Today is the official release day for BLOOD KIN, 3rd in the Blood Lines series and the first one that is BRAND new. Yup, a grand total of 2 people outside of the folks at Pocket (and me) have read this book.

It’s available at your local bookstore, your favorite indie bookstore and the usual chains (Walmart, Target, Amazon). It is also available in e-book format at the Sony store, Kindle store and at Fictionwise, plus via my publisher’s online store.

Also sharing my release date is Diana P. Francis’ [ ]new urban fantasy novel, BITTER NIGHT. Make sure to check it out!!

The contest is still brewing: take a pic of my books in the wild (store, at your house, library, etc.) or dress in costume and take a picture of you holding one of my books and enter. Details here.

Release week w00t:

• Guest blog up @ Amberkatze’s Book Blog & VampChix where I write about setting and what’s to love about vampires. Both lovely ladies will be giving away a copy of a book.
• Contest right here at my blog
• And tomorrow (drum roll, please….) BLOOD KIN sees the light of day for the first time ever!!

Stop by, read the essays at the 2 other blogs. Take pictures and enter my contest!

Whee!!

Release week begins in < 10 days!!
Sunday, October 25, guest blog at Amberkatze’s Book Blog and talk about why There’s No Place Like Plrtz Glrb*
Monday, October 26: guest bloggin at VampChix, where I talk about, what else? Vampires.
Tuesday, October 27: BLOOD KIN out in the wild!!

To celebrate my first completely brand new book with Juno/Pocket, I’m holding a contest.

CONTEST!!!!

HOW TO PARTICIPATE:

(1) Take a picture of one of my books in the wild (in a store, of you or someone holding the book, etc.)

OR

(2) Take a picture of yourself in your Halloween costume, holding a copy of one of my books.

WHEN?
Take pics whenever you like, but you *must* submit them no later than midnight Eastern Standard Time, Monday, November 2, 2009.

HOW TO ENTER:
– either email me the image (.jpg, .gif, or .png) and I’ll post for you; make sure to comment below that you are sending me the photo.
OR
– post the pic to your own photo hosting site and comment below with the URL for the pic.

PRIZES:

Best costume overall: a set of all 3 of my books
Best fantasy costume: choice of two of my books
Best funny costume: choice of one of my books

BONUS!!
– if there is an especially awesome photo in *either* category, this person will get the right to name a character in one of my upcoming books and have a set of my books donated to the library of their choice.

ETA: To cover legalities, I’ve modified the rules to include the following (thanks to for the disclaimer):

Contest restrictions: Because I don’t know all the various international laws (and thus don’t want to get in trouble for breaking any), contest is open to US and Canadian residents only. Any contest winners who cannot provide a US/Canadian shipping address will be disqualified and a new winnerdrawn.

* Thanks to Joss Whedon for the great blog post title.

Hola kids, fangrrls, fans and general public types.

My wonderful editor, Ms. Paula Guran, has updated the Juno Books site and posted a page about Blood Kin and an excerpt from the book. Go. See. Read!

In other news, work continues to be busy. Book 4, working title Blood Heat, is in progress. Been keeping a fairly low profile overall. Just darned tired. Sleep is a good thing.

Currently reading: Street Magic by Caitlin Kittredge (blackaire). My only real reading time is before work in the morning. I’m loving this book so much, I’ve practically had to set a timer to make me stop reading so I can leave for the office. Get it. Read it.

Just bought a ton of new books, but sadly, won’t have a heck of a lot of time to read them until after Blood Heat is finished. Oh well. Life of a writing chick. ::g::

Happy Thursday, all!

Here it is, folks – the brand spanking new cover for Blood Kin. *

behind the cut

“THE END” – best words in ANY language for a writer.

I have now finished my draft of Blood Kin and have just now sent the file to my betas for review.

WHEW.

It doesn’t suck…I think.

Now, to catch up on Supernatural, BSG, and all sorts of TV. AND I CAN READ BOOKS!!

So, uhm, HAI INTERNETS!

I hadn’t realized that my last post was a while ago, mostly, because I’ve been writing. Go me!

I have been Twittering my progress, but I figured I’d post it here. 6100 words in the last 3 days. w00t! I’m hoping to make 10K by then end of tomorrow (which is the end of my 4-day weekend).

I’m taking a mental break right now. My pattern these last couple of days has been:

• Wake up early (before sunrise!)
• Have something to eat while reading email.
• Write for about 2-3 hours.
• Take a break and watch Dead Zone TV show (which I’m watching for the first time, thanks to Netflix)
• Read a while/surf/read LJ, etc.
• Write some more.
• Read more and then sleep

(A side note for SGA peeps: pretty funny to see the actress who played Katie Brown in an Dead Zone ep. Canadian actors FTW!)

I totally missed the Inauguration concert yesterday b/c I didn’t realize that HBO would open up for us mere mortals who don’t have the channel. I have been trying to see it on HBO.com, but it’s only streaming at specific times, which really sucks. What’s the point of streaming if you can’t see it at your own time?

I’m staying in for the Inauguration tomorrow, despite the many lovely invites I’ve gotten from several folks. I really want to make my word quota on Blood Kin and, although I’d love to share the glory with friends, I think I need to sequester myself or I won’t make it.

OMG, PEOPLE – ONE MORE DAY!!!