I’m at Odd Shots today, talking about Mary Sue and Wal-Mart.

Tonight, I’m going to be at the Cedar Hills Crossing Powell’s, signing Must Love Hellhounds and my backlist. And it’s not just me — there’s a whole list of authors attending, so it should be a great event.

The details:

Friday, September 18th @ 7pm

Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing
3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd. (800) 878-7323

Join us in supporting local romance authors at our third annual Rose City Romance event! Meet these talented women, ask questions, and get books autographed in a casual setting. Featured authors include:

• Cathy Lamb (Almost Home)
• Delilah Marvelle (Lord of Pleasure)
• Minnette Meador (Edge of Honor)
• Jenna Bayley-Burke (Her Cinderella Complex)
• Meljean Brook (Must Love Hellhounds)
• Jean Johnson (The Sons of Destiny Series)
• Margaret Mallory (Knight of Desire)
• Gina Robinson (Spy Candy)
• Elisabeth Naughton (Stolen Heat)
• Hanna Rhys-Barnes (Widow’s Peak)
• Lisa Hendrix (Immortal Outlaw, Immortal Warrior)

Er, but I think there are more authors than this that weren’t listed. But, anyway, I will be there, and I’d love to see you!

I’ll be unplugged all week, so this is an early reminder that I’ll be at the Celebrate Romance convention beginning next Friday afternoon. For those in the area not attending the convention, there is a multi-author signing at the Borders in Beaverton at 6:30pm on Saturday*.

There’s no reason for me to post the DEMON FORGED cover. I just wanted to look at it again.

*I can’t find confirmation of this on the Borders’ events list, or at the convention site, even though it’s been mentioned in the e-mail loops several times. If my info is faulty, I’ll update it. I’ll be there at 6:30 regardless, and if there ends up not being a signing and you show up and say hi, I’ll be happy to spring for tots at the McMenamin’s right next door to the Borders (if there is a signing, I’ll probably head over there afterward, anyway).

One of my favorite bloggers, Ciara, just posted a video interview with me. This was taken at the Powell’s signing, and I had dreams of being as awesome and collected as Joanna Bourne was in her RWA interview with Ciara … but, alas. I am totally me.

And I just managed to spill my soda all over my desk, but luckily moved my laptop out of the way in time. w00t! I’m awesome.

You know, the TSTL ones who always forget their cell phones or let the battery die when a serial killer is after them. Apparently, there’s a link between cell phone usage and decreasing sperm quality … so that explains how, after the killer has been caught and the couple firmly ensconced in their HEA epilogue, the heretofore-infertile heroine suddenly becomes pregnant: when the hero realized that she wasn’t dead — just her battery — and then he took her in a fit of relieved lust, his weakling little swimmers become Michael Phelps.

Oh! and this is a reminder that I’ll be at Powell’s in Beaverton tomorrow night — Friday at 7pm. And, since I’ll probably be starving by the time it’s done, McMenamin’s afterward. If you can stand the look of their fries (I always go for the tots there) anyone who wants to is more than welcome to join me.

ETA: I originally wrote “hitherto-infertile,” then wondered if I’d chosen the wrong word, and thought, oh yes, it’s heretofore! So I published the post, then went to go look it up to make ultra-certain I’d chosen the right one … but they are both right.

Although they’ve listed First Blood as the book for the signing, they have my entire backlist there (I saw the stack last week, and went into minor shock at seeing so many of my books in one bookstore. ) Here is the info copied from Powell’s website:

 Upcoming Event

Friday, September 19th 2008 07:00 PM

Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, Beaverton, OR

Join us in supporting local romance authors at our second Rose City Romance event! Meet these very talented women, ask questions, take pictures, and get autographs in a casual setting. Featured authors include: Elizabeth Boyle (Tempted by the Night), Megan Clark (Seduce Me), Meljean Brook (First Blood), Vanessa Gilfoy (Healing Wounds), Dawn Calvert (His and Hers), Samantha James (Seduction of an Unknown Lady), Minette Meador (The Centurion and the Queen), Alexis Morgan (Dark Warrior Unleashed), Lacy Danes (Animal Lust), Terri Reed (Double Jeopardy), Mary Vine (Maya’s Gold), Rebecca Goings (Cursed Hearts), Delilah Marvelle (Mistress of Pleasure), Jenn Bayley-Burke (For Kicks) and Dina James and Alexis Morgan (Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance).

See our full selection of signed editions from authors coming to Powell’s 

Please note: Signed preordered books will be shipped to you and are not available for pick-up in the store the night of the event (but if you’re planning to attend, don’t worry! Signed editions are usually available at the events). Also, we are sorry but we can not accommodate personalized inscriptions, or guarantee the signed books are first editions. Thanks for your understanding. 

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.)

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.)

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*

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: