Crosley Speak Contest!

Calling all Night Buddies Adventurers! Author Sands Hetherington is writing his third book in the Night Buddies Adventures chapter book series for kids and would like your help in getting John and Crosley started on their next Adventure After Lights-Out. 

A really neat contest will begin March 3, 2013, for one week only! Here's how to enter:

Crosley is looking for new words to add to his expansive vocabulary and he needs your help. Just come up with a new expression and its meaning for Crosley Speak! See the list of Uncommon Words for inspiration. And who knows? The winning words could end up in Book Three of the Night Buddies Adventures series. Excelsior! 

In order to be eligible you will need to . . . 

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Do you need some help with ideas on what Crosley Speak is? Check out this list of words to get your brain gears turning.

If you haven’t discovered the Night Buddies Adventures series of chapter books yet, that’s okay! Let us tell you a bit about them and you can join us on this exciting “program”—that’s Night Buddies speak for adventure.

The first book in the Night Buddies Adventures series, Night Buddies and the Pineapple Cheesecake Scare, is about the nighttime adventures of a young boy named John, who is not ready to go to sleep, and his friend, a bright red crocodile named Crosley who turns up under John’s bed.

They sneak out of John’s house using Crosley’s “I-ain’t-here-doodad” which makes them invisible to John’s parents. Then they embark on an adventure chasing down enemies and cleaning up one mess after another as they solve the earthshaking mystery: who stole all the pineapple cheesecakes from the only factory in the world that makes them! 

Night Buddies, Impostors, and One Far-Out Flying Machine, the second book in the Night Buddies Adventures series, has a ton of mischief going on all over the Borough, done by a red crocodile and causing confusion and hard feelings everywhere. It’s up to John to help prove Crosley isn’t the red crocodile behind this madness. 

Make friends, share the love of reading and be entered to win some fabulous prizes! 

Winner #1 will receive a $25 Amazon gift card and signed copies of both titles in these Adventures After Lights-Out escapades.

Winner #2 will receive signed copies of both titles in these Adventures After Light-Out escapades.

Winner #3 will receive a copy of Night Buddies, Impostors, and One Far-Out Flying Machine.

Winner #4 will receive a copy of Night Buddies and the Pineapple Cheesecake Scare.

Winner #5 will receive eBooks of both titles in these Adventures After Lights-Out escapades.

Want to let all your friends know how to join the Night Buddies Adventures? All you have to do is post the Book Lovers Blog Hop below to your blog. Promote the Book Lovers Hop and the Night Buddies Adventures contest on any social network. Tweet it once a day, share it on Facebook and then follow back others who leave you a comment. By joining the Book Lovers Blog Hop, you are automatically entered in the Night Buddies Adventures contest!

Hop Rules:

1. Follow the Top link of the hop! Hop Host: Families Matter
2. Grab the button for the hop and place it in a post, sidebar or on a blog hop page and let us know where it is in the comments section below. This will help the hop grow and gain new followers for all of us. It's a Win-Win for everyone!

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Please play nice and follow our simple rules! Make sure to FOLLOW AT LEAST ONE PERSON and as many other blogs as you'd like to have more follow back. This is what makes the Book Lovers Blog Hop so successful. If you're not willing to Follow, please don't link up.

Remember, you must to leave a comment here with your new Crosley Word to enter the contest and win of the FIVE fabulous prizes!

Book Lovers Blog Hop is Open…

Saturday March 2nd at 12am MST!

If you want to become a World of Ink Host and do a review or interview, shoot me an email: vsgrenier@gmail.com

Please make sure you Follow the Top Link of Hop if you want to link up!

Note: You can use all or parts of this post for your post about the Book Lovers Blog Hop.

The Night Buddies Adventures series of chapter books is juvenile fiction (much like the Captain Underpants series) for ages 7 and up.

Places where the Nights Buddies books are available for sale:

Amazon.com, BN.com, and in all fine bookstores.

(Dune Buggy Press titles are distributed by Delphi Distribution and are set up with wholesalers Ingram and Baker & Taylor.)

You can find out more about Author Sands Hetherington, Illustrator Jessica Love, and the Night Buddies series World of Ink Author/Book Tour at http://tinyurl.com/bysdkbv

Follow the Night Buddies at:

Fan Website: www.nightbuddiesadventures.com

Facebook Fan Page: www.facebook.com/nightbuddies

Twitter: @Night_Buddies

Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/nightbuddies2/

Goodreads: Author Sands Hetherington

Publisher Website: www.dunebuggypress.com

 

BTR's Featured World of Ink Network show: Stories for Children with Guest Author Sands Hetherington

Come join the hosts of the Stories for Children show Virginia S Grenier and Irene Roth on Monday February 4, 2013 at 2pm EST - 1pm CST - Noon MST - 11am PST as they chat wtih author Sands Hetherington about his after lights out adventure series, Night Buddies.

The first book in the Night Buddies series, Night Buddies and the Pineapple Cheesecake Scare is available anywhere books are sold.
 
Night Buddies, Impostors, and One Far-Out Flying Machine, the second book in the Night Buddies series, has a ton of mischief going on all over the Borough, done by a red crocodile and causing confusion and hard feelings everywhere.

Now available where books are sold!
Juvenile Fiction/Chapter Books for Ages 7 and up.
ISBN Numbers
Book 2: 978-0-9847417-2-4
Book 1: 978-0-9847417-1-7

Sands Hetherington, creator of the Night Buddies series of chapter books is delighted to have published his second title, Night Buddies, Impostors, and One Far-Out Flying Machine. Sands credits his son John for being his principal motivator in creating Night Buddies.

You can find out more about Sands Hetherington, Jessica Love and the Night Buddies series World of Ink Author/Book Tour at http://tinyurl.com/bysdkbv
Follow the Night Buddies at
Fan Website: www.nightbuddiesadventures.com
Facebook Fan Page: www.facebook.com/nightbuddies
Twitter: @Night_Buddies

Find out more about us here on The World of Ink Network at our website http://worldofinknetwork.com

Listen to the show at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/worldofinknetwork/2013/02/04/stories-for-children-show-wsands-hetherington-jessica-lov

Book Series Spotlight: Night Buddies by Sands Hetherington

The World of Ink Network will be touring author Sands Hetherington and illustrator Jessica Love’s nighttime adventure children’s chapter book, Night Buddies, Impostors, and One Far-Out Flying Machine the second book in the Night Buddies series published by Dune Buggy Press throughout January and February 2013.

The first book in the Night Buddies series, Night Buddies and the Pineapple Cheesecake Scare is available anywhere books are sold.

Night Buddies, Impostors, and One Far-Out Flying Machine, the second book in the Night Buddies series, has a ton of mischief going on all over the Borough, done by a red crocodile and causing confusion and hard feelings everywhere.

About the Book:

For young John Degraffenreidt, lying awake at night is no reason to fret when it brings a bright red crocodile named Crosley out from under his bed. Night Buddies like Crosley promise a big adventure to any kid not sleepy yet--and tonight is no different! Out of bed, and into the city, John starts on a very special Program (Night-Buddies-speak for adventure) with his crocodile friend. Crosley is a unique, wacky character, the only red crocodile in the world for sure, but look-alikes have started popping up all over town, committing crimes, causing confusion, and making Crosley crazy at the sight of them. The imposters must be stopped, and Night Buddies John and Crosley are just the ones to stop them! Stakeouts and wild chases in a fantastic flying machine, far-out schemes to snare the imposters with the help of old friends and new ones, and a never-ending supply of Crusted Crème Fro-Madge frozen yogurt make for one totally super night.

ISBN Numbers

Book 2: 978-0-9847417-2-4

Book 1: 978-0-9847417-1-7

Publication Dates

Book 2: February 1, 2013

Book 1: June 1, 2012

Juvenile Fiction/Chapter Books for Ages 7 and up.

Places where available for sale:

Amazon.com; BN.com; wherever books are sold.

(Dune Buggy Press titles are distributed by Delphi Distribution and are set up with wholesalers like Ingram and Baker & Taylor.)

About the Author: 

Sands Hetherington, creator of the Night Buddies series of chapter books is delighted to have published his second title, Night Buddies, Impostors, and One Far-Out Flying Machine. Sands credits his son John for being his principal motivator in creating Night Buddies. He and young John developed the Crosley crocodile character in the series during months of bedtime story give-and-take. They collaborated many nights on escapades starring John and Crosley, until eventually it occurred to Sands why it was that Crosley was bright red. That was when the first book came together. Now, Sands is pleased to announce the second title in the series!

Sands is also a Civil War buff. He would like to spend a month of evenings with common soldiers from both sides to see how they felt about the business. And eccentric generals like Jackson, Sherman and Forrest, and most of all Lincoln. Because Lincoln never gets to smile in his pictures.

Sands majored in history at the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) and has an M.F.A. in creative writing and an M.A. in English from UNC-Greensboro. He lives in Greensboro now, and hangs out with his longtime friend Ann and their Saint Bernards Dudley and Maggie. He likes visiting ancient Mediterranean sites in Turkey and Italy, and most of all Greece.

  

About the Illustrator:

Jessica Love grew up in California, with two artist parents. She studied printmaking and drawing at UC Santa Cruz, then went to study acting at The Juilliard School in NYC.

Jessica currently resides in Brooklyn, New York, toggling back and forth between her work as an actor and her work as an artist.

You can find out more about Sands Hetherington, Jessica Love and the Night Buddies series World of Ink Author/Book Tour at http://tinyurl.com/bysdkbv

Follow the Night Buddies at

Fan Website: www.nightbuddiesadventures.com

Facebook Fan Page: www.facebook.com/nightbuddies

Twitter: @Night_Buddies

Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/nightbuddies2/

GoodReads Author Sands Hetherington

Publisher Website: www.dunebuggypress.com