Lauren Kate Books » Holidays http://laurenkatebooks.net From the author of Fallen and The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:12:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Next Up: A blog tour and SoCal signings http://laurenkatebooks.net/next-up-a-blog-tour-and-socal-signings http://laurenkatebooks.net/next-up-a-blog-tour-and-socal-signings#comments Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:43:01 +0000 LaurenK http://laurenkatebooks.net/?p=221 On Monday, January 11th, I’m excited to embark on my first blog tour. I’ll be guest blogging about all sorts of things from forbidden love, to why I sometimes ignore my mother, to what it felt like to get the news that Fallen hit the New York Times Bestseller List. Here’s a list of the blogs where I can be found–and I’ll post what I write here as well:

January 11th Beatrice

January 12th Through a Glass Darkly

January 13th A Patchwork of Books

January 14th The Reading Zone

January 15th The Children’s Book Review

January 20th TeenReads.com

January 21st The Book Butterfly

January 26th CynthiaLeitichSmith.com

I also have a few upcoming events in Southern California, so those of you who live nearby, please come out!

On Saturday, January 16th, I’ll be signing books at Chevaliers in Los Angeles from 1-3pm.

On Tuesday, January 19th, I’ll be reading from Fallen and signing books at the Borders in Mission Viejo at 7pm.

On Saturday, January 30th, I’ll be reading from Fallen and signing books at the Borders in Long Beach at 2pm.

When I was in Arkansas recently for the holidays, my publisher sent 300 copies of Fallen to my mother in law’s house for me to sign for the ALA mid-winter conference. It was a tough job, but at least I had a helper:

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I wish my nephew David Franklin could come to all of my signings with me, but I understand he’s got other things on his plate.

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That’s all for now. If you’re local, I hope you can make it to one of these upcoming bookstore events! If you’re reading this from afar, I hope you’ll join me on my blog tour.

Have a great weekend, everyone. Tonight I’m going to see a double feature of Crazy Heart (an overdue birthday present to Jason) and Youth in Revolt (because Michael Cera is the bomb). Living on the edge here!

]]> http://laurenkatebooks.net/next-up-a-blog-tour-and-socal-signings/feed 6 Happy Holidays! http://laurenkatebooks.net/happy-holidays http://laurenkatebooks.net/happy-holidays#comments Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:18:12 +0000 LaurenK http://laurenkatebooks.net/?p=211 Happy Holidays from Hot Springs, Arkansas where I am spending the week with family and friends. We spent a week in Dallas with my fam hoarding QT with this little longhorn:

My niece Jordan

My niece Jordan

then drove up to Arkansas to see this little cookie monster:

My nephew David Franklin

My nephew David Franklin

before we head to New Orleans for New Years Eve and then jet back home to L.A. Altogether, a pretty perfect holiday break! It’s been so cool to see copies of Fallen and The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove under some nearby Christmas trees. I hope everyone is enjoying the break, relaxing with family, and having some holiday cheer.

Now it’s time for me to give a shout-out to the three winners of my Natalie Hargrove giveaway contest!

*drumroll pls*

Congratulations to Avonlea, Elie, and Kristen!

Thanks everyone for entering and for sharing all of your brilliant suggestions for dog names. The jury is still out, but now we’re armed with lots of good ideas. Will keep you posted when we pick our pooch next month.

I also wanted to share this short video interview that I filmed while on tour in Savannah. Thanks to Random House for putting this together!

Click here to view the embedded video.

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