Though true love needs no single day to proclaim itself, celebrate today all those who have made your days brighter, just by being there. Whether it’s your best friend, your boyfriend, or your great aunt Sue – share the love with some of these awesome Fallen V-Day E-Cards. Happy Valentine’s Day everyone, spend it well! -Lauren Kate
Alvin, Erica, Lindsay, Amber, Katrina, and Monica! A HUGE thank you to all of you who submitted answers to these questions, I received so many amazing responses that it was nearly impossible to just pick six for this giveaway. But don’t you worry, there will be other chances to win cool Fallen prizes coming up soon, I promise. So let’s see what our six had to say about the series and upcoming Fallen possibilities! Tell me about [...]
Fallen in Love has been out two whole weeks now, and while I hope that many of you have already had a chance to pick up your copy, I’ve got a handful of audio books up for grabs. Wouldn’t you like to take Luce and Daniel with you on those dreary early-morning rides to school? That bus trip to that faraway boyfriend? Those train rides to, well… anywhere? Give your eyes a rest and let [...]
Today’s the big day! I’m thrilled to share this collection of short stories from the Fallen world with you. I can’t wait to hear what you think of the book. Fallen in Love came along as something of a surprise. I wasn’t expecting to write it. My publisher was waiting on Rapture. You were waiting on Rapture. I was waiting on Rapture…. But I wasn’t ready to write it yet. It made me nervous to think about writing [...]
Some of you know how much I love to cook. When I’m done writing at the end of the day, cooking something exciting often feels like the most fun way to wind down. To me, cooking is the opposite of writing: where writing is sedentary and brain-draining…cooking is hands-on and can be done with a clear, calm mind. My husband Jason loves saffron, so for Christmas one year, I got him a book called the [...]
Sometimes, love is hell. Just ask Arriane (or read about it in her chapter of Fallen in Love). But that doesn’t mean your whole world has to screech to a halt. If your Valentines Day this year is shaping up to be less than romantic (as mine have been many times), take a cue from Robyn and keep dancing on your own. And when your tired feet need a rest (if you are wearing shoes like Robyn, [...]
Virginia Woolf is one of my favorite writers and To the Lighthouse is my favorite book of hers. It’s not expressly a love story, but there is romance flowing across every page, to and from each one of the characters, often showing up in the most surprising places. I am always in awe of Woolf’s ability to jump in one character’s mind one paragraph, then leave it to enter another character’s mind in the next. She [...]
My first book crush was Rhett Butler from Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind. I must have read all twelve hundred pages of that book twelve times when I was twelve years old. I remember reading it once while visiting my grandmother in Baltimore. She told me how much she loved the movie–it was the only film she’d ever gone to the theater to see twice. When we rented and watched it together, I fell in [...]
Today’s Dash comes from love poet master, John Donne. His words inspire me regularly. (Look for him again in the epigraph of Rapture!) Like The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis, this poem centers around two departing lovers, but in this case, this speaker finds reasons to celebrate the separation. Take a look: A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne As virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their souls to go, Whilst some of [...]
