Spanish PD Cover Reveal and In My Mailbox, the Italian Edition! Plus OS Teaser #40

I have to say, so far, I've really liked all my foreign covers. The Spanish translation of Personal Demons (Demonios Personales) is scheduled to release on June 10th and here's the cover...

What do you think? I really like the framing and the font. And, I have to say the angel and demon (Gabe and Luc) are very angelic and demonic ;p I think it's fun. And Frannie looks Frannieish to me.

And, in other fun news, look what was in my mailbox when I got home from BEA yesterday:

There are Italian words inside and everything!

Squee!!! If you've been around the blog, you know my love affair with Italy, and specifically Cinque Terre, where I totally plan to have a summer place someday. (I was there two years ago today, actually.)

So, this translation is really special to me. It's fun too, cuz they have L.J. Smith, Lili St. Crow and this page in the back:

It's hard to tell from the picture, but the lettering is shiny. They have all of my blurbs on the back cover.

Can you tell I'm excited? If you come over, I'll give you a tour of my Italian book :p

Okay, so now for the teaser. Taylor is pretty much as boy crazy as ever, and once she catches sight of Rhen, she's all over that.

#OriginalSin p105 Frannie: Taylor peers out the window. “So, if that guy is from where Luc used to live, it must not be too far away.”

“I guess,” I say, not knowing where she’s going with this, but sure it’s somewhere.

“So, where is it?”

I spread glue on the back of Angelina’s lips. “South.”

“Like Southie? Really? I thought everyone in South Boston was Irish. No way in hell Luc’s Irish.”

“No way in hell,” I repeat.

I didn't forget I promised you a contest. It's coming next week! Promise! =) Happy weekend! I'm going to go read my Italian book now!

SQUEE moments! And Original Sin Teaser #27!

I'm on an airplane back to California right now. Thanks to all the amazing educators who hung out with us on the Science Fiction and Fantasy panel yesterday! It was great to meet all of you! So, while I'm heading back to CA, I thought I'd share my latest squee moment. There are not even words to describe how happy this makes me:

(Photo courtesy of Jade @DrawMe_jd)

This picture just makes my day. I am totally in love with Italy. This is where I'm going to retire:

It's Cinque Terre on the Mediteranian, and I've never been anywhere I loved so much. One of those houses on the cliff will me MINE! So the Italian release of Personal Demons, aka: Il Bacio Maledetto (The Damned Kiss) is super special to me. I know you've all seen this, but I love it, so here's the Italian trailer once again:


And, for those of you tuning in for the Original Sin teaser...Frannie's ex-boyfriend is back in Original Sin. Here's a scene at a party with Taylor's brother, Trevor.

#OriginalSin p68 Frannie: “Reefer’s on fire,” Trevor says in my ear, pulling me from my musing.

My heart leaps into my throat and my head jerks automatically to look at the bonfire, half expecting to see a flailing Reefer engulfed in flame.
Trevor rolls his blue eyes and points toward the house. “Over there,” he laughs, “with the guitar.”

Party Day and Original Sin Teaser #24

So many things to celebrate today! Happy Cinco de Mayo to our neighbors to the south!

And, if you check that Original Sin ticker in the sidebar, you’ll see that it’s quickly approaching 60 days! Exactly two months from today, Original Sin will be out in the world! Squee!! As I mentioned yesterday when I previewed the playlist, Original Sin is much darker than Personal Demons. I'm a little nervous, but so far, the reviews have been very good, so thank you, thank you, thank you!!

And! One more thing to celebrate! Today is also the Italian birthday for Personal Demons (or should I say Il Bacio Maledetto—The Damned Kiss). Also a squee!


So, while we’re all celebrating, here’s another Original Sin Teaser!

Today, we get more Frannie and Luc. Frannie is still trying to figure out who she can trust. Read and you’ll see why:

#OriginalSin p61 Frannie: “There was this guy, Alexander Graham Bell. He invented this thing called the telephone. You really should get one. They’re all the rage.” A smirk pulls at Luc’s lips, making me want to kiss him even more.
I force my eyes away from him before he completely sucks me in. “Ha, ha,” I say, waggling my phone in his face. “Don’t tell me—you were his Muse too.”
Out of nowhere, Luc lunges and twists my outstretched arm into an arm-lock. Panic sends my heart racing. He leans in from where he stands behind me. “No. Just Dante,” he breathes in my ear.

Don’t forget! Only one more day to enter my Fourth of Many Contests-for-No-Reason! Tomorrow I'll be drawing the winner of a signed hardcover of If I Stay and a signed Original Sin ARC! Go! And HAPPY EVERYTHING!

Italy! Squeee!!! Check out the Italian Trailer and Cover for PD...and Original Sin Teaser #16

Squeeeee!! Fun news today! Personal Demons is about to be released in Italy. The official Italian release day is May 5^th, just around the corner. The Italian edition has a new face and a new name too! The Italian title is The Kiss of Doom. Sounds very doomy, don’t you think? If you happen to read Italian, you can go here to read the first two chapters of The Kiss of Doom. ;p  **Correction from the lovely Sheila, who translated the tagline and trailer for me in comments. Title is The Damned Kiss.

And, here is the Italian cover:

Tagline via Sheila: Hell has never been so attractive.

I wonder how they translated the line where Luc asks Frannie to be his love slave in ITALIAN!! :p

Newton Compton also did a trailer. It looks very sexy, but seeing as I don’t speak Italian, that’s the best I can do in the review department. Check out Frannie and Luc (who, I must say, I like as a smokin’ hot Italian boy).

**Translation (via Sheila from comments) "Lisa Desrochers is the author of "Il bacio maledetto" (the damned kiss), the first episode of a new exciting saga. The hell has never been so attractive.
Frannie Cavanaugh, 17 years-old, has a normal life like any other girl of her age until the day a new classmate arrives at her high school: Lucas, for whom she has an immediate attraction. There is something disturbing about him; he is extremelly reserved and acts strangely.
Frannie can't imagine the danger she is because Lucas is a messenger for Lucifer and he has arrived to Earth to capture her soul and heart."

This is very exciting to me! I’m literally bouncing. Seriously. :p The only other foreign translation that I know has been released so far is the Brazilian edition.

And, yes, with all my bouncing I didn’t forget the Original Sin Teaser.

Here is more from Frannie’s perspective. As we saw Friday, she’s starting to sort out her feeling for her boys, but that doesn’t mean she’s not still drawn to both of them.

#OriginalSin p25 Frannie: Gabe continues to stare at me and, even though his lips don’t move I swear I hear him add, “I’ll always be here for you.”

I nod again and choke back the threat of tears. I open my mouth, but there aren’t words, so I close it again. But my eyes say what my mouth couldn’t. And I know he sees it because his eyes mist and he swallows hard as he disappears.