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I had a fun but nontraditional launch day for Betrayed on Tuesday. I was evaluated in the class I teach, so a lot of my mental focus was there instead of on my book. I had a celebratory sushi date the next day because of conflicting work schedules with my loved ones (I had a bento box with ebi roll and California roll… heaven). Today, two days post release, I brought donuts to my class. Nothing like spreading the fun over three...

Betrayed doesn’t hit bookstores until March 2016…but you can read it NOW if you enter to win. This advanced reader copy is a great way to jump in and see what happens to Phoebe, Miles and Eleanor months before anyone else does. I’ll throw in a copy of Haunted, the first book in the series, as well, to get you up to speed. In Betrayed, Miles narrates what happens when Phoebe’s family travels with all of them to...

A blogger friend Jorie hipped me to this fun roadtrip that my character Phoebe took… And funnily enough, it makes me think of a math equation with another dear friend‘s novel. Let’s see: If you take one windswept main character from Haunted, and add a backgrounded Russian minaret structure from the Secret Daughter of the Tsar, you get a Disposable Asset!   Pretty funny to see Phoebe elsewhere. They gave her a...

An ARC is an advanced reader copy, a book the publisher creates in advance of the real book, to garner reviews ahead of publication. Here’s Betrayed in all its beautiful, dramatic eerieness. A few interesting facts about Betrayed: It’s narrated by Miles. It was fun to write in a teen male, English voice! It takes place mostly in France (the family takes a trip to Paris and Versailles to research renovations at the...

At 5:30 p.m. Pacific time (8:30 for you East Coasters), I’ll be in a spooky twitter chat under the hashtag #HistoricalFix. I’ll be joining authors Katherine Howe and Cat Winter (two Halloween cats!) We’re all authors whose books fall under the Octobery eerie genre.           Are these not all gorgeous covers? So much creepy loveliness.     . . ....

  I was happy to have a fun interview on Insight with Rick Kushman this week. He’s a great interviewer and a super nice guy. I learned later he is the New York Times bestselling co-author of A Moveable Thirst, a witty nonfiction tour of the tasting rooms of Napa. He was a gracious host and I enjoyed the chance to meet him and the others at the radio station who were so kind. One staff member gave us (I was also on with a...