I'm still touring and also working on Unwanteds book 4...

And I'm also just so very excited about the Unwanteds series. Book 2, Island of Silence, will be available in paperback July 9th. And book 3, Island of Fire, comes out Sept. 3rd - the day after Labor Day here in the US.

I'll be appearing in a few places in the meantime -- come see me if you're in the area:

Saturday, April 20th, I'll be at the Houston Teen Book Con at Alief Taylor High School, 7555 Howell Sugar Land Road, Houston, TX 77083.


Sunday, April 21st, I'll be at the LA Times Festival of Books at the University of Southern California. Here's where I'll be:

12:00PM – Autographing at S&S/Once Upon A Time’s Booth # 732
Map Key Identifier: Orange Zone: Young Adult, 700s booths

1:30 p.m. Young Adult Fiction: Love & Vengeance, Real & Unreal
Ronald Tutor Campus Center (Conversation 2063)
Melissa de la Cruz
Maureen Johnson
Katherine Marsh
Lisa McMann
Moderator: Ransom Riggs

2:30 Panel Autographing


Next week I'll be at the Texas Library Association convention in Ft. Worth, and then in early May I'll be visiting Cincinnati and Lexington with Jennifer Nielsen. Check my website tour page for all the info as it comes in: http://lisamcmann.com/html/tour.php

I'm on tour!

Check my tour page to see if I'm heading to a city near you. I'd love to meet you!

Infinity Ring: The Trap Door on sale now!

Book 3 (by me) in the multi-author, multi-platform New York Times bestselling Infinity Ring series is now available!

Dak, Sera, and Riq return to the United States, but there’s big trouble waiting for them! 

The year is 1850 and the nation is divided over the issue of slavery. In these dark days, the Underground Railroad provides a light of hope, helping runaway slaves escape to freedom. But the SQ has taken control of the Underground Railroad from within. Now Dak and Sera are left wondering who to trust . . . while Riq risks everything to save the life of a young boy.
Each book comes packaged with a full-color, two-sided, collectible Hystorian's Guide, a player's strategy guide to the online adventure at InfinityRing.com. 

Follow the map, study the Guide, and save history!

 If you haven't started this series, now's the time. Want to know more? Check it out at InfinityRing.com.

AZ Authors 2nd Annual Open House

This year, 13 Arizona YA and MG authors hosted a party for around 200 teachers, librarians, and booksellers at the home of author Amy Fellner Dominy. Our publishers (and we) provided books as giveaways. And we authors made the food.

The Book Room. Photo credit: Zac Dunn

Some of the giveaways. Photo: Zac Dunn

More! Photo: Zac Dunn

Thanks publishers! Photo: Zac Dunn

Party! Photo: Zac Dunn

Photo: Zac Dunn

The authors! Photo: Zac Dunn

Swag table. Photo: Zac Dunn

Free books! Photo: Zac Dunn

Freebies by the authors hosting the party. Photo: Zac Dunn

Many thanks to everyone who came! We appreciate you so much. Special thanks to Zac Dunn, our roving photographer, for these great photos.

CRASH has landed! In stores today!

A girl. A food truck. A vision. Forbidden love. Nine body bags in the snow.

CRASH. Book one of the Visions series.

If what you see is what you get, Jules is in serious trouble. The suspenseful first of four books from the New York Times bestselling author of the Wake trilogy.Jules lives with her family above their restaurant, which means she smells like pizza most of the time and drives their double-meatball-shaped food truck to school. Its not a recipe for popularity, but she can handle that. What she cant handle is the recurring vision that haunts her. Over and over, Jules sees a careening truck hit a building and explode...and nine body bags in the snow. The vision is everywhereon billboards, television screens, windowsand shes the only one who sees it. And the more she sees it, the more she sees. The vision is giving her clues, and soon Jules knows what she has to do. Because now she can see the face in one of the body bags, and its someone she knows. Someone she has been in love with for as long as she can remember. In this riveting start to a gripping series from New York Times bestselling author Lisa McMann, Jules has to actand act fastto keep her vision from becoming reality.

Book 2, BANG, comes out October 8. 

Four books in 2013? Am I insane?

Sure sounds like it. Luckily, the hard part -- writing the books -- is over. And now we have covers for all four books, so I'll list them below with their release dates so you can get them on your calendars.

In non-chronological order, I'll start with my new series. First up is CRASH. It comes out next week, January 8, 2013. You can pre-order the hardcover or e-book here.
Next to it is the 2nd book in the Visions series, BANG, the sequel to Crash. It's due out October 8, 2013. Did you see how I'm not making you wait a whole year for the second book?
 

January 8, 2013

October 8, 2013

  

 I also have two books coming for my tween readers. Infinity Ring: The Trap Door comes out February 5, 2013. It's the third book in a time travel series written by six different authors. It's like The 39 Clues, only better. ;)  You can pre-order this one, too. The first two books in the series by James Dashner and Carrie Ryan are out already, so if you haven't found them yet, now's the time!

February 5, 2013

And the third book of The Unwanteds 7-book series comes out September 3, 2013. Isn't this just the greatest cover?

September 3, 2013

Let me know what you think of the covers! Do you like them? Which book are you most excited for?

In the meantime, I am busy writing book 3 in the Visions series and book 4 in the Unwanteds series, so you will have those to read in 2014.

A shiny review of CRASH from Kirkus!

CRASH
Author: McMann, Lisa

Review Issue Date: January 1, 2013
Online Publish Date: December 12, 2012
Publisher:Simon Pulse/Simon & Schuster
Pages: 240
Price ( Hardcover ): $16.99
Publication Date: January 8, 2013
ISBN ( Hardcover ): 978-1-4424-0391-8
Category: Fiction
Series: Visions
Volume: 1

Seeing is believing…unless you’re the only one with the vision.
McMann kicks off the first book in her new Visions series with a bang. On nearly every flat surface—billboards, televisions and road signs—Jules Demarco sees an out-of-control snowplow crash into a restaurant, causing an explosion and killing those inside. With a depressed grandfather who committed suicide and a moody, hoarder father, she’s certain her Italian family will commit her if they find out about her visions. There’s also their probable anger to contend with: The restaurant in Jules’ vision is their rival pizza parlor, and one of the dead is Sawyer Angotti, her secret, lifelong crush and son of the adversarial restaurateur. As in the Wake trilogy, a strong female protagonist pairs with quick pacing, realistic dialogue and the right amount of romance to drive this suspenseful story. Using clues from her ever more frequent visions, social outcast Jules tries to figure out the exact time of the crash in an attempt to thwart it, risking her already shaky standing with Sawyer, her parents and her classmates. In the process of saving lives, she also discovers some dark family secrets. The teen’s occasional lists of five items, such as “Five reasons why I, Jules Demarco, am shunned,” keep the drama on the lighter side.
McMann is on her way to becoming the next queen of supernatural thrillers. (Supernatural thriller. 14 & up)

--from Kirkus Reviews