The Story Siren: A Special Thanks to these 2010 Debut Authors!

A Special Thanks to these 2010 Debut Authors!

Sunday, November 29, 2009 at 3:22 PM

A lot of the awesome things I have planned for the 2010 Debut Author Challenge, would not be possible without some fantastically generous authors! The authors below have donated or will be donating swag/signed arcs/signed books/bookish goodies!

I cannot thank them enough! If it wasn't for them, I know this challenge would not have reached its highest potential!

Thank you so very much!

Mara Purnhagen (Tagged)

Jame Richards (Three Rivers Rising)

Jessica Leader (Nice and Mean)

Jennifer Hubbard (The Secret Year)

Kristina McBride (The Tension of Opposites)

Dia Reeves (Bleeding Violet)

Tara Kelly (Harmonic Feedback)

Anastasia Hopcus (Shadow Hills)

Chelsea Campbell (The Rise of Renegade X)

Jeri Smith-Ready (Shade)

Julie Kagawa (Iron King)

Jen Nadol (The Mark)

Kelly Creagh (Nevermore)

Lindsay Eland (Scones and Sensibility) to be released December 20009

Amy Brecount White (Forget-Her-Nots)

Angie Frazier (Everlasting)

Kay Cassidy (The Cinderella Society)

Teri Hall (The Line)

Alexandra Diaz (Of All the Stupid Things) to be released December 2009

Judith Graves (Under My Skin)

Olugbemisola Rhuday Perkovich (Eighth-Grade Superzero)

Swati Avasthi (Split)

Irene Latham (Leaving Gee's Bend)

Jacqueline Houtman (The Reinvention of Edison Thomas)

Lindsey Leavitt (Princess for Hire)

Janet Fox (Faithful)

Suzanne Young (The Naughty List)

Bonnie Doerr (Island Sting)

Leah Cypess (Mistwood)

Kitty Keswisk (Freaksville)

Kimberly Derting (The Body Finder)

Joelle Anthony (Restoring Harmony)

Cynthia Omololu (Dirty Little Secrets)

Jennifer Murgia (Angel Star)

Linda Kage (The Stillburrow Crush)

N.H. Senzai (Shooting Kabul)

Alexandra Bullen (Wish)
Rachel Hawkins (Hex Hall)
Christy Raedeke (Prophecy of Days)

Christina Gonzalez (The Red Umbrella)

Elizabeth Eulberg (The Lonely Hearts Club, to be released December 2009)

Ryan Potter (Exit Strategy)

Mindi Scott (Freefall)

Shannon Delaney (13 to Life)

Shari Maurer (Change of Heart)

Kristin Walker (A Match Made in High School)

Denise Jaden (Losing Faith)

Andrea Cremer (Nightshade)

Stacey Kade (The Ghost and the Goth)

Lisa Desrochers (Personal Demons)

If you are 2010 debut author and would like to help with the 2010 Debut Author Challenge, please feel free to email me for more information! There is no deadline!

19 comments:

Wendy said...: That is so completely awesome of them! Thank you! And heeey, more books for my list! :D; November 29, 2009 3:34 PM
Jo said...: Woah, that's a lot of authors! It's so awesome that they're kind enough to help out! :) I'm so looking forward to starting this challenge, and seeing how everyone else does!; November 29, 2009 3:40 PM
Elie said...: You are getting wonderful participation from authors and readers! Great work.

Elie (Ellz Readz); November 29, 2009 4:13 PM
Shalyn said...: Wow, that is awesome! How generous of them to donate. Not to mention this helps me with my debut-author challenge ;); November 29, 2009 4:21 PM
Book Crazy Jenn said...: WOW look at all those pretty new books coming out - gotta get several of them on my MUST buy list! :); November 29, 2009 4:34 PM
brizmus said...: Ooh how rad! I've really got to get on writing my participation post!; November 29, 2009 5:42 PM
iluvhersheys_andbooks said...: Those look awesome. I see a lot of new additions to my debut challenge list. Huge THANKS!!! to all the authors for helping out!!!; November 29, 2009 6:16 PM
Tara McClendon said...: Awesome!!! I'm looking forward to 2010 releases. :]; November 29, 2009 8:11 PM
BrittLit said...: That's awesome. I AM SO EXCITED FOR 2010 DEBUTS!; November 29, 2009 9:30 PM
GFDesignz said...: woohoooo thank you so much authors! Ya'll RAWK!!!!; November 29, 2009 11:41 PM
Rebecca Herman said...: There are some awesome books/authors up there!; November 30, 2009 12:45 AM
~JoRdAn~ said...: There is a lot of really awesome books up there that I am looking forward to reading :); November 30, 2009 5:10 PM
Bonnie J. Doerr said...: Totally awesome. There are books here I didn't know about. Thanks for providing the challenge, Kristi.; November 30, 2009 5:16 PM
Anonymous said...: Does Jeri Smith-ready's books count? She has half a dozen adult novels out.; November 30, 2009 7:29 PM
The Story Siren said...: why, yes anon they do. This is her YA debut! Lots of YA/MG debut authors also have a dozen or so children's books out. It's all specified in the information post, if you'd like to check that out.; November 30, 2009 7:32 PM
YA_RockStarlette said...: I have an award for ya:http://yarockstarlette.blogspot.com/2009/11/kick-ass-blog-award.html

-Haley
XOXO; November 30, 2009 8:48 PM
Ursina said...: Wow! That is really nice of all of those authors! I'm really hoping Santa heard my wishes and drops of some cash so I can get some of these books. Us Canucks can be some what deprived when it comes to books.; November 30, 2009 9:26 PM
Anonymous said...: Dear God there's SO many good books coming out! I'm really intrigued by Shadow Hills and The Body Finder.; November 30, 2009 11:09 PM
Anonymous said...: Totally awesome! Yay authors! Thanks so much!; March 30, 2010 4:31 PM