So, something I learned today was: The only thing better than a possessed zombie Wonder Woman is a possessed zombie Wonder Woman making out with Batman (and drawn by Nicola Scott.)
It was totally a What The…? moment, but like Christmas at the same time.
Hee.
I’ve got a post up at Odd Shots featuring the trailers of several paranormal-ish movies that I’m looking forward to (once I get caught up with my writing.) I’m not online much, and I expect that this blog will be pretty quiet through the end of February, but I’ll always be at Odd Shots on Fridays.
So far, my 2010 release schedule looks like this (full descriptions below the cut):
DEMON BLOOD (excerpt added), July 2010
“Here There Be Monsters” in BURNING UP, August 2010
THE IRON DUKE, October 2010
I expect to revamp the site around March or April, and I should have more information regarding the Iron Seas series up then, along with excerpts. I hope everyone is having a fantastic New Year!
Click to see the full descriptions of the upcoming books…which I totally copied from the “Upcoming” page on this site, heh. Cut and paste blogging, you gotta love it.
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Feeling nostalgic? I saw this at io9.com — a blog called Growing Up Heroes, with a bunch of kids in their superhero costumes. My Underoos were just like this (the girl on the Big Wheel — I didn’t have one of those, but someone in my family did, because once I wheeled it backward off of our front porch and onto a bike, ouch). I also had that plastic WW costume with the scary, scary mask. It didn’t seem so scary then.
In other news, I’m giving away books at Odd Shots.
…GENTLEMEN PREFER SUCCUBI, at her blog here. It’s fun and funny and sexy, and kicks off her Succubus Diaries series. It’ll be in stores next week, and the trailer for it is here:
Jackie was an ordinary museum docent until a mysterious vampire and a fallen angel made her into a succubus. Now a sexy immortal, she’s caught between an age-old war between angels, demons, and the immortals exiled to earth. When everyone else is choosing sides, which will she pick? The good guy or the bad boy? Maybe she wants both…
I am also giving her book away away (see contest link in the menu above.) But the copies she’s giving away are signed. So, go forth! Enter!
The #1 reason I’ll be glad to see 2009 go? I’ve spent a good portion of it in my bed, coughing up my lungs, or blowing it into a tissue.
Guess how I feel today?
Bllllllllllllllllleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeergh.
Good-bye, 2009. I hope you catch what I have and die.
…is really freaking good. And it comes is such a pretty little tin, too. ::hearty eyes::
…and posting them over at Odd Shots.
But I’m warning you, they aren’t totally safe for work.
Are you sure? Okay. Here’s the link.
As Nalini noted on her blog, and as was reported in PW today, we’re in a fallen-angel-themed anthology together (with two other amazing writers who haven’t announced it yet so I am ::zipped lips:: here), and it’ll probably be scheduled for 2011. So that’s awesome.
It’ll be a Guardian novella, set after Demon Blood, and although I have an idea who and what it’ll be about — no, you haven’t met them yet 
(Unless I totally change my mind, and choose someone you have met. Because, you know, I’m all mercurial and arty and a diva like that.)
::flicks Flickering-Candle-on-a-Winter’s-Day hair, makes pouty-lips::
Every time you want to respond to a negative review, just pretend that there is a BFF behind you, saying, “Oh, honey, no!”
AUTHOR: But she doesn’t understand my book! I’ll tell her like it is!
BFF: Oh, honey, no!
AUTHOR: But it’s a personal vendetta! She’s out to ruin me and starve my kids!
BFF: Oh, honey, no!
AUTHOR: But my editor made me do it! Authors aren’t responsible for their work!
BFF: Oh, honey, no! (For this one, also add a sad shake of the BFF’s head.)
Seriously, Amazon should coin the reverse Nike slogan for authors reading reviews: Just DON’T do it.
*thanks to @McVane, who reminded me that I had this.
**and I have survived many, many of them. 
my advice is to skip to Demon Night* (and catch up on everything that happened in Demon Angel and Demon Moon here). There’s a couple of reasons for this, but the big ones are:
1) My pacing improved and the writing became more straightforward, IMO. I wrote Demon Night after receiving a lot of feedback on Demon Angel — and many readers who enjoyed that book still had some trouble following exactly what was going on. So I wrote Demon Night with that in mind.
2) Charlie, the heroine, is a newbie to the Guardian world. I know the worldbuilding can be complicated and dense, but Charlie’s outsider status means that everything is explained to her (and the reader) as the book goes along. Now, there’s still a LOT happening and a lot to take in, but compared to Demon Angel/Moon, I think the presentation of that information is easier to swallow, and there’s not as much reading-between-the-lines.
3) Demon Night opens up the second story arc in the series and follows a minor arc resolution in Demon Moon, so it’s a good jumping-on point.
*Don’t get me wrong, I love Demon Angel and Demon Moon. But I know some readers have had trouble getting into the series because of the writing in those books, and recent comments in various locations have made me realize that maybe it’s just easier to skip those two for now (and maybe they’ll be easier to take in after the reader already has some familiarity with the series and the characters).
