Richelle Mead's Blog, page 50

Headline news...including tour dates

First off, I feel the need to clear up some info about my trip to Blockbuster. Some people were shocked I went into a real video store, and many suggested Netflix or whatnot for True Blood. I'm actually a subscriber to Blockbuster's online service, and I get 99% of my movies through the mail. But, TB is pretty backed up with them, and after my luck last week with finding so much TB in at the store, I wanted to do the mail-order-trade-in they let you do. So, yeah, I'm big believer in the online s

Winnie the Pooh wears red

I'm kind of scraping the bottom of the barrel for neighbor news, but I'll give you what I've got today. Nothing reportable's happened in the world of publishing either that I can think of off the top of my head (I mentioned selling Hungarian, Bulgarian, and Slovenian rights, yes?).

I was driving to the post office and video store yesterday, and as I was leaving, I saw the hybrid back in the KGB driveway. Also: their garage door was open, finally allowing me to (sort of) see into the depths of the

Lifting the Iron Curtain. Er, Blinds.

Warning: this post may make me sound like a 70-year old woman with nothing better to do than watch her neighbors. I'll also warn you that I'm writing this after long since having taken my nightly sleeping pills. I'm feeling a little groggy.

But, let's face it. It's become painfully clear that in lieu of any new book news to report, the next most interesting thing around here is the ongoing saga of my ex-KGB neighbors. And without anything to report on them these last couple of days, well...the bl

Non-Russian international news

I'm afraid there's little to report with my neighbors. Their house still remains quiet, and the letters are still taped up. Yesterday, while I was gardening, a car drove through the neighborhood like they were lost and eventually pulled into the KGB driveway. A young woman got out, peered around, and then drove off. May have been unrelated.

Oh, and Mr. HOA president put notes on everyone else's door stating that for true enforcement, we need to report times and dates of infractions. I kind of wis

Communist block party

Those of you who are enjoying the epic of my ex-KGB neighbors will love this.

There are many reasons I like having lolcatz in my life. One of them is that he manages to take covert photographs of our neighborhood while ostensibly going to get the mail:





Yep, there it is. The home of our partying neighbors whose involvement in the former Soviet military I still can't actually verify, but which seems like a foregone conclusion. As you can see, the boyfriend's covert camera work revealed that the HOA

Cold war

I mentioned it on Facebook, but Friday was Mark Henry's birthday, so I'll once again shout him out some well wishes. Last night he had a proper party, so the boyfriend and I trekked down to the southern Puget Sound area, along with some other Seattle-ites, to enjoy the use of the Henry industrial strength grill and lovely home. Good times ensued, naturally--along with some martinis that looked like good times but really weren't. Yet people still kept drinking.

And speaking of parties, guess who h

Weary for the weekend

I hope this Friday--or Saturday, for you Aussies--finds you well and ready for the weekend. I had to stay confined to the house today for some home maintenance stuff, which gave me cabin fever something fierce. It's weird how badly you want to get out when you can't. On the bright side, I did get a chapter of Spirit Bound done, which should make some of you happy. It and Succubus Shadows are both due September 1. Two books due like that makes me uneasy, but with as restless as I've felt lately,

Richellopedia

I'm not going to put much of a blog entry here, seeing as I'm a guest blogger over at Bitten By Books today. I've answered over 100 questions so far on, well...everything. So check it out if you want a whole lot o' Richelle and ask your own questions! Cast your vote for Georgina in the best heroine poll on the side while you're at it (she's in second so far), though there are other good ones to choose from too. Plus, BBB visitors today can win a full set of Georgina books. Yay!

Man, back to the b

Shiny and new stuff

Alrighty. We have a whole list of things to go through today! News after news kept coming in yesterday, so now it's time to recount it here.

First: the good folks at Razorbill (my VA publishers) have made a brand new Vampire Academy Website, which is a lot nicer than the 1995-quality HTML one I have on my own site. Go check out their hard work! There's VA wallpaper there, plus countdown widgets for Blood Promise.

Next up. My talented jewelry-making friend Synde has begun work on some nazar necklac

From Russia with love

So, I'm not sure if you guys realize this, but a lot of the foreign covers I show you are ones I personally hunted down. Once I sell the rights to a foreign publisher, I often lose my connection to the book. Any format my book can be produced in (English book, French book, ebook, movie) is a right I own, but when I give it away, it's gone.

Naturally, I still have a huge role to play and opinions to give with my American publishers--largely because they've bought books that aren't written yet, and