Lisa (#14), you’ve won the Karen Rose/Roxanne St. Claire pack, along with any book from my backlist! Congratulations!
Also, Jill Myles is hosting a contest over at her blog, with a chance to win a signed copy of DEMON BOUND. The post includes her comments on the novel and a short interview with yours truly, including a piece of poetry that I’ve written just for the occasion. Go check it out!
I’ve got two ARCs of my November release to give away! These are ARCs that are printed before the final copies, complete with a few typos and a plain yellow cover. And, as usual, I ask that if you win the ARC, to please write a review somewhere within two weeks or so of the release date (Amazon, B&N, a blog, anywhere you feel comfortable posting.)
What is Demon Bound? It’s the fourth full length book in the Guardian series, and it features Jake, a sixty-year-old novice Guardian, and Alice, a creepy Guardian known as the Black Widow. She’s got a terrible secret; he’s got a Gift he can’t control. So, of course, they’re headed for plenty of trouble.
Among the Guardians, Alice Grey is known as the Black Widow–a woman trapped in a web spun by the demon Teqon. To save her soul, she agreed to deliver to Teqon the heart of the oldest and most powerful Guardian of all, or else be damned for eternity. After more than a hundred years, Teqon is calling in his debt.
Jake Hawkins is a novice Guardian whose gift of teleportation could be invaluable to Alice in determining her next move. But in aligning himself with her he never expected to fall in love. Now, their passionate flight to escape Alice’s damnable bargain is threatening both their souls. For they’re about to discover a hellish secret about the Guardians–something that will change their universe forever.
So, here’s what you have to do to win: leave a comment telling me what you think the creepiest superpower would be. On September 20th, I’ll pick two winners in a random drawing. It’s that easy!
Just how creepy is Alice? Well, I’ll spare everyone and not repost that picture of a black widow spider … so how about a long excerpt from Chapter Two (if you haven’t already read the first taste of Alice’s creepiness, most of Chapter One is on the main Demon Bound page.) Read more »
I got the galleys in for Demon Bound, w00t! I love this stage as much as I hate it. The pages are the first time I see them laid out as they will be in the book (you can click the image to see it better (ooh, along with a tiny bit of the scribbled-over proposal pages that I’m using as my last-pass edit before I send it to my editor, and my first coffee of the day (yeah, that “giving up caffeine” thing didn’t work out)) and it’s my chance to find all of those pesky typos that we missed in all of the other edits … but it’s also impossible to make big changes. So if I run across a paragraph that I want to re-write … tough titty, Missy kitty.
But it also means that ARCs will be going out to reviewers within the next couple of weeks. *bites nails*
And although it wasn’t *exactly* my birthday, yesterday First Blood came out, and I went to see Teresa Medeiros and Suzanne Enoch at their Borders signing. They had a fantastic Q&A, and I gushed a little (a lot) over Teresa Medeiros, whose work I will always, always love for the special sauce in the dungeon, if nothing else.
And Bram’s book is coming out in April.
Because it relies too much on having read Demon Night. Another exchange will take its place.
But I’ll post it here. :-)
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“Miss Charlie, your city is safe for one more day.” Drifter settled into the stool next to Jake. “And it seems to me I know a novice who’d also benefit from a bit of that female fashion advice.”
“Hey. Shape-shifting into Charlie’s body was your idea,” Jake reminded him. “And no offense, Charlie–but you never looked hotter.”
“I reckon she has. Classier, too.”
“But I’m so trashy in a miniskirt that you fly off two minutes after I show up? Right. You were afraid you’d kiss me.”
“More like afraid I’d start pounding on you.” Drifter shook his head when Jake lifted his ass off the stool and gave it a shake. “Well, hell. That just didn’t come out right, did it?”
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Tonight, I’m finishing up Through the Veil.
Including the DEMON BOUND excerpt (if you missed it in the comments of a few posts back 
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Also, there are DEMON BOUND bookmarks now (back and front pictured at left) e-mail me (or use the contact link farther left) with your address, and I’ll send them out to you on my next trip to the P.O. International is fine. If you’ve been waiting for one, they’ll be heading out on Monday.
No, no — it’s not because Blood Bound stomped Demon Angel’s ass in the BWAHA tournament (although it does create an interesting dilemma — should I vote against BB now out of spite, even though I think Briggs’ series rocks … or do I vote for it, because there’s no shame if DA was knocked out by the book that would become champion? Hmm…)
It’s because this is coming out in November, and gah gah gah it needs an end!!!! (But *happy dance* now it has a cover!)
Just writing. :-) Since I’ve gotten a couple of e-mails wondering, I thought I should pop up and make it official: She’s alive. Aliiiiive!
And there’s no cover/excerpt yet, but the cover copy for Demon Bound is up on a page. It might be slightly tweaked before the final version, though.
Back to my hole I go.
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