In Which I Get To Reveal…

…the description and flap copy for A Touch Morbid! As the publishing date grows closer, ARCs are starting to make their way into the world–which means I’m allowed to talk more about what’s behind that gorgeous cover!  Expect darker.  Expect insanity and wicked things and lots more Luke. A Touch Morbid forces you to think about what lengths you would go to when everything around you, including yourself, starts to break apart, get lost.  Go mad.  Check out the description from the HarperCollins catalog below!

Eden won the battle-she saved her true love from the darkest evil. But the war has only just begun. With secrets swirling around her, powerful allies unraveling, and life-and death-as she knows it eroding, Eden and those she loves tread dangerous ground. Can she trust anyone? Will her unearthly powers be her salvation or her downfall? A sweeping, dark, and sexy paranormal romance that will haunt readers with an inventive mythology and a cinematic New York City filled with shadows and longing.

As you might have guessed, this time around Kristen has a point of view, along with Eden, Jarrod and Gabe.

The flaps are spoilery, so if you’ve read A Touch Mortal, highlight to read them! Otherwise, scroll down to for contest deets and other stuff…

Eden saved Az.

She fought and sacrificed and won him back

from the most evil of evils. Now is the time for

happily-ever-afters, right?

Not so fast.

A boy—even an angel—is hardly the solution

to Eden’s problems. She’s still caught between

life and death, still cursed to spread poison

with her touch.

She’s lost one best friend and another is

quickly unraveling. And now, something is

happening to the mortals. Something very,

very bad.

What happens in the dark spaces? The ones

between life and death,

betrayal and redemption, sanity and delusion.

Or good and evil.

Eden is about to find out.

The riveting sequel to A Touch Mortal

 

Well?  What do you guys think?!!!

To spread the word, I’m holding a contest! To enter, all you have to do is tweet, facebook, blog, or any other creative way you can think of to spread the word about A Touch Morbid! Include this link: http://leahclifford.wordpress.com/a-touch-morbid/ and add a comment to this post to let me know where to find it!

Examples: So excited to read A Touch Morbid! Check out the description here & enter to win! http://leahclifford.wordpress.com/a-touch-morbid/

Have you seen the summary for A Touch Morbid yet?! http://leahclifford.wordpress.com/a-touch-morbid/

I’m doing this for the free book, but Leah’s pretty cool: http://leahclifford.wordpress.com/a-touch-morbid/

Okay, maybe not that last one so much but you get the idea!  One winner will get a signed ARC of A Touch Morbid!  Another will receive a paperback personalized preorder (try saying that three times fast) of A Touch Mortal through my local indie!  In addition, I’ll be picking one entry per day to win a random prize pack of bookmarks (some signed!) and assorted swag!

The contest runs through 11:59pm Saturday November 5th and you can enter as many times as you like via as many social networking/real world things as you want! (I’ve had people put signs on their cars, print out fliers and put them in books at their library…it all counts!) Good luck everyone and if you haven’t already, click to add A Touch Morbid on Goodreads!

Extra notes: 

Just a reminder: anyone who preorders A Touch Morbid from anywhere, will get a special thank you present!  This present will be limited edition swag, signed and numbered and the ONLY way to get it is through preordering!  Just send your address and proof of purchase to MorbidPrize (at) gmail (dot) com!  It’s open internationally!  Thanks for being awesome guys!

Would you like to get a personalized copy? I’ve paired with my local indie, The Learned Owl, to offer you signed, personalized copies of both A Touch Morbid and the paperback of A Touch Mortal (They both come out on the same day)!  This will only be available on preorders so go ahead and order yours today here! (When you check out, there’s a space for special instructions–be sure to put who you’d like the books made out to!  If you’d like me to just sign them for a giveaway, that’s fine too!)

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Personalized Pre-Orders and InsaniTEA Parties!

So many lovely announcements to make!  If you were at the live BlogTV show on Sunday, you got the scoop early (HINT: If I have Things To Tell, they are told there first.  I have them almost every Sunday night!) but I did want to be sure everyone knows all the things and elaborate a bit!

You got plans for March 10th yet?  No, of course you don’t, because it is seven months away.  And if you do? Cancel now.  This is going to be one of those “something came up” things that makes you blow off cousin Judy’s wedding even though it’s going to piss your mother off to no end. Plus, you know there are going to be no hot groomsmen at that thing and this thing–well, I can’t guarantee there will not be hot groomsmen at this thing.  Or bridesmaids! Or duchesses and mad kings.

I would kill kittens for this dress. *A Touch Morbid jokes, FTW!*

My darlings, I’m so pleased to finally officially and without further ado announce that we have a date and a venue for A Touch Morbid’s InsaniTEA Party.  This will be Morbid’s official launch, and since everyone’s favorite graverobbing schizophrenic has a POV in the second book, we’re doing it up Kristen style. After all, it’s not often the chance to have an absolutely over the top Victorian Gothic tea party pops into one’s life but when it does, one must carpe that f&@*ing diem. Will you come?

Keep it dapper, boys.

On March 10th, *update: Click here for the Facebook Event Page!, we’ll be meeting at Schuler Books & Music in Lansing, MI for tea and crumpty type snacks, readings, music and general debauchery.  I’ll also be signing!  I should mention that this party will be full costume and guests are HIGHLY encouraged to dress up!  Got an old bridesmaid’s gown? Hack it short and bedazzle that bastard! Went as a dead bride one year for Halloween? Drag out the costume, throw on some lace gloves and call it good!  Guys, always wanted to try out a  steampunk look? Rock out with your clock out!  In short, anything goes as long as you go big.  The more asylumtastic your outfit the better!  I know of several people already planning their costumes, so don’t be afraid you’ll be the only one! Prizes will be given out for best dressed!

On to Thing 2!  Lately I’ve had people asking me when I’ll be coming to their city and how to get a signed book if I’m not.  Now, you guys all know how much I love to travel.  One of the coolest things about being an author is getting to hit the road and meet you guys at signings.  But let’s face it, I’m only one person and  some events are just too far away for you guys to get to them.

I'll put both our names in these for you!

But I think I found a pretty cool compromise!  I’ve paired with my local indie The Learned Owl to offer you guys personalized signed copies of both the paperback of A Touch Mortal and hardcover of the brand new A Touch Morbid! I’m only offering the personalization on pre-order copies, so they will only be available from now until Feb 27th (this date subject to change)! This isn’t a contest. All you have to do is order through their website and when you check out, in the box marked “Order Comments” put who you’d like the book made out to or what you’d like me to write (Keep it classy, interwebz). *edit- The Learned Owl site says they will not ship outside the US, but they said for this they will try to work with people on a case by case basis if you’d like to get a hold of them!*

In addition to that, I have another surprise up my sleeve for you guys…

EVERYONE WHO PRE-ORDERS A TOUCH MORBID **FROM ANYWHERE** WILL GET A PRESENT!    Just send proof that you ordered A Touch Morbid, ie: a screenshot of your amazon confirmation, a copy of a receipt from your local bookstore, that sort of thing, to  morbidprize (at) gmail (dot) com with your address.  Around April, the  present will show up in your mailbox! It’s that easy!

Again, you can order from anywhere to get the present, which (barring unforseen issues) will be a limited edition 8 x 11 poster of A Touch Morbid’s cover. It will be signed and numbered.  This is the only way that you will be able to get this poster, which is why I’ll be waiting until everyone has their pre-orders in before having them printed. Any extras will be destroyed.  Pretty cool huh?

To recap: March 10th – InsaniTEA party. Signed and personalized pre-orders of A Touch Morbid and A Touch Mortal are available from The Learned Owl. Special poster for everyone who pre-orders A Touch Morbid from ANYWHERE.

All right guys, that’s it for now!

Until we meet again,

Leah

PS. Have you entered the design contest for ATM shirts yet? We’ve got some GREAT prizes! Any word spreading would be greatly appreciated! Click here for more info!

PSS. NEW REBELS! We start vlogging again Monday the 22nd!

PSSS. Our Az doppelganger, Clay Carnill aka Claslan has a new cover song up! Check it out! 

With a Rebel Yell, She Cried Store, Store, Store!

Wow.  The last week has just been completely insane! It started off with announcing that five out of the seven YA Rebels would be leaving.  Gretchen and I, the two that will be staying on, decided we wanted to keep the group going and are now holding auditions for the three available positions (I promise I’m not that bad at math…we decided to cut down from 7 to 5 days a week).  We’d love to have you try out! We’re looking for writers (pubbed or unpubbed, as long as you’re making progress toward the GOAL of being published), librarians, bloggers, agents, editors–all are welcome!  Click on that link above to see a vlog that will give you the ins and outs! Auditions are due by 11:59pm Pacific Time on August 10th!

I also have some awesome news!  Remember how you guys asked if we could have a spoiler chat for A Touch Mortal, so we did? And then remember how we joked about cool shirts, and talked about opening a store?

GUESS.  WHAT.

…you guessed didn’t you.

Amber from Me, Myself and I has worked her ASS off to make this happen guys, so I wanna give her a huge

THANK YOU!!!!

See, skillz w/ the designing? I haz none.  But Amber does.  And we came up with some kickass slogans and ideas that she made into even  kickassier designs! Check em out yo! No, really…go check them out. There’s multiple shirts under the A Touch Mortal category too, so be sure to click through. Go ahead and I’ll wait here. CLICK ME FOR THE STORE.

Leah tried to make me clickable but she haz no skillz. This is the reason behind 9/10ths of her contests. That and lurve.

You back?  Okay, awesome right?  So yeah, you guessed about the store, but I STILL HAVE A SURPRISE!  What you did not guess is that we are having a contest for YOU guys to make a design for the store! I can tell you that two of the prizes are an ARC of A TOUCH MORBID by yours truly and an ARC of ANNA DRESSED IN BLOOD by Kendare Blake and that book is crazy scary. Seriously, I slept with the lights on.

These are only two of the prizes! There’s another up on Amber’s site, and I’ll be adding even more as entries come in! You guys know I love to match you awesome for awesome so bring it! Amber did a way way much better job of explaining the fancy parts and how to enter and all, so I’m gonna link you to her blog to get the lowdown.

I can’t wait to see what you guys come up with!  You never fail to astound me!

As we get closer and closer to the release of Morbid, I’ve got some amazing things already plotted and more to come!  Keep your eye on the blog!  This is only the start!

Your buddy in the mortal coil,

Leah