Blog Tour and Interview: The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall by Katie Alender

Title: THE DEAD GIRLS OF HYSTERIA HALL
Author: Katie Alender
Pub. Date: August 25, 2015
Publisher:  Scholastic Press
Pages: 336
Formats: Hardcover, eBook
Find it: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks, Goodreads

Synopsis:
Asylum meets Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, in this riveting tale of ghosts, secrets, and family, from master of suspense Katie Alender. Delia's new house isn't just a house. It used to be an insane asylum, a place to lock up "troubled" young women long ago. And a restless, wicked spirit is still at play--and it doesn't want defiant girls like Delia to go anywhere. So the house kills her. Now Delia is a ghost, trapped in her creepy home forever. As she meets the other ghost girls who haunt the narrow hallways, as well as the handsome ghost boy on the grounds, she learns shocking truths about the house's history. Delia also realizes that her alive and grieving sister might be the house's next target. Can Delia unlock the mystery of the old asylum, save her sister, and free herself?

Kirkus (starred review): "This superior ghost story keeps the creep factor high… A really scary and original ghost story, well told. Read it with the lights on."   School Library Journal: "Alender has created a chilling tale of forgotten tragedies and family secrets. A great choice for fans of horror or 
suspense novels." 


INTERVIEW

1. You seem to write a lot about ghosts. Do you believe in ghosts and have you ever had an experience you can't explain? 
I don’t necessarily believe in ghosts, but I can’t count them out, as I know numerous people who are confident that they exist. Who am I to say they don’t? I did have one experience that I can’t explain — a night I could have sworn I heard my husband come home and sit down to watch TV, but when I went upstairs there was nobody home. We had just bought a pair of lounge chairs from an estate sale at the home of a writer who had passed away, so I sometimes say that his ghost followed the trail of writing energy (and chairs) to have a little walk around my living room. 

2. Out of all your books which was your favorite to write and which did you have a harder time on? 
Oh, man. They’re all hard! They all hit a certain point where you think, “Okay, this is the one I’m not going to be able to do. This is the book that will ruin me.” But the process being so scheduled is enormously helpful in terms of pushing you past those thoughts and back to work. I think the one I enjoyed writing the most was probably the second Bad Girls Don’t Die book, From Bad to Cursed. Because I understood the characters’ journeys so much, and I was fascinated by the things they were doing under the influence of a not-so-nice spirit. 

3. If you could have been the original author of any book, what would it have been and why? 
I don’t actually want to have written anyone else’s book, but I’ll say Harry Potter because then I would have a castle and a theme park. 

4. If you were to write a book about yourself, what would you name it? 
Probably “Honestly.” I feel myself saying that a lot. I used to think that if I ever wrote a memoir about my childhood, it would be called “Alligator Dreaming,” because I grew up in South Florida, where there are alligators. And for many years I would have random dreams about alligators. 

5. If you had your own talk show, who would your first three guests be? 
Stephen Colbert (because he’s hilarious), Jim Gaffigan (because he’s hilarious), and my daughter (because she’s hilarious).  

 About Katie: Katie Alender is the author of The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall, Famous Last Words, Marie Antoinette: Serial Killer, and the Bad Girls Don’t Die series. She is a graduate of the Florida State University Film School and lives in Los Angeles with her husband, daughter, and two dogs. When she’s not writing novels, she can usually be found quilting, reading, eating delicious high-calorie foods, and hanging out with her friends (on very special occasions, she manages to do all of those things at once).
Find Katie on the web:  |Website|Twitter|Facebook|Instagram|Tumblr|Wattpad



 Giveaway Details: 3 winners will receive a finished copy of THE DEAD GIRLS OF HYSTERIA HALL. US Only.

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Tour Schedule:
Week One:
8/17/2015- The Cover Contessa- Interview
8/18/2015- Twisted Book Junkie- Review
8/19/2015- Fiktshun- Guest Post
8/20/2015- BITTERSWEET ENCHANTMENT- Review
8/21/2015- Mundie Moms- Guest Post

Week Two:
8/24/2015- The Unofficial Addiction Book Fan Club- Interview
8/25/2015- Pandora's Books- Review
8/26/2015- bookaholics anonymous- Interview (YOU ARE HERE)
8/27/2015- A Dream Within A Dream- Review
8/28/2015- Such a Novel Idea- Guest Post

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Top 10 Tuesdays

Waiting on Wed

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Are you a bookaholic?

Questions? Answered!

Books I'd quit support group for..

Here's what I'm thinking (Giveaway, interviews, and other stuff)

I'm back! I know I haven't posted much this week with the exception of a few I do every week. Believe it or not I've been a good little worker regaurdless of our crazy-ass snow weather we've had, and have gone in to work. I made people from work come and get me. They want me there they come get me that's how that worked. (I was a little pissed, but I got paid so I guess it's ok.)
Sorry I had to post the picture. *Hangs head in shame* Yes, It's me standing out on the steps at 1 am in the morning while it's snowing. It was pretty I wanted to go run out and play in it, but I'm afraid I probably would have gotten the police called on me or something saying there's a crazy person running around outside our apartments. :)






On to the reason for my post. :)



I have been asked if I would like to help promote a book on here. (I guess you could say. Sorry still new to me!) My response being of course I would love to.  I actually have done a few posts on it. My WoW last week. Then in another one of my random post. The book is Vegas Dazzle by Pam Langsam. The first two chapters are on the Facebook Page. You should check them out and like the page. :) I've had the pleasure of being able to email back and forth with her, and with those emails comes some news. (FYI- She's very sweet)  Are you ready for this? Seriously are you ready? Okay, she's agreed to 1. Give me a few SIGNED copies of the book which doesn't come out until April to do a giveaway with it. YEA! (More about that later this week) 2. An interview! How awesome is that? I'm still in shock and also very excited. :) More on that later this week as well. Sorry I can't give away all the goodness together. :)

Outline: Envision your world being turned upside down in a place that changes your life forever. A place where anything is possible… Where you find a love for only your heart’s desire, your perfect other half, your soul’s mate. Together you are wisped away on an adventure of immaculate love, danger, and intrisity that alters your world forever.
Taylor has been forced to leave behind her life in England when her father takes a job as an executive pilot for one of the largest Hotels & Casinos in fabulous Las Vegas, leaving all that she knows behind. She must start over in a city full of lights that sits in the middle of the desert. There everything is beautiful, exhilarating and very lucrative.
People say Las Vegas is absolutely positively the most exciting place on earth! Being corrupt, getting away with murder and having tons of money seems to be a way of life, and oddly enough accepted.
At first Taylor is devastated leaving England, but she is pleasantly surprised when she finds that Las Vegas offers her new dreams that she never knew could exist or even possibly come true.
Meeting the mysterious, attractive Dario Mancini aka prince of the mob, forces her life to take a dangerous, exotic, thrilling turn. Their souls bound together gives them powers beyond the forces of nature altering them forevermore.
But keep in mind everything has its price…

So just in case you didn't click on the stuff above. I will gladly lay it out for you again because I'm cool like that.
Book Site- Vegas Dazzle Series (It's an adorable site with the graphics)
Author Site- Pam Langsam
Facebook Page- Vegas Dazzle (Go like it and read the first 2 chapters)
Goodreads- Vegas Dazzle (Yes, it's on GR so go..go mark to read)
Twitter- Vegas Dazzle

TA-DA! Now you have no excuse not to visit one or all. :)
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My next order of business. (Got to sound all official and stuff)

On February 17th I will be hosting an interview here for The Bleeders by Michaela Haze. So stop by and read that if you have a chance. This is actually going to be the next book I read, and it shouldn't take me to long so I may have a review of it before then just depends. You know me I can be slow reading or fast. If I'm holed up in the apartment Tues and Wed because it's suppose to snow AGAIN starting tomorrow. Then I'll definitely have that read and probably a few reviews to do. I love the cover to this. I'm not sure why. I guess it being all black and white then the red lettering for bleeders kind of caught my attention. Then the girl crouched over. This could be interpreted in so many ways. Sorry not trying to analyze the cover here. Want to know more about this book.

Outline: Sophia Taylor knew that her life had gotten pretty surreal when she woke up on her sofa, bleeding from the head, with her boyfriend Henry smoking her cheap cigarettes (which he never hesitated to complain about before).Why was this surreal?1- Because she was only bleeding because he had effectively pushed her down the stairs.2- He, being Henry Blaire, her boyfriend, but also the man that she had paid ten thousand pounds to murder the two killers of her sister Alison.3- Henry was smoking all of her cigarettes because she was bleeding from the head.4- Which would have been so bad if Henry wasn't an incubus with an addiction to human blood and killing the scum of the earth to get it.There, Sophia's secret. And all she used to worry about was a double shift at the bar and when her cupboard at home was running low on vodka and peanuts.
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That is all I have for you tonight my darling readers. OH wait I've reached 150 followers. I'm so thrilled about that as well. You guys are awesome, and I couldn't do this without ya'll. Without ya'll (I'm from texas that is how I say it.) a blog is just words typed out, and is just a space on the web. The readers are who keep me going. I love to get comments. I love to be able to have a chance to chat with fellow book lovers, the authors, and everyone else in this awesome community. Thank you!

Ashley