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Christina Meldrum Joins Random Buzzers!

CMMadapple author Christina Meldrum will be joining our boards starting this coming Monday April 28th! We are excited to have her as our guest author as she will be perusing through the Random Buzzers forums daily and answering questions that you have for her! Share your thoughts NOW over on the Buzz Boards at the thread specially dedicated for YOU to ask Christina Meldrum your questions!

Have you picked up the Madapple ARC? If not, there are still copies available in the Random Store so use your buzz bucks today! Want to take a sneak peek at the book before you get it? Click HERE to get a preview of the book.

After you've had the chance to preview the book, make sure to come back and chat with us! Let us know what you think and give a warm welcome to Christina Meldrum! Ask your questions below or on the forums and check back often for responses!

Before she officially joins us, Christina wanted to share a little note with you:

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Dear Random Buzzers,

 

Thanks so much for inviting me to participate as a Random Buzzers author.  As a teenager who loved reading, I would have loved to participate in a forum like this.  As a debut novelist, this is a dream come true!

 

When I was a teenager, reading for me was a way to learn about the world and my place in it.  It also was a means of escaping the world during some awkward teenage moments!  Even today, some of the books that are most dear to me are books I read first as a teen, including Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird and J.D. Salinger’s Franny & Zooey.  I was captivated by the antics of Scout.  I identified with Salinger’s Franny.  These books became part of the fabric of who I am as a person.

 

For this reason, when I first learned MADAPPLE would be published as a YA novel, I was excited—and somewhat daunted.  MADAPPLE is arguably controversial.  It certainly has mature themes.  I tried very hard to address these themes with sensitivity.  And I certainly did not write the book seeking controversy.  That said, I did write the book with hope that it would spur thought.

 

I continue to love when books challenge me to see the world and myself in new ways.  I particularly enjoy when books challenge me to look deeper into topics or objects or people I think I know and help me to see beyond what I know.  I hoped MADAPPLE would encourage readers to take a second look at the familiar and hopefully see beyond what they believe they know.

 

Here’s to finding the extraordinary in the ordinary!

 

All my best,

 

Christina Meldrum

 

Posted Apr 25, 2008 by HeadBuzzer | 10 Comments |
Filed under: Christina Meldrum Madapple
Brisingr Predictions, Prize Winners & More!

Many of you have been keeping up with the Alagaësia series and are just as excited for the release of Brisingr as we are! If you’re a super fan and have been eagerly keeping up with all that is going on with the book then you know that the official Alagaësia  site has released a spoiler to what you can expect in the next installment.

Another spoiler will soon be released and some of you have participated in an activity to guess what you think will be revealed next. Here are some of your predictions:

  • Soupygirl thinks, “It would have to do something with the third egg hatching and I bet that an elf will be the dragon's rider.”
  • Hotdude says, “I think I will say that there is going to be another rider”
  • Mfuge says, “I think the next spoiler we will get will be something about Murtagh- a vague spoiler about his role in Brisingr and what he will do with respect to Eragon and Saphira.”

Those are all very good guesses… only time will tell the real spoiler!

For those who participated know that there was also a raffle to win a copy of Eragon on DVD that comes with a copy of Mythic Vision: The Making of Movie Eragon and another lucky member would receive the Eragon interactive game for the PC as well as the Eragon Prima Official Game Guide. The lucky Random Buzzers who have won these are:

  • tofilus12 winner of the Eragon DVD and Mythic Vision
  • thejrbutler winner of the Eragon PC game and Eragon Prima Official Game Guide

Congratulations to you and enjoy your copies – they will be mailed out shortly.

Many other exciting activities are also happening on here like the new activities for Madapple – have you checked them out? The book will be hitting store shelves early next month but you can snag a copy of the ARC in the Random Store right now. Participate in the activities to learn more and earn buzz bucks for doing so!

Until we read again,

Headbuzzer

Posted Apr 22, 2008 by HeadBuzzer | 9 Comments |
Filed under: Alagaesia brisingr Madapple