...in Other words...: July 2009

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

This Will Be Some Enchanting Evening!!

Anyone in the Bayfield Ontario area looking for an evening of Faery fun and frolic on Sunday, August 2, 2009 please come on out and join me and the fabulous RJ Anderson, author of the Faery Rebels: Spellhunter for an evening of readings, signings and live music at

The Village Bookshop!

The event starts at 7:00 pm

Come out come out!

Bring a lawn chair and we shall revel on the lawn under the stars

and regale you with tales of the Fair Folk!

Saturday, July 25, 2009

Wondrous Survivor!!

Now - this is awesome.

The Orillia Public Library is hosting a summer teen reading club called Teen Survivor, where the books are the contestants! They've chose eight awesome novels for teens to read and vote on and I'm tickled to say that WONDROUS STRANGE is on the island!

What's even cooler is that the library (which pretty much sounds like the coolest library EVER!) is organizing a trip to Stratford to go see A Midsummer Night's Dream because of my book!! I am so excited that these kids are going to get to experience real live Shakespeare all because the librarians in Orillia think WONDROUS STRANGE is cool!

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

DARKLIGHT!!!

A picture really IS worth a thousand words. SEVERAL thousand, in this case! I've been dying to post this... and now I finally can! Without further ado, lovely readers, I present to you the cover art for DARKLIGHT - book 2 in the WONDROUS STRANGE trilogy!

If you ask me, the design geniuses at HarperCollins really knocked this one out of the park. WAAAYY out. *deliriously happy sigh*

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

ARCANE MERAVIGLIE...

What is it about Italian that just rolls off the tongue?

ARCANE MERAVIGLIE.... doesn't that sound lovley? It sounds even more lovely once you know that it is the Italian name for WONDROUS STRANGE!!

And it's available HERE from the wonderful people at Fazi Editore.

That's right Kelley and Sonny have gone International! Anybody here read Italian?

What They're Saying!

PRAISE FOR WONDROUS STRANGE

"Oh, bestselling Twilight, thou hast a strong contender. Livingston delivers with skillful momentum, in the same way she unveils the complicated faerie plots lurking behind the fabric of the everyday... With mastery, Livingston handles the dramatic agony of growing up... As a young adult fantasy, this book has it all."~Globe and Mail

"Dark enchantment and treacherous magic enliven every page."~ Melissa de la Cruz, author of the Blue Blood series

"Wow! Wondrous Strange is enchanting from beginning to end! With a marvelously refreshing heroine, a genuinely lovable hero, and a swift-moving, fascinating plot, Ms. Livingston gives a modern twist to the age-old epic ihero's coming of age' story. Set against the play A Midsummer Night's Dream, Wondrous Strange shows that the world of Faerie can be updated and yet retain its age-old charm—as well as its aura of deadly danger. This is my kind of fiction, and my kind of heroine! I enjoyed it immensely, and think Lesley Livingston will go far!" ~ LJ Smith, author of the NY Times bestselling Vampire Diaries

"The narrative is rich with incident and mouting tension, but allows for imaginative set pieces ... it builds on the familiar without sacrificing originality... here's hoping that the two remaining books in the trilogy succeed as well." ~ Robert J. Wiersema, for Quill and Quire (starred review)

"Completely absorbing and perfectly polished — Livingston's vision of faeries in the modern world is bright and exciting. A dazzling debut!"~ Don Bassingthwaite, author of The Doom Kings

"Many novels start off well. But rarely do they keep getting better, and better, until they deliver so much more than they promise that, by the end, a standing ovation is in order. Wondrous Strange is that rare kind of novel. A nearly miraculous balancing act that juggles Celtic faerie shenanigans, New York City, a sense of humor, Shakespeare, courtly love, peril and honor and a perfectly logical plot that keeps twisting deeper and darker into layer after layer of magic -- and oh, by the way, did I mention that the characters are to love and die for? If you have ever in your life felt the lure of things most wondrous strange, don't miss this book." ~ Nancy Springer, Edgar Award winning author of The Enola Holmes series

"Set against the backdrop of present-day New York City, this enchanting first novel weaves together the worlds of theater and magic in a way that is sure to please fans of both. Readers will revel in the hints of Shakespeare within the text as they are introduced to faerie creatures both familiar and 'wondrous strange.'" ~ Misti Tidman, Boyd County Public Library, Ashland, KY

DESCENDANT "ROCKSTAR" BOOK TOUR!