Hello, October
I can’t believe it, ARCS have been sent! Over a hundred of you currently have an advanced review copy of City of Lost Kings and I’m trying to keep my cool by bingeing the new Ali Hazelwood short story and getting my house cozy for fall.
If you follow on Instagram, you’ve already seen this perfect art of Stone & Aesira by kidana_arts, but I’m sharing again because I love it so much. The tension, the colors, Stone’s glasses. Pure perfection.
In other news, the e-book is still majorly on sale! So if you’re hoping to grab it at a discounted price, now is the time! You can pre-order it here
Signed paperback pre-orders are still open but will be closing next week to allow for printing and shipping time. If you’d like to pre-order a signed paperback (with lots of goodies!!) you can do that here
BOOK SIGNING INFO:
Other than pumpkins and general spookiness, October brings another fun event— the Romance Recess Book Fair! I’ll be set up from 10am-2pm signing and selling books! I’ll also have some fun freebies at my table so be sure to stop by and say hello! More on the event here
WRITING UPDATES:
While ARCS are with readers and Lost Kings undergoes a final proofread, I’m taking a week off from writing to just bask in the accomplishment of finishing my fourth book. (still feels wild to say I’ve written four books)
But, once I’m back mentally from my break, I’ll be diving right into book two of lost kings. My hope is to get it out to you by the end of next year, but release date will be determined.
I’m also still working on Kismet, my cozy fantasy standalone. I’m about 1/4 of the way done with it and I LOVE IT SO MUCH. There’s a good chance this will be a surprise release, since it’s a standalone (and much shorter), so keep an eye out for some cozy, spicy, Ever-After inspired goodness :)
READING UPDATES:
This has been my slowest reading year yet (I think I just finished my 50th book) but what I have read has been exceptional. My book club just finished reading Weyward by Emilia Hart and it was OUTSTANDING. I cried on the airplane home from Hawaii (the gentleman next to me reading a Kristin Hannah book offered a tissue LOL)
It was atmospheric and haunting and packed full of female and generational rage. Highly, highly recommend.
It looks like the paperback is super on sale and it’s currently on kindle unlimited! Run, don’t walk, to grab this one!
Indie Author Highlight:
I wanted to give a quick shout-out to by friend Sheila! The Poison Daughter is out TODAY and I’m certain it’s one you don’t want to miss!
Synopsis:
To err is human. To avenge is Divine.
Every person Harlow Carrenwell kisses dies immediately, and that’s the way she likes it. The poison-lipped youngest daughter of Lunameade’s magical founding family has used her power to annihilate their opposition.
Her first husband is in the ground. Her new betrothed is next.
But the merry widow has a secret. When she’s not acting as an assassin at her parents’ whims, she moonlights as a vigilante for abused women in their walled-off city.
Meet a man. Lure him in. Kill him with a kiss. Until one night Harlow kisses a mark and he doesn’t die.
Worse, her invincible partner in passion is her new betrothed, Henry Havenwood, and now he knows about her double life. Instead of selling her out and bringing the rival families to blows, he does something much more sinister—whisks her away to wed in his wild mountain fort.
Harlow doesn’t trust Henry, but the only way to protect her family and the city of Lunameade is to figure out what his family is planning.
Cursed with a husband she can’t kill and trapped in a fort miles of vampire-infested woods from home, Harlow’s survival requires her to do the impossible: Make the man who knows she’s a killer fall in love with her anyway.
The Poison Daughter is a standalone dark fantasy romance that combines the vigilante justice for abusive men of Promising Young Woman with a romantasy arranged marriage and a dash of vampires.
You can grab your copy of the Poison Daughter here
Thanks as always for reading and following along. Next month is LOST KINGS MONTH and I can hardly believe it
Always,
Kristen