Fabulous historical author Eloisa James has a fantastic writeup of The Iron Duke in her Reading Romance column at BN.com: “We Don’t Need Another Hero” The Iron Duke is also a Goodreads 2010 Best Romance Nominee! It’s in the company of some amazing books. You can vote for your favorite here. Preternatural Reviews has named […]
Step 1: On Friday night, a little after midnight, decide that you really want something to drink from the kitchen. Step 2: Get up from your desk where you’ve been writing and walk through the living room, where your husband is on the sofa, watching the Chicago-Boston game and eating grapes. Step 3: Make some […]
My editor told me that she recently cover-conferenced the next installment of my steampunk romance series, and that, yes — it would be more man-titty. I’m not opposed to that. Man-titty isn’t always my favorite, but I think The Iron Duke‘s cover got the job done, letting readers know that Here Lies Romance and Steampunk! […]
I think I’m going to be offline most of tomorrow, so I’ve put my post up a little early. Today, I’m (kind of) talking about the Heart of Steel cover, and offering a prayer to the cover gods.
My agent, Roberta Brown, just announced this on Publisher’s Marketplace, so I think it’s okay if I announce it here, too — Berkley has bought three more books in the Iron Seas (steampunk) series. It’s ridiculously awesome news, and I kneel in the direction of New York, where my amazing editor Cindy Hwang resides, and […]
ETA: It looks like their sale is over 🙁 I’m not sure if this is a short-term Black Friday thing, but Amazon just lowered the price of Demon Bound to $3.20 — this is Book #4 of the Guardian series, and features Alice (The Black Widow) and Jake. Among the Guardians, Alice Grey is known […]
So, if you are ever going to a relative’s home, and realize at the last minute that they expect you to bring a pie — but you don’t exactly keep a lot of pie baking stuff around — here is my advice. Buy one of these: Buy a bunch of these: Open Item A and […]
If, while reading Demon Marked next year, you suddenly come across a perfectly nice sentence interrupted by OH HOLY EFFING HELL! — that is because while I was browning rice in butter, I suddenly had an idea of how to fix that sentence, and left the kitchen to do exactly that. Three paragraphs later, I […]
I just sent my editor my 7-page cover notes for Heart of Steel — including this image: And so if we end up with a cover like this, I take full responsibility.
So, I re-watched a bunch of BSG episodes while I was drugged, and once again I was struck by how Colonel Tigh’s eye did more work than many other full-bodied actors. And I was pleased and surprised to see Michael Hogan playing Slade Wilson in last night’s Smallville episode … though his character wasn’t exactly […]
During my drug-induced little vacation, I re-watched a few episodes of Battlestar Galactica — and although I can’t remember exactly what I was looking for when I went to Starbuck’s wikipedia page (some little detail from an episode I hadn’t re-watched, probably) I ran across a quote from the previous Starbuck (played by Dirk Benedict) […]
My editor recently told me that The Iron Duke‘s French rights were purchased by J’Ai Lu, which means that the book should be translated and available in France at some point in the next year or so. I’m super-thrilled by the news, and can’t wait to see what kind of cover they come up with […]
I hope that many of you in the U.S. have today off — and if you have served this country or your own, thank you from all of us here at Odd Shots! …and wisdom teeth update: Still can barely open my mouth much more than toothbrush-width (which, ironically, makes flossing all but impossible, because […]
Want The Iron Duke for just $0.75 $0.07 more than mass market? B&N and Amazon have been repeatedly dropping the price (and then the other drops, and then the other to match it – Amazon is currently at $9.20 $8.30) of the print version so now it’s not much more than a mass market copy. […]
Now that I’ve seen this, I might actually cave.
Yesterday in the comments, jmc reminded me of an upcoming m/m steampunk romance from Carina Press, Island of Icarus by Christine Danse. I’ve invited her to come over and tell us more about it closer to the release date, but until them, she also has released a few (FREE!) erotic steampunk short stories over at […]
