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YA Scavenger Hunt is ON!

Welcome to YA Scavenger Hunt! This bi-annual event 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! At this hunt, you not only get access to exclusive content from each author, you also get a clue for the hunt. Add up the clues, and you can enter for our prize–one lucky winner will receiveone signed book from each author on the hunt in my team!But pl...

Updates!

It’s been a while, but there hasn’t been much to say. Covers have been revealed, and now we’re in a holding pattern. Chugging along nicely. Some updates:

* The YA Books Central contest CLOSED! I have the names and addresses of the three winners (CONGRATS) and I will be packaging the posters to send out shortly.

*ONE MONTH until the release ofBeware the Little White Rabbit !!!!!!!! I’m pretty excited about that.

*Curse : waiting for the ARC and the galleys. The LAST step until publication!!!!...

Cover Reveal: Castle of Sighs, by Jennifer Murgia

I seem to be all covers all the time lately!

I am so happy to be helping Jennifer reveal the AWESOME cover to her new book, CASTLE OF SIGHS. It looks SO good. Here’s the blurb:

Some secrets cannot be kept���in life or in death.

Months have passed since Rune has heard a single whisper from her long-dead mother, the great witch of Bavaria. But the absence of one evil has only made room for another.

After rightfully inheriting her ancestral home, Pyrmont Castle, Rune settles into a quiet life taking...

More cover fun — Beware the Little White Rabbit.

I left the CURSE cover reveal up there for awhile — WOW what a reception! So many clicks, so many retweets! SO excited for this book to come out!

Between now and then, the anthology BEWARE THE LITTLE WHITE RABBIT will be coming out from Leap books. What really happened to Alice down the rabbit hole? Find out on April 14! Meanwhile, enjoy this COOL animated version of the superb cover. Click to go to the book’s page on Goodreads, and add it to your TBR list!

A CURSE OF ASH AND IRON — Cover reveal AT LAST!!!

The day has finally, FINALLY arrived! After the LONG journey this book has been on, it actually has a cover!! The day I got it i my email, a few weeks ago, I was SO excited to see it. It is everything I wanted, and more. YA Books Central was the first to reveal the cover, and you can visit the reveal post to enter my AWESOME giveaway.

At long last, and finally finally finally, here it is!

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And the full wrap:

I am over the moon with happiness!...

Cover reveal teaser — A CURSE OF ASH AND IRON

We’re just a couple of days away from the BIG cover reveal! Today I thought I’d give you just a TINY teaser for the cover. It took awhile for me to choose a bit that wouldn’t give too much away but that was intriguing as well. Ready? Here you go…

That’s all you get until Tuesday! Watch YA Books Central’s blog on Tuesday, January 27th at NOON EST to see the rest and enter my giveaway for one of THREE posters of the cover art, signed by me! One hour after that, the cover will reveal here on my b...

Cover reveal: Help!

So now one cover reveal is done (and it is awesome!), I need to prepare for the next. Yes, the cover for A CURSE OF ASH AND IRON is done!! And it is spectacular, to be honest. I jumped up and down when I saw it. I want to make a BIG deal of the reveal, celebrate it right.

The cover reveal will happen on JANUARY 27th, at Young Adult Books Central, at noon EST.

What I need is people to share it after that — 1pm EST on that day. Bloggers, I need your help. If you’d like to be part of the fun, plea...

Cover Reveal: Beware the Little White Rabbit!

It’s such an exciting time! I have BOTH my new covers now. TODAY I have the cover reveal from the Leap Books anthology, BEWARE THE LITTLE WHITE RABBIT, which celebrates the 150th anniversary of Lewis Carroll’s classic book,��Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. ��Here is the announcement:

Come Celebrate the 150th Anniversary of Lewis Carroll���s classic,

ALICE���S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND

Join Leap Books on this curious exploration of madness, tea parties,

Cheshire grins, moments of terror, fantasti...

Beware…. (being an announcement)

Hallo, Lovelies!

I got an early holiday gift this week. I submitted a short story, called��The Watchmaker’s Ball, to Leap Books for consideration in their upcoming anthology,��Beware the Little White Rabbit.�� The anthology is being put together in honor of the 150th anniversary of Lewis Carroll’s��Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,��which is next year.

I have never considered myself a strong short story writer. I write long. REALLY LONG, usually. But I wanted to give it a go. And I made it, jus...

Philcon!!

If you’re going to be attending Philcon this weekend, I’ll be there. I usually float around the dealer’s room, but there will be many chances to see me on panels. Many, many chances…

Sat 1:00 PM in Plaza V (Five) (1 hour)

THE MOVIES WE WOULD LOVE TO SEE TURN INTO TV SHOWS (1928)

[Panelists: Allyn Gibson (mod), Andre Lieven, Bill Spangler,

Christine Norris]

Is it Avatar? Harry Potter? The Road? 28 Days Later? Men in Black?

Too many movies end with us wanting more. Panelist and fans will

discuss what...