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It’s finally here, kids!
STORYKILLER is live on Kickstarter.
Head on over and check it out!
Here’s a teaser illustration by Stephanie Hans, but you’ll find lots more over on the Kickstarter site!
You can also read a 50 page excerpt here on the blog, or download a pretty formatted pdf perfect for iPads –> STORYKILLER Excerpt
Tessa Battle and her axe The Black Dove from Storykiller. Illustration by Stephanie Hans!
Tags: kickstarter, novels, storykiller
Illustration by Stephanie Hans
STORYKILLER is my second novel, and one I am currently Kickstarting. Go there now to learn more about the book and check out all kinds of incredible art.
Below is an excerpt – the first seven chapters (about 50 pages) which you can read here directly, or click here –> STORYKILLER Excerpt to download a properly formatted pdf (perfect for iPads, but also fine to read on your computer).
‘There’s something wrong with me,’ boomed through Tessa’s head on repeat. She nearly shattered the flimsy stall door as she kicked it in with her combat boot and got over the toilet only seconds before she vomited what felt like everything she’d ever eaten. A pair of girls at the sinks behind her groaned and got bitchy.
“Ewww.”
“Gross. Way to go, new girl.”
Tessa stepped on the flush with her boot and staggered out of the stall, glaring at them.
“Double ewww,” the blonde said, looking Tessa up and down and making a gagging sound. Tessa thought for a moment about punching her in the throat, but the pinch of pain in her stomach made her feel strangely kittenish. Instead, she just moved to the sinks and turned the tap, which immediately snapped off in her hand as if she was The Hulk.
“Balls,” Tessa muttered, tossing the broken knob to the floor. “Piece of junk,” she said squinting her eyes shut through a wave of sharp pains while the cool water gushed from the faucet. Tessa leaned over the sink and rinsed out her mouth as the girls slid from the bathroom giggling and calling her names. She washed her face, not caring that her hair or the heavy black make-up around her eyes was getting wet.
She glanced at her watch.
2:25 pm.
She’d been 17 for three minutes.
What an awesome start to what was sure to be a banner year back in Lore, Oregon.
Tags: kickstarter, novels, storykiller
Some lovely new reviews, mentions, and such for THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING about the web!
The Refined Word gave me perhaps the most fantastic compliment I have ever received as a writer – I think I full on blushed.
Stephanie’s gorgeous cover art got picked for Infinite Curio’s “Cover of the Day” as well as About Happy Books “Cover Favorites” for 6/15/13!
Never Yet Melted calls TGWWBK the next Hunger Games here. (yes!)
The lovely Kimberly over at Love YA Books put yours truly on her list of Top 10 Authors That Deserve More Recognition and put TGWWBK on her list of Top 10 Beach Reads! Thank you Kimberly!
Claudia Lefeve (great name!) mentioned TGWWBK in her 5/31/13 GOOD READS post.
A good review by Henry Fung at Fraggin’ Civie.
We’re also up to an insane 119 Reviews on Amazon and still maintaining a fantastic 4.5/5.0 star rating and we’re up to 315 ratings and 85 reviews on GoodReads.
Thanks to all of you have that have taken the time to write reviews! And as always, if you write about the book on your blog or tumblr or some such, please shoot me a link…the web is a vast place, it’s hard to find everything!
When you see this image, do you NEED to know more about Lola LeFever? If so, head over to Amazon or Lulu to buy your digital copy of THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING!
Lola LeFever by Stephanie Hans
After all this time, for those of you down with e-readers or down with reading on your computer, THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING is available to buy if you missed out on the Kickstarter!
You can buy it now on Amazon, and if you prefer to read on an iPad, Nook, or anything other than a Kindle, you can also buy now from Lulu and if you don’t have an account with Lulu, don’t worry, you can easily buy through paypal via Lulu.
And for those of you that have already read, or are reading and might finish soon – I would really appreciate honest reviews on Amazon, Goodreads, and Lulu. Reviews can really make a difference, especially for self-published work, as buyers are naturally more hesitant.
Anyway, thanks for everything guys, more information and images and cool shit coming your way soon, I’ll make sure to update here, but if you haven’t been to the website, there’s tons of great information and images there as well. Oh, and if you want to read a twenty page preview – go here to read online or download the pdf.
BUY! BUY! BUY! 
Tags: Bonnie Braverman, Lola LeFever, The Girl Who Would Be King
So in honor of THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING and the two kickass superpowered teenage protagonists I’m going to do a superheroine a day for the entire run of my Kickstarter.
I’m not going to write a big thing for each post, but I’m going to post tons of gorgeous art – both professional and fan art – to celebrate these great characters. I’m going to do my damndest to link back and credit, but if I miss something, please forgive and correct if you’ve got the right information in the comments.
Today we’re naturally starting with BONNIE & LOLA and I hope you’ll all enjoy them mightily.
There’s of course not a lot of fan art out yet for Bonnie & Lola since everyone is just meeting them, but a couple really wonderful people have already given me some art for them to get the ball rolling.
We obviously have the gorgeous cover work and illustration by Stephanie Hans which you’ve all seen – and if you go here you can see a dialogue between she and I about the cover process as well as her early sketches:
And then Ross Campbell contributed these absolutely gorgeous Lola and Bonnie heads:
And Meredith McClaren did these brilliant Bonnie and Lola “itties”:
And THIS one by Stephanie Hans – an original painting of Bonnie – from a scene in the book – and available for purchase on Kickstarter!
This has been so much fun already that I could just die.
Tags: Bonnie Braverman, bonnie vs lola, cute superheroes, Lola LeFever
Some of you may know that I have this book called THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING that I almost sold to a major publishing house in the summer of 2010.
Since then it has gone on a shelf while I wrote another book, hoping the new book would be “less violent” and “more YA” (which were the ultimate reasons given that THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING didn’t sell). I hoped to sell it later…perhaps.
However after seeing Hunger Games in theaters this spring, I realized that THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING, awesome as it was, was maybe never going to be “YA enough” or “Un-violent enough” (not a word!) to suit the larger publishing market. So I decided to do a Kickstarter for it and self publish. That got put on hold as well (for a reason I hope to share with you all soon) but in the meantime I had already commissioned the absolutely fantastic Stephanie Hans to do my cover illustration for the book.
If all goes well, you all will be seeing the final cover illustration (and hearing more about the Kickstarter) sometime in June.
Stephanie, in addition to being a brilliant illustrator, actually read the entire book (it’s big) in order to do the cover work, which is above and beyond everything I could have hoped for. Perhaps even more amazing, she loved the book, and I think you can see how much in the quality of her illustrations. Below is a sketch that (though it’s perhaps my favorite of all the sketches she did) was more appropriate for a comic book than a novel and so we didn’t move forward with it. But Stephanie liked it so much that she kept on going…and the results are unbelievably cool.
So world…please welcome Bonnie and Lola into the world…two wonderful badasses that I love – and hope you’ll all get to read more about soon!
This is Stephanie’s first sketch – which blew my mind – from a scene mid-way through the book:
Bonnie & Lola Sketch (Bonnie in the water, Lola above)
This is the work in progress sketch:
Bonnie and Lola, wip
And the final version, which makes me want to do an illustrated edition, or a graphic novel adaptation SO MUCH:
Bonnie & Lola, final
A huge thanks to Stephanie, who went above and beyond, and is generally the best person ever. Buy her work here!
And you can of course see Stephanie and I collaborating on a comic together for Womanthology with “SuperLess Hero”
Follow me on twitter here: @79SemiFinalist
& Stephanie on twitter here: @HansStephanie
Tags: comics!, cute superheroes
Hey Everyone!
Just wanted to give you a heads up that the Womanthology Preview is up on CBR. And since “SuperLess Hero” the story by Stephanie Hans and yours truly, is the first story in the book, you can actually read our story in its entirety in the preview!
Thanks for all the support and positive thoughts that you have all offered and continue to offer! Enjoy!
Tags: comics!, publication, superless hero, things made of awesome
