Bringing YA to YOU San Diego

Have you ever wished that a big YA book tour would make a stop in your hometown? Well, here's your chance for that wish to come true! YA2U is a program that features five award-winning and best-selling authors who are holding a contest to see what city they should visit in an exclusive tour stop!

The authors are collecting votes from January 1 to February 15, and any city in the continental US or any Canadian city that has an international airport can win an exclusive visit from all five authors, including an author panel and book signing! Entering is super easy--and if you help spread the word about the contest, you can also enter win a signed copy of all of their books (TEN signed books in total!)--and the book contest is open internationally!

The authors in theprogram are:

• Marie Lu, the New York Times best-selling author of Legend and the upcoming Prodigy

• Marissa Meyer, the New York Times best-selling author of Cinder and the upcoming Scarlet

• Beth Revis, the New York Times best-selling author of Across the Universe, A Million Suns, and the upcoming Shadesof Earth

• Victoria Schwab, author of The Near Witch and the highly- anticipated upcoming The Archived

• Megan Shepherd, author of the debut novel The Madman's Daughter

And they want to have an event in your home town! To participate, just got to the YA2U website and let them know what city you want them to come to. And while you're there, help spread the word about the contest and you can be entered to win all of their books--TEN signed books in total! 

Here's why the YA2U Team should come to MY hometown! 

I would love to see  this event in San Diego, California. Other then San Diego Comic Con I feel we don't get a lot of book action and even it it is considered action SDCC is an event that is harder and harder to get in so no matter how much you want to you may still get left out of all the fun.

Not only will fans from the great San Diego will be able to attend but also from the fans of the south who read, love and devour this stories as much as we do.

Why should the YA2U Team come to your hometown? Why not join in the fun today and share with others about this program and your hometown. The more votes your town gets, the closer you are to having your very own personal tour stop! Vote for YOUR town here!

And if you help spread the word, you can also participate in the book giveaway. Tell them that you learned about YA2U from me and we both get extra entries in the contest! 

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Non-Book Present Ideas for Book Lovers: By Genre

Ok, so I had fun doing the first "Non-Book Present Ideas for Book Lovers" that I decided to do one by genre.

To our beloved Apocalyptic/Post-Apocalyptic lovers, how about a little survival kit that fits everywhere, it may not be enough but with this little bad boy you can always be prepared for the end.

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To our Zombie loving friend how about a little brains

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don't you think its the perfect partner for a good zombie midnight read? 

With their head in the clouds this might be the perfect thing for a fantasy reader, maybe this ecofriendly gadget will lighten things up:

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For all the paranormals out there how about a little:
     Blood Bath for the vamp, a moisturizing blood bath bubble bath that is:

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     For the werewolf lovers, a faux fur hat.

Wolf Half Hoodie

For all those romance lovers out there no matter if you are single or not there are some cute pillows that express love:

Couple Fed Love

Link 2 Love

For those that just can't get enough animal books:

Carter's Lamp

The perfect gift for those that just can't get away from a good laugh (or those that love bacon):

Mr. Bacon

The friend that is always jumping from genre to genre but is always drinking tea:

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*** I get compensated in no way by the products that are being displayed here, this is just for fun and ideas that might help you find a gift.

Non-Book Present Ideas for Book Lovers

So it's Christmas time and you still don't know what to give to your favorite book lover friend, but you know one thing for certain you don't want to give this person a book, no matter how much this person has hinted some books.

Well here are some ideas, that I hope they would like, I know I would.

Fingerless Gloves: Because it's bloody cold but the pages must keep turning.

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Leather Jacket: Now not only do they say that boy means trouble, this year leather jackets (specially in the YA world) are screaming this girl can kick some ass.

I mean how kick ass does she look guys!!

Book Ends: To light up your book lovers book shelf's and give the books a cute and fun environment to live in.

Jonathan Adler

Book Purse / Wallet:

Novel Creations

Phone Cover: Skinit.com and some other sites let you personalize your phone covers, choose your bookie's phone model and favorite book and ouala the perfect gift.

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A good set of headphones: This will work perfectly if he or she is into audio books.

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A cozy, warm blanket or snugly: So they can be comfortable at home reading their books, staying warm and comfy thanks to you.

Superfly Lullabies

Book Tour: If your book lovers book is set in this world, you could try and compile the locations or an important location where something important happened in the book. For example: Kevin Hearne's fans will enjoy visiting Rúla Búla an important place for the series where Atticus met with his vampire and werewolf layers and where he found Jesus.

Rúla Búla

I hope you have enjoyed this list and that you know that I don't get a penny from any of this places, this are some interesting things and ideas I've stumbled upon over my book loving life.