Meagan Spooner takes the dare!

Today we're happy to welcome author Meagan Spooner who was brave enough to take our dare challenge.

Meagan Spooner currently lives and writes in Northern Virginia, but the siren call of travel is hard to resist, and there's no telling how long she'll stay there. 
In her spare time she plays guitar, plays video games, plays with her cat, and reads. She is the author of SKYLARK, coming out August 1 from Carolrhoda Lab/Lerner Books. She is also the co-author of THESE BROKEN STARS, forthcoming from Disney-Hyperion in Fall 2013. 

Here's how you can visit Meagan:

Website: http://www.meaganspooner.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/MeaganSpooner
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/SkylarkTrilogy

Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10352973-skylark

(Meagan! That was awesome! You can totally sing! And it sounds like you can totally write too, because your book sounds amazing. Check out the blurb at the end of post.)

Here's a link to the original song, which is awesome, and done absolutely no justice by my revamped rendition. Definitely go check it out.

And for those of you who like to follow along, here are the lyrics to the writerly version!

I am writing

All day and night

And I am listening to the click clack

Of the keyboard again

And I am getting

Nowhere with you

And I can’t get it right

And I can’t get through

And my agent is calling and

My editor is frantic and I can’t ask

For more time again

And I’m sure that I can make it

Sleeping is for losers anyway

And past tense

Now try past tense

Oh no I tried this before

I am writing

As quickly as I can and all these

Words that never end and so I say

Let’s start again

I am watching my word count rise and fall

Like that number will save me

From the rest of it all

‘Cause my heroine is Sue-ish

And my plot is a disaster

And I’m ignoring the fact

That nothing happens in this act

In past tense

And still it’s sort of magic when the words start to come

‘Cause there’s lessons to be learned and battles to be won

And I’m writing faster now than I have ever before

 And when I wake tomorrow I will

Erase it all

I am writing

All day and night

And I am listening to the click clack

Of the keyboard again

And I am getting nowhere with you

And I can’t get it right

And I can’t get through

And past tense

Now try past tense

Oh no I tried this before

I am writing

As quickly as I can and all these

Words that never end and so I say

Let’s start again

Her book, Skylark, comes out August 1, 2012

For fifteen years, Lark Ainsley waited for the day when her Resource would be harvested and she would finally be an adult. After the harvest she expected a small role in the regular, orderly operation of the City within the Wall. She expected to do her part to maintain the refuge for the last survivors of the Wars. She expected to be a tiny cog in the larger clockwork of the city.

For fifteen years, Lark Ainsley believed in a lie. Now she must escape the only world she’s ever known…or face a fate more unimaginable than death. 

Lark did not expect to become the City’s power supply.

Thanks again, Meagan for stepping up to the challenge. That was so awesome! Up this Friday to take on your truth or dare: Shannon Messenger! Leave her your ideas here.