Meljean Brook

I sold a novella for an anthology — but the real awesome isn’t that (although, okay, it’s a big part) but the other writers involved. Check out those names at Dear Author.

There is much *happy dancing* in my house of late.

The anthology will be out in Summer 2009.

Nalini Singh just reported some major *happy dance* news!

It starts with an N-Y-T and ends with a w0000000000t!

Congratulations, Nalini!

*See AAR interview for reference.

(First — congrats to loonigrrl for winning the copy of Demon Night over at Nose in a Book! (And, um, there’s a little excerpt posted over there, with Ethan being … well, a little hungry.))

(Second, I’m still guest blogging over at The Book Binge. Today and tomorrow, it’s all about Q&As.)

(Third, Demon Night kinda-sorta hit a bestseller list last week. It was #41 on the Borders/Waldenbooks romance mass market list! My first list evah! *happy dance* (Also, go congratulate Nalini, who hit in the awesome numbers … also in the week before the official release.)

(Fourth, Borders Stores is running a promotion on Demon Night — $1 off (no coupon necessary.) So if you have a Borders bookstore near you, it’ll be less expensive than other options might be.)

Explore the seductive corners of the dark, as a forbidden attraction tempts danger under the canopy of the…

DEMON NIGHT

$7.99 Berkley Sensation
ISBN 0425219771

Charlie Newcomb worked hard to get her life back together. But all that is shaken when she’s set upon by three vampires desperate to transform her beauty into something evil. Because Charlie is the vital link to something they want—and need. It’s Charlie’s flesh and blood sister, a medical scientist whose knowledge could be invaluable to the predators.

But to get to her, they must first get to Charlie, now under the intimate protection of Ethan McCabe. As her Guardian, Ethan is attracted to her vulnerabilities—as well as her strengths. The closer he gets, the more protecting her becomes not just his duty, but his desire. But will it be enough to save Charlie when the demon night falls?

Read an excerpt.

Read a really long excerpt.

Reviews after the cut (and please let me know if you want me to add yours — I’m sure I forgot some). (more…)

Arrrrrrrgggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!

W000000000000000000000000000000000T!

*soooooooooooooooooooooooooobbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb*

D’oh!

Yayayayayayayay!

Gah!!

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL! LMAO! LMFAO! ROTFLMAO!

WTF?

*cries*

*headdesk*

*crazy happy dance*

…okay, I’m almost ready for the release. Reviews are coming in (like this one). I’m putting my head down and going to pretend not to see (until, of course, I do a round up next week while massively pimping my book. I’m buying a pimp hat just for the occasion.)

“For me, The X-Files has always been a romance,” [Chris Carter] says. “They had an intellectual romance that’s very rare and restrained compared to so many relationships on TV. I think that’s what appealed most to the fans. And they’re back.”

And I cannot stop ::happy dancing::

(Pic and quote from USA Today)

Thanks to HelenKay and Sybil, I found out that Demon Moon is being reviewed in the upcoming issue of Entertainment Weekly. And it got an A-

Yeah, it rocks, really freaking hard.

But here’s the thing that gets me right in the gut — I haven’t seen too many romance reviews come out of EW (chick lit, but not romance, and a search for reviews in the romance genre pulls up a lot of reviews, but not many I’d consider part of the Romance romance genre (ya know, the HEA-part). Maybe I’m wrong about that, because I’m not a regular reader (I’m a cover-buyer, and now that Mulder and Scully are gone, pretty much only Batman and Superman get me to pick it up.) But still, not much romance, because I read HelenKay’s blog and she does often list the reviews, and they’re almost always chick lit. So, on top of it being really fantastic that the reviews might include romance now, somehow my book, which was released two months ago and written by a little nobody author, got reviewed in this issue alongside Johanna Lindsey and Sherrilyn Kenyon.

Which says to me that someone, somewhere down the line, said, “I really freaking believe in this book, you’ve got to read it,” and somehow it was included in EW’s review list. Maybe it was the reviewer who just happened to pick it up, maybe it was buzz online, or a bookseller, or the publicity department at Berkley, or my editor … I don’t know. It’s just completely freaking awesome. So, thank you to anyone and everyone who has ever said, “read this.”

Quite honestly, I don’t say it enough; it’s probably too bad that it takes something like this to remind me, but … yeah.

Does this call for a w00000000000000000000000000t?

Yes. Yes, it does.

Okay, so several stores have had it for the past week, but today is the official release day!

In two hundred years, the vain and beautiful vampire Colin Ames-Beaumont has never met a woman he couldn’t leave. Savitri Murray has never encountered a problem she can’t solve. But when deadly creatures from the Chaos realm throw them together for their protection, and a demon endangers both their lives, Colin and Savi must form a bond–but any love they have is threatened by a curse that can’t be broken by beauty or brains…

Read a four-chapter sneak peek!

Reviews after the jump.

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And had a conversation that went kind of like this:

Meljean: Hewwwwo?

Agent: Hi! Good news! Berkley liked your proposal for the next Guardian book!

Meljean: Shweeet!

Agent: They made an offer, do you want to take it?

Meljean: Yesh.

…so two more Demon books and a novella.

Can we say *HAPPY DANCE*!!!!

Oh, and WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!

It’s out, it’s out! Woooooooot!

All Hell breaks loose in Meljean Brook’s erotic supernatural debut…

For two thousand years, Lilith wrought vengeance upon the evil and the damned, gathering souls for her father’s armies Below and proving her fealty to her Underworld liege. Bound by a bargain with the devil and forbidden to feel pleasure, she draws upon her dark powers and serpentine grace to lead men into temptation. That is, until she faces her greatest temptation—Heaven’s own Sir Hugh Castleford…

Once a knight and now a Guardian, Hugh spent centuries battling demons—and the cursed, blood-drinking nosferatu. His purpose has always been to thwart the demon Lilith, even as he battles his treacherous hunger for her. But when a deadly alliance unleashes a threat to both humans and Guardians in modern-day San Francisco, angel and demon must fight together against unholy evil—and against a desire that has been too long denied…

Read an excerpt.

I just got in my first bound copies of DEMON ANGEL! I’ll admit I teared up a little. I’m such a weenie. I didn’t take pictures, though, because my house is a mess and I didn’t want to spend any time Photoshopping pictures from HGTV.com into the background.

There are tiny changes from the first version of the cover — instead of the “Who will be the first to succumb?” tagline, they’ve put in Marjorie’s quote. My picture’s on the inside back cover — aw, I’m soooo cute! I should have cropped it a bit more, though.

Now, excuse me. I’m off to rub the cover a little more.