Jennifer Echols's Blog, page 14

Mistrusting the computer machine

My dad is a private pilot. He flew up here to Birmingham yesterday and took me for a ride. We talked a lot about the physics of flying. Wow, he is a font of information. Of course, this is not nearly as impressive as the fact that when I was in college, he was building an airplane in the basement. Not a radio-controlled airplane—he's built those too, and boats, and helicopters—but an actual airplane that he was going to sit in and pilot. He didn't finish it because he gave himself carpal tunn...

Cover envy

I have covers on the brain. I turned in THE BOOK WITH THE TITLE SO FABULOUS THAT I DARE NOT SPEAK ITS NAME last month. It will be published on July 1, 2011, and my editor has already asked me for descriptions of the characters so the art department can depict them on the cover. It's ironic that the cover is so incredibly important to sales of the book, yet the author generally gets no say in it whatsoever...but I will say two things about my covers. (1) When I've had a big concern, my editors...

The Girlfriends' Cyber Circuit presents Lucienne Diver!

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REVAMPED

In Vamped, Gina and her minions defeated a vampire vixen, a psycho-psychic and the vampire council of Mozulla, Ohio. Gina was all ready to expose vampires to the world in all their fanged fabulosity…until the Feds arrived to sweep everything under the rug and make them an offer they couldn't refuse.

In ReVamped, Gina and her boyfriend Bobby are sent undercover to infiltrate a New ...

What I left out

THE BOYS NEXT DOOR and ENDLESS SUMMER do not contain real people or events or even places, but they certainly were inspired by my experience growing up on Lake Martin near Alexander City, Alabama. I have been caught in a thunderstorm on the lake, I have nearly lost a sailboat mast in deep waters, I know what it feels like to wake up outdoors at 6 a.m. (though not in my boyfriend's truck), and my brother had a spectacular waterski crash that left him needing stitches in his forehead. But of co...

The Girlfriends' Cyber Circuit presents Kristina Springer!

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MY FAKE BOYFRIEND IS BETTER THAN YOURS

Seventh grade was supposed to be fun, but Tori is having major drama with her BFF, Sienna. Sienna changed a lot over the summer—on the first day of school she's tan, confident, and full of stories about her new dreamy boyfriend. Tori knows that she's totally making this guy up. So Tori invents her own fake boyfriend, who is better than Sienna's in eve...

Goodbye blog! *sniffle*

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End of an era

The Simon Pulse Romantic Comedies Blog is ending. Post a comment for a chance to win all 4 of my ro-coms! US only. Contest closes on the 25th so comment soon!

My lost year

Last week I turned in The Book With The Title So Fabulous That I Dare Not Speak Its Name, which will be published by MTV Books next July. I posted more about that on the MTV Books Blog in case you're interested.

And now...I'm trying not to get that sinking feeling. I have plenty to do. I'm cleaning, for one thing, and answering my e-mail from July, and in the next few days I need to start writing proposals. But I don't have another book under contract, so the future is uncertain. I HATE it whe...

Woo-hoo!

FORGET YOU is finally in stores today! The best place to find it is Borders, but any bookstore should be able to order it for you and have it in a day or so at no extra charge. You can also order it online at BarnesAndNoble.com , BooksAMillion.com , Amazon.com , or your favorite indie .

Confessions of a Bookaholic is giving away my books, and today is the last day to enter! Other book bloggers have kindly posted lovely reviews of FORGET YOU. Many thanks to The Story Siren , Sarah's Random Musings , ...

FORGET YOU will be in stores July 20!

In the meantime, I've posted early reviews and a sneak peek of chapter 1
on my web site: jennifer-echols.com .


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