The #YeahYA Harlequin Teen Tour

Hey, everyone! Big news!

No, really BIG news!

This is going to be the summer of awesome. Wanna know why? Course you do. Well, check out the fun banner below.





We're going on TOUUUUUUUUR.

Yup, me, Katie McGarry, Aimee Carter, and a couple other YA authors will be hitting the road and traveling to several big cities to see you. Check out the schedule below to see if we'll be anywhere near your hometown.

 

TORONTO

Sunday, July 7                                            CHAPTERS – Brampton Market Mall
2:00 PM                                                                  52 Quarry Edge Dr
author panel, Q&A, signing Brampton,                  ON L6V 4K2

905/456-7177

Featuring: Julie Kagawa, Aimée Carter, Katie McGarry, special guests Amanda Sun and Michelle Rowen.





NEW YORK

 
Wednesday, July 10                                          BARNES & NOBLE – Carle Place
7:00 PM                                                                 91 Old Country Road
author panel, Q&A, signing                                  Carle Place, NY 11514

516/741-9850

Featuring: Julie Kagawa, Aimée Carter, Katie McGarry



DALLAS


Friday, July 12                                              BARNES & NOBLE – Southlake Town Square   
7:00 PM                                                                    1430 Plaza Place
author panel, Q&A, signing                                    Southlake, TX 76092

817/442-0207

Featuring: Julie Kagawa, Aimée Carter, Katie McGarry



HOUSTON

Saturday, July 13                                                        KATY BUDGET BOOKS
2:00 PM                                                                          2450 Fry Road
author panel, Q&A, signing                                           Houston, TX 77084

281/578-7770

Featuring: Julie Kagawa, Aimée Carter





NASHVILLE

Monday, July 15                                                        BOOKS A MILLION – Nashville West
6:30 PM                                                                            6718 Charlotte Pike  
author panel, Q&A, signing                                              Nashville, TN 37209

 615/352-5154

Featuring: Julie Kagawa, Aimée Carter





MEMPHIS

Tuesday, July 16                                                     THE BOOKSELLERS AT LAURELWOOD
6:00 PM                                                                          387 Perkins Road Extended
author panel, Q&A, signing                                            Memphis, TN 38117

901/683-2032

Featuring: Julie Kagawa, Aimée Carter






Hope to see you this summer!

Julie

Agents and sappy love stories

Mondo exciting news, everyone!


I am so thrilled and pleased and proud to announce that my wonderful, supportive, talented husband is now agented with Foreword Literary!  Repped by none other than my own fabulous agent, Laurie McLean.


Congratulations, love!  I couldn't be more proud.  But I'm not surprised in the least.  You deserve it.   


So, now, let me tell you a little story.  Back when I was unpublished, just another wanna-be writer, my best friend and I decided to get a writing group together.  He had a friend who also wanted to write, and I had just met someone on an online critique site, a guy named Nick, who happened to live in the area.  This person and I had exchanged a couple chapters to read over, and he seemed like a pretty knowledgeable person (and not a creeper, troll, or stalker, always a plus), so I invited him to join our new writing group.


That person was my future husband.



Our group first met at the old Borders (sob), and for a few hours, we would talk and laugh and offer advice on how to make our stories better.  I learned that this new guy loved reading and fantasy and wanted to someday get a book published, just like me.  Eventually, after several years, the writing group parted ways, but Nick and I went on to get married.


So I guess you can say writing brought us together.


Yes, that was sappy.  But only fitting.  I used to dream of getting my book published and being an author.  And make no mistake, it is everything I wanted and much more than I thought.  I love my job, and I wouldn't trade it for anything.  But now, my dreams have...evolved a little.  Now, my hopes include going to BEA with my author husband, doing signings together, touring together, and watching fangirls squee and bounce up and down when they see him.  ^__^   It will happen.  I know it will.


So, congratulations again to my partner, first editor, and best friend.  It has been an exciting journey, and it isn't done yet.  I can't wait to see where it takes us.


Julie



Follow Nick on Twitter @NTaylorTag if you wanna say congrats.  =)

Saturday's shop stuff

Hi everyone!


I've gotten a few requests asking if I'd be willing to post pictures of what will go up in my Etsy store before I put them out on Saturdays, so they'll know if there is something they really want to purchase.  While I can't do this every time I put new stock out, I will try to post pics on occasion. 


SO, with that in mind. Here is what will be for sale next Saturday, the 15th of June.

Spotted pink Appaloosa unicorn

Purple and green dragon

 

 

 



Chibi gargoyle

 

 

 

 

 

Purple dragon

 

 

 

 

Blue unicorn

 

 

 

 

Asian dragon

 

Charm dragon: Believe

 

 

 

Dragon in a top hat

 

 

 

 

 

Chibi Zeke Crosse

 

 

 

 

If you see anything that catches your fancy, the Etsy shop link is here.  You can also see past sales by clicking on the "sales" link.  Remember, all items will go up Saturday at noon, est. 

 

And, out of curiosity, is there any critter you'd like to see more of?  In a particular color, maybe?  Leave me your suggestions below.  You might just see it go up in the shop one day.  =)

 

Julie 



 

 

 



Lotsa dragons

Hi everyone!

Heading up to BEA in a couple days (Geez, time flies.), so I won't be putting any new Etsy stuff out this week.  I wanted a couple weeks to try to restock and try to polish my sculpting technique so when I come back, not only will I have new stuff to sell, they'll look much different.  The dragons, especially, have progressed very far.  I'm adding more detail to their faces now, and blending the limbs to their bodies to make them look seamless. 


So, before, the dragons looked like this:

 

 

 

 

 

Now, they look like this:

And I'm still learning, of course.  These guys, along with many others, will be up in the Etsy store here when I return from New York.  If you're heading up to BEA this week, I hope to see you there!


Julie

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New toys and dragons

Got a new claying desk this month!

Isn't it purty?  Now I have places to actually put my stuff, instead of sharing one end of the kitchen table with the cat.

Along with my shiny desk, I also got a couple of new tools.  That metal looking thingie (technical term) on the left there is a clay roller, which flattens lumps of clay into perfectly even sheets of varying thickness.  I also picked up some smoothing tools and teensy cookie cutter type things to make different shapes once I rolled out my sheets.  Like baking. With clay.


SO, armed with my nifty and utterly geeky new tools, I decided to see what I could do with them.


First, I decided I wanted to try a dragon with scales.  Before, making dozens of individual scales would've been a huge pain in the butt and would've taken forever.  But now, with my roller and new punch out shapes, it was only a small pain in the butt.  I still had to roll out, cut, and then layer each and every scale on the dragon, but the results were pretty awesome.


Dragon with no scales.

Dragon with scales.

Whew, what a difference!  So, after the success of the green dragon, I tried again, to see if it was a fluke.   I came out with this little girl.

So, I can say I'm definitely liking the scales, even though they're a ton of work. I don't think I'll add scales to every dragon from now on, but I will make one occasionally.  These two will be up in the 
Etsy store soonish, so be on the lookout for them.


And, just for fun, I made this little guy today.

 Yes, that is a dragon in a top hat.  And he's jolly happy to meet you. ;)  Along with tools, I picked up a number of little charms recently, so it'll be fun using them with my sculptures.  This dapper little guy will also be in the Etsy shop eventually, but for now he'll say cheerio and good day!

Julie
 

Eternity Cure winner

Woo, that was a lot of entries.  Thanks, everyone, for your shout outs about The Eternity Cure. It is OUT now, so be on the lookout for it.

There will also be a Twitter launch party this Monday, May 6, at 7:30pm.  See the invite below.

Now, onto the winner.  And the person who won the signed Eternity Cure, as well as the Allie and Zeke chibis is: 

Sandra (sandrazg@gmail.com)


Congratulations to you, Sandra!  I will be emailing you shortly.  Thank you again, everyone, for your continued support.  Oh, and if you're disappointed that you didn't win the chibis, I believe there will be one offered as a prize at the twitter party.  Just as a heads up.  ;)

Julie

Eternity Cure contest and giveaway

One week until The Eternity Cure is out!


And, to celebrate, I have a giveaway.


Because giveaways are always fun.  And yes, let's make this international.


Check out the prize below:

 

 

 

A pretty new hardback of THE ETERNITY CURE, signed by me, of course.  But that's not all.  See those little figures down at the bottom?

It's chibi Allie and Zeke, Allie with her trusty katana at the ready.  These two are handmade with polymer clay, sealed with protective gloss, and initialled on the bottom.  They are also included with the signed Eternity Cure, and are one of a kind.


So how do you win these lovely things?


Easy.  Just copy and paste this to your twitter and Facebook page.  "I want to win a signed
 THE ETERNITY CURE by Julie Kagawa at www.juliekagawa.blogspot.com" 


That's it.  Then let me know ya did that in the comments. (Be sure to include an email.)  Easy peasy, right?  But the contest will only run until April 30th, when the Eternity Cure hits shelves a week from now.  


Good luck!


-Julie