Yeah. Even the distant memory of algebra class comas couldn’t bring me down after seeing something like that. Because DUDE!!!!!!! VLAD IS ON A DOLLAR!!! A LEGAL TENDER, AWESOMETASTIC DOLLAR!!!

So…I wanna give one away. Even though I’m soooo tempted to horde it! To enter: leave a comment saying in what fangtastic way you’ll spend your Vlad buck. I’ll choose a winner this Thursday.

EDITED TO ANNOUNCE THE FANGTASTIC MINION WHO WON THE VLAD BUCK: DeadPplKindaGrl!!! Drop me an email at heather@heatherbrewer.com with your name and address, please. YOU WON! (I chose radomly, Minions, because soooo many of your answers were too awesome for me to choose between)

Oh! And if you missed out on San Diego Comic Con 2010, you have GOT to see this!

1. TWELFTH GRADE KILLS will be roughly the same length as ELEVENTH GRADE BURNS.
2. There are 45 chapters.
3. It will begin with something that will make you gasp.
4. It will end with something else that will make you gasp.
5. People will die – lots of people; some of them major characters.
6. If I’ve done my job right, you’ll shed at least a few tears while reading this book.
7. Vlad will choose, once and for all, between Meredith and Snow.
8. A dark, horrible secret will be revealed – one that will send you back to reread the series all over again.
9. The last word of the last chapter is “bring”.
10. This book will answer questions…and maybe make you ask just one more.

So…who’s excited???

TWELFTH GRADE KILLS comes out on my birthday, September 21, 2010. And yes, there will be a tour…(no idea where I’m visiting just yet)

You can pre-order it HERE, HERE, and HERE – or visit your local indie bookseller and ask them to pre-order it for you.

I’m sure by now you all know about the soon-to-be-released amazingness that is Iron Man 2. But what you don’t know is that something very cool is linking US (your Auntie Heather & you, my loyal Minions) to that movie!

At select theaters, before the movie is shown, a 15-second ad will be shown for THE CHRONICLES OF VLADIMIR TOD!!! The ad will be shown twice before the movie, and will also be shown on TVs in the lobby. HOW COOL IS THAT???

I’m dragging my family to the nearest theater to see it. You Minions totally have to go see it too! Grab your fellow Minions and take a road trip, because you can ONLY see it in theaters! Iron Man 2 comes out on May 7, 2010. The ad will run for 4 weeks. And here’s where it’ll be:

New York Union Square Stadium 14 NEW YORK NY
New York Garden State 16 with IMAX PARAMUS NJ
Los Angeles Ontario Palace 21 plus IMAX ONTARIO CA
Los Angeles Santa Anita with IMAX ARCADIA CA
Chicago Naperville Showplace NAPERVILLE IL
Chicago Village Crossing 18 SKOKIE IL
Philadelphia Brandywine Town Center
Philadelphia Downingtown Cinema DOWNINGTOWN PA
San Francisco-Oak-San Jose Daly City 20 DALY CITY CA
San Francisco-Oak-San Jose Van Ness 14 SAN FRANCISCO CA
Boston (Manchester) Fenway 13 BOSTON MA
Boston (Manchester) Liberty Tree Mall 20 with IMAX DANVERS MA
Atlanta Arbor Place Mall 18 DOUGLASVILLE GA
Atlanta Parkway Point 15 ATLANTA GA
Houston Houston Greenway 24 HOUSTON TX
Tampa-St. Pete (Sarasota) Regency 20 BRANDON FL
Minneapolis-St. Paul Rosedale 14 with IMAX SAINT PAUL MN
Minneapolis-St. Paul Southdale 16 with IMAX MINNEAPOLIS MN
Denver Century Boulder BOULDER CO
Denver Highlands Ranch 24 with IMAX LITTLETON CO
Cleveland-Akron (Canton) Cinemark Tinseltown USA NORTH CANTON OH
Austin Cinemark Southpark Meadows AUSTIN TX
Austin Gateway 16 AUSTIN TX

GO, MINIONS, GO! Go forth and immerse yourselves in Vlad-y goodness!

EIGHTH GRADE BITES = red, because red is the color of blood
NINTH GRADE SLAYS = blue, because blue is cold and Vlad visits Siberia in this book
TENTH GRADE BLEEDS = purple, because purple is the color of bruises (and Vlad gets many in this book)
ELEVENTH GRADE BURNS = orange, because orange is the color of fire
and TWELFTH GRADE KILLS = green….because of a secret that you’ll discover in this book.

And now, without further ado, I give you….TWELFTH GRADE KILLS!

Do you love it? I do. And you can see Vlad clearly now. As the covers have changed, Vlad has become more and more exposed…just like in his story. I hope you like it!

And now, the best part (though that’s debatable). The flap copy (or in layman’s terms, the official description of the book)! WARNING: IF YOU HAVE NOT READ ELEVENTH GRADE BURNS, YOU MIGHT NOT WANT TO READ THE FOLLOWING, AS IT CONTAINS POTENTIONAL SPOILERS!!

It all comes down to this.

Vlad’s running out of time. The Elysian Council has given him weeks to live, and that’s if the Slayer Society doesn’t kill him – along with all the citizens of Bathory – first. Then there’s the issue of Vlad’s father, who may or may not still be alive after all these years, and oh yeah, that tiny little detail in the Pravus prophecy about Vlad enslaving Vampirekind and the human race. So much for college applications.

In this epic finale to Heather Brewer’s heart-stopping Chronicles of Vladimir Tod, dark secrets will be revealed, old friends will become enemies, and warm blood will run cold. Just be careful it isn’t yours.

EDITED TO ADD: TWELFTH GRADE KILLS will be released on September 21, 2010. You can pre-order it on Amazon or Barnes and Noble right now!

Also, that gorgeous boy on the cover is Lawrence Prince.

On the second day of Christmas
Auntie Heather gave to Vlad:
Two blood dipped cookies,
And a blood bag in a tree.

On the third day of Christmas
Auntie Heather gave to Vlad:
Three bags of junk food,
Two blood dipped cookies,
And a blood bag in a tree.

On the fourth day of Christmas
Auntie Heather gave to Vlad:
Four cans of Pepsi,
Three bags of junk food,
Two blood dipped cookies,
And a blood bag in a tree.

On the fifth day of Christmas
Auntie Heather gave to Vlad:
FIVE DAYS WITHOUT D’ABLO!!!
Four cans of Pepsi,
Three bags of junk food,
Two blood dipped cookies,
And a blood bag in a tree.

On the sixth day of Christmas
Auntie Heather gave to Vlad:
Six Hot Topic gift cards,
FIVE DAYS WITHOUT D’ABLO!!!
Four cans of Pepsi,
Three bags of junk food,
Two blood dipped cookies,
And a blood bag in a tree.

On the seventh day of Christmas
Auntie Heather gave to Vlad:
Seven frozen snack packs,
Six Hot Topic gift cards,
FIVE DAYS WITHOUT D’ABLO!!!
Four cans of Pepsi,
Three bags of junk food,
Two blood dipped cookies,
And a blood bag in a tree.

On the eighth day of Christmas
Auntie Heather gave to Vlad:
Eight uninterrupted hours of video games,
Seven frozen snack packs,
Six Hot Topic gift cards,
FIVE DAYS WITHOUT D’ABLO!!!
Four cans of Pepsi,
Three bags of junk food,
Two blood dipped cookies,
And a blood bag in a tree.

On the ninth day of Christmas
Auntie Heather gave to Vlad:
Nine days in Siberia,
Eight uninterrupted hours of video games,
Seven frozen snack packs,
Six Hot Topic gift cards,
FIVE DAYS WITHOUT D’ABLO!!!
Four cans of Pepsi,
Three bags of junk food,
Two blood dipped cookies,
And a blood bag in a tree.

On the tenth day of Christmas
Auntie Heather gave to Vlad:
Ten shots with the Lucis,
Nine days in Siberia,
Eight uninterrupted hours of video games,
Seven frozen snack packs,
Six Hot Topic gift cards,
FIVE DAYS WITHOUT D’ABLO!!!
Four cans of Pepsi,
Three bags of junk food,
Two blood dipped cookies,
And a blood bag in a tree.

On the eleventh day of Christmas
Auntie Heather gave to Vlad:
Eleven dates with his dream girl,
Ten shots with the Lucis,
Nine days in Siberia,
Eight uninterrupted hours of video games,
Seven frozen snack packs,
Six Hot Topic gift cards,
FIVE DAYS WITHOUT D’ABLO!!!
Four cans of Pepsi,
Three bags of junk food,
Two blood dipped cookies,
And a blood bag in a tree.

On the twelfth day of Christmas
Auntie Heather gave to Vlad:
Twelve tubes of sunblock,
Eleven dates with his dream girl,
Ten shots with the Lucis,
Nine days in Siberia,
Eight uninterrupted hours of video games,
Seven frozen snack packs,
Six Hot Topic gift cards,
FIVE DAYS WITHOUT D’ABLO!!!
Four cans of Pepsi,
Three bags of junk food,
Two blood dipped cookies,
And a blood bag in a tree.

Happy Holidays, Minions!

(and to clarify day #10, I’m not shooting Vlad with the Lucis – he’s the one shooting it, because you have to admit…it’s pretty cool.)

zachtodakavladjk124 & Destin (Ny’Emia), please email me your addresses (heather@heatherbrewer.com)!!!

Oh, Minions.

If you had any idea what your dear Auntie Heather is going through right now, you might just lose your precious little twisted minds as well.

My schedule has been ramped up, that is to say, changed so that I can meet my publisher’s quicker-version of a publishing schedule. (Does that make sense?) See, initially, ELEVENTH GRADE BURNS was going to be out in Summer 2010, which meant like August. But because I sold both the first three books of BLOODBOUND and all five books of THE SLAYER JOURNALS, my schedule had to shift in order to accomodate the new titles. So that moved ELEVENTH to February 9, 2010. As a result, my writing schedule has been intense. TWELFTH GRADE KILLS was due to my editor on March 15, 2010. It’s now due around Halloween 2009. So…argh. My days have become a routine of wake up, shower, dress, eat, write, write, write, eat again, write, write, write, sleep.

For the curious, TENTH GRADE BLEEDS will come out in paperback January 2010. ELEVENTH GRADE BURNS will debut in hardcover February 2010 (paperback won’t be until August 2010). TWELFTH GRADE KILLS (this is the one I’m writing right now) will be available in hardcover September 2010 (and in paperback April 2011).

The first book of THE SLAYER JOURNALS will debut September 2011 and the first book of BLOODBOUND will be available in October 2011. So it’s going to be a very Heather Brewer kinda year in the bookstores.

So…that’s why I’m exhausted, and hardly blogging, and absent from the forums currently.

Auntie needs a nap.

But it’s all for you, Minion Horde! And that makes it worth it.

My weekend away was wonderful. I love New Orleans – it’s one of my fave places in the world. It’s the first time, however, that I did anything really tourist-y. The family and I went on a Haunted History tour with Midian Von Thorne. It was simply amazing. We stuffed ourselves with great food, bought amazing stuff and came home wishing we never had to leave.

Pretty typical.

And now, Auntie is hard at work on TWELFTH GRADE KILLS. I’m also busy writing up a sneak-peek of ELEVENTH GRADE BURNS for you Minions. I know I mentioned it a while ago and promised I would post it, and I will! Plus, I’ll post the publishing dates for the remaining Vlad books, and the first book of BLOODBOUND, as well as the first book of THE SLAYER JOURNALS. But for now, I’m writing.

What are my Minions up to?

Because it has to be perfect. It’s the final Vlad book. It all leads up to this.

Because of my ridiculous stress level, my family is forcing me to take a quick vacation to New Orleans for the weekend (one of my favorite places on earth), to try to unwind. I’ll work while I’m there, but hopefully, the change in location will ease my stress a bit.

So…if you miss Auntie and want to follow my goings-on…I suggest you follow me on twitter at www.twitter.com/heatherbrewer. I’ll tweet my whole vacation and you can ask me questions there!

Meanwhile, I miss you all so much!! Oh, and would you stop trying to guess who dies?! My lips are sealed.

All sorts of rumors are flying around that I am absolutely, totally, completely killing Vlad off in TWELFTH GRADE KILLS. While I can’t dispel those rumors (because maybe I am and maybe I’m not), I urge you all to wait and see before telling your fellow Minions that Vlad’s definitely going to die in that book. The truth is…yes, SOMEONE will die in that book, but I’m not saying who. I’m not even giving you a little hint. First, you have to get through ELEVENTH GRADE BURNS, and then read TWELFTH. Then you’ll know. Until then, my lips are zipped.

As for ELEVENTH GRADE BURNS, I’m going to work up a list of some details soon. Watch the blog!