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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!

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Google alert is sometimes good to me, so is twitter! It brought me this past week, two lovely pieces of THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING fan art, both for the Bravermans.

This Bonnie by Briana Mora (she did a gorgeous Lola LeFever for the fan art contest too) is gorgeous – looooove the eels as a framing/portrait device:

Bonnie Braverman by Briana Mora

The other, from the lovely Rachael Stephen, is of Bonnie’s mother, Scarlett Braverman, who nobody has drawn yet, not even Stephanie, Ross, or Meredith, so that is awesome!

Scarlett Braverman by Rachael Stephen

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I’ve been slowly tracking down and compiling all the awesome THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING reviews that have been popping up and so here we are! I’ve included a few of the negative reviews I’ve found, but not all of them.

If you know of a review (or wrote one) that you think I’ve missed, please feel free to leave it in the comments or shoot me an email and I’ll update it. These are in no particular order, though some of the more high profile ones are at the top. Thanks to all of you that have taken the time to write reviews – and to those of you on Amazon and Goodreads (all 142 reviewers combined thus far) – you guys rock!

io9 -“…the best superhero/villain pair in ages.”

USA Today – Pop Candy

Tim Hanley/Straitened Circumstances

Geekarella

Love YA Books

Poisoned Rationality

Bonni’s Book Reviews

Seeley James

Witless Prattle

Cait Spivey (The Preeminent Litterateur)

On The Nightstand

You Read What? (A.A. Omer)

A.A. Omer – Superhero Week

Dave Does The Blog

Comics! The Blog

Bookish In A Box

Faith, Hope, & Love, But The Greatest Of These…

TGWWBK also got a few badass mentions by awesome people on “Best of Lists” for 2012. :)

Whatley Dude

Seeley James

Karen Mahoney

Comics! The Blog: Inarguable Best of 2013 (“Best Novel Our Friend Published”)

 

And if you made it this far…BUY THE LIMITED EDITION HARDCOVER & SWAG…HERE!

 

 

 

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I have become greedy and thus as my stats “fall” on Amazon Kindle I find it “Lemon Grab-Level UNACCEPTABLE!”

Get out there and viral this puppy, kids so I can stop screaming UNACCEPTABLE (in my head…and sometimes out loud).

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UPDAATED!

Oh man…I had to update this! So I did this sketch again (and did a much better job – practice, yo!) – but most importantly Adam inked it for me – he’s SUCH A GOOD INKER. If this doesn’t show the power of a great inker I don’t know what does!

He also made some small drawing changes that super helped too. AMAZING. I’m in love with how it looks now and am going to pretend *I* did all by my lonesome! 😉

Pencils by Kelly Thompson, inks by Adam Greene

Felt the urge for some sketching this week. Did a fun one of Bonnie and Lola that I wanted to share with you all.

It’s also a great opportunity to remind you to BUY THE BOOK THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING.

You can buy digital and paperback copies on Amazon, and limited edition illustrated hardcovers (and cool swag) on TGWWBK website.

Also, if you’ve already purchased and read, but have not yet reviewed TGWWBK…get on that, son!

Crappy pencils AND inks by Kelly Thompson

 

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Huge thanks to Whitney Matheson for featuring THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING on Pop Candy’s “Week in Pop.”

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via Craig Jewell Photography

This is what this is about.

Apparently, except for that one book I wrote in 2011 (and ended up loving) I am not destined to do these “novel in a month” things. Because when I do, my life fucking explodes – sometimes for good, sometimes for ill.

This time it was a little bit of both. There were some personal life things going on that made writing a lot of words a day difficult, but more importantly, as many of you already know, THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING got an awesome rave review from io9 and as a result sales went through the roof (and we hit the #1 Bestseller spot on Amazon).

So a lot of things have been HAPPENING. Many of which I can’t yet talk about, but it’s all pretty damn awesome. That said, THE GOD KILLER got a bit shifted to the side. But don’t despair! It will get done, I promise. It is still #1/#2 priority on the list of “things to do.”

Thanks for your patience and interest, everyone, and stay tuned for more news!

-Kelly

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According to io9 she comes close!

“…Lola is, without hyperbole, one of the most fantastic antagonists I’ve ever had the pleasure to read.”

If you haven’t read Lola’s story yet in THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING, what are you waiting for?

Buy digital and paperback on Amazon, or limited edition illustrated hardcovers (and extras!) at: The Girl Who Would Be King.com

And for those of you that have read, but haven’t yet reviewed it…get on that! 😉

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Yessss!

Thank you again to Rob Bricken at io9, who says “The Girl Who Would Be King introduces the best superhero/villain pair in ages”

and “Lola is, without hyperbole, one of the most fantastic antagonists I’ve ever had the pleasure to read.” among other amazing things!

It was his rave review of TGWWBK on Thursday evening that gave us the big push we needed. Check out these awesome screen caps:

 

 

And in case you still don’t know where to get a copy – you can buy a kindle version or a paperback via AMAZON. For limited edition illustrated hardcovers, head over to THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING website. There’s also some awesome swag, limited edition prints, and such on the website if you fall in love with some of the art.

If you really want a digital copy but want it for a Nook or iPad (and don’t want to steal it – and please don’t do that) those epub editions will be available again in April. If you email me (1979semifinalist[at]gmail) I’d be happy to add you to a mailing list so you can be notified when other digital editions become available again.

And thanks to all of you that have been so supportive over the months – giving great reviews, retweeting, and blogging about the book – could not have done it without you – here’s to this only being the beginning for this book…I mean, who doesn’t want to see the movie?!?

– Kelly

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Awesome news today, kids (and boy could I use it) – THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING got a rave review from io9’s Rob Bricken today!

Check it out.

Also, it’s probably a good time to re-post the trailer, in case you’ve missed it. Also, definitely make sure the sound is on, as the music by Speed Speed Speed makes it!

Oh – and I’m going to need to update the trailer with those amazing io9 quotes!

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