Rachel Vincent's Blog, page 33

Alpha widget; Review winner!

The winner of the Review and Win contest is ...

Lexi!

Lexi, please email me your shipping information (rachelATrachelvincentDOTcom) and I'll put your prizes in the mail. Along with the other books I still owe a few winners.

Thanks so much to everyone who participated! I read all the review entries and I'm so glad so many people liked the My Soul To Keep ! It's definitely a pivotal book in the series.

And if you'd like another chance to win a signed copy of My Soul To Keep and a Soul Screamers t-sh...

UK Soul Screamers

Okay, the Review and Win contest has now closed! Thanks so much to everyone who entered! I'll be posting the winner tomorrow, after I've had time to verify all the entries.

But today, I have new pretties! My editor says I'm all clear to post the UK Soul Screamers covers. (Also, I think we're very close to showing off the US cover for My Soul To Steal !) So here goes!



The first one, My Soul To Take, is scheduled for a UK release on Jan 1, 2011, the same day My Soul To Steal comes out in the US. T...

This Is How I Plot

(Blog title is stuck in my head, being chanted to the tune of "This Is Why I'm Hot." Someone please kill the earworm!)

Yesterday, I mentioned on Twitter that my white board was covered in sticky notes, and several people asked me to either post pictures or explain how I used the board and stickies. Last year, I did a post covering this topic, so if you'd like to read that original post, click here. Or, you can scroll down and I'll explain it again in this post, referencing the novel I'm now ou...

The Love Bus!

I got in late last night from the bus tour (#lovebus on Twitter, if you want more pics), and though the trip was exhausting, it was also a lot of fun. Good food, good company, and many, many books. And even more hours on the road.

Unfortunately, because we visited eight different stores in eight different towns in three days, the stops are kind of running together in my head. So I'm no longer sure which pictures were taken where. But we had fun and met great people everywhere we went. Includin...

And...we're off!

I landed in Chicago a couple of hours ago and have settled into my hotel. Tomorrow the other Authors in Motion authors (redundant?) and I will visit the first three stops on the bus tour. But for now, I have about fifteen minutes to get ready for an orientation dinner with the other authors and Heather, our Harlequin PR rep/escort/miracle worker.

Which is good. Cause I'm starving!

If all goes well, I plan to Tweet with pictures along the way...

Another year older...

My birthday was this past weekend, and I have to admit, I considered running a "Guess How Old Rachel Just Turned contest." Any excuse to give away books, right? Fortunately, I came to my senses in time. I'm afraid the guesses might be too hard on my ego. ;-)

For my birthday, I got the most awesome one-cup coffee maker from #1! It's intended to cut back on both my coffee consumption and on waste. Also, it's just really cool. It's shiny and silver, and has more parts than the space shuttle, I sw...

Tour update; Review and Win!

First, a couple of things...

A few days ago, I joined Formspring, looking for an easy forum for Q&A. It seems to be working, and so far I haven't had to repeat any answers. The only aspect I'm not thrilled about is that you can't see what's already been asked with out reading through the questions.

But be warned: the Formspring Q&A contains major spoilers for several of my already-published books. However, I'm trying really hard not to spoil books that aren't yet in print.

Also, there've been a ...

Another winner!

Thanks to everyone who posted the My Soul To Keep trailer to help spread the word about the release and to enter the contest! The random number generator has spoken, and the winner is:

Cem, who wrote,
I'm not normally a fan of book trailers, but I've really liked the Soul Screamers ones. And YAY for Alpha being long!! Can not wait for it!!

Cem, please email me (rachelkvincentATgmailDOTcom) with your name and shipping information, as well as which Soul Screamers book you'd like, and I'll put your...

Opinions on Nash and Kaylee?

Now that it's been out for a couple of weeks... who has an opinion about the Kaylee/Nash developments in My Soul To Keep ? I've kind of been anticipating this discussion for a few months now, and it's already started in the MSTKeep spoiler thread on The Pride. So if you want to discuss with spoilers, head on over there.

But for the purposes of this non-spoilery blog, here's a related question: Do you think that the viewpoint (not secondary) characters in YA fiction should be (non-preachy) role ...

Dames post

Today I posted at the Deadline Dames, including BEA pics, the first Alpha mini-excerpt, and a Soul Screamers poster giveaway. Head on over and check it out!

And if you haven't seen the latest Soul Screamers giveaway (post the MSTKeep trailer to enter!) scroll down for details!