Hey awesome,

I'm sending a quick off-schedule note for two reasons - a welcome to all our new members (and congrats to the contest winners), and to offer you a prize.

It's release week for Beyond Enemies (available anywhere books are sold!), and Talinn and Bee are out in the wild! I've had the amazing opportunity to talk to so many delightful folks about the book, and the characters, and have linked some below.

As for the prize - I'm at Superstars this week, and a ton of authors are posing with Beyond Enemies for fun. If you want to pose with the book and send your selfie to me, I will enter you in a random drawing to win a signed copy of Beyond Enemies, a Depik favor token, or another signed book of mine of your choosing - your choice!

Take your picture, reply to this email, and let me know if it's just for me, shareable to the newsletter crew, or available for public consumption. Maybe I'll do a second prize for most creative!!

Fun recent chats about the book:

• Jonathan Koan and I chatted last week and had an awesome time, which you can catch up with here.
• Paul Semel asked fabulous questions that I answered mostly coherently over here!
• Jason Hunt brought me live to the bunker on Scifi4Me and we had such a great time that you can revisit over herrre.
• Jim Nettles and I hung out on Continual's Hot off the Presses (with bonus Down These Mean Streets content)

And then one coming soon, with the faaaabulous H.P. Holo, on Feb 17th at 8pm EST if you want more chances at prizes and shenanigans!

Til next time!

Marisa