Mega-bestselling author Richelle Mead writes exclusively for Booktopia about her new book The Fiery Heart. The Fiery Heart is a book I’ve been waiting to write for a long time. Whenever I sit down and start a series, I know how it’s going to end, and I know what the big moments along the way will be. And The Fiery Heart? Well, it’s one of the big moments in the Bloodlines series. BIG. So many f... Read more

This is the biggest event of the YA year. The two toughest competitors in the YA world will come head to head in a one-off heavy-weight bout on 12th June, 2012. In red corner, Lauren Kate, author of The Fallen Series, one of the highest selling YA series ever, the darling of Random House Australia, and in the white corner, Richelle Mead, author of The Vampire Academy novels, the biggest thing i... Read more

The Booktopia Book Guru asks Richelle Mead author of the enormously successful Vampire Academy series and now, Bloodlines Ten Terrifying Questions ———————————— 1. To begin with why don’t you tell us a little bit about yourself – where were you born? Raised? Schooled? I was born, raised, and schooled in Michigan, in th... Read more

The Richelle Mead, author of the bestselling VAMPIRE ACADEMY series, offers us a new series… book one is called… Bloodlines… BLOOD DOESN’T LIE . . . Sydney’s blood is special. That’s because she’s an alchemist – one of a group of humans who dabble in magic and serve to bridge the worlds of human and vampires. They protect vampire secrets – a... Read more