First, I need to announce the winner of last week’s contest: Mikaela! Thanks to the power of random.org, you’ve won an autographed copy of Patricia Briggs’s SILVER BORNE! Congratulations! Please contact me here with your address, and I’ll mail that out to you ASAP. In other news, last night I grabbed some dinner and sat […]
It’s that time again! I have four ARCs of DEMON BLOOD to give away on this site. No hoops to jump through — you just have to comment before midnight on April 24th to enter. But! there is a small catch. These are advance review copies, and I’d really love it if they were used […]
It used to be, I never went to book signings. That’s changed in recent years, for some obvious reasons — like, I have to sign books — and some not-so-obvious ones, like not just meeting up with an author, but with the fantastic community of readers that always show up at local signings. There’s the […]
Ana at the Book Smugglers wrote an early review of my novella, Here There Be Monsters, for Steampunk Week II. And last night at around 3 a.m., I sent her a guest post about steampunk romance that’s supposed to go up on Saturday (if it’s Saturday, click here!) Last night was kind of hazy: I […]
…talking about all of the changes the Demon Blood cover went through before it was finalized.
…talking about all of the changes the Demon Blood cover went through before it was finalized.
We talk about covers a lot on this blog, but a couple of conversations around the blogosphere this week reminded me that many readers don’t realize how many changes some covers go through before a final version is released. There are several reasons for those changes: the editors don’t like them, marketing doesn’t like them, […]
For years now, one of my favorite blogs has been the Thrillionth Page, written by debut author Carolyn Crane. From wonderful posts like her “Great Moments in Last Night’s Reading” to awesomely funny entries like her “Holiday Gift Exchange in Romancelandia” cartoon series, and the adventures of Little CJ, Carolyn’s freaky, the-eyes-follow-you childhood portrait, her […]
For years now, one of my favorite blogs has been the Thrillionth Page, written by debut author Carolyn Crane. From wonderful posts like her “Great Moments in Last Night’s Reading” to awesomely funny entries like her “Holiday Gift Exchange in Romancelandia” cartoon series, and the adventures of Little CJ, Carolyn’s freaky, the-eyes-follow-you childhood portrait, her […]
First — Nalini’s ANGELS’ BLOOD is up against Larissa Ione’s ECSTASY UNVEILED (another awesome book, but she must STILL BE CRUSHED!!!) in the DABWAHA tournament. You can vote for your favorite here. *** When I was around thirteen or so, one of my favorite romance books was… this one. And I still love it, actually. […]
From a review of the movie The Clan of the Cave Bear at IMDb, this is the fourth paragraph of an otherwise straightforward review. Some critics scoff at the primative community portrayed here, but it in fact is very accurate. In the DVD commentary we learn that much of the design for this film came […]
Carolyn Crane, blogger extraordinaire at the Thrillionth Page, has her debut releasing today, the first of an urban fantasy trilogy called MIND GAMES. I got a chance to read it months and months ago, and this is what I said then, “With a twisty, edgy storyline, a unique premise and a fascinating heroine, MIND GAMES […]
Unless you’re on a feed reader, you’ve probably noticed the changes to the site. I’m still tweaking a few things, but everything should be navigable — the look has changed, but the content hasn’t. If you notice anything missing or broken, please feel free to drop me a line or a comment.
First, a little business. As many of you are probably aware, there is a little competition going on called DABWAHA. Like college basketball’s March Madness, romance and UF novels are pitted against each other, face a vote, and then advance to the next round. Yesterday, the unthinkable happened and my bracket was completely destroyed and […]
This morning, while driving my husband and my daughter to school (this isn’t a weird confessional; he’s a teacher), my husband announced that he was going to copy all our daughter’s pictures onto our new computer, so that we could have them all in one place and backed up. That sounded reasonable, so I said, […]
id_ballstothewall_v1.doc It’s really strange the stuff that reinvigorates me/lets me focus when I’m writing. Sometimes, it’s changing the font or switching from double-spaced-indented-first-line to 12pt-after-the-paragraph-no-indent formats. This time, it’s being reminded of how I’m approaching this series every time I look at the task bar or open the file. Other times, it’s just a matter […]
