Category: internet happenings

I discuss trying to make the romance in CRUEL BEAUTY “creepy, but not too creepy.”

I have two more guest posts: At Fiktshun, I discuss the lure of the Beast. At Ivy Book Bindings, I explain why I wrote a bad boy romance when I’ve always sworn I hated bad boys.

Three and a half years after I got ambushed by a crazy, melodramatic story idea, CRUEL BEAUTY is a published book! Available for buying in all sorts of book places! If you’re still feeling dubious, remember you can read the first 70 pages online. BUT YOU WANT TO BUY IT …

I have a very fun interview up at the Supernatural Snark blog. Keys, books, & crème brûlée!

So, I have joined seven other 2014 debut authors at The Hanging Garden, a blog of short fiction and GIFs. For our first round of stories, we’re each picking one of two GIFs and writing a short story inspired by it. Today mine is up: “Desires and Dreams and Powers.”

You can now read the first 70 pages of CRUEL BEAUTY through the HarperTeen Browse Inside feature.

Want to read the first chapter of CRUEL BEAUTY? It’s now live on Tor.com!

My short story “Apotheosis” is now available on the Lightspeed Magazine website. It’s free, healthy, and delicious! There’s also a quick interview with me (spoilers for the story!)

My short story “Apotheosis” has been reprinted by Lightspeed Magazine! It’s available now as part of the ebook edition of the magazine, and it will be posted to the website on January 7. http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/issues/jan-2014-issue-44/ When I wrote this story in 2004, and for quite a few years after, it was …

Cruel Beauty has a book trailer! You can see it at the USA Today blog, along with a short post about how what inspired me to write it. (Trying to condense “East of the Sun, West of the Moon” into a one-paragraph summary nearly killed me, and I still feel …