My buddy Colleen Gleason’s amazing RISES THE NIGHT released yesterday, and in honor of that momentous event, I’m giving away a copy today. You know the drill: leave your name in the comments section to enter.
RISES THE NIGHT is the follow-up to Colleen’s marvelous debut, THE REST FALLS AWAY. It’s the story of Victoria Gardella, a young vampire slayer/debutante in Regency England.
Get your hands on what Publisher’s Weekly called “a fast paced, carnival ride of a book!”
Here’s more:
The glorious nineteenth-century city of Rome gives rise to a new threat from the Immortal Undead…
Victoria Gardella has been a vampire slayer for just over a year, balancing her life as a peer of Society with the dangerous role that takes her out on moonlit streets, stake in hand.
As Victoria races across Europe to stop what could be the most deadly army the Gardellas have ever faced, she is accompanied by the unlikely Sebastian Vioget, a man as tempting as he is untrustworthy. But when Victoria discovers that she has been betrayed by one of her most trusted allies, the truth will challenge all her powers as a Venator – and as a woman.
Fab, huh? Leave your comment here to enter.
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Next up. Regular blog visitor, and talented young writer Jessica Burkhart has just made her first sale!
CHILDREN’S: MIDDLE GRADE
Jessica Burkhart’s HIGH JUMPS AT COLLINS ACADEMY series, pitched as Saddle Club meets Mean Girls, about a small-town girl who attends a boarding school and must learn to compete with the equestrian elite, to Molly McGuire at Aladdin, in a four-book deal, in a very nice deal, by Alyssa Eisner Henkin at Trident Media Group (NA).
Hope you all read that right. Four. Book. Deal. Holy crap, Jess! Go congratulate her. Do it now.
I’m so excited for Jessica, and so proud of her, too. A few months ago, she emailed me about contacting her first agent, and now she has a four book deal with Simon & Schuster. Folks, it can happen. CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
(What does that make, three first sales I’ve posted here in a little over a month? Don’t believe folks when they say no one is looking for new writers!)
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Finally, alert blog reader and super-genius Julie Leto (whose new series may have the most delicious tagline I’ve ever heard), sent me this photo, which I believe might be the definitive Secret Society Girl-on-the-shelves snapshot:
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UPDATED ON FRIDAY TO ADD: THE WINNER OF RISES THE NIGHT GIVEAWAY IS:
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