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APPENDICES
A. Biography of Jennifer L. Armentrout
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(Spencer Hill Press) the Lux Series (Entangled Teen) and the upcoming YA Don't Look Back (2014) and untitled YA (Fall 2014) from Disney/Hyperion. She is also published with Harlequin Teen and HarperCollin She also writes Adult and New Adult contemporary and paranormal romance under the name J. Lynn. She is published by Entangled Brazen and HarperCollins.
She started writing seriously in 2007 with her first book, a young adult paranormal romance, and she got a contract on that in 2010 through a small press, Spencer Hill Press. They published it in October 2011. She started out like most authors do looking for an agent but she could not get one. Once her book came out. She was able to get one. Since 2011, she has had 13 books come out. All the books that have come out are with Entangled Publishing and Spencer Hill. My Harlequin Teen book doesn’t come out until the end of this year and my Disney Hyperion books are scheduled to come out in 2014.
She decided to self-publish in the first place is came up with the idea in the shower and wrote the book in 20 days in January. She can write pretty fast. She sent a partial to her agent and they loved it. They targeted about four-to-five publishers and it was really well-received and all the editors loved it but it got turned down at every publisher because the new adult market is very risky. It is hard to get it into bookstores. And the market is getting flooded. So, they had this book they thought would sell it but couldn’t.
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knew some authors who had done it and had some help getting copy editors and cover designers and other people to help. They formed a marketing plan that we thought would work. She has a platform but they wanted to reach beyond her readership so that is when they decided to do the three-day $0.99 deal and it worked. It has all happened so quickly. She wrote the book in January, they published it in February. It is been an insane couple of months.
Jennifer Armentrout has two nominations in this year’s Goodreads Choice Awards 2013 – the best books of 2013. The categories are: Adult Fantasy and Science Fiction But really, we only care about ROMANCE ANDYOUNG ADULT
FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION – the two categories featuring Jennifer
Armentrout books!
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Books published between November 17, 2013, and December 31, 2013, will be eligible for the 2014 awards.
B. Summary of Obsidian Novel
Katy and her mom move to a small town in West Virginia from Florida. Her mother name is Kellie Swartz. Katy and her mother moved to West Virginia because they want to leave all the sadness that is in Florida. Ever since Dad died, her Mom had started working more and more. She used to want to be home. Then it seemed like she wanted to be as far away as possible. She had d finally given up on that option and decided they needed to drive far away. At least since they had gotten in West Virginia, even though she was still working like a demon, she was determined to be more in Katy’s life.
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Dee took Daemon’s car keys and until he play nice with Katy, he does not get them back. It’s too damn annoying for him to get replacements. Dee hid his keys. She is good at hiding stuff, too. He has already torn the house apart, and he cannot find them unfortunately she has left town and will not be back until Sunday. He is supposed to take Katy swimming tomorrow. If he does that, then Dee will tell him where his keys are hidden—and he has to be nice. Those plans involve him getting his car keys back. And it also plans to daemon apologize to Katy but in the beginning, she does not want to forgive him but finally she did. When Katy and Daemon went to hiking in the Rocks, on the way, they get in an argument; she walks in front of a truck since she is so angry she is not paying attention. Daemon turns into a beam of light and rescues her from in front of the truck. Katy finds out Daemon and Dee are aliens called Luxen, and there is another alien race called Arum which is the Luxen's enemies. The governments know about the Luxen being on Earth, but allow them to stay as long as national security is not breached. Daemon tells Katy the reason he has been mean to her even though he is attracted to her is that his brother Dawson became involved with a human girl called Bethany and they were both killed.
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trace on Katy, make the Arum to find Katy and almost killed Katy. The Arum use Katy to get to the Luxen. They can find Daemon and his kind with the trace on Katy and knew there had to be one of Luxen nearby.
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