Giveaway Time!

How's your summer going? Over here at Authors are ROCKSTARS!, we're still basking in the aftermath of the ALA Annual Conference. We've also been reflecting on the awesome authors we've had the opportunity to meet this year, as well as the exciting interviews we have coming up, and we decided that since things have been a little quiet around here for the past few weeks, it's time for a giveaway!

Want to win a signed ARC of In Honor by Jessi Kirby? After listening to the interview with Jessi we shared last month, of course you do!

Here's the deal: we'll be chatting with both Kiersten White (along with Marie Lu, Robin LeFevers and Cynthia Hand) on Tuesday and Sophie Jordan on Saturday this week for the podcast. Since we've been fortunate enough to have interviewed most of these authors previously, we'd like to know what YOU want to ask them this time around!

Simply comment on this post with a question (or two or three) that you'd like us to ask these talented authors, and that's your entry for the In Honor ARC contest. We'll email the winner for their address, so be sure to leave your email when you comment.

(As a reminder, the In Honor is in bookstores now, so the signed ARC is a more of a collector's item than a reading copy-- you should also buy the finished version!)

So get to it, folks-- what do you want to ask these talented ladies? Let us know by Friday July 27th and you could win. We may even see if we can gather up some autographs for the ladies we're interviewing. ;o)

EDIT: Please note that questions for Kiersten, Marie, Robin and Cynthia need to be submitted by 9am Tuesday July 23rd. We will be interviewing them at Kiersten's launch party that evening.

Jessi Kirby - Special Edition

Jessi Kirby is an amazing writer-- and she's a fellow Southern Californian! We're practically neighbors, so we were thrilled to get the chance to sit down with Jessi and chat about her writing. Her latest book, In Honor, came out in May from Simon and Schuster, following her debut novel, Moonglass, which was published last year.

We had the best time talking to Jessi about the way one of her students inspired her to write a book, what it was like writing a second book versus her first, and her tips for achieving a work/life balance as a mom.

Be sure to visit Jessi at her Web site.

We thought we'd wrap up this episode with a singer who reminds us of Jessi's fictional country music sensation, Kyra Kelly, from In Honor-- Christine Marie, with her song "It Starts Today." Enjoy!

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