Devil's Frost, Spellspinners Series #3 (The Spellspinners of Melas County) (16 page)

Thanks to cast and crew at Coliloquy, especially my wondrous editor Melanie who seems to like these characters as much as I do, and Lisa, who might be the only other person I know who has as many ideas as I do. (I suspect we’re both witches, but I’m waiting for an Elder to grant us that reveal). Thanks to my darling husband who keeps me warm without magic and my ever-spirited children who spin the greyest days into gold.

Coliloquy is the first digital publisher to focus on active and interactive storytelling, leveraging advances in technology to create groundbreaking new forms of digital content. Originally developed as part of the Kindle Developer Program, Coliloquy’s books and apps are now available across all tablet, phone, and e-reading platforms, including iOS, Android, Kindle, NOOK, and Kobo. Based in Palo Alto, CA, the company was founded by Lisa Rutherford, an AlwaysON “Top Women to Watch” award winner, and Waynn Lue in 2011. For more information, please visit www.coliloquy.com.

Heidi R. Kling is a YA author of both fantasy and contemporary novels. The bestselling
Witch’s Brew Spellspinners 1
(Coliloquy), is the first of a 9-book series, while her debut contemporary,
Sea
(Penguin), was an IndieNext Pick, Northern California Book of the Year nominee, Gateway Reader’s Award choice.
Witch’s Brew Spellspinners 1
launched The Spellspinners of Melas County series in 2012. A serialized saga of estranged witches and warlocks, set in a modern, but fantastical world of a coastal California beach town is told in an innovative “active fiction” format— not unlike the “Choose Your Own Adventure” books we loved as kids. Book two,
The Gleaning
, followed this past spring.
Devil’s Frost
, the third book in the series launches November 2013, with six titles to follow.
When not penning novels, Heidi contributes short stories and essays to teen lit aimed anthologies such as
Truth And Dare, The First Time, A Visitor’s Guide To Mystic Falls,
and
Two & Twenty Dark Tales
, directs and writes children’s theatre and feeds her Damon addiction with lots of CW television.
After earning her MFA in Writing for Children from the New School in New York, she returned to her native California where she writes and lives with her husband and two children on the San Francisco peninsula, right over the coastal mountains from the sea. She’s constantly eying seaside eucalyptus groves for signs of warlocks, but sadly hasn’t spotted one. Yet.
Please visit Heidi on the web at: http://heidirkling.com, on Facebook (Heidi R. Kling) and at her favorite hangout, Twitter!

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First eBook Edition: January 2014
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ISBN: 978-1-937804-31-2