I’ve barely been back from tour long enough to unpack my bags, but now I’m off again to Seattle.

I’ll be talking and signing books at THIRD PLACE BOOKS in Lake Forrest from 7-8 p.m. on Thursday, April 18.

That’s my only public signing in the Seattle area this time around so I hope to see some of you there!

I’ve been getting a TON of questions about the DARK TRIUMPH audio book, so I thought I’d put an update here.

The audio book is being produced by Recorded Books and according to them, it should be available for download any day. The CD’s will be available to ship by the end of the month.

Hope that answers all your questions! If I don’t see them available then, I’ll make sure and search out a new update for you.

Here is the final list of dates and events for the first half of April! I look forward to getting to finally meet some of you in person!

San Francisco

April 2 7:30 Kepler’s Books and Music

April 3 4:00 Copperfield’s (And apparently there will be pizza!)

Salt Lake City

April 4   7:00  The King’s English

@ Salt Lake Public Library

Minneapolis/St. Paul

April 5   6:30 Wild Rumpus

April 6   4:00 Red Balloon Books

Chicago

April 7   2:00 p.m.  Anderson’s Books

Cincinnati

April 9   7:00 p.m. Joseph-Beth Booksellers

Boston

April 10 7:00 Barnes and Noble, Burlington, MA

April 11 7:00 Wellesley Books, Wellesley, MA

Washington D.C.

April 12 7:00 Politics and Prose

On the Mundie Mom Blog Tour, we’re releasing deleted scenes from Grave Mercy to help ease the wait for Dark Triumph. These scenes are from Ismae’s point of view, but they also include more of Sybella and Annith, so you can get to know them a little better as well.

First Scene

Second Scene (convent lessons!)

Third Scene (one of my favorite scenes! I was very sorry to have to cut!)

Fourth Scene

Unused Epilogue from Grave Mercy

Hope you enjoy! And remember, on most of those stops there are chances to win BOOKS!

I am thrilled to announce two upcoming blog tours!

The first is being hosted by the amazing MundieMoms Blog Tours and will essentially be a pre-pub tour featuring a number of deleted scenes from the His Fair Assassin books as well as a guest post on the writing of the books. The participating bloggers are:

(I will post live links when I get them!)

The second leg of the tour is hosted by the equally amazing Rockstar Book Tours:

This tour will feature a number of interviews, guest posts on various topics from the books, and a couple of sneak peeks from Dark Triumph. Again, I will post the full, live-linked schedule once I have it.

4/3/2013            Lush Budget Production
4/4/2013            Books Over Boys
4/5/2013            Fikshun
4/6/2013           Rebecca’s Book Blog
4/7/2013            A Backward’s Story
4/8/2013            MTG Reviews
4/9/2013            Colorimetry
4/10/2013          Two Chicks On Books

Oh, and BOTH tours will features prizes! Wheeee!

I was so busy working on Book Three that I completely let the paperback release of Grave Mercy get by me! Yikes! It’s hard to believe it’s been almost an entire year, but there it is. To celebrate, I thought I’d share some of the fun foreign covers I’ve been seeing. I think it’s interesting they all chose to keep the original cover, but it’s surprising how small changes in typography and color can make a big difference.

From the U.K.

From Germany.

And Russia!

And let’s not forget Turkey.

And, I want to give you all a head’s up that there will be a couple of fun blog tours coming up with the publication of Dark Triumph. The first one will be a ‘pre-publication’ blog tour and will feature some extra material we didn’t end up using in Grave Mercy. (For those of you who wished there had been more time spent at the convent during the assassin training, these outtakes should make you very happy.)

The second leg of the tour will be a more traditional blog tour, featuring a number of interviews and guest posts about various aspects of the books. And of course, there will be swag and giveaways, so do check back in a few days to see more details on that.

And lastly, I finally have a book page up for Dark Triumph, so those of you looking for an easy way to pre-order a copy can go here.

Here are the dates and cities for the Dark Triumph book tour! Can’t wait to meet some of you!

Also don’t forget that if you can’t make the event, but would like a signed book, most bookstores will take pre-orders.

San Francisco

April 2   7:30 Kepler’s Books and Music

April 3  4:00  Copperfield’s (And apparently there will be pizza!)

Salt Lake City

April 4  7:00  The King’s English (Time TBA)

@ Salt Lake Public Library

Minneapolis/St. Paul

April 5  6:30  Wild Rumpus

April 6   4:00   Red Balloon Books

Chicago

April 7  2:00   Anderson’s Books

Cincinnati

April 9  7:00   Joseph-Beth Booksellers

Boston

April 10  7:00   Barnes and Noble, Burlington, MA

April 11   7:00  Wellesley Books, Wellesley, MA

Washington D.C.

April 12   7:00  Politics and Prose

Seattle

April 18   Third Place Books  (Time TBA)

Fort Worth, Texas

TXLA (Times and Dates TBA)

Rochester, NY

May 18   Teen Book Festival

Here is the playlist I created for DARK TRIUMPH (including links to the songs on YouTube.) I’m pretty sure I would be mortified to have anyone know  the number of times iTunes tells me I listened to each of these during the period I was writing the book!

“Voodoo” — Godsmack
“Boulevard of Broken Dreams” — Green Day
“Baba O’Riley” — The Who
“Carry On My Wayward Son” — Kansas
“Awake My Soul” — Mumford & Sons
“Pumped Up Kicks” — Foster The People (The medieval version in my head substitutes the word arrows for bullets.)
“Little Lion Man” — Mumford & Sons
“Lightning Crashes” — Live
” ‘Til Kingdom Come” — Coldplay
“Howlin’ For You” — The Black Keys (Another medieval assassin substitution — aiming for you instead of howlin’ for you.)
“Thistle & Weeds” — Mumford & Sons
“I Gave You All” — Mumford & Sons
“Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” — Sarah Brightman
“Roll Away Your Stone” — Mumford & Sons

Sorry it took me so long to get the winners posted! The last few days kind of went off the rails for me. :-]

Oh, and did I tell you that by way of apology for the delay, I am giving away TWO ARCs? No? Well, I AM.

So without further ado, the two winners are:

Sarah K (@fullmetalwings)

and

Renee (@NovelNutcase)

Use the contact page to drop me an email with your address and I will get the ARCs in the mail!

And thanks to all who entered!

(I numbered the comments, then used Ye Olde Randome Number Generator.)