Fifty Followers Contest!

I'd decided to do a contest for reaching 50 followers a week or so ago, but I didn't think I'd surpass 50 followers so quickly, so I've had to scramble to get this up! I'm excited about doing my first contest here on my blog, and I'm planning on having a few more over the course of the summer.

I've decided to do an "either or" contest. Since all of my followers are passionate readers, and a fair amount are aspiring authors, I thought it would be neat to give the contest winner a choice of an amazing book by one of the best YA authors out there, or the best book on writing I've ever read!

If you win, you'll have your choice of either:

White Cat-Holly Black

Cassel comes from a family of curse workers -- people who have the power to change your emotions, your memories, your luck, by the slightest touch of their hands. And since curse work is illegal, they're all mobsters, or con artists. Except for Cassel. He hasn't got the magic touch, so he's an outsider, the straight kid in a crooked family. You just have to ignore one small detail -- he killed his best friend, Lila, three years ago.

Ever since, Cassel has carefully built up a façade of normalcy, blending into the crowd. But his façade starts crumbling when he starts sleepwalking, propelled into the night by terrifying dreams about a white cat that wants to tell him something. He's noticing other disturbing things, too, including the strange behavior of his two brothers. They are keeping secrets from him, caught up in a mysterious plot. As Cassel begins to suspect he's part of a huge con game, he also wonders what really happened to Lila. Could she still be alive? To find that out, Cassel will have to out-con the conmen.

(Amazon description)

OR

Bird by Bird-Anne Lamott

Think you've got a book inside of you? Anne Lamott isn't afraid to help you let it out. She'll help you find your passion and your voice, beginning from the first really crummy draft to the peculiar letdown of publication. Readers will be reminded of the energizing books of writer Natalie Goldberg and will be seduced by Lamott's witty take on the reality of a writer's life, which has little to do with literary parties and a lot to do with jealousy, writer's block and going for broke with each paragraph. Marvelously wise and best of all, great reading.

(Amazon description)

Interested? Please fill out the form below! You have until May 13th to enter. Winners will be chosen at random and announced on May 14th, with your prize shipping out as soon as I get your mailing address. Good luck!