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HELLO! I do not TUMBL that much anymore but I am on Twitter OF COURSE and also INSTAGRAM if you want to go THERE.
Stevie Bell had a simple desire: she wanted to be standing over a dead body.
She didn’t want to kill people– far from it. She wanted to be the person who found out why the body was dead, that’s all. She wanted bags marked EVIDENCE and a paper boiler suit like forensics wore. She wanted to be in the interrogation room. She wanted to get to the bottom of the case.
Truly Devious | @maureenjohnsonbooks
TRULY DEVIOUS ON KINDLE FOR $1.99
Hello.
Perhaps you have heard of this book TRULY DEVIOUS? Perhaps you thought, “Maybe this MYSTERY NOVEL is for me, but now is not the time! NOT THE TIME! I am busy building the MACHINE and do not have time for BOOKS!”
Well.
Right now, TRULY DEVIOUS is available on Kindle for $1.99. Even if you are in your LABORATORY, perhaps you would like to pick up a copy for POST-INVENTION READING?
It is $1.99.
If you want it.
*thunderclap*
“They’re not angels,” Stevie said. They’re sphinxes. They’re mystical creatures that ask you riddles before you’re allowed to enter a place. If you get it wrong, they eat you. Lake from Oedipus. The Riddle of the Sphinx. That’s a Sphinx.” “Not to be confused with Spanx, which is a sidearm in the holster of a diet industrial complex.” Maureen Johnson, “Truly Devious”
Love this book
what shall we use? we can’t decide. just like you cannot run or hide haha.
I wrote the first book and then I forgot how to write. It used to be that I would sit and write and I would go into some other world–I could see it all. I was totally in another place. But the second it became something I had to do, something in me broke. It’s like I used to know the way to some magical land and I lost the map. I hate myself.
Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson AKA the most relatable quote about writing EVER (via helenamayhathaway)
I wrote the first book and then I forgot how to write. It used to be that I would sit and write and I would go into some other world–I could see it all. I was totally in another place. But the second it became something I had to do, something in me broke. It’s like I used to know the way to some magical land and I lost the map. I hate myself.
Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson AKA the most relatable quote about writing EVER (via helenamayhathaway)
I’m not saying I relate to this, of course. I just wrote it.
*looks away*
what shall we use? we can’t decide. just like you cannot run or hide haha.
A TALE OF TWO MAPS
When I was working on Truly Devious, I realized it very much needed a map. Where the crimes happened, how they happened...the locations of things really MATTER in this book. So this is the original sketch I sent:
Somehow, after much back and forth and my edits and tweaks and changes, this is what resulted:
And if that is not magic, I don’t know what is. LOOK CLOSELY, FOR IT CONTAINS CLUES.
It’s too cold to go out, so come join me by the FIRE for some READING! At 4pm EST I’m going to read from Truly Devious and answer questions and generally HANG OUT. Pajamas welcomed, but not mandatory.
Upcoming appearances and Truly Devious pre-orders!
HELLO FRIENDS.
Truly Devious is coming out in JUST A FEW DAYS. You can still pre-order it and get a signed copy and a sticker. The pre-order stores are:
AND THIS IS THE STICKER YOU GET (pictured here on my notebook, not included):
IT IS BIG AND OFFICIAL.
Of course, you can get the book at ANY BOOKSTORE YOU LIKE. Those are just the pre-order signed copy/sticker ones. The date to remember is JANUARY 16th.
AND NOW...MY TOUR DATES!
January 16 – University Bookstore (Seattle), 6 PM
4326 University Way NE
Seattle, WA 98105
with Kendare Blake, Sara Holland, and Kasie West
January 17 – Changing Hands (Tempe), 7 PM
6428 S McClintock Drive
Tempe, AZ 85283
with Rae Carson, Sara Holland, and Kasie West
January 18 – Tattered Cover (Littleton, CO), 7:00 PM
7301 S. Santa Fe Drive
Littleton, CO 80120
with Colleen Oakes, Sara Holland, and Kasie West
March 23-24 - TEEN BOOK CON, Katy, TX
Schedule coming soon!
April 13-14 - TEEN AUTHOR BOOTCAMP, Salt Lake City, UT
Utah Valley Convention Center.
[Public bookstore signing info coming soon!]
April 19 - GLENDALE PUBLIC LIBRARY, Glendale, CA, 7pm
[Other LA area appearance info coming soon!]
Reveries of Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby beaming at me from across the sofa <3
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