Monthly Archive for April, 2010

RT Schedule, UK Editions, and More!

So, I’ve had a ridiculously exciting week and to top it off, I get to fly out to Romantic Times tomorrow! Here’s my schedule for those also attending:

Wednesday: Find other Leaguers and snark

Thursday: Between snarking, attend Club RT at 11:00 AM

Friday: Much Snark, culminating in dinner with my Editrix, then a huge get together with all the Orbit writers attending RT.

Saturday: MONDO SIGNING from 11:00-2:00. I will sign anything, including babies. Especially if you bring me Guinness. In exchange, I will give you sweet, sweet, snark and . . . better yet . .  . check out THESE babies:

VAMPIRE HEART TATTOOS! I know you want one! So come and get ‘em!

In other, very exciting, news, Orbit UK has just picked up all three Jane True books! It was very important for me that they be released in the UK, as I wrote the first book in Edinburgh. So I am absolutely chuffed to bits. Here’s the link to Amazon.co.uk, with all the release dates! Tempest Rising and Tracking the Tempest will both be released in the UK on August 5th, 2010, and it looks like Tempest’s Legacy will only be a few days later than its US release, at January 6, 2011.

In looking these things up, I also spy on amazon.co.uk my German title! Tempest Rising becomes Nachtstürme: Roman in German. I think that sounds AWESOME. Like a death metal band wearing a toga.

Needless to say, I can’t wait to see all the European covers. Sooooo exciting.

Finally, I had a fantastic time in Houston with Gail Carriger and Jaye Wells. You can read all about it on Orbit’s site. Everyone who came out was awesome, the staff at Murder By the Book were absolutely stellar, and Jaye and Gail are great gals. It was wonderful to see them again and we had a really good time working together.

I’ll try to update from RT, and take lots of pictures, and try not to get too greasy on any baby oil slathered cover models. Gross! And yet bizarrely titillating! From what I hear they’re like slip and slides. Only bumpier.

Y’all go ahead and think on that. ;-)

Published on April 27, 2010 in Conventions, My Travels, Over at Orbit Books . . ., Signings, Tempest Rising, Tempest's Legacy and Tracking the Tempest. 15 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

Things I Like: A Moaning Boy

One thing I really like is when the cover of Tempest Rising wins awards! And Sharon and Lauren’s team at Orbit just pulled in another huge one. Lauren blogs about it, here.

As for other Things I Like, I gotta say, I like a moaning man. Keep your mind out of the gutters, people. I mean their SINGING, of course!

Here are two of my favorite moaning boy bands . . . The first is a “new” discovery for me, and I have to thank my fabulous roommate and Alpha Reader Dr. James Clawson, for giving my ears a listen to Beirut. Listen to the moans, groans, and sighs coming out of this guy . . .

See what I mean by moaners? But such lovely-jubbly moans, they make the hair on my forearms stand to attention. And here they are again, sporting not only a tiny mandolin but an AMAZING mustache.

The second band is an old fave of mine. They’re big in the UK, although less well known in the States. They are the Guillemots, and I adore them and their moanie, moanie gorgeousness:

Love that song! But here’s my absolute favorite, not least because this video is amazing:

So there are my favorite Molly Moaners. Do you have a favorite band o’ moaners?

Published on April 21, 2010 in Nicole Peeler and Things I Like. 5 Comments Tags: , , .

Update . . .

So here I am being all secretive about our RT shenanigans, when Mark Henry has already blown our collective wads. You can see what we’re planning for RT, here.

Can you handle the Snark?

In other news, Tempest Rising won a cover clash over at Embrace the Shadows. Jane won a thorn! Yay!

Just click on the man chest to see the results. :-)

Published on April 19, 2010 in Conventions and Cover Love. 1 Comment Tags: , , , .

Where in the World is Nicole Peeler?

I’m all over the place!

For example, this weekend I’ll be doing a signing with Gail Carriger and Jaye Wells, in Houston. We Orbiteers are all VERY proud of Gail, who just made it on the NYTimes bestseller list! YAY Gail! She is fabulous, her book is fabulous, and I am so very very happy for her.

So I’m looking forward to seeing both Gail and Jaye again. But my friend, ML the Economist, and I are also making Houston into a Weekend du Girlie Thangs. We’re staying from Friday to Sunday at a posh hotel and shopping, shopping, shopping. After all, I need new clothes . . .

For Romantic Times! Yes, that following weekend, I will be wandering around the RT Convention, probably smirking at cover models and dodging my fellow Leaguer’s attempts to haze me. I was too late and unorganized (this is my first RT, I had no idea what I was doing) to get on any panels, BUT I do have some things scheduled. I’m definitely doing Club RT, Thursday at 11:00AM, with an absolute shit ton of other members of the League.*  I’ll also be doing the “Giant Book Fair” (I’m not sure if that means the books are giant, giants are involved, or if it’s merely a large signing) on Saturday from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm. Realistically five people will know who I am, so please please please come see me and put me out of my misery. Bring me a Guinness or a cookie. Better yet, bring both.

At RT, we at the League have some AWESOME shenanigans planned for our fans, so definitely stay tuned if you’re coming to RT. Let’s just say we at the League of Reluctant Adults control the gateway to fun . . . if by fun you mean a pint of snark served with a sidecar of sass and finished with a twist of naughty.

I should also hopefully have some VERY cool swag for RT. Vampire heart removable tattoo, anyone? I just ordered them, though, so I’m not sure if they”ll be delivered in time . . .

And yet, no matter what, I know the hearts will be ready by the time RomConvention rolls around! That’s in Denver, in July, and as yet I have no idea what I’m doing. Mostly because it’s creeping up to finals time and I don’t even remember who I am anymore. But I do know where to locate my red pens and my current stack o’ grading. But I can tell you that the lovely Carolyn Crane and Jeanne Stein are cooking up some trouble, and we’ll definitely be partaking in some larger, non-con ridiculousness around that time with Team Denver, so stay tuned.

At some point I’m also going to be in London, and in Brighton, and in Seattle and San Francisco . . . and I’m sure some other places. The feet are itchy, people, and the passport is new and shiny.

So if you’re in one of those places, and own a bookstore or have a book club, I’d be happy to make an appearance. I also do weddings and bar mitzvahs.

And stay tuned. I’ll be back to my more regular blogging, now that I’ve carved out a little wiggle room in my schedule. Mmmm. Wiggle room.

Ciao for now!

*A shit ton is a metric ton plus one unladen swallow.

Published on April 18, 2010 in Appearances, Coming Soon!, Conventions, My Travels, Nicole Peeler and Signings. 9 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

Bite Me, You Weiner!

First of all, sorry for the relative radio silence. We have four weeks of teaching left, and I’m traveling for the NEXT THREE WEEKENDS. To say I’m spazzing out is a bit of an understatement. On Monday night I had an anxiety dream in which I was trapped in Keynote, battling my way from slide to slide. Hi! I’m psycho! Great!

But if I’m honest, I’m awesome. Things are chugging away and there’s all sort of big beautiful things afoot. Hopefully I’ll have lots of stuff to share with you soon, but for right now I’m GRADING. I’ve already gone through two pens. That’s a lot of red ink, when you think about it.

So stay tuned, I’ll be back and I’ll be bold and I’ll be beautiful. And young and restless. And for whom the world is turning . . . or was that one canceled? I donnae ken, for my telly is nonexistent.

Not like any of you give a toss! Yer all like, “Dude, who are the two winners of these bitchin’ books by Christopher Moore!”

With no further adieu, I turn to the Contest Can . . . and I reach . . . (and I SWOOP! for those of you also doing Pilates with Dinah :-)

The weiners of a copy of BITE ME: A LOVE STORY! are:

JESSICA KENNEDY and AMBER YATES!

Congratulations, ladies! Send me your addresses to iheartselkies(aht)gmail(doody)com  and I’ll forward them to The Powers That Be!

In the meantime, I JUST received my copy of Bite Me! I’m reading the whole series (I’ve not actually read any of this trilogy, somehow, something I didn’t actually realize till being told it WAS, indeed, a trilogy), so I’ll let you know what I think when I’m done. I don’t review, per se, but I do GUSH when I love something.  Please no “she’s a gusher” jokes, you filthy, filthy buggers. Anyway, I’m already well enthralled with the first book.

On that pleasant thought, I will leave you be. For I have to go to bed and fight my way out of keynote. Seriously? Can somebody install an off switch in this brain o’ mine? Cuz it drives me crazy!

You all are the best. Smooches.

Published on April 13, 2010 in Contests and Pimpage!. 4 Comments

Christopher Moore! Christopher Moore! Christophe…*faints*

I’m a little bit in adoration of Christopher Moore, I gotta tell you. We even have a six degrees of separation thing. My beautiful friend Jana, who lives in San Francisco, lived in an apartment underneath him. When I wrote and published TR, she was like, “I think the guy who used to live above me writes those kinda books. He’s nice. Name is Christopher Moore.” Needless to say I nearly had a heart attack, and had I not been living overseas I would have been ringing her doorbell a few hours later.

So I was very excited when a member of his marketing team got in touch with me the other day. Undoubtedly drawn to my site by my repeated use of “heinous fuckery” and “fuckstockings” in my blog post praising The Fool, she offered me not only a copy of Moore’s newest book, Bite Me: A Love Story, for review, but also TWO COPIES TO GIVE AWAY.

To you, my lovely friends and fans.

Here’s the 411 on the book and on Christopher:

BITE ME: A Love Story is an inventive, hysterically funny, sophisticated comic horror novel with flamboyantly original (and endearing) characters, pitch-perfect postmodern dialogue, break-neck pacing, and utterly entertaining vignettes.  BITE ME readers have a lot to sink their teeth into.

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Follow Christopher Moore on Twitter: http://twitter.com/TheAuthorGuy

For more information about the book, please visit: http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780061779725/Bite_Me/index.aspx

Browse Inside: http://browseinside.harpercollins.com/index.aspx?isbn13=9780061779725

About Christopher Moore

Christopher Moore is the author of eleven previous novels: Practical Demonkeeping, Coyote Blue, Bloodsucking Fiends, Island of the Sequined Love Nun, The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove, Lamb, Fluke, The Stupidest Angel, A Dirty Job, You Suck, and Fool. He lives in San Francisco.

Could I be more excited to read this book? Not if it promised to make out with me. Okay, then I might be a little more excited. I do enjoy a good make out.

I’m afraid that, because they’re shipping the books directly, they have limited the contest to US residents only. So if you live in the US and want to enter, comment below on the following issue:

Who would you most like to see do a guest post or blog at my site, and what would you want them to talk about? And don’t limit yourself to what you think could possibly happen . . . The Emporium is for fantasy, after all. ;-)

The Contest Can will randomly pick two winners next TUESDAY. YAY!

Published on April 8, 2010 in Contests, Pimpage! and Things I Like. 33 Comments Tags: , , .

More Weiners!

The contest can has spoken!

The weiner of both Mage in Black and Succubus Shadows is Jacqueline C! YAY! Email me at iheartselkies(at)gmail(daht)com with your address, and I’ll have your books sent direct to you from Amazon. Thanks, everybody, for playing! Your responses were GREAT and I know both Jaye and Richelle, along with me, got a kick out of them.

Published on April 4, 2010 in Contests and Pimpage!. 8 Comments

TRACKING THE TEMPEST: Three Months and Counting.

Yes, my friends. Tracking the Tempest releases THREE MONTHS FROM NOW. Can you believe it? July 1, 2010, you can clutch Jane, once again, in your sweaty paws. Don’t worry. She likes it.

Are you excited? I’m excited. SO excited, in fact, that I had to VLOG FOR YOU. Yes, Vlog. I’m trotting out my beautiful fatch and dulcet voice just for you, people. Enjoy it.

Actually, the vlogs might drive you a bit bonkers, because my bangs (AKA my fringe, for you British readers) are taking over. Notice how they’re nicely swept to one side for the first vlog, and then commence to creep until they’re hanging directly in front of my face, making me look cross-eyed.

I have hair with a mind of its own. I’ve learned long ago not to fight it, for it always wins.

So I apologize for the fringe/bangs. I can’t do a thing with them! There’s a cowlick involved. But here you go…here are your Tracking Related Treats for April 1, 2010. There will be more treats, the first of every month, until release day! Yay!

The first vlog is a warm up to the reading, in which I attempt to introduce myself and the books but mostly just babble:

And here’s the actual reading, the second part of the first chapter of Tracking the Tempest:

And, finally, one last Tracking inspired treat: my own, personal soundtrack to Tracking the Tempest. These are the songs that inspired me, while I wrote. There’s a lot of songs about the illusions we weave regarding love and relationships. Not to give away any spoilers, or anything. ;-) Here’s your soundtrack! Fun!

Thanks for coming over, ladies and gentlemen! Hope you enjoyed the readings and don’t forget to enter the contest, from the post below, to win Richelle Mead and Jaye Wells newest releases. And see you back here next month: same selkie time, same selkie channel, for more Tracking the Tempest!

Published on April 1, 2010 in Coming Soon!, Cover Love, Nicole Peeler, Pimpage!, Tracking the Tempest and Vlogs. 21 Comments Tags: , , , , .