Into The Still Blue Cover!

Hey guys! I'm on vacation in Wyoming, the most gorgeous place on earth, so this will be brief. Here's the cover to book three, in case you missed the reveal on ew.com last week. Beautiful, don't you think?

More soon. Hope you're all having off to a great summer!

- V

STAR CURSED Blog Tour!

Welcome to the STAR CURSED blog tour! 

I fell in love with Jess's book BORN WICKED, long before I fell in love with Jess herself. It's such a pleasure to help introduce the work of such a talented writer, and genuinely fantastic person. So let's get started!

With the Brotherhood persecuting witches like never before, a divided Sisterhood desperately needs Cate to come into her Prophesied powers. And after Cate's friend Sachi is arrested for using magic, a war-thirsty Sister offers to help her find answers—if Cate is willing to endanger everyone she loves.

Cate doesn't want to be a weapon, and she doesn't want to involve her friends and Finn in the Sisterhood's schemes. But when Maura and Tess join the Sisterhood, Maura makes it clear that she'll do whatever it takes to lead the witches to victory. Even if it means sacrifices. Even if it means overthrowing Cate. Even if it means all-out war.

In the highly anticipated sequel to BORN WICKED, the Cahill Witch Chronicles continue Cate, Maura and Tess's quest to find love, protect family, and explore their magic against all odds in an alternate history of New England.

As part of the blog tour, each day Jess is revealing an annotated snippet from STAR CURSED. 

If you add up the page number from each stop during the tour, you can enter to win a one-of-a-kind annotated ARC plus a star trio necklace! Find the other stops below, and on June 21, enter the Rafflecopter here:

Mon, 6/3:  Good Books & Good Wine

Tues, 6/4:  Ex Libris Kate 

Wed, 6/5:  Mundie Moms 

Thurs, 6/6:  Presenting Lenore

Fri, 6/7:  Hobbitsies

Mon, 6/10:  Green Bean Teen Queen 

Tues, 6/11:  I Read Banned Books

Wed, 6/12:  Two Chicks on Books

Thurs, 6/13:  Forever Young Adult

Fri, 6/14:  The Story Siren

Mon, 6/17:  YA Bibliophile

Tues, 6/18:  Marie Lu 

Wed, 6/19:  Beth Revis

Thurs, 6/20:  Veronica Rossi

Fri, 6/21:  Marissa Meyer

STAR CURSED released on June 18. You can read the first chapter here. I have it in my greedy little hands and though I've just started, it promises to be as delicious and smart and gorgeously written as BORN WICKED.

Purchase a copy: Indiebound | Barnes & Noble | Amazon

Find Jess online: blog | Twitter | Facebook | Cahill Witch Inspiration pinboard

Napa Writers Festival & Other Upcoming Appearances

A quick note to let you all know where I'll be in the coming weeks:

Books Inc - Signing with Ransom Riggs, Tahereh Mafi, Michelle Gagnon, Jandy Nelson

Tuesday, June 11th, Berkeley, CA - 7:00 PM

Book Expo America - Signing copies of THROUGH THE EVER NIGHT 

Thursday, May 30th - New York City

SCBWI National Conference - Keynote address & breakout workshop on High Concept Fiction

August 2-5th - Los Angeles, CA

And...

Hope to see you!

NCIBA Book of the Year & Upcoming Appearances

I'm proud to share that UNDER THE NEVER SKY has been selected as a 2013 NCIBA Book of the Year. I've been buying books at my local independent bookseller for over a decade -- I LOVE my indie bookstore. This is a special honor for me; I couldn't be more thrilled about it. Thank you, NCIBA!

Looking forward to the Spring Into the Future Tour! Here are the flyers, with times and locations.

I will also be at BEA in New York on Thursday, May 30th. I'll be signing copies of THROUGH THE EVER NIGHT. Hope to see you!

Spring Tour Info!

Spring Tour Stops

Hellooo! I hope you all have adjusted to daylight savings better than I have. Spring is here, and I'm getting ready to hit the road (or the air) again. Looks like I will be heading to Miami, Pheonix, San Diego and Dallas along with a couple of my favorite authors. I'll post here once that's all confirmed - just ironing out some final details.

I wanted to say a quick thank you to all the fans of UTNS - i.e. YOU. I'm continuously surprised by how the books have been embraced. Thank you for reading, thank you for reviewing, thank you for sharing your love of the books with me, and with your families and friends. I read every one of your comments, and I'm so grateful for all of you.

In case you missed it, I'll be writing another ebook novella, like ROAR AND LIV. I'll have more information on that soon. The character who it centers around is one I've wanted to explore further for a long time. I've already started drafting, and I'm having a blast.

Finally, a little something I found on tumblr that I love.

Cavalcade

Sometimes as an author you get to be part of amazing things.

Last week, I was one of sixteen authors who participated in the Cavalcade - an incredible event that brought over one thousand kids together from middle and high schools in the Pasco, Washington area to celebrate writing and books.

Here are a few shots of the Cavalcade Crew. In the photos below: D.J. Machale, Jeff Burlingame, Jonathan Maberry, Jonathan Auxier, Gregg Olsen, Suzanne Selfors, Trent Reedy, Holly Cupala, Chris Crutcher, Maureen McQuerry, Lisa McMann, Brandon Mull, Guadalupe Garcia McCall, Brandon Dorman and Kelly Milner Halls.

SO. MUCH. FUN.

Regarding Book Three

I've been getting this question a bit lately so here goes:

Book Three, INTO THE STILL BLUE, will be released, I'm almost sure, in January 2014. I'll let you guys know as soon as I have a firm date. 

Now. Since you're awesome, here's a super early snippet (which is liable to be edited out, so don't hold me to this.) 

Ahem. Without further ado, a little taste of Book Three:

“Yes, Molly, she is wounded and weak," Reef said, "but weakness is no longer a factor. We are all weak. What matters now is time. That is a factor. War rules. We do what's needed, when it’s needed." He pointed at Aria without looking away from Molly. "Right now that means she needs to know exactly what’s happening.”

Reef's words shook off any last wisp of fuzziness from Aria’s mind. They brought her back to where she’d been a week ago, alert and tense, a little breathless, with a sense of desperation curling inside of her like a stomachache.

Seattle Area Signing - Cavalcade of Authors

February 28th! Details...

YALSA Best Book, Dark Days & Korea!

Epic News - UTNS was selected by YALSA as a 2013 Best Book for Young Adults! I'm thrilled by this. Really, truly honored to be included amongst such incredible talent, and especially by an organization that I respect so much.

Foreign Rights -  The UTNS trilogy just found a publisher in Korea - ChungRim. Thank you, Adams Literary and special thanks to the hard-working foreign rights agents who made this happen. I couldn't be happier with this news.

Dark Days Tour - I'm just about ready to head out on the road. Will I see you? Here are the tour stops so far - and I'll be announcing some more cities/stops for later in the spring soon!

Pitch Dark Days Tour with Tahereh Mafi, Cynthia Hand and Brodi Ashton. 

• February 4 @ 7:00 PM Barnes & Noble  Huntington Beach, CA
• February 5 @ 7:00 PM Little Shop of Stories  Decatur, GA
• February 6 @ 7:00 PM Barnes & Noble  Cary, NC
• February 7 @ 7:00 PM Harvard Coop  Cambridge, MA

February 13 @ 7:00 PM Barnes & Noble, Walnut Creek CA

Special Valentine's Signing with authors Tamara Ireland Stone, Corrine Jackson, CJ Omololu and Robin Mellom. Let's talk about love, shall we? 

February 22 @ 6:30 PM Hicklebees, San Jose CA - more info here

End of February (27th OR 28th, date to be confirmed) Signing in Seattle, WA

more tour stops to be announced soon...

Pitch Dark Days Twitter Chat

Tonight.

Updates

A few quick things:

THROUGH THE EVER NIGHT is spending a second week on the NY Times Best Seller List which just... it's insane. Thanks so much. This is all because of you.

TOUR STOPS - I updated the list of appearances. Would love to meet you! Here's where I'll be.

CONTEST - if you entered the Arctic Kitten Cover Contest, thank you so much. You can check out all the amazing entries here. And, without further ado, the winning entry below was submitted by Elana. I love this. It's outlandish and adorable and I laugh every time I see it.

Isn't it purr-fect?

NY TIMES BESTSELLER!

GUYSSS

I just found out THROUGH THE EVER NIGHT debuted at #6 on the NY Times Bestseller list.

Dream = made

I'm a little bit incoherent and queasy at the moment, but I want to say, to YOU, thank you.

Thank you so much.

More soon.

V

Arctic Kitten Contest

UPDATE 1/24: And the winner is....

UPDATE 1/22:

Thanks so much to those of you who entered! You guys are amazing! To see all the entries, please go here.

I'll be adding a few more today, and plan to announce the winner tomorrow. This will be excruciating for me, because I LOVE THEM ALL. 

More soon!

-V


Those of you who have read THROUGH THE EVER NIGHT know about this hit song from Reverie's favorite band, Tilted Green Bottles.

I'd love to see a design of what the single's cover might look like. Click here for the full lyrics to this most touching ballad. If you're interested in entering the contest, just send me a link to your artwork by Sunday night. (Post it below, or find me on twitter.) I'll mail a signed copy of TTEN to the best design.

And guys, this contest is INTERNATIONAL. Yes! Finally!

Thanks for entering! Oh - and one last thing: please let me know if you would NOT like your artwork shared on twitter/tumblr/etc. Otherwise, I'll assume it's okay to pimp your brilliance :)

- Veronica

TTEN Bookplates

So, tomorrow is the big day! The wait is almost over. I am so excited for you guys to read THROUGH THE EVER NIGHT.

Some of you have asked for bookplates. While I can't send them to everyone, I do have a little stack here of about 50. I'm happy to send them to those of you who have ordered the book. I don't need to see a receipt. Just, you know.... honor system.

If you'd like one, please send an email via the contact form with the subject: BOOKPLATE.

Then include your ADDRESS and any personalization information in the body of the email.

Got it?

Bookplate as subject. Address. Personalization info.

US only, please. (Sorry.) Please don't leave your info in the comments below. And I'll send them out as long as I have them, along with a bookmark.

Here's what they look like.

TOMORROW

THROUGH THE EVER NIGHT Blog Tour

Happy New Year, everyone!

I hope 2013 is a terrific year for all of you. I'm still counting down over here... In exactly one week, THROUGH THE EVER NIGHT will be out in the world.

The TTEN blog tour starts today. I love the bloggers who participated in this tour. I had a blast working with them on their posts.

Here's the schedule. I hope you'll stop over and say hello to them, and check out all the fun stuff we put together.

THROUGH THE EVER NIGHT BLOG TOUR

Hosted by Ravenous Reader and Two Chicks on Books

1/1 Magical Urban Fantasy Reads Guest Post Talon interviews Aria


1/2 Bookalicious Guest Post- Roar’s favorite food and downtime activities


1/3 Taters Tall Tales Perry & Aria Interview


1/4 Once Upon a Twilight Five Things To Bring When You Visit the Tides


1/5 Pageturners Aria Interview


1/6 Two Chicks on Books Roar Guest Post- Roar interviews Aria


1/7 Literary Exploration Author Interview


1/8 YA Muses Release Day and Special Post


1/9 Reading Teen Letters between Aria and a Friend


1/10 Debbie’s World of Books Guest Post: What song sums up Aria’s journey so far and why?


1/11 Novel Thoughts Guest Post: Top 5 Realms


1/12 Katie’s Book Blog Interview and Review


1/13 Ravenous Reader Launch Party Post


1/14 Mundie Moms Q&A with Veronica


1/15 GC Reading Review with some teasers

THROUGH THE EVER NIGHT Book Trailer

Things are heating up around here. Lots of fun things happening as the book launch approaches. Here is the trailer that ran on Vh1.com last week. Love it!

It's here! THROUGH THE EVER NIGHT is here!

All I want to do is stare... but I'm on deadline for INTO THE STILL BLUE. 

Stare for me? Pretty please? 

Couldn't be more thrilled. Could. Not. 

This book is stunning in person. Just... wow.

I can't wait for you all to read it. And hold it. And everything. 

You can't really tell but the lower portion looks like it's backlit. By Aether.

Don't they look so happy together?

Couldn't resist.

This is on my desk right now. Very distracting. Very gorgeous, too.

Joy.