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I am super thrilled to be hosting author Jennifer Jabaley today as part of the blog tour for her recently released novel Crush Control (June 9th from Razorbill Penguin). A YA novel about hypnosis (It's pretty great, make sure you stop back by tomorrow to check out my review!). Since Crush Control is about hypnosis, I asked her who she would hypnotize and why if she had the ability to. Please welcome Jennifer! :) * * * * *  When I was writing CRUSH CONTROL I did a lot of research on hypnosis. Hypnosis is a form of unconsciousness that resembles sleep but actually the person is fully awake and hyper aware. Under this state, they show a heightened suggestability, therefore it's easy to get someone to do something, however crazy, when they are in this trance-like state. Naturally, this leads to endless possiblities of humor which is the basis of stage hypnosis. This is the kind of hypnosis that leads Willow to perform a hypnosis show at a party and eventually try and control...

The much talked about Across the Universe by Beth Revis is being released in just 3 months (or something like that)! How would you like to win yourself an ARC?! Well, now you can! I've got a copy that I snagged from NY Comic Con and you can win it! I have so many leave a comment to enter contests going on and I wanted to switch things up. To enter this contest, you have to create a haiku, or a poem with three lines, 5 syllables, then 7 then 5. Here's an example just in case you have no frakking clue what I'm talking about: This book is awesome You know you really want it Go write your Haiku! Bam! It's that simple!   You can write it on anything you like, but I would to see your enthusiasm for this book! Only one Haiku per person to enter pleaseeee! I don't usually do international contests because shipping is so much but I know a lot of people want this, so international it is! (If you really can't figure out how to do this, leave a list with your thre...