Various bits of news for you all!
Cover Reveals
A Midsummer Tights Dream by Louise Rennison (released 2nd February) - It’s the hotly anticipated sequel to the winner of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, WITHERING TIGHTS – laugh your tights off as Tallulah Casey and her bonkers mates return for a new term at Dother Hall performing arts college. Boys, snogging and bad acting guaranteed!
Yaroooo! Tallulah’s triumphant Heathcliff in ‘Wuthering Heights’ the comedy musical was enough to secure her place at Dother Hall performing arts college for another term. She can’t wait to see her pals again, Charlie and the boys from Woolfe Academy and maybe even bad boy Cain…
Could the bright lights of Broadway be calling? And for who? Find out in the next Misadventures of Tallulah Casey. From Amazon UK
Bite Me by Lori Strongin (released 30th January) - “Talbot blamed his mother for the fact he’d spent most of the summer impersonating a nun.”
So begins Bite Me, a humorous urban fantasy YA novel set at Hedgehill University for Paranormal Creatures.
In this Animal House meets Christopher Moore-esque story, freshman Talbot Osbourne is under pressure to find a summer job, an affordable apartment, and to not flunk out; otherwise he’ll face the wrath of his werewolf clan back home. Buddhist, vegetarian vampire Julian St. George has problems, too, but his are more of the being-stalked-by-a-psychotic-slayer type. After he ousts the intruder from his home, Julian figures that’s the last of that.
Wrong.
Talbot and Julian are forced to partner on a class assignment to study humans in their natural habitat. That is, a strip club. But while these two co-eds try to live their para-normal lives and pass their classes, the slayer targets both the university and the club, taking out students with any kind of supernatural abilities. After Julian’s home is destroyed and he’s nearly killed, the vampire and werewolf form an unlikely—and probably unholy—duo to catch the stalker before the psycho slays them. If they don’t kill each other first, that is.
Between surviving an apartment with cannibalistic furniture, zombie squirrels, and a strip club where the drinks are scarier than the suspects, Talbot and Julian struggle to catch up to the slayer, who always seems one stake ahead of them.
Throw in a shapeshifter with ferret envy, a nymphomaniac wizard who makes people’s clothes disappear, and the ghost of a five-year-old with the potty mouth of a sailor, and these boys are in for the summer of their lives. Or deaths. From LoriStrongin.com
What do you think?
Character Blog
The apocalypse is coming. There’s no way out of I’m afraid. Nope, not even through that sneaky door labelled “exit” – it’s fire and brimstone for us all.
But hey! Let’s not be downbeat about it! Why not laugh your way to the end of the world with some commentary from one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse himself? Ok so he might not be the most mysterious or powerful of the four, but he’s probably not the ugliest anyway. Pestilence has set up his very own blog to document the lead up to the end – which you can read at the13thhorseman.com
Conveniently the countdown to the end of the world coincides with the publication of the hilarious new book from Barry Hutchison, The 13th Horseman on the 1st of March. Barry has created this innovative blog to feature all sorts of extra information on the lives of the horseman. You can now learn why exactly Toxie the Hellhound owes them one, where Pest got that nasty rash and watch Death descend into madness (well, waiting for an apocalypse for thousands of years can be pretty boring). The end of the world has never been so entertaining. This additional content will really lead readers into the book, acting as a prequel to the text.
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Thanks so much for sharing my book cover, Jo! We're at T-minus 11 days and counting until release! (Totally torn between crying, screaming, and throwing up, which I've been told is totally normal...)
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Lori
I'm so excited for A Midsummer's Tights Dream - I love Louise Rennison so much!
ReplyDeleteI hope you enjoy it when you read it!
ReplyDeleteHey thanks for letting people know about Pest's diary. In his latest entry he and War have compiled a list of things Famine should never put his tongue in. It's quite a revealing insight...
ReplyDeleteNo problem! The lastest entry sounds quite funny! :)
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