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Virtual Release Party for Tall, Dark & Fangsome

Head on over to my main blog for my Virtual Release Party where I'm giving away a signed 5-book set of Immortality Bites books and a $20 Amazon gift certificate to two randomly chosen commenters.

Yes, I wanna come to the party!

More fabulous books!

More releases by my friends!



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SEDUCED BY A STRANGER by Eve Silver

The vast, dense forest and murky lake that surround Cairncroft Abbey aren't the only menacing elements that envelop the estate. For a dark history lies behind its walls-where secrets and evil still linger...

Catherine Weston arrives at Cairncroft Abbey to visit her childhood friend Madeline St. Aubyn whose health seems to deteriorate with each passing day. Even stranger, Madeline appears to grow more nervous whenever she is in the pr

Release week begins!

I'm over on Cari Quinn's blog today with a Q&A and I'm giving away a signed copy of TALL, DARK & FANGSOME to a commenter. When's the release date, again?

Tomorrow?? Holy cow!!

I am planning a Virtual Release Party here on zee blog tomorrow. It might be a bit lower-key than the one I had last time, though. Fewer fictional vampires have been invited to the shindig to keep costs down. They are heavy drinkers, you know.

Wednesday I'm doing a chatty Q&A with Molly Harper here and on her blog since the c

Kirkus reviews Demon Princess

I can't tell you how much I love this review from Kirkus. Waiting for reviews, especially ones for my beloved new baby new Demon Princess series, is a fretful thing. It's sooo wonderful that they really seemed to "get" this book. 42 days till it's out!! Woo hoo!!!



DEMON PRINCESS: Reign or Shine

"Sixteen-year-old Nikki's life is straight out of a fairy tale, but she's no damsel in distress. Just after her birthday, Nikki learns from an attractive stranger named Michael that she is heir to the thro

I love procrastinating

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So I'm starting the new book today. It was supposed to be yesterday but I realized I needed to do some research first and yada yada, I excused myself for another day.

But today it begins.

Really. It does.

*wanders off*

No, I'm back. And I'm focused.

I have done the following prep for NIGHTSHADE (out in 2011! Pre-order available, uh, in a year or so)...

1) Put together a soundtrack of suitable angsty yet hard-driving songs, a la vintage Marilyn Mansion and Evanescence

I love books

Today's the day I start working on NIGHTSHADE! Let the procrastination begin! At least when I'm procrastinating writing I do something constructive, so the condo should be very clean and organized for the next couple of weeks. And I've been meaning to paint my bedroom walls. Hmm... I'm thinking mango.

I'll probably also procrastinate by reading. I don't read half as much as I'd like to. I'm one of those people who will not keep reading a book if it doesn't capture my interest right away. I'm very

A reading from TD&F

Are you looking forward to reading TALL, DARK & FANGSOME (only 12 days to go!!)? Please Vote for it in Bitten by Book's new poll! (you can vote for three books in August you're most looking forward to reading).

Shameless plug over. Kinda.

Speaking of TALL, DARK & FANGSOME... nice segue, right? I decided to do a reading yesterday and post it to YouTube. Because it's 2009 and this is the sort of thing that's "in." And I want to be "in." Just once in my life I'd like to be IN!!!

Is that too much to as

Titles, updates, and other sundry topics

[image error]Hey, remember that paranormal book, LIVING IN EDEN, I've talked about? The one that's coming out next May and is going to rock and that you're going to get totally sick of me talking about soon?? Well, it's got a new title. I will now be officially referring to it as THE DEMON IN ME. Which, actually, means pretty much the same as LIVING IN EDEN, only the original was a play on the heroine's name, etcetera. I'm very happy with the new title. Enough that I made a little graphic of it to brighten u

2nd draft done + fab review for TD&F!

Okay! I have officially submitted the finished manuscript of LIVING IN EDEN #2 to my editor. Hooray! I'm calling it SOMETHING WICKED right now, but I don't know if that title will stick.

I tell you, I learned a lot by writing this book. It's my 12th contracted novel (??!!) and you'd think I would generally know what I'm doing by now. Well, you would be wrong.

I wrote this book without a very specific outline because for some reason I had myself confused with someone who can write without a specif

New book deal!

[image error]I'm very, very happy to report that I have accepted a deal with Penguin to write two urban fantasies about...wait for it...VAMPIRES!

However, these will not be fun-loving, wise-cracking vampires like in my Immortality Bites series. These are the scary kind. :-)

NIGHTSHADE is the title of the first of two books following my heroine whose normal life is turned upside down when she finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time (to say the very least) and becomes a key player in the brewing war b