Hello, Rival Revenge!


After a quick morning stalking of the bookstores, it looks like RIVAL REVENGE (Canterwood Crest #7) is indeed out in many stores. It has a technical release date of 1/26, so it’s always fun when bookstores release early. My local B&N says they have copies and I think that’ll mean a stock signing this weekend. I have the *nicest* people at my B&N and I love going there.

Book. Number. Seven. Wow. At this time last year, TAKE THE REINS (CC #1) was about to release and I was FREAKING OUT. The series was set at four books and I was doing promo for TTR and writing CHASING BLUE. Now, it’s hard to believe there are going to be 12 books. Thanks so much to the awesome reader girlies for backing the series and being on Team Canterwood! Also, hugs to the team at S&S–you guys rock.

And, of course, the books would be, well, superboring, unsparkly and just eh without Editor K, Kate Angelella. Angelella is spelled T-A-L-E-N-T-E-D, btw. Writer, editor, author-wrangler–she does it all. 🙂

Yay RIVAL REVENGE and I can’t wait to go book stalking.

Yay for Little White Lies!


It’s now shipping via Amazon and Barnes & Noble! Yaay! That means it’ll start showing up in physical stores verrry soon. I’m so excited about this book and can’t wait to hear what you guys think. It was super fun to write and I’m very happy to have it out there! 🙂

Congrats, HorseGirlTV!

I’m reposting this from the Canterwood Crest forum:

HorseGirlTV has been striving the past three years to produce quality, educational and entertaining content for equestrian but likewise to bring the horse world to the world and reach mainstream audiences. We now have a chance to branch out through the Streamy Awards. One of the episodes nominated is with our favorite author, Jessica Burkhart, so please take a moment and vote!

Please help by clicking the link below and voting for HorseGirlTV as Best Hosted Web Series!

http://www.streamys.org/submit/public-submissions/
Best Hosted Web Series
http://www.horsegirltv.com/

You can also vote for Angelea Kelly Walkup for Best Web Series Host at:
http://www.streamys.org/submit/public-submissions-people/
Best Web Series Host
Angelea Kelly Walkup
HorseGirlTV
http://www.horsegirltv.com/

Thanks for your support and Happy New Year to all.

Kind regards,
Angelea and Team HorseGirlTV!

Win a signed copy of Little White Lies!


Look at what I have!! LITTLE WHITE LIES! So…it doesn’t come out until December 22, which seems REALLY far away. I was thinking some of you *might* be interested in entering to win a signed copy.

If so:

Leave a comment here and/or on my LiveJournal entry. For an extra entry, Tweet, Facebook, blog, etc., about the contest and let me know about it in your post. I’m crazy busy this weekend and next week, so the contest will stay open until Thursday, December 10 at midnight. I’ll draw a winner and check back on Friday to see if you’ve won! I’ll only ship to a US address.

Yaaay for LWL! Go Team Canterwood!

Chillin’ on a Saturday

Well, kind of. I’m playing with a couple of outlines, thinking about new ideas, cleaning and running errands. I went to my local B&N and signed stock. Check out my Tweets on my sidebar if you want to see a pic. They only had 1 copy of BEST ENEMIES, so that was cool.

Now we must talk Twilight and New Moon. Be prepared for girly craziness. 😀

On Thursday, my theater was cool enough to show Twilight first, at 9:15 and then to show New Moon at midnight. I was freaking out all day and even only drank 1 Diet Coke so I didn’t make BFF crazy with my already hyper state. One of our convos that day:

BFF: Are you totally spazzing?

Me: YES! But I only had one Diet Coke since, you know, I want to live and you’d kill me in my hyper state.

BFF: Ohhhhhhh, greeeat. (She was half-serious.) 😉

She told me to just go to our fave place for sparkly drinks and to calm down before she got there. I tried and spent 20something minutes talking to anyone near me, including my fave BR peeps, abt the night’s awesomeness.

BFF arrived with a rose for me (again, pic on the Twitter feed) ’cause she knew tonight was a huuuuge deal for me. We talked Twilight/New Moon and eventually headed to the theater where we meet up with her boy.

Since I’d never seen Twilight on the big screen, I almost lost it when RPattz walked into the caf for the first time. It. Was. Awesome. Watching Twilight on a screen that size was like I’d never seen the movie before. I started thinking about where I was that time last year and remembered BFF had called me just before going to see Twilight at the same theater and telling me about it. Very cool that we got to see it together. Surreal.

Then…25 mins till New Moon. Everyone was ready. The theater was packed with all ages and lots of guys. (Most of whom were Team Jacob when they vocalized it in the theater.) The movie started and I thought hyperventilation might occur. But, you know, I stayed cool. Ish. 😉

The movie crowd was the best–there was cheering, sighing (longing sighs), and shout outs for Jacob or Edward.

The high points:

* Taylor Lautner (Yes, I put him first.) The kid thought he was going to lose his job after Twilight and he worked his butt off to put on 30 pounds of muscle to play werewolf Jake.

* RPattz looking as if he’d been dying without KStew during their separation.

* Alice driving the car through Italy.

* The fight sequence with the Volturi.

* Dakota Fanning killing it as Jane. Scary with the red contacts. And speaking of…

* New contacts for the vamps. Awesome.

* The special effects for the wolf transformations. I was a little worried, but they pulled it off quite well.

* The acting. Much improved.

Okay! Forcing myself to stop here. 🙂 It’s better, in a different way, than Twilight. I cannot wait for Eclipse. Where’s my countdown clock?

First Knicks game


Since the blog was taken over by awesome giveaways (winners will be announced after the final deadline for entering has passed), I haven’t been able to blog about personal stuff for a while. For example…last Tuesday, I went to my first ever Knicks game at Madison Square Garden! It was a pre-season game against the Celtics and it was sooo much fun. The crowd was excited and the entire atmosphere was energized. The entire experience of hot dogs and nachos only added to the awesomeness. Plus, we won! 🙂 I’ve seen MSG on TV before and it’s sooo much better in person. It’s just insane. I kept saying, “OMG! I’m at MSG!” like a total dork. 🙂

These are the sparkly cups that you get when you order drinks. Love. Them. Was jealous of BFF’s sparkly cup and wanted my own. Now I’ve got some! They’re actually glittery, which is hard to see in the pic.

Going to see another Knicks game this Saturday on Halloween! BFF and I are coordinating our outfits. She’s wearing blue tights and I’ve got orange ones. Knicks colors and also very Halloween appropriate. I can’t wait for the train ride home because (or so I’ve heard) there will be a zillion people in costume on the train. Can’t. Wait.

As if you didn’t already know…

Editor K is a super star. (Duh.) A book she edited, THE ROCK AND THE RIVER, by the fab Kekla Magoon was named one of the Top 10 First Novels for Youth 2009 in the fiction category. This is so well deserved and it’s exciting news! Check out the link here!

Also, a quick reminder that giveaways start *tomorrow*! I’ve got so many cool things lined up from awesome sponsors who are excited to be a part of Team Canterwood. Check out the blog tomorrow for your chance to enter to win the first prize.

Again, yaaay EK and Kekla!

Best Enemies copy! Yaay!

In my hands, I have finished copies of BEST ENEMIES! Eeeee!! Above is the full spread and you can see the wrap around cover. *happy sigh* I’m just in love with it. Of course, I couldn’t wait to see all five books together.

In. Sane. Five! I’m so proud of them and can’t wait for BEST ENEMIES to release!

Going to be working all weekend and at a crazy pace while I get the chapter by chapter outline down for HOME SWEET DRAMA (CC #8). Once that’s a go, then it’s writing time. 🙂

Happy weekend.

Rival Revenge is complete! Woo!


Oooh, yay! The final draft of RIVAL REVENGE is in Editor K’s hands. Yaaay! Book #7 is a wrap. Well, till copyedits anyway. But by then, I’ll be loong into HOME SWEET DRAMA.

Now, to tackle the to-do list that seemed to come out of nowhere and become quite long. It involves lots of vlogging. And video making. And Website updating. I like. 🙂

Uh, but first…I might watch the NEW MOON trailer. Just one more time. One. As a sparkly (haha–it’s true!) reward.