As previously noted, my books are going to be featured on another book tour, starting Sunday. This one is produced by the wonderful Penelope Bartotto of Around the Universe Book Tours.
Her post is here, and the full schedule is:
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Yes, tomorrow’s Saturday, and time for the Virtual Book Fair. There’ll be dozens of great indie authors (including me!), so it’s well worth checking out…
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The marketing never ends, does it?
I’m going to be interviewed on The Authors Show, next Tuesday, May 21st. The interview will run all day long – just click on over to listen!
I’m also going to be live on The Author’s Corner with Elaine Reco Chase, on June 6th at 8 PM.
Finally, there’s another Virtual book tour coming up, starting on Sunday and running for two weeks. More details to come on that!
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I’m almost done with chapter 5 (and chapters 7-8 are already written), so I’m close to the halfway point. My only concerns at this point are the overall pacing and dropping clues to the big mystery (who is the woman in red who Sara keeps encountering in various dreams, and what does she want?), and, still, the ending. But I’m pretty happy with how it’s going thus far, all in all.
Here’s a little snippet…
As it turned out, the gift Brian actually did buy for me was pretty good, too. It was a beautiful pair of earrings. Gold, with a tiny emerald, perfectly matching my necklace. I still wear that necklace every day, and the earrings really do complement it. Of course, the effect wasn’t quite as dramatic as it could have been, since I was wearing my pajamas at the time. But we’re going out New Year’s Eve, so I can properly show off my new jewelry then.
Right now, I’m draped all over Brian as we lie together in bed. He’s caressing my cheek, so gently, and I can feel peace and calm spreading from his touch through my entire body.
“How do you do that?”
He’s confused. “Do what?”
“It’s been eleven years, and I still don’t understand it,” I say. I put my hand on top of his. “I can follow the nerves from here all the way through to my brain.” I can picture it, as though I’m back in medical school, standing over my table in the Anatomy Theater; the buccal branch of the facial nerve carries the sensation, making its way through the facial canal, up to the nervus intermedius and eventually into my brainstem. “I can tell you what they’re doing, and every muscle they pass by and how it all works. But I don’t know how you can make me feel so many different things, when you touch me with the same hand in the way in the same places.”
Brian thinks about it for a while. “It’s not just that one touch, right? Even if you don’t realize it, you’re paying attention to everything I’m doing, and your brain puts it all together and tells you whether you should feel calm and safe, or,” his other hand wanders down to my thigh, “aroused.”
Oh, that’s nice. Very nice. Yes, “aroused” is a good word…
…As quickly as he put it there, his hand is gone and then I need a moment – well, more than a moment – to collect myself. But – I guess – it’s for the best. I know Grace and Lizzie are still awake, and they don’t need to hear us. “You’re saying it’s subconscious. I’m noticing all these clues from you without realizing it, right? Like Chrissy does. She’s so focused on us, it seems like she can sense our moods, but it’s just that she’s putting her whole brain into figuring us out because we’re so important to her.”
He laughs. “I just want to point out that you’re the one who compared herself to the dog. I didn’t say a word.” Fair enough, but I suspect I’m going to end up remembering it a little differently!
I don’t say that, of course. I just give him a quick kiss. “We ought to get some sleep. Tomorrow’s going to be a busy day.”
Brian agrees. We both have to go to work, I need to check on Michelle Collano, and most important of all, it’s Lizzie’s birthday tomorrow. A very busy day…
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Just a little change of pace. I was/am a huge fan of the TV series Farscape and also a regular poster on the Television Without Pity forums for that show. One of the subforums was a “creative” forum, where us fans would indulge ourselves, and one of the discussion threads was for “Farscape Haiku”. I’m not a poet by any stretch of the imagination, but I did manage to come up with a haiku for each of the 88 episodes of the show. Here are a few of (what I consider) the best…
Shot through a wormhole
This living ship is very big
I’m never getting home
They say they’re your friends
Don’t trust them, Pilot, please don’t!
They’ll chop your arm off
Caught up like dolphins
In a cosmic tuna net
John and Aeryn mate
Frell your Gammack Base
And your Aurora Chair too
“John Crichton was here!”
Poor sad Chiana,
Her brother is dead, she thinks
Off a cliff she jumps
Nebari psycho,
Don’t you touch my optic nerve!
No wonder Pip left
Pity John Crichton
His brain is not his own now
Frelling neurochip
Things keep going wrong
They are so very frelled
Time travel is bad
Just gross beyond words
Is it cannibalism
If you eat your clone?
Wormhole, finally
The Hero’s Journey for John
Reach your goal then die
What is reality?
As always, John does not know.
Bye, pregnant Aeryn!
Let’s all go to camp
Brutal mental torture camp
Great idea, Scorpy
Jump on a table,
Sneak, skulk, lie, dance, riot. and then –
Scorpy, you bastard!
Run about, scream and shout
Then drop the bomb down the shaft:
Katratzi go boom!
Bonus points if you can guess the episodes!
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The Virtual Book Tour continues today, courtesy of the wonderful folks at Coffee Beans and Love Scenes! You can read about me at several blogs, all listed below. And there are reviews at two of them!
Ali’s Books reviews Dream Student and gives it three stars. She concludes by saying “I’ll rate this book a solid 3 stars & I’ll definitely follow it up with the next in the series! Definitely not bad for an author’s first work!!”
The World as I See It also reviewed it, and said (I love this!) “I don’t even know how to describe this book to anyone because it is so different and yet it is still one of the best books I have read in a long time.”
I’m also featured today at:
Aspired Writer
Bunny’s Review
Danita Minnis
Love, Laughter, Friendship
Penny For Them…
So go pay them a visit!
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I want to thank all the great folks who are hosting my book today and getting the word out about it…
You can read an excerpt at each stop of the tour, and also enter a giveaway for a signed copy of the paperback!
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The Blog Hop is a weekly event hosted by Ramblings of a Coffee-Addicted Writer. Every week there’s a question, and, logically enough, you answer it. This week’s question is:
What was the last book you re-read? Or name a book you would like to re-read.
For me, the answer is “Winter’s Tale” by Mark Helprin. I reread it once a year. It’s both my favorite novel, and also the best novel I’ve ever read (those two things don’t necessarily have to be the same thing). The prose is breathtakingly beautiful, the characters are instantly memorable, and the sprawling time-jumping story is amazing. I can’t possibly recommend the book highly enough.
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Virtual book tours, that is. Me and my books are going to be featured in two of them.
The first is coming up Monday and Tuesday, just a couple of days from now! It’s being run by the good people at Coffee Beans and Love Scenes, and I’ll be featured at 14 (yes, you read that right!) blogs over those two days!
You can check out Coffee Beans and Love Scenes, and the schedule for this tour is below:
May 13, 2013
Brianna’s Bookshelf
Coffee Beans & Love Scenes
deal sharing aunt
It’s All About the Romance!
Janna Shay’s Fair Play
Musings and Ramblings
Naughty Bits’ Book Reviews
Regina May Ross’s
Sweet n’ Sassi
May 14, 2013
Ali’s Books
Aspired Writer
Bunny’s Review
Danita Minnis
Love, Laughter, Friendship
Penny For Them…
The World As I See It
All the links above will take you to those tour sites, so check ’em out!
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The weekly Virtual Book Fair is coming again – make sure to check it out tomorrow, starting at 9 AM. I’ll be there, along with dozens of other indie authors with great books you’ll want to look at!
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