Pages

I’ve added a few pages. If you look at my header, you’ll see tabs with home (here), books, links, and recs. The links are, as of now, all blog links—one page for Samhain authors and one for others (industry, reader, and writer). Any Samhain author who happens to pass through and doesn’t see their blog, [...]

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Monthly

Jordan Summers talks about Cherry Adair’s new series.
Apparently, the publisher plans to release them in much the same way Allison Brennan’s books were released, one every month for three months.
I’ve never read Adair or Brennan, but Naomi Novik’s Temeraire series is being released this way. So is this a new publisher strategy, or has [...]

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Excerpts

I will put up an excerpt and blurb of Haven before its release, but I’m waiting on those to be finalized with my editor.
Meanwhile I took advantage of the pages option here at wordpress.com. I made a subpage (under books), and put up two excerpts from my (unpubbed) werewolf novels.
My next blog project: write up [...]

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Links

If anyone can’t see my banner (or sidebar) properly, please let me know. Thanks.
I’m excited about the extra pages wordpress offers. I intend to make a list of my favorite books, with descriptions, as well as links.
I enjoy the blogosphere a lot and I like to link to posts. Two I found particularly interesting:
Dear [...]

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WordPress.com

Well, I have fallen in love with this blog. I was supposed to just play around and see how I liked wordpress. But I can’t leave it alone now that I’m totally infatuated. See the banner on top? That’s my own. Yes, it’s not as crisp and professional as the one they had; and [...]

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Follow up

I bought Naomi Novik’s The Jade Throne, so I can read more about Laurence and Temeraire. Yay! Eleven-year-old son is extremely happy to be reading His Majesty’s Dragon. “Napoleonic Wars and dragons, Mom.” The son and I don’t usually enjoy the same books, so I’m excited, too. I’m going to [...]

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His Majesty’s Dragon

I had a great time reading Naomi Novik’s His Majesty’s Dragon. I haven’t gobbled up a paperback for quite a while. Now I’m eying its sequel, The Jade Throne. Anyway, it’s the Napoleonic wars with dragons, and the book’s anchor is the relationship between Laurence and his dragon, Temeraire. So [...]

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Free books

There’s a chance to win free Samhain books at Angie’s blog. Sign up by Tuesday.
Smart Bitches has a review up. It’s been a while since they’re reviewed books, I think, so yay! Sarah loved Gail Dayton’s The Compass Rose, a Luna book, with lots of (polyamorous) romance.

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Follow up

For more ebook talk, Cece sums up her promo results here and here. And Nicole at Blog Happy talks about her experience finding ebooks. Easy-to-navigate publisher sites (on all browsers) are very important!
Also Dear Author is having a contest:
If you a reader, spend all the space you need to tell us why we [...]

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Ebooks, promo, and buzz

I’ve been thinking about Maili’s recent post on ebooks and why they don’t get as much word-of-mouth. Lots of good stuff in the comments. I’m relatively new to the ebook world and haven’t thought about it a great deal. But because I find it so interesting, I’m trying to order my thoughts. [...]

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