Thursday, October 7th, 2010
Today’s Traveling To Teens stop is with Books By Their Cover. No interview today. Here is the review, which includes a cover grade. (I have to say, I was truly blessed by the cover gods for both HUNGER and RAGE.)
Don’t forget to enter the contest for a signed copy of HUNGER; I’m picking a winner (at random) this Saturday, so if you haven’t already done so, enter today!
And look: A new Post Mortem interview! In this one, Death interviews Vera, the protagonist of A.S. King’s upcoming novel, PLEASE IGNORE VERA DIETZ, which is a Junior Library Guild selection and received a starred review from Kirkus (which, as far as I’m concerned, makes A.S. King a goddess).
Tags: A.S. King, Books By Their Cover, Hunger, Please Ignore Vera Dietz, Post Mortem, T2T, Traveling to Teens
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Wednesday, October 6th, 2010
Today’s stop on the HUNGER blog tour is at In Bed With Books. There’s an interview that gets into how I picked where the protagonist travels in the book, the differences between writing for teens and writing for adults, as well as other topics. And there’s also a review of the book.
Later this week, I hope to finalize three new Post Mortem interviews. Stay tuned!
Tags: Hunger, In Bed With Books, Jackie Morse Kessler
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Sunday, October 3rd, 2010
Hey, anyone want a signed copy of HUNGER?
Ooh, you do? Cool! I’m going to give one away to one lucky commenter, picked completely at random! All you have to do to enter is answer the following: We know about the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Famine, War, Pestilence/The Conqueror, and Death. If you could add a Fifth Horseman, who would it be? Make the answer serious, funny, cute, silly, philosophical…whatever works! But you have to answer it to be officially entered in the contest.
Winner will be picked at random on Saturday, October 9, 2010, and announced here on the blog. The winner will have 48 hours to email me with a mailing address…otherwise I’ll pick a new winner.
Have at it!
Tags: contest, Hunger
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Saturday, October 2nd, 2010
October is here, and that means it’s almost time for HUNGER to officially hit the shelves! **happy dance** Release dates are interesting things: there’s the SHIP DATE, when the books leave the warehouse and are delivered to retail stores, and there’s the PUBLISH DATE, which is the official on-sale date. There’s usually a gap between these two dates of 1 – 2 weeks. For HUNGER, there was a 3 week gap.
What does this mean? For readers, there’s a good chance that HUNGER will be in stores before October 18. Lucky you!
I’ll be doing many blog tours this month, including Traveling to Teens and the Crossroads Blog Tour. I’ll also be at Bitten By Books, The Book Smugglers, Fragments of Life, La Femme Readers, Book Lovers Inc., Literary Escapism, SciFi Guy, and Amberkatze. And I’ll be doing a Big Idea over at John Scalzi’s Whatever.
And I’ll be around town too! If you live near the Albany, NY, area, I’ll be at Flights of Fantasy on October 18 and The Little Book House on October 30. And I’ll also be at Albacon over Columbus Day weekend.
And there will be new Post Mortem interviews. 
Have a terrific weekend! See you online…
Tags: Albacon, Amberkatze, Bitten By Books, Book Lovers Inc., Crossroads Blog Tour, Flights of Fantasy, Fragments of Life, Hunger, la femme readers, Literary Escapism, Little Book House, Scalzi, SciFi Guy, The Book Smugglers, Traveling to Teens, Whatever
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Tuesday, September 28th, 2010
Great news! The HUNGER cover has been nominated at Bitten By Books for Best Cover of October 2010! There’s only one way for it to win: if people vote for it.
To see the HUNGER cover and vote for it, click here.
(And look for the spiffy HUNGER ad in the sidebar — it’s one of a few rotating ads, so you may need to refresh the page.)
Updates coming, including more Post Mortem interviews and a HUNGER giveaway! Stay tuned.
Tags: Bitten By Books, contest, cover, Hunger
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Wednesday, September 15th, 2010
I’m brushing off the sand — not from some exotic location, but instead the sand that my head’s been buried in — to officially say YOW, I’M CRAZY BUSY. Good busy, but yow!
HUNGER hits the shelves in just over one month! **races around in a circle** If you’re in the Albany, NY area, I’ll be doing three local events:
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8 – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2010
Albacon
Best Western Sovereign Hotel – Albany
1228 Western Ave
Albany, NY 12203
(518) 489-2981
Friday:
6 pm panel: Not A Vampire
Saturday:
12 noon panel: Vampires: Sparkling or Bloody?
1 pm signing (not HUNGER, I’m afraid; still too soon!)
5 pm OR 7 pm (TBD) reading (HUNGER, I promise — and maybe RAGE too)
Sunday:
12 noon panel: Sex & Gender in Spec Fic
MONDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2010
Flights of Fantasy
381 Sand Creek Rd
Albany, NY 12205-2712
7 pm – Reading, Q&A, signing (all for HUNGER)
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2010
The Little Book House
Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza
1475 Western Ave
Albany, New York 12203-3520
2 pm – Signing (HUNGER)
I’ll also be doing tons of blog tours all throughout October. More on that as we get closer.
Meanwhile, I have RAGE page proofs to read and LOSS to write. The Post Mortem interviews will start up again soon.
I hope everyone’s been having a terrific September (holy cats, is it really halfway done already? Yow…)
Tags: Albacon, Appearances, Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza, Flights of Fantasy, Hunger, Little Book House, Q&A, reading, signing
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Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
It’s the end of August 2010, so you know what that means. Yeah, school. Maybe you’re already back in school. Maybe you’re getting ready to return. Either way, I figure it’s time for a HUNGER Back To School Giveaway!
I have a whole bunch of HUNGER cover small posters — roughly, 8 x 10 inches. Perfect size to fit inside of a locker, or slip into a looseleaf cover.
Want one? For free? All you have to do is email me your postal address.
Yup, that’s it. I’ll mail out one poster per person, anywhere in the world. While supplies last.
So if you’d like a HUNGER cover poster, email me at J A X a t J A C K I E K E S S L E R d o t c o m with your postal address. In the subject line, please put POSTER.
And now, back to writing LOSS.
Tags: cover, giveaway, Hunger, Swag
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Friday, July 30th, 2010
One of the funky things about publishing is that new books start getting promoted even before a previous book hits the shelves. So even though HUNGER won’t be out for nearly three months, RAGE is available for preorder at some places like here — and hey, there’s even back cover copy!
She brought the razor to her inner thighs again and again and again, but with each sting came no release, no comforting numbness that dulled the horror of her life.
It wasn’t enough. So she cut again—swiftly, mercilessly.
Missy didn’t mean to cut so deep. But after the party where she was humiliated in front of practically everyone in school, who could blame her for wanting some comfort? Sure, most people don’t find comfort in the touch of a razor blade, but Missy always was . . . different.
That’s why she was chosen to become one of the Four Horsemen Apocalypse: War. Now Missy wields a different kind of blade — a big, brutal sword that can cut down anyone and anything in her path. But it’s with this weapon in her hand that Missy learns something that could help her triumph over her own pain: control.
A unique approach to the topic of self-mutilation, RAGE is the story of a young woman who discovers her own power, and refuses to be defeated by the world.
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That’s the text that will appear on the back cover of RAGE, and it’s already in the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt online catalog.
For those of you who have read HUNGER already, Death has more of a role in RAGE. (Yeah, I’m psyched about that too!)
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I owe tons of people swag (sorry) and interview answers (ditto), and I’m woefully behind on Post Mortem (mea culpa). In August, I’m going to be focusing on writing LOSS, but I promise to play catch up!
Tags: back cover copy, Hunger, Rage
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Sunday, June 20th, 2010
So you probably know I have an alter ego as Jackie Kessler, novelist for adults. I had the opportunity to chat with Jackie Morgan from Literary Escapism during the RT 2010 convention, and during the interview I talked a lot about HUNGER and the world of the Riders’ Quartet. (Yeah, that’s what I’m calling the Horsemen books. I like it. Has a nice ring to it.)
We talked about my adult series too, and why I went with a slightly different name for my young adult books. But I thought you might be interested in reading more about HUNGER and the Riders. And hey, if you’re into superheroes, my second superhero novel, SHADES OF GRAY (coauthored with Caitlin Kittredge), hits the shelves Tuesday, June 22, 2010 here in the US and in Canada. SHADES OF GRAY, like the first book, BLACK AND WHITE, is dystopian. Think Frank Miller’s THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS, or Alan Moore’s WATCHMEN, or Neil Gaiman’s SANDMAN.
The interview is here.
If you want to preorder HUNGER, you can do that here, here and here (among other places).
If you want to preorder SHADES OF GRAY, you can do that here, here and here (ditto the among other places).
And another interview, this one talking more about SHADES OF GRAY, is here.
Both interviews have contests to win a copy of the first superhero book, BLACK AND WHITE.
Tags: Black and White, Caitlin Kittredge, Hunger, Jackie Kessler, Literary Escapism, Riders' Quartet, Shades of Gray
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