Teaser & Top Ten Tuesdays

 

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by Purple Princess of The Purple Booker. 

Here are the rules:

1. Grab your current read
2. Open to a page
3. Pick out 2 lines that are SPOILER FREE
4. Name the title, author, etc.

"'A bell, brother,' Aris declared. 'I shall secure a bell to that cowl of yours before Christmas is through, I swear it.'" p 7

TITLE: Holly
AUTHOR: Adalyn Grace
PUBLISHER: Little, Brown and Company
GENRE: YA Fantasy
RELEASE DATE: September 30, 2025

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and The Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

This week's topic is: THANKSGIVING FREEBIE: Top 10 Authors I'm Thankful for Meeting

*in no particular order
**I would normally share the picture I took with said author, but I have since removed them from my laptop as its hard drive was getting too full!

10. AMIE KAUFMAN & JAY KRISTOFF--yes, a 2 for 1 here! Lol. Meeting an author duo is always fantastic but even more so when they are from another country entirely!
9. JOHN CONNOLLY--another author from overseas that I was thankful to have met! I read this book ages ago and loved it. Still need to read its companion/sequel when I got to meet John!
8. LEIGH BARDUGO--I've actually met Leigh a few times now, but that was all before she hit Hollywood with Six of Crows! I feel like authors are harder to meet after that. I've actually not been able to see her again since Shadow & Bone went on Netflix.

7. TRACY WOLFF--I was actually reading Tracy's books for years before Crave came out and I did get to meet her at one of my last RT conferences before she came here on tour for Charm, I believe it was. And she still remembered me! Which was SO touching!
6. CARISSA BROADBENT--I had just starting reading Carissa last year and quickly became a fan! So I was super excited when she came on tour here last year as well!
5. AIMEE CARTER--I was a fan of her pretty much when I first read her debut here. Never thought I'd get to meet her as her tours were always on the other side of the country it seemed but last year I finally got to meet her and it was awesome!

4. MARIA V. SNYDER--I had only read Maria's first two books before I was determined to meet her! This was so long ago, I decided to fly out to PA to RT where she was attending, as I thought I'd meet her plus several other authors to at the big signing day and it was AMAZING! I surprised her with my visit, made a custom t-shirt and it was just such a great time!
3. REBECCA YARROS--for Rebecca's first tour with Iron Flame I somehow was lucky enough to get a ticket during the great chaos virus that was set over the website. Pure freaking luck. I, of course, was booted out of checkout due to a systematical error when I was trying to buy a ticket for her St. Louis stop earlier this year. THAT was a bad bad bad bad terribly awful rotten no good very very very very bad bad day. But that first time? Pure magic! Sadly it was just a meet and greet, but still pretty magical!
2. AMELIA ATWATER-RHODES--an author I never ever thought I'd get to meet, but meet her I did! It was the best! I was of course tongue tied, but oh my gosh I am still shocked that I got to meet her!

1. STEPHANIE GARBER--to set things back on course from last week, I bumped Stephanie back to #1! Lol. Yes, I am stoked that I have gotten to meet Stephanie several times now!