Musings of a Misfit

Join us in celebrating all things Heartless by Marissa Meyer! Starting Monday, September 19, we’ll be counting down to on sale with daily challenges where you can show your love and excitement, AND where you’ll have the chance to win a special edition advance copy of Heartless and MORE every single day. 

Enter for your chance to win each day from September 19 - November 8 on Twitter or Instagram using #HeartlessCountdown and #Sweepstakes. 

We’ll be posting weekly challenge updates and adding more links and information for some challenges as we get closer. Take a look at the schedule below and join in the excitement!

• 9/19 - Share a picture of you with a black heart • 9/20 - Share info about the Tea Party with Marissa Meyer Sweepstakes • 9/21 - Share a picture of your copy of Alice in Wonderland • 9/22 - Tell us who your favorite Lunar Chronicles character is • 9/23 - Solve the “Why is a raven like a writing desk,” riddle • 9/24 - Share Marissa’s tour schedule • 9/25 - Share our favorite treat • 9/26 - Share our post • 9/27 - Share info about Heartless • 9/28 - Dreamcast Cinder • 9/29 - Post a picture of a Heartless poster in your town • 9/30 - Share your Marissa Meyer shelfie • 10/1 - Post your Wonderland inspired outfit • 10/2 - Take a picture of your Cheshire Cat • 10/3 - Share the info for Marissa’s 10/8 Facebook Live Q&A • 10/4 - Share Marissa’s Fierce Reads tour schedule • 10/5 - Share our post about the Lunar Chronicles box set • 10/6 - Tweet a question to Marissa and she might answer it in our November newsletter • 10/7 - Share the info for Marissa’s 10/8 Facebook Live Q&A • 10/8 - Tell us your secret talent • 10/9 - Who’s the Mary Ann to your Cath? Tag your BFF • 10/11 - Color the Heartless cover coloring sheet • 10/12 - Take a picture of you wearing a crazy hat • 10/13 - Share a picture of the Heartless poser in your town • 10/14 - Finish the rhyme: The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, all on a summer’s day… • 10/15 - Tell us what your favorite kiss from a book is • 10/16 - Tell us about your favorite misunderstood villain • 10/17 - Tell us what your dream job is • 10/18 - Don’t be late, show us a picture of your calendar with the Heartless on sale date • 10/19 - Dreamcast Jest • 10/20 - Dreamcast Thorne • 10/21 - Tell us who your favorite character from Wonderland is • 10/22 - Share a picture of you drinking tea • 10/23 - Take a picture of you with a Queen of Hearts card • 10/24 - Share your favorite Marissa Meyer quote • 10/25 - Take a picture of you wearing a crown • 10/26 - Show us your Heartless manicure • 10/27 - Carve a Heartless inspired pumpkin • 10/28 - Share our post • 10/29 - Draw a crown • 10/30 - Tell us why you’re excited to read Heartless • 10/31 - Show us your Marissa Meyer inspired costume • 11/1 - Change your profile pic to Heartless • 11/2 - Share the livestream info for the Heartless launch party • 11/3 - Take a picture of you with a rose • 11/4 - Take a picture of a Heartless poster in your town • 11/5 - Heartless is on sale in three days! Share our post • 11/6 - Dreamcast Cath • 11/7 - Tell us about when you first lost your heart • 11/8 - Heartless is Here! Share a pic of Heartless in the wild

✰ Now available in Kindle, paperback, and hardcover format! $0.99 for a limited time, so grab your copy TODAY!✰

A tale of swordplay and sorcery, mortality and music, set in modern-day Japan. Start the new YA fantasy readers are calling “epic” and “captivating” now! http://smarturl.it/AMortalSong

Sora’s Life was full of magic–until she discovered it was all a lie.

Heir to Mt. Fuji’s spirit kingdom, Sora yearns to finally take on the sacred kami duties. But just as she confronts her parents to make a plea, a ghostly army invades the mountain. Barely escaping with her life, Sora follows her mother’s last instructions to a heart-wrenching discovery: she is a human changeling, raised as a decoy while her parents’ true daughter remained safe but unaware in modern-day Tokyo. Her powers were only borrowed, never her own. Now, with the world’s natural cycles falling into chaos and the ghosts plotting an even more deadly assault, it falls on her to train the unprepared kami princess.

As Sora struggles with her emerging human weaknesses and the draw of an unanticipated ally with secrets of his own, she vows to keep fighting for her loved ones and the world they once protected. But for one mortal girl to make a difference in this desperate war between the spirits, she may have to give up the only home she’s ever known.

What could possibly be better than a free Star Wars books giveaway? How about helping to give someone else a free Star Wars book as a surprise?

So that’s what we’re going to do. Everyone who enters will have a chance to win both a book for themselves, as well as a book for a friend, relative, coworker, frenemy, or other relation. Maybe you know someone that’s never read Star Wars books before, or perhaps you know someone that could just use a nice little surprise gift.

THE CONTEST: 

What is your favorite Star Wars quote? Maybe it’s from one of the movies, one of our books, a comic, a video game, or tv show. Maybe your favorite quote comes from the Holiday Special (no judgement!). Whatever it is, we want to hear it!

There are two ways to enter:

Reblog this with your response and the tag  #ShareStarWars

Tweet to @DelReyStarWars using hashtag  #ShareStarWars

THE PRIZE:

4 winners will receive their choice of a hardcover edition of STAR WARS: BLOODLINE or STAR WARS: AFTERMATH: LIFE DEBT. In addition, each winner will choose 1 of our recent paperbacks (from A NEW DAWN through TWILIGHT COMPANY) which they can gift to anyone. We will send out the gift books as a surprise. You can even include a message!

RULES 

Contest is open to US residents only. Gift books also restricted to US residents. Winners determined by random drawing. One entry per person. Contest closes Tuesday Aug 9 at 10am (est). Winners will be notified after close of contest

YA Series Insiders: When you first set out to write the first book in the Waterfire Saga, did you have the entire series planned out? If so, has it changed?

Jennifer: I had a rough plan, but if your characters really live and breath, plans change. Because people change. They grown and learn, they’re unpredictable. You have to know that and leave room for it.