APL (Austin Public Library) Teens is sponsoring a giveaway of ARCs of my upcoming gothic fantasy novel, Tantalize (Candlewick, Feb. 13, 2007).The word is: "A few of us have read it and we can say with confidence that if vampire novels are your thing, THIS is one book you must read." Find out more.
Because I'm so much a sense-of-place writer, it's especially exciting to me when folks from my settings like my books.
In researching Tantalize, I dined in virtually every Italian restaurant in the city (a real hardship, I tell you), put together outfits for my characters at local boutiques, and spent days shooting photos of the Bouldin Creek, South Congress, Fairview, and Old Enfield neighborhoods.
I also walked up to more than one local and said something like, "Do you mind I take your picture? You'd make a great model for a werewolf!"
Nobody minded. And a remarkable number of human beings here can pass for shapeshifters and/or the undead. At least I think they're human beings...
I love this town!
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"Memories of a Writer's Summertime Reading" by Cynthia Leitich Smith from The Bridge, Austin Public Library Programs for Youth (p. 2)(2002)(PDF).
I dropped about 650 Tantalize announcement postcards in the mail this week--cover art on the front, blurbs by Libba Bray and Annette Curtis Klause on the back. They went out to speculative/horror fiction bookstores, members of the American Booksellers for Children, and YA librarians in the Texas Library Association.
Thanks to Sterling's Print & Copying and AB for your assistance! If you're a Spookycyn reader who just loves snail mail, feel free to send me your snail, and I'll pop one off your way.
Visit Patricia's Vampire Notes: "musings on vampires and various other fictional, paranormal critters."
