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ARC Winner!

Huge thanks to everyone who participated in the YAmazing Race with MGnificent Prizes. We all had a great time sharing our upcoming books with you. The six prize pack winners are posted here.

I am especially grateful to those of you who entered the contest to win an ARC of Time Between Us. I love that so many of you chose to share your time travel stories, and I had such a great time reading them over the last week. If you’d been a fly on the wall, you would have heard your fair share of laughs, audible wow’s and yeah, that’d be cool’s, and a bunch of whoa’s followed by total speechlessness.

Counting your comments, Goodreads adds, Twitter follows, and Facebook likes, there were a total of 366 entries (Wow! Thank you!). After a random pull from the good-ol’ fishbowl, the winner of my very first ARC giveaway is:

KIM from The Netherlands!

I absolutely loved Kim’s story, and she said she didn’t mind if I reposted it here. This is Kim’s time travel wish:

If I could travel back in time, I would travel back in time to when I let this great guy go, and I’ve regretted doing so ever since. If I could go back I would slap some sense into my younger self!

Besides, if I could only travel back once, I don’t think I should travel back to see my grandmother, who passed away ten years ago. She meant everything to me, and I miss her everyday. I think I would never be able to go back to this time to miss her all over again…

Whoa. Speechless.

Congratulations, Kim! I’m sending you a signed ARC of Time Between Us, signed bookmarks, a bunch of stickers, and a hot-off-the-press TBU T-shirt!

 

 

Everyone: Thank you again for sharing your stories, and for your incredibly kind words and enthusiasm for Time Between Us.

This was fun! Let’s do it again soon, okay?

 

 

The YAmazing Race!

The race ends at noon EST on Tuesday, May 8!

 

Hey, you made it!

Welcome to my stop on the YAmazing Race with MGnificent prizes, a blog hop featuring over 50 debut authors, and prize packs that include ARCs, gift certificates, swag, and more! If you haven’t yet been to the Apocalypsies website, please click here to start from the beginning and read the complete rules.

At this stop, you’re going to learn a little bit about my time travel romance, TIME BETWEEN US.

Are you ready? Here we go…

 

TIME BETWEEN US
by Tamara Ireland Stone

Publisher:  Hyperion
Release Date:  October 9, 2012

Anna and Bennett were never supposed to meet: she lives in 1995 Chicago and he lives in 2012 San Francisco. But Bennett’s unique ability to travel through time and space brings him into Anna’s life, and with him, a new world of adventure and possibility.

As their relationship deepens, they face the reality that time might knock Bennett back where he belongs, even as a devastating crisis throws everything they believe into question. Against a ticking clock, Anna and Bennett are forced to ask themselves how far they can push the bounds of fate — and what consequences they can bear in order to stay together.

 

Lock it in!
Commit a few of those details to memory, because you’ll need at least TWO facts above to answer the quiz ahead. And remember, you must complete ALL FIVE quizzes to be eligible for a prize pack.

 

What’s that? You want to win more stuff?
Well, okay! I’ll also give away a signed ARC of TIME BETWEEN US at the end of the race!

It’s easy to enter. In the comments below, just tell me this:

If you could time travel — to any destination in the world at any time — where and when would you go?

That’s it. You can also tell me why if you want to (I love hearing travel stories), but it’s cool if you want to keep it to yourself. I respect the privacy of all time travelers and time traveler wannabes.

 

If you want additional chances to win, you can also do the following:

* Like my Facebook Page

* Follow me on Twitter

* Add TIME BETWEEN US to your Goodreads “to-read” shelf

 

All four = four entries = more chances to win an ARC. Oh, and a signed bookmark. I might get carried away and throw in another surprise, too (I like surprises).

This contest is open internationally, and I’ll announce the winner on Wednesday, May 9 after the YAmazing Race victors are crowned.

 

That’s it!
Thanks for hanging out with me! It was fun to have you here.

Click HERE to go to the next stop on the race!

(psst… it’s a really good one. With more surprises…)

 

 

Five Things. Wait… Six.

So. Things are happening over here. Lots of things. Really happening.

Here are five biggies:

1. Exciting news! Last week, I announced that Time Between Us is going to be published in Russian. This week, after a three-house auction, we sold rights to Hungarian publisher, Könyvmolykepzö. HUNGARIAN. That brings us to thirteen languages. For what it’s worth, I still haven’t completely wrapped my mind around the idea of seeing this story in English.

2. I’m hard at work on my second book, which is fun and scary and totally surreal. I’m having a blast with it and can’t wait to share more details (you know, like the title and what the book is about).

3. I’m about to dive into another round of copyedits on Time Between Us this week, making me wonder (once again), will this book ever be done?

I’ve been assured that it will because Veronica Roth says so in this fantastic post about the publishing process. Honestly, when I first found out it would take a year and a half for my book to hit shelves, I didn’t get it. Now, I do. Completely. It takes a lot of people and a tremendous amount of work to get a book out. And I’m still only on step #13 1/2ish: ARCs have been printed but not widely distributed.

But we’re getting close to that step. If you’re on NetGalley, you’ll be able to download an eGalley on May 8th. (Whoa. That’s really soon.)

Or you can get a printed ARC at…

4. BEA. (oooh, good segue). I couldn’t be more excited about BEA. I’ll be doing my first signing at the author autographing session on Wednesday, June 6 from 3:00-4:00, and I’m in great company. Please stop by and say hello!

Also at BEA, a bunch of us in The Apocalypsies are holding a meet and greet on Tuesday June 5, 2012 from 3-5 pm at the Javits Center in Room 1E04. All the details are HERE. Please come! It will be so much fun, and we’ll have lots of great stuff to give away. Oh, and there will be cookies.

5. Speaking of The Apocalypsies (ooh, rocking the segues today), we are doing another “YAmazing Race with MGnificent Prizes” in early May, and now that I have a cover to show off and some swag to give away, I get to participate. More details coming soon.

Oh, wait. One more thing…

6. After months of avoiding it, I decided to check out Tumblr. I knew what would happen when I did, and I was right. Addicted. Shamelessly, hopelessly addicted. If you’re into such things, you can find me at tamaraistone.tumblr.com.

 

Okay, back to writing!

 

The UK Cover is Here.

You know, most days I’m still just trying to get my head around the idea of having a real book out there in the world. When I think about seeing it printed in various languages with different and beautiful covers… Wow. Just, wow.

So you can imagine how giddy I am about this.

It’s the UK cover…

 

 

I’m so grateful to the incredibly talented team at Random House UK for creating such a stunning cover. Now there are two images I can’t seem to stop staring at.

Both covers capture Anna’s curly hair (this is important). And as with the U.S. cover, there’s that beautiful space between Anna and Bennett. Boy, do I love that.

One cover has a lighter, more beachy feel, while the other highlights the snow. And that’s perfect – both settings play huge roles in the book.

Amazon.co.uk describes Time Between Us as “…a deeply compelling, romantic and utterly heart-rending story about falling in love for the first time — with the one person you simply cannot be with.”  

         

 

What do you think of the cover? Would it make you grab this book off the shelf to learn more?

 

 

It’s a Real Book.

Oh. My.

Look what some lovely person delivered to my door!

I can’t even begin to describe how amazing it feels to hold this book in my hands! Thankfully, I don’t need to because this video pretty much sums up how elated I am right now. Could I be more smiley?

 

 A sneak peek at the inside!

 

Wow. Real books. This blows my mind.

 

 

The Lego art is a time traveling car, made with love by my little girl, Lauren. The horse is absolutely necessary because, according to Lauren, you might arrive before cars have been invented and you’ll want immediate transportation. Works for me. Behold: time traveling car, with horse.

That red box on the bottom is starting to fill up with postcards from the locations featured in TIME BETWEEN US (psst. They’re to give away!).

 

 These are my smallest, bestest friends, Aidan and Lauren.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The kids insisted that Dakota get in on the book action.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I’ll get to share books very soon, but I can’t yet (sorry!). But when I hold my first contest, I’ll give away one of these signed ARCs. With bookmarks. And with whatever else I plastered this image on, because I’m going a bit overboard over here. You don’t mind, do you?