My summer blog tour is ending today midnight 
But I’m picking winners for a book (your own copy of Henrietta The Dragon Slayer) and the necklace featured on the cover. Yeah!
Come play and comment today on any of the August blog stops because today is your last chance!
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Thanks again to Teen Book Scene for organizing my book tour during August. Corrine and the team, you are the best!
Wherein I list what I would sell in a garage sale full of items from my teen years.
Here’s what you might see… And only because I thought they might have a better life somewhere else, not because I didn’t love them anymore.
You gotta read the rest at Ivy Reads blog where I spilled the beans during my Summer Blog Tour organized by the ever wonderful Teen Book Scene.
Comment here on on this blog post to enter to win a copy of Henrietta The Dragon Slayer. If you comment, you also enter to the Grand Giveaway for the necklace featured on the cover of Henrietta The Dragon Slayer. Winners chosen at the end of August.
Special! If you’re a Goodreads user, enter a special Goodreads giveaway for another chance to win a free print copy of Henrietta The Dragon Slayer! Since this is a separate contest, you can enter both the Goodreads giveaway and mine and win two copies!
To enter my giveaway, all you need to do is to comment on this post. Click here for the official rules!
Thank you Jessica for the honest review!
Read the rest of the book review of Henrietta The Dragon Slayer here.
Funny thing is I don’t have a favorite fairy tale.
I shared a few of my favorite ones — all the Jack stories — here during my Summer Blog Tour with Teen Book Scene that’s wrapping up at the end of August.
What is your favorite fairytale?
Comment here on on this blog post to enter to win a copy of Henrietta The Dragon Slayer. If you comment, you also enter to the Grand Giveaway for the necklace featured on the cover of Henrietta The Dragon Slayer. Winners chosen at the end of August.
Special! If you’re a Goodreads user, enter a special Goodreads giveaway for another chance to win a free print copy of Henrietta The Dragon Slayer! Since this is a separate contest, you can enter both the Goodreads giveaway and mine and win two copies!
To enter my giveaway, all you need to do is to comment on this post. Click here for the official rules!
1. Holding a wooden mug in her hands in front of a roaring fire at an inn.
2. A well made knife that she either bought or made herself.
3. Her special rainproof leather coat and leather boots that she’s worn all along the Traveler’s Road.
4. Running the hills around her village in the Skye Mountains.
5. Doing acrobatics atop a horse with her dragon-slaying partner, Sytiphell.
6. Sharing her dragon tales with Jaxter.
7. Singing (Shh! don’t tell anyone.) Nobody knows that she loves to sing. She never sings solo around others.
8. Jenever (It’s a drink Henrietta discovers in the Oro Islands.)
9. Any homemade meal cooked by Jaxter. The man can cook!
10. Hanging out with her friends around the camp fire.
First posted by JL on An Avid Reader’s Musings as part of my Teen Book Scene Blog Tour. Thanks!
What is your favorite guilty pleasure that you care to share? I’d love to know!
Comment to enter to win a copy of Henrietta The Dragon Slayer. If you comment, you also enter to the Grand Giveaway for the necklace featured on the cover of Henrietta The Dragon Slayer. Winners chosen at the end of August.
Special! If you’re a Goodreads user, enter a special Goodreads giveaway for another chance to win a free print copy of Henrietta The Dragon Slayer! Since this is a separate contest, you can enter both the Goodreads giveaway and mine and win two copies!
To enter my giveaway, all you need to do is to comment on this post. Click here for the official rules!
Many people like books about dragons, so I found a list on the web, drafted by writer, Nicole Skutelnik. Enjoy!
You can find her extensive list on Suite 101 here.
If you know of any books that aren’t on this list that should be let me know! Thanks!
Thank you Crystal so much for your rockin’ review of Henrietta The Dragon Slayer.
I loved this book. From the first page of Henrietta The Dragon Slayer I was drawn into Henrietta’s world. I loved Henrietta, she’s a strong girl, yet she’s flawed too, so that makes her more normal and easier to like, but she’s still really kick-butt with a sword and she can prove it when the male knights think the stories they have heard about her are untrue.
But the book is not just about Henrietta, there are also her sidekicks, a jester, a witch and knight who make the story interesting as well as her fear of the water. There are serious moments and humorous moments (there has to be, there is a jester). Ms. Barany writes beautifully and skillfully and translates her words into a magnificient fantasy story that I loved and can imagine teens and other adults loving as well. There is adventure, sword fighting, good food, ale, dragons, jesters, magic, tall tales and true tales galore in this book and all of these elements together make it one story I will not soon forget and Henrietta one character who makes a great book. So go grab a copy and prepare to be taken away for an afternoon or evening to Henrieta’s world where dragon’s and magic are as real as the insecurities of a teenage girl.
See the post for yourself here! And comment to win a free book.
That way you can enter the Giveaway for a copy of Henrietta The Dragon Slayer or the the necklace featured on the cover. Go now! Summer Giveaway ends August 31.
PS. Amazon has Henrietta The Dragon Slayer on sale for $0.99! You lucky dog, you!
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PPPPS. This is a very unordinary story about a dragon, and a hero, and her friends for young adults. Beware!
This post is excerpted from my post at Breaking In Before Breaking Down.
David, thank you for having me on your blog to write about kick ass heroines in fantasy and science fiction.
Major confession up front: I love kick ass heroines in science fiction and fantasy and love to write and read about them, too.
I’ve recently published my first novel, a YA fantasy, Henrietta The Dragon Slayer. Yeah, she’s a bad ass!
Henrietta is a bit of a bad girl as the story opens. She’s gettin’ out of Dodge, leaving her hero days behind, not wanting to be her kingdom’s hero anymore. She’s leaving behind her responsibilities for a life in the sunny beaches down south. Her heart is hurting and she doesn’t even know it. Yet.
For the rest of the post and to enter the Giveaway for a copy of Henrietta The Dragon Slayer or the the necklace featured on the cover ending August 31 go to Breaking In Before Breaking Down.
PS. If you’d like to stay in touch with my upcoming books and news, please subscribe to my newsletter. (Box to the right) Also, you can subscribe to to my blog via RSS or email.
PPS. I love getting correspondence from readers! You can write me at BETH at BETHBARANY dot COM. Thanks!
PPPS. No dragons were harmed in the making of this post!
Thanks Crystal for having me on My Reading Room.
I love to read, and was first an avid reader before dedicating myself to being a writer. And I still read A LOT, morning, noon and night. 
Most of my books on my shelf are novels: romance, science fiction, fairy tales and folk tales, science fiction romance, paranormal romance and the occasional mystery and suspense novel. I also have lots of nonfiction books on writing, business, and marketing; and lots of book in French, about Paris history, and some novels and kids books in French.
For the rest of the post and to enter the Giveaway for a copy of Henrietta The Dragon Slayer or the the necklace featured on the cover ending August 31 go to My Reading Room.
“It is important to realize we are not women channeling the goddess or pretending to be here — we are the goddess pretending for a single lifetime to be a mortal woman.”
From Carol Schaefer’s Grandmothers Counsel The World, by way of From Girl to Goddess: The Heroines’ Journey through Myth and Legend by Valerie Estelle Frankel. (Who kindly traded her book for my novel, Henrietta The Dragon Slayer, at a book signing at the San Maeto County Fair this summer. Thanks Valerie!)
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