Jenny Peterson – Five In The Hive

Today’s Five In The Hive features YA author, Jenny Peterson. Earlier this year, Jenny’s story, “Tonight You’re Mine” was featured in the Buzz Books anthology, PROM DATES TO DIE FOR. Her story won praise for its clever premise and entendre-laden dialogue.

 

 

Her latest story, “Under Loch and Cay” can be found in the SOMETHING WICKED anthology, available October 2012. In her newest YA tale, friends Rachel and Kendra are college students by day and demon hunters by night who use their individual “gifts” to keep their small seaside town safe. When an odd stranger appears who insists on helping the girls, they’re not sure whose side he’s really on. Can these demon-hunting besties save the day and their dropping GPA’s? Find out in October.

Visit the Buzz Books Something Wicked page for more information about hosting your own Day Of the Dead book club or party, complete with masks and special menu items. Also, don’t forget to LIKE the Facebook page for updates on contests and parties coming soon.

This weekend, one lucky Facebook friend will receive a galley copy of SOMETHING WICKED, chosen by random draw on Monday 9-10-12.

Now, without further adieu, Jenny opens up her diary and shares a few secrets by answering our Five In The Hive questions. Thanks for playing along, Jenny.

1. First book you fell in love with? “The Secret Garden.” My obsession with England started with the discovery of Disney’s “Robin Hood” at age four and was solidified with “The Secret Garden” around age eight. I read it basically on repeat and longed for my own walled garden of secrets (which totally sounds like a euphemism, right?). Unfortunately, without a Dickon of my own (which also sounds dirty), my gardening ability stops at picking up bouquets at my local florist.

2. Favorite “forget-the-diet” dessert? I have an Eric Cartman-like love of pie. Any fruit pie will turn my head (like those saucy little minxes raspberry and strawberry-rhubarb), but my true love is banana cream. I don’t like any other cream-based pies or anything else banana-flavored (except for, you know, bananas), but put those two magical ingredients together, and I’m yours.

3. Book Character Crush? So. Many. Obviously, Mr. Darcy from “Pride and Prejudice,” that goes without saying. But also Kartik from the Gemma Doyle trilogy (go pick up the first book, “A Great and Terrible Beauty” immediately), Gilbert Blythe from the Anne of Green Gables books, Jon Snow from the Game of Thrones books (yes, the series is really called A Song of Ice and Fire, but that is just SO geeky). And then, of course, there is Ron Weasley. He is probably my favorite character ever, and I love him with all my heart, but I would never try to come between him and Hermione.

4. In a battle between Frankenstein’s monster and Dracula, who wins? Dracula, hands down. Frankenstein’s monster just wants some love (don’t we all), and Dracula is known for seduction … then chowing down on your neck. Still, the tragically misunderstood monster would melt for a bit of love and acceptance from the vampire prince, then they’d probably form some sort of Monster Acceptance League and stage a super popular kiss-a-thon to raise public awareness. Voldemort would join them. Somebody go get on that fanfic right now.

5. Dirty little secret: I don’t get poetry. Like, at all. It’s strange, because I love Shakespeare, and what makes his plays is the genius rhyming verse. But if you were to take, say, “Macbeth,” pull it out of iambic pentameter and slap Emily Dickinson’s name on it, I’d probably go from “yay!” to “meh.”

Jenny Peterson Bio - 
Jenny Peterson is a former lifestyle editor and current freelance writer living in Denver, CO. For her day job, she’s had the opportunity to write about everything from her love of “Harry Potter” to local shopping. Her short fiction has appeared in anthologies such as Buzz Books’ “Prom Dates to Die For.” Jenny spends most of her free time reading and writing YA fiction. You can read more from her on www.jennycoonpeterson.com or follow her on Twitter @JenC_P.

 

Prom Dates to Die For

Grab your date, spike the punch, head out on the dance floor and beware the un-dead, it’s paranormal Prom time.

Prom Dates to Die For: Paranormal Prom Stories is the latest anthology from Buzz Books, USA. The compilation features 5 young adult authors who deliver more than just the typical dance drama. They’ve created other worldly mayhem!

From Amazon: In Kelly Parra‘s “Darkness Becomes Him,” teen supernatural hunters are hired to save a prom date hungry for souls. -

Heather Dearly introduces us to a young reaper haunted by a past she doesn’t remember in “The Bone Flower.”

A prom queen seeks justice and revenge in Lena Brown’s, “Every Breath You Take.”

Aaron Smith gives us a loner musician called to save his classmates from an enemy only he can see in “A Kiss at the Threshold.”

Jenny Peterson‘s heroine gets much more than she wished for on her prom night and 18th birthday in “Tonight, You’re Mine.” Frightful, fun and unforgettable.

Get ready to slice the congratulatory cake. It’s release day. Now available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble!

Stuffed Sleigh Contest

While many of you may be over the stove cooking up something delicious for Thanksgiving, I am thankful my mother in law said I don’t have to BRING A THING. (Except for my beautiful family, of course.) Now, my MIL has known me for 17 years and she’s grown to accept that I don’t like to cook, am not very good at it and I’d be happy eating a turkey sandwich for T-day, let alone a big fancy meal. But fancy we shall have! So it gives me great pleasure to offer one of our Sleigh Ride readers a “thank you” gift for purchasing the anthology that’s sure to get you in the mood for the holidays. It even has a fruitcake! And it wouldn’t be a sleigh ride without hot cocoa, right? And some hot guys? So, without further ado, I present to you SLEIGH RIDE: A Winter Anthology and the awesome BIG STUFFED SLEIGH contest. Remember, you can always gift it to a friend, too.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

All this plus a cozy throw!
Package includes:

Michael Buble “Christmas” album (Target edition with 3 extra songs) ~ $17 value

Lady Antebellum “A Merry Little Christmas” album ~ $7 value

ILU “text” Coffee mug, in honor of Dani Stone’s, “No Place Like Home” story and her crazy coffee cup collection ~ $7 value

Cozy throw to cuddle up and read Sleigh Ride with! ~ $30 value

Box full of books including:

FALLING TOGETHER by Marisa de los Santos (hardback, $26 value)

YANKEE DOODLE DIXIE by Lisa Patton (hardback, $25 value)

RECKONING FOR THE DEAD by Jordan Dane (mass market paperback, $8 value)

AND SHE WAS by Alison Gaylin (mm paperback, ARC, no retail value)

SLICKER by Lucy Jackson (trade paperback, $15 value)

SPIN by Catherine McKenzie (trade paperback, ARC, no retail value)

THE ATLAS OF LOVE by Laurel Frankel (trade paperback, $15 value)

DRAGONSWOOD by Janet Lee Carey (trade paperback, ARC, no retail value)

How to Enter:

Send (forward) your receipt from the purchase of SLEIGH RIDE by end of day Nov. 30th, 2011 to buzzbooksusa (at) me (dot) com. A confirmation e-mail in return will confirm your entry in the contest.

Where to buy Sleigh Ride: (as of 11/11/11)

print book from our Buzz Books site here

for the nook: BN.com for nook

or the print book or ebook for the kindle: Amazon

Sleigh Ride includes short stories by Samantha Wilde, Maria Geraci, Maggie Marr, Megan Barlog, Malena Lott, Dani Stone, Jenny Peterson.