{"id":5953,"date":"2016-02-04T08:06:53","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T15:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colleenhouck.com\/?p=5953"},"modified":"2016-02-03T18:08:31","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T01:08:31","slug":"colleen-houck-book-club-february-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/04\/colleen-houck-book-club-february-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Colleen Houck Book Club- February 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333399; font-size: 36pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Welcome<\/span><span style=\"color: #333399;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>to &#8230;<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/colleenhouck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ColleenHouckBookClub.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5852\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5852\" src=\"https:\/\/colleenhouck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ColleenHouckBookClub-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"ColleenHouckBookClub\" width=\"468\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ColleenHouckBookClub-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ColleenHouckBookClub-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ColleenHouckBookClub-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ColleenHouckBookClub-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc99ff; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>Our last book we featured for book club was\u00a0Suspicion by\u00a0Alexandra Monir. If you&#8217;r<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #ffffff; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #cc99ff;\"><em>e just tuning in, or are new to this online book club, it&#8217;s super easy to join.\u00a0<\/em><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';\">I host the club on <a style=\"color: #cc99ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/chbclub\">Goodreads<\/a>\u00a0and each month you get the chance to ask authors questions. You can ask anything from what they like to eat to what they&#8217;re writing right now. You don&#8217;t have to read the book to participate and every month I choose one lucky person from the chat to <strong>win a prize<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"color: #cc99ff;\">! The prize includes the book or books I&#8217;ve read from that author that month as well as your pick of any of my books as well and some extra fun stuff I throw in! What&#8217;s the catch? There is none, this is just a great way for us authors to network and for you, the readers, to branch out and<\/span> discover new favorites!<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">So, for our\u00a0second book of 2016, I&#8217;m excited to feature . . .<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">Wink Poppy Midnight<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">by April Genevieve Tucholke<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/colleenhouck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/WinkPoppyMidnight_FINAL.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5954\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5954\" src=\"https:\/\/colleenhouck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/WinkPoppyMidnight_FINAL-679x1024.jpg\" alt=\"9780803739260_NearlyGone_JKT.indd\" width=\"353\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/WinkPoppyMidnight_FINAL-679x1024.jpg 679w, https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/WinkPoppyMidnight_FINAL-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/WinkPoppyMidnight_FINAL-768x1158.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 353px) 100vw, 353px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Here&#8217;s a little teaser <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">First of all, I just LOVE the cover!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399; font-size: 14pt;\"><i><span style=\"color: #333399;\">&#8220;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 36pt;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">E<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333399;\">very story needs a hero.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em><strong> Every story needs a villain.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em><strong> Every story needs a secret.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Wink is the odd, mysterious neighbor girl, wild red hair and freckles. Poppy is the blond bully and the beautiful, manipulative high school queen\u00a0 bee. \u00a0Midnight is the sweet, uncertain boy caught between them. Wink. Poppy. Midnight. Two girls. One boy. Three voices that burst onto the page in short, sharp, bewitching chapters, and spiral swiftly and inexorably toward something terrible or tricky or tremendous.<\/span><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What really happened?<\/span><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Someone knows.<\/span><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Someone is lying.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Learn more about this author and her books at <a href=\"http:\/\/apriltucholke.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">apriltucholke.com<\/a>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em>I&#8217;m very excited to check out this novel, which comes out March 22, 2016!Also, you can participate in an ongoing chat with Colleen and April asking just about anything you&#8217;d like on <strong>this blog<\/strong> throughout February!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/colleenhouck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/chbcfebruary2016.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5955\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5955\" src=\"https:\/\/colleenhouck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/chbcfebruary2016-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"chbcfebruary2016\" width=\"523\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/chbcfebruary2016-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/chbcfebruary2016-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/chbcfebruary2016-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/chbcfebruary2016-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 523px) 100vw, 523px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Also, remember that you don&#8217;t need to read the book to participate (which in this case, you can&#8217;t yet). It&#8217;s a GREAT opportunity to get to know the authors and ask any questions you&#8217;d like!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">For fun there will be a <span style=\"color: #33cccc;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"color: #33cccc;\">GIVEAWAY<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0for one lucky participant!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Happy reading everyone! <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">~Till next time,<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Linda Louise Lotti<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome\u00a0to &#8230; Our last book we featured for book club was\u00a0Suspicion by\u00a0Alexandra Monir. If you&#8217;re just tuning in, or are new to this online book club, it&#8217;s super easy to join.\u00a0I host the club on Goodreads\u00a0and each month you get the chance to ask authors questions. You can ask anything from what they like to eat to what they&#8217;re writing right now. You don&#8217;t have to read the book to participate and every month I choose one lucky person from the chat to win a prize! The prize includes the book or books I&#8217;ve read from that author that month &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,36],"class_list":["post-5953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colleen-houck-book-club","category-featuring-authors"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5953"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5973,"href":"https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5953\/revisions\/5973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colleenhouck.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}