Hello and Welcome to the Fall 2015 Scavenger Hunt!
I am Trisha Leaver, your hostess for this leg of the event
About me:
I have soft spot for stray animals.
I love the smell of rain.
I can't stand the feel of sand between my toes.
I am an Outlander fanatic!
My absolute favorite musical artist is Peter Gabriel.
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!
At 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 signed 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 72 hours!
Go to the YA Scavenger Hunt page to find out all about the hunt. There are EIGHT contests going on simultaneously, and you can enter one or all! I am a part of TEAM RED--but there is also a Blue, Gold, Green, Orange, Teal, Purple, & Pink team for a chance to win a whole different set of signed books!
If you'd like to find out more about the hunt, see
links to all the authors participating, and see the full list of prizes up for
grabs, go to the YA Scavenger Hunt page.
SCAVENGER HUNT PUZZLE
Directions: Below, you'll notice
that I've listed my favorite number. Collect the favorite numbers of all
the authors on the RED TEAM, and then add them up (don't worry, you
can use a calculator!).
Entry Form: Once you've added up
all the numbers, make sure you fillout the form here to officially qualify for the grand prize. Only entries
that have the correct number will qualify.
Rules: Open internationally,
anyone below the age of 16 should have a parent or guardian's permission to
enter. To be eligible for the grand prize, you must submit the completed entry
form by October 5th, at noon Pacific Time. Entries sent without the
correct number or without contact information will not be considered.
SCAVENGER HUNT POST
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| Lauren Saft |
Today, I am
hosting Lauren Saft on my website for the YA Scavenger Hunt! Lauren holds
an MFA from the University of San Francisco and a Bachelor's from Tufts
University. She's worked in publishing, TV, education, child care, retail,
journalism, and food service, all the while closely studying the habits and
compulsions of teenage girls. She currently works as a TV producer in
Philadelphia where she lives with her cat and boyfriend. Her work has been
published in Five Quarterly, Rap Up Magazine, and clubplanet.com. One time, she met
the Olsen twins. Those Girls, which was released from Poppy this June, is her
debut novel. Her second book, tentatively titled "What It Looks
Like," will be out sometime circa Spring '17.
Find out more
information by checking out the author website or find more about the author's
book here! www.laurensaft.com
THOSE GIRLS
Junior year, the suburbs of Philadelphia. Alex,
Mollie and Veronica are those girls: They're
the best of friends and the party girls of the school. But how well does
everybody know them--and really, how well do they know one another? Alex is
secretly in love with the boy next door and has joined a band--without telling
anyone. Mollie suffers from a popular (and possibly sociopathic) boyfriend and
a serious mean streak. And Veronica just wants to be loved--literally,
figuratively, physically...she's not particular. Will this be the year that
bonds them forever or tears them apart for good?
Exclusive Content
Here's a sneak peek at her upcoming title:
What
It Looks Like (working title) preview (pg 6-7
What fused Harley and I as best friends was
our mutual love of Andy Warhol and all things abstract art and disco-chic and
70’s pop culture, and hatred of everything else. We hated school, we hated our
families, the girls at school, most boys, most music, most TV, the internet.
Hating everything is what made us love each other. I always say there should be
a dating website that matches you based on what you hate rather than what you
like. I don’t really care if I like The Velvet Underground and you like Kendrick
Lamar, or if I like pizza and you like tacos, but I could never be with anyone
who didn’t hate Twilight or people
who walk too slow.
Our relatively serious obsession with Andy
Warhol, The Factory, and the underground arts scene of New York in the late
70’s started as a purely an aesthetic infatuation. Leather pants and fur coats,
cigarettes, collar bones, white eye shadow, and Studio 54. That was really all
it was at the beginning, we just thought they looked cool. But the more we
started listening to Lou Reed and reading about Joe Dallesandro and Candy
Darling, the more intrigued we became by the whole lifestyle, and the message
behind the art. All these people just abandoned the rules, lived and worked
together in The Factory to create art and be free. Half of the art they made
wasn’t even good, but that was exactly the point. They were creating; it didn’t
matter what; it didn’t matter what anyone else thought or what the end result
was, it was them and it was liberty,
and their priority was nothing but forward movement—making, being, saying things
that no one had seen or heard before.
Harley was particularly attracted to the
sexual fluidity of the period—the fact that boys could be with boys could be
with girls and they were all together and there were no labels or rules or
couples, just free attraction. Harley would talk about this in the abstract,
and how he yearned for a world “with fluid labels,” so I never really pushed
the issue that I was pretty sure that Harley was gay, because gay seemed like a
kind of label he scorned. Harley lauded Andy’s lack of boundaries, so as his
best friend, I did not feel that I should be one to bind him by asking if he
was a homosexual.
I started walking south to Harley’s. I
crossed South Street, smelled the pizza, and the flammable t-shirts, and
freshly pierced middle-schoolers. I walked into South Philly, through the
quaint old Italian Market, street vendors selling almost rotten vegetables,
lace curtains and ceramic Jesuses every window, then down over to the black
neighborhoods where entire families spend Saturdays on their front stoops and
put kiddie pools on the sidewalk, all the way to the spicy film and deep hoisin
smell that seeped through the Vietnamese neighborhood where Harley lived
(despite being not at all Vietnamese).
And don't forget to
enter the contest for a chance to win a ton of signed books by me, Lauren Saft,
and more! To enter, you need to know that my favorite number is 7. Add up all the
favorite numbers of the authors on the Red Team and you'll have all the secret code to enter for the grand
prize!
CONTINUE
THE HUNT
To keep going on your
quest for the hunt, you need to check out the next author: Page
Morgan
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