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August 28, 2020
Page Turner Awards!
This is just such an awesome way to cap off launch week: Blind the Eyes is a Page Turner Awards finalist in the 2020 ebook awards category! Always awesome to see my creepy lil murderbabies getting the love~ ^_^;
Capping off BLACK THE TIDES' awesome launch week with part 2 of last week's secret news: book 1 is a Page Turner Awards finalist!! ����
— K.A. Wiggins ~BLACK THE TIDES is HERE ������������!!~ (@kaiespace) August 29, 2020
As always, v. excited for my creepy undead children to get the love they deserve~ ������������ pic.twitter.com/fzgM2KUBLc
Check out the finalists��� profile and excerpt here!
August 25, 2020
Black the Tides is Here!!
BLACK THE TIDES IS (FINALLY) HERE!! ����
More ghosts. More monsters. More existential angst.
Now with bonus nature walks & next-level torment & suffering (mosquito bites! blisters! attack of the snapping turtles!) ����
In all seriousness, I���m super excited for you all to read it. But just a heads-up: the twist in this one is KILLER. Don���t hate me~ ����
Buy Black the Tides today from your favourite online bookstore: Choose Your Store
I���ll be posting quotes and featured content to celebrate all day on Twitter, so if you���ve got time, come hang out and share the excitement!
Haven���t read book 1 yet?
Blind the Eyes is on $0.99 special to make it easy to get started with the series! Grab your copy here: Choose Your Store
August 23, 2020
Surprise! ANOTHER New Release
There���s been an unexpected wave of excellent news, most of which I can���t share (yet) BUT I am very excited to announce a story in Fiction-Atlas Press���s next anthology:
Part 1 announcement of last week's good news: one of my stories got selected for Fiction-Atlas Press's next anthology!
— K.A. Wiggins ~preorder BLACK THE TIDES~ (@kaiespace) August 24, 2020
Awesome timing bc it just so happens to be a tie-in story w/ Black the Tides (launching Wed)
Thread w/deets, blurbs & author tags:
(gif by @AmberMorant ) pic.twitter.com/BNpXXR3orm
The Devil You Know: A Fiction-Atlas Press Anti-Hero Anthology
These heroes might not be angels, but you know what they say���it���s always better to trust the devil you know���
Looking for a typical hero tale? Keep looking. These twelve tales explore the grittier side of what it means to make life���s hardest choices, and let your reputation pay the price. From back-alleys and ancient cities to graveyards and castle walls, these trouble-makers are out for themselves���or are they?
Fiction-Atlas Press is proud to present, The Devil You Know featuring stories by: USA Today Bestselling Author C.L. Cannon, USA Today Bestselling Author Lily Luchesi, Zoey Xolton, K.A. Wiggins, K Matt, K.R.S. McEntire, Scott Moore, J.M. Rhineheart, Angela Kulig, Kat Parrish, Amber Morant, and Nick Edinger!
Boy With No Name
When you���re nothing, you have to grab everything you can and hang onto it with everything you���ve got.
Ravel clawed his way up from failed test subject to master of the decadent underground club Freedom���not to mention shadow prince of the Towers of Refuge���and his ambition is far from sated.
He knows everyone���s secrets, holds all the keys, and his hand is in every deal worth making. Even the recent, catastrophic invasion of the nightmarish Mara hasn���t shaken his confidence.
When human sacrifice is the price of power, a small massacre is nothing more than a setback.
But when the dreamwalker Ravel���s been obsessed with since childhood vanishes from his monster-infested city, he risks everything he���s built and become to chase her down.
Cut off from everything he knows, can this master manipulator find the right thread to pull and win back his love?
Or will the conscience he���s been running from all his life finally take him down?
Tragic pasts and twisted futures collide in��Boy With No Name, a standalone-ready companion story to��Threads of Dreams book 2,��Black the Tides, available exclusively in Fiction-Atlas Press anti-hero anthology��The Devil You Know��coming September 30
Preorder at: books2read.com/devilyouknowfa
August 16, 2020
Black the Tides Cover Reveal & New Date
UPDATE:
The release date for BLACK THE TIDES has just been pushed up from September to August 26, 2020
Click here to preorder for only 99c���until Aug. 26.
Matching paperbacks coming soon.
Original Post: COVER REVEAL. August 11, 2020
Sea monsters ����, hauntings, ravening nightmares, "accidental roommates" & road trip bickering make BLACK THE TIDES my tropiest & most horror-forward YA dark fantasy yet: https://t.co/yeeUkhwRVt
— K.A. Wiggins (@kaiespace) August 11, 2020
(Thanks to @byMorganWright
for animation & https://t.co/xVQpq4yfLK for design ����) pic.twitter.com/xN76iXvDh3
August 10, 2020
Black the Tides Cover Reveal
Sea monsters ����, hauntings, ravening nightmares, "accidental roommates" & road trip bickering make BLACK THE TIDES my tropiest & most horror-forward YA dark fantasy yet: https://t.co/yeeUkhwRVt
— K.A. Wiggins (@kaiespace) August 11, 2020
(Thanks to @byMorganWright
for animation & https://t.co/xVQpq4yfLK for design ����) pic.twitter.com/xN76iXvDh3
August 3, 2020
ARCs Are Here
Get ready for an epic cover reveal (hint: ��������), a new launch date announcement (maybe more than 1���?) annnd���ARCs are here!
Can���t wait to read Black the Tides? Apply to review now via StoryOrigin
Still haven���t read book 1? I���m releasing a limited number of Blind the Eyes review copies to established bloggers/bookstagrammers/reviewers���message me to apply��������
July 31, 2020
Books in the Wild
Looking for my books IRL? Here���s an (incomplete) listing of known bookstores and libraries where you can find them:
Stores
33765 Essendene Ave, Abbotsford, BC
2 signed paperback copies of Blind the Eyes
45939 Wellington Ave, Chilliwack, BC
2 signed paperback copies of Blind the Eyes
3734 W. Broadway Street, Quincy, IL
1 paperback copy of Blind the Eyes
Libraries
Fraser Valley Regional Library
multiple locations in BC, Canada
2 paperback copies of Blind the Eyes
multiple locations in Vancouver, BC
2 paperback copies of Blind the Eyes
1 ebook copy of Blind the Eyes
multiple locations in Surrey, BC
1 paperback copy of Blind the Eyes
346 Duquesne, Patagonia, AZ
1 paperback copy of Blind the Eyes
multiple locations in Cleveland, OH
2 paperback copies of Blind the Eyes
multiple locations in King County, WA
4 paperback copies of Blind the Eyes
Watch this space; I update as more locations get added! Also, I���d love it if you���d take a moment to let me know if you spot any of my titles in any other retail or library locations so I can add them to the list!
If you want to request one of my books (or any book, really) at a local indie bookshop, chain bookstore, or library, all you have to do is give them the author, title, and, if you can, ISBN number.
For Blind the Eyes, the ISBNs are:
ISBN 978-1-7751627-8-0 (paperback)
ISBN 978-1-7751627-7-3 (ebook)
For the Black the Tides, the ISBNs are:
ISBN 978-1-7751627-3-5 (paperback)
ISBN 978-1-7751627-2-8 (ebook)
ISBN 978-1-7751627-0-4 (hardcover)
For the Unknown Realms paperback: ISBN 978-1-7323406-6-4
June 11, 2020
Black Lives Matter and so do Black Stories
You probably didn���t stop by today for political commentary and, in general, I prefer to make my arguments in fiction (and fantasy at that . . .), but this is also a historic moment. A turning point that will go down in history.
Or, at least, that���s what we need it to be. What we need to make of it.
There���s a lot of wrong in the world. It���s easy to get overwhelmed, to lose hope, to say it has always been broken and will always be broken. To try to find stability and comfort and safety each in our little corner and ignore the fires raging outside.
But we���re all fantasy readers here. We���ve spent years reading our fairytales and dystopias and urban or gothic or paranormal or supernatural or science fantasies.
And, in all our beloved stories of resistance and revolution, there���s that pivotal moment.
It���s not the moment the bomb goes off or the assassin shoots or the capitol burns. It���s not a grand set piece of clashing armies or duelling generals, of kings losing their heads or thrones tumbling, of corrupt regimes imploding or the great nameless evil erased once and for all.
It���s that quiet moment between one heartbeat and the next that a decision is made, once and for all: no more.
That���s the birth of power. Magic. The force to turn the tidal wave and put an end to the darkness. That���s where the protagonist of her or his story steps up and commits to the challenge that will either destroy them or change the world.
So, here���s the question before each one of us: what���s your pivotal moment?
What���s going to be (or has been) your ���hero origin story,��� the turning point where you chose to take action and work to set things right?
You���re probably not going to rally an army (uh, I hope . . .) or unlock ancient powers or wield lost artifacts of magic, and you probably won���t even be at the center of the action when it comes right down to it, but that doesn���t mean you don���t have a role to play in changing the world.
On that topic, there are far more insightful, educated, and valuable voices than mine you should be listening to right now when it comes to what to do and how to help. Here are a few I���ve come across:
A Twitter thread on good ways to help right now and going forward
The Toronto Star on Anti-Racism training
Stratagem on what anti-Black habits
. . . and just in case you���re getting fired up about being Katniss in the Hunger Games, a timely reminder that, while we need to change the world, we need to do so without causing more harm to the most vulnerable: a thread on revolutions
I want to live in a world where we get all the amazing stories and hear all the beautiful, challenging, original voices without a filter of race, sex, or privilege. That world is more interesting, more fun, and more equitable. It���s also better for us.
But until that world is ours, and for the record because apparently it still needs to be said: Black Lives Matter, and so do Black Stories.
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I���m highlighting Dhonielle Clayton���s stunning YA Dystopian Fantasy The Belles in particular today, because yes, we need stories with both real life and fantasy, lived experience and imagined, interrogation and extrapolation and, at times, just straight up escapism in speculative fiction. And sometimes an author wants or needs to write about race in a contemporary or historical setting, but that should never be demanded or expected of them. (a.k.a. give us more Black fantasy!)
Anyway, this book (series) in particular stood out to me because Dhonielle told a gripping story of stunning beauty and devastating dystopian horror and I���ve very rarely seen glitter and misery combined with such excellence.
I���ll be incorporating regular titles by Black authors (trad & indie) into future editions of this newsletter, as well as highlighting indigenous and POC stories.
And if you���re a writer of YA or teen-friendly speculative fiction and Black, indigenous, or otherwise POC, please reach out with a link to one of your books so I can share it with everyone. ����
May 27, 2020
MORE Book Recs
Local author Lois Peterson was kind enough to interview me and a bunch of other CWILL BC authors on her blog.
Check it out for bite-sized facts, book recommendations and more at: loispetersonwriter.ca
