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VUE Weekly interview….

Sorry, I’m a bit late posting the link to my interview, but I’ve been a bit of a wreck trying to verify the content for my German version of The Forgotten Flapper (der vergessene Flapper) and get it done before I leave for Los Angeles at the end of next week!

Plus, there’s all that trip prep– organizing research notes, packing, and making sure I have everything collected that needs to go with!

Enjoy… Hoping to see some of you at either Gatsby Books in Long Beach (on the 21st) or Book Soup (on the 22nd).

http://www.vueweekly.com/laini-giles-historical-fiction-novel-the-it-girl-and-me-details-toxic-relationship/

 

History Author Show podcast airing today, April 10!

Tune in and let me know what you think.

http://historyauthor.com/2017/04/lain...

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Newest History Author Show podcast airing soon!

Hi all–

Turns out my newest podcast with Dean Karayanis at The History Author Show is airing April 10! Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on it.

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I’ve listed a Goodreads giveaway (US and Canada)

If you’re looking to win a copy, it’ll activate on Friday March 31. Here’s the link:

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Goodreads Book Giveaway







The It Girl and Me



by Laini Giles

Giveaway ends April 25, 2017.

See the giveaway details

at Goodreads.

Enter Giveaway

It’s release day!

If the enthusiasm has been too much for you, then you’ll be happy to know the day has arrived! Local folks, I’ll be dropping off copies at Audreys mid-morning, then I’ll be having an interview for VUE Weekly, our local indie paper. I’ll be home later to answer questions, FB, and tweet with everyone.

Hope you’re all having a lovely weekend, and that you e-readers settle down with Clara and Daisy for a little while during that time.

See you soon!

Laini

 

I’m nearly famous…

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I just finished listening to my new finished podcast with Dean Karayanis at The History Author Show, and it came out great. Dean has one of those mellifluous voices that’s perfect for radio/podcasting and always makes you feel so at ease. Plus, he’s a fantastic cheerleader!

He’ll be posting it to his page not too long after The It Girl and Me is released. Stay tuned…

The It Girl and Me is now up for pre-order!

If you’ve been saying “Laini, come on. I’ve been patient. I need some more of that sweet, sweet Hollywood content to savor. You know, like the Grenadine of Beef at Musso & Frank!” then your time may have come at last.

My new book is available for pre-order (also here). Yay!

See? Clara’s excited…

In case you didn’t know, pre-ordering creates a big wave of sales that go live on the official release date, which I’ve set for the book. This increases the book’s ranking on its release day, which helps its visibility, and also its sales.

The hard copy release date is March 25, but I’ll have to pull the trigger a little early to be able to order my own copies for my appearance here in Edmonton on April 2 (mail delays and such).

So for everyone who’s been waiting, it won’t be much longer!

Ta-ta for now…

Laini

 

The It Girl and Me for Kindle is now up for pre-order!

If you’ve been saying “Laini, come on. I’ve been patient. I need some more of that sweet, sweet Hollywood content to savor. You know, like the Grenadine of Beef at Musso & Frank!” then your time may have come at last.

Do you read on a Kindle? My new book is available for pre-order. Yay!

See? Clara’s excited…

In case you didn’t know, pre-ordering creates a big wave of sales that go live on the official release date, which I’ve set for the book. This increases the book’s ranking on its release day, which helps its visibility, and also its sales.

The hard copy release date is March 25, but I’ll have to pull the trigger a little early to be able to order my own copies for my appearance here in Edmonton on April 2 (mail delays and such). I’ll also try to get the GooglePlay and Smashwords content posted, which will then be distributed to multiple e-book sources (B & N, Chapters/Indigo, Overdrive)

So for everyone who’s been waiting, it won’t be much longer!

Ta-ta for now…

Laini

 

Lost in Translation…

I owe a great deal to my wonderful friend Martin Turnbull, who has been a mentor to me in so many ways, but his latest coup was introducing me to Babelcube, where I’m in the process of having books turned into international magic.

This past weekend, I spent innumerable hours teaching myself some of the ins and outs of InDesign, to make the German version of The Forgotten Flapper just as beautiful as its English counterpart. Already 16 chapters in, and I’m so excited about its success! My translator is doing an amazing job.

I’m hoping for French, Spanish, Italian, and a few more languages as well, but German and I just happened to get it together first. There is also a Portugese translation of Love Lies Bleeding happening as well.

I also did plenty of other make-ready for The It Girl and Me, as release date is only a little over TWO MONTHS AWAY! I’m pretty excited about my 3rd release. It’s hard to believe that only 7 years ago, writing was just a lark to help me cope with being a fish out of water, unable to work in Canada. Now, it’s fast become the most important thing in my life.

Here’s hoping for a successful 2017!

Wanna see the junk in my trunk?

Well, I won’t show you the stacks and stacks of older drafts and trunked manuscripts, but I can show you the pretty new outside.

In order to keep myself sane during the writing process, I have to do things other than write from time to time, and one of the things I love doing is decorating. In my office, I invested in a huge trunk from JYSK, that looks something like this:

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Only mine has a London Flower Show theme instead of African safari. I keep trunked manuscripts in it, or older copies of stuff that I like to hold onto, just in case (call me a packrat).

I decided, with all the other silent movie content that I have in my office, that I should decoupage it with silent movie stuff instead. And here’s how it turned out! What do you guys think?

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I have so much more fun working in my office now that it looks more like me. My next project is to create papier mache’ letters of the Hollywoodland sign to put on top of my bookshelf. Stay tuned!