2013 Debut Author Challenge

It's that time again...time to sign up for the Debut Author Challenge! I didn't participate this year due to my time away from blogging, but I think I need to do it again in 2013. This year it's hosted by Hobbitsies, and if you click the link it will take you directly to the information page for the challenge.

Here are my 2013 picks:

Level 2 by Lenore Appelhans - January 15
City of A Thousand Dolls by Miriam Forster - February 5
Mila 2.0 by Debra Driza - March 12
Taken by Erin Bowman - April 16
Chantress by Amy Butler Greenfield - May 7
Linked by Imogen Howson - June 11
Since You Asked by Maurene Goo - July (Date TBD)
Prophesy of Oz by Megan Shan - August 5

I'll be adding my entries for September through December as more book information gets released!

Waiting on Wednesday (August 29)

Waiting on Wednesday was started by Jill at Breaking the Spine. This weekly meme shares the upcoming books that I'm most excited about.

Chantress by Amy Butler Greenfield

Shipwrecked on an island seven years ago, Lucy has been warned she must never sing, or disaster will strike. But on All Hallows Eve, Lucy hears tantalizing music in the air. When she sings it, she unlocks a terrible secret: She is a Chantress, a spell-singer, brought to the island not by shipwreck but by a desperate enchantment gone wrong.

Her song lands her back in England — and in mortal peril, for the kingdom lies in the cruel grasp of a powerful Lord Protector and his mind-reading hunters, the Shadowgrims. The Protector has killed all Chantresses, for they alone can destroy the Shadowgrims. Only Lucy has survived.

In terrible danger, Lucy takes shelter with Nat, a spy who turns her heart upside-down. Nat has been working with his fellow scholars of the Invisible College to overthrow the Lord Protector, and they have long hoped to find a living Chantress to help them. But Lucy is completely untrained, and Nat deeply distrusts her magic. If Lucy cannot master the songspells, how long can she even stay alive? (From Goodreads)

Published by Simon & Schuster
Release Date: May 7, 2013 (noooooooooo that's almost an entire year).