Ellen Hopkins Giveaway (Birthday Bash)

Hello everyone! It's time for another giveaway!!!!!

This time it's A Signed ARC of TILT by Ellen Hopkins! Ellen has provided an ARC of her latest YA novel to give to one lucky winner. And I am super jealous of that winner. =P The contest unfortunately is US only because shipping is a ------ and needs to be lowered because this isn't acceptable. All you have to do is fill out the form below!



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Contest will end 31st of May with the winner being announced through 1st-3rd of June. Good luck to you all and here's to Ellen Hopkins!

Check out all the posts from the beginning;

The Subtle Chronicler's Birthday Post
The Subtle Chronicler's Giveaway
Ellen Hopkins Guest Post

Cover Reveal: Tilt by Ellen Hopkins

The moment is here! Well at least one of the many moments! As you all know I am in LOVE with Ellen Hopkins. Her novels are amazing and she's seriously up there on my list with J.K. Rowling. I follow every news I can find of her books closely and simply wait until I'm able to read the next novel. Well the moment has come to see the cover for her newest YA novel:

Tilt by Ellen Hopkins!

The novel is a companion to her first adult novel, Triangles, following the lives of the three mother's kids. In Tilt we see the story of Triangles from the point of view of Mikayla, Shane and Harley and see what secrets lie behind the wall.

But this post is about the cove which I absolutely love! Before it was released I had guessed that the next cover would either be blue or green because we hadn't seen one of those yet. Although I went more with the blue this cover is just amazing. I love the yellow and the green mixing in together with a bit of purple which reminds me of the Triangles cover. I love the traces of the word itself in the background and how the balls of color remind me of a photograph of light bulbs. The cover will fit in well with the others in person and Ellen Hopkins said that the real cover is actually holographic which will be EPIC!

I can't wait to read this book but we have to wait all the way into September 11th to be exact. But while we do wait, we'll re-read the other books and await the cover release for her adult novel, Collateral.

Author Interview - Ellen Hopkins

Well to be honest it's more of a one question ordeal than an interview. Why one question you ask? Because, anything you want to find out by Ellen Hopkins can be found online and it would just be a bother to her to be asked things we already know. So I chose one question that really got me thinking and really got inside of her.

Not only that but she's busy writing more novels, attending her family and going on tour really soon. (She'll be in Princeton, NJ twice and in NY once which I need to attend at least one!) So I just asked her one question and hoped she would answer. Which she did!

I sent her an email saying how I was doing a novel spotlight week on her new adult novel,Triangles, and the process of what I would do on the blog and hoped she would answer a question. The question was;

Are you ever afraid that people will think your books are becoming repetitive or that you're running out of ideas?

Her actual response;

Hey Mike,

It will be great to get some buzz out about Triangles. As for your question, my answer is I don't worry about what people might think when I choose subject matter or build characters. I write the stories that speak to my heart. So far, I believe, my characters are all very different, and they are the ones telling me their stories. The book I'm writing now, Tilt, is a young adult companion to Triangles, so looks at the Triangles story lines, only from the POVs of three of the teens you meet in Triangles. They started insistign they had stories of their own to tell. Three very different characters than the mothers in the book, and three very different stories.

I hope that helps!

Ellen

So you heard it here! I'm super excited for Tilt and now we know what it has to do! A companion novel seems freaking awesome especially since we get to see how the teens are dealing with all of this, especially since we don't really get to see them all.

But I think Ellen is right, her characters are different and although they might relate to the same problems, they're all very different and I think that's freaking amazing!

I want to thank Ellen Hopkins for taking the time to respond back to me through Twitter all the time and through email. She's an amazing person both writer and personal and I hope she never gives up writing.

Check back tomorrow for my review on Triangles!