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March 14, 2010
Venom cover art …
[image error]So look what showed up in my e-mail last week — the preliminary cover art for Venom.
So cool! So shiny! So cool! So shiny! Okay, I'll quit gushing now. [image error]
Seriously, though,…
March 9, 2010
The bookmarks are here …
Guess what I got in the mail? The bookmarks for Web of Lies. Huzzah!
And believe me when I say that these are some pretty nice bookmarks. They're 2-by-8 inches on thick, sturdy, glossy paper. Kudos go out once again to…
Timelines …
So I've talked about copy edits and page proofs, and now, I thought I would share a rough timeline of when I get them in regards to when the book is published. So here's an example of a rough timeline…
March 8, 2010
Page proofs …
In addition to working on copy edits for Venom, I also finished up page proofs for Web of Lies this past weekend. So here's a little bit about what page proofs are:
So after I sent…
The copy edits are here, the copy edits are here …
Since I just finished up the copy edits for Venom, I thought that I would talk a little bit about what the heck copy edits are in the first place. Here goes:
Basically, a manuscript goes through a…
March 7, 2010
10 things …
The folks over at All About Romance did a cool post about 10 Things I'd Like to Tell Publishers. I agree with a lot of their comments, especially the one about the cheesy romance book titles. (Seriously, I…
March 4, 2010
Half a million and counting …
I'm working on Elemental Assassin 5 right now, and I realized something kind of cool about it the other day.
When I get done with this book, I will have written more than 500,000 words about Gin Blanco. Yep, that's…
March 3, 2010
What's in a quote …
I got a nice e-mail this week. Glenn at the Tinley Park Public Library contacted me and asked me if they could use a quote by me about libraries on their Web site. It's part of a regular quotes feature…
978 and counting …
Finished Talk Me Down by Victoria Dahl. I've seen a lot of folks on the Web raving about Dahl's contemporary romances so I decided to try one.
In this book, a creepy ex-boyfriend drives erotic romance writer Molly…
March 2, 2010
Jealousy …
So I thought I would talk a little bit about some of the emotions that authors go through (as the mood and time strikes me here on the blog). After all, we write about our characters' emotions in our books, surely…
