Rowan Speedwell's Blog, page 10
September 29, 2010
20% off Dreamspinner Titles!! This weekend only!!!
Okay, enough with the exclamation points. You'd think I was a romance writer er sompthin. Oh, wait… I IZ!! And THIS WEEKEND ONLY you can pick up any Dreamspinner Press titles at Rainbow eBooks for a whopping 20% off list. The best thing about it? Your friendly neighborhood author still gets full royalties. Yup. The awesome folks at Rainbow eBooks are footin' the whole shebang. We wuv dem. I know I'm going to be toddling on over there to fetch me some of my wish list…
See you there, I hope!!
September 27, 2010
Kindred Hearts is DONE. Sort of…
The first draft of Kindred Hearts is finished!!! ("And there was great rejoicing…" at least at Chez Speedwell.) I was beginning to think I'd never get it done. But I sent it out to Beta Reader #1, aka Patrice, on Friday, so I'm hoping she'll have a chance to read it this week. I'll be getting copies of it to my other two beta readers something this week, I hope. Patrice is easy—she's got a Kindle so all I have to do is format it as a prc file—but I give Lynda and Shannon hard copies in m...
September 17, 2010
Free Bookmarks. And other trivialities.
Right now, I am: a.) trying to finish editing a story with a deadline next week; b.) proofreading a galley copy of "Night and Day," which will be included in Dreamspinner Press's anthology Myths and Magic: Legends of Love, to be released October 15th; c.) proofreading a galley for the same publisher for someone else's story which I think might be in the same anthology; d.)working overtime; e.) functioning on minimal sleep because lately all of the muscles in my body have decided to cramp s...
September 13, 2010
September 10, 2010
Exalted company!
As soon as the review from michelenjeffreviews.com is up, I'll post the link, but Michele from the aforesaid site sent me an email today with some lovely compliments. I've never been in such exalted company before–she mentioned Finding Zach in the same breath as The Kite Runner. I mean–whoa.
I'm very grateful that people are responding so well to the book. For every negative comment–mostly about the "unrealistic" way that Zach "recovers too quickly" (Hello, people, did you not read the...
September 7, 2010
Love's Labours found
Got the edits today for "Night and Day," my retelling of the Orpheus myth that's going to be in Dreamspinner Press's anthology "Myths and Magic" this October (my favorite month). Surprisingly, there weren't a lot of cuts, just the usual run of edits I have to review. I'm pretty happy with the story in general; I think it's some of my best writing. I'm not particularly comfortable with the short story format in general, but occasionally something will pop for me and I've got a tale to...
August 26, 2010
It's National Cherry Popsicle Day!
Seriously. I love Popsicles. They're sweet and sticky and gross and please, nobody comment on the shape.
Today is also the 80th anniversary of the 19th Amendment going into effect. And the anniversary of Alaska voting to become a state, in 1958. Together they have led to Sarah Palin. Draw your own conclusions.
Other significant anniversaries: in 1883 Krakatoa began erupting (will explode the next day); Mother Teresa born 100 years ago today; the 1968 Chicago Democratic National...
August 20, 2010
All over the map!
Aside from being a generally busy day at work, it's also a busy day in the World of Rowan Speedwell. I got a contract for my short story "Night and Day" for the Dreamspinner Press anthology "Myths and Magic: Legends of Love" due out October 15th. It will have to be edited down a bit since it was a good 3,000 words over the maximum word count requested, but that's to be expected; I just didn't have a clear enough idea of where it could be cut, so I'll be happy to see what the editors say. ...
August 19, 2010
Back in the saddle again.
Catching up…
They just announced the recall of 223 million eggs for salmonella issues. Buy Davidson's Pasteurized Eggs. www.safeeggs.com. Hi, Jay!! (This commercial brought to you by Jay's sister, me.)
"Finding Zach" has vanished off the Top Ten Reader Rated Romances list over on AllRomanceebooks.com. See! That's what happens when I don't check it EVERY DAY. It was bound to happen sooner or later, but it's sad. (meep! meep!)
Did nothing on the new book over Pennsic–too hot to even...
August 5, 2010
I could cry.
It's not the end of the world. But to my utter despair, after seven and a half months of grueling research, writing, editing, rewriting, RE-editing and within spittin' distance of finishing my Regency about a man who falls in love with the wrong twin, Dreamspinner just published a Regency – about a man who falls in love with the wrong twin.
Okay, that's not ALL my book is about. I can eliminate the twin correlation easily enough; the twin thing isn't that critical to the story so I can just ...
