The YAmazing Race!

Starts Monday, January 16 at noon EST ~ Ends Monday, January 23 at noon EST

Welcome to my blog and the next stop on the YAmazing Race! I hope you are excited about the MGnificent prizes, the crazy whirlwind blog hop featuring over 50 debut authors and prize packs featuring ARCs, gift certificates, swag, and more! I know I am!

You’ve got no clue what the heck I’m talking about?

Well, then head on over to the Apocalypsies website to start from the beginning and read the complete rules. Now on to the race!

Oh, and this is my book:

(UK cover. Look to the right to see the US cover)

3 years, 1 month, 1 week and 6 days since I’d seen daylight. One-fifth of my life. 98,409,602 seconds since the heavy, steel door had fallen shut and sealed us off from the world

Sherry has lived with her family in a sealed bunker since things went wrong up above. But when they run out of food, Sherry and her dad must venture outside. There they find a world of devastation, desolation...and the Weepers: savage, mutant killers.

When Sherry's dad is snatched, she joins forces with gorgeous but troubled Joshua - an Avenger, determined to destroy the Weepers.

But can Sherry keep her family and Joshua safe, when his desire for vengeance threatens them all.

THE OTHER LIFE releases February 1^st in the UK and May 1^st in the US!

Maybe you’d like to see the trailer? Here it is:

Oh, and before you go – there’s a bonus contest! I’m giving away a signed ARC of THE OTHER LIFE. Just leave a comment with your email address and you’ll be entered! I’ll announce the winner January 24^th. My giveaway is international.

Are you ready to move on? Click here to go to Gina Rosati's website, the next stop on the race!

Good luck and thanks for stopping by!

A New Year!

Happy New Year!

2012 will be the year of the Apocalypsies. I can’t tell you how excited I am about all of their books. And of course about my own book, The Other Life. In only 24 days it’ll hit the shelves in the UK. I can’t tell you how excited that makes me.

Anyway.

I wanted to use this post to write down a few resolutions for this year.

-         write two books

-         read a minimum of 80 books and at least half of them Apocalypsies books. (The books from established authors I’m most looking forward to are: Insurgent by Veronica Roth, Daughter of Bone and Smoke 2 by Laini Taylor, Body and Soul by Stacey Kade, Spellbound by Rachel Hawkins, Timeless by Gail Carriger)

-         eat less meat (only once a week)

-         work out on my elliptical every day. The last few days I managed to do this and it makes me feel so much better!

-         Have more patience (not sure how well this will work out but I’ll try my best...)

Btw, I’m one of the new members of The League of Extraordinary Writers. Here’s my intro post.

Do you have resolutions for 2012?

Books I read in 2011

I managed to read 72 books in 2011 which is a big improvement from the 45 I had last year, so yeah!
Here are the books I read:

Susanne's bookshelf: read

Have you read any of the books above? Or do you really want to read one those books?

Christmas + giveaway!

So I'm taking a short break from baking - Florentines, haystacks (peanuts + pretzels covered with white chocolate), muesli-cookies, double chocolate cookies, peanutbutter fudge...
Umm...
Next up: wrapping presents (hate that) and a few other things from my to-do list. Eeek.
But first I want to wish you all a MERRY CHRISTMAS!

That's exactly how I feel...

BUT because I'm supposed to feel all christmas-y, I'm giving away a signed ARC of THE OTHER LIFE on goodreads!

      
       

Goodreads Book Giveaway

The Other Life

by Susanne Winnacker

Giveaway ends January 05, 2012.
See the giveaway details at Goodreads.

Enter to win

Video Trailer of THE OTHER LIFE!

I'm so so excited to share with you the video trailer my UK pub Usborne did for THE OTHER LIFE!
I love it so much! It's so creepy! YAY!

Let me know what you think! :D

Books!!!

Look what Usborne sent me!

The final copies of the UK edition of THE OTHER LIFE!
Oh, the pretty!!!

And maybe you noticed that my hair is now purple, though the pic doesn't show it very well!

US cover reveal!

Maybe you noticed it already but my US cover is up on amazon! It's totally different from my UK cover, isn't it? But I love them both. Isn't the red font amazingly creepy?
Don't forget: Pub date in the US is May 1st, 2012!

If you don't want to wait that long, you have the chance to win a UK ARC on Samantha's blog! The giveaway is open for US/Canada and Europe/UK!