Blog Tour: The Nightmare Affair by Mindee Arnett - Guest Post + Giveaway

You guys!  I am super excited to bring you a guest post from author Mindee Arnett today!  I knew from reading her semi-official bio on her website prior to the tour that I was really going to have fun with this, but she really provided something special for this post.  I hope you enjoy it and that it'll only add to your anticipation for The Nightmare Affair!

But first, here's a little about the book:

Title: The Nightmare Affair
Author: Mindee Arnett
Series: The Arkwell Academy, book #1
Publisher: Tor Teen
Publication Date: March 5, 2013
Purchase: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | The Book Depository

Sixteen-year-old Dusty Everhart breaks into houses late at night, but not because she’s a criminal. No, she’s a Nightmare.

Literally.

Being the only Nightmare at Arkwell Academy, a boarding school for magickind, and living in the shadow of her mother’s infamy, is hard enough. But when Dusty sneaks into Eli Booker’s house, things get a whole lot more complicated. He’s hot, which means sitting on his chest and invading his dreams couldn’t get much more embarrassing. But it does. Eli is dreaming of a murder.

Then Eli’s dream comes true.

Now Dusty has to follow the clues—both within Eli’s dreams and out of them—to stop the killer before more people turn up dead. And before the killer learns what she’s up to and marks her as the next target.

A Guide to the Visual Inspiration Behind The Nightmare Affair

Hi, All! I’m very excited to be here at The Starry Eyed Revue and to tell you a little about my collective and eclectic visual inspirations behind The Nightmare Affair. A possible subtitle for the post would be—a tour of Mindee’s office.

I’m a very visual writer. I draw a lot of inspiration from things I can see and, occasionally, drool over. Figurines, artwork, movies/TV character posters—you name it. And my tastes are pretty varied, although they remain firmly within the realm of fantasy and science fiction.

This same all encompassing love of mine is pretty evident within the book. It has a little bit of everything—witches, fairies, sirens, werewolves, mermaids, demons, and nightmares, of course. It also has a fair bit of technology in it. The students at Arkwell Academy have cell phones, computers, tablets. I love sci-fi pretty as much as fantasy, so why not?

Anyway, without further ado, I give you a guide to the visual inspiration behind The Nightmare Affair.

First up, here is my desk, where I do the vast majority of my work. That is, when I’m not sitting in my armchair/recliner.

*Both of these GORGEOUS paintings—and they are gorgeous, trust me; this picture does NOT do them justice—are from the lovely and amazingly talented Cat York. Everybody should go check out her stuff right now. Seriously. You won’t be disappointed!

Well, I hope you have enjoyed this mini-tour of my office. Stop sometime. Pick up a good book, and find your inspiration.

About the Author

Mindee Arnett lives on a horse farm in Ohio with her husband, two kids, a couple of dogs, and an inappropriate number of cats. She’s addicted to jumping horses and telling tales of magic, the macabre, and outer space. She has far more dreams than nightmares.

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Huge thanks to Mindee Arnett for stopping by and to Shane at Itching for Books for putting this tour together!  Be sure to check out the rest of the stops on The Nightmare Affair Blog Tour!!!

Thanks for stopping by & happy reading!