Release Day! I am Everywhere!
YOU GUYS. The book is out and through the miracle of the internet I have duplicated myself to be on All the Web Sites to promote the release. Actually, all these links are proof of months of work but that’s all really boring to talk about. There is so much love out there because I’m totally ignoring the haters as much as I can. My feelings are so deep and complicated, I can only express myself in cat gifs.
Ahem. That done, here’s the full proof of my presence everywhere!
First of all, today I have an Ask me Anything on reddit/Fantasy! Drop by and ask me questions. There’s also still an open topic on Goodreads where you can pose questions for the Sword and Laser broadcast.
My friend Lauren the Flute recorded a gorgeous rendition of “Pure Land” from the Secret of Mana soundtrack in honor of my book’s release!
Guest blogs:
My Favorite Bit in The Clockwork Crown: Gremlins at Mary Robinette Kowal’s site
Special Needs in Strange Worlds: Beth Cato (THE CLOCKWORK CROWN) on Sensory Overload
Seven Reasons to Read (and Write) Steampunk by Beth Cato at Bent Over Books
Picture association with Clockword Crown author Beth Cato at Sara Dobie Bauer’s Blog
My Superpower: BAKING at Skiffy and Fanty
The Most Wonderful, Agonizing Secret: Waiting to Announce a Book Deal at David Walton’s Blog
Interviews:
At Kings River Life. Also includes a review and a giveaway for Clockwork Crown!
With the Qwillery
SF Signal interview!
Wheeeee! Book! Buy it! Pretty please?
The Clockwork Crown is Out!
Today’s the day! The Clockwork Crown is out! This is the second book in the Clockwork Dagger Duology.
What’s it about? Where can you buy it? Well…
Narrowly surviving assassination and capture, Octavia Leander, a powerful magical healer, is on the run with handsome Alonzo Garrett, the Clockwork Dagger who forfeited his career with the Queen’s secret society of spies and killers—and possibly his life—to save her. Now, they are on a dangerous quest to find safety and answers: Why is Octavia so powerful? Why does she seem to be undergoing a transformation unlike any witnessed for hundreds of years?
The truth may rest with the source of her mysterious healing power—the Lady’s Tree. But the tree lies somewhere in a rough, inhospitable territory known as the Waste. Eons ago, this land was made barren and uninhabitable by an evil spell, until a few hardy souls dared to return over the last century. For years, the Waste has waged a bloody battle against the royal court to win its independence—and they need Octavia’s powers to succeed.
Joined by unlikely allies, including a menagerie of gremlin companions, she must evade killers and Clockwork Daggers on a dangerous journey through a world on the brink of deadly civil war.
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Clockwork Crown. NEXT TUESDAY. *happy flailing* Here’s the latest news on that and other writing stuff!
– Kirkus Reviews has Clockwork Crown on their Can’t-Miss list for June.
– My entire collection of #TwitterFiction is in easy-to-read Storify form!
– Want to read something fun? I wrote up a cross-over of Clockwork Dagger and Little Red Riding Hood for Dark Faerie Tales!
– There’s an interview with me in in Big Thrill Magazine.
– Josh Vogt interviewed me! Find out the sordid truth about gremlin pee!
– I shared Beer Pizza Dough at the Holy Taco Church.
Ask Me Stuff!
Clockwork Crown is out on Tuesday and I intend to be everywhere and Do All the Things. To that end, there are two opportunities next week where you can ask me questions.
I’ll be in reddit/Fantasy next Tuesday for an AMA (Ask Me Anything). A thread will start early in the morning and folks add questions throughout the day. In the afternoon and evening, I’ll hop on and answer things.
On Wednesday, I’ll take part in the Sword and Laser video show/podcast. They have started a topic on Goodreads where you can also pose questions for me. No need to wait–you can post your scintillating queries for me now.
Please participate! Have fun with it. Ask about my writing process or recipes or cats or cosplay or books. Whatever. I’m game.
End of May News
First of all… look! A giveaway! It runs through Friday.
Goodreads Book Giveaway
The Clockwork Dagger
by Beth Cato
Giveaway ends May 22, 2015.
See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.
My publisher did a really nice post congratulating me on my Locus nomination. Awww.
Remember the #TwitterFiction I did last Wednesday? You can now read the whole event in a convenient Storify format!
SheKnows.com included The Clockwork Crown on their list of 15 most anticipated spring and summer books! Huzzah!
I’m at Kate Heartfield’s site to talk about Unlikely Influences: What Beth Cato Learned About Writing by Baking Cookies. I know. Feign surprise at the subject matter.
Do you want to know more about research books I used for The Clockwork Dagger series? Find out in Magic and World War I Medicine at Teresa Frohock’s Blog.
For a general overview on medicians, read Medicians in The Clockwork Dagger at David Walton’s blog.
I also had a post at SF Signal with Developing Miss Percival as a Sympathetic Villain.
I was interviewed by the East Valley Tribune about my books and Phoenix Comicon.
Whew. I think that’s it. Things are crazy here right now. My son finishes up his 4th grade year today. Tomorrow is my 15th anniversary. I’m trying to edit a few stories and work on promotional stuff for Crown‘s release. I only have a few days left to prepare for Phoenix Comicon.
YES. I CAN DO THIS. …Right?
Four and a Half Stars!
Oh my! RT Book Reviews gave The Clockwork Crown a whopping 4 1/2 Stars!
This sequel to Cato’s amazing steampunk adventure The Clockwork Dagger has all the imagination, treachery and nonstop thrills of the first. Magical healer Octavia Leander is both fleeing assassins and hunting for answers regarding the transformation she appears to be undergoing. Just try catching your breath as this electrifying tale races across exotic lands in a desperate quest to find the truth and stop a potential apocalypse. Cato and steampunk fantasy are truly an excellent match!
You can read the full review over here–it is spoilerish if you haven’t read Dagger yet.
