We're giving away three copies of Rachel Vincent's My Soul To Save between now & Feb. 19th ... and it's so easy to enter. Click HERE for complete rules & details. My Soul to Save is the second book in the Soul Screamers series. Get to know it a little better by downloading the FREE... Continue Reading →
We've been unveiling all sorts of free, downloadable valentines lately featuring some of our favorite books! And today, we're featuring our February Book of the Month -- Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl! Click to view full-size, then right-click to save: (Some of the images used in our valentines are (C) VLC Photography,... Continue Reading →
We've been unveiling all sorts of free, downloadable valentines lately featuring some of our favorite books! And today, we're featuring our February Book of the Month -- Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl! Click to view full-size, then right-click to save: (Some of the images used in our valentines are (C) VLC Photography,... Continue Reading →
Writing poems are all about revision. When I first started putting down verse, I was very anti-revision. To me, poetry was a moment of experience! A thought came to me and I scribbled it down and voila! Magic! A spontaneous explosion of feeling and meaning right there on the page! It would be inauthentic of... Continue Reading →
We've been unveiling various collections of Valentines featuring some of our favorite books. Today, here's one featuring The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor -- a trilogy that provides an awesome, Sci-Fi twist on the Alice in Wonderland legend. As always, click to view full-size, then right-click to save: This was created using artwork created... Continue Reading →
We've been unveiling various collections of Valentines featuring some of our favorite books. Today, here's one featuring The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor -- a trilogy that provides an awesome, Sci-Fi twist on the Alice in Wonderland legend. As always, click to view full-size, then right-click to save: This was created using artwork created... Continue Reading →
 Wondering what the rest of the country is reading? Here's this week's top 10 according to The New York Times. (Our book of the month for February, Beautiful Creatures, by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, is no. 7). CHAPTER BOOKS This Week  Weeks on List 1 THE HUNGER GAMES, by Suzanne Collins. (Scholastic, $17.99.) In... Continue Reading →
Hey all. We're planning some fun promotional goodies here at Novel Novice, and for part of this we needed some promotional photos to use for graphics and soon-to-be-revealed surprises! My good friend May is an amazing photographer, and she chipped in to shoot the photos for us -- along with our volunteer model Callie (thanks... Continue Reading →
If you've read our February Book of the Month, Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl, then you know that the song "Sixteen Moons" plays an important part throughout the novel. But Garcia & Stohl didn't just make up the song for the book -- they actually wrote it! Well, they wrote the lyrics,... Continue Reading →
If you've read our February Book of the Month, Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl, then you know that the song "Sixteen Moons" plays an important part throughout the novel. But Garcia & Stohl didn't just make up the song for the book -- they actually wrote it! Well, they wrote the lyrics,... Continue Reading →
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