Meljean Brook

Holy crap! It’s the Watchmen teaser trailer!

I’m speechless. My heart is beating fast.

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Dr. Horrible Act III is up. And … Yeah, I loved the end.

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The teaser for Terminator: Salvation. Which I thought was awesome until I saw the Watchmen trailer. I didn’t realize Thea at the Book Smugglers had linked to it after her awesome review of The Dark Knight until I went back and looked at the comments again. And, OMG! Rorschach’s voice!!

Just to clarify: I will be at RWA, but not at the literacy signing. I will be at the Berkley signing at 3pm on Friday — which is only, I believe, for conference attendees. I’ll update my main page with the conference room number of the signing as soon as I find it.

First Blood releases in a little over two weeks, on August 5. That night, I’ll be at Borders off Cedar Hills in Beaverton … but not because I’m signing my book. Nope, I’m going to see Teresa Medeiros and Suzanne Enoch, and bother them. Teresa Medeiros I’m just going to fawn over, because I’ve been a fangirl for a way long time (Fairest of Them All started me on the path, and A Breath of Magic sealed the deal). She’s one of those authors that I don’t love love everything they write, but everything is consistently a good read for me, and some are just keepers forever and ever (especially because she was writing paranormal/historicals back when they were hard, hard, hard to find.) And with Enoch, I really, really want to know when Bram’s book is going to be out.

First Blood features Susan Sizemore, Erin McCarthy, and Chris Marie Green. After the cut is the second half of Chapter One of “Thicker Than Blood,” my novella. It follows the excerpt that’s up on the book info page. It is my favorite novella so far (although the current one (hellhounds!) might knock it out of first place … we’ll see.) (more…)

Why are there not more hours in a day???

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That is all.

You pay 2.99 UK + 4 UK for shipping (fully aware of the current exchange rate) to get a M&B Modern August release, instead of waiting until it’s reprinted in the US.

Mills & Boon, please: eBooks.

*What? You thought this was going to be about Batman? Pshaw.

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OMG SQUEE I CAN’T WAIT FOR THE MOVIE TO BE OUT!!!!!!

And then X-Files!

My heart runneth over.

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X-Files/Batman would be an awesome crossover. Especially if there’s a Batman + Scully + Mulder lurve scene. Mulder feels all threatened when billionaire Bruce Wayne shows an interest in his enigmatic partner … but little does he realize that the mysterious Dark Knight is interested in a mutual investigation and exploring extreme possibilities …

And this is why I don’t write fanfic anymore.

Is being released by HP: The Millionaire’s Inexperienced Love-Slave*. In honor of the event, I’ve re-titled all of my books to fit the same format:

DEMON ANGEL: The Virgin Professor’s Mistress’s Devilish Bargain

DEMON MOON: Bedded By The Bloodsucking British Billionaire

DEMON NIGHT:  The Vengeful Guardian’s Convenient Mistress

DEMON BOUND:  Blackmailed: The Creepy Guardian’s Inexperienced Novice

*There is, of course, absolutely no doubt that I’ll be reading it.

So, obviously, it takes me a while to get around to anything lately. I’ve been thinking about this since I read a comment by Nora Roberts at Dear Author (in response to Jane Litte’s article Let’s Talk About Sex (and Love,  and then Sex Again) which posed the question of how/why/what it’ll take for romance to be accepted in the same way as a show like Bones, where the sexual tension and romantic subplots aren’t belittled):

when writers and readers talk about the hawt, hawt, hawt, then it becomes about the hawt–and not about the sex within the context of the story. It’s that the detractors and the media will jump on, while they disregard all the rest.

I don’t want to be known as a writer of hawt books. I want to be known as a good writer–whose books contain well written love scenes as well as good characterization, strong dialogue, a solid story, etc.

And my reaction was kind of like: nod, frown, nod, frown, nod, frown. Because I agree: to talk about how hawt books are when speaking with someone unfamiliar with the genre moves the focus completely onto the hawtness. But within the genre — hell, even on this blog — I like using “hawt” and to mention the heat level. The term “hawt,” IMO, has become a shorthand for “explicit” that also distances me, as a person/author/reader, from the eroticism of the novel.

I probably have to explain that. (Long post coming up after the cut.) (more…)

Reminder to self: things that are unimportant are not worth arguing about. Also, many other things are not worth arguing about, because they are only important to me. And some things, there is no way to state your position without sounding like an ass.

That is all.

*I can’t remember where I first saw this image (somewhere around the blogosphere), so I found it again by Googling “come to bed someone on the internet is wrong”. It was the first image that popped up, and reminded me why I love the internet so much.

ETA: Now I remember. *headdesk* It’s from the xkcd strip.

Or I was. Vanessa Jaye’s Felicity Stripped Bare just came out from Samhain, so I picked it up. She’s been teasing us with little pieces on her blog for a while now. Azteclady has already done a review here. Hopefully, I’ll be reading it tonight.

Aside from Jordan Summers’s RED (I love that cover), I’m also now waiting for Claire Delacroix’s FALLEN after reading the excerpt on her site. According to Linnea Sinclair, it’s the “Matrix, Blade Runner and Terminator rolled into a riveting love story and made better.”

Okay, I’m so there.

I was just chatting with a friend about getting from the SFO airport to the Marriot downtown without being reamed by a taxi fare, and mentioned that I was going to come in on the subway. The Powell Street station is only a block and a half from the hotel, and costs just a little over $5.

And this is an excellent step-by-step guide to using the system from SFO to Powell Street station.

Is anyone else coming in from the airport and using a handy/cheap/easy method of transportation?

Here’s Demon Bound, after some minor adjustments (the new one is on the right):