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Dec

Win a Phin! (and ARC)

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To celebrate the upcoming holidays (and the release of A Brush of Darkness next month,) I’m hosting a mini contest! Winner gets an ARC and an awesome stuffed unicorn of their very own. 😉 Rules: 1) You have to write a haiku. Unicorn haiku would be preferred, but anything to do with bacon is a plus. (Bonus points if Hello Kitty or David Garrett is involved.) They can be raunchy. (If you feel like branching into limerick mode, that’s okay too.) You may enter more than one haiku. Each one nets you three points. Phin’s example: My horn is so small I barely reach to your knees Good thing I’m well hung. *ahem* 2) Standard stuff: You will get extra points/chances to win if you talk about the contest. One extra point for tweeting or facebooking. Three extra points if you blog about it. 3) The contest is open until… Read more

Dec

I Can Haz Editor!

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There’s something rather awesome about bacon you can cook in your toaster.** There’s also something awesome about being assigned a new editor after several weeks of author-limbo. (The patter of my brain has been a bit like this: “Doesn’t anybody wannntttt meeee? Do I smell? I smell, don’t I?” and so on and so on…) *ahem* So, without further ado, I’d like to announce that I’ll be working with awesomesauce editor Megan McKeever! (And there was much rejoicing, especially since Book 2 is due in…two weeks.) ** Of course, Reddi-Bacon didn’t last too long – even though they were basically glorified bacon pop-tarts, apparently no one figured out how to not get the grease to leak out of the tinfoil thing they were wrapped in. And what does grease do when it meets the heating element of a toaster? Yeah. Unrelated and also awesome? A breakfast meat nativity scene –>… Read more

Dec

First Review

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I got sent the first review of Brush of Darkness yesterday (you can read it over Night Owl Reviews.) BoD was given a lovely 4 out of 5 stars, so color me quite pleased. 🙂 And no, I don’t think I’ll be shouting out about every review I get, but this is my first one so I’m going to give myself a bit of a pass. (And honestly, I’m just grateful that they didn’t hate it – for all that I’ve come so far, there’s still that part of me that’s just waiting to be exposed as some sort of fraud. I imagine that’s a pretty typical feeling for n00b authors, though.) The review does make some valid points about not wrapping everything up…not sure that’s going to get any better by the end of the second book either. *cough* We’ll see. 🙂… Read more

Nov

Done!

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Just a note to pop in and say that my rough draft is actually finished now. 🙂 *thuds* It’s just over 105k (and I imagine that number will be changing a bit as start the revision process). I’ve got a few weeks to fix up some of the more questionable places and then I’ll be sending it off to the new editor. 🙂 ’bout time, really.… Read more