The Crow's Rest Blog Hop Kicks Off Today!

To celebrate the release of Crow's Rest on May 12, there's a bloghop kicking off today! You can read an excerpt featuring Avery's spooky encounters at Warren Castle, and we've encouraged the participants to share their own ghostly (or other strange) encounters, too.

And, there's a Rafflecopter to enter! You could win a signed copy of Crow's Rest, signed bookmarks, and/or swag. Go to a participating blog to enter. And don't forget you can still enter the Goodreads Giveaway until May 24!

Here's where you can find the bloghop stops:

Monday, May 11

Katrina at Bookish Things & More
S.M. Johnston and E.L. Wicker on Down Under Wonderings
Cassandra Sparks will be sharing on Facebook and other social media sites
Robyn Chause on A Ponderance of Things

Tuesday, May 12

I'll be posting on Operation Awesome
Laurie Dennison will share on her website
Alia on One Way or An Author

Wednesday, May 13

 Karen McCoy at The Writer Librarian
Zili at Zili in the Sky
Sneha at Devouring Books

Thursday, May 14

Raychelle Steele at Steele Reviews


There will also be some folks joining in on Twitter and other social media, so look for the #CrowsRest hashtag to find those. Make sure to check in with each stop and see what sinister stories they have to share!

Plus, if you would like to participate, you still can--just leave your own story in the comments on any stop, or go to the Crow's Rest Facebook page and look for the post where you can comment. Thanks so much for the support, everybody!

Crow's Rest on USA Today!

Robin Covington, a romance author who spotlights romances for the Happily Ever After blog on USA Today, featured the Crow's Rest Trailer yesterday! She had some great things to say about my trailer, which gave me all sorts of warm fuzzies for my homemade little teaser film.

Robin said, "The trailer for Crow's Rest by Angelica R. Jackson is creepy ... in a good way. The soundtrack with the lone whistler had me wanting to look over my shoulder, and the muted, dark imagery hammer home the vibe. The script is well done — just giving me enough information to get me intrigued and then hooked and then taken aback by the little twist of humor at the end. I liked it!"

So great to wake up to that on Friday! And lest you think I have some secret "in" that got the trailer up on USA Today, you should know it was as simple as sending Robin an email and bringing it to her attention. I honestly wasn't sure if the trailer had enough romantic elements for her to pick it--there's certainly a romantic thread running through Crow's Rest, but for the trailer I had to balance getting across the suspense as well as the romance. Sounds like I succeeded!

Here's the trailer again

Crow's Rest is Available in Paperback for Preorder!

I was stalking my own book on Goodreads yesterday (we writers can't help ourselves) and noticed something new on the Crow's Rest page:

a small note saying other editions (1) led me to click, and to discover that gasp my book has an ISBN!

Some further poking around led me to Amazon.com, where I discovered it's available for preorder in paperback!!!!!
(I write YA and have a literary license to use this many exclamation points; don't try this at home)


Amazon doesn't have the cover up yet, but should soon, and then it will be really shiny. It will start showing up on other retail sites too, and then the ebook will follow.

After I saw all this, it was really difficult to concentrate on the scene I was working on in Crow's Rest's sequel, No Man's Land, but at the same time it's really motivating. If people are getting excited about CR, I'd better get that second book finished so there's no delay in the publishing schedule!

Happy Wednesday, everybody!