A SANCTUARY OF SPIRITS Pre-Order Campaign with Original Gothic, Ghostly Art by Kelley Hensing

THE SPECTRAL CITY series continues!

DARLINGS!

Spectral City continues in a fantastic pre-order campaign! Join us for more ghosts, magic, mayhem, mysticism, slow-burn romance and a fierce, psychic girl-gang fighting weird crime in 1899 NYC! Get a signed, personalized copy of A SANCTUARY OF SPIRITS and this beautiful Gothic illustration from renowned dark fantasy artist Kelley Hensing, all while supporting WORD, a fantastic independent bookstore! 

Kensington Publishing Corp. and I are partnering with WORD Brooklyn for pre-orders and our launch party in NYC on Nov. 12 at 7pm, co-hosted by the amazing Zoraida Córdova! We'll talk Supernatural NYC, celebrating Spectral City and Brooklyn Brujas! Can’t make the launch in person? Pre-order a personalized SANCTUARY copy now and Kelley's ghostly, beautiful illustration of Maggie Hathorn, a star ghost of the series, will be included in your purchase! 

Click here for details, party RSVPs and more!

Have you already pre-ordered? Are you ordering digitally and still want a print of Kelley’s beautiful, phantasmagorical work? Send an email stating the following: Your mailing address (addresses will be discarded after campaign), Retailer and Sales Confirmation # to this email: preorders at leannareneehieber dot com.

Cheers and Happy Haunting! PLEASE, RSVP for the NYC party and/orPre-Order now! 

Thanks in advance for your support! 
If you want this series to continue, we need your support now!

About the book:
In turn-of-the-century New York City, the police have an off-the-books spiritual go-to when it comes to solving puzzling corporeal crimes... Her name is Eve Whitby, the 19-year-old gifted medium and leader of The Ghost Precinct. Working with the diligent but skeptical Detective Horowitz, as well as a group of fellow psychics and wayward ghosts, Eve solves New York’s most disturbing crimes as only a medium of her ability can. But even Eve is unsettled by the backlash that threatens the department—and the discovery that souls are vanishing into the ether. While searching for clues about a mortician’s disappearance, Eve encounters a charismatic magician and mesmerist whose abilities are unlike any she’s seen. Is he a link to the mysterious deaths around the city, or to the Ghost Sanctuary? Torn between the bonds of her team and her growing relationship with the dashing Horowitz, Eve must discern truth from illusion and friend from foe, before another soul vanishes into the ether . . .

Coming from Kensington, Rebel Base Books, Nov. 12 in trade paperback and digital!

Spotlight on Kelley Hensing and Magic Most Foul themed art!

Today I want to introduce you to fabulously talented, multi-published fantasy illustrator Kelley Hensing, a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design and the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, she was the recipient of the "Movado Future Legends" art award for 2010. Her artwork has graced countless gaming books, murals, card designs, scultpures, art shows and events across the country and has appeared in such prestigous outlets as Spectrum 18. I am so proud of her.

Kelley and I go way back, to the Goth clubs of Cincinnati in our youth, to sitting dreaming in coffee shops of the days we'd be in New York writing and making art. Those days are here, we remain treasured friends and I'm so excited to be teaming up with this gifted woman as I prepare to launch the Magic Most Foul finale, THE DOUBLE LIFE OF INCORPORATE THINGS, 3/5 right here on this blog.

For our $50.00 sponsors, Kelley will be creating a limited edition 5x7 Magic Most Foul themed print that will be included with a signed, completed copy of THE DOUBLE LIFE OF INCORPORATE THINGS. Donations will help cover the many and multi-layered editorial and production costs of serialzing the novel for free throughout this year and then making it available fully in print and digital this November. $20.00 sponsors will received signed copies of the book along with a sponsor token, but of course any donations are welcome towards the cause as the first serial prepares to launch 3/5!

Cheers and blessings!

In which a grand time was had at TempleCon

How awesome was TempleCon? So very, very awesome. Beloved friend from the Goth scene back in Cincinnati back-in-the-day, incredible artist Kelley Hensing and myself packed her art, my Strangely Beautiful books, and a ridiculous amount of poofy skirts, corsetry and hat boxes into her car and drove to Warwick, Rhode Island where the moment we walked in, the magnificent Creative Director Madame Ximon recognized me immediately by my absurdly large hat and showed us graciously to our booths. She is a consummate hostess and runs a damn good convention.

As we set up our wares, we gaped and grinned as spectacular Steampunk, Neo-Victorian and other Retro-Futurist costumed ladies and gentlemen strolled by. Please visit the TempleCon site for fabulous photos of these incredible feats of costuming and imagination. (Shown here, me at my booth - with said large hat - Kelley's work to the right)

After a day of selling wares and greeting fellow gaming and fantasy fans, Kelly and I were invited by our talented booth-neighbors to their Unhallowed party and thus begun my realization that the Unhallowed crowd were just about the ultimate in cool. Unhallowed: Metropolis is a Live Action Role Playing game designed by Jason Soles & Nicole Vega and described as: a gas-mask chic role-playing game of Neo-Victorian horror. SIGN ME UP! Not only did these ladies and gents know how to dress up beautifully (a skill I hold in the utmost esteem), and throw a party, but they've tossed everything I love into one beautifully realized and inventive world. Mr. Soles and Ms. Vega have surrounded themselves with fabulous artists and authors like photographer Marc17, puppeteer and artist George Higham, and author Simon J. Berman.

The next day the Unhallowed crowd were my fellow guests (again, all of us impeccably dressed to the Victorian nines, I might add) on the Neo-Victorian panel where we all gushed (okay, I gushed, they were all much more composed) about why we love the 19th century, infusing paranormal into it, and why everyone else should be just as obsessed with it too. And then I was graciously granted the opportunity to read from The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker and had (as I always do when I get to play the actress and read) a most delightful time of it. And then we relaxed with another party. A Tea Party, of course, with sumptuous trappings (and more costumes). Particular kudos to our Neo-Victorian cage match/pit-fighting discussion replete with appropriate WWF characters and etymology. Bartitsu!

Other highlights included my fantastic chats spanning 300 years of history with The Major of Big Bear Trading Co.

(pictured here in striped finery is Miss Kitty of Big Bear Trading Co. who made me an Edgar Allan Poe brooch that I'm positively in love with) The friendly people working the Privateer Press booth, and The General and his Lady, Chief Security Officer of the S.S. Icarus and the Penny Dreadfuls company. And I've more to look forward to! Continuing my Neo-Victorian / Gaslight Gothic tour, now I can't wait to be a guest author at the Steampunk World's Fair in May, where I'll see a lot of familiar faces and new friends!

Huzzah!