Bigger, badder and uncut!

Funny how if you take that out of a movie context it has all sorts of inappropriate connotations, isn’t it?

But this year is in fact going to be all of those things! In terms of bigger, you may have noticed the website and all of its shiny glossiness. I hope you think it’s as pretty as I do. There should also be some more posting and general online presence this year which I am super excited about. We recently moved, twice, and that sort of threw things into disarray for awhile. But not anymore!

Yes, it looks like it’s happening. BTW is getting a sequel. A novella that has been a lot of fun to write. Without spoilering too much, here is an excerpt (pre final edit so it could change!) of megan’s next case! Whoo!

A half-eaten pack of Tums was sitting on my boss’ desk when I walked in. Papers were everywhere. The man is a genius with delegation, papers usually come in and go back out as if they have wings. The fact that his desk was covered in sheets of cheap white paper and post-it notes sent alarm bells ringing through me.

Want to know how it starts? I love this beginning. Poor Edward. He’s such a great tortured hero. Here is the beginning of LMD….

Every year, the Marwood ball was packed to the rafters with the rich and the richer, the titled and the landed, the people who wanted to move up the social ladder and those who were clinging on by the tips of their fingernails. This year was, of course, no different.

Edward wondered if there was a certain comfort in that predictability – things didn’t change, events occurred every season and would go on until the day he died. And even then the events wouldn’t stop; he just wouldn’t be expected to attend anymore.

Came across this video of Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love) discussing writing, success and failure. It’s fascinating and inspirational for anyone, author or no author. Enjoy!

For anyone who has noticed a rather substantial gap between postings….I’m alive. You didn’t notice, you say? Well, of course not, I’m prolific on blogging, facebooking and social media. Ahem.

As for what I’ve got going on…

RT in May. It’s in New Orleans. Vampire central. I will be going to the Garden District and looking for Lestat. Everything vampire is set in New Orleans. Witches too. Off the top of my head…Kresley Cole’s series is set there, Sookie visits, The Originals is there, Coven is there. The list goes on, I just ran out of head space.

Did you know that there are some people who think that writing is glamorous? So let me tell you about my glamorous day. Today was the first day back for my kids and boy was everybody excited. First there was a PTA meeting and then it turned out my daughter forgot her lunch. So my writing opportunity came at 1030, hours later that I had expected (grrr).

When I got home I agonized over whether I should do laundry or cleanup the kitchen but decided to leave it so that I could try to get some words down. I could get some words down but nothing particularly exciting and I suspect it wasn’t very good.

Okay, I’m going to answer a question that I’ve been hearing a lot of which is– How could I have used the infamous name Edward in Lady Out of Time. You may not know this, like if you’ve been living on Mars or something, but there is a very successful franchise that has a dude named Edward.

So here is the deal, when I started writing this book I called him Edward. And after I felt like I knew him, and I fell in love with him, I was sitting at my computer and I suddenly thought ‘Oh crap, his name is Edward.’ And even my critique partner said I should change it. And I kind of meant to, but didn’t. Cause he’s Edward to me.

Whoot! A Lady out of Time is out! It’s up and it’s great. No, it’s not vampires. But it is Time travel. Time travel, you say, what’s so great about that? Imagine me as the grandpa from the Princess Bride convincing his grandson why he wants to read PB. ‘It has a hot duke and a snarky heroine! It’s funny and takes place in Victorian London! It’s an alternate history and has Nazi’s and tons of sizzling sexual tension! It’s funny and the hero is great!’ At least I think so. Hope everyone is having a great week, it’s hotter than hell in California!

Off to Kansas City next week for RT! If you’re going come say ‘hi!’ I’ll be signing at the E-book Expo!