Congratulations Contest Winners!
Woo-hoo! Thank you! Thank you! to everyone who made comments on my blog tour. The lovely Heather and Danny over at Kismet Blog Tours have crunched the numbers (there were over 650 entries!) And now…I have some winners to announce! (Wow, this is fun!) First off, the winners of a copy of Witchlanders from the four surprise tour stops are as follows: Book Sake (Winner from The Zealous Reader) Indigo (Winner from Rayment’s Reading Rants and Rambles) Jessy (Winner from YA Booklover Blog) Rebecca (Winner from Midnight Bloom Reads) Yay! Heather and Danny will be contacting the four of...
Read MoreWelcome New Followers!
Hello! It was so exciting to see my Google Friend Connect Followers double last week during the release of my new YA fantasy novel, Witchlanders. So with apologies to those of you who know me already, I thought I’d tell all you new folks a little about myself. I usually only blog once a week on Wednesday mornings, but I try to make that a longer post. Okay, this one won’t be, but I’m hoping that anyone who really needs more Lena will check out my blog tour, which is still ongoing at the various locations listed below. I was born in the states, but I now live in Toronto,...
Read MoreNewsy Bits: Two Weeks to Witchlanders!
And look what came in the mail! “Un-put-down-able!” My fourteen-year-old nephew, Justin, immediately snagged a copy (how could I say no?). I honestly didn’t know if he’d like it or even be able to get through it, but he called me less than 24 hours later to tell me he had stayed up all night reading it and that it was “un-put-down-able.” Even next to Kirkus, that is definitely my favorite review so far! My Blog Tour! In other news, I’m am madly writing blog posts for my upcoming blog tour starting August 22nd and running to September 9th. Check out my tour page on the Kismet tour site for...
Read MoreWere the Brontës Science Fiction Authors?
Out of This World: Science Fiction But Not As You Know It An Exhibition at the British Library (20 May – 25 September 2011) Were the Brontës science fiction authors? The British Library includes some of their juvenilia, along with Branwell Brontë’s map of the Glasstown Confederacy, an imaginary land he and his famous sisters invented when they were children, in its current exhibition, Out of This World: Science Fiction But Not As You Know It. To be honest, when I first heard about it, I thought it was a bit of a stretch. I’m interested in the Brontë juvenilia and have probably read more of...
Read MoreMy First Video Interview AND Win a Copy of WITCHLANDERS!
I did my first video interview! Okay, it’s pretty obvious where I stumbled so much over my words that the lovely people at Wattpad had to edit me, and I did make air quotes at one point (cringe), but I managed to get through it, which is the important thing. And the best part? Simon and Schuster Canada is giving away ten (10!) copies of the book! Go over to the Wattpad site now and enter. (And just ignore my air quotes.)...
Read MoreA Learning Vacation
I’m in Oxford! For the second year in a row I’ve traveled to England to spend my vacation studying at Christ Church College, Oxford University. For one week, 130 other students and I break off into groups of 12 or so to study subjects as varied as The English Choral Tradition, King Alfred and the Vikings and Victorian Scandals. We eat in the Great Hall where King Charles I held his parliament during the civil war and which was replicated in film studios to create the dining hall of Hogwarts. (Check out the wikipedia pic of the Great Hall–it’s better than mine.) We have...
Read MoreAbout Me
Hi! I'm Lena, a young adult fantasy author from Toronto.