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Hey everyone, we are starting a new feature called FAN ART MONDAY. We will be posting your fan art right here on the Caster Girls site. Check out our current fan art.
This is a new banner from Leesa.
This is Witty Heroine’s wallpaper.
Thank you Leesa and Witty Heroine for your fan art.
If you see any fan art email us and let us know. Also we are looking for Link fan art, so if you have anything shoot us an email.
Check out the GORGEOUS cover of Beautiful Creatures in Germany, known there as SIXTEEN MOONS!
Cooler yet is the trailer for the book. Check it out on their Amazon Page.
Vania is at BEA and I am beyond jealous, but she has been gracious enough to take some pictures and send them to me. So here are some shots of BEAUTIFUL DARKNESS at BEA.
Send us your pictures of BEAUTIFUL DARKNESS at BEA so we can put them up.
Holly Black’s newest novel, WHITE CAT, is amazing! It’s the first book in her new series THE CURSEWORKERS. Here’s what Kami & Margie have to say about it:
“White Cat is the Godfather of urban fantasy/romance – one of those rare books that makes the rest of us writers look like idiots.” – Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
We convinced Holly to give us an exclusive interview. Read the first part of the interview on the Beautiful Creatures blog HERE. Kami & Margie are also giving away a signed copy of WHITE CAT.
Our Interview with Holly Black:
Yvette: Why did you decide to combine fantasy and organized crime (aside from the fact that it’s genius)?
Holly: I knew I wanted a world that would make for a good noir setting where there could be con and caper plotlines, I wanted the magic of the world to feel appropriate.
So I was thinking about magic and the way that in novels magic is organized and institutionalized. You have this idea of solitary wizards like Gandalf, you have magic schools, like Harry Potter attends, you have lots of books where a wizard teaches one or more students in a pseudo master and apprentice medieval model. So I was thinking about other models and I thought:
Well…what if magic worked like organized crime.
And then I thought about the time that organized crime was at it’s most powerful – Prohibition. That’s how I got to magic being illegal.
Vania: What are four words to describe White Cat?
Holly: Conmen. Mobsters. Gloves. Girl.
Yvette: What are your must-haves when you’re writing?
Holly: So much coffee.
Vania: What’s next for Cassel?
Holly: RED GLOVE starts up sixth months after the end of WHITE CAT. Cassel has spent the summer with his mother and is starting up his senior year at Wallingford. And, uh, someone else has decided to enroll there too.
Yvette: If you were trapped on a deserted island, and you could only have two books, which ones would you choose?
Holly
1 A Field Guide to Venomous Animals and Poisonous Plants.
2. Tales of the Flat Earth by Tanith Lee. I had these in a huge Science Fiction Bookclub bind-up when I was a kid, so I am counting them as one book. They were a huge influence on me as a young writer and I still love them.
Vania: What’s something most people don’t know about you?
Holly: I have a hairless cat named Lily. She is kind of rubbery to the touch, warmer than a normal cat and very affectionate. She also nurses on the skin of her own paw like a tiny vampire.
WHITE CAT is on sale now. Find it at your local library or bookstore.
Want to find out more??? Read Part I of this interview HERE.
Holly is currently on tour. Check out her schedule to see if she is coming to a bookstore near you. She will also be touring with the Smart Chicks Tour (and us) in September.
The winners have been announced for the BEAUTIFUL DARKNESS ARC Giveaway. Head on over to Eve’s Fan Garden and see if you are one of the lucky ones.
So the winners for White Cat and Radiant Shadows are:
Tammy Owens
Audrey S
Email us at castergirls@gmail.com so we can know where to send the awesomeness!
