Halloween Week Giveaway #1: IN THE SHADOW OF BLACKBIRDS and BRUISED ARCs!

Welcome to Day 1 of the In the Shadow of Blackbirds Halloween Week Giveaways! Over at Iceybooks today, Sarah Skilton and I are discussing our respective 2013 Amulet Books releases. Sarah is the author of the contemporary YA novel Bruised, and my novel is a historical YA, so we're chatting about writing books set in the past vs the present.

The giveaway: We're sending advance reading copies of both Bruised and In the Shadow of Blackbirds to one lucky winner! My ARCs should be arriving mid November, and Sarah's are already available to ship.

We're willing to mail the books internationally, so anyone reading this post should scurry over to Iceybooks for details immediately. Good luck!

My Halloween Week Blog Tour starts Monday... but I'm Offering One Giveaway Today!

I'm excited to share all the giveaways that are waiting to be put in the mail during next week's Halloween blog tour.

So excited, in fact, that I'm going to sneak in one giveaway early! My dining room table is covered with boxes of In the Shadow of Blackbirds swag that's just waiting to be shared, so here's what I'm going to do:

I'll send a swag pack to the first person 
who comments on this post!

You can still enter next week's giveaways (psst, those will contain even bigger and better goodies!). But this swag wasn't meant to just sit on my table in cardboard boxes.

Here's a sneak peek at my collection of In the Shadow of Blackbirds treats: 

(Signed bookmark, stickers, and signed bookplate.)

The bookmarks were designed by Amber at Me, My Shelf, & I.

If you don't win today, here's where you can catch me during the week of Halloween:

Monday, October 29

IceyBooks

Sarah Skilton, author of Bruised, will be joining me for a combined Amulet Books guest post and giveaway.

Tuesday, October 30

Writer, Writer, Pants on Fire

Mindy McGinnis, author of Not a Drop to Drink, will be interviewing me about the In the Shadow of Blackbirds cover...and offering prize packages.

Wednesday, October 31, Halloween

My Own Website

Return here to learn about a giveaway that will involve the name of one of my major characters. It seems highly appropriate to reveal his name on Halloween.

IN THE SHADOW OF BLACKBIRDS Advance Reading Copy Requests

In the Shadow of Blackbirds advance reading copies (ARCs) are currently in production, which means my historical ghost tale will be heading out to early readers soon (approximately mid November). If you are a book blogger, reviewer, librarian, bookseller, or anyone else who typically receives ARCs, please fill out my ARC request form. I will forward all requests to my marketing contact at Amulet Books/ABRAMS. The novel will also eventually be available via Netgalley.

If you don't fall into any of the above categories (or even if you do), I'll be providing opportunities to win ARCs, as well as swag, at two of my stops during my Halloween week blog tour.  Check out last week's blog tour post for details.

Advance praise for In the Shadow of Blackbirds:

“Cat Winters deftly captures the darkness and the light of human nature with In the Shadow of Blackbirds. I swear, I can smell the smoke from the flashlamps and taste the electricity in the air—and Mary Shelley Black's dark and startling story lingers long after the final page.”

    —Saundra Mitchell

      Edgar-Nominated Author of Shadowed Summer
and The Vespertine Series