There’s nothing like opening a package from your editor expecting to find some swag, and seeing this instead…
One of the first copies of your book, hot off the press. Our editor, Julie Scheina, always includes something special with the the books. This year, it was a beautiful photography book of landscapes from the South.
It’s hard to describe seeing the book for the first time. It always looks so different from the jpgs and ARCs (CHAOS didn’t have ARCs). So REAL. This is a bad picture from my phone, but you can still see how gorgeous BEAUTIFUL CHAOS is, Book 3 in the Beautiful Creatures Novels. You can see it for yourself “in the flesh” on October 18, 2011.
a #1 New York Times, USA Today, and international bestselling author and comic book writer. As an award-winning, Bram Stoker Award-nominated young adult author of 12 novels and graphic novels, she has been published in 51 countries and 38 languages and her books have sold more than 10 million copies worldwide. Kami’s best known works include the Beautiful Creatures series, Teen Titans: Raven, The X-Files: Agent of Chaos, The Lovely Reckless, Broken Beautiful Hearts, and the DC Black Label comic Joker/Harley: Criminal Sanity. She is also a cofounder of the Kid Lit book festival YALLFest.
Her cousin, Julie and Aunt Amelia from California came in town and were with Melissa at the hospital the past few days.