Brindle Chase's Blog, page 16

Coming Soon

I just finished the last round of edits for Trading Up, and have a tentative release date of March 25, 2011. Yeah!!! Its off to proof now, final approval, and finalizing the cover art, which is by Me!!

Watch for Trading Up this March, from Breathless Press

Sorry for being so quiet lately. Its been a hard winter, and I'm so glad 2010 is now history. Here's to a much better year in 2011!

Got some Nookie

My beautiful wife got me a Nook for Christmas and I am sooooo pleased. Here's my initial impression:

Setup: Getting the Nook up and running is very simple. First you charge it fully, which takes about 4 hours, then you're good to go. Without reading the instructions, I was able to figure out the navigation in a few minutes. Easy as pie. The only trouble I had, was connecting to my home wi-fi connection, but that was because the touch pad on the Nook is very sensitive and takes a little getting used, plus my wi-fi password is 26 characters long. Had to do it 3 times to get it right. *lol*

Loading books works easily, especially if you plug into a computer that has them all. Just drag and drop and they appear in your Nook's libary. The only bad thing is, that Amazon kindle books will not work on the Nook (boo, hiss!), but that is because Amazon intentionally made it that way, not Barnes & Noble. The good is, that all other eBook vendors books do work on the Nook.

Reading is super easy. Touch the "my library" icon and your books appear. Scroll down to the book you want and open it and you are reading!!! The screen is clear, crisp and reads like paper. Some PDFs have screwy page breaks, but none of the story is lost and its rare, so I didn't feel it was bothersome.

So, that's it so far... More as I play with it more!

Great Marks for Gothic City Lights

Gothic City Lights received another great review from Raven over at Vampirebooks.ca . Check it out!!


http://www.vampirebooks.ca/reviews/pa...

Diva-Licious gets some!

Just in time for christmas, I received this wonderful review from The Romance Reviews. Check it out!!!

http://erotic.theromancereviews.com/viewbooksreview.php?bookid=645

What to get HIM for xmas!

Lilith, the heroine from my novel Gothic City Lights is over at Ex Libris, blogging about what to get your man for Christmas!! She has some excellent advice. Check it out!

http://www.stella-exlibris.com/2010/12/spotlight-on-romance-what-to-get-him.html

A man's perspective on romance

Today I am guest blogging over at Four Strong Women, answering any and all questions you might have, but from the romance hero's perspective. Come join the fun, and bring those burning questions you'd like answered from Jack, the romance hero.

http://fourstrongwomen.blogspot.com/

Diva-licious reviewed

Diva-licious gets a pretty decent review from ebookaddicts!!! Check it out!!! http://www.ebookaddictreviews.com/2010/12/08/diva-licious-by-brindle-chase/

Bad muse! Bad, bad muse!!

My muse is wonderful most of the time. She whispers the basic plots of wonderfully romantic and erotic stories that I eventually craft into books. But she won't shut up... ever. She didn't come with an instruction manual either and no matter how thoroughly I search her, I can't find an off switch. No pause button, no return to voicemail option... nothing.

I'm currently in edits on one book, working on seven other projects as well, and have 30 other books in reserve, not counting all the ones I just had to forget... but she's been climbing all over my back with a new story and won't shut up. It's a great story... and I will write it, but I have too many others ahead of it... it'll be years!!

Anyone have any tips on how to subdue a hyperactive muse?

Bullies in the author world

Today was sad. I had to remove a few friends from facebook, blogpot and goodreads. There was a scathing book review. Which wasn't the problem. It came from a prominent and well known Goodreads reviewer. While the review was very scathing, its there opinion of the book. But then the reviewer posted a picture of the author and began to ridicule the author and encouraged her friends to join in on the trashing. I won't put up with bullies. Nor will I associate my name with people who engage in such activities.

But what is more sad, is that several of the people joining in on the bullying, were goodreads librarians, book reviewers from prominent book review sites and even another author whose book is soon to release (which I will never buy or endorse based on what I saw today). These were people in the industry!

Word got around quickly and many of us came to fend off the bullies, causing the original bully reviewer to delete the thread and alter her review. Then she had the audacity to get upset at the people for being offended at her bully fest. Now, my small token effort of deleting these people, marking them, so that my publishers are aware and hopefully will avoid these reviewers and the author as well... it still just irks me. Frankly, I'm outraged.

There is little more cowardly than to sit behind an anonymous handle on the internet and gang up on someone whose only crime it seems, was to write a book the reviewer did not like. And dress in a manner the reviewer did not like as well. To maintain a weight level the reviewer did not like. When her gang was outnumbered by the protesters, she started crying foul, that SHE was the one being bullied... As if!!!!!

Look, good or bad, a review should be honest. But it is for the book. Not the author. Trash a book? Sure. No problem. But trash the author and you'll find there are many in this industry who insist on a certain level of maturity, respect and professionalism that was grossly vacant in this review. I remember those people and while I have little significance in the industry, what little I do, will be to fight against those who tear at its respect and integrity.

And one last bit of bitter disappointment, is Goodreads did nothing about the flagged reports. The reviewer removed the content on their own. The Goodreads librarians, whose job is it to monitor and intervene in this sort of activity, did nothing and in fact, several joined in on the bullying. It leaves this author wondering about the validity and integrity of Goodreads in the publishing industry.

Gothic City Lights Scores again

Back to back reviews, both great. This one comes from Wicked Little Pixie and I'm just humbled by all the praise and even critique.

http://wickedlilpixie.com/2010/11/20/...