Today’s the day! The Nightmare Garden is officially on shelves, along with the paperback of The Iron Thorn, for double the steampunk fun, Lovecraftian monsters, and sexy Dean Harrison goodness!

I can’t tell you what a huge deal it is to have this book out in the world. This was the hardest book I ever wrote-there were times when I was sure I’d ( Read more... )

So yes, this has pretty much become the Nightmare Garden/Iron Codex 24-Hour Fun Channel, and for those of you who don’t come here for the book stuff, I apologize. But my release date is only four short days away, and it’s pretty crazy up in here, so I’m going to post a whole slew of Nightmare Garden stuff and hopefully there will be something for ( Read more... )

It’s here! With just one week until the release of The Nightmare Garden, the trailer is finally here!

Here’s the deal: this trailer is amazing. Vania of VLC Productions worked her butt off with casting, costumes, her photos and her kick-ass editing. I want everyone to see this trailer!

So! If we surpass 500 Youtube views OR 100 re-blogs/linksbacks ( Read more... )

(Fun fact: the post title was taken from Tom Wait’s “A Little Drop of Poison”. Not that I want to poison any of you.)

There’s six weeks until my second YA novel, The Nightmare Garden, is out in the world.

When the first book, The Iron Thorn, dropped, I had high hopes. Huge hopes. Hopes so big they would break normal-sized sofas. Visions of sales ( Read more... )

It’s gone up on Amazon, so I can announce that the title of the second Iron Codex novel is The Nightmare Garden (from the Lovecraft quote.)  The publication date is 2/14/2012, which is the same day the paperback of The Iron Thorn drops!

Very exciting.  Editor Krista and I went back and forth with about 20 choices for the second book in the trilogy ( Read more... )