Meljean Brook

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…)

I’ll be at the Beaverton Powell’s at 7pm on May 9 (not the 16th, as originally scheduled.) And it’s not just me — check out the other authors who will be there (from Powell’s Events Schedule):

Shirley Karr (Confessions of a Viscount), Stephanie Rowe (He Loves Me, He Loves Me Hot), Lucy Monroe (Three Brides for Three Bad Boys) Alexis Morgan (Redeemed in Darkness), Delle Jacobs (Aphrodite’s Brew), Minnette Meador (Starsight), Megan Clark (Rescue Me), Samantha James (The Seduction of an Unknown Lady), and more. 

And, of course, these:

3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd.
Beaverton, OR
map and directions

*head goes down again*

*pops back up to say, w00t! Gena! Because THE DARKEST NIGHT was fricking awesome, and as soon as my head comes back up for realz I’ll say more — but for right now, I just wonder why it is crazy tortured alpha men who do insane things to themselves are so fun? I think fans of JR Ward might really enjoy the warriors she’s created and the storyarc being built (there’s romance, but also much more taking place) and also the energy and the fun of it reminds me of Kresley Cole’s IAD series. Gena’s got a three-chapter excerpt up if you’re curious.*

*whispers* but Bam — that means there’s more neck to suck on. Too bad, I guess, that it’s Guardian/Guardian. Maybe Alice should have been a vampire instead of a spider-loving freak?

Nah.

*headdown*

So, I had a signing at Powell’s in Beaverton and it was a lot of fun (for me — I can’t tell you if the same was true for everyone else, or if they were just smiling out of pity *g* And my husband told me I was boring, but he doesn’t count, because he’s not a romance reader) Emily and Marti, the Powell’s booksellers are truly awesome; everything was ready for me. I just had to come in and … whatever it was I did.

This is pretty much what happened: I got there, talked to Emily and Marti, watched my daughter roll around in her princess dress (her birthday was the next day, but once she saw that dress there was no getting her out of it) got in front of a podium, muttered a lot about myself and the Guardians series, about Batman and Wonder Woman, read an excerpt from Demon Moon, muttered a little more, answered a few questions, signed a few books, was certain I was only in there a half-an-hour at most, and walked out of the bookstore … two hours later.

Yes. It’s not ONLY my books that run long. Sigh.

And I have pictures, but because I haven’t gotten permission from anyone else yet, I’m only posting the back of Lilith Saintcrow’s head, and a small audience pic. (I think the turnout was okay? I’m no Christopher Moore, so frankly, I was just happy that one person in the audience wasn’t related to me.) More after the jump: (more…)

…on Monday, July 2, at 7pm.

This will be the first romance-centered event for the new Beaverton location (and hopefully will be the first of many!)

I hope you can join me — I know Candy from Smart Bitches will be there (with purple hair! — I think I’m going for stripes of auburn and blonde, so we can be like Psylocke and Rogue, only without the spandex and superpowers).

For those of you unfamiliar with the Beaverton location, here is a link to a map and directions.

I should be back online a bit more starting Sunday/Monday/Tuesday; I’d like to say that I’ve come back skinny and tanned, but alas…no. But maybe I’ll do a fake tan, just so I don’t scare anybody on Monday — although nothing says “author with no life” like vampire-pale skin.

(Holy crap, there are 783 posts in my Google Reader, and over 1300 e-mails to look at. I guess most of the latter is spam, but … gah! Will be slowly working through those, again, starting Sunday.)

Have a great weekend!