And we have a WINNER!

Wow! So thanks to all of you who stopped in to enter my Epic Author Event Giveaway this week. And thanks to those of you who answered my question for a bonus point. (This is how I form my TBR lists :p) If you missed the contest, no worries. You'll have a new chance to enter for free books every week between now and April 8th! Just check back on Monday for the next entry form.

The winner of this week's contest will have her choice of any book by me, Kody Keplinger, Leigh Bardugo, Ingrid Paulson, Mindee Arnett, Sarah Fine or Kristin Halbrook. If your in the Portland, OR area, remember that all those authors are appearing on ONE EPIC PANEL at Powell's Books on April 17th, so you won't want to miss it =)

But now it's time to draw this weeks winner!

*drumroll as I swish my hand around in the barrel of entries*

And the winner is...

Emma Bookworm!

*throws virtual confetti*

Congrats!! I will email you soon =)

Don't forget to enter again next week! The more contests you enter, the more points you accumulate toward the GRAND PRIZE, which is a set of one signed book by each of the authors listed above!

See you Monday! =)

Personal Demons Film News! (Nope, that's not a typo!)

So, my big news from yesterday, in case you missed it, is this:

If you want to read the whole article, it's here in a Hollywood Reporter exclusive. Other people's takes are here, here, here and here.

So, I'm pretty much on the floor about the whole thing. And of course, there are about a thousand flaming hoops that any project has to get through before it ever makes it to the screen, but...yeah.

And, remember, you have until Friday at noon PST to enter my contest for signed books like this:

or this:

or this:

or of course, any of mine =)

EPIC AUTHOR EVENT WEEK ONE GIVEAWAY!

HI! So, here's the contest I promised you! (Finally!) And remember, new contests will post every Monday between now and April 8th!

In case you forgot the deal, there is an EPIC author event scheduled for Powell's Books in Portland Oregon on April 17th! It will feature a panel of SEVEN fabulous authors, and I'm humbled and privileged to be included among them. There will also be EPIC ONE OF A KIND SWAG for all who attend! (More deets on that later.)

The authors are:
Mindee Arnett (The Nightmare Affair), Leigh Bardugo (Shadow and Bone), Sarah Fine (Sanctum), Kristin Halbrook (Nobody but Us), Ingrid Paulson (Valkyrie Rising), Kody Keplinger (The DUFF, A Midsummer's Nightmare) and moi. =)

So, the contest: One winner will be chosen randomly each Friday between now and April 12th and they will have their pick of any of the above author's books, signed! Yep, FREE BOOKS just for you, because you know I love you, right? So, here's what you have to do. Just fill out the form below by Friday March 1st at noon PST. If you want extra entries, Tweet or Facebook links to this contest and include the links on the form, and for a bonus entry, answer the following question in comments:

What book(s) have you read in the last year that made you cry?

BUT WAIT! THERE'S MORE!

I will total up each of your individual entries in the weekly contests for THE GRAND PRIZE, which is a set of one signed book from each author! (That's seven signed books!) So, the more contests you enter by filling out the weekly forms, and the more bonus entries you earn by spreading the word on Facebook and Twitter, the more entries you'll have into the final drawing, which will happen on Friday April 19th, when I get back from the event with all my signed books!

Yay! So, a few rules. Like I said, there are lots of chances for bonus entries, but otherwise, one entry per person, please. I'll post the winner here after noon on Friday, March 1st! Good luck!!

FREE BOOKS!!! (No, I'm not yanking your chain!)

Okay, guys, I get that I went totally AWOL. Good news: I've read and written a ton of really fun books since I was here last. Better news: There is a really amazing author event coming up which I am lucky to be participating in. And the best news: Because I feel so bad about abandoning y'all, and because you guys know how I love to give books away, I'm going to make up for not being here by giving away all the books by all the authors involved in said event over the next several weeks.

So, here's the deal. There is going to be an author event of epic proportions on April 17th. The event will include Mindee Arnett (The Nightmare Affair), Leigh Bardugo (Shadow and Bone), Sarah Fine (Sanctum), Kristin Halbrook (Nobody but Us), Ingrid Paulson (Valkyrie Rising), Kody Keplinger (The DUFF, A Midsummer's Nightmare), and moi! I know! Sounds awesome, right? I'll post the time and location of the event when everything is hammered out, but...yeah, I just got a little dizzy thinking about the awesomeness and shenanigans which will surely ensue.

Here's where you guys luck out. Because I love these ladies' books so much, I'm going to give away one each week leading up to the event. Each week starting on Tuesday, February 19th, one winner will get their choice of any of the books listed above or any of my Personal Demons trilogy books (Personal Demons, Original Sin, or Last Rite). Super easy to enter too. No hoops to jump through. All you have to do is fill in the contest entry form each week so I know you're out there and you want FREE BOOKS! You can earn bonus entries by posting links to the contests on Twitter or Facebook! The contest entry form will generally post on Monday and the contest will run through noon PST on that same Friday.

AND a bonus contest!!! I will total up each of your individual entries in the weekly contests for THE GRAND PRIZE, which is a set of one signed book from each author! (That's seven signed books!) So, the more contests you enter by filling out the weekly forms, and the more bonus entries you earn by spreading the word on Facebook and Twitter, the more entries you'll have into the final drawing, which will happen on Friday April 19th, when I get back from the event with all my signed books!

This is gonna be awesome, guys! Seriously!

So, if you want to win your choice of any of the books by any of these authors AND earn entries into the GRAND PRIZE DRAWING, check back this coming Tuesday and every week after that through April 8th!

Good luck! =)

Girls' Nightmare Out Tour!

Hey, y'all! It's finally here!

Kendare Blake (ANNA DRESSED IN BLOOD), Marta Acosta (DARK COMPANION) and I are hitting the road for the next ten days. We'd totally love to meet you, so if you're anywhere near any of the following cities, come see us! (Otherwise we'll just be reading our books to each other, and that would be totally lame.) We have bribes, too! You can win iPhone skins with our book covers and other fun prizes just for showing up! You know you want to! :p

Thurs, Aug 16, 6pm – Mrs. Nelson's Toy and Book Shop, 1030 Bonita Ave., La Verne, CA

Fri, Aug 17, 6:30pm – Murder By The Book, 2342 Bissonnet, Houston, TX

Sat, Aug 18, 7pm – St. Louis County Library Headquarters Auditorium, 1640 S. Lindbergh Blvd., St. Louis, MO

Sun, Aug 19, 6pm – Joseph-Beth Booksellers, 2785 Dixie Hwy, Crestview Hills, KY

Mon, Aug 20, 5pm – Warren Newport Library, 224 N. O’Plaine Rd., Gurnee, IL

Tues, Aug 21, 7pm –Skokie Public Library, 5215 Oakton Street, Skokie, IL

Wed, Aug 22, 7pm – Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3425 Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR

Thurs, Aug 23, 7pm – Third Place Books, 17171 Bothell Way NE, Lake Forest Park, WA

Fri, Aug 24, 7pm – Kepler's Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, CA

See you there!!!

My Summer Odyssey and some books I found along the way!

I got extraordinarily lazy and took the summer off, but I'm back now. Thought I'd share my summer odyssey with y'all, because it was WILD.

We took the fam to Europe and Turkey and saw some amazing things. Despite the fact that American Airlines lost my luggage and I had to wear the same clothes for four days, it was fabulous! I have to admit, the funnest part for me was signing books in Milan and Barcelona.

And I got to meet an awesome blogger Jess and her sister in Venice!

That's in St. Mark's square. (And, yes, day three with no luggage I bought a T-shirt, but those are the same jeans O_O)

Then it was on to Athens,

(Yes, that's my geeky husband in the hat :p)

and Istanbul, where, unfortunately, PD hasn't published yet. (Hurry up, Turkey!)

This is in a very cool underground cistern.

Then we played on the beach in Mikonos before heading to Pompeii and climbing Mt. Vesuvius.

Next was Rome, where there are too many amazing things to see and you aren't allowed to photograph most of them. Here's the Colosseum.

And then we were off to Florence and Pisa. My very favorite things in Italy are the sculptures. Especially Michelangelo's Pieta in St. Peter's Basilica and The David in Florence's Academia. Since they won't let you photograph The David, I'll show you something you'll all probably recognize. (We climbed it!)

And then there was France. We spent the day in a cute fishing village, Cassis, where, apparently, we didn't take a single picture. Instead, here's the view of Toulon off the back of our cruise ship.

After a few days in Barcelona, we headed home via NYC, where I got to retrace some of my characters' steps from my current WIP and have dinner with my truly fabulous agent. Here's were my WIP wraps up in a Big Twist.

It's Bethesda Terrace in Central Park. Here are my daughters enjoying the nice day there:

But now I'm home and the kids are starting school next week, so it's time to start acting like a responsible adult again. Though, my next odyssey starts on Wednesday!

In case you hadn't heard, Kendare Blake, Marta Acosta and I are will be out on the Girls' Nightmare Out tour! It all kicks off with #Torchat on Twitter on Wednesday, Aug. 15, then we take off for eight days of craziness we hope you'll all join in on! For the full tour schedule, go here! We hope to see you on the road! :p

More Foreign Finds and the Fun Foreign Giveaway Winner!

Thanks to everyone who stopped by to check out my fun foreign covers and trailers and to enter my Fum Foreign Giveaway. Yes, I know I'm VERY late with this post, but I've been writing. A lot. In the meantime, I stumbled onto some new foreign covers. I have to say, my foreign publishers are doing a fabulous job on the covers. So, here are the new ones.

This is the French cover of Personal Demons, set to publish July 6th.

And, here's the French cover of Original Sin, which doesn't have a release date posted yet.

On July 13th, the Polish translation of Original Sin is set to publish! Here's the cover!

What do you think? I love them all! =)

And, now the winner of the Foreign Finds giveaway. The winner of their choice of any one of these translations of Personal Demons: (Spanish, German, Italian, respectively)

as chosen my the randomizer, is...

Elixa Gonzales!!!

Congrats! I will email you soon!