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Seressia August 25th, 2007

Alison Kent - Blah Blog

Author Allison Kent is running a contest in conjunction with Phaze’s new anthology Coming Together: For the Cure. Edited by Alessia Brio, the net proceeds of this anthology of erotic fiction will benefit the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation.

In honor of my bestest friend and her recent battle, here’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to buy copies of this anthology and give them away as prizes here. I will buy one copy for every ten comments. So, yes, if there are 100 comments, I’ll buy 10 copies. And I’ll give them away randomly to people who drop in and help raise funds. I will limit the copies to 25 (250 comments/$175) if we go that high, so let’s do it!

Author Jessica Russell is picked up the challenge. She’ll buy a copy of the anthology for every ten comments she receives, up to 100 comments. Go forth and comment!

You can also participate in one of several Breast Cancer 3 Day Walk events around the country.

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Seressia August 24th, 2007

RED SAGE PUBLISHING, INC. :: Writer’s Guidelines

Check out the guidelines for Red Sage’s eBooks. Word on the street is that they’re looking for more paranormal submissions especially.

Authors may query interest with: a one-page synopsis showing clear emotional and physical conflict defined and the first ten pages of their manuscript in a digital Rich Text format (RTF) or inline text. Please include writing credentials; we welcome unpublished authors as well.

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Seressia August 22nd, 2007

One in four Americans read no books last year | News | Guardian Unlimited Books

But when they do read, they read romance…and the Bible.

People from the West and Midwest are more likely to have read at least one book in the past year. Southerners who do read, however, tend to read more books - mostly religious books and romance novels - than people from other regions.

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Seressia August 21st, 2007

Avon Adds Video to e-Books; More Original Erotica Coming - 8/20/2007 1:01:00 PM - Publishers Weekly

. On September 4, HC’s Avon Books imprint will release popular romance author Victoria Alexander’s Lady Amelia’s Secret Lover as an e-book original. To add spice to the title, Avon is adding embedded video that will feature Alexander discussing the e-book’s plot and characters at various points in the story. “We’re always trying to find ways to get the interest of romance readers,” noted Pam Spengler-Jaffee, director of publicity, paperbacks.

Good idea?  I’ll be curious to see how it turns out–and what other publishers will do to their ebooks.

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Seressia August 20th, 2007

Don’t forget, today I’m blogging over at Blogging in Black. Please visit me over there, and hopefully on Tuesday I’ll recap the fun I had talking to Dog the Bounty Hunter’s fans.

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Seressia August 17th, 2007

According to Publisher’s Weekly, the publisher Sourcebooks, known for children’s books, is getting into romance with the launch of its Casablanca line. The line will publish the gamut of romance, including paranormal, time travel, erotic, historical, and contemporary. Editorial manager Deb Werksman is said to be looking for new authors as well as established authors looking for a new direction.

Sourcebooks’s new line launches this fall with three titles: the time travel romance Hundreds of Years to Reform a Rake by Laurie Brown, and two Regency romances, No Regrets by Michèle Ann Young and Cotillion by Georgette Heyer, an English historical romance writer widely credited with creating the Regency genre (she died in 1974). The spring 2008 list includes a contemporary romance featuring a Navy SEAL hero as well as six other titles. The imprint will eventually publish 15 to 20 titles per season, in a mixture of mass market and trade paperback formats.

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Seressia August 17th, 2007

Dishing With the Divas: Brenda Novak’s Expert Friday, featuring Harlequin Editor Leslie Wainger

Harlequin Editor Leslie Wainger talks to the Fog City Divas about her career, her book doctor service, and her book, Writing a Romance Novel for Dummies

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Seressia August 17th, 2007

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Author King ‘mistaken for vandal’

Moral of the story: Check with the clerks before you go writing in your books, especially if you can’t prove that you (name on driver’s license) are you (name on book.)

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Seressia August 16th, 2007

I’ve been forced to take a time out. I had to take my baby to get her screen fixed.

I’m having major withdrawal symptoms. My old desktop is running Win 98, doesn’t have a DSL port and takes forever to load a web page. And my domain email isn’t coming through. It’s prehistoric, I tell you!

Hopefully it will only take them until Friday evening to fix it, otherwise, I’ll be camped outside the store curled in a little ball, rocking to and fro while sucking my thumb and whispering “rosebud” over and over.

When royalty payments come later this year, I’m so buying a new desktop to match my revamped laptop.

Rosebud I miss you. I promise not to toss you at the SO ever again!

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Seressia August 14th, 2007

As I was checking on title availability for my upcoming signing, I noticed something odd.

No one has copies of Through the Fire.

Amazon is out. So are Borders and Books a Million. I just tried to order 10 copies from Barnes and Noble, and they only have 4. If you haven’t got a copy of this Maggie finalist/RT winning book and hoped you’d get it at GRW’s Moonlight and Magnolias conference, I can tell you that may not happen.

Genesis Press had 150 copies in their warehouse as of yesterday. (I know, because I called and asked them). As far as I know, there are no plans to go back to press for another print run. Of course, when I tried to order online, their site couldn’t find me or my books. I also tried to see if Black Expressions or Zooba had their bookclub hardcover edition available. Zilch.

I’m going to call Genesis tomorrow and try to order a few copies to have for M&M and For Sisters Only. At this point, your best bet to get this book would be through used bookstores.

Maybe they’ll turn it into a mass market. I can only hope, right?

I’m not sure if this selling out is a good thing. I think it is, but I’m not sure. When you consider how damn hard it was the find this book in brick and mortar stores, yes, selling out is definitely good. When I start my agent hunt, I’ll be able to say that my most recent contemporary romance not only garnered a couple of awards, it also exhausted its print run. It will look good on paper.

But in the meantime, I don’t have any to sell. A prospective agent may wonder why the publisher didn’t do a second print run. So might a prospective publisher. (I do have a couple of ideas for contemporary stories, you know.)

It is times like this when what an author doesn’t know can be quite painful to contemplate.

Maybe it will be pushed quickly into mass market. Or maybe it’s just done.

Either way, it’s good. Right?

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