Welcome to YA Scavenger Hunt! This bi-annual event was first organized by author Colleen Houck as a way to give readers a chance to gain access to exclusive bonus material from their favorite authors…and a chance to win some awesome prizes! On this hunt, you not only get access to exclusive content from each author, you also get a clue for the hunt. Add up the clues, and you can enter for our prize–one lucky winner will receive one book from each author on the hunt in my team! But play fast: this contest (and all the exclusive bonus material) will only be online for 120 hours!
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GO TEAM BLUE
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This bonus material is from my teammate, Roxanne Lambie. From an early age, this author fell in love with books and storytelling. Her work as a professional pilot kept her busy, but she never gave up on her dream of writing. It was the combined love of both that sparked QUANTUM, a speculative young adult book which might appeal to fans of IF I STAY and TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE. Let’s give Roxanne 3 cheers for being so talented.
FACTS ABOUT SETTING
Two settings make up QUANTUM: Bantry, Ireland and El Paso, Texas. Some of the major differences are highlighted here.
Writing with two different locations in mind was a great way to escape. I spent hours on YouTube “exploring” some of my locations so I would be able to accurately describe them.
It rains over 41 inches a year in Bantry with an average of 143 days of precipitation. El Paso gets about 9 inches a year with only about 39 days of precipitation.
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El Paso is a large city with a population of approximately 684,000. Bantry is a small town of about 2,700 people.
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Bantry sits right next to the ocean with many surrounding lakes, rivers and streams. El Paso is an eleven-hour drive from the closest beach, which is actually in California, not Texas.
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Spanish and English are both spoken in El Paso, while Bantry claims English and Irish.
Thanks, Roxanne for the interesting information about these two places where your story is set.
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When I signed up for the HUNT this year, I didn’t have a publication date for my next book, but a lot has happened since then. I now have a new book coming out October 25. It’s called NOT GUILTY. It’s now available for PREORDER on SMASHWORDS, BARNES & NOBLE, and KOBO.
In October I’ll be doing a special SPOOKY HALLOWEEN giveaway to celebrate the launch, but for this Scavenger Hunt, I’m giving a paperback of my book, DOUBLE NEGATIVE. I call this book a cousin to Not Guilty. You can sign up below to win. I’m offering a signed copy of Double Negative. Hope you’ll enter to win.
ENTER TO WIN A SIGNED COPY
Now that you’re done here, and I hope you enjoyed your visit, please hop on over to my TEAM MATE, Amy Fellner Dominy, and see what’s happening at her place. Be sure to check out all of TEAM BLUE and the others that are in this hunt.
I can’t imagine not reading either. Books have been a hugely important part of my life since I can remember
Congratulations on the new book! Yay! I look forward to reading it!
Hi Erin,
Great to read your comment. Hope all is well with you.
The Scavenger Hunt sounds like fun. And I’m so excited about your new book Not Guilty.
Hi Beverly,
Thanks for always being in my corner!
Wow, that is a long way from the ocean/beach. I can get there in 5 mins, if that, in many a direction.
The Scavenger Hunt sounds fun.
This is only my second time, and I’m not very good at it. Learning curve issues!
Those are two very different settings! Go Team Blue!
Right. I think I’ll have to find out how this writer managed those different settings.
Armchair travel is a great way to pick up local color. And really, is there anything we can’t find on YouTube now?
Congrats on the upcoming release!
God, Lee. YouTube? I haven’t even had time to brush my teeth! I’m such a behind the curve writer!
Good luck with your upcoming release!
I couldn’t imagine being so far from the seashore. It’s bad enough I’m currently about three and a half hours away and haven’t been to a beach in so long. My dream home is on the coast, be it in North America or another country.
Awesome that you have a release date! Being part of the scavenger hunt sounds like a great idea.
Thanks, Natalie. The Hunt has been a challenge this year, and I’m rather surprised I even got this posted. Traveling and blogging and…well everything else, is complicated.
That’s a long way to drive to see the ocean. We’re about 90 minutes away.
I’m about five minutes, so I’m thinking Really Long Way!
Oh wow, another new book!! Congratulations!! How exciting and I hope the release is a big success.
Well, one can only hope a few people will read what you write. Thanks, Julie.
Is your number the one in blue?
‘Tis indeed!
Looks like fun. Good luck, everyone.
Thanks, Liz. It’s always a great event.
Hi, Cheryl-Lee! Hi Roxanne!
I have a blog friend in Dublin and she is always complaining about the chilly winds and rain across Ireland and how they delay the onset of spring. Mrs. Shady and I visited the city of El Paso five years ago. We were there in July and the 100+ degree heat was hard to tolerate, but we enjoyed our stay and found it to be a safe, clean city with friendly people. I didn’t know the closest beach to El Paso is clear over on the left coast in California.
I hope you are doing well, Cheryl-Lee. Happy H-ween month to you, dear friend!
One thing about meeting so many different writers and reading their books, we learn…so much. Of course, meeting you and visiting your blog each month has certainly been a wonderful learning and re-learning musical treat, too!
There are significant parts of Australia which would count themselves lucky to be nine inches of rain each year. The detailed research in Roxanne’s work sounds fascinating.
As you know I LOVE Double Negative and have reread it several times. I expect the same to be true of Not Guilty.
Hi Sue!
You do understand how precious our water is. After Morocco, I’m even more water-frugal than before, and my family used to call me the “Water Witch.”
Only nine inches of rain a year? We get more than that in one hurricane.
We definitely live in a diverse world. Having just returned from Morocco, I understand no rain more than ever!