Featured Book of the Week: Swoon by Nina Malkin

We are really excited to present a very cool week-long feature, starting today, on Swoon by Nina Malkin — a very edgy, mature YA book from Simon & Schuster. And if you haven’t checked out Swoon yet, now is the perfect time. Because Nina has really good news … a sequel is coming:

Swear will be released by S&S in late Summer/early Fall 2011

We’ll be featuring Swoon all week here at Novel Novice — including an exclusive sneak peek at Swoon, a contest to win one of five signed copies of the book, an exclusive Q&A with Nina, a guest blog from Nina herself … PLUS your chance to be a character in the sequel to Swoon!!

That’s right … we’re launching a contest on Friday, and the winner will become a minor character in Swear. How cool is that? This is a once in a lifetime chance to be a character in a YA book!

So stick around all week for these really exciting exclusives. Meanwhile, here’s more about Swoon:

Torn from her native New York City and dumped in the land of cookie-cutter preps, Candice is resigned to accept her posh, dull fate. Nothing ever happens in Swoon, Connecticut…until Dice’s perfect, privileged cousin Penelope nearly dies in a fall from an old tree, and her spirit intertwines with that of a ghost. His name? Sinclair Youngblood Powers. His mission? Revenge. And while Pen is oblivious to the possession, Dice is all too aware of Sin. She’s intensely drawn to him — but not at all crazy about the havoc he’s wreaking. Determined to exorcise the demon, Dice accidentally sets Sin loose, gives him flesh, makes him formidable. Now she must destroy an even more potent — and irresistible — adversary, before the whole town succumbs to Sin’s will. Only trouble is, she’s in love with him.

What do you do when the boy of your dreams is too bad to be true?