^^ Please click to view full-size image ^^

“Keys to the Repository” made the USA Today Bestseller list! Here’s what Melissa posted on her blog:

KEYS TO THE REPOSITORY hit the USA Today Bestseller List! A pretty hard list to get on because it tracks ALL books regardless of category. Suh-weet!! Thanks you guys. To celebrate KEYS best-selling status, I am finishing Bloody Valentine.

To read the entire post, please click here!

Blue Bloods author, Melissa de la Cruz, has some upcoming events where you can have the chance to meet her. This is listed on her official site, but we wanted to remind you all!

July 01, 2010 (7:00 PM)

Keys to the Repository Event in Cleveland, OH!

Joseph-Beth Bookstore
Legacy Village
25001 Cedar Road
Cleveland, OH 44124
(216) 382-3871

I will be reading from KEYS TO THE REPOSITORY, answering questions and talking Blue Blood vampires. Maybe even sneaking a peek at Misguided Angel and Wolf Pact! 

July 20, 2010 (7:00 PM)

Reading and Signing at the B&N in Glendale with Ally Carter!

The Americana at Brand
210 Americana Way, Glendale, CA 91210

I will be reading and signing KEYS TO THE REPOSITORY and celebrating the paperback release of VAN ALEN LEGACY with Ally Carter, author of the GALLAGHER GIRL books and HEIST SOCIETY!
Come see Ally and me talk, chat and stir up some fun mayhem! 

July 21, 2010 (4:00 PM)

Reading and Signing at Vroman’s with Ally Carter!

Vroman’s Pasadena
Details TK.

Come see me and Ally Carter read and discuss our books! 

September 18, 2010

Smart Chicks Kick It in San Francisco!

I will be joining the Smart Chicks! Melissa Marr, Alyson Noel, Kelley Armstrong, Becca Fitzpatrick & Rachel Vincent to read, sign and kick it! 

September 20, 2010 (6:00 PM)

Smart Chicks Kick It in Pasadena!

I will be joining the Smart Chicks! Alyson Noel, Kelley Armstrong, Rachel Caine, & Mary Pearson for reading, signing and kicking it!

If you will be attending any of these events, and you happen to take pictures, please let us know by e-mailing admin@thebluebloodssecret.com!

This is the new book trailer for “Keys to the Repository” –which is to be released on June 29th!

Yep, that’s right! You might be able to get your hands on an early copy of “Keys to the Repository” which is due out June 29th– but you may be able to get it before that. Melissa is having another one of her awesome contest. Here are the details that she posted on her official site:

Right now we have tons of advance copies of KEYS TO THE REPOSITORY. If you would like a copy, please email your name and snail-mail address to melissadlcoffice at gmail dot com with the subject line KEYS TO THE KINGDOM. Oh yeah! I’ll put all the names in one of our fabulous Ittala bowls and my daughter will pick TEN lucky winners. Contest is open to international readers. (Why not?) But I do have one caveat, last time when we did a book giveaway, some of you guys were in college and you didn’t pick up your book and it kept getting sent back to us and my assistant kept trying to send it back to you and it just got frustrating. So if you are in college, we will only send it to your HOME ADDRESS. Oh college kids. I remember what THAT was like. “Package? What package? What time is that party again?” The contest it open until JUNE 11TH 12 MIDNIGHT PST. We will send books out the next week so you get them before publication (June 29th). But remember! You need to put in your snail-mail address. And your home address. (NO PO Boxes. NO College mailboxes.)

To read the entire post on her site, please click here!
Good luck everyone!

^^ Please click to view full-size image! ^^

I (Jackie) thought I would conviently put all the “Keys to the Repository” sneak peeks so far into one post. It’s only been five days (the sneak tweets started May 21st)…but if you missed them, here they are! I will try to post the sneak peeks on the BBS every couple of days. However, be sure to keep your on on Melissa’s Twitter everyday for her daily sneak peeks!

Melissa tweeted on her Twitter that sneak peeks for “Keys to the Repository” start on May 21, 2010! I can’t wait! So, be sure to keep a close eye on Melissa’s twitter! And remember that “Keys to the Respository” comes out on June 29, 2010!

This is the UK cover for ‘Keys to the the Repository’ and it looks absolutely amazing! It looks very different compared to the US cover, but still amazing!

 Atom books just sent over the cover for KEYS TO THE REPOSITORY. A bit different from the US cover since the books are just being introduced to the UK market now, and Atom felt it would be good to have the city nightlife and our lovely heroine featured in the cover.

SOURCE

Here is a fun sneak-peek from ‘Keys to the Repository’ :

From Schuyler’s story:
Three stolen kisses—what did it matter, really? Jack was never going to be her boyfriend, she thought, as she turned right onto 96th street. He was never going to sling his arm around her as they walked down the hall, never take her to Winter Ball, never declare his love over the PA system by mangling the lyrics to “Come on Eileen” as Jamie Kip did so charmingly last week when he serenaded Ally Elly before the Head Girl had cut him off. But Schuyler didn’t want any of that—did she? She had never yearned for popularity. It struck her as absurd anyway, to want popularity. Popularity was fickle and elusive, like trying to catch fireflies in a jar. You were either born with it or relegated to wallflower status according to the mysterious and unknowable workings of the universe.

You can pre-order on Amazon, B&N, and from your local indie bookstore.

Misguided Angel (The 5th book in the Blue Bloods series), will be out October 5, 2010! And here is a sneak-peek from the book:

There were seven of us at the inception of the order. A conclave was called to address the growing threat posed by the Paths of the Dead. Along with myself, present at the gathering were the Emperor’s cousin Gemellus, a weakling; Octilla and Halcyon from the vestal virgins; the head of the Imperial Army, General Alexandrus; Pantaelum, a trusted senator and Onbasius, a healer.
In my prodigious research, I have determined that Halcyon was most likely the keeper of the Gate of Promise, the third known Gate of Hell. I have come to the conclusion that this gate is instrumental in uncovering the truth behind the continued existence of our supposedly vanquished enemies. This is the gate we must focus on, the most important one in the lot.
-From the personal journal of Lawrence Van Alen

You can pre-order on Amazon, B&N, and from your local indie bookstore.

SOURCE