HEIDI HEILIG GUEST POST AND THE GIRL FROM EVERYWHERE GIVEAWAY

Happy Monday Everyone! Today I've got a fantastic guest post by debut author Heidi Helig to help celebrate the release of her YA time travel THE GIRL FROM EVERYWHERE that releases next month. I love time travel stories and Heidi's sounds awesome.

Here's a blurb from Goodreads:

Sixteen-year-old Nix Song is a time-traveller. She, her father and their crew of time refugees travel the world aboard The Temptation, a glorious pirate ship stuffed with treasures both typical and mythical. Old maps allow Nix and her father to navigate not just to distant lands, but distant times - although a map will only take you somewhere once. And Nix's father is only interested in one time, and one place: Honolulu 1868. A time before Nix was born, and her mother was alive. Something that puts Nix's existence rather dangerously in question...

Nix has grown used to her father's obsession, but only because she's convinced it can't work. But then a map falls into her father's lap that changes everything. And when Nix refuses to help, her father threatens to maroon Kashmir, her only friend (and perhaps, only love) in a time where Nix will never be able to find him. And if Nix has learned one thing, it's that losing the person you love is a torment that no one can withstand. Nix must work out what she wants, who she is, and where she really belongs before time runs out on her forever.

Now here's Heidi!

  

Release Day minus 10 Years

Start working on a book.

Release Day minus 2 Years

Scrap that book, it’s terrible.

Start another book.

Release Day minus 1+ Year

IMPORTANT: Have your agent sell that book you sent to them.

Release Day minus 1 year

Get on twitter. Make friends. Talk about your book so everyone knows to be excited.

Release Day minus 11 months

Remind everyone about your book.

Gently correct people who thought that it was already out.

Realize that maybe a year in advance was too early to tell everyone about your book.

Release Day minus 10 months

Constantly refresh your Goodreads page and smile gratefully at the family members who signed up for

Goodreads just to five star your book.
Wonder who gave it one star when there aren’t even ARCs out yet.

Was it your jealous cousin Jack? The one who said congratulations but in a really fake way?

I bet it was Jack.

Release Day minus 6 Months

Reveal your cover. Accept all the accolades even though you had literally nothing to do with it.

Release Day minus 5 Months

Read three dozen “How To Market Your Book” articles.

Spend too much on book swag.

Spend even more on mailing out your bookswag.

Get off Twitter so you stop being tempted to do giveaways.

Release Day minus 4 Months

Get back on Twitter only to discover ARCs are out in the world and now people can tweet you their reviews—both the good and the bad.

Release Day minus 3 Months

Get back off Twitter.

Release Day minus 2 Months

Plan your parties! Buy your outfits! Schedule blog posts! Do more giveaways! Forget to eat! Stop sleeping! Regret your choices!

Release Day minus 1 month

Pet your finished copy.

Find a typo in your finished copy.

Release Day

Celebrate.

Collapse.

Release Day + 1 Day

Open a new word document.

You can find Heidi at:

www.heidiheilig.com

http://www.epicreads.com/books/the-girl-from-everywhere/9780062380753/

Heidi and I are sharing in the cost of an e-book of THE GIRL FROM EVERYWHERE for one lucky winner. To enter, all you need to do is be a follower (just click the follower button if you're not a follower) and leave a comment through February 20th. If your e-mail is not on your Google Profile, you must leave it in the comments to enter the contest.

If you mention this contest on Twitter, Facebook, or your blog, let me know this in the comments and I'll give you an extra entry. This is an international giveaway.

Here's what's coming up:
  
On Monday I have an interview with debut author Janet Taylor and a giveaway of her YA time travel INTO THE DIM.

The Monday after that I have a guest post by debut author Kim Savage and a giveaway of her YA thriller AFTER THE WOODS.

Wednesday that week I have a guest post by Kimberley Griffith Little and a giveaway of BANISHED or another book in this series.

The following Monday I have a guest post by debut author Melanie Conklin and her agent Peter Knapp and a giveaway of her MG contemporary COUNTING TIME.

Hope to see you on Monday!