Spring 2014 YA Scavenger Hunt!

Welcome to YA Scavenger Hunt! This tri-annual event was first organized by author Colleen Houck as a way to give readers a chance to gain access to exclusive bonus material from their favorite authors...and a chance to win some awesome prizes! At this hunt, you not only get access to exclusive content from each author, you also get a clue for the hunt. Add up the clues, and you can enter for our prize--one lucky winner will receive TWENTY-FIVE signed books, one book from each author on the hunt in my team! But play fast: this contest (and all the exclusive bonus material) will only be online for 72 hours!

Go to the YA Scavenger Hunt page to find out all about the hunt. There are TWO contests going on simultaneously, and you can enter one or all! I am a part of the BLUE TEAM--but there is also a red team for a chance to win a whole different set of twenty-five signed books!

If you'd like to find out more about the hunt, see links to all the authors participating, and see the full list of prizes up for grabs, go to the YA Scavenger Hunt homepage.

SCAVENGER HUNT PUZZLE

Directions: Below, you'll notice that I've listed my favorite number. Collect the favorite numbers of all the authors on the blue team, and then add them up (don't worry, you can use a calculator!). 

Entry Form: Once you've added up all the numbers, make sure you fill out the form here to officially qualify for the grand prize. Only entries that have the correct number will qualify.

Rules: Open internationally, anyone below the age of 18 should have a parent or guardian's permission to enter. To be eligible for the grand prize, you must submit the completed entry form by April 6, at noon Pacific Time. Entries sent without the correct number or without contact information will not be considered.

SCAVENGER HUNT POST

 I'm hosting the gorgeous and talented Lynne Matson!

Lynne is a former attorney who thinks writing books for teens is much more fun. Her debut novel, NIL, a YA thriller with a SF twist, was published by Macmillan/Henry Holt on March 4, 2014.

When she's not writing or reading, you'll find her hanging out with her husband and their 4 boys, usually at the beach. Cookies are her kryptonite, especially thin mints.

Mmmm! Thin mints! I could eat at least 68 of them! You can find out more about Lynne on her website!

You can buy NIL here! 

On the mysterious island of Nil, the rules are set. You have one year. Exactly 365 days--to escape, or you die.

Seventeen-year-old Charley doesn’t know the rules. She doesn’t even know where she is. The last thing she remembers is blacking out, and when she wakes up, she’s lying naked in an empty rock field. Lost and alone, Charley finds no sign of other people until she meets Thad, the leader of a clan of teenage refugees. Soon Charley learns that leaving the island is harder than she thought . . . and so is falling in love. With Thad’s time running out, Charley realizes that to save their future, Charley must first save him. And on an island rife with dangers, their greatest threat is time.

Doesn't it sound fantastic??? I can't wait to read it! 

EXCLUSIVE CONTENT

This is an extra scene from Thad's POV!

Chapter 38.5
Thad
Day 293, Mid-Morning

“Thad.” Rives’s voice was low. “The Shack was hit again last night while we were taking care of that girl. And this time, no chance it’s an animal.” Rives paused. “The metal knives are gone. All of them.”

The metal knives are gone. All of them.

Despair, fury, and frustration shot through me in equal parts. I’d had Watch set up on the Shack; I’d been ready. So how did the knives walk? Either we had a traitor inside the City—a crafty one, one possibly with an accomplice. Or, we had Raiders outside the City. Raiders that had grown dangerously bold, breaching the City limits to take the one thing we couldn’t replace. Part weapon, part tool, the rough metal knives were made by someone before us, knives I honestly couldn’t figure out how were even here at all. But they were here, and we needed them like a parched man needs water. And now they were gone.
 
Nil never made anything easy.
 
Rives was looking at me expectantly.
 
“Get Jason,” I told Rives through clenched teeth. “Have him search the huts, starting with Bart’s. Then meet me at the Shack. If the knives are still here, we’ll find them.”
 
I turned to Charley. Her thoughtful expression told me she’d overheard at least part of today’s bad news.
 
“Charley, it seems our knives grew legs last night. I’m going to start at the Shack and search a grid from there.”
 
She frowned. “You think someone hid them close by?”
 
“I’m hoping,” I said. “It’s our best bet. If it’s one of us, I doubt they’d stash them in their hut, but then again, someone might just be that stupid. And if it’s not one of us, we’re screwed, unless the thieves dropped one in their rush to get away.”
 
Charley nodded. “What can I do?”
 
What can you do? I closed my eyes. Run, find a gate, and get the hell off this nightmare of an island. If I couldn’t keep the knives secure and the City intact, how did I have a fighting chance to keep Charley safe?
 
“Pay attention, C,” Rives said quietly. I hadn’t realized he was still beside me. “Keep your eyes and ears open, watching and listening for anything that strikes you as being out of place. For anything that feels off.” Rives broke into an easy grin. “And by ‘off’ I mean more off than than normal, which by Nil’s standards, is already seriously whacked since technically we’re standing on an island that doesn’t exist.”

And don't forget to enter the contest for a chance to win a ton of signed books by me, Lynne Matson, and more! Add up all the favorite numbers of all the authors on the blue team and you'll have the secret code to enter for the grand prize!

CONTINUE THE HUNT

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