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REMINDER: Melissa de la Cruz’s Upcoming Appearances · June 22.

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!

Want An Early Copy of “Keys to the Repository”? · June 5.

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!

Melissa de la Cruz at LA Times Festival of Books · April 25.

Melissa attended the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books this past weekend! It looked like it was a blast! I really wish I could have been there! Tons of AMAZING authors in one place! How cool is that?

You can check out photos from the event below:

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Melissa’s Upcoming Tour Dates! · April 12.

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Melissa tweeted today to remind everyone about her upcoming tour dates! She has some as soon as April 24th at the Los Angeles Book Festival! Also she lists, some other events she has coming up. Plus she mentions that in October she will be touring for Misguided Angel, and the cities for the tour are still being planned out! I can’t wait to find out what cities she’s coming to!

April 24, 2010 (2:00 PM)

Appearance at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

405 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90024

Blood, Fangs, and Temptation: Everything Vampire Panelists: Heather Brewer, Rachel Caine, Melissa de la Cruz, Richelle Mead. Moderator: Aaron Hartzler
I will be signing books after the event! Come see me and the fabulous ladies of the vampire! 

To find out more about  Melissa’s tour dates, and where and when she’ll be there, please click here!

‘Misguided Angel’ Cover Revealed!!! · March 25.

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Finally!!! The ‘Misguided Angel Cover has been released!!! I love it….absoultely gorgeous!!!This might actually be my favorite cover in the series! Doesn’t this make you more excited for the book to come out! Can’t wait!

So, what do you think about the cover? Did you have any say in it?

I had a huge say in it. I really wanted it to be otherworldly, very beautiful. I like it because the girl’s face — to me she could look Asian, or Latino, or Italian. I just thought it was kind of nice that she had this universal look where you couldn’t really tell what race she was. It’s great for an angel to look like that.

This is the fifth book in the series – how many do you plan on releasing? Did you think it would last this long?

I had a very ambitious program when I first outlined this; I definitely planned a big series. From the beginning five years ago, I said I had a plan for nine or 10 books and they said, ‘Whoa! OK! We’ll buy two and see how it does!’ And then they kind of took off. I had a plan if it didn’t work out how to end it on book three, but if it did work I definitely had this big overreaching arc that I wanted to explore. I dream big! (laughs)

To read the entire article please click here!

What are your thoughts on the cover? Leave your thoughts in the chat box on our sidebar!

SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly

New Interview With Melissa de la Cruz · March 7.

Melissa did a new interview with Fangtastic Books!  The interview is amazing! We learn more about Misguided Angel, Wolf Pact, AND Keys to the Repository! Be sure to check it out!

Q: Could you tell us about your current work in progress?

A: Misguided Angel is the fifth book in the Blue Bloods series. It follows Jack and Schuyler’s journey in Europe to continue the Van Alen Legacy. Meanwhile, back in New York, Oliver and Mimi discover a new threat. A new character, Ming Chen arrives in NYC to help them with it. Part of the book also tells Allegra’s background story in fifteenth-century Florence.
 
I’m also working on Wolf Pact, the first book in the Blue Bloods spin off starring Bliss Llewellyn and a new cast of characters. And Witches on East End, which is my new adult series, about a family of witches in the Hamptons.

To read the entire interview, please click here!

‘Blue Bloods’ Journey to the Best-Seller’s List · February 28.

Melissa recently went to visit the to Ramona Convent Secondary School in Alhambra. In this article, Mel explains her journey to the New York Times Best-Seller’s list…and how Twilight helped lift up Blue Bloods and the whole vampire genre.

The journey from struggling writer to a spot on the New York Times’ best-seller list wasn’t an easy trek for author Melissa De La Cruz.

Shortly after submitting to her publisher her young adult novel, “Blue Bloods,” a series about vampires, De La Cruz was surprised to find another author had beaten her to it.

“I turned in my book and I went to the book store. And there was another vampire book out, and it was called `Twilight,”‘ she said.

No matter, De La Cruz told a group of more than 400 girls Wednesday during a visit to Ramona Convent Secondary School in Alhambra, the popular “Twilight” series has actually helped her own book sales.

“It lifted the whole genre,” she said.

Each year, the school hosts a different author to speak at the all-girls campus. But it took Esther Leung, 17, a senior at Ramona and a big fan of the “Blue Blood” series, nearly two years to nail down a date when the De La Cruz could visit the school.

“It’s not just about vampires,” Leung said. “The books also have history and lots of drama.”

De La Cruz said she normally doesn’t visit schools “unless it’s part of my book tour.”

“But this place is so close to my heart, because I went to a convent school,” she added.

She attended Convent of the Sacred Heart School in San Francisco. The first installation in her “Blue Bloods” series is set against a private school backdrop.

“In `Blue Bloods,’ it’s a lot about my school experience. I was always fascinated by small private schools and their rituals,” she said.

To read the entire article on the Pasedena Star News, please click here!

Short Misguided Angel Synopsis! · February 26.

According to Melissa de la Cruz, Hyperion released a very vague synopsis of Misguided Angel on Amazon!

After inheriting the dark Van Alen Legacy, Schuyler fled to Florence–with her forbidden love, Jack. Now the two of them must embark on the mission Schuyler was destined to complete: to find and protect the seven gates that guard earth from Lucifer, lord of the Silverbloods.

As the Blue Blood enclave weakens yet further, fate leads Schuyler closer to a terrifying crossroads–and a choice that will determine the destiny of all vampires.

Mel says it’s still very vague because she’s still writing the book! But doesn’t that little bit already get you super excited???

To pre-order Misguided Angel on Amazon, please click here!

Thanks Mel!