As my fellow Pub Crawler, Joanna Volpe, so eloquently put it a few weeks back: Most of your publicity and outreach to the general market is up to you. We all have giant dreams of a publisher who does everything for us, and I have a few friends who are in this very enviable position. […]
You may have noticed something GIGANTIC and DIFFERENT about my blog. In case you didn’t (or in case you’re reading this through an RSS feed), then I shall point out the change to you.
For the purposes of promotion, I’ve hired an amazing illustrator named Natalia Pierandrei to create character art for Something Strange & Deadly. I won’t tell you what exactly I’m doing with these images–that’s still Very Top Secret–but I just HAD to share Natalia’s preliminary sketches with. They are nothing short of exquisite (as is all […]
…give it away if I WAAAANT to! You’d give one away too if it happened TO YOU! Okay. Phew. Enough with the goofy “It’s My Party” rendition because this is no goofy situation, my friends. Not. At. All. In fact, it’s very, very, very serious. Tomorrow is my birthday. Birthdays are very serious affairs in my […]
First off: if you haven’t seen The YAmazing Race with MGnificent Prizes over on the Apocalypsies site, BE SURE to check it out. There is SO much cool swag you could be winning. 😉 — Second: Have you heard of Write Dreams? It’s an auction to raise money for Donna’s Dream House, a home for […]
2012 is here, and I’ve had ARCs for almost three months now…but it was always too early to give them out. (You know, seeing as the book doesn’t release until July.) But now…NOW, my friends, the time has come… ::drum roll:: YOU can win an ARC of Something Strange & Deadly! (Have I made this […]
I’m back. We won’t even discuss how hard it was to get the internet back. It was an ordeal. An EPIC ordeal. BUT, I came out with two wonderful things… Thing #1 Oh, what’s that? Why yes, it IS a book. In fact’s a A FINISHED SEQUEL. Yep, that’s right. A Darkness Strange and Lovely is now complete. […]
I don’t normally share my own interviews on my blog, but the questions for this interview were just TOO FUN! So I have to share…plus, there’s another great interviewee (author Eve Marie Mont, author of BREATH OF EYR) and an awesome GIVEAWAY (looooots of swag). Even better, the ladies at Small Reviews and Ruby’s Reads […]
One year ago TODAY, my book sold to HarperCollins. One year ago TODAY, my dreams came true and my hard work finally paid off… But it couldn’t have happened without my amazing, AMAZING agents: Sara Kendall and Joanna Volpe. So thank you…