Venessa Vida Kelley

01/16/2025

✨WHEN THE TIDES HELD THE MOON PREORDER CAMPAIGN ANNOUNCEMENT✨

If you’ve been waiting to buy your ticket to Luna Park, now is the time to dive in! Absolutely thrilled to announce an exclusive preorder campaign for WHEN THE TIDES HELD THE MOON, and so happy to be partnering with indie booksellers who are just as excited for Rio and Benny as I’ve been since I started writing this book! 😅 Starting today through April 29th, if you preorder the novel through one of the bookstore’s websites, your book order will be sent with an exclusive art print and sticker, and will be signed by me, either in person or as a bookplate, depending on your store order.

Participating stores include (alphabetically):
Blue Willow Bookshop - Texas
MeetCute Books - California
Loyalty Bookstores — Wash, DC
The Ripped Bodice — NYC

Click below to head to the booksellers' landing pages. (Also, please contact them to inquire about international shipping, for while I know there are shops that ship internationally among those listed here, I don’t know what their limitations may be.)

https://www.venessakelley.com/items-3

Thank you so much to these amazing bookshops for making this preorder campaign possible, and thank you, dear reader, for your enthusiasm about my book! Can’t wait to get these goodies into your hands! 💕

08/13/2024

✨COVER REVEAL: WHEN THE TIDES HELD THE MOON✨— Coming MERMay 2025 in the USA and UK!

It’s with immense gratitude (and a racing heart) that I share the cover artwork for my debut historical romantasy, WHEN THE TIDES HELD THE MOON! Links to preorder the novel and add it on Goodreads are now live (below), with details about Digital and Printed ARCs coming soon. **Note: If you’re preordering — SAVE YOUR RECEIPTS for the upcoming preorder campaign! **

Preorder the book: https://www.kensingtonbooks.com/9781645661535/when-the-tides-held-the-moon/

Add on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/213075628-when-the-tides-held-the-moon

I can’t overstate how grateful I am to Erewhon Books and Kensington Books for the joy of being able to fully illustrate a novel for adult readers! Thank you to my peerless editor Diana Pho and incomparable agent Saritza Hernandez for embracing this book’s potential. To the brilliant Cassandra Farin for her artistic oversight and guidance as we pulled this artwork together. To alicia.mb.art on Instagram and Jeska Stowell for their invaluable contributions as my beta artists. And finally, endless thanks to legendary authors TJ Klune and Freya Marske for their early praise of TIDES — I am undone with gratitude and just so humbled by their support of my work.

More details about the cover art, Benny & Río’s story, and what’s included in the hardcover edition will be coming soon! (In the meantime, I’ll be over here pinching myself!)

10/13/2018

It's always a joy to do commissions in natural media. (There's a certain satisfaction in having stained or blackened fingers after finishing an illustration.) By request, this one is entirely in graphite, depicting a triple moon priestess healing a wounded inquisitor.

10/12/2018

In honor of , here's a peek at some of the fun I've been having in my spare time - drawing fanart from Rainbow Rowell's YA novel, *Carry On.*

05/22/2018

Honored to be a guest on the One-Year Anniversary episode of CoOp Cast! Tune in for my take on "Legacy of Dragonholt" with MVP Boardgames, LLC!

This week Peter and Mike celebrate 1 year of podcasting. We talk about the past year and what is to come. We also bring our families in to help review Legacy of Dragonholt and A Tale of Pirates.

02/01/2018

If you're looking for something special for your little vivacious valentine, this story about a princess dreaming of greater adventures beyond the castle walls delivers a hilarious love letter to the bold little girls in our lives. Click to get your copy of Red Admiral's latest collaboration with Karen Johnson and Sarah Causey: *I Don't Want To Be a Princess!*

Follow Karen Johnson's sassy heroine in this hilarious, rhyming tale as she concocts a brilliant scheme to trade her gowns and glamour for freedom!