Archive for November, 2008

Books I’m looking forward to

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

This is a good month coming up for books. Not that there aren’t lots of good books coming out for the shopping frenzy, but there are four specifically that I’m looking forward to. You’ve all heard me rave about Lesley Livingston’s Wondrous Strange (and I’m not the only one now — go to the site [...]

Enemies close and sources closer

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

Okay, this is a broad appeal for information. I’ve got an interesting scrap of information scribbled down in my notebook but no accompanying note about where I found it. Or if I made it up, but I don’t think I did.
Anyway, I’m now looking for a little more information, but I can’t find the source [...]

Manuscript away!

Monday, November 17th, 2008

For anyone interested in keeping tabs, the revised manuscript for The Word of Traitors is now floating about in the electronic ether of the net waiting for my editor to check his email and pick it up. Woo-hoo!
Watch for it in September 2009. I’ll post the cover (which will be awesome) and jacket copy here [...]

Talking with marketing materials

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

There’s a great post on Publishers Weekly’s Genreville blog: Publicity vs. Marketing. The gist of it is editor Rose Fox describing two different approaches taken by publicists in presenting books to her for review. One approach had information dense handouts essentially summarizing the book with the publicist repeating what was on the handouts; the other [...]