARCs, I'm giving away a signed ARC of FORBIDDEN *plus* 10 gorgeous Book Club Cards to share with your friends, family, neighbors or Book Club!

If you don't have a Book Club consider starting one using FORBIDDEN this November. My sister - who creates fabulous Book Club Guides for my MG novels - is in the process of creating a Guide for FORBIDDEN. Watch for it later this summer. Go to my website to see the other *fantastic* and fun Guides she creates (including recipes that go with each book's setting). 

MORE NEWS:

*5* ARCs are up for grabs on Goodreads! Enter until June 5th! (A second Goodreads ARC giveaway will happen in August-September, as well.)  Click here to *Add* FORBIDDEN to your reading list and Enter the Giveaway! 

If you Sign-Up for My Newsletter I'll be doing special giveaways JUST for my Subscribers. Lots of great stuff, eh? 
 

Yes, every single month during 2014 I'll give away a pair of gorgeous earrings, a beautiful veil/scarf to make you feel like the luscious woman/girl you are, a SIGNED ARC OF FORBIDDEN, 10 Book Club Cards, and a hardcover YA novel of your choice. Awesome, huh?

Choose ANY book you've been dying to read, not necessarily the ones in this picture.

Enter the Rafflecopter and extra entries for Goodreads Add, @KimberleyGLittle, Facebook and Tumblr follows.

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Deadline May 4th at Midnight PT. Winners announced May 6. Good luck! And then come back for May, June, July, August, September, October, November, and December Giveaways! Righto!

Warmly, 
Kimberley

www.kimberleygriffithslittle.com

My Debut Year 2014 Round up of Cover Reveal Links and HUGE February Giveaways!

Did you see my gorgeous cover for FORBIDDEN yet? If not, here it is again! Plus scroll down for a round-up of links to all of my cover reveal giveaways. 

Make sure you visit each blog to win some amazing prizes! Giveaways run until February 23 - March 1 depending on each blogger. So you've got tons of time still to enter! 

The prize packages are fantastic - bigger than anything I've ever seen for a cover reveal before - but that's because I wanted to spread the love for some of my favorite series books and say "Thank You" to my readers and followers. THANK YOU for reading and following me here and on Facebook and Twitter and adding FORBIDDEN to Goodreads! Good luck! Hope you win! :-)

Mundie Moms

1. Signed ARCs of FORBIDDEN when available in March/April
2. Signed set of Marie Lu’s LEGEND, PRODIGY, and CHAMPION
3. Belly dance veil and earrings
4. A set of beautiful FORBIDDEN Bookmark Club Cards for 10 people


The Story Siren

1. Signed ARC of FORBIDDEN when available in March/April
2. Signed set of The Matched Trilogy
3. Belly dance veil and earrings
4. A set of beautiful FORBIDDEN Bookmark Club Cards for 10 people



Page Turners Blog

1. Signed ARC of FORBIDDEN when available in March/April
2. SIGNED set of STARTERS & ENDERS by Lissa Price (with extra goodies from Lissa!). These titles are exclusive to Story Siren reveal giveaway.
3. Belly dance veil and earrings
4. A set of beautiful FORBIDDEN Bookmark Club Cards for 10 people



Adventures in YA Publishing

1. Signed ARC of FORBIDDEN when available in March/April
2. Set of THE INFERNAL DEVICES trilogy
3. Belly dance veil and earrings
4. A set of beautiful FORBIDDEN Bookmark Club Cards for 10 people



Cuddlebuggery

1. Signed ARC of FORBIDDEN when available in March/April
2. Signed 4-book set of Alyson Noel’s quartet THE SOUL SEEKERS
3. Belly dance veil and earrings
4. A set of beautiful FORBIDDEN Bookmark Club Cards for 10 people



YA Books Central

1. Signed ARC of FORBIDDEN when available in March/April
2. Signed set of GRAVE MERCY and DARK TRIUMPH by Robin LaFevers
3. Belly dance veil and earrings
4. A set of beautiful FORBIDDEN Bookmark Club Cards for 10 people


YA Series Insiders

1. Signed ARC of FORBIDDEN when available in March/April
2. Signed copies of Leigh Bardugo’s SHADOW AND BONE & SIEGE AND STORM
3. Belly dance veil and earrings
4. A set of beautiful FORBIDDEN Bookmark Club Cards for 10 people

This video was created especially just to reveal the cover. A full book trailer will be launching Fall 2014 before FORBIDDEN'S release date November 4th. Justin Cook, a long-time friend, helped me create this marvelous trailer.

AND you might want to check out all the blogs because I talk about some cool back-story, pictures, travel, and inside secrets about FORBIDDEN, too! Hope you're having a happy week!

Warmly

Kimberley

Last Day to Enter the Debut Year 2014 January Giveaway of FORBIDDEN!!!

There's still time to ENTER January's month of prizes! 

All to celebrate My YA Debut Year 2014 Giveaway!

One person will win the Young Adult novel of *your* choice - just tell me the title, any title, and I'll send it to you! (The books in the picture are just examples of various super cool YA novels).

AND you'll win a beautiful veil and earrings - part of the exotic setting of FORBIDDEN publishing in November, 2014 with Harpercollins!!!

Deadline is midnight Monday, February 3d - winner announced Tuesday, February 4th.

 

Please follow this blog or find me on Facebook and Twitter because . . . 

EVERY SINGLE MONTH DURING 2014 there will be a monthly giveaway. All the same prizes all year long! How awesome is that! 

That's how excited I am about FORBIDDEN! 

And that's not all! In 10 days the *Cover Reveal* for FORBIDDEN is happening on some very big and very cool YA blogs and I'll be giving away tons more books and jewelry and ARCs and swag! 

Keep checking in!

And finally, a huge thank you to all of you who have entered and posted absolutely lovely and excited comments! I'm thrilled you're here and I think you're going to *love* FORBIDDEN!

Warmly,
Kimberley

2014 News and Giveaways - My YA Debut Year has begun!!!

It's a New Year! I love the sound of 2014 - even if it freaks me out to think it's already 2014! I remember the big anticipation to be alive for the Big Millenium 2000! And here we are, already 14 years beyond that. Weird! (Plus my birthday this year will be February 14, 2014 and I just like the sound of it - despite my age.)

I also can't believe that 2014 is my Young Adult Debut year! After writing for, um, 2-3 decades, and writing the first draft of FORBIDDEN in 2003 - after years of research, it's finally happening.

FORBIDDEN was originally called "Secret Rites of the Goddess" and has been through many configurations, drafts, and rewrites - what else is new? But the heart of the story remains the same: The ancient art of belly dance, goddess temples, tribal warfare, betrothals, murder, blackmail, family, faith, survival, and true love.

Isn't she stunning!

I'm not going to make this a long post this week since I'll be talking about the story of FORBIDDEN, my research, including a research trip a year ago in February to Jordan and Israel, over this coming year. And I'll post PICTURES!!!

Suffice it to say for now that FORBIDDEN is a story very dear to my heart, a story I continued to believe in despite all the rewriting and more rewriting, and rejections and selling two different times to two different publishers to finally land at Harpercollins in a superb deal with a marvelous editor. The second time it sold was for 10 times the original deal! Mind-boggling.

Here is the official announcement from more than two years ago! Whew, I've had to wait a long time for this book. (It was delayed from publishing in 2013 to 2014 due to personal and publisher circumstances.)

Children's: Young Adult
Kimberley Griffiths Little's GODDESS, pitched as "the YA Red Tent", to Harper Children's, in a significant deal, in a pre-empt, in a three-book deal, for publication in beginning in 2013, by Adams Literary (US).

Don't be fooled by the mention of Harper Children's, this is an upper Young Adult epic historical novel with some difficult, heart-wrenching scenes and will be published under Harpercollins, not HarperTeen, to capture the adult cross-over market as well. *big smile*

Here's the unofficial synopsis:

"FORBIDDEN is a sweepingly epic and sensuous novel, a story of peer pressure and cults set against the ancient art of belly dance, in which 16-year-old Jayden’s faith and character is tested to their limits, even death, as she watches her family and the world around her fall apart.

Betrothed to the tribal leader's son, Jayden is blackmailed over the murder of their beloved leader when he is found poisoned, all while hiding her forbidden love of Kadesh, a stranger from the secret frankincense lands.

The Goddess temples of Ashtoreth may be Jayden’s only escape, even though the allure of the sexual rites tempt the women of the desert to turn their back on everything they hold sacred.

Jayden must undertake a deadly journey to save the ones she loves—and find a true love for herself."

To celebrate this momentous year every single month of 2014 I'll be giving away Middle Eastern earrings, luscious belly dance scarves, and a YA novel of *your* choice!  Like the items in this picture! 

Yes, every single month during 2014 I'll give away a pair of gorgeous earrings, a beautiful scarf to make you feel like the luscious woman/girl you are, and a hardcover YA novel of your choice. Awesome, huh? I'm excited!

And if you don't want to miss any news as it happens for any of my books with Scholastic, Spellbound Books, or Harpercollins, please go here to sign up for my brand new newsletter launching in February! Sign-Up for Kimberley's Newsletter

Click here to *Add* FORBIDDEN to your Want-To-Read List on GOODREADS!

I promised this would be short . . . eek! Just leave a comment to enter the Giveaway! Easy-peasy. Extra entries for Newsletter Sign-ups and Goodreads Adds. Of course. Deadline to enter two weeks from today: February 3rd. Winner announced February 4th.

Warmly,
Kimberley

P.S. Coming in the next post: News on my next Middle-Grade novel this summer and other publishing Very Cool Things.

Scholastic Sisters!

CRAZY WEEKEND! Wasn't home hardly at all. No blogging. No reading blogs. Yesterday was even CRAZIER, actually! But I dragged my sorry self to the library, exhausted, and managed to write 5 pages. I was tired of not being able to write like I wanted to! Goal: 10 pages today!

BUT!!!

Yesterday was the official launch date of my Scholastic Sister, angie_frazier 's debut novel EVERLASTING!!!

Gorgeous, isn't it?

(Click the book cover to go directly to Amazon)

My copy shipped a week ago! Why is it taking so looooooooong to arrive???

Angie and I have gotten to know each other over the last year and she is the sweetest, bestest person and writer!

And I cannot wait to read this book!!!!

Here's her website, too, inspired by the setting and story of her novel.

CONGRATULATIONS, ANGIE!!!!!!!!!