Splintered Anniversary Giveaway Winners!

#WINNERS: Thank you to everyone who took part in my #SplinteredAnniversarygiveaway and celebrated 10 years of Splintered fun with me! We had winners from the U.S. all the way to Spain! Check out the images below for the names chosen by the raffle copters for each prize pack.
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Congrats to all! 🥳🎉 I’ll be sending emails for address info, so please check your inboxes later today. If you didn’t win, don’t despair! I have a cover reveal on the horizon, which means another giveaway soon! Have a great rest of the week. ❤️
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Splintered INTL 10 yr Giveaway … ended!

DAY 6 / prize pack 1

The giveaway is now ended. Once the rafflecopters choose the winners for each prize, I’ll announce them in a new post and contact winners via emails. Good luck!

If you’d like to see my personal breakdown of the Splintered Trilogy’s ending as the author, follow this link. Beware, there be spoilers! 

To read my spoiler-free interview with USA Today’s HEA blog about my entire Splintered series just after it ended, go here.

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DAY 5 / prize pack 2

If you’d like to know more about Splintered’s cover evolution, follow this link for an interview with Nathalia Suellen as she explains her process for crafting the magical and evocative art.

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Day 4 / prize 3

To see the full version of Morpheus and Alyssa’s tweet threads, follow this link.

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DAY 3 / prize pack 4

You can find the full Morpheus post: “Seven Ways my Antagonist is Better Than a Sugar Cookie” here.

And if the Morpheus prequel excerpt made you curious and you can't wait to see if you win the booklet to read, order options for Alice the Absent are here.

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DAY 2 / prize pack 5

For the full Red Carpet post that went live one month before Splintered’s debut, follow this link.

To check out Morpheus’s interview, visit this post.

For Jeb’s interview, go here.

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DAY 1 / prize pack 6

If you’d like to read the rest of my Splintering Wonderland interview from September 2012 (just a few months before Splintered first debuted) check it out here.

And be sure to drop back in tomorrow when I’ll be adding the rafflecopter for prize pack 5!

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Halloween Giveaway Time!

Welcome to my INTL Spooky Reads Halloween Extravaganza! Check out the four prize packs up for grabs, then follow the instructions below…

Halloween is all about tricking and treating, so first, the trick: To unlock the rafflecopter, you’ll need to do a little scavenging. And don’t panic, you have a whole week (till Monday, Nov 7) to unlock the clues, so there’s plenty of time!

I’ve shared six reels on my IG and FB over the last few weeks that contain excerpts from Shades of Rust and Ruin. The images below will lead you to the three posts that contain the answers to the first entry in the rafflecopter.

Now for the treat: Once you’ve unlocked the rafflecopter, it’s easy-peasy to stock up on your entries!

The giveaway runs for a week. Good luck to everyone who takes part!

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A few hours left in preorder campaign!

🎃👑 There are less than ten hours left to preorder #ShadesofRustandRuin and be entered for a chance to win this collector’s edition, crafted and curated by me! With its sprayed edges, removable grunge Halloween “Jacket-tat” (jacket tattoo slipcover), dyed/textured interior, and bookmark bungee, it’s eerily unique. And it will be autographed with a personal note to the winner! Also, in keeping with the holiday theme, an adult #Halloween coloring book will be included with this #prize. 🎨
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Best of all, everyone who completes the online form showing a qualified proof of purchase receives a free character flipcard of Nix and the #GoblinKing just for preordering! 🎁 Simply click this link to visit the Bloomsbury online entry form. And to all who’ve already preordered, thank you and good luck!
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Finished writing my newest novel!

Today, although summer’s around the corner, I’ve been swept away by the autumn spirit . . . partly because of the gloriously dreary weather we’ve been having here in Amarillo lately (overcast and rainy days are a rare occurrence indeed!), but much more because I FINALLY FINISHED WRITING MY WiP, MYSTIQUIEL, a young adult urban fantasy set during the Halloween season! 🎃👻

Fun facts:

  • This is book one of a duology. The working title is “Mystiquiel: Of Rust and Ruin”
  • Premise: On Halloween night, seventeen-year-old Phoenix Loring, an amateur graphic novelist still grieving the death of her sister, steps from modern-day Astoria, Oregon into a portal—leading to a dark fairyland that appears to be born of her own imagination—where she must face a mercurial goblin king’s maze to rescue the people she loves. 😈👑
  • The portal world is described by Nix herself as “an industrial-faerie dreamscape” and the goblins and faeries as “part magic, part lore, and part mechanism.” Think: Goblin Market meets Labyrinth with cyberpunk/horror elements.
  • Why did I choose Astoria for my MC’s hometown? For one, The Goonies movie was filmed in the port city; there’s also a trolley tour, shops and art galleries, brewpubs, and misty mountains, beaches, and forests galore. This all adds up to a beautiful, unique, and gloomy atmosphere—the perfect parallel to my Goblin King’s domain.

Manuscript writing stats—Started writing the book proposal (first 100 pages and a 7-page synopsis) in late fall 2019; sent proposal out to publishers in June 2020; sold the book on proposal July 2020; completed MS May 2021; Final word count: 105,505 (approx. 420+ pages).

I’ll be posting insights into the story, setting, characters, and creatures over the next few months. Until then, I’m going to catch up on some pleasure reading in hopes to make a dent in my TBR tower. 😊

The Wisdom of Blood paperbacks are here!

At long last, the #paperback version of #TheWisdomofBlood is now available for purchase (thanks to everyone for your patience)! For buying options, go here.

Also, the English version of the paperback will be available for international purchase at BookDepository.com soon. I’ll update my ordering options page once it is.

SIDE NOTE: I’ll be having a giveaway in a few weeks to celebrate, and will make it a foreign affair this time so anyone can enter. Keep an eye out for that!

Until then, the due date for my Goblin Market/Labyrinth inspired ya-lit urban fantasy is nipping at my heels, so I’ll be laying low online to pound out the last part of the book. Happy reading to everyone, and I’ll see you soon!