Mostly, my books and the process of getting them on the shelves.
First: have you entered the contest yet? Okay, so one of the FAQs I see on other authors’ sites a lot is “where do you get your ideas?” and usually the answer is “everywhere, nowhere, the ether, my muse,” and etc. Sometimes, there’s a specific story to go along with it: a first line, a […]
Yeah, that’s right. This week is all about HOT SPELL (and a little about DEMON ANGEL). If you haven’t yet entered the contest to win a copy, now is a good time to do so. Or anytime between now and next Sunday. But the book isn’t just about me! HOT SPELL includes a novella “The […]
Alrighty. I’ve got a couple of copies of HOT SPELL to give away. Last time, my contest was something like “choose which excerpt from a Harlequin Presents is fake” but I’m too lazy still too busy working on the proposal to write a fake excerpt this time. But Halloween will do my work for me! […]
I just got my copies of the mass market reprint of HOT SPELL — which means I should probably have a contest. Does anyone read this blog that hasn’t read it yet? (Out of pity, if no other reason?) If you haven’t, stay tuned! I’ll come up with a contest ASAP. Oh, and it’s not […]
…but are probably more like: “D’oh!” So, a little while ago, I was mentioning that I didn’t know if/when I’d get ARCs for Demon Angel. I haven’t yet, but Nalini Singh clued me in to many online reviewers’ willingness to accept .pdf ARCs, then last night I noticed that May has .pdf ARCs in her […]
…suppressing my tendency to make fun of myself when writing a query letter. I should probably not say: Hi, I’m Meljean, a somewhat silly person who likes men in tights and capes. I wrote a couple of books, but they’re really long and stuff. With lots of blood. You wanna read them? Or, Hi, I’m […]
The one big huge request I had on the cover was totally honored. I sent about seven pages of pictures and character and story notes for the art department, and suggestions, and they included a lot of it, but the most important one was this (after a long paragraph about how Colin’s clothes are ridiculously […]
God, I love my job. Okay, and check it out: her outfit matches the new colors on my website and blog. 😯 What’re the chances? :boggle:
I guess because it’s so long, and the production costs are higher. Whoops. If you pre-ordered at $6.99, there’s still two months to cancel. But it’s still a good deal. I’ll break it down: F-words per dollar: about 4 Sex scenes per dollar: about .5 Demons per dollar: about 8,089,008 Blood per dollar: about 35 […]
So, I was going through the galley proofs and entering the changes I’d written on the page into my MS Word manuscript — 65 of the pages needed changes. Some of the changes were dates and numbers. One of the things I realized (after copy-editing) was that a secondary character’s age needed to be reduced […]
(Okay, not really.) Somehow or another, my latest hero is turning into a cowboy. A guy from the Old West, turned Guardian. That, I didn’t expect. And onto more research now. Perhaps a reacquaintance with my ol’ friends Louis L’amour and Max Brand and Zane Grey, just for flavor. In other news, I was running […]
(Okay, not really.) Somehow or another, my latest hero is turning into a cowboy. A guy from the Old West, turned Guardian. That, I didn’t expect. And onto more research now. Perhaps a reacquaintance with my ol’ friends Louis L’amour and Max Brand and Zane Grey, just for flavor. In other news, I was running […]
Woot! …and 😳 I thought it was called WILD THINGS. Anyway, it’s an anthology including the incredible Maggie Shayne, Marjorie M. Liu, Alyssa Day, and moi. Er, you don’t have to append “incredible” to “moi”, though. Just the other ladies. I have an excerpt of the novella up here (I was messing around with the […]
I’m at the point where I’m really, really getting into the new story (but mostly in my head). I’ve got pages filled with notes about the story and the series, but not much in the writing department yet (ETA: I just saw that Marjorie Liu describes a method very similar to what I did to […]
Rosario just wrote a review of the HOT SPELL anthology (coming in mass market in November, if you don’t want to splurge on a trade /end shameless promo). As with most anthologies, the reviews are mixed, but she did really like Falling for Anthony — woot! As I said above, this one was really, really […]
I’m setting (most of the action in) the novella in Ashland, a little city in southern Oregon. It’s kind of a college town, though best known for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. It’s a funny little city — except for the Portland metro area, most of Oregon is what I think of as conservative, country-music types […]