I have arbitrarily assigned the deadline for the ARC contest (see below!) to be Sunday, 12:00 PM Central. That is when I will reach my grubby fist into the CONTEST CAN and pull out a winner.
Thanks for playing!!! You guys ROCK! I’d respond to each and every one of you, but if I did, I’d mess up my Contest Can System, ’cause I can’t work numbers good, and then I’d be all sad, and I’d have to come up with a new system, and . . .
The point is I love you all for commenting. Smootchies!
Okay, fine. It’s just wordpress got fancy. BUT WHATEVER. I HAVE A PRETTY NEW BLOG AND I LOVE IT.
Look at Jane! She’s so HAWT! I love her sassy little seal self. I think she just winked at me! Minx.
To celebrate my awesome new blog, I’m going to run a CONTEST! To win one of THESE! Yes, my friends, that is an ARC of TEMPEST RISING!
To win? All you need to do is comment below! I’ll randomly choose a winner using my highly scientific CONTEST CAN!
If the comment box, or anything else, doesn’t work, totally don’t blame me. It’s someone else’s fault. Just tell me and I’ll swear at my iMac till it accedes to my demands. (Actually, I’ll send a panicked email to Orbit, then watch as my roommate fixes the problem, then send another email to Orbit apologizing for the original email.)
And while you’re here, I’m going to EXERCISE MY PIMP HAND! For there are two NEW LEAGUE RELEASES for your reading pleasure!
First out of the gates, is Cherie Priest’s BONESHAKER.
| In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaska’s ice. Thus was Dr. Blue’s Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine born.But on its first test run the Boneshaker went terribly awry, destroying several blocks of downtown Seattle and unearthing a subterranean vein of blight gas that turned anyone who breathed it into the living dead.Now it is sixteen years later, and a wall has been built to enclose the devastated and toxic city. Just beyond it lives Blue’s widow, Briar Wilkes. Life is hard with a ruined reputation and a teenaged boy to support, but she and Ezekiel are managing. Until Ezekiel undertakes a secret crusade to rewrite history. His quest will take him under the wall and into a city teeming with ravenous undead, air pirates, criminal overlords, and heavily armed refugees. And only Briar can bring him out alive. |
Next up is Michelle Rowen’s new YA Para-Rom, DEMON PRINCESS: REIGN OR SHINE
| As if trying to fit in at a new school and navigating the social scene isn’t enough stress for her, sixteen-year-old Nikki Donovan just found out that her long-lost father is, in fact, the demon king of the Shadowlands — the world that separates and protects ours from the Underworld. When she is brought there by the mysterious (and surprisingly cute) messenger Michael, she learns that her father is dying, and that he wants her to assume the throne. To complicate matters, a war is brewing between the Shadowlands and the Underworld, her half-demon qualities are manfesting, and her growing feelings for Michael are forbidden. Ruling a kingdom, navigating a secret crush, and still making it home by curfew — what’s a teenage demon princess to do? |
How good do those look? SO GOOD. My pimp hand is so excited about both of those books and their covers that it’s not even stinging after that pimpage.
So yeah! Awesome! We have a HOT NEW SITE and some LEAGUE PIMPAGE here at the home of Jane True. And keep your eyes peeled. . . my release date is coming soon and there will definitely be some EXCITING contests for books/prizes/small mammals (okay, those don’t ship so good).
We should also be releasing the cover of Tracking the Tempest very shortly, as well as unveiling an excerpt from Tempest Rising! YAY!
So comment below to win an ARC! And a gerbil! Just kidding about the gerbil!
. . . what Romantic Times thinks of Tempest Rising, but you don’t have a subscription?
You can find out here. Thanks. 
The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romances is ON SALE NOW!
There are stories from loads of my friends over at the League, including Jaye Wells (who’ll you’ll meet if you come to our upcoming signing here in Shreveport November 7th), Stacia Kane, Cherie Priest, Caitlin Kittredge, and Jeanne C. Stein.
I love anthologies, and this looks like a big sexy doozy!
Which looks a bit like a snuffaluffagus, in it’s natural state.
I totally have pictures from Dragon*Con. I forget I have a magic phone that records pictures (and eats souls).
So here’s a random samplings of slightly grainy phone pictures. Yay!
First of all, here are Kelly Meding and me with Dark Helmet. Love me some Spaceballs.
Here are Mark Henry, Jackie Kessler, and Heather Brewer being Very Astute Panelists. Look at the concentration on their faces!
This picture is for everybody at the League of Reluctant Adults, but especially for Jaye Wells. She’s the one who feeds and waters the chupacabre, after all:
And speaking of Ms. Jaye Wells, I have a challenge for her! For those of you that follow Jaye on Twitter, you’ve seen her wearing THE GUN BRA. Well, MOVE OVER GUN BRA. Make way for . . .
THE ROCKET BRA!
This young lady’s bra would kick the gun bra’s ass. And she’d kick my ass, most probably. She looks scrappy!
But I, too, have my moments. Check out these eyelashes!
They were very, very heavy. And it was like wearing a feather cage over my vision. But it made blinking a bizarrely sensual experience.
And, finally, here was my brush with celebrity. Spike, from Buffy. Or, as he will forever be engrained in my fantasies, the guy who makes out with Jack in Torchwood. Fuck me, that was HOT. *purrs*
Yes, it’s James Marsters. He was very short, in real life. And really, really tan. I don’t mean really tan for a vampire, I mean really tan for anybody. Ever. Tan. Tan. Tan.
*picturing him making out with Jack till it all gets better* Mmmm. Torchwood.
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