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I'm signing out, guys, as I get ready to load the luggage and head to the airport for my trip to England. Eek! I'm flipping out, I'm so excited. If you're in England, I hope you'll come to one of the signings so we can meet in person. I have an extra suitcase full of swag and we'll have some books. However, book supplies are limited, so you may want to order yours from Amazon UK ahead of time and bring it with you.
I can't wait to see you soon! If you'll be at the London Book Fair, be sure to post on my Facebook page so we can perhaps meet up there.
The signing schedule:
April 17 - London - Treadwell's Books - 5-7 p.m. - 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury London (More details here.)
April 18 - York - Hotel 53 - 5-7 p.m. - 53 Picadilly, York, North Yorkshire (More details here.)
April 19 - Liverpool - Blue Bar & Grill - Time TBD - Albert Dock, Liverpool (More details here.)
April 20 - Birmingham - Cafe Bebo - 2-5 p.m. - Paradise Forum, Paradise Circus, Queensway, Birmingham, West Midlands (More details here.)
April 21 - Bristol - Pitcher & Piano - 2-4 p.m. - V Shed, Cannons Road, Bristol (More details here.)

Have you read The Space Between yet? If not, why not? If so, hope you liked it! I can't believe it's been nearly two weeks already since it started hitting the digital bookshelves. The paperback has been available on Amazon since the official release date, April 5. And we are well into the blog tour.

Have you been following along? Many of the tour stops are offering giveaways. Of course, we also have the BIG ONE throughout the tour - you could win a $200 gift card (enough to buy a new ereader) or an amazing swag bag full of goodies. Along the way, read all of the fabulous reviews coming in, interviews with me and the characters (including one with the pets), and "Between the Lines" posts, where you learn more about the story, writing it and the characters. Lots of cool stuff going on and fabulous prizes to be won.

Here's the link to the main tour page . Go jump in and be sure to enter the giveaways and to comment. Blog hosts love to read visitors' comments. Good luck!

With its early release comes a great bargain for you! The Space Between is live on all ebook venues. And to celebrate, we've priced it at only 99 cents! But this won't last long - after the "official" release date of April 5, it will be going to its normal retail price of $3.99. So hurry! And tell your friends. *ahem* Sorry. My marketer made me say that last part. *wink*


Buy Links:
Amazon US
Amazon UK
B&N
iBookstore
Kobo

Did you see? The Space Between ebooks released early!

Today kicks off the release tour for The Space Between! We have lots of fun posts, interviews and giveaways planned. Hosts are offering giveaways on their stops and I also have a major giveaway here. What can you win? How about ...

$200 Gift Card to Amazon or Barnes & Noble (winner's choice)
Author Kristie Cook Swag BagFilled with Awesome Goodies!
[image error] Follow the tour and be sure to leave comments, then enter the Rafflecopter below. You can gain entries each day by tweeting and leaving comments on each blog stop, then letting me know in the Rafflecopter form. I'll also be doing TWO online parties, so be sure to come for more fun, laughs and giveaways! Have fun and good luck!

(Each of the blog names is a link.)


April 1Reading Addiction Blog ToursForbidden Reviews
April 2Ownestly ReviewsAuthor Heather McCorkle
April 3Mom With a Kindle
April 4YA Bookish NewsLiterary Redemption
April 5Hooked in a BookComfortably Read
* ~ * ~ * FACEBOOK PARTY * ~ * ~ *April 58-10 p.m. EDT Author Kristie Cook Facebook Page
April 6Books and Other Spells
* ~ * ~ * UK/INTERNATIONAL CHAT & PARTY * ~ * ~ *April 68-10 p.m. UK Time(3-5 p.m. EDT) Kristie Cook UK Fansite
April 7Laurie's Thoughts and Interviews
April 8Book Marks the Spot
April 9Author Brenda Pandos
April 10Gina's LibraryLiving Fictitiously
April 11My Reading Addiction
April 14Books and Tales
April 15Pixie Dust Reviews
April 17A Bibliophile's ThoughtsBookshelf Sophisticate
April 18Book Briefs
April 19Waiting on Sunday To Drown
April 20Gimme The Scoop ReviewsInsane About Books
April 21Busy Mom Book ReviewsMe and Reading
April 22My Cozie CornerConfessions of a BookaholicFeed My Need for a Good Read
April 23Two Fantasy FlooziesLate Bloomer Online
April 24Reader GirlsSassy Booklovers
April 25Deal Sharing AuntLets Get Booked
April 26The Luv'nA Life Bound by Books
April 27Kindred Dreamheart
April 28Author Ever Leigh
April 29Frankie Blooding
April 30RABT ReviewsBook Passion for Life
a Rafflecopter giveaway

We are live! The Space Between has been released early for ebooks! Here are the links so far (I'll update as others become available):

Amazon US Amazon UK Barnes & Noble
I hope you enjoy! And please remember to post a review when you're done on the retailer's site where you bought the book and wherever else you so please. *bats eyelashes* Retailers' rankings, cross-advertising, etc., are based to an extent on number of reviews, which means a direct impact on sales. Even a line or two helps. Thank you in advance!

The Space Between is all set for an early release of the ebooks! That's right - we're pretty much ready to go. And I'm dying to hit the PUBLISH button. But how early it gets clicked depends on how many new Likes I can get on my author Facebook page in the next day or two (or three or four...).

We surpassed 3,000 yesterday. We're up to over 3,040 now. For every 100 new Likes over 3,000 up until the official release date (4/5), I'm giving away a $20 gift card to Amazon or B&N. If we can get the momentum moving fast and early, you might be able to start reading The Space Between this weekend!

So if you're on Facebook and don't already Like the page , please do. If you know anyone else who enjoys discussing books, encourage them to Like it, too. Hopefully I'll be announcing the first $20 winner soon and many more after that. And hopefully you'll get to read The Space Between very, very soon.

We are on the countdown for the release of The Space Between. Yippee!!! There's even word of an early release for ebooks? Hmm...don't know where I heard that from, but you might want to pay attention. If it happens, it will probably be announced on my Facebook page first, so be sure to "Like" the page.

For now, here are a few favorite quotes to (hopefully) get you all excited:

I don’t do girlfriends, unless they’re someone else’s. ~ Jeric

I’d decided being good hadn’t worked out so well for me, so I thought I’d try being bad, which I excelled at, too. ~ Jacey

You show me yours and I’ll show you mine? Is that what you want to play? Because there are much more fun versions than this. ~ Micah

I don’t think I can do just a kiss. Not with you. ~ Jeric

My soul tugged and pulled as if trying to escape my body. Pulled toward him. And at the same time, I felt his coming for me, and they met in the minute space between us and danced and mixed and bonded together, creating the most amazing and unbelievable sensation I’d ever felt. I’d almost call it an out-of-body experience except I still physically felt every nerve ending in my body, and each one was on fire from head to my curling toes. ~ Leni

Well, isn’t that how life is anyway? Anytime you think you have control, life waves its big magic wand and poof! Everything around you has changed. Life’s an illusion. ~ Jacey

You’re all I have, too, you know. We’re all either of us have. And if loving you does by some fucked-up chance kill me, I’m okay with it. I couldn’t die a better way, Jace. ~ Micah

She didn’t seem to know what she did to me. So many girls had wanted from me what I couldn’t give them, but Leni had no idea she was the exception. The only one who could make me want to give her everything. The world. Myself. Whatever she wanted. ~ Jeric

One hand slid down my side and came to a rest on my hip, his fingers pressing into the sensitive area where my panties met my leg. I wondered if he was fully awake and knew whom he lay next to, or if I was just another girl in his sleep-fogged mind. ~ Leni

The Space Between releases two weeks from Friday! Wow. How did that sneak up so fast? The ARCs are out and preliminary reviews are coming in and they're all awesome so far. Yay!

If you're a blogger and can post a review the week of release (between April 1-7), please email me at kristie(at)kristiecook(dot)com with a link to your blog and the date you can post, and I'll send you an eARC.

To create a bit of a mood and for you to see what music inspired me while writing The Space Between, here's the playlist. I have to admit I listened to a lot more 80s songs than this and not so much recent stuff. Some of the 80s versions have been remade and would apply to the "Now" parts of the book, too, but there's just something about the originals, right? :) These are all relevant and pretty much in order for the book.

Enjoy!

We're getting closer to the release of The Space Between, Part One of The Book of Phoenix. Eek! I'm so excited for you to read it. Beta-readers have been loving it. Some of my favorite quotes from betas:

"Easily as good as the Soul Savers books." (Claire - creator of the UK Kristie Cook Fan Site, so you know this means a lot coming from her!)

"I'm melting off my chair..." A few pages later, "I'm on the floor again." And a bit later, "I need a cold shower!" (Julie - admin of the UK Kristie Cook Fan Site)

"I cried laughing here." (Julie again)

"Two words for you: Ah. MAZING!!!!!" (Marissa, admin at Comfortably Read book blog)

"Wondering if Jeric might give Tristan a run for his money on my book boyfriends list!" (Christina, author's assistant)

"AMAZING!!!" (Mindy, admin at Forbidden Reviews book blog)

"I couldn't stop reading it. I'm totally intrigued! I'm blown away." (Author Heather McCorkle)

"Love it, love it, love it!" (All the betas! *grin*)

And now an excerpt for you! You've met Leni and Jeric in other teases. Now it's time to meet Jacey from the year 1989:

I watched for Bex, wondering if I’d have any chance of talking her into leaving early, although I was pretty sure of the answer. At least, until I saw her new boyfriend—what was his name? I couldn’t remember—stumble outside, his arms around two chicks and their mouths all over his neck. Neither of them were Bex. In fact, where was Bex? Still in the bathroom, where she’d gone when I came outside? My gaze flicked between the door, still watching for Bex, and the boyfriend with his bitches. They huddled together near the wall opposite me, not even trying to hide their mini-orgy.

“Oh, hell no,” I muttered, pushing myself off the wall I’d been leaning against as a light drizzle began to fall.

Maybe I’d had enough beer for liquid courage after all, but probably not. All I could think about was seeing Bex’s face when she came out. Although she asked for most of her boy troubles, the poor girl didn’t deserve this. Edgy, disappointed, and now completely pissed off, I stomped over to the trio.

“What the fuck, you dickwad?” I yelled as I grabbed the collar of one girl’s jacket and, ignoring the pierce of the metal studs in my palm, yanked her away while my right hand swung, nailing what’s-his-name in the jaw. While he gaped at me, stunned and rubbing his face, the other girl stepped into my space, her flabby boobs nearly touching my chin as I glared up at her. The ring in her nose wobbled as her lips lifted in an ugly smirk.

“What are you, psycho?” she snarled. “Well, you picked the wrong bitch to mess with.”

Her hands twitched at her side, but not waiting to be hit first, I drove my knee into her stomach. She doubled over briefly, but before I could punch her in the head, her hand came up with a knife in it.

“Bring it on,” I taunted, my hands out, fingers wiggling at her. I rolled my shoulders, trying to ignore the icy fingers of water sliding under my coat and down my back.

The girl swiped her knife out, the streetlight bouncing off the silver blade as it swung toward me. I jabbed my fist out to knock it from her hand, or at least to keep it from slicing open my face. The knife never connected, though. Something yanked me backwards, out of its reach.

Not something. Someone. And as soon as the large hands clamped onto my upper-arms, the breath flew out of me. As though I’d been socked in the stomach, but nothing had hit me. I gasped, trying but unable to catch my breath as those hands dragged me farther down the alley, the touch searing through my leather jacket, into my skin, down to my bones. Every nerve zinged in my body like they did when I touched one of Pops’ lamps with wiring problems. The pounding in my ears barely drowned out the stupid tramp screaming at me, the sound of her voice fading as someone dragged her in the opposite direction. But the pounding didn’t drown out the word, “dyad,” a voiceless whisper floating around my mind as if I should have known what it meant.

My body finally stopped moving, and as the hands turned me in place to face their owner, my fists balled, and a whole slew of profanities prepared to launch out of my mouth.

But they never made it out.

My breath caught in my lungs once again. My brain went numb, any thoughts becoming an incoherent jumble. The whole world disintegrated around us as my gaze met the darkest, most haunting pair of eyes I’d ever seen returning my stare, filled with the same expression I must have held. One that said with no trace of doubt, as if it were a self-evident, unquestionable truth decreed by the gods (if they actually existed):

“I. Know. You.”

I know you. The words almost tumbled from my mouth, would have if my tongue hadn’t been so tied.

Except … I’d never seen him before in my life. Trust me, I wouldn’t have forgotten this face. A perfect, heart-stopping, I-want-to-know-what-it-tastes-like face framed by chin-length, wavy hair as dark as his eyes.

We're getting a little spicy today for Writer Wednesday! Valkyrie Slumbering, L. VanHorn's erotic fantasy set in Iceland, has released! To celebrate, she's dropping by with an excerpt to share with us. If you enjoy Norse legends, fantasy, or just a steamy read, then this one is for you!

Excerpt:


“Oh, yes,” I finally say before grasping his leather tunic and pulling him down for a kiss.

Fire dances across me as our lips brush. Though I meant to keep it brief, I’m drawn in like a moth. My lips urge his apart, and I thrust my tongue into his mouth. He tastes of molasses. Sparks spread into me as his tongue dances with mine, making me want to press against him and feel how hard that body really is. But I don’t. Instead I pull back.

Before he can recover, I turn on my heel and start to walk briskly away. His boots pad softly against the cobblestones as he jogs after me. Damn, I’ve done it now. 

Want to read more? You can find Valkyrie Slumbering at:

Amazon / B&N / Smashwords(more links coming soon)