Karina Cooper

The announcements just keep rolling in!

Today’s is one that I am super-pumped to be announcing, because I’m a sucker for a fabulous cause, a fabulous story, and a fabulous person. Fabulosity to the power of awesome.

I can’t even get to the point, I’m squeeing so hard.

So! Let’s just get to the facts, shall we?

The Mysterious Case of Mr. Strangeway

While Corroded won’t be out ’til Fall 2013, don’t worry! We’re not abandoning you! To ease the gap, Carina Press and I shall be releasing a Summer 2013 novella entitled The Mysterious Case of Mr. Strangeway.

“But Karina,” you cry, “how is this possible? Cherry isn’t in good shape!”

She’s in terrible shape, isn’t she? (more…)

I have told you time and time again that I had no news for you regarding the next Cherry St. Croix book, save for it’s title and the promise of a deeper look at life below the drift. I’ve teased a little—more Hawke? more answers? more acrobatics?—and I’ve finally gotten the okay to let go of all my secrets.

Release the secretive, slobbery hounds! (more…)

I’m over at Bitten by Books talking with, as, and for the St. Croix Chronicle’s Cherry. There’s a contest, a great Q&A opportunity, and ninja monkeys. Well, somewhere. We think.

Because spamming you all with review links would be totally awesome and also not so helpful to your state of mind, I’ve decided to collect them all here in this posting. I know, I know, I am nothing if not extremely thoughtful and kind.

You just roll with it. (more…)

“There is more darkness and desperation in Cherry this time.”

Kara-Karina from Nocturnal Book Reviews gives Gilded 9/10, and strongly recommends it to their readers!

You can’t click on the link yet because it won’t go live on the website until next month, but  a top insider (i.e. anyone with access to the print magazine!) can see Gilded in this month’s edition of RT Book Reviews. (more…)

Fa la la la la, la la, la la!

As we’re headed into the holiday season, now’s the perfect time to delve into a city that might just be grayer, colder dirtier and definitely more dangerous than yours. Victorian London is no easy mark—and Cherry St. Croix, reluctant Society miss and reckless collector extraordinaire, isn’t going to take her troubles lying down.

In Tarnished, the first in this sexy steampunk intrigue, we are introduced to our intrepid heroine by way of a collection gone sideways. Just when things look to be at their worst… they get even worse than that. Ouch. Gilded brings right back where we left her, a little worse for wear and twice as stubborn.

You’ll have plenty of time to curl up by the fire—or, if you’re feeling particularly Christmasy, next to the lit-up tree!—mulled wine in hand, and devour Tarnished. It’ll be a great excuse to drown out the bickering family! Or you can go for storytime, if there are no little ears present to twitch at every mention of bloody bells and damn. (To say nothing of an “exorcism by orgasm”—what?! You know you want to see it.)

Gilded won’t leave you hanging for long! Released December 26th, it’s the perfect after-Christmas release. (Heh heh, she said “release”.) Spend your post-holiday, pre-New Year week enmeshed in conspiracy, murder and, yes, a little bit of lovelorn angst. But I promise you—she won’t be angsting long. (Gasp! What does that even mean? You’ll have to read it and find out!)

So, what do you say? Are you going to have (or even gift someone) a very Cherry Christmas?

Tarnished: the St. Croix Chronicles #1

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Gilded: the St. Croix Chronicles #2

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