September Author of the Month--David Estes

Welcome David Estes, the September author of the month!   

I've got a full month of things planned for this blog!  There will be lots of things going on at my other social sites--Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube!  My links are all on the left sidebar, so make sure you follow me everywhere to keep up with everything!

Along with reading all of David's books (that I haven't already read) and posting reviews, I have an author interview, an author guest post, and David has some sneak peek readings from some of his books!  There will also be some fun surprises, and contributions from some of David's biggest fans!  And, of course, there has to be a GIVEAWAY!

So, let's get started for an amazing month!  

The Author:

David Estes was born in El Paso, Texas but moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania when he was very young. He grew up in Pittsburgh and then went to Penn State for college. Eventually he moved to Sydney, Australia where he met his wife and soul mate, Adele, who he’s now been happily married to for more than two years.
A reader all his life, David began writing novels for the children's and YA markets in 2010, and has completed 14 novels, 12 of which have been published. In June of 2012, David became a fulltime writer and is now travelling the world with Adele while he writes books, and she writes and takes photographs.
David gleans inspiration from all sorts of crazy places, like watching random people do entertaining things, dreams (which he jots copious notes about immediately after waking up), and even from thin air sometimes!
David’s a writer with OCD, a love of dancing and singing (but only when no one is looking or listening), a mad-skilled ping-pong player, an obsessive Goodreads group member, and prefers writing at the swimming pool to writing at a table. He loves responding to e-mails, Facebook messages, Tweets, blog comments, and Goodreads comments from his readers, all of whom he considers to be his friends.
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Learn more about the author at: ​http://davidestesbooks.blogspot.com​

My Goodreads Fan Group: http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/70863-david-estes-fans-and-ya-book-lovers-unite?clear_facebook_session=true

My Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/David-Estes/130852990343920

My Goodreads author page: http://www.goodreads.com/davidestesbooks

Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/davidestesbooks

September Index of Posts

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The Moon Dwellers--My Review
Pinterest--Author of the Month Board
Instagram--Fire Country on my Nook
The Star Dwellers---My Review
The Sun Dwellers--My Review
The Earth Dwellers Book Blast and GIVEAWAY
The Earth Dwellers--Facebook Page
Ice Country--My Review
The Moon Dwellers Reading by David Estes
Fire Country--My Review
Fire Country Reading by David Estes
My Fire Country Playlist

Now its time for the GIVEAWAY!  One winner will get a choice of one of David's ebooks!  Enter on the rafflecopter below, and GOOD LUCK!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

City of Bones---Movie Review!

I finally went and saw City of Bones!  Here are my thoughts!

City of Bones--Quotes I hope to see in the movie!

So, tomorrow I am going to go and see City of Bones!  I'm very excited!  I don't have my hopes set too high (I hope!) but one of the things I love about TMI is some of the great dialogue and quotes.  

So here are the quotes I am hoping made it into the movie!

“Don't touch any of my weapons without my permission."
"Well, there goes my plan for selling them all on eBay," Clary muttered.
"Selling them on what?"
Clary smiled blandly at him. "A mythical place of great magical power.” 

“Do you remember back at the hotel when you promised that if we lived, you’d get dressed up in a nurse’s outfit and give me a sponge bath?" asked Jace.
"It was Simon who promised you the sponge bath."
"As soon as I’m back on my feet, handsome," said Simon.
"I knew we should have left you a rat.” 

“The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.” 

“Don't order any of the faerie food," said Jace, looking at her over the top of his menu. "It tends to make humans a little crazy. One minute you're munching a faerie plum, the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not," he added hastily, "that this has ever happened to me.” 

“Investigation?" Isabelle laughed. "Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names."
"Good idea," said Jace. "I shall be Baron Hotschaft Von Hugenstein.”

“Don't stop there. I suppose there are also, what, vampires and werewolves and zombies?"
"Of course there are. Although you mostly find zombies farther south, where the voudun priests are."
"What about mummies? Do they only hang around Egypt?"
"Don't be ridiculous. No one believes in mummies.”

“What's this?" he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was doing there.
"It's a girl," Jace said,recovering his composure. "Surely you've seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one.”

“Don't tell me," Jace said, "Simon's turned himself into an ocelot and you want me to do something about it before Isabelle makes him into a stole. Well, you'll have have to wait till tomorrow. I'm out of commission." He pointed at himself - he was wearing blue pajamas with a hole in the sleeve. "Look. Jammies."
"Jace," Clary said, "this is important."
"Don't tell me," he said. "You've got a drawing emergency. You need a nude model. Well, I'm not in the mood. You could always ask Hodge," he said as an afterthought. "I hear he'll do anything for a -"
"JACE!" she interrupted him, her voice rising to a scream. "JUST SHUT UP FOR A SECOND AND LISTEN, WILL YOU?”

Of course, I don't really except all of these to make the cut, but I am hoping to see a few!  Fingers crossed!

Bout of Book 8.0 Road Trip Challenge

Hey everyone and welcome to my stop for the Bout of Books Road Trip Challenge!! I hope you all are enjoying your read-a-thon week and are getting closer to your goals! I love going on road trips or any kind of trip for that matter and I always bring a TON of books with me. For this challenge, I'd like for you to come up with a list of the top 5-10 states/places you'd love to visit and find a book (you either read or want to read) that takes place in that state/place or a book by an author who lives or is from there. :]

To do this fun challenge, you must sign up for the read-a-thon.  You can do the challenge HERE

                                       Here is my road trip!

Washington--The Art of Racing in the Rain
Oregon--If I Stay
Wyoming--Unearthly
Colorado--A Beautiful Dark
Georgia--Hex Hall
South Carolina--Beautiful Creatures
North Carolina--The Truth About Forever
Virginia--The Raven Boys
New York--The City of Bones
Maine--Delirium

Sign Up for the Earth Dwellers Blog Blast!

Dear bloggers and social media addicts,

We are hosting a HUGE event to celebrate the release of The Earth Dwellers by David Estes, by giving away unlimited FREE eCopies of Fire Country, the first book in the Country Saga. Along with a tour wide giveaway, we are providing early access to Fire Country to all bloggers and reviewers, so that they may post their view along with the book blast.

The book blast will run from the 5th of September (The Earth Dwellers release date) until the 12th of September 2013, and we ask that you post and / or review within this time frame. 

A HTML post and blog buttons will be provided as part of the blast.

To participate, please email us at davidestesstreetteam@gmail.com

We thank you for your support.

The David Estes Street Team

Bout of Books 8.0 Read-a-thon TBR list

I'm all about Readathons lately, as they are giving me that extra push on my reading! Found another fun one to participate in!  This one has live Twitter chats and all kinds of other fun things, so I'm super excited!

Here are the Deets

Here's what you have to do:

1. Post on your site and declare your intentions to join us. It's EASY. Grab the official blurb (below) and our button (in the sidebar) and create a post.

The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda @ On a Book Bender and Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal. It is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01am Monday, August 19th and runs through Sunday, August 25th in whatever time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure, and the only reading competition is between you and your usual number of books read in a week. There are challenges, giveaways, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional. For all Bout of Books 8.0 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team

2. Add your link to the linky in this post.

3. There will be an OPTIONAL Social Hour sign up beginning on August 5th. Check back on that date for more details.

4. On August 19th, READ!

Sign up HERE

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My TBR list

15 Day Book Blogger Challenge--Day 15

Today is Day 15 in the 15 Day Blogger Challenge!

So I was scrolling around and I found an awesome new blogger challenge, created by Good Books, Good Wine.  Its a 15 day challenge, and I decided I'm going to try it!  It was created on her blog and Pinterest.  Here's the original post if you would like to join in!  Starter Post

And here's the challenge!

My blogging mentors

Jen Ryland @YA Romantics