Tate Hallaway's Blog, page 39

RT Spotlight of Sorts

For those of you who follow me on Twitter or Facebook, you may have heard me complaining (whining, really,) about having to write a nonfiction blurb-y type thing for Romantic Times' web magazine. Well, here it is in all its glory: Message from the author. I thought there was also supposed to be an excerpt available, but I don't see it here. But, aha! If you back track to the review, you can read it there.

Enjoy, and realize that I sweat and struggled over this... yeah. See why I hate...

Update of Sorts

I notice people have been writing into the blog wondering when the next book in the Vampire Princess of St. Paul series will be coming out. I don't really know. I only just turned in my manuscript to my editor a month ago, so there's no cover art yet or any back cover copy or anything. I'm sure it won't be long now. I'm going to be be starting soon on the synopsis for #3, and get writing soon after that (I have an April 15, 2011 deadline.)

Which would make me think that maybe that's when t...

Okay, Done!!

Okay, this took a LOT less time than I thought it would, and so I must apologize profusely... here is the excerpt from ALMOST TO DIE FOR. Please enjoy!

Sorry

To the couple of people who wrote to say that they're looking for the link to the excerpt from ALMOST TO DIE for and found it broken. I'll try to fix that by this weekend. The problem is that it's not so much broken as not finished... I'm my own IT/web person. Plus, I need to re-key the chapter myself... no staff to do that sort of thing for me, alas. So, with my son on vacation and life proceeding apace, I'm afraid a bunch of other things took precedence. On the flip side, you can find the b...

Another Cute Interview

Here's another short, fun interview with me over at Fantastic Book Review: "Sensastion 7 with Tate Hallaway."

Here's a teaser:

If Hollywood made a movie about your life, whom would you like to see play the lead role as you/ Why?

Matthew Broderick. He's about the right height, has my haircut, and we're close to the same age. He'd have to wear a fat suit, but, you know, I think the guy could use the work.

Small Screen Debut

ALMOST TO DIE FOR is in stores today, and as part of that I was on KARE-11's "Showcase Minnesota" _live_. The link to my segment is here:So Sixteen Ain't So Sweet in Tate Hallaway's Almost to Die For.

I wrote a bit about how weird it is to be on TV over at my LiveJournal blog.

Also, there's an interview with me over at Ellz Readz: Interview Tate Hallaway.

Hopefully, with all this publicity, people will feel as though they simply can not live unless they run off to the store today and buy my...

Fun Interview

The Book Butterfly posted a lovely 10-question interview with me on her blog, which you should check out: "Ten Tantalizing Questions with Tate". Alas, I have since learned that my alter-ego's new book won't be out until March 2011. However, just for fun, let me reprint one of my answers here.

If you could inhabit the life of one literary character and dive into their world for just one day, who would you choose and why?

It's a well known fact that I want to be Captain America from the...

Pionner Press Princess!

A very nice article about me (and my alter ego, pictured above) and the end of Garnet and beginning of Ana appeared in the Pioneer Press today. Check it out: St. Paul Author Introduces Her New Series About a Vampire Princess.

Photo Shoot

Yesterday was another one of those ridiculously busy days.

I had gutter installers coming at some point (you know, the whole between noon and midnight,) and a staff photographer from the Pioneer Press at 3:00 PM. And guess when the gutter guys came? That's right! 3:00 PM! But, as it happens our house is such a mess, I decided that I'd offer to go to some other location with the photographer. We ended up at that cemetery on Front, Calvary? He offered to go to a place featured in the...

Radio Interview

If you missed listening to me blather live on KFAI's "Write On! Radio" you can catch it in the archived files: http://www.kfai.org/writeonradio.

Actually finding the file is kind of confusing. You have to click on the archive for 7/20/10, and accept the terms and conditions. Then it looks like you got nowhere because there's a list of all the guests, etc. BUT, if you scroll down past the announcements you'll find a tiny little header "Previous Shows" and a reddish button for either .mp3 s...