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Bel Reviews: Stephanie Burgis's - Kat the Incorrigible Series

This middle grade trilogy is set in the early 1800's and is and is very much Jane Austen-esk with it's emphasis on etiquette, propriety and high society. Book one Kat, Incorrigible, brings us in on a ...

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Lisa Reviews: Katie McGarry’s – “Pushing the Limits”

Lisa Reviews: Katie McGarry's - Pushing the Limits

“So wrong for each other ... AND YET SO RIGHT. No one knows what happened the night Echo Emerson went from popular girl with jock boyfriend to gossiped-about outsider with "freaky" scars on her arms. Even ...

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Night Creatures Available in USA

Night Creatures Available in USA

Yes! Yes! Yes! Finally you can get the series in either paperback or e-book from Amazon.com You can buy Burn Bright in paperback or ebook on Amazon right here. You can buy Angel Arias in paperback or ebook ...

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By The Bel: Sarah Newton

By The Bel: Sarah Newton

Author, speaker, consultant and media expert, Sarah’s expertise is working with gifted and talented young people who have the capacity to become high achievers.  She has an ability to raise expectations and aspirations of all young ...

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Krista Reviews: A. G. Howard’s – “Splintered”

Krista Reviews: A. G. Howard's - Splintered

This stunning debut captures the grotesque madness of a mystical under-land, as well as a girl’s pangs of first love and independence. Alyssa Gardner hears the whispers of bugs and flowers—precisely the affliction that landed ...

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Burn Bright Thank-Yous

Burn Bright Thank-Yous

Today, I have some important thank-you's to make. Firstly to my wonderful agent who I love to bits, who has kept the faith with me through all kinds of ups and downs. I never feel like ...

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Burning Bright All Over the World

Burning Bright All Over the World

And so finally the Night Creatures series is available all over the world! It will take 12 to 48 hours to appear in your browsers, so I'm offering a signed copy of Nylon Angel to the ...

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Krista Reviews: Caitlin Kitteridge’s – “The Nightmare Garden” (Iron Codex #2)

Krista Reviews: Caitlin Kitteridge's - The Nightmare Garden (Iron Codex #2)

Everything Aoife thought she knew about the world was a lie. There is no Necrovirus. And Aoife isn't going to succumb to madness because of a latent strain—she will lose her faculties because she is ...

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And so finally the Night Creatures series is available all over the world!

It will take 12 to 48 hours to appear in your browsers, so I’m offering a signed copy of Nylon Angel to the first person who spots the links on Amazon and shares them with us either here or on Facebook.

It’s my great pleasure to show you the new International covers for the Night Creatures series. Artist Jarek Kubicki has worked with us so that we could bring you his amazing work. These cover use the same images but have different titling and text. Look for the great blogger quotes from Brodie, Braiden and Danielle. Also an extra special cover quote from author Nansi Kunze on the back of Burn Bright.

Yes, it’s true! Jarek and I have come to an agreement over using his artwork for the international release of the Night Creatures. The images will be the same but with new text and quotes and  slightly different titling. WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE THEM!

The Austin Designworks covers will be used on the free EPILOGUE e-chapter to be released soon. And on other promo material.

So please go and check out Jarek’s website for his other wonderful artwork.

Available on Amazon in March 2013. Design by Austin Designworks.

Ta double daaaaaaa ……..

Available on Amazon in March 2013. Design by Austin Designworks.

Now that we’re on track for a March release of the Night Creatures series on Amazon (yes, that’s all Amazon’s!), we’d love you to share our brand new banners. If you put them on your website then you’re entitled to join our VIP club, which means you get some fun stuff. Just let us know you’ve done it, either through the comments section, or through the site contact form. We’ve got the banners in different sizes, so just drop us a line if you need them in another size.

Spread the Burn Bright love!

So what does that mean!

Well we want you to be as involved in the international release of Burn Bright, Angel Arias and Shine Light as possible. Which means we want to give you stuff, and we want you to tell all your friends what’s going on.

Joining our VIP club is just a matter of emailing us through the site contact form or letting us know in the comments section (we’ll get your email from there). We won’t share your email addys with ANYONE! PROMISE!

Once you’ve done that, we’ll add you to out VIP list and will be in contact with you.

Being a Night Creatures VIP means you get this:

Free swag

First news About Night Creatures Stuff

A chance to win a Face to face SKYPE interview with Marianne

and exclusive to the VIP club only …

An EPILOGUE TO THE SERIES (that means a chapter following on from the end of SHINE LIGHT where Marianne gives a little more of what happens to the characters afterwards).

There will be other things as well, which will likely to do with Yunyu’s music, and some spot give-aways. We’re still working this stuff out.

All we ask in return is that you place a Burn Bright banner on your site (if you can), and TALK about the series to your friends. The only way people will hear about the series is through you. We’ve got no marketing budget or publisher behind us to make that happen. So its down to us guys.

Who’s in?!!

Well I’m delighted to tell you that the publication date will be the end of March. Which means we haven’t got a lot of time to TELL THE WORLD! All the publicity for this is down to you and me guys, so put your name in the comments section if you want to help people hear about NIGHT CREATURES!

LOVE YOU ALL!

Trumpets! Drums! Lights! Megaphones!

As of mid 2013 the NIGHT CREATURES series will be available in paperback and e-book worldwide through Amazon (so far it only been available in Australia and New Zealand from the wonderful Random House Aus Teens). As soon as we have some details on exact dates YOU WILL BE THE FIRST TO KNOW!!! (We’re hoping May or June!)

We’ll be starting a countdown, doing give-aways, standing on our heads, doing back flips – you name it! We’ll have banners and badges for you to put on your sites, it’s going to be HUUUGGE!

Join us for all the fun, help us spread the word that NIGHT CREATURES IS COMING TO THE REST OF THE WORLD!

The first piece of news I can share with you is that the series will have new covers. Now I know you LOVE these ones(and so do I!), but AUSTIN DESIGNWORKS will be doing the new covers, and they are seriously good at what they do – I mean … they design my websites!:) And they recently designed new covers for my beautiful Sentients of Orion series.

You’ve waited sooo long and sooo patiently and your loyalty will be rewarded. But now, guys, its up to you to LET EVERYONE KNOW! Please help us!

Leave your name in the comments section if you’d like a banner for your website. Banner-sharers will become part of our Burn Bright VIP club and will get free NEW swag (old swag too, but new swag with the new covers on!) when the books are released!

We’re just a little bit excited (can you tell?)!

Burn Bright, baby bats!

 
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