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January 12, 2012
New Year, New Stuff
It's a new year, and already I'm surrounded by deadlines. This week I'm wrapping up second-pass pages, while simultaneously trying to finish Red Horse (which will be Book Two). Meanwhile, thoughts of Book Three are prancing through my head. I have a main character. I have a first line. Not just any first line, but a first line I know is perfect.
And thanks to those second-pass pages, I have my delicious twist. One of the miracles of writing is how we can pen the smallest detail, what seems...
January 2, 2012
White Horse: The ARC Winners!
Because it's a new year (and apparently our last, according to the Ancient Mayans*), I became all overly-enthused about giving stuff away and pulled THREE names from the comments:
Ellen
Trish
Eldon
Congratulations!!! Shoot me an email at: alexadamsbooks at gmail.com with your mailing address and I'll get these right out to you.
I'm sorry I couldn't pick you all. Keep watching this space, though, because I'll be giving away more ARCs (and other pretty, shiny things!) soon. If you're a Goodreads m...
December 29, 2011
White Horse: The ARC Competition!
If you're looking to win an Advance Reader Copy of White Horse, you've come to the right place. Because I'm looking to give two away.
For those of you who don't know, ARCs (Advance Reader Copies) are uncorrected proofs, bound for reviewers. They're pretty and they're shiny and they mean you've got a chance to read White Horse months before its April 17, 2012 release date!
But I'm going to make you work for it, just a tiny bit. Before we get to that part, though, here's the back cover blurb...
December 19, 2011
The best book you'll read in 2013
There are a million things I love about writing for a living, but one of the top perks is that writers tend to collect writer friends; and the side-effect of that is that we get to read amazing books, not long after they're a twinkle in the author's eye.
One of the very best novels I've read this year is by an author you haven't heard of–yet.
But you will hear about her soon. Oh yes, you will. Because Jamie Mason's novel, THE LIAR'S MARGIN sold to Gallery Books (Simon & Schuster) recently.
It's ...
November 5, 2011
September 10, 2011
Making it new; making it shiny
There's nothing new under the sun, they say. And that's true. Everything that's been done has been done again a million times over. So where does that leave us, the writers, the storytellers, the mythmakers? How do we take the old and freshen up it enough to keep what-happens-next a secret from the readers until we're ready for them to know it?
My answer is this: I don't know.
I don't fully understand the process, the way I take something and twist it into a shape that differs slightly from t...
July 28, 2011
Release dates
So here is what I know, thus far.
WHITE HORSE will be on shelves in the US and Canada on April 10, 2012, and in stores in the UK on April 26.
The very best thing about this?
You'll be able to buy (and read!) my book before the world ends on December 21, 2012.
Not, you know, that I believe in such things.
Ignore the bunker in my backyard. Ignore it.
June 19, 2011
The End is Nigh! But Not That Nigh.
May 21st came and went and all I lost was a cup of coffee and a pair of sunglasses. Which means Harold Camping was wrong. Again.
I have to wonder: Do the Harold Campings of the world REALLY believe their predictions, or do they quietly snicker as they calculate a new Use-By date for humanity?
WHITE HORSE takes place before, during, and after an apocalypse, so it should be no surprise to anyone that I'm fascinated by all things end-of-worldish, be it at the hand of deities or the natural result ...
