First thing's first: The five winners of randomness in the Random Contest of Sunshine & Chocolate are:
shveta_thakrar
authorwithin
jab0217
jynnmorgan
joleneallcock

And the winner of the signed ARC of LUMINOUS is:

*** authorwithin ***

Congratulations!!! Please ping me back with mailing addys for your prizes!

Secondly: I HAVE A NEW TEASER TRAILER! With words and everything for you who missed them in my spooktastic Official Book Trailer; huge thanks to Kurt Boucher for helping me create this little ethereal beauty. Behold:

Available to share with your friends, loved ones, online acquaintances & fellow book-loving enthusiasts. Isn't it pretty?

Thirdly: BOOK TOURS! We are now entering the one-month countdown to LUMINOUS officially hitting the shelves (as opposed to unofficially sneaking onto shelves and making me grin like a lovestruck girly-girl), and I am honored to be invited on book tours beginning tomorrow, June 1st, at Electrifying Reviews!

This tour, hosted by the amazing Mundie Moms, will have an extra added goodie puzzle: follow the June tour, collect the letters, unscramble the phrase and plunk it into the website to access your Secret Goodie Surprise! The {Teen} Book Scene's blog tour extends into July and there are tons of other interviews, prizes, surprises and giveaways in store right up to the GRAND PRIZE GIVEAWAY (more to come on THAT soon)!

There's so much happening, I can't wait to see how it ends! Oh, wait, I *know* how it ends: A PUBLISHED BOOK!

SCBWI Author One-Day pass: $60
Round-trip commuter rail: $40
Parking: $11
Random lunch & dinner: $30
Hanging out with Apocalypsie great, Shari Arnold, getting hugs with fellow online author buddies Alexandra Bracken, Cindy Pon, Kiki Hamilton & Lisa Desrochers while signing books, running into fab Elevensies Gretchen McNeil, Scott Tracey, Karsten Knight & Leah Clifford, grabbing lunch with Kate Milford and her awesome crit partner, getting an armload of *incredible* ARCs, recognizing TONS of awesome book bloggers ("Hi, Lauren & Stacy!") and crowds of cool librarians, seeing familiar editor faces (biggest smile awards go to Sarah "JJ" Jones, Molly O'Neill, and Nikki Mutch), attending the YA Buzz panel, hanging on every word and pitch, and snagging a quick hug and a hi with my very own agent, Michael Bourret: PRICELESS!

It was a really good day. :-)