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Summer Events

The release dates of both The Uninvited and Slasher Girls & Monster Boys are now under two months away! In the works are blog tours, readings, and one highly creepy online promotion.

If you live in the Pacific Northwest, here's where you'll find me discussing and signing the books this summer:

Tuesday, August 11, 2015, 7:00 pm
Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing
3415 SW Cedar Hills Boulevard
Beaverton, Oregon
Launch party for my adult debut novel, The Uninvited.

Thursday, August 20, 2015, 7:...

SLASHER GIRLS & MONSTER BOYS - Story Titles Revealed

All this week we're revealing the titles of our individual stories for Slasher Girls & Monster Boys . If you follow the hashtag #slashergirlsandmonsterboys on Twitter or Instagram, you'll see all fourteen titles appear by this Friday, June 5.

Last week, I briefly mentioned my story's title by posting a blurb of the Publishers Weekly review of the anthology. In case you missed it, here's the reveal of my title, with much greater fanfare  . . .


The story is called "Emmeline," and I'm ple...

Updates on My Upcoming Books

I have four books releasing between August 2015 and Summer 2016, and I'm hoping they don't gobble each other up. There should be a little something for everyone in these upcoming offerings, and I will say they've all been keeping me extremely busy. Here's the latest news for all four of my 2015 and 2016 publications.

THE STEEP AND THORNY WAY

YA Fiction
Coming March 2016
Amulet Books / Abrams
ISBN 9781419719158

Last week I turned in copyedits for my newest YA novel, which means the next time I see...

Introducing YESTERNIGHT

I'm thrilled to pieces to announce that I sold a second adult novel, Yesternight , to the William Morrow imprint of Harper Collins ! This will make the fifth novel I've sold since 2011, which blows me away. I struggled for nearly twenty years just to get published in the first place.

Here's the official announcement from Publishers Marketplace:

Author of IN THE SHADOW OF BLACKBIRDS and THE CURE FOR DREAMING Cat Winters's YESTERNIGHT, in 1925, a trailblazing female psychologist unlocks the mystery...

The Great SLASHER GIRLS & MONSTER BOYS ARC Giveaway (U.S. only; ends Monday, May 18, 2015)

I'm part of the upcoming YA horror anthology Slasher Girls & Monster Boys (Dial, August 18,2015), and I'm thrilled to announce that we're running a giveaway for advance reading copies of the book. Here are the details:


HOW TO WIN:We want to see you at your creatively slashiest. Show us your macabre side and post a pic of something scary to Instagram or Twitter, under hashtag #SLASHERGIRLSARC.
SCARY PIC SUGGESTIONS 1. Hold a séance2. Read a horror story in a cemetery3. Recreat...

Sample a Chapter of THE UNINVITED

I'm pleased to announce that William Morrow has posted the entire first chapter of my upcoming adult novel, The Uninvited, at Scribd . Feel free to take a sneak peek and let me know what you think.

The Uninvited will be available August 11, 2015, and I'm sure I'll have much more news about it in the coming months.

The launch party has already been scheduled for Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing at 7:00 on the evening of the publication date.

PRE-ORDER: 
HarperCollins • Amazon • Barnes &a...

Early-Spring Updates

Thank you so much to everyone who entered my Halloween-in-March giveaway! I'm coming up for a short breather between deadlines, so I thought I'd take a moment to give some more updates on all three of my upcoming projects.

Also, I realized I haven't yet officially announced over here that I had the honor of being selected as a judge in School Library Journal's 2015 Battle of the Books . On March 23, you'll be able to see the bracket I got to judge and learn which book I chose to send on to the...

My Halloween-in-March Ghostly Giveaway!

The Halloween season doesn't arrive for seven more months, but that doesn't mean we can't start celebrating. I have advance copies of TWO upcoming ghostly reads sitting here beside me, so it seems to me that a Halloween-in-March giveaway is in order.

Here's what I have waiting for early trick-or-treaters:

One signed advance copy of my upcoming WWI-era ghost tale, The Uninvited.
Age range: Adult Fiction
What it's about: Twenty-five-year-old Ivy Rowan sees the ghosts of loved ones right before some...

Updates on All Three of My Upcoming Releases

I just wrapped up two intense months of meeting multiple deadlines, including judging a round for School Library Journal's 2015 Battle of the Books , which was quite an honor. Now that I have time to come up for a little breather, I thought I'd talk a little about the current status of my upcoming books. I'm in the amazing position of having three(!) new releases debuting between August of this year and Spring 2016, and even my husband and kids have some trouble keeping all of the books straig...

SLASHER GIRLS & MONSTER BOYS Cover Reveal!

Look what got officially revealed yesterday:


I'm so excited to be a part of this killer YA horror anthology with so many amazing authors. The book will debut August 18, 2015. Here's the official synopsis from Penguin :

For fans of Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Lois Duncan, and Daphne Du Maurier comes a powerhouse anthology featuring some of the best writers of YA thrillers and horror.

A host of the smartest young adult authors come together in this collection of scary stories and psychological thril...