Spring 2020 YA Scavenger Hunt

Welcome, scavengers! This bi-annual event was first organized by author Colleen Houck as a way to give readers a chance to gain access to exclusive bonus material from their favorite authors…and a chance to win some awesome prizes! At this hunt, you not only get access to exclusive content from each author, you also get a clue for the hunt. Add up the clues, and you can enter for our prize–one lucky winner will receive one e-book or audiobook from each author on the hunt in my team! But play fast: this contest (and all the exclusive bonus material) will only be online for 120 hours!

Go to the YA Scavenger Hunt page to find out all about the hunt. There are four contests going on simultaneously, and you can enter one or all! I am a part of the RED TEAM—but there is also a purple team, a gold team, and a blue team for a chance to win a whole different set of books!

If you’d like to find out more about the hunt, see links to all the authors participating, and see the full list of prizes up for grabs, go to the YA Scavenger Hunt page.

SCAVENGER HUNT PUZZLE Directions: Below, you’ll notice that I’ve hidden my favorite number. Collect the favorite numbers of all the authors on the red team, and then add them up (don’t worry, you can use a calculator!).  

Entry Form: Once you’ve added up all the numbers, like mine which is 2, make sure you fill out the form here to officially qualify for the grand prize. Only entries that have the correct number will qualify.   Rules: Open internationally, anyone below the age of 18 should have a parent or guardian’s permission to enter. To be eligible for the grand prize, you must submit the completed entry form by April 5th, at noon Pacific Time.

  SCAVENGER HUNT POST

    Today, I am hosting R.J. Garcia. R.J. is a wife, and proud mom of two smart kids. She earned her MSW and worked with foster children and as a school social worker. Writing has been her other great love. She has published several non-fiction pieces. She has been writing short stories for as long as she can remember. To her amazement, those short stories became novels! You can read more about R.J. here!

  R.J.’s book The Call of Death and her EXCLUSIVE CONTENT!

Hannah Priestly is an obsessive-compulsive California girl attending an English boarding school with the usual teen problems. She doesn’t fit in at school and is falling in love with her best friend. But when she wakes up knowing the name of a notorious serial killer at large, Norman Biggs, her life goes from complicated to scary, and her visions only grow darker.  
Rory Veer is Hannah’s easy-going, romantically challenged friend, and school crush. When Norman Biggs unexpectedly appears in Rory’s reality, terror is set in motion. It is Rory who must acknowledge a past he has denied if the mystery is to be unraveled.

The Main Characters from The Call of Death Interview their Author, R.J. Garcia

Most people agree that it is okay to talk to yourself as long as you don’t answer. With that being said, the main characters from my new novel, The Call of Death, are going to interview me. This is perfectly acceptable because they are real people and not just voices in my head. Well, sort of. 

      The first character I would like to introduce to you is Hannah Priestly. She ages from 14 to 16 in the course of this coming of age suspense story. She is a California girl dropped off at an English boarding school by her celebrity mother. “Sorry, Hannah, I have given you some of my obsessive-compulsive tendencies but on the bright side, I made you rich.” Hannah not only has to deal with her newly discovered psychic abilities but also needs to learn how to be comfortable in her own itchy skin.

      Rory Veer is Hannah’s romantically challenged love interest. He also ages from 14 to 16 in the novel and can be both frustrating and lovable. He is a chin down and grades up kind of guy. He must learn how to deal with great loss or be crushed under the weight of it. 

Q&A:

Hannah: First, I wanted to ask you why I felt so drawn to an English boarding school in the first place?

R.J. : I think you were drawn to the idea of it and the order it brought to your life. And you were a little obsessed with Harry Potter growing up. Who wasn’t?

Hannah: Why couldn’t you have made Rory more intelligent?

Rory: I get quite good marks. A better question would be why did you have to put Norman Biggs in the story at all?

R.J. : While you both embodied the innocence and potential of youth and possibilities; Norman personified the polar opposite. He had little opportunities or nurturing and let go of his innocence early on, partly to survive the dark environment he was raised in. Unfortunately, he learned to like the darkness.

Rory: You killed people in this book. Maybe you fancy the darkness like Norman. Is that it?

Hannah: Yeah, what is your problem, lady?

R.J. : Um, I think we’re out of time.

  And don’t forget to enter the contest for a chance to win a book or 2 by me, Danielle Paige, and more! Add up all the favorite numbers of the authors on the red team and you’ll have the secret code to enter for the grand prize!    

CONTINUE THE HUNT To keep going on your quest for the hunt, you need to check out the next author—Tracy Auerbach! And, of course, don’t forget to tweet #YASH to keep the momentum going!