March 14th, 2016, 12:58 pm Fun Glittering Court Stuff My main job is writing the books, so half the time, I don't know what promo stuff is going on behind the scenes. Today I sat down at my desk to find these two challenges waiting for me:

Which Glittering Court Jewel Are You? The girls in the Glittering Court have pretty distinct personalities! See who you sync up with.

Which Five Friends are in Your Court? Who'd have your back in an intense boarding school and subsequent adventures in a strange new land? Friends can be real or fictitious, which makes it extra tricky to think of a good list.

*US only. It's the law with sweepstakes, and this is a US publisher running it. Sorry!

Tuesday, April 5th - 7:00 PM - Washington, DC Barnes & Noble 7851 Tysons Corner Center McLean, VA 22102

Wednesday, April 6th - 6:00 PM - New York, NY Barnes & Noble 97 Warren St. New York, NY 10007

Thursday, April 7th - 7:00 PM - Boston, MA An Unlikely Story 111 South Street Plainville, MA 02762

Friday, April 8th - 6:30 PM - Denver, CO Douglas County Libraries Philip S. Miller branch 100 S. Wilcox St. Castle Rock, CO 80104 *BOOKS SOLD ON-SITE BY TATTERED COVER

Monday, April 11th - 7:00 PM - Anchorage, AK Barnes & Noble 200 East Northern Lights Blvd Anchorage, AK 99503

Tuesday, April 12th - 7:00 PM - Portland, OR Powells 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd. Beaverton, OR 97005

Wednesday, April 13th - 7:00 PM - Seattle, WA University Bookstore 4326 University Way NE Seattle, WA 98105

Saturday, April 16th - Las Vegas, NV RT Booklovers Convention The Rio Hotel, Las Vegas, NV Giant Book Fair Signing - 10:30am-2pm --This signing is open to the public for $5 admission and includes 600+ authors --See rtconvention.com for more info and Richelles Friday/Saturday panels

Saturday, April 30th - Santa Monica, CA YALLWest Book Festival, Santa Monica High School An amazing day of authors, panels, signings, and more! Check yallwest.org for updates, schedule, and guest list

Thursday, May 12th - 7:00 PM - Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN Red Balloon Bookshop 891 Grand Ave St Paul, MN 55105

Friday, May 13th - 6:00 PM - Milwaukee, WI Oak Creek Library Drexel Town Center 8040 S. 6th Street Oak Creek, WI 53154 *BOOKS SOLD ON-SITE BY BOSWELL BOOKS

Saturday, May 14th - Chicago, IL BookCon West Building at McCormick Place, Chicago, IL Signing and panels TBA Follow thebookcon.com for schedule updates and to buy tickets (FYI - tickets go fast!)

Good to know: -At bookstore/library events, theres a limit of three books per person. One will be personalized to you and the others just signed. If you have more, have friends/family carry three books each or hop back in line. -Buying or pre-ordering The Glittering Court at a participating bookstore will get you a wristband that puts you in the first part of the signing line. Otherwise, youll go to the second half of the line. You can bring any of Richelles books from home to be signed (or buy other ones you dont have at the store). Powells is the exception - they dont use wristbands. -RT will have a limit of three books, and again, you may buy on-site or bring from home. -BookCon signings specs are still TBD, but they will also have small limits. Stay tuned for updates. -Photos are done with Richelle if time permits! -Contact hosting stores for additional questions!

It's been a while since I posted. Looking back, I see that my last entry was just before the Soundless tour. Recovering from that and then going straight into Thanksgiving and Christmas took a lot out of me. But, I had a great time meeting fans in the South, and thanks to everyone's support, Soundless debuted on The New York Times bestseller list. So, thank you for that! You guys are the best.

A dazzling, romantic new fantasy series set in a mix of Elizabethan and frontier worlds fromRichelle Mead, #1 internationally bestselling author of Vampire Academy.

Big and sweeping, spanning the refined palaces of Osfrid to the gold dust and untamed forests of Adoria, The Glittering Court tells the story of Adelaide, an Osfridian countess who poses as her servant to escape an arranged marriage and start a new life in Adoria, the New World. But to do that, she must join the Glittering Court.

Both a school and a business venture, the Glittering Court is designed to transform impoverished girls into upper-class ladies who appear destined for powerful and wealthy marriages in the New World.Adelaide naturally excels in her training and even makes a few friends: the fiery former laundress Tamsin and the beautiful Sirminican refugee Mira. She manages to keep her true identity hidden from all but one: the intriguing Cedric Thorn, son of the wealthy proprietor of the Glittering Court.

When Adelaide discovers that Cedric is hiding a dangerous secret of his own, together, they hatch a scheme to make the best of Adelaides deception. Complications soon arisefirst, as they cross the treacherous seas from Osfrid to Adoria, and later, when Adelaide catches the attention of a powerful governor.

But no complication will prove quite as daunting as the potent attraction simmering between Adelaide and Cedric. An attraction that, if acted on, would scandalize the Glittering Court and make them both outcasts in wild, vastly uncharted lands. . . .

And if that doesn't tell you enough, good news! The first eleven chapters are online for your reading pleasure. So, go catch up because things are about to get fast and furious over the next few months!

1. What is your next book? It's called Soundless. It comes out November 10 (that's less than 2 weeks away!). It's a standalone--so it is NOT part of any series. The first 30 pages are here, and this is its sweet cover:

2. What is Soundless about?

3. Are you going on tour for Soundless? Yes. I will be signing in Seattle, WA; Raleigh, NC; Fairhope, AL; Charleston, SC; Coral Gables, FL; and Santa Monica, CA. Stores, times, and signing policies are here.

4. What's after Soundless? In April 2016, I have a brand new series coming. It has nothing to do with Soundless or Vampire Academy or anything else I've done. It's called The Glittering Court, and you'll go crazy when you read it. The description is here, and this is its sweet cover:

5. What's the big Soundless pre-order deal that involves The Glittering Court? If you pre-order Soundless from a select independent bookstore, you will get a limited edition copy of Soundless that's autographed by me and has a fancy translucent cover wrap over it. You'll also get a special sampler that includes the FIRST ELEVEN CHAPTERS of The Glittering Court. The whole deal looks like this:

7. Can I get this deal if I pre-order Soundless from Amazon or Barnes and Noble? No. You'll get a standard copy of Soundless, which is still cool, but it won't have the fancy cover wrap, autograph, or The Glittering Court chapters. By the way--that is my actual autograph in all those limited edition ones. I signed 10,000 copies this summer.

8. I'm going to one of your November book signings! Sweet! It's at a store that's offering the special Soundless pre-order. What should I do? Pre-order it to make sure they don't run out. Then still come see me the night I sign, and I'll personalize the copy to you. Right now, they just have my signature, but I'll write something like, "To [your name], thanks for being awesome!"

9. Have you forgotten about Age of X #3? Nope. It's still in the works. And it's pretty cool. But I have to answer to a larger publishing schedule that dictates when and what I write. If it makes you feel better, I think there's going to be a #4. But that probably didn't make you feel better.

10. Why aren't you writing more Vampire Academy stuff? I can't speak for all authors, but I write because I have more ideas than I can keep inside me. I want to write them all. They keep me up at night. If I'd only ever written the first story idea I ever had, I never would have written VA--or, actually, any of my books that are out. I love the VA gang, and I love that you guys love them too, but I don't plan on writing only VA books for the next sixty years. I would definitely love to revisit those crazy kids one day, but right now, I've got to get some of these other ideas on paper. Trust me: when you start reading TGC next year, you'll be hooked into another series. And who knows? Maybe I haven't even written your favorite book yet. <3

I dont get why people are so touchy. When I told Dinah Drozdov that I wanted to keep things casual and still date other people, she was fine with that. When I told her sister Aly the same thing, she was fine with that too. But for some reason, when Dinah found out Aly was one of the other people, she flipped out. And when Aly found out about Dinah, she really flipped out. I guess theres some special rule about dating two sisters at the same time. Like that you arent supposed to do it. But then things got really bad when their dad found out. He started going off about how I was going to suffer in new and terrible ways Id never dreamed possible. When Aunt Tatiana found out, things got really, REALLY bad. I guess Lord Drozdov is critical to some motion shes trying to get passed, and he threatened to pull his support because of me. Aunt Tatiana was pissed, to put it mildly. I still dont really understand these aura things I keep seeing, but hers was deep red, and that just didnt seem like a good sign. Neither was her screaming at me. Usually, she lets me get away with anything, but this crossed a line. She told me I couldnt stick around Court for Christmas, not with Lord Drozdov there too. She needs to smooth things over, and me sitting next to him at Christmas dinner might throw that off. So now I have to go spend the holidays at some crap ski lodge in Idaho. I hate skiing, but what I hate even worse is finding out my dad is coming along. Two weeks on vacation with Nathan Ivashkov? Looks like I really am going to suffer in new and terrible ways.

If Richelle isn't coming to your city, click here to find out how to order a limited edition signed copy of Soundless from your local indie bookstore with a super cool embellished cover!(You can also pre-order one from a participating store she's appearing at -- contact them for more information!).

Tuesday, November 10th at 7:00pm Seattle, WA University Bookstore - 206-634-3400 4326 University Way NE Seattle, WA 98105 206-634-3400

Wednesday, November 11th at 7:00pm Chapel Hill, NC Flyleaf Books - 919-942-7373 752 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd Chapel Hill, NC 27514

Thursday, November 12th at 6:00pm Fairhope, AL Page & Palette - 251-928-5295 32 S Section Street Fairhope, AL 36532

Friday, November 13th & Saturday, November 14th Charleston, SC YALLFest Details forthcoming - please check the YALLFest website for schedule and tickets to Richelle's keynote

Sunday, November 15th at 1:00pm Miami, FL Books & Books - 305-442-4408 265 Aragon Ave Coral Gables, FL 33134

Thursday, November 19th at 7:00pm Los Angeles, CA Barnes & Noble Santa Monica - 310-260-9110 1201 3rd St Santa Monica, CA 90401

Signing Guidelines: -Richelle will sign three books per person, one will be personalized and the other two will just have signatures (have a friend bring three more books!) -You may bring books from home -Pictures will be allowed if time permits -Many bookstores have perks for buying Soundless from them, like going to the front of the signing line. Check back here or contact your store to find out any other details, such as line policies or tickets.

If you follow me on social media, you'll know that yesterday I supported a fundraiser for Save the Children (which you can still contribute to) and told people if that goal was surpassed, I'd write up some entries from Adrian's diary. Well, that goal was met (and then some), so as promised, here we go. I'm also working on a totally new, non-VA project right now, so I can't spend too much time in Adrian's head or else it'll throw me off. So, you just get one today. I'll try to do another next week.

Because the VA/Bloodlines series takes place in no specific year, I'm just generically dating these around the books they're taking place in.

Date: Springtime, sometime during the year Vampire Academy #1 takes place

Well, I did it. I finally quit college. Again. I shouldve known better after the first time, but Mom kept pushing me to give it another shot. After half a semester, I knew I was done. Again. Dad said I didnt try hard enough to make it work, but I think the university didnt try hard enough to make it work for me. Like, on the first day of class, my watercolors professor kept going on and on about how we needed to express ourselves. But when I told her a couple weeks later that homework wasnt really an expression of the powerful emotions burning within my soul, she said I was going to fail her class. Hypocrite. At least I was doing good in Intro to Womens Studies. My professor wrote Good effort please rewrite on one of my papers, which I think is pretty solid. I also got six girls numbers, which is more than the only other two guys in class managed to do. But I dont really need to get up early and sit through a lecture to get phone numbers. I can do that anywhere. Dad asked me what Im going to do with my life, now that Im a second-time college dropout. I told him Im going to do what Ive always done. Be awesome. Be Adrian Ivashkov.

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