#spectralcity

[leannareneehieber]

I write Gothic, Gaslamp Fantasy full of ghosts, mystery, romance, danger and eerie, spooky atmosphere...

I hope you'll dive into my worlds and stay a while...

Pictured Left: STRANGELY BEAUTIFUL (Gothic Victorian Ghostbusters with Jane Eyre and Dark Academia vibes, Greek Mythology bleeding into London at the time of Jack the Ripper, Intense Brooding Gothic Romance, Found Family, Tons of Ghosts) Book 1 of the Strangely Beautiful trilogy contains The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker and sequel, The Darkly Luminous Fight for Persephone Parker - (Here's Strangely Beautiful's TV Tropes page...)

Pictured Right: THE SPECTRAL CITY (The Alienist meets Ghost Detectives: Psychic Girl-Gang and their favorite friendly ghosts solve weird crime in 1899 NYC. Slow-burn inter-faith romance, found family, inclusive cast, even more ghosts) - Book 1 of a trilogy of novels...

All my full-length novels- I've a bunch more too- are available wherever books are sold in digital & trade paperback - if your local bookstore doesn't have any on the shelf, they can order them in! (For my novella series, including The Spirit Suitor extension of The Spectral City saga, check out Scrib'd!)

I'm always looking for new readers so if this appeals to you, I hope you'll immerse yourself in these haunted histories and sweeping sagas. All of my Gaslamp Fantasy novels feature crossover characters, so my Eterna Files (Victorian X-Files) and Magic Most Foul (Gothic YA Romance) series also feature crossover characters. You don't have to have read the series in any particular order, just be sure to start with Book 1 of the particular series title!

If you do know my work, could you tell a friend? Cheers and happy haunting!

[missi396]

The latest The Paranormal Daily! https://t.co/D4p3GavXrE Thanks to @ittbbb @ElhoimLeafar #kids #spectralcity

The latest The Paranormal Daily! https://t.co/D4p3GavXrE Thanks to @ittbbb @ElhoimLeafar #kids #spectralcity

— Shadowsofthemoons (@moonshadows1) July 17, 2019

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[pastelratpoison]

Yolandi swooped outside of the club, Peering inside the windows she smiled. “Nice, busy Saturday night.” she said to herself as she looked down the line of people to see if there were any familiar faces. She was ready for drink, dance and drugs. 

((OPEN RP))

[leannareneehieber]

Today only! @kensingtonbooks has THE SPECTRAL CITY available across ALL digital platforms / eBook retailers for $1.99! Book 1 in my acclaimed Gothic, Gaslamp Fantasy series starring a kick-ass girl-gang of psychic detectives, aided by their favorite friendly ghosts, as they solve weird crime in 1899 Manhattan! Slow-Burn Romance, Found Family, diverse, inclusive cast, I love this series so much and hope you'll pick this book up and tell a friend! SO much of what keeps an author alive and well these days is word of mouth so if you enjoyed The Spectral City series, could you tell a friend? Leave a review on a retailer site? Cheers, thanks and Happy Haunting! -- #Bookstagram #ebooksale #booksale #gaslampfantasy #gothic #ghosts #Victorian #nychistory #gildedage #mystery #psychicdetective #slowburn #ParanormalRomance #historicalfantasy #womeninsff #spectralcity https://www.instagram.com/p/CIpySHXAAyR/?igshid=gaomlzr7ktbo

[leannareneehieber]

Cyber Monday deals continue! My WHOLE Etsy shop is on sale until midnight tomorrow (link in bio). AND @theportalist has an enormous Sci-Fi/Fantasy $1.99 sale across ALL e-book vendors! THE SPECTRAL CITY is one of the chosen titles! Visit @theportalist and check out their Cyber Monday deals! I'm in great company! THE SPECTRAL CITY stars a psychic girl-gang & their favorite friendly ghosts solving paranormal crime in 1899 NYC! Support books, authors & artists this holiday season! -- #authorsofinstagram #sff #womeninsff #gaslampfantasy #fantasyseries #Bookstagram #ebooksale #booksale #cybermonday #Victorian #gothic #ghosts #SpookyBooks #spectralcity https://www.instagram.com/p/CIPBTDOgJD6/?igshid=1x5vh6r0roy2z

[leannareneehieber]

Stacks of Souls! Thank you, @wordbookstores for making this happen! While the Brooklyn store's basement event space is not in current use for lively events, it was lovely to be able to sign books there and feel a part of something bigger during a difficult release month. There are still signed copies so if you haven't yet, I hope you'll go support them (link in bio) and get your ghostly, gothic, gaslamp fantasy fix! -- #authorsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #newbooks #booksigning #bookstagram #signedbooks #GaslampFantasy #spectralcity #spectralcitynovel #asummoningofsouls #fantasyseries https://www.instagram.com/p/CDmDH9BgHfG/?igshid=1a2y9afrn8id1

[leannareneehieber]

Off to sign A SUMMONING OF SOULS @wordbookstores! Love how this beautiful book turned out thanks to @kensingtonbooks & stunning art by @squeege67! And of course, I have my friendly ghosts on, helping to keep me and others safe! -- #authorsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #newbooks #bookstagram #newreleases #ghosts #GaslampFantasy #spectralcity #spectralcitynovel #signedbooks #booksigning #mask #ghoststory #womenwriters #newfantasy #fantasyseries #gothgirl #gothsofinstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CDjmVokgfuS/?igshid=1v37dka1pzike

[leannareneehieber]

Darlings! Next Tues, 7/21, 7:30pm EST via @wordbookstores' InstagramLive: The virtual SUMMONING OF SOULS launch party! I'll be in conversation with the inimitable @brinastarler as we talk writing NYC, working with sensitivity readers, our process & the love of a good book! Join us! Pre-order A SUMMONING OF SOULS from WORD & not only will you get a signed copy of the book + Hieberverse goodies, you'll be entered to win a grand prize from the Torch and Arrow Etsy store! Pre-order to support WORD & this @kensingtonbooks series today & join us next Tues via @wordbookstores! -- #authorsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #newbooks #bookevent #bookstagram #spectralcitynovel #spectralcity #asummoningofsouls #inconversation #womeninsff #womenwriters #independentbookstore https://www.instagram.com/p/CCmTYWTA_B6/?igshid=la70r6q7hc9d

[leannareneehieber]

All signed pre-orders of A SUMMONING OF SOULS via @wordbookstores will come with these nifty goodies & more, note the coupon for my Torch & Arrow Etsy store, AND all pre-orders will be entered to win the grand prize: a handmade custom piece from said Etsy shop, whatever you'd like to commission! Multiple copy orders will get multiple entries to the grand prize! Go forth and pre-order from WORD today! And Save The Date! JULY 21st, 7pm EST, we'll be doing a virtual launch party! A Theatrical Reading! Discussion with author & sensitivity reader Brina Starler! Details & links to come soon! -- #authorsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #spectralcity #GaslampFantasy #newbooks #newrelease #pre-order #signedbooks #bookevent #bookstagram #asummoningofsouls https://www.instagram.com/p/CCT2jO5gYTU/?igshid=19at75mwgew3a

[leannareneehieber]

Darlings! Please head over to @syfywire to check out the exclusive cover reveal, personal note and excerpt from A SUMMONING OF SOULS, the latest Spectral City novel, out July 21 from @kensingtonbooks in digital and trade paperback! Thanks tons to @carlylaneperry & the SYFY folks for making this happen! I love this series about lady psychics and the ghosts (and hot detective) who loves them! You can pre-order this book digitally wherever books are sold, trade paperback pre-order links coming soon! -- #authorsofinstagram #newbooks #sff #syfy #GaslampFantasy #bookstagram #historicalfantasy #ghosts #histfic #spectralcity #spectralcitynovel https://www.instagram.com/p/B97HRpigVXc/?igshid=1j7zpktrjqt2u

[leannareneehieber]

Spirits and Smirks - about to go live at 3:15 EST reading from A SANCTUARY OF SPIRITS as part of @cogsexpo STREAMPunk Celebration! Join us! Happy Haunting! -- #authorsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #GaslampFantasy #livereading #spectralcity #ghosts #sff #fantasyseries https://www.instagram.com/p/CATNQXjFlYo/?igshid=o3ni43kbcjgp

[leannareneehieber]

@publisherswkly praises A SUMMONING OF SOULS! “Hieber’s momentous third Spectral City fantasy sees tensions in the spirit world come to an explosive head… Hieber’s latest fires on all cylinders." out 7/21 via @kensingtonbooks! Available for eBook pre-order wherever digital books are sold, print pre-order campaign coming soon! Happy Haunting! --- #authorsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #newbooks #bookstagram #sff #GaslampFantasy #historicalfantasy #strongfemalecharacters #paranormalromance #spectralcity https://www.instagram.com/p/B_zwvDGAfgv/?igshid=11sm5ue7z5af4

[leannareneehieber]

Today's #authorlifemonth prompt regards goals accomplished. I confess, as an overachiever, I always feel I've not done enough. So I'm using this prompt to try to dispel that notion for myself. Pictured: 1. My shelf of published novels (13 so far, with different publishing houses, not counting all novellas, replete with second & foreign editions). 2. My latest two novels; Miss Violet represents the end of an era; my #StrangelyBeautiful series finale, which began in 2009 in that beat up little out-of-print paperback pictured in 3. 4. Family legacy. That I've spun the web of the Whitby family, all the way from Darker Still and now into Spectral City, what a wild and wonderful ride. My goals are character-based and getting to tell their life stories and deepen complex relationships is one of my favorite accomplishments. 5. Performance: Pictured is yours truly as Clara Wolcott Driscoll in @willardmemorialchapel, an entirely Louis Comfort Tiffany chapel. Clara designed Tiffany's most famous stained glass lamps but was never directly credited. I created a one-woman theatrical presentation, "By the Light of Tiffany", adapted from Clara's letters and historical record. Channeling her remains an honor. My goals remain as has they have always been: to keep telling spirit-filled stories that draw a vibrant, inclusive, diverse, eerie, spooky but lovingly meaningful history into today's aching world. ------ #authorsofinstagram #inspiration #playwrightsofinstagram #womenplaywrights #womenwriters #womenshistory #Victorian #GaslampFantasy #DarkerStill #spectralcity #percyparker #missvioletandthegreatwar #sff #ghoststory #historicalfantasy #tiffanygirls https://www.instagram.com/p/B8ccglVg7MH/?igshid=sirrs8kvd0c4

[leannareneehieber]

Thanks to @mr_s_crane for expertly summoning my beloved Jonathon Whitby, Lord Denbury; Hero of DARKER STILL, Haunted darling of THE ETERNA FILES and now Hot Dad of THE SPECTRAL CITY. His sweet, harrowed, haunted soul spans nine novels with more to go. I never thought when he graced my mind as an alternate Dorian Gray during the drafting of DARKER STILL that he'd still be with me. But like all my ghosts, I'm haunted by these dear ones. Sharing my sweethearts with you is my greatest gift. Seeing them brought to life like this is a priceless treasure. -- #authorsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #DarkerStill #EternaFiles #SpectralCity #bookart #GaslampFantasy #FantasyArt #characterart #fantasyseries #Ghosts #Gothic https://www.instagram.com/p/BxdoRO2Hbqs/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1foelj87qc0pk

[leannareneehieber]

I'm so excited for #vtscififantasyexpo this weekend! I'll be attending with @kelleyhensing and we'll be paneling on character, art, process and all things eerily fantastical! Come visit our tables! The last time I was in VT with these fine folks was for the Steampunk Expo, and since then I've all these new books to share with you! Can't wait for this event! -- #authorsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #conventions #newbooks #fantasyseries #FantasyArt #historicalfantasy #SpectralCity #Ghosts #creativity #scififantasy #bookevent #Vermont #VermontSteampunk https://www.instagram.com/p/BwnmDt-A-XI/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ls11t0lmimq0

[leannareneehieber]

THE SPECTRAL CITY trilogy adorned with some of my personal collection of authentic Victorian Mourning Jewelry in Whitby Jet and other exquisite materials from the 1880s and 1890s. I describe and have placed many of these treasures into my book details, especially in this series as my heroine, Eve Whitby dresses daily in Mourning to honor her Ghost Precinct colleagues, the dead. There's a lot of talismanic magic in this series that relates to special jewelry items. Placed on A Summoning of Souls is an authentic woven hair jewelry piece from 1882. My prized possessions on books of my heart. If you haven't read this series yet, come join the spooky, Gilded Age adventure! Available in digital & paperback wherever books are sold! -- #authorsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #mourningjewelry #victoriangothic #thespectralcity #spectralcity #spectralcitynovel #gaslampfantasy #HistoricalRomance #historicalmystery #womeninsff #womenwriters #vintagejewelry #victorianhairjewelry #vintagestyle #historicalfantasy #gaslamp https://www.instagram.com/p/CLq4pXfg9tB/?igshid=lvosbkoevop6