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[sugakookie]

expensive girl

😏😏😏 oh yeah

send me on anon or not which bts song i remind you of

[taetaez]

😋

you are my:

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(  ) friend

( 😋 ) close friend

you intimidate me:

(  ) yes

( 😋 ) no

do i want to talk more:

( 😋 ) yes

(  ) no

have i ever had a crush on you:

(  ) yes

( 😋 ) no

best feature:

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( 😋 ) layout

( 😋 ) posts

random

( 😋) you’re very funny

(😋  ) you’re adorable

(  ) i freaked out when you followed me

(  ) i feel like i annoy you

( 😋 ) i love seeing your posts on my dashboard

(  😋) you’re so pretty

(  😋)  i love you a lot

( 😋 ) you’re so relatable

(  😋) i’m grateful for you

(  ) i wish i could meet you one day

[cathellisen]

Chapter 21 of Empty Monsters is up on Patreon now.  

[clhellisen]

WIN STUFF. BASICALLY, WIN MY BOOK

To celebrate the paperback début of House of Sand and Secrets, Folded Wherry are running a give away on Goodreads (alas, US, Canada and UK only. I will be running another one on the SA side when I have copies. :D)

  Because May 31 is the most awesome day in the world (I was born then, so naturally it should be a day of universal celebration) it seems as good a day as any to announce the winner.. Until then, go clickenzee the link.

People have said nice stuff about my book, and you should trust them, because they didn't write it.

"It is deeply thought-provoking, movingly romantic, and heart-wrenchingly satisfying. A definite favorite of the year, this is one story I don't want to forget." - Ivy Book Bindings

"House of Sand and Secrets leaves When the Sea Is Rising Red behind in quality, feels, and originality, an incredibly rare quality in a sequel indeed." - A Reader of Fictions

"What I like about Cat Hellisen's stories is that she has created a complex and rich fantasy world with a detailed society and political climate, and stuck a very human, personal story about one girl within it." - Love is Not a Triangle

"I think above all else it is clear that Cat Hellisen is a master storyteller. She has this boundless imagination and she writes books that don't really fit into certain categories..." - The Flyleaf Review.  

Good luck!

[clhellisen]

Today I've been lucky to have Cat Hellisen drop by my blog to talk about her latest book: House of Sand and Secrets. Tell me what compelled you to write a sequel to When the Sea is Rising Red? When the Sea is Rising Red was about the third book I wrote in that universe, so although it was intended as a stand-alone, it was always part of a bigger story. I was also unsatisfied with the main character’s growth and wanted to push her a bit further. I love writing in this world so continuing her story (while still...

[clhellisen]

I love freebies as much as the next human, so it makes me happy to let you guys know that Tammy at the Book Fairy's Haven is doing a cover reveal of House of Sand and Secrets, and giving away 2 copies.

[clhellisen]

A Most Excellent News Kinda Day

Lots of suhweet things happening.

Firstly, the audio book for When the Sea is Rising Red is now out. The voice artist, Gemma Dawson, is absolutely perfect - I can't explain my happiness when I heard her audition.

People are also looking forward to a companion novel to WtSiRR, and there's no maybes about its existence. It is real, and called House of Sand and Secrets.

Sometimes playing to lose is the only way to survive the game of Houses

Trapped in an arranged marriage to lower-caste Jannik and trying to make the best of her fall from grace, Felicita is immersed in the machinations of powerful families. MallenIve is worlds apart from Felicita’s native Pelimburg, and her family name and standing will not help her here. Haunted by her past and those who died because of her, she attempts to regain her status as the scion of a once-great house.

If MallenIve’s leaders have their way, Jannik will soon have no more rights than an animal, and a union that once seemed to offer a solution to Felicita’s problems is now a liability. Felicita’s feelings are conflicted and it is all too easy to fall into the prejudiced mindset of the higher castes … until faceless corpses begin turning up on the rubbish tips, and Felicita might be the only hope Jannik’s people have.

  And I'm going to be at Open Book Cape Town. I'll be hosting a YA Masterclass with S.A. Partridge and Sarah Lotz (who writes YA with her daughter, as Lily Herne).  I'm also going to be included in the Fox and Raven: Readings From the Dark Side with a bunch of very cool names.

[clhellisen]

Twenty Lines

I love making lists of chapter titles; they have a weird poetry to them that makes me eager to get back to work. (In this case back to work on the final part of the revisions for House of Sand and Secrets.)

1- A Plague of Houses 2 - Bone-grinders and Butchers 3 - Glassclaw and Splinterfist 4 - Paper Marriages 5 - Studies in Oil and Ink 6 - Proposals 7 - Two Crows 8 - Pretty Collars 9 - Fire, Ash, Skin 10 - Seven-fold Futures 11 - A Small Truth 12 - The House Imaginary 13 - Silk Armour, Glass Armour 14 - Pieces in Play 15 - The Lark 16 - Pity's Sword 17 - In the Palace of the Mata 18 - Offerings 19 - The Melancholy Raven 20 - Dogleaf