The next issue of Megan Bledsoe’s Reader List (man, my newsletter needs a better name 🤪) comes out tomorrow with a silly but fun horror short story inspired by the Midas Touch. The one about the guy who turned everything he touched into gold. Course that’s not where I go with it. 😈 Plus I paired it with zombies. You should check it out. Tomorrow, like I said. Over at my newsletter. Oh, but it’s just for subscribers, so get yourself subscribed!
You spot your book at the library! Check this out!
It’s got the mylar cover and library stickers and it’s even already got some grime on it!
And I’m pretty sure—from the look of the top and bottom of the interior when it’s closed—that someone has definitely read every page of this copy! How cool is that!?!
So, so cool!
Have you seen it at your library? I would love to know. If you see it around, send me a pic or post it and tag me.
If you don’t see Girl, Incorrupted on your library’s New Books shelf, ask them to order it! Libraries are very accomodating. They’ll usually place a hold for you, too, so that when it arrives you’ll be able to take it home and give it a read! Win, win, win!
Here’s the info you’ll need:
Title: Girl, Incorrupted: a love-horror story
Author: Megan Bledsoe
Publisher: Arched Brow Books
Publication Date: September 12, 2023
ISBN: 979-8218187347 (Hardcover)
Yay!
Spoiler: I’m a dork.
Why Write Horror?, my HWA Halloween Haunts submission, is live over on the Horror Writers Association website! You can check it out here.
The title of this post pretty much says it all. Girl, Incorrupted comes out in one week! Yay! I’m so excited for you to read it!
But did you know that you can start reading it RIGHT NOW?
You can. The first 90+ pages are up on my substack. They’ll be there until release day when I will have to take them down. (If you want to know why, go check out the pages.)
But until then, you can read, read, read the first quarter of the book. Plenty of pages to decide if you want to keep going (if you know what I mean).
See you there!
So I was just gearing up to start promoting Girl, Incorrupted to libraries when I read that there are a million books published every year.
A million.
Every year.
So for a moment there, I felt a little overwhelmed, a little already defeated.
I remembered that Every. Single. Time. I ask my library to order me a book—THEY DO! Aren’t libraries the best? And so I thought…
Hello, Kind Reader,
Should you ever find yourself sitting around, wondering what to do with the next five minutes of your time, may I suggest that you ask your library to order Girl, Incorrupted!
Here’s the information you’ll need:
Title: Girl, Incorrupted: a love-horror story
Author: Megan Bledsoe
Publisher: Arched Brow Books
Publication Date: September 12, 2023
ISBN: 979-8218187347 (Hardcover)
Distribution/Wholesaler: Ingram
You can probably find the request form online after signing into your account. Or you can ask the circulation desk to order the book next time you’re there. (You can print this out and take it with you, if you want).
Either way, if you order the book, you will do far more in under five minutes to help me get Girl, Incorrupted into the hands of library patrons at your library than I could ever do on my own. And I will love you forever for it.
Writers need time to write, but one—and often two—thing(s) eat into that time: promoting their books and working at their job that pays the bills.
By helping writers increase their books’ visibility and helping to encourage readers to give the writer’s books a try, you help the writer to both turn their writing into their job that pays the bills and help ease the burden of having to promote, all of which frees up more and more time for the writer to write more of the books you love.
Are you curious about which auspiciously foreboding Girl, Incorrupted book quote might be selected exclusively by you and for you?
Do you want a Girl, Incorrupted bookmark designed by moi in a brag-worthy color combo exclusive to the preorder that you can print for yourself?
Are you eager to bask in my everlasting gratitude expressed in a paragraph gushing about how awesome you are?
But even more than that—yes, there’s more!—do you like books with magical lore, all the feels, and ominous characters who haunt the page, all delivered in a way quite likely to hold you captive until the very last word?
Girl, Incorrupted is a love-horror story about a young woman following her darker impulses with regards to love and entangling herself with a monster rarely seen before.
You can learn more about it here.
You can start reading it here.
And you can view the Look Book here.
To get your preorder goodies, just:
And that’s it! Do these four things by September 12, 2023, and I will send you your goodies!
Yay!
The Girl, Incorrupted Look Book. It’s a taste, a tease, a tantalizing preview of …
Well, see for yourself:
Girl, Incorrupted is a love-horror story about a young woman following her darker impulses with regards to love and entangling herself with a monster rarely seen before. Check out the look book.
There was something special about the starlet. Nechai noticed this right away. She noticed everything about everyone, but must people didn’t intrigue her, not like this, not in a way that made her not only notice but stop and pay attention.
The starlet was still a budding star back then. She would have made it into the spotlight on her own eventually, Nechai was sure of that. But the starlet wanted it now.
Don’t we all.
Thing is, Nechai could give it to her. Just as the starlet wanted it. And all right now.
And so she did.
But the starlet wasn’t satisfied with having it all. Of course not. She was ambitious. She was insatiable.
And she was cunning.
It hurt Nechai to let Fausten take what she wanted, knowing it would cost their friendship and foreseeing where the girl’s choice would land her, but Nechai has no regrets about letting Fausten turn herself into the most intriguing human…
Well… she can’t really say alive now, can she?
So no, maybe not alive, not quite, but definitely still the most intriguing.
And now that Fausten’s neverending machinations have set their sights on the college girl…
Well…
There’s no way Nechai is missing the show.
And neither should you.
GIRL, INCORRUPTED is available now!. Find order options here.
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