ARC giveaway: THE OTHER LIFE

I'm giving away one ARC of THE OTHER LIFE!

But before I'll tell you more, I want to show you this:

That's how the final book will look (UK version)!

Here's what you have to do to win the ARC:

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The giveaway is international and ends August 31st. I'll announce the winner on September 1st!

ARCs!!!

Look what came in the mail today:

I've never been so happy to see the mailman!

It took me at least a minute to tear apart the packaging!

Ahhhhh! ARCs of THE OTHER LIFE! (as you notice they don't have the final cover on them)
I want to cuddle them all day!

And look at the chapter headings! Barbwire!

Soon I'll have a giveaway on this blog! So stay tuned! Until then you can still win an ARC of THE OTHER LIFE on Lenore's blog!

Want to win an ARC of THE OTHER LIFE?

I'm giving away my first ARC of THE OTHER LIFE. But not on my blog.
Lenore Appelhans (author of upcoming LEVEL TWO) interviewed me on her awesome blog for Dystopian August and I'm giving away one ARC of THE OTHER LIFE there. And the giveaway is international! So read my interview and enter!

Cover reveal The Other Life!

The moment I’ve been anticipating for months has finally come!!

The cover of The Other Life:

And here’s the blurb from goodreads:

Sherry and her family have lived sealed in a bunker in the garden since things went wrong up above. Her grandfather has been in the freezer for the last three months, her parents are at each other’s throats and two minutes ago they ran out of food.

Sherry and her father leave the safety of the bunker and find a devastated and empty LA, smashed to pieces by bombs and haunted by ‘Weepers’ - rabid humans infected with a weaponized rabies virus.

While searching for food in a supermarket, Sherry’s father disappears and Sherry is saved by Joshua, a boy-hunter. He takes her to Safe-haven, a tumble-down vineyard in the hills outside LA, where a handful of other survivors are picking up the pieces of their ‘other lives’. As she falls in love for the first time, Sherry must save her father, stay alive and keep Joshua safe when his desire for vengeance threatens them all.

I couldn’t be happier. Usborne did a fabulous job. Isn’t the bleeding butterfly deliciously creepy???

The Other Life in The Bookseller!

The Bookseller selected The Other Life as books to watch in 2012!

Isn't that exciting?? I grinned like a maniac when I saw it!

Here's the scan of the Bookseller page!

And you can even catch a glimpse of the cover!!! (see it there beside Wither??)

The big reveal of the final cover will be soon! So stay tuned. I can't wait to show it to you!

And that red butterfly? Isn't it perfect for business cards and other things...like earrings or, you know, a necklace?

Hehe. So you see. I simply had to browse the internet for jewelry with butterflies after I saw the first draft of the cover. I might even have bought blood-red nailpolish.

You know what all this means? We're getting closer to The Other Life's release and soon there'll be ARCs and that means contests in the near future!

So watch this blog if you want to win ARCs of The Other Life!

Vacation Impressions!

Sunday my husband and I returned to Germany from our east coast trip. It was amazing!
And I met my lovely crit partners!
Here are a few pics:

My crit partner Tracy and I! We met at a baseball game. Tracy invited me! She's lovely like that!

From right to left: Shari ( my crit partner and fellow Apocalypsies member, her book Mystique hits the shelves next year ), Leanna Renee Hieber ( also an Apocalypsies member, her book Darker Still hits the shelves this November) and I. We met in New York during a Teen Author Reading.

I - looking at the breakfast menu of our hotel in Newport.

The beach in front of our hotel.

The bed in our hotel room.

My husband (he's sitting in that pic. He's usually more than a head taller than me...lol) and I at the end of the baseball game. Orioles vs. Cardinals. That's Camden Yards in the background. The game was fun, though my husband and I don't know anything about baseball. I'm not even sure if it's being played in Germany.

Dinner with the White House in the background! (that illuminated little building in the background.)

Me again in Washington.

On top of the Empire State building!

I think you all know what that is behind me!

So much fun!!!

Official Publication Date!

I got my official publication date (UK). Yay!
It's February 1st, 2012!
Somehow that makes it feel more real!
Only 202 days until The Other Life hits shelves!!!