Barry Lyga's Blog: The BLog, page 52

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Blood of My Blood: The Cover

"I realized the less preoccupied you are with yourself, the better you do," Allen said. "You…"

I read Goth Girl Rising the year it came out, and have yet to spend a year without reading it again. I was 14 the first time I read it and back in October I was Kyra's age when I read it again. It's painful how attached I am and how much I find in common with Kyra. I can only thank you for writing her so well, because without her, my high school years would've been a lot worse. (it's also pretty cool you wrote her as a person and not a boy crazy teenager)

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Nothing to say, but…here it is!

Oh, and this, too: The publisher has pushed up the publication date, so you can now expect Blood of My Blood two weeks earlier, on September 9. Just a little something…

Jazz Dent has been shot and left to die in New York City. His girlfriend Connie is in the clutches of Jazz’s serial killer father, Billy. And his best friend Howie is bleeding to death on the floor of Jazz’s own home in tiny Lobo’s Nod. Somehow, these three must rise above the horrors their lives have become and find a way to come together in pursuit of Billy. But then Jazz crosses a line he’s never crossed before, and soon the entire country is wondering: “Like father, like son?” Who is the true monster?

The chase is on, and this time Jazz is the hunted, not the hunter. And beyond Billy there lurks something much, much worse. Prepare to meet…the Crow King.

And here’s what all three books look like together, just ’cause I like it…

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What inspired you to write Goth Girl Rising?

is there going to be a hard cover version in Blood of my Blood? because I have the others in hard cover and if this one's only in soft cover… I might cry….

BLOOD OF MY BLOOD Cover Coming!

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I'm sorry. I know it's impolite to complain when you're in someone else's "house," but I have to get this off my chest:

It drives me up a freakin' wall that people can rate a book before it even exists!

Right now, BLOOD OF MY BLOOD has a 3.33 star rating. I don't quibble with it only being rated around a 3 -- I quibble with it being rated at all! I haven't even seen a page proof of the book yet. It won't be on shelves for NINE MONTHS! That's baby-gestation time! And yet people have somehow magically discerned its quality and rated it without ever seeing it.

Gah! It drives me nuts.

It shouldn't be all that difficult for the site to have a little flag set deep in its database, which says -- in essence -- "If the book hasn't been published yet, then disable the stars."

Sigh.

In the meantime, if any of you reading this suddenly feel the urge to go give the book five stars, have at it. ;)

Just a quick note to let y'all know: I will be revealing the cover of BLOOD OF MY BLOOD and a tiny update about the book to my newsletter subscribers this weekend.

If you want to be in the vanguard of those seeing the cover, go sign up: right here.

The newsletter is VERY low volume (well, except for this month, when I have a lot of news!) and you can, of course, easily unsubscribe at any time. (It will hurt my feelings and destroy my self-esteem, but I won't take it out on you.)

If you don't want to sign up, that's cool -- the cover and update will post to the BLog and this Goodreads blog sometime on Monday.

See how easy that is?

Tonight is the first Teen Author Reading Night of 2014. An auspicious occasion, to be sure!

Join some of today’s finest Teen Author-y types at 6:00pm at the Jefferson Market branch of the New York Public Library. You will get to see/hear from…

Tara Altebrando (Roomies)
Matt Blackstone (Sorry You’re Lost)
Crissa-Jean Chappell (More Than Good Enough)
Alexandra Monir (Timekeeper)
Melissa Walker (Ashes to Ashes)

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Well, all righty, then! My Valentine’s Day is now booked!

"The third and final book in the I Hunt Killers trilogy has a name!"

For calendar year 2014, I am calling a moratorium on the phrase “The Internet exploded.” You’ll…

I HUNT KILLERS #3 Info On Its Way!

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This Week in Rejection!: Gulf Stream Magazine

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