Angelia Sparrow's Blog, page 33

First Review

The first review for Spellbound Desire is in. And it's a 4 star. Very pleased.

Coffee Time Romance reviewed it.

"The characters are not young and beautiful, but more compelling than any young and beautiful couple. They are both pretty dysfunctional but strong willed and intelligent. Their explosive chemistry and very different backgrounds and lifestyles make for a fascinating roller coaster ride of a romance."

*squee*

First Peek!

 We have a cover for Barbarossa's Bitch!

I'm terribly excited because all I had was Dylan's bare ass, framed in chaps, with the title carved into the skin.



Coming in February from Storm Moon Press

Need a little help from my friends

Okay, guys, I try not to do this.

 I'm about to troll for reviews. I have a very nervous co-author who has just sent his firstborn novel into the world...and nobody is saying anything about it. 


So, here's what I'm offering: drop me a message with your e-mail and I'll send you a .pdf of HARD REBOOT for you to read and review. Need you to post your review at Amazon and Goodreads both.
This is heterosexual cyberpunk, with kink. And it's not realistic kink, but fantasy kink. Gor, not Leathermen's Handbook. Let me know, please?

Weekly Round Up

Writing:
40201 on Event Horizons (co-written)
2628 on the synopsis (alone, not counting co-author's writing)
Total for the month/year: 42,829

Editing: none
Flying: none

Reading: Started Dark Faith 2: Invocations. Will follow this with Ender's Game and Belinda McBride's When I fall

Crafting: knitted most of a practice sock. Began crocheting a lacy sock.

Media: The Witches of Oz.

Business: balanced books, got all sales recorded to date for 2012.

Job hunt: Interview tomorrow!

Guest Blogging

I'm guest blogging at Pants Off Reviews.
"A Sit-Down Apocalypse for Seven Billion."

http://pantsoffreviews.blogspot.com/2013/01/guest-post-giveaway-sit-down-apocalypse.html?zx=16d09a09445f5600

Go comment. You'll be entered to win a free ebook every month all year long.

The Next Big Thing

Many thanks to Tammy Jo Ekhart for tapping me to do this.


What is the title of my current work in progress?
Blackhall's Transtemporal Medicine Show

Where did the idea come from for the book?
A friend and I were goofing around, dong some roleplaying and I asked “What would happen if a bunch of my characters ended up on a cooking show judged by your characters?” So, we pulled a bunch of my more popular characters from a variety of books and dumped them into an episode of “Chopped.” We played with the concept and made it something other multi-universe Chopped fanfiction.
What genre does your book fall under?
Contemporary fantasy
What actors would you choose to play the part of your characters in a movie rendition?
There are a lot, so I'll just hit some high points.
Phineas Featherstone, our medicine show man turned mayoral candidate is Jason Carter, especially after meeting the man at ConTraception.

Kathleen Gallagher, our fire mage, is Allyson Hannigan.
Eliza Masterson, poisoner extraordinaire and mayoral opponent, is Thandie Newton
Donal Gilroy, who was Phineas' boy and is now working for Eliza, is Aaron Stanford
And Mark Strong is Drael, aka Mr. Blackhall, the god of blood, pain and fertility, who has sent this motley crew (and their cohorts, including Tommy Flanagan as a post-apocalyptic Scottish priest and Ron Howard (ca 1972) as his boy) to stop a human supremacist movement.
What is the one sentence synopsis of your book?
Atlantean god assembles cross-time team to fight human supremacists and save the aliens who have lived alongside humans since dawn of time.

Is your book self-published or represented by an agency?
Neither. It will be small press published, without an agent. We're submitting it to Storm Moon Press as a serial.
How long did it take you to write the first draft of the manuscript?
We've been at it since September and still aren't done. Of course, I took a break in the middle to finish a short story and write a space bounty hunter novel.

What other books would you compare this story to within your genre?
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is the most common one. There are elements of The Dirty Dozen, and of Robert Lynn Asprin's Myth Conceptions. Except with more Gay Scottish Priest Wing-sex.

Who or what inspired you to write this book?
Cat Emerson, my co-author.

What else about your book might pique the reader’s interest?

Gay Scottish Priest Wing-sex wasn't enough?
We have a dozen people with deeply different life experiences and conflicting goals stuck together for several years to take on one of the biggest, most brutal organizations on the planet. A teacher, a terrorist, a flim-flam man and his assistant, a pair of priests, two escaped slaves, a mercenary, a wheel-chair bound hacker, and a redneck mechanic against a secret society of rogue Vatican agents, and getting help from aliens and gods.

To see what some of my writer friends are doing, I’m going to tag.
Gabriel Belthir, Elizabeth Donald, Stephen Zimmer and Sara Harvey
All of these folks are up to something exciting. Smetime around next Wednesday, I'll put a link to their tales.

Yuletide Youtube: Farewell 2012

Yuletide Youtube




I know a man whose name is Lang
and he has a neon sign
And Mr. Lang is very old
So we call it Old Lang's Sign


My cover gallery for 2012. 3 novels, 4 anthologies, a stand alone short and a collection of my shorts.










 

Yuletide Youtube

Yuletide Youtube.


Because I have been blogging about apocalypses, Pic of the Day.

Yuletide Youtube

Yuletide Youtube



Pic of the Day

Yuletide Youtube

My apologies for Rum-pa-pum-pummeling you so late in the season. But this is one of my favorites.




Pic of the Day