Several exciting announcements from some of our favorite authors this week:
Kiss Me Deadly: Paranormal Romance Anthology
The publishers of Kiss Me Deadly revealed the cover art for this anthology of paranormal love stories from some fantastic writers:
Becca Fitzpatrick
Caitlin Kittredge
Karen Mahoney
Justine Musk
Daniel Marks
Diana Peterfreund
Sarah Rees Brennan
Michelle Rowen
Carrie Ryan
Maggie Stiefvater
Rachel Vincent
Daniel Waters
Michelle Zink
No word on when this book will be released, but you can register on Amazon for a notification.
Beautiful Creatures Book 2 Title & Release Date Revealed!
Authors Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl have revealed that the title of the second book in their series is Beautiful Darkness, and it will be in stores on October 26, 2010!
They’ve also revealed this tagline:
Some secrets are life-altering…
Others are life-ENDING.
They promise to reveal the cover art on March 19th.
Maggie Stiefvater: Forever + 3 new YA titles coming!
Author Maggie Stiefvater shared some wonderful news on her website, that she’s recently signed a new four-book deal with Scholastic. That includes Forever, the third & final book in her Werewolves of Mercy Falls series (Shiver is book 1 & Linger is book 2, due out in July). The rest of the deal is for three more supernatural, standalone YA novels.
Here are details from Publisher’s Weekly:
David Levithan at Scholastic Press paid a sum the house described as “near seven figures” for world rights to four new books by 28-year-old Maggie Stiefvater. The deal, which Levithan struck with agent Laura Rennert of the Andrea Brown Agency, includes Forever, which will be the last book in the author’s Shiver trilogy, as well as three forthcoming stand-alone YA fantasy novels. Stiefvater’s current series, a paranormal love story that pulls a page from Romeo & Juliet with one twist being that the male object of affection is a werewolf* ** ***, kicked off with August 2009’s Shiver; that title has gone on to spend 28 weeks on the Times bestseller list. Scholastic is publishing Linger, the second title in the series, in July, and planning Forever for summer 2011. Scholastic has also drawn strong foreign attention to Shiver, having sold it in 32 languages to date, and Warner Brothers has optioned the film rights.
New Titles Coming in Melissa de la Cruz’s Blue Bloods Series
Lots of goodies coming from Melissa de la Cruz: Keys to the Repository, a short story & companion book to the Blue Bloods series is due out June 29th.
And on October 5th, the next book in the series will be out: Blue Bloods: Misguided Angel.
Also — Melissa is working on the first book in a Blue Bloods spinoff called Wolf Pack and featuring the character Bliss Llewellyn. Melissa is also working on a new adult fantasy series called the Witches of East End.
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