In My Mailbox 36 + Fun Book Trailer Opportunity

In My Mailbox was created by Kristi over at The Story Siren and is a great way to see what other bloggers are reading and reviewing. I always love seeing what everyone else got for their week!


It's been a little while since I've done an IMM post, so these are the books I've received over the past couple weeks:

FOR REVIEW
Dragonswood by Janet Lee Carey
Dark Eden by Patrick Carman
The Faerie Ring by Kiki Hamilton
Embrace by Jessica Shirvington
Lightbringer by K.D. McEntire
Graffiti Moon by Cath Crowley
The Rift Walker by Clay and Susan Griffith
Alexander Death by JL Bryan
iBoy by Kevin Brooks

An enormous thank you this week to Penguin and Teen Book Scene, HarperTeen, Tor Teen, Sourcebooks, Pyr, Knopf books for Young Readers and NetGalley, Prometheus Books, JL Bryan, and Scholastic for sending me books I can't wait to read!

WANT TO BE IN A BOOK TRAILER?

Young adult author Daniel Cohen contacted me this week to let me know about a very cool opportunity for readers to be a part of the book trailer for his upcoming release, Masters of the Veil, and I wanted to share it with all of you! You can find the full details HERE, but basically you can submit a short video (or videos if you'd like to do more than one) of you improvising a few lines or just generally having fun pretending to be someone chock full of school spirit who's completely outraged that your high school football team has just royally blown the championship game. For submitting a clip you'll get a signed Masters of the Veil rack card, and if your clip is chosen for the trailer not only will your pretty face appear in the final cut for all to see, but you'll also receive a signed ARC as well.

I love that Daniel and Spencer Hill Press are trying to get readers and fans involved in the making of the book trailer, and if I didn't freeze like a freak of nature with a stupefied expression on my face when confronted with a video camera I would do this in a second! I'm really looking forward to seeing the final product:)

Cover Reveal: Masters of the Veil

Today I've got a cover reveal for Masters of The Veil by Daniel Cohen. I recently read and reviewed his debut novel The Ancillary's Mark (you can read my review HERE) and am looking forward to his upcoming release. We have a while to wait given that it won't be available from Spencer Hill Press until March 1st 2012 (which is a lucky day I think because it just happens to be my birthday, but I digress), but it's never too early to start counting down for a book release I say!

What do you guys think?

MASTERS OF THE VEIL:

Life can’t get much better for Sam Lock. Popular, good-looking, and with a future as a professional football player… every guy at Stanton High School wishes he were Sam. That is, until his championship football game, when Sam accidentally links with an ancient source of energy known as the Veil and reveals his potential to become a powerful sorcerer.

Sam’s dreams are crushed as he is whisked off to Atlas Crown, a community of sorcerers who utilize the Veil as a part of everyday life. Once there, he trains beside a mute boy who speaks through music, an eternal sage who is the eyes and ears of the Veil, and a beautiful girl who's pretty sure Sam's an idiot.

As it becomes clear that Sam is meant for power magic—the most feared and misunderstood form of sorcery—people beyond Atlas Crown learn of his dangerous potential. An exiled group of power sorcerers are eager to recruit Sam, believing that he is destined to help them achieve their long-held goal. If they succeed, they could bring about the downfall of not only Atlas Crown… but all of humankind.