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It’s Alive!

Amanda dressed as Zoey, complete with stuffed Milo and toilet brush. Also, I autographed her boob. And Ashley’s, too. I signed boobs.

Over the course of the last month, I’ve been everywhere but my own blog. The virtual tour was a lot of fun, but it’s good to be home. There are things you can do or say at home that you can’t at someone else’s place.

For one thing, you can write a post first thing in the morning and post it right away, instead of writing something a week or more ahead of time.

Which brings us to this morning. Hello! Guess what I did this weekend? I was at Planet ComiCon. I spoke on a panel. I did not die of fear.

It was a good weekend.

 

I gave away a bunch of bookmarks, postcards, and lucky gargoyle snot. I met a lot of people, including someone I’d previously been chatting with on Twitter. Hi, Mike! It was nice putting a face to the Twitter handle.

My side of the table.

Though I was terrified, the panel went well. When we started, barely anyone was in the audience. Except my awesome friends, of course. (And while we’re talking about my awesome friends, how wonderful is Amanda, who cosplayed Zoey?)When I wasn’t looking, people slipped in and filled up the back. About halfway through, I realized the place was no longer empty. They fooled me. If I’m going to speak in public (with my own mic, no less) this is the way to get me to do it. It also helped to have my buddy Jason Arnett on the panel with me. The other panelests were award winning YA historical fantasy author, Elizabeth Bunce, and NYT bestseller, Alex Grecian. Comic/graphic novel writer, Ande Parks was a great moderator and asked wonderful questions.

I lived through it and actually had some fun, too.

Cloud from Final Fantasy. Amazing costume. Note the B.A.C.A. guys. 

At the booth, I was able to check out the costumes from a safe vantage point without getting smooshed in the crowd. Jason and I shared the table, so his stuff was on one side, and mine was on the other. The table to our left was this guy who makes a living by going from convention to convention doing these awesome super-fast sketches. On the right we had bikers. Seriously. I talked to quite a few of them. Very cool group called Bikers Against Child Abuse (B.A.C.A.). And on the other side of them was Randal Milholland, who writes a webcomic called Something Positive. I didn’t get to talk to him until right there at the end, but he was fascinating.

Pooka in My Pantry has had a much more interesting birth into the world than Monster in My Closet, what with the tour and the con. It’s also spent the last two weeks in the top 100 urban fantasy list on Amazon. Sadly, it slipped out of it last night, but Sundays are usually slower for sales, and maybe we’ll get a post-con rush in the next few days that puts it back into the list. If not, it was still a great run. I was stunned to see it there at all, let alone for two weeks solid.

Go ahead and blink. Now she’s in your eye, so it’s too late to worry about it. You’re welcome.

So, now what? Now, I write another book. Fairies in My Fireplace is off with the copyeditor now, so there isn’t much left for me to do with it. I only touch it once more before it goes to production for it’s September release, and that will only be a brief last look. I already did my final read-through.

It’s time to stop promoting book two. Editing it done for book three. With the exception of the RT convention next month, I have nothing else scheduled.

It’s time to go back to what I came here to do: be a writer. And as we all know, writers write.

Pooka in My Pantry Virtual Book Tour

And so it begins. Today I’m over at Tynga’s Reviews with a blog post on the difficulties of writing an empath. They also did really wonderful reviews of Monster in My Closet and Pooka in My Pantry.

Of course, I want all the reviews to be wonderful. But it’s extra scary writing a guest post in advance for a blog and not knowing whether your blog post will go up right next to a review of how much they hated your book.

Today is the first day of the blog tour. This feeling of dread will continue for four weeks. I paid money for Bewitching Book Tours to set it up. What the hell is wrong with me? I could have run out into traffic for free and experienced a similar dread.

But this is how it is done, so this is how I must do it.

Here’s the complete tour, in case you want to follow me around like a groupy. Or, you know, if you want to hold my purse, you can be a roadie. Either way, if you’re checking out my guest blog posts and interviews and you don’t see any comments, please jump in. I need assistance in not looking stupid. I depend on you for this, because on my own, I can’t help it.

The blog tour button on the right will also take you to a list of tour dates and links.

Oh, and there’s a tour-wide contest to win my books, so don’t forget to show up to at least one of the stops and enter.

Here’s the tour:

March 11 Guest blog
Tynga’s Reviews
http://www.tyngasreviews.com

March 12 Guest blog and review
Book Recommendations
http://book-recommendations.blogspot.com

March 14 Author Interview 
Laurie’s Paranormal Thoughts and Reviews
http://lauriethoughts-reviews.blogspot.com

March 16 Guest blog
www.christina-mcknight.blogspot.com

March 18 Interview
Musings of an Independent Artist
http://www.pendarielraye.blogspot.com

March 18 review
Apocalypse Mama
http://apocalypsemama.com

March 20 Interview
JeanzBookReadNReview
http://jeanzbookreadnreview.blogspot.co.uk/

March 21 Interview and review
Book Whispers
www.shera-bookwhispers.blogspot.com

March 21 Spotlight
Place of Reads Book Blog
http://placeofreeds.blogspot.com

March 22 review
LilyElement
www.lilyelement.blogspot.com

March 23 Guest blog and review
All Things Urban Fantasy
http://allthingsuf.com/

March 25 Interview
Bookswagger
http://bookswagger.com/

March 26 Spotlight and review
Urban Girl Reader –
http://www.urbangirlreader.com

March 27 Guest blog
Mama Knows Books
http://mamaknowsbooks.blogspot.com

March 28 Spotlight
Paranormal book club
www.paranormal-bookclub.com

March 31 Spotlight
Offbeat Vagabond
http://offbeatvagabond.blogspot.com/

April 1 Interview and review
happy tails and tales
http://magluvsya03.wordpress.com

April 2 Interview
I know that Book.
www.iknowthatbook.blogspot.com

April 2 Review
The Full Fang
Http://bitten2ice.com/thefullfang

April 3 Guest blog
Cloey’s Book Reviews and Other Stuff
cloeyk.blogspot.com

April 4 Interview
Simply Infatuated
http://simplyinfatuated.wordpress.com/

April 4 Interview and review
Storm Goddess Book Reviews
www.stormgoddessbookreviews.blogspot.com

April 5 Interview and review
The Reading Diaries
www.thereadingdiaries.com

April 6 Interview and review
Beverly @ The Wormhole
http://wormyhole.blogspot.com

April 6 Spotlight and review
Kristy Centeno
http://booksbycenteno.com/

April 7 review
Fangs, Wands & Fairydust
http://fangswandsandfairydust.com/

April 8 Guest blog and review
Crazy Four Books
http://www.crazyfourbooks.blogspot.com

 

And now you know why I’ve been so quiet here on my own blog.

Follow me to our first stop. We’ll party together throughout the month!

See you real soon!

Free Monster Haven Short Story!

You guys have been so patient. I’ve made promises. I’ve teased you. I’ve tried to make you jump through hoops.

Enough already. After spending a day and a half learning everything I possibly could about self-publishing and formatting, I’ve got the promised short story up on Smashwords. Whatever your preferred format, it’s there, it’s live, and it’s free.

Soon, the story will also be available on Barnes & Noble, Apple, Amazon, and everywhere else, but that takes a little time for distribution. Smashwords has been wonderful to work with, and they’re taking care of it.

Pssst…as a bonus, the first chapter of Pooka in My Pantry is in there with the story.

So. Are you ready for a brand new adventure with Zoey and Maurice? You can get Ill-Conceived Magic here. Hope you enjoy it!

Newsletter, Free Short Story, Pants*

This is it. The short story I’ve been promising is finally here. Almost.

Wednesday, I’m going to tell you exactly where and how to get this story. I know, I gave you a short story with Maurice in it a few weeks ago, but that was a bonus. This one is a whopping 11,000+ words long. That’s nearly the length of a novella. In fact, if I’d managed to squeeze out another 4,000 words, this might’ve been a different conversation. Carina’s minimum word count for a submission is 15,000.

But I kept it under, so it’s absolutely free. I do want to add, though, this isn’t just a quicky I cranked out. It went through edits with my super-awesome editor, Alison Dasho, out of the goodness of her heart. Because she’s super awesome that way.

So. Do you want it? What are you willing to do to get it? Will you send me presents? Offer me a part in your upcoming indie movie? Share your kids with me, since both of mine have moved out?

Will you subscribe to my newsletter to get the story?

Come back Wednesday. I’ll make it worth your while.

See you real soon!

*This post has nothing to do with pants. I just like the word and think it’s fun to say. Pants. Pantspantspants. Pants.

More News and Stuff

Things are gearing up in a big way for next month’s release of Pooka in My Pantry. I know there hasn’t been a lot of activity over here lately. I’ll try to do a bit better, but until this book is out, I don’t want to make promises.

But that doesn’t mean I’ve forgotten about you. In fact, the Zoey and Maurice short story I’ve been promising for so long should be ready this week. As soon as it’s back in my hands, I’ll let you know. In order to get it right away, you’ll have to be signed up for the newsletter, though. I promise, the newsletter won’t go out often. But when it does, it’ll have exclusive news or stories or contests or discounts. You know. Stuff. You can go here to sign up for the newsletter.

I’m hard at work writing guest blog posts and answering interview questions for the Pooka in My Pantry blog tour. I’ll give you the full line up closer to the time, but I’m going to be everywhere. If you were around for the Monster in My Closet blog tour, you’ll remember how many stops I made. Forget that. This is much, much bigger. I hired Bewitching Book Tours to set it up for me, and it’s a month-long tour of stops at 20+ blogs. I have a lot of writing to do. See the pretty graphic they made for the tour?

Right before the blog tour wraps up on April 11, I’ll be spending the weekend of April 6 & 7 at Bartle Hall in Kansas City. It’s official–I’ll be a guest at Planet Comicon. I’m not so awesome yet that I’m a celebrity guest, but I will be sitting at a table with my buddy Jason Arnett, signing postcards and bookmarks. Or feeling foolish and twiddling my thumbs. It could go either way.

Come see me. Please.

In the meantime, blog posts and interviews to write, line edits for Fairies in My Fireplace should hit my inbox today, and I’ve been busy outlining book four, Golem in My Glovebox. I think you’ll like the golem. His name is Griswold, and he’d very much like to be “a real boy.” Sort of.

So, that’s all I’ve got for you for the moment. I’ll check in again soon, probably with information on the new short story I have for you. I’ve taken a hiatus from the Confabulator Café for a month or two so I can get everything sorted, but you should still check in over there. This week they’ve got flash fiction stories for you, so you shouldn’t miss them just because I’m not there.

Stay safe and warm. See you real soon!

Music, Manuscripts, and Magic with Shawna Thomas

Today we have a special guest post from fellow Carina Press and Here Be Magic author, Shawna Thomas. I tend to write in complete silence, mostly because I’m too lazy to find headphones and then settle on something to listen to. Shawna has it down, though. Listen to her, not to me on this playlist thing. I’m useless. Make her feel welcome, and be nice to her, okay?

About ten years ago or so I had a vivid dream. The kind that doesn’t leave you after you wake. Instead, my mind continued the story.  I absently pondered writing it down but I was too busy. I was teaching, had small children… so I ignored the voices.

It was actually a song on the radio that kept the dream alive. It haunted me. It was almost as if it gave the characters voice. Or perhaps the characters gave the song further meaning, but it was the song that drove me to finally write the story.

And so I jumped into the world of publishing with both feet.

As the story progressed, so did the playlist of songs that would instantly send me into writing mode. It didn’t take long before I realized that I was not alone. Many, many writers—I hesitate to say all—have a playlist or a sound track for their works-in-progress.

I don’t know if it’s just me, but I find this fascinating. I have always loved music. Music has a certain power to cheer you up, to get your heart racing—even make you angry. Music absolutely affects your mood. I think it touches something primal inside you. I have clean-the-house music. Get-over-the-blues music, have-fun-with-the-kids music. (This entails a lot of silly dancing.) And of course, I have music for my books, the leave-me-alone-mommy-is-in-another-world soundtrack.

The songs don’t have to relate exactly to the situation or characters. I think it’s more the mood of the song, the way it makes the writer feel.

Just as music takes you to another place, I want my words to take you to another place. I want my story to take put you in a better mood. I want you to fall in love, get angry, and leave happy.

I think there is a certain magic in writing. There has to be for my words to leap across time and distance to touch readers, to create a believable place and likable, memorable people.

There’s a certain magic in music too.  It makes sense that the two would  twine together to create something more than the individual parts.

Oh by the way, that first book? It is now a four-book series. The first one, Journey of Awakening, came out on the 11th of this month. The next will be out mid-May!

Here is the song that inspired me: Jars of Clay-I Need You

And if you’re interested, here is the Journey of Awakening sound track:

Lifehouse-Spin 
Evanescence – Weight of the World 
Red – Already Over 
Fireflight – Forever 
Breaking Benjamin- So Cold 

 

Winner of a 2011 RT Reader’s Choice award for her debut book, Altered Destiny, Shawna Thomas has been making up stories ever since finishing GONE WITH THE WIND. Once she put her own ending in writing, there was no looking back.

A wife and a mother of seven, Shawna lives in California where she gardens, writes, and drinks a lot of coffee. Visit her on her blog, Twitter or Facebook.

Journey of Awakening, book one of the Triune Stones is available here:

Barnes and Noble/ Amazon/ Carina Press 

Post-Valentine Lego Report

Well, hello there, post-Valentines! I hope yesterday was filled with one of the following:

1. Hearts and candy and roses and all sorts of love from your partner.

2. A day of self love in whatever form that takes.

3. Sugar in you ex’s gas tank.

I myself got the first one. A dozen-and-a-half roses, candy, dinner, a special Disney-related present that made me cry when I opened it, and the Lego Monster Fighter Ghost Train set. (See awesome picture below.) Guess what I’ll be doing this weekend?

But today is still a work day. Now that developmental edits are turned in on Fairies in My Fireplace, I’ve started working on stuff for my upcoming blog tour to promote Pooka in My Pantry. Or, that was the plan, anyway. I’ll get started on that next week. This week, I actually tackled several unruly and disgusting areas in my house. My fridge, freezer, and pantry are all clean. Booya.

I didn’t totally neglect writing though. I’d intended to start a new secret project before I got rolling on the next Zoey book, but we’re looking down the barrel of book four now. Things are getting frantic for our heroine, and with each book, a bigger chunk of the world is in danger. In fact, most of the next book, Golem in my Glovebox takes place outside of Zoey’s home. It’s a road trip story.

And the outlining started this week nearly on it’s own. This is happening, people.

So, I’m off to work on that for a bit. It’s taking shape, and I’m getting really excited.

On Monday, I’ll have something special for you. I won’t be here! Okay, that’s not special. It happens all the time. What’s special about it is that I’ve got a guest coming. The awesome Shawna Thomas will be here talking about the music she listens to while writing her fantasy series, The Triune Stones. The first in the series, Journey of Awakening, came out this week.

Be nice to her when she gets here. Show her a good time. Maybe she’ll come back again in a few months when her next book comes out.

Have a most excellent weekend. I will be building my ghost train and eating chocolates.

See you real soon!

A Blessing of Unicorns

Today is a special surprise. Not to me, of course. I knew I was doing this. You didn’t, though. Surprise!

My super-awesome-fun-time editor, Alison, had surgery recently. One of my fellow Carina Press authors who shares Alison as an editor suggested that we do a little tribute to cheer her up. We’ve all written short stories featuring Alison and characters from our books. Today is my day to post it. I hope you enjoy it! 

 

A Blessing of Unicorns

by R.L. Naquin

Save the world as many times as you want. It doesn’t grant you any special privileges. The monsters still get all the fun.

Traveling cross-country through closet portals does not make a closet monster’s head split open and his guts spew everything he and his ancestors have ever eaten in the last six centuries. Not so for humans.

Maybe I’m exaggerating. I’ve only ever closet-travelled once, and it was between two closets in the same house. I wasn’t willing to try it again over such a long distance. Not even for a sick friend.

So, Maurice went off to Wisconsin to see Alison, and I waited.

And I waited.

I was about to give up and find something to do other than sit on the guestroom bed and try to read a book I wasn’t really interested in. The doorknob turned, and Maurice spilled out of the closet, his big yellow eyes wild. He slammed the door behind him and leaned with his back against it.

“Did it not go well?” I asked, setting my book aside.

He scrubbed at his face with the palm of his hand. “Zoey, it was a disaster. I don’t even know where to start.”

“Is Alison okay?” That was my main concern. The rest was superficial, even if he’d managed to burn down her apartment.

He nodded. “She’s fine.”

I stood up and grabbed his hand. “Come into the kitchen. Tell me everything.”

Once we were settled, Maurice took a long swallow of strawberry lemonade. He wiped his mouth with the sleeve of his paisley shirt and fixed his eerie eyes on me.

“She was asleep on the couch when I got there.” He set his glass down. “I’d expected her to be in bed, not in the middle of everything where she might wake up and see me.”

“Did she wake up?” My heart sped up. The last thing a person recovering from an operation needed was a scare. The poor woman might rip out her stitches.

“I’ll get to that.”

Not reassuring.

“I came out of the coat closet and found her on the couch. She didn’t move, so I knew she was out. Her cats were piled up on top of her, and they didn’t notice me, either. At first.”

“At first?” That didn’t sound good.

“I just wanted to do a little cleaning for her. You know, clean the fridge and the windows and baseboards. Places people don’t always get around to doing.”

I made a face. “You clean our baseboards?”

He rolled his eyes. “Focus, Zoey.” He took another drink. “I went into the kitchen and Princess must’ve heard me. She popped her head up, saw me, and darted off into the bedroom. That woke up Captain, and he hissed at me. He hissed at me!”

“And that’s when Alison woke up,” I said.

“Nope. She was still out cold. I forgot my cleaning supplies, so I opened a cupboard to reach through into our own cupboard to get my stuff.”

“You can do that?”

“Of course. Except, I was really shaken up by getting hissed at, so my aim was off. I opened the wrong portal.”

“Who’s cupboard did you open?”

He ran his hand through his sparse hair, leaving the few strands in disarray. “Zoey, my aim was really off. I wasn’t even in this world.”

“Where was it? Pluto? Because, you know, Pluto’s totally still a planet.”

He frowned at me. “I reached into a world whose dimensions are different from ours. Sort of a giant world.”

“You reached into a giant’s cupboard.”

“Not exactly.”

“Then what?”

“His stable. I reached into Alison’s cupboard into a giant’s stable.”

I thought about that a minute. If he were a giant, wouldn’t his stable be huge? Maurice was the giant. I shook my head, confused.

“So, you found horses.”

“No. I found a blessing.”

“A blessing. So, it was a church, not a stable.”

“A blessing is what they call a group of unicorns. A dozen tiny pink unicorns ran out before I could stop them.”

My eyebrows tried to fly off my face. “Tiny unicorns.”

He nodded, miserable. “Pink ones. They were everywhere. They got into the flour and left hoof marks on everything. Captain ran away when he got poked in the butt with a tiny horn. They knocked things over, shattered picture frames, and erased a bunch of stuff on her laptop when they ran across the keyboard. It was terrible!”

“And that’s when she woke up,” I said. My hands shook a little. Alison would never forgive us. I thought about booking a flight out there so I could clean up for her. Or hire a maid. Something.

“Nope. She didn’t wake up. Not even when the tiny winged elephant flew through the portal and trumpeted right in Alison’s ear.”

I shook my head. “You’re totally making this up.”

He frowned. “I wish I was. Did you know Alison’s got gremlins living in her walls?”

“No.” I shrugged. “But most people do.”

“Well, these were pretty upset by the commotion. One had been sleeping in Alison’s knitting. The flying elephant and the unicorns startled him, and he took off. His foot got tangled up in yarn and he unraveled an entire sweater she’d been working on while he ran.”

I dropped my head on the kitchen table. There was no apology big enough for what I owed Alison. “Maurice, she’s going to hate me.”

He patted my hand. “There’s more. I’m not done.”

I groaned.

“It took over an hour to round up all the tiny pink unicorns and send them back through to their stable. The elephant was a bit easier to catch, flying or not, he was kind of slow.”

“Awesome.” I cast my eyes around the kitchen, wondering if it was too early for something stronger than lemonade.

“After that, I cleaned the apartment and got rid of any sign of the disaster.”

“Stuff was broken, deleted, and unraveled, Maurice. You can’t just clean that.”

He puffed his chest out. “I replaced the broken stuff with exact duplicates. She’ll never know. I redid the edits that got lost.” He grinned. “I think my suggestions might even be better than hers.”

“Oh, God.” Yes. A drink would be a great idea.

“The knitting was a little tricky, but I found the pattern she was working from, and I watched a few YouTube videos. No problem. I almost finished the sweater for her, but I remembered what you said about not letting her know I was there.”

“You just…learned to knit in the short time you were there and redid almost a whole sweater.”

“I’m fast.”

“Uh, huh.”

“Anyway, I got it all sorted out, cleaned her baseboards and windows, tucked the blanket around her, and came home.”

“And she never woke up.”

“They gave her some pretty good drugs.”

Maurice’s shirt pocket twitched, and a sound like a broken sneeze erupted from it.

I frowned. “You didn’t.”

Maurice grinned from ear to ear. “I’ll put it back eventually, I swear!”

“Oh, Maurice. No.”

He unbuttoned his pocket and pulled out a miniature, winged elephant. Maurice placed the impossible creature into my cupped hands. It trumpeted up at me and stroked my thumb with its trunk. It’s wings were cloud-soft fluffs of downy feathers.

Maurice patted my arm. “I shouldn’t get all the fun,” he said. “I wanted you to have some, too.”

 

The full tour:

Diane Dooley, 1/28/13  The Trouble with Characters

Veronica Scott, 1/31/13 Even Egyptian Gods Need Editors Sometimes

Darcy Daniel, For My Wonderful Editor

RL Naquin 2/11/13 A Blessing of Unicorns

J L Hilton, 2/14/13  Valentine to My Editor

Shawna Thomas, 2/19/13  For Alison

 

 

Prizes, Pookas, and Something Else with a ‘P’

I have something very serious to discuss with you today. That’s right. I’m talking about chocolate. Specifically, Godiva chocolate.

But wait, there’s more! What about gourmet treats and spa goodies?

Yeah. I know it sounds like I’m teasing you. I’m not. This is very, very serious. This, my friends, is a big giveaway.

If you do nothing else today, head over to Here Be Magic and enter to win a Valentine’s Day gift baskets. Go here now: We Love Our Readers Giveaway.

Serious prizes. Seriously.

And while you’re there, today was my day to post. As you know, book two is called Pooka in My Pantry. But are you entirely clear on what a pooka is? Find out in my post What’s a Pooka, and Why Is It in My Pantry?

As if all that weren’t enough, I’m also over at the Confabulator Café. This week we were asked why the world needs stories. Because I’m obstinant and difficult, I sort of answered the question backwards. You can read it here: There Are No Stories Here.

I think that’s it for now. I’ve got a deadline to catch.

See you real soon!

All the News in One Place

Lots of stuff is going on over here, so it’s probably time to do an update post. Pooka in My Pantry comes out in two months, so that’s kicking into gear, plus there are a few other things to tell you about.

For this release, I’ve hired Bewitching Book Tours to set up my promo circuit for me. They can do a much better job than I can, and I don’t have to contact people to line it all up. I think I did a pretty good job with Monster in My Closet, but this will be a longer tour with more stops. I’ll still have to write a lot of guest posts and fill out a lot of interviews, but I still think this is an easier, more efficient way to go. I guess we’ll see. 

The tour starts March 11th and will run for an entire month. I’ll post my schedule here when I have it.

Pooka should be up on NetGalley for reviewers in another week or two. This means the reviews will start coming in, and I’ll probably be a bit of a manic mess. However, Sabina Bundgaard from Dangerous Romance snagged an early copy and posted Pooka’s very first review here: ARC Review: Pooka in My Pantry. It’s a wonderful review to start Pooka off. If the rest of the reviews are even half as nice, I think this book will do really well. Plus, if you leave her a comment, you’ll be entered to win a copy of either Monster or Pooka. So, go take a look!

The next thing I have to tell you is probably what I should have led with. I need your help. Have you been here yet? Bad Luck Is Coming. This is a promo page for Pooka in My Pantry. Just a little piece of silliness to grab people’s attention. But there’s something else going on over on that page. See the box on the left where you can sign up? Yeah, that. This is to get on the R.L. Naquin mailing list. You won’t get pummeled with weekly emails, I promise. It’s for news and bonus stuff, mostly.

What kind of bonus stuff? Stories. Giveaways. Secrets. Stuff. To begin with, the short story I’ve been promising, featuring Zoey and Maurice will be a giveaway only available to subscribers. I’ll probably put it up in other places after Pooka in My Pantry comes out, but the only way to get the story before then (probably the end of next week) is to subscribe. And the only place to subscribe right now is over on the Bad Luck is Coming page.

For the next two weeks, I’m deep in developmental edits for Fairies in My Fireplace. After that, the blog tour. There’s an excellent chance I’ll be signing postcards and bookmarks at Planet Comicon in Kansas City April 6 & 7, and I’ll also be at the RT Booklovers Convention May 1-5. I think the signing day for that is May 6, but I’m not positive.

So, there you go. All the news in one place. Too much? Yeah. Me too.

See you real soon!