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Monday mutterings

Hello all. Yes, it's Monday again (how did that happen?). It's also almost Halloween, which means the year is almost over (how the HELL did that happen???). But instead of lamenting how time seems to be moving at way-too-fast speeds, how 'bout a way to turn my frown upside down? (yes, I'm corny this morning. And also addicted to parenthesis, it seems).

A reader emailed me last week and said, "Aren't you going to hold any contests soon? You haven't had any in a while!" Well, good point, I haven...

It's that time of year again...

No, not the holidays yet - thank God. It's the nearing the end of October, so the TV channels are filled with horror movies as time winds down to Halloween. Normally I love this. Horror movies have been a favorite of mine since I was a child, and in October when you can't swing a black cat without running into several horror movies on the tube...ah. Bliss. Except this time. Much to the amusement of my husband and friends, I recently saw a movie that scared the shit out of me and I have...

Author/agent experience, with robots!

Just saw this highlighted on Publishers Lunch and it cracked me up. For anyone who has been through (or is stuck now) in the query process, you'll probably be able to relate.

Note: language in this is NOT work or children safe...which made me laugh even harder while watching it ;-).

On writing

As many of you know, I finished another novel last week. It's an amazing feeling to write "the end" on a book. Ever since I was twelve, I dreamed of writing a novel. It took me until I was thirty to actually sit down and do it. Now I wish I wouldn't have been such a procrastinator in my twenties, but I digress. 

 

I get asked all the time as to what my process is when I write a book. A lot of those emails could be paraphrased like this: I have all these ideas and I want to write a book, but...

FIRST DROP OF CRIMSON

At last, I have permission to share the cover and description for FIRST DROP OF CRIMSON, which is the first "spin off" novel from the Night Huntress series. In an amusing note, originally, the stepback was supposed to be the cover, and the cover the stepback, but me and several book buyers who saw the two liked the stepback more as the cover (and uh, when book retailers have an opinion, my publisher listens ;). I also think the used-to-be-the-stepback-but-is-now-the-cover image works better f...

Glad to be home

On Monday I completed my sixth contracted novel (more on that later). Tuesday, I went with my husband and my dog to Universal Orlando for some R&R and to attend Halloween Horror Nights as a mini-vacation. I would tell you about how that trip went, except I think it would be best narrated by my dog. So then, little Gypsy, take it away!

 

::Gypsy takes over the blog::

 

Mommy and Daddy took me bye-byes in the car on Tuesday. I love car trips. Mommy puts pillows on her lap and that's where I sit...

ON THE EDGE

No, I'm not talking about my mental state with that subject line (though it would fit ;). Popping up from my last couple days of deadline to wish Ilona Andrews a happy release day. Many of you probably are familiar with Ilona from her NYT bestselling Kate Daniels series. ON THE EDGE is out today, a novel unrelated to her Kate world, but it actually might be my favorite thing Ilona’s written to date. I liked it so much that I blurbed it (and I am very picky about what I blurb, as my...

Snapshots of a brain on deadline

It’s now less than a week before the deadline for my next book. At this point in the process, I work long days and get tunnel-visioned in ways that scare my husband. I also have difficulty sleeping. For example, here was me at about 12:30 am last night/morning: 

 

Me: *trying to go to sleep*

Subconscious: *poke* I have plot ideas.

Me: Not now. I’m tired.

Subconscious: *poke, poke* I have plot ideas that will help tie up several earlier threads in the book.

Me: I’M TIRED. Go away.

Subconscious:

Wicked, Eternal, Unbound

*blows cobwebs off blog page* Hi everyone! Yes, it’s been a while since I blogged. Kinda guessed it would be, as I mentioned in my last blog post, since the deadline for Mencheres’s book is drawing ever closer. My habit is to write up to the very last day, and no surprise, Menchere’s book is following that same format. It’s due in two weeks, so once it’s turned in (and I recover, lol) I’ll be back to my version of normal blogging.

 

Speaking of Mencheres’s book, a title has finally been...

UNBOUND on the loose

Today is the release day for UNBOUND, the dark fantasy anthology with Kim Harrison, Melissa Marr, Vicki Pettersson, Jocelynn Drake, and Yours Truly.

Here is a quick description of UNBOUND: "Kim Harrison reveals a hidden adventure, as Jenks and Bis investigate a strange haunting...and find far more than they ever expected. Melissa Marr delivers her first adult story, featuring a young woman struggling to escape the supernatural fate of her family. Jeaniene Frost goes to New Orleans, where Bones mu