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New Covers!

I've been dying to make this announcement and some of y'all have already seen these out on the web, but I'm getting new covers for both The Forest of Hands and Teeth and The Dead-Tossed Waves!  The new FHT cover will be on the trade paperback (out February 9, 2010) and might possibly on future hardcovers. The DTW cover will be on the hardcover (out March 9, 2010) and the eventual paperback release (prob in 2011).

I can't tell you how lucky I feel to have two new fantastic covers!  What do y'a...

Time to make the donuts

So I'm in drafting mode: writing book three (still sans title).  This means I walk around with my head in the sky a lot doing strange things like baking cookies and downloading dance music.  I get crazy urges to move furniture around that JP has to talk me out of (trust me when I tell you there was a very long and detailed conversation about that yesterday when I asked him how upset he'd be if I went ahead and moved the couch in my office to prepare for the new couch we're probably getting in...

NC Literary Festival

Wow!  Let me just say again, wow!  I had a total blast at the North Carolina Literary Festival this past weekend.  It was the first festival I'd ever been to (that I could remember) much less spoken at, so I was definitely nervous for the weeks leading up to it.  This spawned some panicked "what do I do!?!" emails to friends who were thankfully quite calming and helpful.  One even suggested I check out YouTube videos of other authors speaking at festivals and this was awesome advice.  So I wa...

Blog tour: Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater!

I've been remiss on my blog tours recently and will be remedying that situation over the next two weeks!  Today I bring you New York Times bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater talking about her recent release, Shiver!

[image error] What's been one of the most exciting moments in Shiver's journey to publication?

The cover. Hands down, it was one of the things I was most nervous about. As an artist I have very annoyingly firm ideas of what is Pretty and what is Not, and I was terrified that I would get somethi...

Upcoming event: NC Literary Festival

I'm super excited that this weekend I'll be attending and talking at the 2009 North Carolina Literary Festival!  I'd love for y'all to come out and say hi!

WHAT:  2009 North Carolina Literary Festival
WHEN:  September 10-13 -- I'll be talking on Saturday, September 12th at 3:50pm
WHERE:  UNC Chapel Hill campus -- my talk will be at the Children's Stage

I'll be talking about how I came up with the idea and world of The Forest of Hands and Teeth, reading a bit from that and also probably a little f...

RAMPANT winners!!

Hey Y'all!!  Sorry for the delay in announcing the winners, I had to get copy edits finished and there were so many entries that it took multiple days to write all the entires down and draw a winner!  Without further ado, the winners are.....

Andrea & Jill of the O.W.L. blog
Yay!  Email me at carrieATcarrieryan.com and let me know where to send the books and how you'd like Diana to personalize them!  And everyone else, thanks so much for entering and sharing your team preferences!  For those of yo

First DTW review!

Whew!  Yep, I going to admit that it can get a little scary finding out that your book is going out into the world.  While ARCs of The Dead-Tossed Waves aren't out yet, the manuscript is.  I didn't even realize this until I got a fantastic note from someone at RHCB about it and that's when I might have maybe started to hyperventilate a bit.

I mean, of course I know that's one of the whole points of this gig: I write, a ton of people help make the book pretty and shiny, and then it goes out into t

RAMPANT out today!! (plus a giveaway!)

Two words: Killer Unicorns.  Two more words: Out Today.  One last word: OMGit'sanamazingbookgoreadit.  Yes, I've been waiting for this book to come out for AGES.  In fact, when Diana and I first became critique partners back during NaNoWriMo in 2005, she was working on Rampant and I was working on The Forest of Hands and Teeth.  Which I why I'm just to ecstatic that both our books have come out in the same year!  Squee!

So Rampant is about killer unicorns -- we thought they were extinct and they'

Foreign Sales!

Hey Y'all! This week The Forest of Hands and Teeth comes out in Germany - huzzah! The title over there is The Forest - Wald der tausend Augen and has an awesome cover.  The foreign rights department at Random House Children's Books has been totally amazing -- they've blown my mind multiple times and I honestly can't thank them enough for everything they've done!

Here's an updated list of all the places they've sold The Forest of Hands and Teeth (plus the audio edition):

Audio Listenin

Smart Chicks Kick It Tour

I'm so super excited to be part of a really awesome tour happening in September 2010.  Melissa Marr, Alyson Noel and Kelley Armstrong are putting it together and there are tons of other fantastic and totally squee-worthy authors involved.  The tour's still in the planning stages and you can still suggest cities and stay up to date on the latest news on the facebook page.  This is a tour totally focused on the readers and we definitely want your input!

I know it's going to be an awesome time... on