Month 9 Books Birthday Bash Guest Post & Giveaway

 

Welcome to Month9Books Birthday Bash! We’re so excited you’re all stopping by!

This is going to be an awesome event with many tour stops featuring our authors! The full schedule is below and make sure to stick around for the EPIC Giveaway taking place!

Here’s a quick note from Georgia McBride, owner of Month9Books!

"Month9Books is turning 2 this year and I could not be happier. We are living proof that if you have a dream to write, create and inspire, you should follow that dream and let nothing keep you from realizing it. Thank you to all the readers, writers, agents, partners and friends who have made this possible. We write for you.
--Georgia McBride, Publisher and Owner of Month9Books"

While all of the posts are from our authors that have books out already we also want to look forward to some of the 2015 titles we can’t wait to share with you
                       Here’s a slide show of some our 2015 books!

We have a ton of sequels coming as well as new books from awesome debut authors and we’re so excited to share them all with you! We have something for everyine from every genre from Sci-Fi to Fantasy to Paranormal and Horror!

Giveaway Details

(1) New Kindle with touchscreen (US only) loaded with all our Month9Books titles. US Only.

(1) Paperback prize pack of 5 Month9Books Titles. US ONLY.
(2) eBook Prize Packs of 5 Month9Books titles. International

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Guest Blog of Jessica Arnold

About Jessica:
Jessica Arnold writes YA, codes ebooks, and is currently a graduate student in publishing at Emerson College in Boston. She spends most of her time in class or work or slogging through the homework swamp. If she has a spare moment, she’s always up for a round of Boggle. Given the opportunity, Jessica will pontificate at length on the virtues of the serial comma, when and where to use an en dash, and why the semicolon is the best punctuation mark pretty much ever.

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A Sweet, Nightmare Halloween
I’ve never associated Halloween with witches and haunted houses. Growing up, the Halloween "terror" factor was always ancillary to a far more important component: CANDY.
As a kid, I knew that the most important thing in life was sugar. I also knew that there were two kinds of people in the world: people who gave you sweets (Grandma) and people who took the sweets away (Mom). On Halloween, for one glorious evening, the givers of sugar opened the floodgates of fun-sized candy bars and chocolate rained down on the heads and hands and paper bags of children everywhere.
Unfortunately my mom didn’t seem to understand this concept. While all the other adults eagerly handed me candy, my impossible, health-conscious mother tried to clamp down the sugar stream as much as possible. Her idea of Halloween indulgence was letting me have three candies instead of one. This made her an enemy of candy and therefore an opponent to be reckoned with accordingly. I begged and pleaded and fussed with the one-track mind of a candy addict until one fateful Halloween, I wore her down.
"Fine! Eat as much as you want," she told me, washing her hands of the situation.
I did. I ate as much as I wanted. I ate more than I wanted. I stuffed my face with candy. I was thrilled. Until half an hour later when I rolled into my parents’ room, clutching my aching stomach and moaning.
"Why did you make me eat ALL THE CANDY?"
I cried and groaned. I declared that I was sick. I had been coerced into candy binging. I had been framed … I had been forced … My mom laughed so hard she cried. I was crying and she was crying and Dad was crying. I thought I was going to die. It was the scariest Halloween of my life.
I don’t eat candy on Halloween anymore. But, because irony is the universe’s evil cackle, I did write a book about a witch and a haunted house.
About Jessica's  Book
Title: THE LOOKING GLASS
Author: Jessica Arnold
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Pages: 324
Publisher: Month9Books
Formats:　Paperback, eBook

Find the diary, break the curse, step through The Looking Glass!

Fifteen-year-old Alice Montgomery wakes up in the lobby of the B&B where she has been vacationing with her family to a startling discovery: no one can see or hear her. The cheap desk lights have been replaced with gas lamps and the linoleum floor with hardwood and rich Oriental carpeting. Someone has replaced the artwork with eerie paintings of Elizabeth Blackwell, the insane actress and rumored witch who killed herself at the hotel in the 1880s. Alice watches from behind the looking glass where she is haunted by Elizabeth Blackwell. Trapped in the 19th-century version of the hotel, Alice must figure out a way to break Elizabeth’s curse—with the help of Elizabeth's old diary and Tony, the son of a ghost hunter who is investigating the haunted B&B—before she becomes the inn's next victim.


About Jessica:
Jessica Arnold writes YA, codes ebooks, and is currently a graduate student in publishing at Emerson College in Boston. She spends most of her time in class or work or slogging through the homework swamp. If she has a spare moment, she’s always up for a round of Boggle. Given the opportunity, Jessica will pontificate at length on the virtues of the serial comma, when and where to use an en dash, and why the semicolon is the best punctuation mark pretty much ever.
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Jessica's Post
A Sweet, Nightmare Halloween

I’ve never associated Halloween with witches and haunted houses. Growing up, the Halloween "terror" factor was always ancillary to a far more important component: CANDY.
As a kid, I knew that the most important thing in life was sugar. I also knew that there were two kinds of people in the world: people who gave you sweets (Grandma) and people who took the sweets away (Mom). On Halloween, for one glorious evening, the givers of sugar opened the floodgates of fun-sized candy bars and chocolate rained down on the heads and hands and paper bags of children everywhere.
Unfortunately my mom didn’t seem to understand this concept. While all the other adults eagerly handed me candy, my impossible, health-conscious mother tried to clamp down the sugar stream as much as possible. Her idea of Halloween indulgence was letting me have three candies instead of one. This made her an enemy of candy and therefore an opponent to be reckoned with accordingly. I begged and pleaded and fussed with the one-track mind of a candy addict until one fateful Halloween, I wore her down.
"Fine! Eat as much as you want," she told me, washing her hands of the situation.
I did. I ate as much as I wanted. I ate more than I wanted. I stuffed my face with candy. I was thrilled. Until half an hour later when I rolled into my parents’ room, clutching my aching stomach and moaning.
"Why did you make me eat ALL THE CANDY?"
I cried and groaned. I declared that I was sick. I had been coerced into candy binging. I had been framed … I had been forced … My mom laughed so hard she cried. I was crying and she was crying and Dad was crying. I thought I was going to die. It was the scariest Halloween of my life.
I don’t eat candy on Halloween anymore. But, because irony is the universe’s evil cackle, I did write a book about a witch and a haunted house.


Meet the Authors and amazing host
^{Vanessa Barger will be hosted by Pretty Little Pages
Lisa M. Basso　will be hosted by In Vogue with Books
Sarah Bromley will be hosted by A Book and A Latte
Steve Bryant will be hosted by Jump Into Books
Brynn Chapman　will be hosted by A Backwards Story
Nicole Conway　will be hosted by Two Chicks on Books
Scott Craven will be hosted by Books and Ashes
Ty Drago　will be hosted by The A P Book Club
Dorothy Dreyer will be hosted by Her Book Thoughts!
Dorothy Dreyer will be hosted by Oops! I Read A Book Again
Jennifer M. Eaton will be hosted by Book Briefs
Kit Forbes　will be hosted by Book Lovers Life
Janice Gable Bashman will be hosted by All Things Urban Fantasy
Amanda Gray will be hosted by Aspiring Joy
Kelly Hashway/Drake will be hosted by Book Geek Review
Elizabeth Holloway will be hosted by Tales of a Ravenous Reader
Missy Ketner will be hosted by Once Upon A Twilight
Nicola Marsh will be hosted by ReadWriteLove28
Georgia McBride will be hosted by YA Sisterhood
Jen McConnel will be hosted by A Dream Within A Dream
Jackie Morse Kessler　will be hosted by Dark Faerie Tales
Beck Nicholas　will be hosted by The Unofficial Addiction Book Fan Club
Michelle E. Reed　will be hosted by Doodle's Book Reviews
Heather Reid will be hosted by Bookish Things and More
A. Lynden Rolland will be hosted by Fiction State of Mind
Kristal Shaff will be hosted by Chicklit vs Fantasy
Pab Sungenis will be hosted by Classy Cat Books
Rachel Tafoya will be hosted by Jessabella Reads
Vicki L. Havil will be hosted by Magical Urban Fantasy Reads}