Hello! My name is Tracy and I am so excited to
be here today, celebrating with my blogger buddies! WHAT are we celebrating,
you ask? Well, today marks the launch of a very exciting, special new program.
Alloy Entertainment (of Vampire Diaries, Gossip Girl, and Sisterhood of the
Traveling Pants fame) has partnered with Amazon to create a new imprint! As a
"Powered By Amazon" imprint, it will be exclusively distributed by
Amazon. Here's more info from the official press release:
"Today, Amazon Publishing and Alloy
Entertainment, a
division of Warner Bros. Television Group,
announced a digital-first imprint that will focus on young
adult, new adult and commercial fiction.
The new imprint, named Alloy Entertainment, will be part of
Amazon Publishing’s Powered by Amazon
program. Powered by Amazon enables publishers and authors
to leverage Amazon’s global distribution
and personalized, targeted marketing reach."
I am super super proud to share that my
previously self-published novel, Shattered Veil, is one of
the inaugural books in this program! It has been retitled REBEL WING, given a
new cover (check out the beauty below!), fully edited, and I am so, SO excited
to share it with you today! In addition, two other books are part of the
launch, and they are AWESOME. Read on for more info and purchase links for
EVERY UGLY WORD by Aimee L. Salter and IMITATION by Heather
Hildenbrand.
REBEL WING
YA Scifi Adventure
“I've never been actively jealous of a
fictional character . . . until now. Aris's adventures set my imagination
on fire, and made my heart take flight.” ~Kass Morgan, author of New York Times
bestseller The 100
Description
The Dominion of
Atalanta is at war. But for
eighteen-year-old Aris, the fighting is nothing more
than a distant nightmare, something she
watches on news vids from the safety of
her idyllic seaside town. Then her
boyfriend, Calix, is drafted into the
Military, and the nightmare becomes a
dangerous reality.
Left behind, Aris has nothing to fill
her days. Even flying her wingjet—the thing
she loves most, aside from
Calix—feels meaningless without him by her
side. So when she’s recruited to be a
pilot for an elite search-and-rescue unit,
she leaps at the chance, hoping
she’ll be stationed near Calix. But there’s
a catch: She must disguise herself
as a man named Aristos. There are no women
in the Atalantan Military, and there
never will
be.
Aris gives up everything to find Calix:
her home. Her family. Even her identity.
But as the war rages on, Aris
discovers she’s fighting for much more than
her relationship. With each injured
person she rescues and each violent battle
she survives, Aris is becoming a true soldier—and the best flyer in
the Atalantan Military. She’s determined to
save her Dominion . . . or die
trying.
About
Me
Award-winning
author, Army wife, and mom
Tracy Banghart has an MA in Publishing and
an unhealthy affection for cupcakes.
Her quiet childhood led to a reading
addiction, writing obsession, and several
serious book boyfriends. Rebel
Wing is
her third novel. She can be found
at www.tracybanghart.com
EVERY UGLY WORD
By Aimee L. Salter
Description
When seventeen-year-old
Ashley Watson walks through the halls of
her high school, bullies taunt and
shove her. She can’t go a day without
fighting with her mother. And no matter
how hard she tries, she can’t make her best
friend, Matt, fall in love with
her. But Ashley also has something no one
else does: a literal glimpse into the
future. When Ashley looks into the mirror,
she can see her twenty-three-year-old
self.
Her older self has been
through it all already—she endured the
bullying, survived the heartbreak, and
heard every ugly word her classmates threw
at her. But her older self is also keeping
a dark secret: Something terrible is about
to happen to Ashley. Something that will change her life
forever. Something even her older self is
powerless to stop.
Perfect for fans of Thirteen Reasons
Why and The List,
Every Ugly
Word is a gripping and emotional story about
the devastating consequences of bullying.
About
Aimee
Aimee L. Salter lives in Southern Oregon with
her husband and son. She writes novels for teens and the occasional adult who,
like herself, is still in touch with their inner-high schooler. She never
stopped appreciating those moments in the dark when you say what you're really
thinking. And she'll always ask you about the things you wish she
wouldn't.
Aimee blogs for both writers and readers at www.aimeelsalter.com. You can also find her on Twitter and Facebook.
Every Ugly Word is her debut novel.
IMITATION
By Heather Hildenbrand
Description
Everyone is exactly like me.
There is no one like
me.
Ven wrestles with
these contradicting truths every day. A
clone of wealthy eighteen-year-old
Raven Rogen, Ven knows everything about the
girl she was created to serve: the
clothes she wears, the boys she loves, the
friends she loves to hate. Yet she’s
never met the Authentic Raven face-to-face.
Imitations like Ven only get to leave
the lab when they’re needed—to replace a dead
Authentic, donate an organ, or complete
a specific mission. And Raven has
never needed Ven . . . until
now.
When there is an
attack on Raven’s life, Ven is thrust into
the real world, posing as Raven to
draw out the people who tried to harm her.
But as Ven dives deeper into Raven’s
world, she begins to question everything
she was ever told. She exists for
Raven, but is she prepared to sacrifice
herself for a girl she’s never
met?
Fans of Cinder, The
Selection and Sara
Shepard’s Lying Game series will love
Imitation, a thrilling, action-packed
novel sure
to keep readers guessing until the very
last page.
About
Heather
Heather Hildenbrand was born and raised in a
small town in northern Virginia where she was homeschooled through high school.
She now lives in coastal VA, a few miles from the Atlantic Ocean, with her two
adorable children. She works from home, part time, as a property manager and
when she's not furiously pounding at the keyboard, or staring off into space
whilst plotting a new story, she's lying on the beach, soaking in those
delicious, pre-cancerous rays. Heather loves Mexican food, hates socks with
sandals, and if her house was on fire, the one thing she'd grab is her DVR
player. You can find out more about her and her books at www.heatherhildenbrand.blogspot.com
Heather is a co-founder of Accendo Press, a
publishing group she operates with fellow authors: Angeline Kace and Jennifer
Sommersby. Accendo (a-CH-endo), A Latin word, means “to kindle, illuminate,
inflame, or set fire.” This is something Accendo strives to do inside a
reader’s imagination with every title released.
Please join me, Aimee, and Heather, along with
some other great YA authors for a Facebook party this afternoon to celebrate
the big launch! And don't forget to enter the giveaway below!
Thanks so much to my wonderful bloggers friends
who are helping me spread the word!
