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DAWNBREAKER ARCs and swag updates!
I hope you’re all having a good summer! Mine has continued to be busy and filled with various deadlines, though I did get a couple more weeks on both of the revisions I have going on right now. It’s a little extra breathing room that doesn’t affect when the books will release. (Lots of time, this wiggle room is built into deadlines. Authors have a reputation, I guess.)
Onto the updates . . . !
MY IMAGINARY MARY in paperback!
This month, I have a paperback release! MY IMAGINARY MARY is coming out tomorrow, July 11!
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It’s aliiiiiiiive! New York Times bestselling authors of My Lady Jane are back with the electric, poetic, and (almost) historical tale of the one and only Mary Shelley.
Mary may have inherited the brilliant mind of her late mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, but she lives a drab life above her father’s bookstore, waiting for an extraordinary idea that’ll inspire a work worthy of her parentage—and impress her rakishly handsome (and super-secret) beau, Percy Shelley.
Ada Lovelace knows a thing or two about superstar parents, what with her dad being Lord Byron, the most famous poet on Earth. But her passions lie far beyond the arts—in mechanical engineering, to be exact. Alas, no matter how precise Ada’s calculations, there’s always a man willing to claim her ingenious ideas as his own.
Pan, a.k.a. Practical Automaton Number One, is Ada's greatest idea yet: a machine that will change the world, if only she can figure out how to make him truly autonomous . . . or how to make him work at all.
When fate connects our two masterminds, Mary and Ada learn that they are fae—magical people with the ability to make whatever they imagine become real. But when their dream team results in a living, breathing, thinking PAN, Mary and Ada find themselves hunted by a mad scientist who won't stop until he finds out how they made a real boy out of spare parts.
With comic genius and a truly electrifying sense of adventure, Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows continue their campaign to turn the classics on their head in this YA fantasy that’s perfect for fans of Frankenstein and The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue.
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A couple of my recent posts you might be interested in catching up on:
Sleeves (for your coffee) — a very simple, free knitting pattern
Get a hobby — why it’s important for writers to have something besides writing
It’s not a new one, but since I’ve been editing so hard these last thousand years, I’ve been thinking a lot about Renovating a House.
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DAWNBREAKER updates:
My editor sent a couple of DAWNBREAKER ARCs to me! They’re sooo pretty. And look how good these books look together!
Preorder DAWNBREAKER:
One More Page (signed and personalized copy! all the swag!)
Gibson’s Bookshop (signed bookplate and all the swag!)
Book Dragon Shop (signed and personalized, all the swag!)
You might have noticed two new independent bookstores on that list! I don’t have a final list of where I will be offering all my preorder goodies — yet! I’m hoping to get one soon! — but those three will definitely have the bookmarks, stickers, and art cards. And since One More Page and the Book Dragon Shop are within driving distance from me, I will definitely be able to get over to the stores and sign the books. (I’d love to make it to Gibson’s in person, too, but for now I can only promise signed bookplates.)
If there’s a store you’d like to see added to that list, have them contact me!
And a small update on the preorder swag…
I have confirmation from Robert, the artist who drew the Nightrender art print, that Rune and Hanne are coming! And Cade from Hey Atlas Creative is currently working on stickers and bookmarks to complement the set they designed for NIGHTRENDER.
So everything will be matchy matchy.
That’s it for now!
I have to get back to these deadlines before they get completely overwhelming. Wish me luck. . . .
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