Thursday, November 1, 2012

A Vlog! An Excerpt! A Contest!--Celebrating the Release of DEAR TEEN ME!

This Tuesday marked the release of DEAR TEEN ME: Authors Write Letters to Their Teen Selves, an anthology edited by E. Kristin Anderson and Miranda Kenneally.

It was born from this website, which I wrote a letter for back in 2011. I was honored when I was asked to write a new letter for the anthology, which includes a bunch of extremely cool, interesting, and talented YA authors, who have had a variety of teenage experiences.

Here's the official description of the book:

Dear Teen Me includes advice from over 70 YA authors (including Lauren Oliver, Ellen Hopkins, and Nancy Holder, to name a few) to their teenage selves. The letters cover a wide range of topics, including physical abuse, body issues, bullying, friendship, love, and enough insecurities to fill an auditorium. So pick a page, and find out which of your favorite authors had a really bad first kiss? Who found true love at 18? Who wishes he’d had more fun in high school instead of studying so hard? Some authors write diary entries, some write letters, and a few graphic novelists turn their stories into visual art. And whether you hang out with the theater kids, the band geeks, the bad boys, the loners, the class presidents, the delinquents, the jocks, or the nerds, you’ll find friends--and a lot of familiar faces--in the course of Dear Teen Me.

The Vlog: 

To celebrating the release, I put together a vlog--now, mind you, "put together" is a very loose term. Basically I used to crappy webcam and the Windows Movie Maker software on my computer, so please don't judge me too harshly. In it I talk briefly about why I participated in this project/why I write for teens in general and I share a short excerpt from my letter.



The Contest: 
It's not a party without presents!!! So I'm going to giveaway a copy of DEAR TEEN ME to one lucky winner. It will be signed by 4 to 5 Dear Teen Me contributors and come with bookmarks and postcards!

To enter all you have to do is leave a comment with your email address (so I can contact you if you win).

Want extra entries?
+1 for every time you tweet or share something on facebook about Dear Teen Me, could be my video, a link to this blog entry, a link to one of the other blogs on the Dear Teen Me blog tour, could just be your own thoughts on how awesome Dear Teen Me is.

Note your extra entries in your comment and enter as many times as you want before Friday, November 9th when I will be drawing my winner. This contest IS open internationally!

13 comments:

JenFlower said...

I cannot wait to read this book!
j.clarke84@live.co.uk

Unknown said...

I'm really excited about this!!! :) bgraves81 (at) gmail (dot) com

Anonymous said...

Keep on rockin' babe!
Stephanie, thanks so much for your stories; Dear Teen Me sounds like an excellent book.

PKJ said...

that sounds like such a great project....how cool that you got to be a part of it.

marina said...

Contests are the best!!
marinah336 at gmail dot com.
PS: I'd probably still buy the book anyways.
-bean.

Audrey (holes In My brain) said...

I loved reading the Dear Teen Me site, I'm so glad it's become a book :) thank you for the giveaway!

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Unknown said...

ectasia@me.com. This book looks amazing.

Unknown said...

also shared via the facebooks

Bidisha said...

I've been following the Dear Teen Me project since it first came out publicly and it's been so, so inspiring reading about such personal experiences of the authors I look up to as my idols.

I cannot wait to own the collection.

I tweeted: https://twitter.com/bee_muses/status/266620877758685184

And here's my email: speaktobidisha@gmail.com

Thanks SO much!

Anonymous said...

Yay, this is so exciting! This book looks amazing. romascoa@gmail.com

Anonymous said...

I'm dying to read this book! Thanks for the giveaway {and the excerpt only made me want it more <333}

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Anonymous said...

I p,osted on my blog - http://giveawaynews.wordpress.com/2012/11/11/a-vlog-an-excerpt-a-contest-celebrating-the-release-of-dear-teen-me/

Ana Death Duarte

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Anonymous said...

I know it was until November 9th... but I hope I can participate in it if the winner has not been chosen yet and that I am lucky to win <333

Ana Death Duarte

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