Aprilynne Pike's Blog, page 15

Video of Awesomeness!!!

Oh, I am so excited!! People are starting to make stuff on YouTube for Wings!!!

This one, by Minea Funk is my favorite so far. It's her dream cast. She is also the first person I found to suggest an actor for Tamani and well, let's just say I like her taste!



It's fun to see "fan art" go to a whole new level! Fan videos! Yay!

*And, standard disclaimer, I STILL have no control over casting, Just having fun here.;)*

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I Am SO Far Behind . . .

So, I always write during the summers. Have for the last three years (because my husband is amazing and wonderful!) This summer I knew I was going to be getting a late start because, um, well, my book came out in May.:D

And my husband graduated law school.

And we moved out of state.

And I spent about six weeks touring.

But hey! I write fast and we figured that we would be able to make up the time in the second half of the summer and just push into September. It would be just fine.

However, after thre

Yes, Harper Collins! I WILL Marry You!!!

So I came home from the gym today (all sweaty and gross, of course, thus, you will not be seeing ME in any of the pictures that are going to follow) and there was this blue box on the counter. It was a very distinctive blue. I was like, "Hey, *I* know that blue color!" So I rush over (and, I admit, there may have been some squealing) to oggle at this:



Okay, I admit, I have never gotten anything from Tiffany's. (Fine, that's not that big of an admission, but still.) On top of that, I had never see

How To Enter the House Via Dog Door

An Essay in Pictures, by G. Pike:







Hehe.

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Fun Week!!

It has been quite a fun week.

Except for the most obvious drawback which is that my husband is in Maine.

And worse!! (Okay not really worse, but . . .) He took my iPhone with him!! Those of you who know me IRL know that my iPhone and I are attached at the . . . er . . . hand.:D I take it everywhere I go and use it constantly. (For thing like *koffkoff* obsessively stalking my Amazon page.:D) I also have tons of information in it that I generally take for granted. Like phone numbers and addresses.

FAQ's

Okay, so I am getting a bunch of the same questions in my e-mail, MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter. Some of the answers are buried in my posts, and some aren't, but for the sake of convenience, here are the top ten questions I am getting!

1.) Q: I think you should write a sequel!

A: Was that a question? (I kid, I kid!!) Okay, there WILL be a book two. And three. And four.:)

2.) Q: When is Book Two coming out?

A: June 8th, 2010. I know it's a long time. But barely over ten months now! That's practicall

What a Day!

Wow. I have had such a perfect day.

Seriously.

Of course, the main reason is that my movie deal has been just ESPLODING! But also, Wednesday is Bookscan day and I had better numbers than I was anticipating. Yay! It is also birthday week in the Pike house and my husband's birthday was Monday and my son's birthday is tomorrow. That means much cake and ice cream was sitting around my house today. (Notice the "was" part.:D) And then, I found out this afternoon that after dropping off the NYT Bestselle

Disney and Me

I came home to the most AWESOME Google Alert EVER!

Miley Cyrus gets 'Wings' at Disney

Hehe, my husband, who specializes in copyright law (and stands over my shoulder and adds, "I am not a lawyer; this is not legal advice") tells me that it is actually not a good idea to copy paste an entire article from Variety straight to my blog. So um, yeah, hence the edit.:)

So ETA:

I've been sitting on this for ages, but Disney has optioned my book for film with Temple Hill (the producers of Twilight) contracte

Bits of Random

First the question that people are asking me on MySpace, Twitter, Facebook, both blog sites, and email: when is the second book coming out?

I finally have the answer!

Book Two (the title has not been finalized yet . . . or, rather, it got finalized, and then UN-finalized, who knows now:)) will come out June 8, 2010!

I know, I know, it's not May! But Harper has a lot of Summer titles and they are trying to space them out in everyone's best interest.

And it really is only thirty days later. Mostly I a

Ballgowns and First loves and Hot Guys and Secrets and Romance and Sea Glass, oh my!

As authors we often spend a lot of our time comparing our books to other books. You know, Harry Potter meets Hunger Games (Wizarding duels to the death!!!) or The Giver meets The Gallagher Girls (Spies learn to steal memories!). You really can't escape it. Even after you are published (or multi-published!) the sales and marketing people will still use comparisons to pitch your book to whoever.

Tonight I want to talk about two books that are very different. We never talk about different. It's alwa