NO POWER IN THE ‘VERSE CAN STOP ME!
…except my stupid internet. 2007 shall be remembered by me as the Year of the Shitty Connection! (the exclamation is important.) My computer would connect everywhere but at my house (where I resorted to using dial-up from my old university account (26.4 kbps!! WTF? Do they still make them that slow?) that couldn’t actually send OUT any e-mails or download (my SMTP server mocked that connection) and even bypassing wireless and plugging the DSL modem directly into my computer didn’t work. And I have no idea what my WordPress password is, so I couldn’t access my blog from my husband’s computer. But I have fixed it, by god. I sent an e-mail to my agent, and it went through.
Everyone has probably already seen this at Dear Author, (and that’s how I found out about it), but DEMON ANGEL was in a The Courier Mail’s “Best of the Year” list.
Demon Angel, from new author Meljean Brooks, is the kind of novel you are lucky if you manage to come across maybe once a year: a thick, meaty, dig your feet in and hold on tight kind of novel with adventure, sex and an epic quality that’s rarely seen in this genre. Demon Angel is an astonishing debut, and a harbinger of great things to come. If you read one romance this year, make it this one.
As an aside, maybe I should have made my pseudonym “Brooks” instead of “Brook” (which is the last syllable of my maiden name.) It seems to flow off fingers more easily when people are typing it.
Anyway, I’m writing writing like mad, so I can’t promise daily updates, but I’ll be around a bit more now. And I can check my e-mail in a timely manner, too.
NO POWER in the ‘Verse can stop you, Meljean, because you have awesome author super powers!!
Congrats on the Courier Mail “Best of the Year” list. They know what they’re talking about, because Demon Angel is at the top of my personal “Best of the Year” List, too!
Oh! And I love that your TBR list now also includes your TBB! LOL It’s comforting to know I’m not the only one who has both of those lists going on!
Thanks, Christine! … and I must say, my list is really, really, really long (and outdated — some of them, I just keep up to remind myself that I want to talk about them at some point.)
Major congrats Meljean! I finally got around to reading it and just loved it. I plan on going back for a re-read before tackling the next story.
Happy holidays!
Congrats! Hopefully you will take some time off this weekend to enjoy the holiday.
give us a hint on what you are working on?
Yay! Meljean!! This makes me very happy for you.
Love,
Your Stalker Fangirl & Mighty Cheerleader
LOL, I constantly accidentally add the ‘s’ to your name by accident. We’ll learn!
Congratulations on that! I just started Demon Angel and I’m loving it, and I posted on my blog about it today, and yes, I added an S to your name! But then I double checked and took that pesky S off.
Thanks everyone! and LOL @ at the “s” at the end. It doesn’t bother me at all when I see it, because I totally get the WHY of it. “Brook” isn’t nearly as common as “Brooks”. And you have that “Mel…” at the beginning of it, and Brooks just seems more natural.
katiebabs — I’m working on DEMON BOUND, the book after NIGHT. It’s due out in November, 2008.
As for what it’s about … spiders, bargains, and a hero who is scared a lot.
Oh just in time for my birthday!!
waaay late. i’ve been having internet issues myself, but.
i did catch your firefly quote, do i win a prize?
you can give me river tam, minus the crazy.
she’s pretty damn hot.
ohhhh firefly, why did fox have to be a douche and cancel you.
GA