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No one says it better than Veronica herself, but hitting the New York Times list in the first week is wonderful, exciting and very, very well-deserved for this book and author.

Congratulations!!

Image Courtesy of Brooks Sherman 

DIVERGENT Contest Results!

This was veeeery interesting, guys. Joanna and I were awed by the amount of time and consideration you all put into answering, And with all comments tallied, here are the results:

Kindess came in first with 9 votes.

Intelligence and Honesty were tied with 6 votes each.

Bravery got 4 votes.

Selflessness got 3 votes.

Interesting. Very, very interesting. Though you're going to have to read DIVERGENT to find out why we're so...intrigued by these answers. *grin* I wonder if anyone's vote will change after reading.

And the randomly selected winner of the DIVERGENT arc is:

EMY SHIN.

Congrats, Emy! Email us your contact info, and we'll send the book your way.

Thanks so much for all the thought-provoking comments, you guys. We really enjoyed reading them. You're awesome.

Contest for DIVERGENT

***So, um, for some reason this blog post went up all sorts of messed up--part of my post was missing (the part after The Call), and the author interview was HUGE?  Something I'm still not able to fix--if anyone has a suggestion, I'm all ears! Apparently I'm having blogging issues.  All should be fixed now!  And...what are you waiting for?  Enter the contest!!***

So we have this book coming out called DIVERGENT by Veronica Roth in May.  And it is made of awesomesauce (and paper and binding, of course).  If you want to know what it's about, just listen to Veronica give you the details herself:




I met Veronica at a conference in Indiana (shout out to MWW!), and I could tell right away that she was just an all around great gal because she laughed at my weird jokes.  (Now that I think about it, maybe she was just being polite....). I discovered that she was professional and talented as well as we corresponded after the conference. Then she sent me Divergent. And then I started reading.  A few sleepless nights later and everyone in my office was buzzing over it.  It was time to make The Call--which included a black out, a storm, driving all around Long Island for reception, and a late night rendezvous to Steak n' Shake. You don't want to know.  I'm just happy I was able to get through to her!

Now most people will have to wait for pub date to read this.  But for one lucky winner here, you can win a copy by entering this contest!

DIVERGENT CONTEST:

Please answering the follow two-part question:

Which virtue is most important to you?  

a)honesty

b)selflessness

c)bravery

d)kindness

e)intelligence

And why?

The Rules:

1. You must follow this blog.

2. You must answer the 2-part question in the comments section of this blog.

3. You must comment on this post.

4. You must tweet, facebook, vlog or blog about this contest and include the link in your comment.

5. You can enter only once.

6. US participants only (OR anyone with a US address for mailing the winning package).


The winner will be chosen at random and the results posted.


**You have until 11:59pm EST on Monday, 1/24!  Enter quick!

What a DAY, man

So, all sorts of hawtness today.

For one, our Ms. Veronica Roth has posted a little bit of a DIVERGENT tease on her blog here. Seriously, go look. SO hawtness. We'll be posting more on this little teaser next week.

For twos, Lisa Desrochers' debut novel, PERSONAL DEMONS hits the shelves today and it's super hawt because it's about two hawt dudes and a kickass girl. It's one of the best YA

paranormals I've ever read, and I'm not just saying that because Lisa's agent is my gal pal Suzie Townsend. It's because it's so good that I read it in one sitting then thought about how hawt Luc is for days afterward. Who is Luc you may ask? Well, you'll just have to read to find out. To win some PERSONAL DEMONS swag, enter these contests: Confessions of Suite 500 (yay swag!), or EPIC CONTEST (iPod shuffles anyone??).

For trice, we have an Omg, DUFF! winner--woohoo! This will now be

dubbed the DAHC, the Designated Awesome Hawt Contest. And the winner is...Erin! Erin, please email us at nclitblog(at)gmail(dot)com. Here's her comment:

Erin said...

I'm so excited to read this book! I've heard nothing but good things about it! Really hope I win :D
http://twitter.com/erin_forbees

For last, don't forget to enter Sara's hawt Brooklyn Book Festival contest--the winner gets a copy of Mitali Perkins' BAMBOO PEOPLE. It sounds fantastic! (she snagged me a copy too, so looks like I've got something good to read over the weekend....)

And...um. Hawt.