Ghost Huntress Spotted "in the wild!"

Whooohooo!! Well, the "official" release date on GHOST HUNTRESS: THE REASON isn't until May 6th, but there are reports of the book being seen and bought out in the wild.

Here's Shelby-Nicole Holt with her copy. She just happens to be a major character in book three. Her mom, Mary, bought naming rights to a character at a charity fundraiser auction in December 2008 at the Queen Mary for Erin Gray's Haven House. Mary paid $500 to have Shelby's name in the book, so I thought I better do it up right.



And here's another fan, Emmanuelle Dessureault with her freshly-purchased copy.



And finally, a buzz reader, Stephanie, sent in this pic of her and the book.



Thanks so much to everyone who's buying the book! And please send me picks if you see it anywhere!

Hugs,
Marley = )

My first official piece of fan mail!

This is what being a writer is all about...getting fan mail! And I got my very first piece of fan mail last week. It's from my boss' daughter who is nine years old. I gave him a copy of SORORITY 101: ZETA OR OMEGA? to give to her. According to him, she breezed through it in a couple of days and then sat down and wrote me this note.

~*~WARNING: This is the recipe for adorable, wrapped in cute, with a dollup of precious on top!~*~

See??? I told you!!! I can't tell you how many times I've read this letter. Or how many people I've shown it to. Or how many times I've teared up looking at it. I carry it around with me and will eventually frame it for my writing room...so that when Caitlin Brooks is a famous author, I can say I knew her when.

I used to write fan mail when I was little...mostly to professional athletes. However, I did write a fan mail back in 1999 to a favorite author, Barbara Delinksy, asking her for advice about being a writer. She told me if I wanted to be a writer, I needed to just do it. Simple advice...but most appreciated. And two years later, I did "just do it," completing my first novel. I even thanked Ms. Delinsky in SORORITY 101.

Have you ever written fan mail? If so, to whom? Did you get a response?

For those of you who leave a comment on this thread, I'll enter you in a contest to win a copy of BOTH of the SORORITY 101 books.



Feel free to enter as many times as you'd like. Each comment will count as an entry.

Hugs,
Marley = )

SORORITY 101: Zeta or Omega? (Available Now! Puffin Books)
SORORITY 101: The New Sisters (Available Now! Puffin Books)
GHOST HUNTRESS SERIES (Coming May 2009, Houghton Mifflin)