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YA Scavenger Hunt, featuring Julia Ember!

Welcome to the YA Scavenger Hunt for Fall 2018! I’m so excited to be participating again, and to be a part of Team Orange! For those of you who might not be familiar with it, YASH is a bi-annual event that 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! On this hunt, you not only get access to exclusive content from each author, you also get a clue for...

NEW WORLD is here!

Today’s the day! I’m so excited to finally be releasing New World, the second novel of the Iamos Trilogy, into the wild today! Available now at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, iBooks, Google Play, Gumroad, and a bunch of other places! As you may remember from my last post, there was a kerfuffle with the print editions that led to a delay on the preorders getting up at various retailers and also led to a delay in the shipment of books for the Snowy Wings Publishing online store. I’m really sorry...

What’s the deal with the print edition of NEW WORLD?

In my newsletter that went out on Friday, I said that the files had been submitted to the printer and that the book should be available for preorder everywhere soon. Well, I messed up, because the files I submitted to IngramSpark had the wrong ISBN on them. This is why you don’t work when tired. Customer service was able to correct the ISBN almost immediately, but for some reason the titles are not moving on to the next step, which means I can’t approve them which means they’re not being sent...

The CHEERLEADERS FROM PLANET X audiobook is here!

I’m so excited to announce that my first-ever audiobook is available NOW! Cheerleaders from Planet X, narrated by the incredibly awesome Adrian Mayes, is available today on Audible, Amazon and iTunes. Available Now From… Audible | Amazon | iTunes The creation of this audiobook was such a wonderful experience for me. Because I was so sick while writing most of the book, and then I had surgery literally 3 days after turning it into my editor, parts of it were kind of fuzzy to me. So hearing the...

New World Official Release Date

I finally have an official release date for New World! The second full novel of the Iamos Trilogy will be released on September 25, 2018 from Snowy Wings Publishing. At last! 

Fairy Tale Blog Hop

To celebrate Magic at Midnight‘s release AND International Fairy Day on June 24, I’m participating in a fairy tale-themed blog hop and scavenger hunt! Like the YA Scavenger Hunt, the game works by readers visiting each participating author’s blog and finding the secret number. Add up the total to be entered into a giveaway to win paperback copies of all of these great fairy tale retellings: The game lasts from June 22 through June 29. Learn more and submit your entry here! I’m also going to b...

Illustration reveal for Sea-Stars and Sand Dollars

Remember a few months back when I announced I have a story in the upcoming Brave New Girls anthology? We’re just a month out from release, now, and today the editors revealed the illustration/cover page for the story! I’m excited about this illustration because I did it myself! And, man, was it hard on me. 

Release day for Magic at Midnight

Magic at Midnight is finally here! You can buy it on Kindle for $0.99 for the next week (or read it for free on Kindle Unlimited). If you’re not an Amazon user, worry not—it will be released widely in November.

An announcement about The Iamos Trilogy (sort of)

I posted about this on Twitter today, but I want to post about it everywhere so everyone sees it (this should push to Goodreads and Amazon, too, so hi everyone!): there’s a bit of a restructuring going on with The Iamos Trilogy. Well, not really, but I just wanted to get everyone’s attention about this now so you’re not like WTF  when New World comes out. If you’re here, then you’re probably aware that there is one novel (Fourth World) and one novella (Different Worlds) available in The Iamos...

Magic at Midnight ARCs going out today!

The proofing stage for Magic at Midnight is complete, which means the book is done! If you didn’t see the pictures I posted of the paperback proof on Instagram the other day: The paperback is suuuuper pretty and the illustrations came our very nice! I’m excited for everyone to see it. ARCs will be going out later today, once my body stops screaming at me long enough to let me approach my computer. This last week of proof review was tough on my body, and putting in all the corrections yesterda...