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#AtHomeYALC Giveaway – winner!

Congratulations to Katy, winner of the #AtHomeYALC Taller Books giveaway! Your signed copy of Battle Ground and the Battle Ground Series tote bag are on their way …

Thank you to everyone who entered! If you didn’t win this time, don’t forget that you can still download your FREE Battle Ground Series novella. Head to freebook.tallerbooks.com to check out the first five chapters of Making Trouble, and grab your copy from BookFunnel.

If you missed Rachel’s broadcast at Saturday’s #AtHomeYALC Virtual Book Fair, you can catch it again on her Twitter feed or on Periscope. Find the full line-up at yalc.tallerbooks.com.

Giveaway run by Rachel Churcher, and not affiliated with YALC, #AtHomeYALC, Twitter, Instagram, or Taller Books.

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Happy Book Birthday!

It seems impossible that Battle Ground was launched an entire year ago, but it’s true! To celebrate, we’re giving the Kindle edition away FREE today.

We’ve had an eventful year! We’ve published the rest of the Battle Ground Series, we’ve won an award for Battle Ground, and we’ve enjoyed meeting readers at YALC, Literature Festivals, Christmas Markets, and Library talks. We’ve been in the news, we’ve sent all five books on amazing blog tours, and we’ve shared guest blogs and author spotlights with some wonderful bloggers.

A massive THANK YOU to everyone who has downloaded, read, reviewed, and supported the Battle Ground Series over the past year – this would have been impossible without you.

We’re very sad that we can’t be at YALC in person this weekend to celebrate, but we will be taking part in #AtHomeYALC tomorrow instead.

So join our party! Head to Amazon and grab your free book, then check out the schedule for tomorrow’s event!

Happy book birthday, Battle Ground!

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Buy signed paperbacks, direct from Taller Books!

We are very excited to announce that we’ve opened an Etsy store!

Here at Taller Books, we have boxes and boxes of paperbacks that we were planning to take to author events and conventions in 2020. We were looking forward to meeting you, our readers, talking about the Battle Ground Series, and signing books for you.

But 2020 turns out to be a horrible time to be selling paperbacks. All the events we’re planning to attend are likely to be cancelled, but we still want to get the books out there, signed and personalised for you. We don’t get to meet up on Etsy, but at least we can send you a signed copy – and hopefully we can meet at a future event!

When you place an order on Etsy, Rachel will sign paperbacks, personalised with your name, and we’ll post them to you. Secure payment is available via Etsy, and we’re aiming to ship every order within 3 days.

Paperbacks make great gifts (we’ll personalise for the name you send us). The Battle Ground Series is suitable for readers aged 13-103. Books 1-3 available now, while stocks last.

We look forward to sending you your signed books. Thank you for your support!

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Join Rachel at Today’s Virtual Book Fair!

Join Rachel TODAY at 2pm BST (9am EDT / 3pm CEST) on the Twitter Live Virtual Book Fair, when she will be reading sneak previews from Battle Ground and False Flag, and running a LIVE Q&A!

To view the live broadcast, you must be signed into Twitter or Periscope. Visit Rachel’s Twitter profile (@Rachel_Churcher) or Periscope page to start viewing, or follow her on Twitter before the event and receive a notification at the top of your Home screen when she starts broadcasting.

We’re looking forward to sharing exciting sections of both books with readers all over the world! Please come and say hi, and bring your questions …

Huge thanks to Our Own Write for organising the Virtual Book Fair. Indie authors rely on book fairs and events to meet you, the audience, and this a great opportunity for us to get together virtually.

Stick around after Rachel’s session to hear readings from a range of authors and a range of genres, including our friend and neighbour MT McGuire at 2.30pm!

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Social Distancing YA Book Recommendations

Are you self-isolating? Social Distancing? Looking for something to fill your time?

Read any good YA recently?

Share your YA reading recommendations in the comments, and help us create a winning TBR list for the next few weeks! Check back and see what other people are recommending, and tell us what you love about the books you post.

And whatever you’re doing – filling time at home, or working on the front lines – stay safe, and keep in touch.

Our recommendations, with links to our reviews:

The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue (Mackenzi Lee)
The Gentleman’s Guide to Getting Lucky (Mackenzi Lee)
The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy (Mackenzi Lee)

Rebel of the Sands (Alwyn Hamilton)
Traitor to the Throne (Alwyn Hamilton)
Hero at the Fall (Alwyn Hamilton)

Six of Crows (Leigh Bardugo)
Crooked Kingdom (Leigh Bardugo)

The Museum of Second Chances (AE Warren)
The Base of Reflections (AE Warren)

Rose, Interrupted (Patrice Lawrence)

With the Fire on High (Elizabeth Acevedo)

Night Swimming (MT McGuire)

Please keep your comments YA appropriate. We want to hear from you, but comments are moderated, and may take some time to appear. We’ll approve them as quickly as we can!