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Before I forget (and while the link is still in my clipboard, before I go and copy something else and then have to copy it again, frustrated with my porous powers of attention), the class of 2k10's graduation party for the class of 2K9 continues today with another big book giveaway! My readers who love music might especially enjoy J.T. Dutton's Freaked, about a teenage Deadhead. Go forth and enter! Then come back.

Today marks one year since the auction for Shade, originally known as Generat...

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Coming soon to an earbud (or car speaker) near you...

I've been dying to spread this news ever since I found out, and now it's official. Audible has bought the audio rights to Shade and its 2011 sequel Shift and will make them into audio books!

I an insanely thrilled about this. This will be my first audio book, the first time I get to hear my words read by a professional (i.e., someone other than myself). Back when my daily commute was longer than a walk down the hall, I scarfed up audio b...

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I'm super excited about this week's Girlfriend Cyber Circuit guest, Debbie Rigaud, for a couple of reasons.

1) It's her first novel! Go Debbie!
2) It's a Simon Pulse Romantic Comedy, which I love (full disclosure here: Pulse is one of my publishers, but the pure fact is, I love rom coms and am eternally grateful that someone is publishing them). They also publish Jennifer Echols, one of my favorite authors and a recent Blogtober-guest.

Debbie's novel Perfect Shot was just released yesterday. H...

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Poking my head out of the Deadline Cave for a few minutes:

As I might have mentioned, I'm a member of the Class of 2K10, a group of 2010 debut young adult and middle-grade authors. Even though I have six published novels as an adult author (writing for adults, that is, not that I'm a true adult myself, because most people would dispute that), they were nice enough to let me in, since Shade will be my first YA novel.

Anyway, the class is holding a huge graduation party for its predecessor (named...

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A few weeks ago several authors got together (online, of course--it's our usual habitat) and decided to do simultaneous blog posts on the topic of "Music and the Muse," inspired by the article of the same name in a recent issue of RWA's member magazine. We were supposed to show how music intersects with our writing.

I didn't know where to start. All of my contemporary fantasy books are built around music. It's an obsession of mine. So asking me to blog about music and writing is like asking O...

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A couple weeks ago, I announced winners for two of the final Blogtoberfest prizes, an ARC of Shade and the grand mega-normous-zilla prize, a copy of every book in the Blogtoberfest (or more precisely, one book by each author, since one author gave away five books).

Sadly, the winners did not respond, so in accordance with the prophecy rules, I drew two more names.

The winner of an Advance Review Copy of Shade is...Lori! And the new lucky winner of the grand prize is...Cindy, aka I Heart Book G...

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Hey, I'm back from Chicago! Windycon was awesome as always. My panels and reading and signing were nice, but the real purpose of going was so that my husband, official toastmaster Christian Ready, could give three thoroughly amazing, standing room only, ooh- and ahh-producing talks on the Hubble Space Telescope.

Recently I joined the Girlfriends' Cyber Circuit, a group of wonderful women writers (WWW, if you will) who offer up "cyber-tours" for each others' book releases. So scarcely two wee...

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Here's my official schedule for this weekend's Windycon 36, at the Westin in Lombard, Illinois (Chicago area). Windy is my all-time favorite science fiction/fantasy convention, and I'm so psyched to be going back, along with my husband Christian Ready, the Toastmaster and Man from H.U.B.B.L.E, who's been putting together three amazing Hubble Telescope-related talks. If you're in the area, I highly recommend stopping by.

The theme of this year's Windycon is Steampunk, and the Author Guest of H...

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Just got page proofs for Shade (yay! pretty fonts!) and still hammering away at the Bring on the Night rewrite (at least two days behind schedule), so today is an offline day.

Tomorrow I'll post my final schedule for Windycon, which starts this Friday. See you then!

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By the end of this blog post, there will be three happy people, one of them much happier than the others (if happiness can be measured in books, which I think it can).

The winner of a signed Advance Review Copy of Shade (the FIRST Advance Review Copy, I might add) is...Leah! Leah, I don't have a way to contact you, so please send your mailing address to me in the next week. The ARC will go out later this month as soon as it gets into my grubby little hands.

The winner of their choice of a sig...

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