Meg Kassel's Blog

Welcome to the Young Adult Scavenger Hunt, fall 2018! I’m Meg Kassel, your hostess for this stop. I’m so happy to be on Team Green this year since it’s my favorite color. I love it so much, I own 3 hats in different shades. If you want to find my exclusive bonus deleted scene from my recently released YA paranormal, KEEPER OF THE BEES, you’ll have to keep searching. I’m tucked in a cool little corner of TEAM GREEN with Natasha Sinel.

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One week ago today my second novel, Keeper of the Bees released in hardcover and ebook. I wrote this book because I fell in love with Rafette, the villain from Black Bird of the Gallows and wanted to tell the story of a Beekeeper. Rafette’s story concluded in Black Bird, so I began a new tale with new characters, told in alternating point of views.

As my two main characters, Dresden and Essie, grew in my mind and on the page, I fell for both of them just as hard as I had for Rafette. Also, I...

It’s here! My shiny new cover for Keeper of the Bees, a companion to Black Bird of the Gallows. I’m so excited to share it with you. Inside info: this cover went through MANY versions. It has to pass inspection at both Macmillan and Barnes & Noble and it took a while for designers to come up with a design that worked for everyone. Personally, I LOVE this one and was so happy it was chosen. I saw a few of the others and this was my favorite. Authors, (unless they’re independently published) do...

Haha, not yet. BUT…
We’re gearing up for the September 4, 2018 release of Keeper of the Bees. See the cover first on June 9, 2018 here, and with participating bloggers. I can say for a fact that this cover is GORGEOUS. Black Bird of the Gallow’s cover is beautiful and dark, but this one is so delicious, I can’t stop peeking at it. I can’t wait for you to see it.

Here’s a hint…there aren’t any crows on this cover. Instead, it features a certain type of honey-making insect that lives inside a...

Welcome to the Young Adult Scavenger Hunt, fall 2017!

I’m Meg Kassel, your hostess for this stop. And this is me:

 

 

This is my second time hosting a stop on YASH and I’m pretty excited about that! If you want to find my exclusive bonus content from, you’ll have to keep searching. I’m on TEAM PURPLE. There are literally 101 reasons to be excited about hunting on team purple! Happy hunting

#SWOONYYA GIVEAWAY

Psst! Looking to fall in love this Valentine’s Day? Then meet your next book boyfriend / girlfriend in this #SwoonyYA Valentine’s Day Giveaway! The Grand Prize winner will receive a kindle and their choice of one of the 9 ebooks you see in the above graphic, and 8 runners up will receive an ebook from the remaining titles by draw. International contestants are eligible from any country where US Amazon gift cards are redeemable. Simply enter the Rafflecopter below for you...

Nine other YA authors and I are sponsoring this fantastic giveaway of atmospheric, haunting, or otherworldly reads to get into the spirit of the season! I’m pretty in love with this giveaway. As in, I want to enter it and get my hands on ALL these books. I’m pretty certain that I’m disqualified, which stinks for me, but rocks for you!

The Grand Prize winner will receive a copy of each of the titles you see in the graphic (hardcover or paperback, author’s discretion), and a Runner Up will win...

Welcome to the Young Adult Scavenger Hunt, fall 2017!
I’m Meg Kassel, your hostess for this stop. And this is me:

 

 

I’ve participated in many of these as a reader, but this is my first time as an author. Needless to say, I’m pretty excited about that! I would be, even if I hadn’t had ELEVEN cups of tea today. If you want to find my exclusive bonus content from my debut YA, Black Bird of the the Gallows, you’ll have to keep searching. I’m in TEAM PURPLE. That’s right, you’re hunting on the...

Get a peek into the Black Bird of the Gallows story through Reece Fernandez’s eyes during the YA Scavenger Hunt. You’ll find the excerpt on J. Keller Ford’s blog starting October 3, 2017. This is my first YASH and I’m super excited to be a part of us as a reader AND an author!

Hello friends! To mark the countdown to the release of Black Bird of the Gallows, I have a limited supply of goodies to send out to anyone who pre-orders (hardcover or ebook—format doesn’t matter) before 9/5. Email proof that you bought it and your mailing address to megkassel@gmail.com, and poof! A little bundle of fun will appear in your mailbox (a few examples: bookmark, sticker, postcard, bookplate). Not saying which items I’ll be stuffing in those envelopes, but you’ll get a variety and...