Release Day!

Blood Before Sunrise is officially out in the wild! Knowing that readers will soon have their hands on this book is both exciting and nerve-wracking. I hope everyone enjoys Darian's latest misadventures. ;) The Darkness Before Dawn blog tour is in full-swing and here's a rundown of where you can find me this week. I'm giving away print copies of BBS and there's a chance I'll be adding some additional swag later in the month.





7/2 (yesterday) - Paperback Dolls
Today - Wicked Little Pixie
7/5 - Tote Bags 'n Blogs
7/6 - My Bookish Ways
7/7 - The Qwillery

Check the Blog Tour Schedule link at the top of the page for the rest of July's blog tour stops. And if you're in the Boise area on July 13th, stop by Rembrandt's Coffee House in Eagle at 7:00pm for the BBS release party! I'd love to see you there!

Blood Before Sunrise - First Chapter Preview

I can't believe BLOOD BEFORE SUNRISE releases in exactly two months!! Where has the time gone? It feels like I was just finishing up the manuscript a couple of weeks ago. Since I'm officially counting down the days till July 3rd, I thought I post the full first chapter on my website. Hope you can stop by!

Page Proofs of Doom

I've been working on page proofs for BLOOD BEFORE SUNRISE this week. This is the last time I'll get to make any corrections/changes to the book before it goes to print and I've been encouraged to keep my corrections to a minimum, meaning, spelling/grammar/punctuation only. This is not the time to make any big changes to the story/plot/etc.

I'm not going to lie. I get pretty neurotic during this phase of the process. It's sort of like going through the five stages of grief.

Denial:

I couldn't have possibly written this! What in the hell was I thinking?!? This is no good! How could this book suck so badly? Someone must have erased all of my words and replaced them with their own. That's it. I'm certain. These are not my words!!!!

Anger:

I used _______ word HOW many times in this scene?!?! How did I not catch this in copy edits?!?! I will ceremoniously burn these pages. Right after I smash my laptop to bits.

Bargaining:

Maybe if I ask really nice they'll let me re-write the entire book from scratch. I could offer to clean all of the Penguin offices for a year. I'll move to New York and live in the building! Brownies! I'll send pans and pans of brownies to the production staff. Once they've succumbed to the chocolate coma, they'll agree to let me start over. Bwahahaha!

Depression:

My life is over. My words are drivel. My life is over.

Acceptance:

I produced the best possible novel I could. I worked hard and there's nothing more I can do. Time to move on to the next story, the next manuscript. I am at peace. (That is, until reviews start to roll in. Hehe.)

Cover Love - Blood Before Sunrise

It's been forever since I've posted here, and to those of you who occasionally tune in, I'm sorry. I've got a list of drafts for posts that I thought about writing and abandoned. Posts on Christmas, New Year's Resolutions, how grateful I am to the universe for all of my good fortune in 2011. In the end, I realized I just didn't have the words to convey just how I feel. All in all, I just feel blessed. And busy. Very busy.

I'll be posting more regularly, though still only once or so a week. And I hope to have more guest posts, contests, and fun stuff as well. 2012 is going to be another uber busy year on the writing front, and I couldn't be happier. Not only is WHEN SHADOWS CALL, a Shaede Assassin world novella going to be released in June, but BLOOD BEFORE SUNRISE, book 2 in the Shaede Assassin series will be released July 3rd. I really love book 2 and the way Darian's character has developed and grown. The art department at NAL has been hard at work too, bringing Darian to life. I think the cover is gorgeous, but I'm biased. ;) What do you think?