I’m thrilled to announce that Set in Stone, the first part of the epic YA fantasy series, the Petralist, will be released on Friday, May 1st!
We’ll be holding a launch party on May 1st in Grants Pass, OR. I’ll provide an update once we finalize the venue.
Hardcover copies will be available, and we’ll include an online component to the launch party. I’ll announce other pre-launch activities soon, including a Goodreads giveaway.
The book will be available as hardcover and ebook on May 1st, with a paperback edition released in June or July. I’ll set up a facebook event, and will provide more details in my newsletter. If you haven’t signed up, what are you waiting for?
Set in Stone kicks off the 8 book publishing blitz planned for this year (#8books8months)! I hope to make preorders available soon. The beautiful cover was made by Brad Fraunfelter, and it’s already won an Editor’s Choice Award from the Advanced Photoshop Magazine.
Here is the back-cover blurb for the book:
Tomorrow, at sixteen, Connor will reveal his secret curse to the world and take his place as a guardian.
If he survives today.
When armies descend upon his peaceful village, led by superhuman Petralists and clever Builders, most people run and hide. Connor’s not that smart. He manages to get caught in the middle of the escalating conflict. Worse, he learns his curse is the rarest of powers, the Blood of the Tallan, and both sides will do anything to control it and secure his loyalty. Connor is fast, but even he can’t outrun this avalanche.
Truths are sacrificed, loyalties are sundered, and dangerous girls twist his heart into knots.
That’s when things get complicated.
While his friends try to free the village under siege, Connor peels back layers of intrigue and half-truths to find secrets neither side wants him to know. Surrounded by deadly enemies that all claim to be his friends, Connor must choose a course with the lives of everyone he loves hanging in the balance.
His only hope is to gamble everything on a curse that could destroy them all unless his final choice is Set in Stone.
(Find out more about the book, view maps, and get the latest on launch-related events on the Set in Stone page.)
