Another Surprise in the Mail

Last day to enter the Bite Me Giveaway. Get your entries in now!

Also, a new review for RAMPANT up from Kimberly Swan at Darque Reviews:

“Ms. Peterfreund takes readers on a dark and deadly adventure that will shock and delight readers while keeping them thoroughly engrossed. Rampant should easily be enjoyed by both mature teens and adults alike. I’m looking forward to a future visit in this compelling world.”

Yesterday, I was interviewed on TV — I’ll keep y’all updated as to when that’s available as well — and I got to read from RAMPANT for the very first time. Yay! It was sort of last minute that I got to read from Rampant as well as Tap & Gown, so I just picked a piece at random and then stopped kind of in the middle because I was afraid I was going on too long and of course as I was driving home from the interview I remembered that the next paragraph was totally kickass and I should have read that part too, but oh well. The good part is: A) I got to read from RAMPANT on television,and B) I think I know what part I want to do now for readings. And it’s not even the first chapter.

This is probably a good time to plug my upcoming events, at which I will be doing the aforementioned reading. Please come! Bring friends! Bring teenagers! Bring anyone who ever owned a Lisa Frank Trapper Keeper and scare the crap out of them. It’s amusing for us all.

Speaking of the Lisa Frank set (or the Beagle set, or the Legend set, or any other set that adheres to the happy-go-lucky, rainbow, glitter vision of the unicorn), I’ve been getting some emails from readers who mostly haven’t read my book (’cause, you know, it’s not out yet) and are quite miffed that I’m “destroying” the unicorn legend. And I feel the need to point out that I’m not. I’m actually reclaiming it. The unicorns in my book are real. There is a vast richness to the unicorn legend in both the non-Western and the Western tradition that is nothing at all like the rainbow-sparkle unicorns. (Remember this? Not photoshopped, guys. It’s a page from a medieval French manuscript on the life of Alexander the Great. It was painted by the artist Jean Bondol in 14th century. And it very clearly depicts a man-eating unicorn.)

Speaking of unicorns, I got something very interesting in the mail the other day:

Hmmmm, who can this be from?

Why, it’s a present from regular blog commenter Purple Ranger. A sealing wax kit — and look what the sealing wax leaves behind!

A Rampant Unicorn! W00T!

Now I just have to mail some stuff out so I can use it. (Yes, I know a lot of y’all are still waiting for prizes. Bad Diana.

As soon as I wrangle this second killer unicorn into submission. I promise.