October 23, 2012

The Non Reluctant Reader YA Paranormal Spooktacular Day Two: Amy Garvey, author of Glass Heart

Welcome to the second day of The Non Reluctant Reader YA Paranormal Spooktacular! I'm pleased to welcome the first author of the event, Amy Garvey, author of the witchy and zombie novels Cold Kiss and Glass Heart! First Amy Garvey will give us an awesome guest post and then there will be a giveaway of both Cold Kiss and Glass Heart! So read on and prepared to be scared! And make sure when tweeting about it you use the hashtag #NRRYASpooktacular! See the schedule of the entire event and all the authors featured HERE.
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Wren can do things that other people can only dream of. Make it snow on a clear, crisp day. Fly through an abandoned tunnel. Bring a paper bird to life.
Wren knows her abilities are tinged with danger--knows how easy it is to lose control--but she can't resist the intoxicating rush. And now that she has Gabriel by her side, someone who knows what she can do--what she "has" done--she finally feels free to be herself.
But as Wren explores the possibilities of her simmering powers, Gabriel starts pushing her away. Telling her to be careful. Telling her to "stop." The more he cautions her, the more determined Wren becomes to prove that she can handle things on her own. And by the time she realizes that Gabriel may be right, it could be too late to bring him back to her side.
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Amy Garvey's Terrifying TV Tale
I’ve loved Halloween since I was a kid. Well, that sounds silly – what kid doesn't like putting on a costume and demanding candy from strangers? What I mean is I loved to be scared, regardless of the time of year – Halloween was simply my official day of celebration. I loved anything that even vaguely had to do with the spooky or the haunted or the terrifying – give me an old crumbling gravestone, or an attic cloaked in shadow and spider webs, or an abandoned house on top of a hill and I was in heaven. I don’t know if it was in my genetic makeup – “baby fine hair, green eyes, absolutely cannot ice skate, thinks ghosts are neato” – or if I created my own addiction, but it started when I was about eight.
Those were the days when TV sets were often only black and white and had rabbit ears, and you had to GET UP to change the channel or the volume, so you sometimes ending up watching strange stuff out of sheer laziness. On this day I was out on the screen porch, where we had a little tabletop TV to watch in the summer. I was bored, it was drizzling, and I’d finished my book, so I wandered out there and turned it on. Those were also the days when a) there was no cable, b) there were only about ten channels if you were lucky, maybe a couple more if you braved the wilds of UHF, and c) children’s programming was limited mostly to Sesame Street, Captain Kangaroo, and Scooby Doo. Shows for kids on a random Saturday afternoon? They didn’t even exist.
I have no idea what channel I landed on as I turned the dial, except that the picture was grainy black and white and someone was screaming. I was in. Unfortunately, the movie ended about ten minutes after I turned it on, and to this day I have no idea what it was. A vaguely British boy in old-fashioned clothes and an old woman were in a crumbling old house – I remember a close-up of really appalling Victorian wallpaper – and they were arguing. Someone had hidden something? There might have been a trunk involved? Either way, the last shot as the credits rolled was another face, possibly a young woman’s or maybe the boy’s, screaming and appearing to melt as the camera panned away to show this very Addams Family-esque residence in all its macabre glory. I was heartbroken. What had happened? Was there a ghost or a spell or a body in the basement? All I knew was that it was unlikely I would ever find out, but every time I stumbled across anything that even resembled a black and white horror movie after that, I stopped to watch. I thought the title might be The House That Screamed, but I was wrong, and I couldn’t even look it up until I was in college, when Leonard Maltin started putting out his movie encyclopedia.
But maybe that movie was why I chose Jane-Emily, a classic ghost story, at the next school book fair. Or why I loved Richard Peck’s The Ghost Belonged to Me and Ghosts I Have Been, and tried to watch Dark Shadows (the original!) whenever I could after school. By the time I hit middle school I was reading Stephen King and sneaking into such fine cinematic classics as Friday the 13th and Prom Night (the originals!). I was a horror junkie, and that hasn’t changed. The show I was most excited for this fall? American Horror Story: Asylum. The last movie I rented from Red Box? Cabin in the Woods. Definitely an addiction.  
Which I guess makes it sort of predictable that my first YA novel was about a girl who raised her boyfriend from the dead, and that’s perfectly okay with me. Meanwhile, if anyone knows what movie started all this, call me!
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Giveaway
Amy has been very generous and offered up signed copies of Cold Kiss and Glass Heart for giveaway to help you get your spook on! Enter after the page break!



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39 comments:

  1. Chucky! that doll is so scary lol

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  2. The scarriest movie that still gives me nightmares is Grudge (the freaky Japanese version.) That white child appearing everywhere...yikes!
    Thank you for the giveaway :)

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  3. Hm... I find the Final Destination ones quite scary because this is all stuff that, though unlikely, could actually happen. I've only seen the first 3 though. Other scary ones were Urban Legends, Nightmare on Elm Street, The Shining, Ginger Snaps. What I found very boring: Blair Witch Project.
    Thanks for the giveway, I've been curious about this series for a while :)

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  4. The Ring... I don't watch many horror movies because I am a scaredy cat!

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  5. Cool anecdote!

    Ring and Shutter, the original Asian versions.

    Braine

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  6. The Shining and The Ring. I'm looking forward to read this series

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  7. Showing my age here but Halloween and Friday the 13th from my youth

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  8. I'm not really scared by horror movies - I love horrors! But one film that really kept me with straight hairs was Drag Me To Hell!! The special effects were incredibles! ^^

    Thank you for the giveaway!
    Sara @ Sara In Bookland

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  9. I love horror anything! That terrified feeling in your gut...nothing can beat that! There's something that just draws you in and puts its creepy little teeth in you! Now, if I only I could find a movie to really scare me! I dream of being up all night, terrified out of my wits, and jumping at every noise...Maybe one day :)

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    1. Oh, and the Horror movies that scared me the most...The fourth kind(I know it's stupid..but the whole "real footage thing kills me) And The Possession(The box chanted my name, okay? that's awful!)

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  10. Probably Devil Inside...I don't know for some reason..I finf crazy patients who happen to be possessed creepier.

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  11. When I was young my cousin used to babysit us and make me watch the Friday the 13th movies. Now there not as scary as they used to be, but forever I was scared totals a bath because Freddy killed a girl from under the bath tub in one of the movies.

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  12. The Ring, The Grudge and the Texas Chainsaw Massacre! Thanks!

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  13. I'm not one to get really scared. I guess I would have say the Ring though.

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  14. Paranormal Activity (the first one) ... omg, that was so freaky how they filmed it. Also, The Shining, and The Ring!
    I'm such a wussie ;P
    Mary DeBorde M.A.D.

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  15. The Exorist has been the frightening movie for me.

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  16. Awesome guest post! I love Cabin in the Woods and I'm looking forward to catching-up on last week's American Horror Story: Asylum :)

    I love horror movies. I'm not easily scared by horror movies nowadays, but Child's Play scared the heck out of me when I was in elementary school... dolls and clowns are so creepy.

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  17. The movie WHEN A STRANGER CALLS, 1979 version, made me sleep with the light on for a week.

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  18. i am scared of pretty much any horror film. silent hill is a favourite ^^

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  19. I try to avoid watching horror movies so there are very few that I have watched. I think The Grudge scared me the most though I'm watching Sinister next week and I'd probably have month long nightmares. Thank you!

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  20. The scary movie for me is The Ring

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  21. The Ring is probably one of the scariest movies I've ever seen, though horror doesn't bother me much anymore. Thanks for the giveaway!

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  22. I have not watched The Ring but maybe I need to check it out. I would say that the scariest was IT by Stephen King as a movie. I have not read the book.

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  23. OMG! The Ring was freaking scary!( Or maybe it is just because I get scared by EVERYTHING) The part where she climbs out of the well had me hiding behind covers! And that was always supposed to be my twin's job!

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  24. I agree with all the above movies mentioned. Those creep me out big time. but I'll also nominate Jeepers Creepers, Cabin in the Woods and Stephen King's many movies like It, Cujo, Pet Cemetary or Storm of the Century.

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  25. The Changeling, Paranormal Activity 4

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  26. Stephen King movies for the most part, such as It, Pet Semetary, The Shining. Also The Exorcist

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  27. The Exorcism of Emily Rose. I still get creeped just from the trailer

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  28. The Audition, a Japanese horror movie. It was soooooo creepy, I got physically ill watching it.

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  29. Hand's down...The Exorcist...I still can't handle it :)

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  30. The Exorcist for sure! We had to watch that one with the sound turned off!

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  31. The Nightmare on Elm Street movies scared the hell out of me!

    Thanks,
    Leanne

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  32. The third saw movie (I stopped watching them after that0, the Paranormal Activity movies

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  33. Silver Bullet I think would be mine.

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