Allyson James's Blog, page 23

Calder

Just a note to say I finished the draft of Tales of the Shareem: Calder yesterday. Woo hoo!!! It's very spicy.

Now to revise etc while my editor is away at RT (I won't be there; I'll be home working).[image error]

Shareem "research"

My Shareem guys are a little more--exotic--than I am. To finish Calder I had to go online and do a little research. Glossaries are so handy. :-)

Today, I finished the last chapter of my Jennifer Ashley paranormal, and I'm within 10K of finishing Calder.

Such a feeling of accomplishment.[image error]

Amazon Part II

This morning, Amazon is saying it's a "glitch" that will be fixed.

http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6651080.html?desc=topstory

No one's buying the glitch explanation I don't think, but at least they're going, "ooops."[image error]

Amazon--stooopid

My opinion of Amazon removing the rankings of "adult" material, anything from Lolita, to GL fiction, to my own Mortal Temptations....

Everyone go shop at Barnes and Noble.

Amazon.... stoooopid. A good explanation of why the no-rank thing will hurt authors (and readers) is here:

http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2009/04/12/amazon-rank/

I was just about to buy some DVDs from Amazon. I changed my mind.[image error]

RAW 2009

I am proud of myself. I finally made my hotel reservation for RAW 2009! It's the first year I've been invited, and I'm so looking forward to it.

RAW (Reader Appreciation Weekend) is a reader/fan conference put on by Lora Leigh with the help of her cronies as a place readers can gather, get autographed books, and have fun.

I will be there this year (look for me under the name Jennifer Ashley if you can't find Allyson James).

If you can't make it to some of the bigger reader conferences, RAW is a n

Ow wow, cover happiness

This book is out in October. I'll take the candy cane.

It struck me that it doesn't look like paranormal romance, but then all the authors are paranormal authors and the blurb says "paranormal romances". I think readers will get it. :-)[image error]

Some Updates (Or things I can stop worrying about)

This week--

I finished and turned in a short story for the Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance II. Woo!

Immortals: The Reckoning (me writing as Jennifer Ashley) came out. I saw it in Target. Woo!!

I just finished a novella for a Christmas anthology coming out in October. Woo!!

Mortal Seductions and Hot for the Holidays (one of the Xmas anthos) are orderable at Amazon. Woo!!

Facing me are copyedits of Mortal Seductions, the first draft of Pride Mates (new paranormal series), and the first draft of Stormwa

Cover of Mortal Seductions

If you enjoyed Mortal Temptations (and even if you didn't), the next book, Mortal Seductions, is due out in September. My editor just read it and said it was even better than Mortal Temptations. And I agree; Mortal Temps was the warm-up. :-)

The cover to Mortals Seductions is to die for. This is Demitri in all his tiger glory!

(BTW, in the book, his human body isn't tiger-striped. It's an artist's interpretation--but I like it!)[image error]

Dragon questions

I've had a lot of questions regarding the Dragon series (Dragon Heat; Black Dragon; Dragon Master); e.g., is it the end?

I'd always intended the series to be a trilogy--and in fact Berkley bought the third book well after the first two (waiting to see how the first book did, possibly...which is why the year between Black Dragon and Dragon Master.)

I'd originally sold Berkley four books, two Dragons and two Heats--Mortal Temps and Mortal Seductions, which are both releasing this year.

(BTW, In cas

Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance--the Line Up

I have the privilege of being in the upcoming Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance with a host of top paranormal authors. I've been seeing various incomplete lists of authors around the Internet, and I thought I'd post the complete, actual, real, genuine list here. This is from the horse's mouth (the editor):

Carrie Vaughn
Cheyenne Mccray
Kelley Armstrong
Anna Windsor
Anya Bast
Jean Johnson
C.T. Adams and Cathy Clamp
Holly Lisle
Mary Jo Putney
Eve Silver
Ilona Andrews
Dina James
Maria V. Snyder
Catherine Mulvan