Jennifer Brozek's Blog, page 88

Rolling with the Punches

So, the first stop on the Murder & Mayhem Tour is done. How'd it go? Not great. I wrote about it over in my person LJ. Then I realized that it was important to talk about "not successes" over here in the pro-blog—especially where it concerns the business and PR around writing and not the act of writing (or submitting) itself.

One of the main places that disasters can happen to an author is at a signing or a reading or a combination therein. Authors, for the most part, are shy creatures who ...

The Official TOC of BEAUTY HAS HER WAY, Dark Quest Books

Beauty Has Her Way… Even if she has to get down and dirty to do it!
Edited by Jennifer Brozek

Yesterday
Sacrifices to the Moon by Paul D. Batteiger
Dunkle Froline by Ramsey Lundock
Tears of Blood by Joshua Palmatier
I, Theodora by Maurice Broaddus
Vengeance is Mine by Kenneth Mark Hoover

Today
The Moko-Jumbie Girl by Chuck Wendig
Someone Else to Play With by Pete Kempshall
Daggers in Her Garters by Ed Greenwood
Men Do Nothing by Philomena Hill
Witch Fire by Erik Scott de Bie
Becoming by David A. Hill Jr.

To...

Reminder: Murder and Mayhem Tour Stop #1

I am picking up seanan_mcguire tonight. And tomorrow is:

The Murder & Mayhem Tour for Seattle and San Francisco. Jennifer Brozek (Murder) and Seanan McGuire (Mayhem) are bringing frights and entertainment to the west coast for two days only.

This free mini-tour features Jennifer's newly released horror collection, IN A GILDED LIGHT: 105 TALES OF THE MACABRE, and Seanan's Edge of Propinquity series, SPARROW HILL ROAD. Together, Murder and Mayhem will read excerpts from their fiction, tell tales...

Review of "In a Gilded Light"

Over all, the reviewer liked it.

Rushing through this book is not a wise option. In a Gilded Light is a basket full of dark tales meant to be handed out a few at a time, like Halloween candy from the scary old lady down the street. "Drowning" opens the book in a deceptively simply and not-very-scary way, leading you to think that perhaps you can get through the whole thing without having to put it down. Brozek cleverly lets you get a foot in the door before she drops alien spiders straight...

Ordering "In a Gilded Light"

http://www.darkquestbooks.com/store/product-info.php?pid85.html


For those of you ordering "In a Gilded Light: 105 Tales of the Macabre," I have personally confirmed the shipping issue of charging too much has been dealt with. There was a code problem of Paypal adding in an additional shipping fee. I've gone through the process and shipping is the stated $3.40.

Thanks for your patience. I appreciate it. You may now buy my book without fear of being overcharged.

Refreshing the Well

After a couple of months of Go-Go-Go, I find myself at the pleasant place of not having an immediate, in-my-face deadline. This is a wonderful place to be for a short time. Especially with the Murder & Mayhem Tour coming up. It means I get time to do what I call "refreshing the well."

Authors and other artistic types all call it different things; that place you go to (or it intrudes on you) for inspiration to create the next great thing. I don't really visualize it as a well so much as a leaky...

Ditmar Awards

This is for those eligible to vote in the Ditmars - if you would like an electronic copy of the anthology, Grants Pass, please contact me and I will forward you one. We are eligible for this award.

It's out and in the wild!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1907498338/

The Murder & Mayhem Tour Updated! (New Venue)

Announcing the Murder & Mayhem Tour for Seattle and San Francisco. Jennifer Brozek (Murder) and Seanan McGuire (Mayhem) are bringing frights and entertainment to the west coast for two days only.

This free mini-tour features Jennifer's newly released horror collection, IN A GILDED LIGHT: 105 TALES OF THE MACABRE, and Seanan's Edge of Propinquity series, SPARROW HILL ROAD. Together, Murder and Mayhem will read excerpts from their fiction, tell tales out of school and generally have a good time...

Origins Award Winner!

If Twitter is to be believe, The Big Damn Heroes Handbook, produced by Margaret Weis Productions, just won an Origins Award for best roleplaying game supplement.

Congrats to Cam Banks, Jim Davenport, Jason Durall, Tony Lee, Nathan C.S. Rockwood, Clark Valentine and me!