Quick Reminders and all that Good Stuff
I’ve been getting a lot of the same questions lately, so I figured an update/reminder post would be helpful. I also decided to throw in some Supernatural gifs for the hell of it.
1. ARCs
ARCs are Advanced Review Copies that are sent to professional review sites/magazines/bookstores/libraries/ and bloggers. I DO NOT send out ARCs for review nor do I take requests for them. My publishers (Spencer Hill Press, Entangled, Harlequin Teen, HarperCollins, and Disney/Hyperion) all have instructions on their websites on how to request ARCs. The advanced copies I receive I usually give away in contests. Not everyone is approved for ARCs and I don’t get involved in that process because I couldn’t get involved for everyone and that wouldn’t be fair.
2. Opposition
Opposition comes out August 5, 2014. Its book page is updated with it’s release date. I don’t know when the cover will be released, but it probably won’t be until late spring/early summer of next year. As of today, October 25th, I haven’t started to write Opposition. There will be limited teasers of this book. And there will be no ARCs of Opposition as it’s the last book in the series.
P.S. Blake is dead, dead and Katy and Daemon will NOT have a baby.
3. Reading order of novels
All my books are in reading order on my website, on the “Home” page and on the “Books” page. I’m too lazy to type them all out here. Hey, there’s a lot of books.
4. Obsidian Film option Stuff.
Film takes a whole lot of time and a whole of people. When I have updates that I can share, I’ll scream them from the top of my lungs from the highest mountain and every social media site there is. It’s still chugging along. Keep in mind, it was only just option in July 2013. I will have no say over casting.
5. Covenant TV option
TV also takes a long time and a lot of people. There are also no updates I can currently share about that, but also keep in mind it was just optioned in September 2013. We be waiting.
6. Tempting the Bodyguard
Tempting the Bodyguard is written. It’s about Chandler and Ms. Gore. Sometimes release dates get pushed back. This book has been moved to May 2014. Good news is that I have a CRAP TON of books coming out between now and then. For realz.
7. Cursed.
Cursed is truly a standalone. I’m not lying. =D
8. Why didn’t so and so not use a condom in so and so book during so and so scene?
Man, a lot of people are obsessed about condoms and what not. When I’m writing a book, I try to keep aspects real. People don’t always use condoms. It’s a fact of life and since I don’t write manuals on how to have safe sex, well you know… Also, sometimes I just don’t include that part in the writing. It’s just assumed that they are.
9. Trust In Me
Trust In Me is available in digital right now and releases in print on November 26, 2013. As it states in the product description, it is Cam’s POV from Wait for You plus unseen scenes.
10. Be With Me
Be With Me is Jase and Teresa’s story. Comes out 2/4/14 in print and digital and all that jazz. You will meet the characters featured in Stay With Me in Be With Me.
11. Ollie and Brit
As announced, they have a short story in the 50 First Times antho. It’s up for pre order and all that jazz on Amazon and B&N. Check it out.
12. Foreign countries
Authors can’t make a book be translated in a foreign country. A foreign publisher has to want to buy and distribute the book in that country. That is also another incredibly slow process.
13. Are you going to kill Alex, Aiden, Daemon, Katy, Raphael (OMG NO, DEAR GOD- Not that TURTLE!!!!), or Seth or Dee or whoever?
Yes. I am going to kill everyone. I’m going to JK Rowling these bitches like there’s no tomorrow. Remember Harry Potter owl? Yeah, turtle soup, ya’ll. Everyone dies. Stairway to heaven up in here. Characters be dropping like flies. Or like big boulders falling off mountains. Or.. Or… like stuff. Why? Cuz I’m a gangsta.
Not really.
14. Can I call you Jenny?
Oh, Hell to the No. I loathe being called Jenny. That’s not my name and if you grew up during the era of Forrest Gump, you’d understand.
15. Sentinel
Sentinel is the last book in the Covenant Series and comes out November 2nd in DIGITAL and print. None of the Covenant books in the U.S. have ever been up for preorder for digital. But it will be there for you on the 2nd. =D
That’s all I can think of right now. Also, almost all these questions (most of them) and more can be found in the FAQ questions tab. So always check there first. You’ll get an answer pretty darn quickly that. way.
Now I need to finish writing this book.
