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The cover reveal for FORECAST is April 3rd!!! I can’t wait until you see it. It’s already up for pre-order at Amazon and… the blurb is up. Curious?

The Lockwood triplets are charged with helping to save the world—but at a high cost.

 Coral is always in the middle, always the family peacemaker. She’s the sister with the most to prove. When a freak snowstorm halts her Florida summer, signaling the Norse end of the world, she tracks down Taran Breen—a would-be warrior carrying Thor’s soul. A boy who’s fought his temper all his life and is now a suspect for murder.

 One who looks at her as no other has before.

 As roaring seas surge and terrifying underworld creatures emerge for battle, can Coral control her goddess magic and protect Taran? Because now she has a chance for more than her crazy life—as long as she and Taran win….

 It is written that three Sisters of Fate have the power

to change the world’s destiny.

But only if they survive…

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Double Harlequin Teen giveaway!

For the first time ever, my critique partner of seven years, Rachel Vincent, and I both have books coming out from Harlequin Teen at the same time!!! We’re pretty excited, so we’re both hosting this double giveaway.

Rachel’s book is the Soul Screamers Volume 4 omnibus, which includes “Last Request,” the co-narrated Tod/Nash novella. “Last Request” is the last original Soul Screamers story, and this omnibus is the only place to get it. (It’s included as new bonus content.)

My release is Foretold, the first in my new digital first trilogy about a set of triplets caught up in Ragnarok, the Norse apocalypse.

Both books release officially on April 1st, so you’ll be getting an early copy of each! A signed paperback of Soul Screamers and an advanced reader copy in PDF format of Foretold. There are three ways to enter.

[Note for our international readers: Because of shipping costs, this giveaway is only open to US residents 13 and older, but you can import a copy of Volume 4 from The Book Depository with free worldwide shipping. I know that Foretold is up for preorder in Canada and the UK, but I'm not sure about other international releases yet.]

EDIT: For some reason, trying to add the Rafflecopter widget makes all my sidebar widgets slide to the bottom of the blog. So, I’m just going to direct everyone to Rachel’s blog to enter the contest. Good luck and thanks so much for the interest in our books!

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Sharing fun stuff from today! I needed help plotting some of the revisions (Due in a week. Remember? EEK?) and Rachel Vincent needed help plotting something as well.

So, she picked me up (I have no freaking car. Was a bit stir crazy despite so much work to do.) and we had a LONG working lunch today. When we get together, we work our butts off. We accomplished so much today, I’m in awe. I mean we REALLY came up with some brilliant stuff. I don’t know what happens but it’s like our brains fire back and forth in the best way. Everyone else in the restaurant disappears and we sink into our stories. Clap. Laugh. Get the big eyes…We probably look ridiculous…

(We’ve been critiquing together for seven years. SEVEN!)

So, I can’t tell you anything about it, but what she’s working on might be my favorite story. EVER. Not just from her. From ANYONE. I can’t wait until it’s out there for readers. I spent most of the afternoon rubbing the goose bumps on my arms. (And trying to rub feeling in my right one because I’m still fighting a painful and numbing pinched nerve issue from the car accident.  )

Then… Rachel made me see what my story needed. I knew it. I fought it. But I knew it. She just tweeted this:

So, if @RindaElliott’s new @HarlequinTEEN series makes you cry, you can probably blame me. 

See that? You have her permission to blame her when my book makes you cry. LOL

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(This image=proof that brainstorming with me can be a challenge. Also, I have WAY too much fun at Halloween.) Yesterday was BUSY. And you thought a car-less person couldn’t be busy. Yeah, yeah, car-less isn’t a word. I watched it get towed away, then I was on email or the phone a lot. The best call was from my Harlequin editor. I received my set of revisions on FORECAST and as we were hashing back and forth through email, she said, “I’m calling you now.” LOL.

So, we brainstormed on the phone. She rocks. She pinpointed a few problem areas–ones my gut had told me might be issues. Then she listened to my weird mind going over brainstormed fixes out loud–Rachel knows, this can be a scary thing. But it was really fun to hash this out with her. This book is going to rock. If I can pull this off… LOL.

Here is the crux. Revisions are due in one week. EEK! And the third book is due May 1st. DOUBLE EEK!! And because of this brainstorm session, I now need to change a few things in FORESWORN. So, I’m about to dive in to the work.

You know, book piracy and other publishing hardships aside, I’m very lucky to have the two editors I do. One from Harlequin and one from Samhain. Speaking of my Samhain editor, I gotta get some proposals done for her, too…TRIPLE EEK!!!

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My debut young adult novel is out in 19 days! Review copies have gone out and I’m doing what I can to try and not look for the reviews. Okay, I’m failing miserably at that. LOL! It’s instinctive–this need to see what others think of a story you’ve told. The original storytellers shared in front of audiences for a reason. But I’m also still working to build a thicker skin on these things, so it’s good that I have another deadline to focus on. Must work on that. 

How about some fun facts about the Sisters of Fate trilogy while you wait for release day?

FORETOLD was originally called Wyrd, The Turning and the trilogy was The Wyrd Sisters. Yeah, yeah, I don’t know what I was thinking there. It had to do with the Norns and the meanings behind their powers of fate.

This image helped inspire Raven. It also inspired an important scene in the book. I want this on a poster!

There is a band in the dedication of FORETOLD because of this song. Elsiane’s Across the Stream. 

The apocalyptic danger increases with each book. Hint… FORETOLD isn’ t the last you see of Raven and Vanir.

Taylor Kitsch in his Friday Night Lights days inspired my Vanir. (Nice pic, eh?)

FORETOLD originally started in a diner. Raven was eating a veggie dog when the end of the world began.

Coral, the heroine in book two, was originally named Willow when I first brainstormed the trilogy. My CP is Rachel Vincent and when I first told her about Willow and Taran, we both started cracking up. I hadn’t done that intentionally. (Okay, you gotta be a Buffy fan to realized why we laughed!)

Taran, the hero in FORECAST, is a bit of a handful. (Thor is the thunder god…) 

Kat in FORESWORN is too. Because she’s just Kat.

Taran and Coral’s song is sooo different. Beautiful Mine by The Butterfly Effect. (Two songs off this CD are on FORECAST’s soundtrack.

I’m not Norse–not that I know because there are a lot of nationalities in my ancestry–but my name is. Rinda means giant. In Norse mythology, she was married to Odin and didn’t like him all that much.

That’s all for now, but I’ll do these again.

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Thanks for all the well-wishes. Absorbing the force of a rear-end crash puts your entire body in pain, so I was already pretty moody this weekend. I spent part of yesterday dealing with this, too–sending take-downs to a bunch of pirate sites and then running virus checks–so that moodiness sort of grew. I decided I have to break down and pay a company to help me. Sorry for the whine yesterday. I’m up today and remembering that I’m still here and look WAY better than my poor car. And there are still a lot of honest people out there who legitimately buy their books. You all rock. :) 

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It’s so hard to remain upbeat at times. Had kind of a rough weekend. Whiplash and other sore spots from a car accident. Right before this happened, I was so excited about Foretold being up on Netgalley and going to reviewers. But I think I’ll be requesting we not do this from now on. Someone in that list loaded my book onto a lot of pirate sites. It’s not even out yet. Between the pain and beginning the fight to get the illegal copies of my books down, I spent the afternoon in tears. I wish people understood this is my job.



 
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My publisher is offering 50% off all paperbacks at their website. My first ever paperback, Dweller on the Threshold, comes out in March, so it also has a big discount. So right now, a book that would normally be $16 is around $5.10. For a trade sized paperback! I even ordered some myself for family. Yay!!!

 

http://store.samhainpublishing.com/dweller-threshold-p-73330.html?osCsid=92cff17a528496e2611f5ddefd700c9a

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According to this article, Ragnarok begins tomorrow. FORETOLD releases April 1st. Too close to be a coincidence? independent.co.uk/news/weird-new…

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Foretold is up for pre-order at Amazon. Only $2.99!!  

And here’s the official blurb!

It is written that three Sisters of Fate have the power

to change the world’s destiny.

But only if they survive… The Lockwood triplets have had the prophecy drummed into their heads since birth. Still, Raven, the eldest of the sisters, can’t believe it’s really happening. She’s the reincarnation of a Norse goddess? One of the sisters is destined to die? When it starts snowing in summer in Florida, the sisters fear the worst has come to pass. Ragnarok, the Norse end of the world, has begun.

Raven finds herself the secret protector of Vanir, a boy with two wolves, a knowledge of Norse magic and a sense of destiny he can’t quite explain. He’s intense, sexy and equally determined to save her when it becomes clear someone is endangering them. Raven doesn’t know if getting closer to him will make a difference in the coming battle, but her heart isn’t giving her a choice.

Ahead of the sisters is the possibility of death at the hand of a warrior, death by snow, death by water or death by fire.

Or even from something else…

 Sisters of Fate

 The prophecy doesn’t lie: one is doomed to die.

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