Big News

ESCAPING FROM HOUDINI is a NYT and USA Today bestseller!!!

OMGGGGG!!! ESCAPING FROM HOUDINI just landed on the NYT!!! which means STALKING JACK THE RIPPER is now a NYT bestselling SERIES!!! holy wow…it’s so hard to hit the series list and i am sitting here, tears streaming, absolutely STUNNED.

EFH NYT!!!!

as i was typing this up, my editor excitedly shared even MORE incredible news: EFH is also a USA Today bestseller!! i cannot stop crying the happiest tears of joy. thank you, readers. thank you for rallying behind me when my Lyme was the worst, for cheering me on throughout this journey, and for telling all of your friends about this series.

A HUGE shoutout to my editor Jenny Bak, my agent Barbara Poelle, James Patterson, and the entire Jimmy patterson books team. i love you all so much! cheers to magic, mischief, mayhem and girls in STEM!!! 🎩🚢💀🎪🖤

i have one last tour stop tonight, so if you’re in the area, please stop by FoxTale Book Shoppe in Woodstock, GA to celebrate!!! xoxoxo

ESCAPING FROM HOUDINI Fall Tour!

the ESCAPING FROM HOUDINI fall tour is here! i’m thrilled to be stopping at familiar (and beloved!) bookstores and visiting some new ones this year. special guests will be announced along with more dates and cities in the weeks leading up to publication day.

will i be seeing you at any of the stops???? (i hope so!)

as always, readers who cannot make it out to an event (or those of you who don’t live within traveling distance) can preorder signed/personalized copies from any of the stores i’m visiting.

(if you preorder from any of these stores, you can DEFINITELY submit your receipts for the US pre-order prizes!)

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ESCAPING FROM HOUDINI TOUR LINKS:

September 17th 6:00pm

BOOKS OF WONDER

18 West 18th Street

New York, NY 10011

September 19th 6:30pm

RJ JULIA BOOKSELLERS

768 Boston Post Road

Madison, CT 06443

September 22nd 2:00pm

BARNES & NOBLE AT VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

2501 West End Avenue

Nashville, TN 37203

September 24th 6:00pm

UNION AVE BOOKS

517 Union Ave

Knoxville, TN 37902

September 27th 6:30pm

FOXTALE BOOK SHOPPE

105 E Main Street

Woodstock, GA 30188

to make it extra fun, i’m bringing tarot cards (and some special playing cards that haven’t yet been revealed!!!) to each tour stop. also! anyone who preorders a signed book through these stores will have a mystery card stuck inside it!

Reminder for US readers—be sure to take a screenshot of your preorder receipts and fill out the form on JIMMY Books’ site to receive your eight custom tarot character cards. The offer is only valid until 9/17/18 at 11:59pm ET.

US Signed Editions with decorative border:

some of you may recall the teasers i posted this spring featuring those signature sheets with the gorgeous borders. here are some locations where you can snag them while supplies last!

***please note: these copies will be available IN STORE only beginning on publication day.

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NAPERVILLE, IL

AUSTIN, TX

COLUMBUS, OH

MIAMI, FL

DENHAM SPRINGS, LA

PALM BEACH, FL

FREDERICK, MD

WOODSTOCK, GA

COLLEGEVILLE, PA

CINCINNATI, OH

CRESTVIEW HILLS, KY

LEXINGTON, KY

LOS ALTOS, CA

MEMPHIS, TN

NEW ORLEANS, LA

GRAND RAPIDS, MI

OKEMOS, MI

HUDSON, OH

SANDY, UT

DENVER, CO

UNIVERSITY BOOK STORE

SEATTLE, WA

VINTAGE BOOKS

VANCOUVER, WA

STALKING JACK THE RIPPER mass market paperback edition + Thomas Cresswell novella

51lhZH3xyHL._SX307_BO1,204,203,200_ STALKING JACK THE RIPPER is going to be available in mass market paperback editions! AND THEY’VE GOT FUN COVERS FOR THEM! i’m so thrilled to share this story with the adult market and a whole new set of readers.

now, no matter what your reading preference is, there’ll be a version for you. SJTR is available in Hardcover, trade paperbacks, ebooks, audio cds, iBooks, audible, and mass market paperbacks (as of April). pinch me, please.

so…what does this have to do with the MEETING THOMAS CRESSWELL novella? Thomas’s story will be included as bonus content!

i’ve had daily messages and emails from people who’ve either read it and wanted to own it in print form, or readers who missed out on the HUNTING PRINCE DRACULA preorder giveaway altogether, and i’ve been eager to find some way to make those requests happen.

including it in SJTR was the best solution since it’s a prequel to the opening of that story. it details what Thomas was doing the night he met Audrey Rose, and proceeds to tell the story through his deductive lens for the first few chapters. i had such a blast writing from his POV and hope that you enjoy reading it as much!

mass market versions aren’t very common for YA books, and i’m infinitely grateful for all of the love and support this series has gotten from both readers and my publisher. thank you a thousand, million times.

edited to add:

**the novella is included in the mass market paperback ONLY, and will not be available anywhere else. (please make sure you preorder the correct paperback if you want the novella.)

**mass market paperbacks are the smaller paperbacks that are usually printed for adult mystery and thriller series. (think beach reads and books found in airports and grocery/drug stores, etc.)

**the trade paperback of STALKING JACK THE RIPPER does not include the novella, but it does have the same cover as the original hardcover version. (and it’s already out, whereas the mass market paperback will hit shelves on April 24th.)

xoxo

Preorder here!

STALKING JACK THE RIPPER + MEETING THOMAS CRESSWELL

Other books in the series:

HUNTING PRINCE DRACULA (book two)

ESCAPING FROM HOUDINI (preorder link, book three)

Untitled Book 4 is up on Goodreads

ESCAPING FROM HOUDINI cover reveal up on Entertainment Weekly!

i’m so thrilled to share the cover and first chapter of ESCAPING FROM HOUDINI with you on ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY! (!!!!!!) i hope you love it and this cast of characters as much as i do!

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COVER REVEAL + FIRST CHAPTER

pre-order links are now available and i can promise that there are going to be some AMAZING things as far as pre-order prizes up for grabs this year. save screenshots of your receipts! i’ll give more details as i can.

xoxox

Pre-order:

Amazon

Barnes & Noble

Add to Goodreads:

ESCAPING FROM HOUDINI

ESCAPING FROM HOUDINI news!

41DW1PO983L._SX342_BO1,204,203,200_ i am so excited to announce that ESCAPING FROM HOUDINI’s cover is going to be revealed THIS Friday! (1/19/18)

i absolutely adore the work that the team at Little, Brown and JIMMY Books puts into these covers and i think you guys are going to go WILD for this one…i know i can’t get enough of it!

check back here on Friday for links to the cover — i’ll also be posting it all across social media, so if you’re not following me on your favorite sites, you might want to do so so you’re one of the first to see it 🙂

xoxox

STALKING JACK THE RIPPER book 3 title reveal!

the wait is FINALLY over! i hope you had a great time playing along with me on social media as i teased clues to the mystery of WHO the title historical figure is for book three in the STALKING JACK THE RIPPER series. some of you put the clues together just like Cressworth and it was so much fun to see your theories!

this book’s anthem has been “magic, mischief, and mayhem” and has been A LOT of dark fun to write. for those who paid close attention while reading both SJTR and HPD, there were clues tucked away in each of them. SJTR had an entire chapter devoted to the setting, and HPD included a letter with another big hint as to the lead title figure.

the real life murderer is a bit more obscure than Jack the Ripper and Dracula, but there is still a true crime element that i think you guys are REALLY going to like. i can’t say much without giving away spoilers, but just know my excitement can hardly be contained. which sounds weird because i’m talking about a serial killer but…i digress 😉

and now…

without further adieu…

i present the title, the official summary, and the tentative release date for SJTR #3.

*drum roll*

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ESCAPING FROM HOUDINI

coming 9/18/18

In this third installment in the #1 bestselling Stalking Jack the Ripper series, a luxurious ocean liner becomes a floating prison of scandal, madness, and horror when passengers are murdered one by one…with nowhere to run from the killer.

Audrey Rose Wadsworth and her partner-in-crime-investigation, Thomas Cresswell, are en route to New York to help solve another blood-soaked mystery. Embarking on a week-long voyage across the Atlantic on the opulent RMS Etruria, they’re delighted to discover a traveling troupe of circus performers, fortune tellers, and a certain charismatic young escape artist entertaining the first-class passengers nightly.

But then, privileged young women begin to go missing without explanation, and a series of brutal slayings shocks the entire ship. The strange and disturbing influence of the Moonlight Carnival pervades the decks as the murders grow ever more freakish, with nowhere to escape except the unforgiving sea. It’s up to Audrey Rose and Thomas to piece together the gruesome investigation as even more passengers die before reaching their destination. But with clues to the next victim pointing to someone she loves, can Audrey Rose unravel the mystery before the killer’s horrifying finale?

Please be sure to add it to goodreads here!

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(The above graphic is not the cover — that will be coming your way in the new year!)

HAPPY HOLIDAYS, FRIENDS!!!! May your coming year be filled to the brim with magic. xoxo

HUNTING PRINCE DRACULA is a NYT bestseller for a THIRD week!

honestly, i’m so floored and am filled with SO MUCH gratitude for each of you. thank you for the incredible word of mouth promotion, for all of the excitement across social media, all of the requests you put in at your libraries, and all of the tweets to my publisher, asking for MOAR. and thank you for continuing to tell everyone you know about these gothic, feminist mysteries.

cheers to YOU, dear reader, you are making your voice heard.

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oh! before I have a Lyme Brain moment and forget: i keep getting questions about signed copies (for gifts for friends, family, and even yourself!), and there are still some available at the following locations, but you’ll have to contact them quickly before they’re gone!

Autographed copies of both STALKING JACK THE RIPPER and HUNTING PRINCE DRACULA:

Books of Wonder

Quail Ridge Books

Spellbound Children’s Bookshop

Foxtale Book Shoppe

Little Shop of Stories

i also have an Instagram giveaway happening now through Halloween, so please hop on over there and enter to win some AWESOME fall bookish things!

xoxo

kerri maniscalco

write. eat. repeat.

Big News

ESCAPING FROM HOUDINI is a NYT and USA Today bestseller!!!