September Newsletter

 

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The September newsletter went out yesterday and included a super early excerpt of Cold Redemption!

If you want to be sure you get all the news and updates from Nalini, make sure to subscribe (it’s free to join via the blog or the front page of the website, and you can download two ebooks worth of free newsletter shorts when you sign up). 

~Ashwini

Atonement Sky

 

Alt Text - Quote from Atonement Sky: "Putting yourself in the line of fire isn't an act of penance that'll wipe out the past." "No...but it might save a number of futures."

Psy-Changeling Quiz: Sascha & Lucas

 

Alt text: Psy-Changeling Quiz: Sascha and Lucas. 1) Who is Sascha's mother? 2) What do the marks on Lucas's face represent? 3) What is their daughter Naya's full name? 4) Which type of animal does Lucas (and Naya!) shift into? 5) What is Sascha's Psy power? 6) Where is their pack's business HQ located? 7) How old was Lucas when he became alpha? 8) What sweet treat is Sascha's weakness? 9) Which DarkRiver sentinel is Lucas's closest friend? 10) Sascha is on the advisory board of which organisation? 

How well do you know Sascha and Lucas? Post will be updated with the correct answers next week.

~Ashwini

1) Nikita Duncan
2) Mark him as a hunter
3) Nadiya Shayla Hunter
4) Black panther
5) Cardinal Empath
6) Near Chinatown, San Francisco
7) Twenty-three
8) Anything chocolate
9) Vaughn
10) Empathic Collective

Cold Redemption North American Cover Reveal

Alt Text: Two transparent faces looking at each other. On the left is a man’s face, on the right a woman’s. She has tight curls. The background, which you can see through and around them is water and mountain and forest in tones of midnight blue and shimmering rose-gold and dawn.

I’m so excited to share this beautiful, beautiful cover!!!!! I love it with all my heart!

Huge thanks to Tony Mauro (art) and Rita Frangie (design)!!

Storm Echo

 

Alt text: Wild Woman Magazine "Scary but Sexy" Column with image of blue-toned book cover with man and woman's face in silhouette and image of Golden Gate Bridge in background and words Nalini Singh, Storm Echo (available now). Next to book cover text: Ivan Mercant: Telepath, 6.2, black hair, killer blue eyes and ice-cold sexiness. Here's the tea, wild women. This fine specimen of manhood has long floated under our radar. How, we do not know. The man is so hot that certain bear ladies were willing to risk freezer burn to get close to him. And it is thanks to our lovely bear readers in StoneWater that we now have knowledge of Mr. Ivan Mercant. They tell us that he attended their alpha's mating ceremony to another Mercant (covered in our special mating issue!), slayed many a heart, and left without a backward look. Oh ouch. We know you're all wondering about the scary part of this. Word is he's a security specialist - and that the bear dominants confirm they wouldn't pick a fight with him unless they meant it. Because the man doesn't play if you come for him or his. Wild Women, can we say swoooooooooon?

Psy-Changeling Quiz: The Pint-Sized Pack Members Edition

 

Alt Text: Psy-Changeling Quiz: The Pint-Sized Pack Members Edition. 1) Which toy is Naya's favourite? 2) Who gave Naya that toy? 3) Elodie shifts into which animal? 4) Name one of the tiny gangsters. 5) What did Roman and Julian do to Sascha's boots the first time they met her? 6) Noor and Keenan have a special shared psychic gift. What is it called? 7) Which pack does Jojo belong to? 8) Name Mercy and Riley's triplets. 9) What is Dima's father's role in the StoneWater pack?10) Baby Liberty can create a special type of psychic web. What colour is it?

Time to test your knowledge of some of the smallest members of the Psy-Changeling universe! Post will be updated with answers later in the week.

~Ashwini

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1. Wolf
2. Hawke
3. Wolf
4. Fitzpatrick/Fitz, Svetlana/Sveta, Arkasha, Dima (guest member, lol)
5. Chewed on them
6. Harmony/Harmonizing
7. RainFire
8. Acton/Ace, Isabella/Belle, Michael/Micah
9. Chief Cook
10. Blue

Last Guard

 

Alt text - Epigraph from Last Guard (Note from Dima's mother, Nova, on his behalf): Dear Canto, Attached is a drawing Dima made for you. He tells me it's of you if you were a bear. He thinks you would make a good bear. He wanted me to make sure you noticed the stars in a bear's eyes, because it's a cardinal bear. He's frowning because he didn't get your bear-sized wheelchair exactly as he wanted, but he is very proud of the rocket he put on the back-so you can "go zoom faster". He is on tenterhooks awaiting your response. Love, Nova

Dima, our favorite little polar bear. 

(Epigraph from Psy-Changeling Trinity #5: Last Guard, click here for more info and to read an excerpt.)

~Ashwini

June Newsletter

 

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The June newsletter was sent out yesterday and may have included the blurb for Psy-Changeling Trinity #10, Cold Redemption. 

If you want to be sure you get all the news and updates from Nalini, make sure to subscribe (it’s free to join via the blog or the front page of the website, and you can download two ebooks worth of free newsletter shorts when you sign up). 

~Ashwini

Resonance Surge

 

Alt text - epigraph from Resonance Surge: Knew you wouldn't get back till late so made you your favorite pasta and left it on the counter. Insulated container so it'll stay hot. Watered your plant while I was there—poor abused thing looked about to keel over. I like your cat. I don't have a cat. I think you have a cat now. Little bitty orange ball of fluff was sunning herself inside your apartment when I walked in. I went out to the grocer and got her a fresh piece of fish. A cat can't just move into my apart. I see you've never met a cat. You're joking right? Funny. Haha. But thanks for the food, Arwen. You're a good friend. (2 hours later) Arwen, there's a cat on my bed. It's...meowing. What do I do with it? Just love her. Easy. -Message stream between Arwen Mercant and Genara Mercant (15 July 2083)

The epigraphs are one of my favorite elements of the Psy-Changeling Trinity books. Here's a funny one from Resonance Surge. 

~Ashwini

Question Time

 Alt text: Which characters from the Psy-Changeling world would you love to go on a road trip with?

I wonder which characters will be the most popular...

~Ashwini

Atonement Sky - Paperback Out Now!

 

Alt Text: Quote from Atonement Sky -"You're enough. You've always been enough." Paperback out now.

If you've been waiting to read Eleri and Adam's story in paperback, I hope you enjoy their journey to one another. 

Ocean Light

 

Alt Text - quote from Ocean Light: '"Fine. Keep drooling, but do not go near him." Kaia's instruction had nothign to do with her painfully uncomfortable response to him; Bowen needed to eat, not fend off amorous offers. "And especially no offering him tentacle skin privileges." She pinned the likely offender with her gaze.' Ocean Light - A Psy-Changeling Trinity Novel by Nalini Singh. Out Now.

Resonance Surge

 

Alt text - quote from Resonance Surge - Wild Woman magazine excerpt: Dear Aunt Rita, I’ve read your previous advice on being wary of bears who come with delicious edible gifts, and I have to disagree. My sweet bear friend Sally-mae has been baking me fruit pies for the past six months, and she has no designs on my body or heart whatsoever. Why, the other week, she even offered to iron my shirt for my date with another woman. It wasn’t her fault the iron malfunctioned and she burned a hole in my shirt. ~Just a Friend. Dear Just a Friend, Oh, you sweet summer child. Do write to me once you two are mated so I can say “I told you so” while eating my favorite peach pie. ~Aunt Rita (Wild Woman: Skin Privileges, Style & Primal Sophistication)

Who would like to write to Aunt Rita for some advice??

~Ashwini

Atonement Sky

 

Alt Text: Quote from Atonement Sky (Out Now) -"I have missed you all my life without ever knowing you."

A little bit of falcon-related news from our corner of the world:

The Bird of the Year has just been announced and this year's winner is the kārearea falcon. It is New Zealand's only falcon, capable of speeds up to 200km/h.

(The Bird of the Year contest has been running for twenty years and was started by Forest & Bird NZ to raise awareness of the conservation threats to many endangered native birds.)

~Ashwini

Storm Echo

 

Alt text: Wild Woman Magazine "Scary but Sexy" Column with image of blue-toned book cover with man and woman's face in silhouette and image of Golden Gate Bridge in background and words Nalini Singh, Storm Echo (available now). Next to book cover text: Ivan Mercant: Telepath, 6.2, black hair, killer blue eyes and ice-cold sexiness. Here's the tea, wild women. This fine specimen of manhood has long floated under our radar. How, we do not know. The man is so hot that certain bear ladies were willing to risk freezer burn to get close to him. And it is thanks to our lovely bear readers in StoneWater that we now have knowledge of Mr. Ivan Mercant. They tell us that he attended their alpha's mating ceremony to another Mercant (covered in our special mating issue!), slayed many a heart, and left without a backward look. Oh ouch. We know you're all wondering about the scary part of this. Word is he's a security specialist - and that the bear dominants confirm they wouldn't pick a fight with him unless they meant it. Because the man doesn't play if you come for him or his. Wild Women, can we say swoooooooooon?

Resonance Surge

 

Alt Text: Quote from Resonance Surge - "I don't touch people." "I'm not people. I'm a bear."

Atonement Sky

 

Alt Text- Quote from Atonement Sky: "You're enough. You've always been enough."

Atonement Sky New Zealand & Australia Print Release

 

Alt Text: Atonement Sky - Now Out in Print in New Zealand and Australia!

Happy NZ and Australian release day to the print edition of Atonement Sky!! 

If you preordered from Chapter or Mighty Ape, I have signed those preorders and they are on their way to you!! 

As always, I signed some extra for both stores, so if you’d like a signed copy, you can still grab one. 

SPOILER ZONE: Atonement Sky

 

This is the dedicated *spoiler* thread for Atonement Sky and earlier books in the series. Spoilers abound, so be warned!!

Usual rules: be kind to your fellow commenters and have fun. This spoiler thread will remain active as long as the blog does, so you can join in at any time. :-)

We don't monitor the thread for questions, so if you have a question, you can email me (nalini.assistant AT gmail DOT com).

If you're at an earlier point in the series and would like to discuss that book, click on the Spoiler Zone tag and it should bring up all the previous spoiler threads.  

~Ashwini

Atonement Sky

 

Happy UK release day to our flawed J heroine and her falcon hero! 

I hope you enjoy flying with these two!