Summertime Sloooowdown

In case you were wondering, I *am* aware that I missed both Anonymous Teen Reader AND Song of the Week this week.

What can I say except, "It's summer!!!"

I do plan to maintain my normal blog schedule, but I think it's fair to say that I will have lapses from time to time over the next two months. Or maybe we can call them Surprises in Which I Don't Blog When I Usually Do, Blog When I Usually Don't, and Blog About Things I Don't Normally Talk About.

Exciting stuff!

;)

Having a summer launch date — which I've had for three years now — brings it's own set of challenges. Just when everyone's home from school and the living feels easy, it's suddenly… NOT. There are launch parties and interviews and signings and promotion to do. And I love it, of course! But it can be overwhelming at a time when my burnout has reached epic proportions and I'm in desperate need of a break.

I have to admit that I'm looking forward to that March 2012 release date for A TEMPTATION OF ANGELS!

But for now, I'm concentrating on Circle of Fire, which comes out exactly five weeks from today. Can you believe it? I'm super excited to share the final installment of Prophecy of the Sisters, but also a little sad to say goodbye to Lia, Alice, Sonia, Luisa, James, Dimitri, Edmund and Aunt Virginia. They've been a huge part of my life for more than five years now. I'll miss them terribly.

Now, a few orders of business.

I'm in need of more Anonymous Readers in order to continue the feature, so if you'd like to be featured, please send an email to prophecypress@aol.com with "Anonymous Prophecy Reader" in the Subject line. Rebekah will send you the questions and instructions.

Please continue to send your song suggestions to prophecypress@aol.com with "Song of the Week" in the Subject line. Alternatively, you can post them to my Facebook Wall and I'll try to keep track of them.

There's still two more days to enter the giveaway for signed copies of Prophecy of the Sisters and Guardian of the Gate. There will be FIVE winners and entering is SO easy. Even if you have copies of your own, this is a great opportunity to win a signed set to give as a gift (or, yanno, you can keep the signed ones for yourself and donate your old ones if you already have them). Either way; free books and schtuff!

The big, iPod Touch and Massive Swag Giveaway will commence mid-July. This is my legendary annual giveaway and is not to be missed!

And on that note, I'm going to have a VERY special giveaway for everyone who purchases Circle of Fire in the first week of its release (including preorders). And I do mean SPECIAL.

Basically, it's about to get CUH-razy around here, so STAY TUNED!

Mwah!