In Anticipation of Holly Black's Red Glove

Last week I received a package from Simon & Schuster that included a paperback copy of Holly Black's White Cat and an ARC of her newest title in the Curse Worker's Series, Red Glove.  I read White Cat as an ARC last year and fell in love with Holly's writing, characters, and this series.  If you've read White Cat, then you know Lila Zacharov.  In anticipation of the release of Red Glove, on April 5th, Holly Black has written a story from Lila's point of view.  The story is told in vignettes that can be read in any order.  Are you ready for this?  There are 13 vignettes!  You are invited to read them by clicking on the link for Lila Zacharov in 13 pieces.  This is brilliant!  It's a short story generator that mixes and matches the vignettes in a randomly generated order.  The story may never be the same as there are over 6 million variations possible.

I hope that you will visit the site to read the story from Lila's point of view.  If you haven't already gotten hooked on the Curse Worker's Series, there's still time for you to read White Cat before the April release of Red Glove.  What are you waiting for?

Mailbox Monday - 2/14/2011

Mailbox Monday is a weekly meme started by Marcia at The Printed Page.  You can read all about it at the Mailbox Monday blog.  Well, the mailbox has gone on tour.  This month's host is Library of Clean Reads. 

I love this meme because it lets me take a peek into other bloggers' mailboxes and find out what they received over the last week.  I will warn you, it does lead to more books as you will find many that you want because of others mailboxes.  If you'd like to join in on the fun, post about your books and link up!

The week started off with a bang as I received an awesome package from Simon and Schuster.  You can read about the excitement of Wither in the blog post, Thank You Simon & Schuster!

Here's what else came in the mail this week:

Lucky's Little Feather  by Peggy van Gurp, from Clavis Publishing
Crinkle Animals: Garden & Crinkle Animals: Jungle by Guido Van Genechten, from Clavis Publishing
The Moonlight Message by Denice Barlow Brown, from Cypress Productions

 

West of Here by Jonathan Evison, from Algonquin Books

A Mountain of Crumbs by Elena Gorokhova, from Simon & Schuster

The Weird Sisters (audio) by Eleanor Brown, from the author (won at Jenn's Bookshelves)

What books did you get?

Snapshot Saturday #17

Yesterday I tweeted about a package I received in the mail.  I have received many book packages, but never anything as beautifully packaged as this!  I subscribe to the Shelf Awareness Newsletter, and one day at the end of April, I saw a children's book, All the World, in the newsletter.  The cover was very attractive, and the blurb about it sounded interesting, so I took a chance and emailed the publisher.  Sometimes when I email publishers, I don't get a reply, so when I didn't hear back, I wasn't real concerned.  I had made a note of the book and would get it when it came out.  Imagine my surprise when I received an email last week saying that they would love to send me a review copy.  Well, that copy came yesterday!  I just had to take pictures to show you how beautifully it was put together.  As they say, presentation is everything, and this publisher knows how to present a product.

 

This is what I saw when I opened the box.  The review copy is a galley, meaning it is not bound together, but looks just like it would if it were.  Beautiful cover, huh?  Want to know what the picture on the top side of the box says?

 

That's actually a picture from the book, but the words, which aren't the ones from the book,  read like a clue to something.  It talks about a shell, which had me curious.  When I picked up the galley, imagine my surprise, as this is what was underneath.

The shredding made it look like the beach, with the shell and sea glass set in there just so.  Don't you just love it?  Along with the galley, in the box was a Beach Lane Books catalog, a note from the VP and a little note on how to enter to win an original piece of art from the book by Marla Frazee.

I still haven't taken everything out of the box, because I just can't bear to throw it away.  I'm still just in awe at the great pains Simon & Schuster went to to show off their new children's imprint, Beach Lane Books!  Thank you Allyn Johnston (VP of Beach Lane Books)!