jlassen is embroiled in a bit of a brew-ha-ha over the cover of an anthology coming out from Night Shade Books soon. They’ve listed all the authors on the back and featured five on the front cover. All five of the featured are men, though the anthology’s split down the middle with both male and female writers. I really don’t much want to get into a gender politics war here, but the point of a cover is to sell books. Me, if I were picking the five authors to put…
Year: 2007
squee!
Oooh! Jeri Smith-Ready, author of the quite wonderful EYES OF CROW and the much-anticipated sequel VOICE OF CROW, sent me a copy of Harlequin’s single-title backlist catalogue for Q4, which is, I gather, what booksellers use to re-order books. She sent me copies because, to quote her, “COYOTE DREAMS is all over it.” OMG. She’s not kidding. There are 8 titles featured on the front page in full color, and they are written by people like Debbie Macomber and Carly Phillips and Diana Palmer and Heather Graham and, uh, CE…
Wow.
So I just got the Del Rey Internet Newsletter in my mailbox, and the big promo is for THE ELVES OF CINTRA, the latest in the Shannara series and part of the trilogy that I gather ties the Void books together with the Shannara books. There’s an interview in the newsletter, and in it, the King of the Silver River is mentioned. My God. I had not thought of that character in…years. I had forgotten how very much I *loved* that character until I read his name, and then it…
nom nom nom
Oh lordy, how good these grilled veggies be. I could have a dinner like that–a lot of grilled veg and a bit of meat, in this case lamb–numerous times a week without suffering at all. I missed ‘s posting of a Random Sighting of COYOTE DREAMS in the Philly (I think) airport last week. Yay! And reports seeing it still prominently displayed in the front section at her local Borders, which I wouldn’t have expected this long after its release, so yay twice! Working my way through revisions very slowly.…
team whack-a-mole
, , , , and are Heroes of the Revolution. They have cleared out thousands, if not tens of thousands, of spam messages from my photo galleries on cemurphy.net, leaving it all pristine and lovely. Hopefully the Gallery upgrade will prevent further spam incursions, and if not, meh. I suppose I’ll have to turn comments off, which would be sad, although I don’t get enough to probably make it worth worrying about. Thank you guys *so* much. Wow. Good peeps, you. And props to Rhonnie and for volunteering to whack…