With only 40 days to go until release, some exciting things are happening behind the scenes. The big one is the book trailer which is nearly finished and is WOW! Then there’re the teachers notes that have been written ready to go up on the Random House website, and the book tour which is being put in place by my wonderful publicist, Peri Wilson. Yunyu and I have finished a version of the Fairytale Performance which is pretty damn cool, and I’ve seen the cover for Book 2, Angel Arias. Things are kinda coming together in a rush now and I feel like the fast train is about leave the station. Phew!

And keeping our house in order, here’s the current list for the draw to win an autographed copies of Burn Bright. This list is compiled of sites who’ve blogged about the book in advance. Thanks you all!

Justified Lunacy

Lost in Books

Fragments of Life

The Thoughts Of a Book Junky

AOBIBLIOSPHERE

The Book Fairy’s Haven blogspot

LA Femme Readers

Girly Books

Cicely Loves Books

YA Bookie Monster

Tales of the Ravenous Reader

Spellbound by Books

Besos du un Angel

Bookworm Boulevard

Lilitheternaeinmortal blogspot

Tez Says

Miss Bookiverse

Lost in Stories

The Neverending Shelf

Book Chick City

Electrifying Reviews

Books Like Stars

A Passion For Books

Anima Libri

Eleusinian Mysteries

Madalina’s Books

Nocturnal Butterfly

Can’t Find a Bookmark

Jades Hears Voices

Preternatural Primer

Musings of a Happy Reader

Bookwhispers Blogspot

Bookslovering

Palm Books Journal

And a quick shout out to Book Smugglers, Lost in Books , Electrifying Reviews and Miss Bookiverse for putting Burn Bright on their Most Anticipated Books list. And to Justified Lunacy for adding BB to their reading list.

Below is an updated list of all the sites who have blogged about Burn Bright. They’ll be going into the draw to win an autographed copy of the book in March. If you’d like to be added, add the link where you have blogged about the book in the comments section, and we’ll add you to the list. Three copies will be given away. More, perhaps, depending on the length of the list!

The Thoughts Of a Book Junky

AOBIBLIOSPHERE

The Book Fairy’s Haven blogspot

LA Femme Readers

Girly Books

Cicely Loves Books

YA Bookie Monster

Tales of the Ravenous Reader

Spellbound by Books

Besos du un Angel

Bookworm Boulevard

Lilitheternaeinmortal blogspot

Tez Says

Miss Bookiverse

Lost in Stories

The Neverending Shelf

Book Chick City

Electrifying Reviews

Books Like Stars

A Passion For Books

Anima Libri

We would like to thank the awesome AOBibliosphere very much for our very groovy Versatile Blogger Award. Yaaay!! We love your site, guys. Once you start reading, you can get lost for hours!

Now it’s *our* turn to pass the Versatile Blogger along to 15 blogs that rock our world here at Burn Bright:

Vampires in the Sunburnt Country

Ripping Ozzie Reads

Thoughts of a Book Junky

Belinda’s Baubles

Karen Brooks

Kate Evangelista

Girl With a Satchel

D.M. Cornish’s Monster Blood Tattoo Blog Home

Book Fairy’s Haven

Teenreads.com

Cels – Confessions of a Booky Monster

yaReads.com

Trentonomicon

Book Chick City

The Ya Ya Yas

7 Things You Don’t Know about Marianne:

She likes:

Spooks, Fringe, basketball, cake

She does not like:

People who aren’t genuine, standing in queues, liver

And here’s how the wonderful Versatile Blogger thang works:

1. thank the person who gave the award and link back to him or her
2. write 7 things about yourself that you might want others to know
3. pass the VB award along to 15 other bloggers whom you have recently discovered and who you think are great
4. contact the bloggers you have chosen and let them know about the VB award

This is a quick shout out to all those who have been blogging about Burn Bright coming out in March 2011 – we love you for doing it!! To thank you for your support we’re going to try and keep track of who has mentioned the book on their site before publication, and when the time comes, Bec will draw three names from the hat for free autographed copies. If you have friends that have mentioned Burn Bright, that we might have missed, please drop us a line and we’ll add them to THE LIST.

The Thoughts Of a Book Junky

AOBIBLIOSPHERE

The Book Fairy’s Haven blogspot

LA Femme Readers

Girly Books

Cicely Loves Books

YA Bookie Monster

Tales of the Ravenous Reader

Spellbound by Books

Besos du un Angel

Bookworm Boulevard

Lilitheternaeinmortal blogspot

Tez Says

Miss Bookiverse

Lost in Stories

The Neverending Shelf

Book Chick City

Electrifying Reviews

Books Like Stars

A Passion For Books

Also a big thanks to all those Goodreads members who’ve already added Burn Bright and Angel Arias to their TO READ list. We’ll be doing giveaways there as well. Burn Bright is now on a bunch of lists, so if you are a member, feel free to vote for it.

There are some early reader copies now floating around, so if you listen closely to the wire you might hear some advance snippets. Meanwhile have a great Xmas. We’ve got some Top 5 picks coming up for you, and Belinda’s Tips for Dating One of Santa’s Elves.

Burn Bright, baby bats!

Marianne x