Jordan Castillo Price's Blog, page 10
July 15, 2018
February 5, 2018
Talents and Levels ~ Worldbuilding in PsyCop
Once upon a time if you told doctors you heard voices,
they’d diagnose you as schizophrenic, put you on heavy drugs,
and lock you away in a cozy state institution
to keep you from hurting yourself or others.
Nowadays they test you first to see if you’re psychic.
That’s the start of the PsyCop series. A lot of worldbuilding is happening in those two sentences! It turned out to be a pretty good premise: psychic abilities exist, and you can be tested for them. Victor Bayne, our protagonist, is a psychic medium. He sees dead people. But there are other abilities as well.
Read the rest on The Novel Approach Reviews
February 3, 2018
Site Update
[image error]Ugh, doesn’t it seem like every time you turn around, your freaking website is out of date? (What? Doesn’t this happen to you, too?)
JordanCastilloPrice.com is now current. Be sure to check out the adorable pic of narrator Seth Clayton on the front page.
I also tweaked the reading order on PsyCop.com.
January 29, 2018
Agent Bayne Paperback Delays
[image error]Several readers have mentioned the Agent Bayne paperback is out of stock at Amazon. It’s not uncommon for print-on-demand paperbacks to have a status like “1-2 week delivery” to account for the printing time. I suspect it says “out of stock” instead because I listed the paperback as a preorder, so it triggered some other status. I’ve asked customer service both at Amazon and at Lightningsource (my printer) and, as I expected, they each point the finger at one another for the holdup.
In the meanwhile, you can order Agent Bayne from some other places. They all print the book on demand so it would take about an extra week for production, in addition to shipping time.
Book Depository (they mark up the list price but provide free worldwide shipping)
Win a PsyCop Ficlet
[image error]I’m experimenting with an Amazon giveaway, and I picked Many Happy Returns for my test run because it was the first ebook I ever published myself on Amazon, nearly two years before the advent of the Kindle device! Returns is a saucy Crash ficlet, just a single scene, but if you dig Curtis Ash, you’ll want to check it out. It’s interesting to think the character of his mother was fully formed in my mind even then, several years before I got to write her in Skin After Skin.
Enter Here by following me on Amazon. Giveaway ends Feb 6, 2018 11:59 PM PST
January 18, 2018
Agent Bayne is on the case!
[image error]“There are any number of couples out there—those characters we love, the ones who, when we mention them by first name, everyone else knows exactly who we’re talking about—Vic and Jacob are that couple.” – Lisa Horan, The Novel Approach
Agent Bayne: PsyCop 9 is here! Ebook and paperback are available now, and the audiobook version will hit the shelves sometime next month.
January 5, 2018
Don’t Leave Home Without It
Get revved up for Agent Bayne by entering to win one of 5 ebooks, 5 audiobooks, and 10 Official FPMP Exorcism kits!
ENTER HERE
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December 21, 2017
Special Charmed and Dangerous Sale
If you haven’t read the ginormous M/M Paranormal anthology Charmed and Dangerous, here’s your chance to score the weighty tome for 99¢! Escape the family this holiday weekend, curl up with a massive book, and potentially find a new author to love.
Amazon – http://amzn.to/2BfwnCf
All other etailers – https://www.books2read.com/charmed
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December 19, 2017
Awards time!
Amid all the end-of-the-year scramble to make cookies, clean the house, and pick up that last present you’ve forgotten about until the last minute, it’s voting time in the Goodreads MM Romance Members Choice Awards. Why vote? It’s phenomenally good exposure for the authors you love! The MM Romance group is very active, and has over 23,000 members!
[image error]I’m thrilled to have been nominated in the following categories, and if you’re so inclined, I’d love your vote. You must be a member of the MM Romance Group and signed in to cast your vote.
All Time Favorite MM Author – Jordan Castillo Price
All Time Favorite MM Romance – Among the Living
All Time Favorite MM Series – PsyCop
Best Coming of Age – Skin After Skin
Best Cover Art – Skin After Skin
Best Paranormal – Skin After Skin
[image error]Best Audiobook Narrator – Joel Leslie narrating Hemovore
And here’s a link to the entire poll (scroll to message #38).
December 14, 2017
That’s a Wipe!
From my blog archives circa 2014. I was working on Forget Me Not at the time…I loved the way the toilet paper scene came out!
[image error]Photo by Cats by moonwhiskers on Visualhunt.com / CC BY-ND
So, I’m working on edits and I see where I had a character show up from a trip to a warehouse club with a massive shrink-wrapped block of toilet paper. (They end up having a big discussion about it in the story so it’s kind of important.) I’m single and I don’t usually buy things in bulk, so I’d randomly called the cube of TP “half a gross.” That’d be 72 rolls, for those of you who don’t think in grosses!
Anyway, turns out I just found a pretty sweet deal on toilet paper the last time I went shopping and grabbed a 16 roll pack. As I was trying to fit 15 rolls of it in my linen closet, I realized that if my character were walking around with half a gross of toilet paper, it would be as big as her.
Here’s where the ridiculous research comes in. I decided to go to Amazon and try looking at really big honkin’ packs of toilet paper to see how gigantic they are. Not that they feature people HOLDING them or anything. Which they probably should if I want a sense of scale. Anyway, I go….
And I get sucked into reading people’s bitchy reviews where they have meltdowns about their toilet paper!
Anyway, so none of you worry about me:
1. I decided 36 rolls were feasible
2. I will stop reading toilet paper reviews now
3. The pack I got the other day was a real bargain!
Back to the present (currently, 2017) again, I’ve also got a Mnevermind Audio update. The Life is Awesome audiobook is coming along great! As always, Seth Clayton takes scenes that could be just straightforward things and imbues them with the sort of spirit and poignance I really cherish in his performance. We’ve had a delay that’ll push the release into February, but I promise, it’ll be worth the wait.
