Nail Art Friday

So ever since Mandee from Vegan Ya Nerds started The Bookish Manicurist blog, I've been thinking of great book to nail designs. I thought I'd give it a whirl and post what I come up with here. It's a lot of fun, but a lot of work. I don't know how she does it so often and has it look amazing. Maybe I'll get there too. I really love nail polish and have a ton of it, so this should be fun. For my first nail art, I have decided to represent Icons by Margaret Stohl.

For the background I used the Maybelline and then sponged on a mixture of the other two with a foundation sponge.

These were used to write "Icons" and add cracks.

I used the nail art pen for the lightning and the others for
the dots. I finished it all of with Seche Vite.

Fangirl Friday: Book Covers

So, book covers. The first thing you see about a book (most of the time) and it makes a different as to your attitude towards that book. I now if a cover looks very homemade, I tend to feel as though the book can't be that good either. Regardless, today is a day to share book covers that I adore that have popped up recently. Enjoy!

While slightly generic, I completely adore these new covers. The grainy gradient and the bold text with the shapes and the cityscape in the background!!!! They are just totally gorgeous.

(my review of Anna)

I really enjoyed this story. However I was not much of a fan of the previous cover. This on is a lot more eye-catching and a bit less strange. I quite like it.

I very much like that they are keeping the same theme for these book covers. 

They will look all nicey-nice side by side. I like the color of this one it's eerie. 

This cover is just fantastic. There's kind of a lot going on, but I love the covers and the layout and everything. This one sounds and looks fantastic!

So those are some of the book covers I've seen and admired lately. What do you guys think? Are there any new covers that you simply adore?

Cover Reveal: Stained by Cheryl Rainfield

On Nov 19th, 2013 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will be realeasing the newest title by author Cheryl Rainfield, Stained.

In this heart-wrenching and suspenseful teen thriller, sixteen-year-old Sarah Meadows longs for "normal." Born with a port-wine stain covering half her face, all her life she’s been plagued by stares, giggles, bullying, and disgust. But when she’s abducted on the way home from school, Sarah is forced to uncover the courage she never knew she had, become a hero rather than a victim, and learn to look beyond her face to find the beauty and strength she has inside. It’s that—or succumb to a killer. Tag Line: Sometimes you have to be your own hero. 

From the author: Like I did with SCARS and HUNTED, I drew on some of my own experiences of bullying, abuse, and trauma to write STAINED and to give it greater emotional depth. Like Sarah in STAINED, I experienced abduction, imprisonment, periods of forced starvation, mind control, and having my life threatened. And like Sarah, I tried hard to fight against my abuser, keep my own sense of self, and escape. I hope readers will see Sarah's strength and courage, and appreciate her emotional growth as she reclaims herself.

And now, for the moment you've been waiting for...

Isn't that cover intense?!

You can check out the newly released trailer too!

Available For Pre-Order on:

Amazon (hardcover)

Amazon (kindle)

Amazon.ca (hardcover)

Amazon.ca (ebook)

Amazon.co.uk (hardcover) 

Amazon.co.uk (ebook) 

The Book Depository

Powell's

Books a Million

Cheryl Rainfield is the author of the following books: Stained: Sarah, a teen with a port-wine stain, is abducted, and must find a way to rescue herself.
Parallel Visions: Kate sees visions of the future--but only when she has an asthma attack.
Hunted: Caitlyn is a telepath in a world where having any paranormal power is illegal. Monica Hughes Award finalist
Scars: Kendra must face her past and stop hurting herself before it's too late. GG Literary Award Finalist, YALSA's Top 10 Quick Picks.

To find out more about Cheryl visit her website.

Cover L♥ve

So I just wanted to share some fab covers that I've seen around lately.

 Let me know in the comments if there are any you are super in love with!
Click on titles to go to Goodreads page.

Shatter Me - Tahereh Mafi (my review)

Paper Valentine - Brenna Yovanoff

Teeth - Hannah Moskowitz

The Archived - Victoria Schwab

Unspoken - Sarah Rees Brennan

The Infects - Sean Beaudoin

Out of the Easy - Ruta Sepetys

Etiquette & Espionage - Gail Carriger

Look-alikes

We got some books in at the library, one a new release and one a reorder, and I was looking at them thinking...that looks awful familiar. So here you go two more cover look-alikes.

Beautiful Covers for upcoming books

Five Challenge: 5 best 2010 covers

    

If you would like to know more about the FIVE challenge click here.

So those are the five covers I picked. It was hard to narrow in down to only five, but these ones were spectacular. Which covers did you love this year?

Shadow Hills Paperback Cover Revealed

So Thanks to everyone who participated in any way for the big week of contests that lead up to the cover reveal of Shadow Hills. If you haven't been already, make sure you head over to Anastasia's blog to check out the wicked sweet new cover and the answers to all the trivia questions. The winner for my contest had been e-mailed.

Secrets Cover Revealed!

So the Sequel to Rina Onur and Lauren Kunze's book The Ivy, Secrets is set to come out in May 2011. A few days ago Rina showed off the very pretty cover to Secrets on her blog, so I thought I'd share it with you all here. So...What do you think?

Between Here and Forever - Elizabeth Scott Cover reveal

So as I was stopping by Elizabeth Scott's blog today, I came across the reveal of the cover for her new book Between Here and Forever. I am really excited about this book especially because Elizabeth mentioned that we will be hearing from two characters from her previous novel Bloom. I love the sunflower on this cover, it's so prettiful.

Princess Bookie Recreate a cover contest

Enter Here

Official Rules:
Open To US Only
One Entry Per Person
Open Until we hit 50 entries!
First 50 participates In Mr Linky
We will be voting in rounds!
Your Image Must be savable, meaning I can right click on it and save it.

Prize:

• A finished copy of Anna And The French Kiss!
• An eiffel tower figure
• Anna Bookmarks

Super pretty The Lost Saint Cover...

So I know this was revealed a few days ago, but maybe some people didn't see it. It's very pretty and I am so excited to own a copy of this gorgeous sequel. Let's hope the inside is just as amazing!
Feel free to stop by on Bree's blog to tell her your oooo's and ahhhh's and if you share this cover with others you can enter a contest to win some pretty awesome YA novels.

Peace!

Body Finder 2 cover revealed!

ummmm... so I don't know if any of you have seen this yet, but here is the official cover for Desires of the Dead book 2 for Kimberly Derting. Her post about this is here, go tell her how much you love it!

Princess Bookie Remake Cover Contest Part II

This is my entry for Princess Bookie's second Remake a Cover Contest... hope you guys like it and I hope she does too!

Rules:
-One Entry Per Person
-First 30 People To Enter + my favorite 5
-First Come First Serve- First 30 in linky will be entered! Plus 5 more of my favorites! (no more than 50 entries total)
-You can not reuse your cover from any of my previous remake cover contests!!! No re-entries!
-You will vote, in voting rounds!
-This is for fun! You do not have to participate!

Signups Open UNTIL March 30th or UNTIL we hit 50 entries.

Prize: You will win 1 of The leftover mystery ARCs from the pick 3 contest PLUS 2 Mystery ARCS from me PLUS a bunch of bookmarks!

UPDATE::::: I've had numerous people who felt 25-30 people were NOT enough!!! There were more that wanted to enter. So I came up with this. 30 people will go into the first round (the first 30 in MR LINKY) The Next 20 PEOPLE can still enter (50 total) however I get to choose 5 more of my favorites that will go on. So a total of 35 people will make it into round 1!!!! Thats it. Enter at your own risk!!!!

Open Internationally but if you win and your international, you will win $10 giftcard from book depository.

Princess Bookie's Cover Challenge

This is my entry in the Princess Bookie Recreate a Cover Challenge.

Rules:
-One Entry Per Person
-First 50 People To Enter (no more than this because it would be too hard to calculate)
-First Come First Serve- First 50 in linky will be entered!
-You can not reuse your cover from last year!!! No re-entries!
-However You CAN use a fan art Friday, as long as YOU made it! (I'll know when you link it from your blog)

Create Your YA Debut Cover

Directions

1 – Go to “Fake Name Generator” or click http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/

The name that appears is your author name.

2 – Go to “Random Word Generator” or clickhttp://www.websitestyle.com/parser/randomword.shtml

The word listed under “Random Verb” is your title.

3 – Go to “FlickrCC” or click http://flickrcc.bluemountains.net/index.php

Type your title into the search box. The first photo that contains a person is your cover.

4 – Use Photoshop, Picnik, or similar to put it all together. Be sure to crop and/or zoom in.

5 – Post it to your site along with this text.