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July 7, 2010
Harlequin Historical celebrates 1000 books
Since its inception, the Harlequin® Historical line (of which I'm proudly a part of) has published over 1000 titles. My senior editor, Linda Fildew, takes a walk from the first releases to the most current.
#1000 is Christine Merrill's Paying the Virgin's Price:
It was also fun seeing the original covers and how the cover art has evolved. There's a nice mention of #1014 – Butterfly Swords coming in October. 
It feels kind of nice being a part of a long running tradition:
July 3, 2010
Butterfly Sword Online
Look what I found. This is NOT a game based on my book, but darn! I wish it were!
It's based on a Gu Long novel: Meteor Butterfly Sword.
Digital graphics for games these days are just unbelievable. Check out the detail and the scenery. Butterfly Sword online was created by 9you and rendered in the Unreal 3 Engine. Warning: Some gameworld sword fighting violence in the trailer.
As for me, I stay away from online games because I don't need another time suck online, but wow. This is a temptation, ...
June 30, 2010
Sad
No book excited me more last year than Cindy Pon's debut, Silver Phoenix. I rushed out and bought the hard cover. I told everyone I knew about it. Plastered it all over my blog. One fan even wrote me after reading the book because she thought Cindy Pon was my pen name since I'd gabbed about the book so much! (I redirected said fan to the right place)
The morning I sold, I literally ran to my computer and typed an excited e-mail to Cindy. I felt like a giddy schoolgirl running through the...
The promo push begins
July is almost here so it's time to start the promotional push for Butterfly Swords. At least, I think it's time. (???)
I took the wise advice of my agent who told me she's never really seen an impact on a book due to having or not having a magazine ad. So I took ads out of the budget and instead invested in a publicity muse and a graphic designer.
You know how authors with big releases have publicists and/or assistants that take care of non-writing tasks for them? Well….I can't actually...
June 27, 2010
Thank you Tony Leung
Happy birthday Tony Leung! (June 27, 1962)
I've been a fan of Tony's since watching Police Story on tapes from the Hong Kong TVB back in the 80's. Then of course, he starred in Heaven Sword, Dragon Sabre, my sister's favorite Jin Yong adaptation. Lately, he's been taking on intense feature film roles. He was fabulous in Hero — and I argue the true "hero" of the piece instead of Jet Li's character…but that's a movie discussion for another day.
Lust, Caution — mesmerizing. I would love to say...
June 26, 2010
Cool Mentions
Who's got the stopwatch? Okay, start it…now.
The unveiling of the Butterfly Swords cover snared some cool mentions on the interwebs. First from Dear Author who posted the cover along with some well wishes for romances set in the Far East.
Next and quite exciting, Jade Lee posted it on her blog and also gave it a mention on the Harlequin Blaze authors blog today in her post about Breaking the Rules. Her lovely quote appears on the back cover.
June 24, 2010
Blogging at the Ruby Slippers About Remakes
The Karate Kid? The A-Team?!?
Most people claim to hate them, but Hollywood seems to be throwing quite a few our way. I'm blogging about some recent and upcoming remakes at the Ruby-Slippered Sisterhood today.
June 23, 2010
June Edition of My Newsletter
I've just sent out issue #2 of the Jeannie Lin newsletter. Interestingly enough, readers don't constantly hover over the internet and live, eat, and breathe books….hmmm…fancy that! Even my friends in the writing community don't constantly visit forums, so several readers have contacted me to express excitement over the October release of Butterfly Swords with a note to "remind them" when it's time.
That brings me back to a time before I became immersed in Romancelandia. When I only knew books ...
June 21, 2010
Gushing over Salome At Sunrise + Giveaway
This would have been perfect to post for summer solstice, however my blog was on the fritz yesterday so I'm a day behind on the celebration. Inez Kelley is a member of my dear, trusted brain trust — one of the few critique partners I run to when I need to go surgical on my work in progress.
I was so pleased to have jumped on the Inez Kelley bandwagon early with Myla by Moonlight. This sequel, Salome at Sunrise, is richer, bolder, and more beautiful than the first. I want to celebrate the...
Excerpt Monday: The Sorcerer's Daughter pt.3
Welcome to another Excerpt Monday!
Excerpt Monday was started by two lovely writers: Bria Quinlan and Alexia Reed. Visit the other links for some interesting reads from unpublished and published alike and if you'd like to join up for next month, take a look at the main site: The Excerpt Monday blog.
The Sorcerer's Daughter is a historical fantasy centered around five swordsmen in the Emperor's secret service who've been tasked with fighting demons and evil spirits. This is Book One in what ...
