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Donner, the town she was in now, was actually located in the same spot as Thunder Bay in this dimension. In fact, she had learned from Hillard that Donner was the word for thunder in German. Before Hillard had transformed her into a vampire, Sarah had spent almost a week of confusion trying to wrap her mind around the fact that she and her sister had passed through some sort of trans-dimensional gateway in the form of a paranormally thick fog. She was still reeling from the realization that she would never be able to return to her own world. Having her body changed in such a drastic way didn’t make things any easier.

Do you think you’d be able to accept being transported to another world easily, or would you struggle? What could convince you?

 

 

I’ve always loved , even when it wasn’t popular. His acting always showed amazing humanity–usually a decent man, hovering on the edge of madness. Well, except for in The Beaver, in that one he was just nuts. Edge of Darkness is a movie about a man who loses his daughter and will stop at nothing to find out who and why. It’s never as straightforward as you think and it’s a very compelling and believable story.

I loved this movie. I watch a lot of Netflix, but I rarely feel compelled to write a review. There was one point where I didn’t understand what one character was doing, his motives, but it was explained in a believable way.

I don’t want to write too much here for fear of spoiling it, but I do recommend watching it. Don’t watch it around small children because there’s a lot of violence and blood (I had to watch in two chunks because the boy was far too interested in seeing what mom was watching on her phone.)

I should note, right after I finished watching Edge of Darkness, I turned to Braveheart, partly because Outlander is calling to me and partly because I needed more Mel fix.

Sometimes you get a chance to meet that one author whose books helped to form your image of what you would write. Mine was two–Anne Rice and Christopher Pike. I got to meet Anne Rice in November 2014 and it was awesome (and awkward)!

I was a publisher back then, and our latest release Smoke, Bacon and Booze (a cookbook) was being featured at the INSPIRE! Toronto International Book Fair. It was a big deal (especially since we’d only been in business for a year and a half). Looking over the schedule of events, I saw that Anne Rice would be signing books on the Saturday and boy, was I ready to stand in line for that!

However, I was standing at my book on Friday evening when a friend walked up and said, “Hey, did you know that Anne Rice is signing books right now?”

My head shot up!

“NOW? Oh my God! Watch the booth!” I yelled at my chef author, Derek Lankinen and I grabbed my purse and went dashing down the aisle, fangirling out and most likely looking like an absolute crazy person.

I dashed to the Indigo Books’ booth and asked where Anne Rice was. Her Saturday signing was with them, so I assumed that’s where I had to go. I was panicking, thinking that maybe I’d missed her. Warily, they told me she was over in the Random House booth and I frantically repeated “Thank you thank you thank you,” as I dashed away.

When I arrived, there wasn’t much of a lineup–two people–and I frantically started looking for her new book, “Prince Lestat” to buy. I keep using the word frantic and it’s really, quite accurately descriptive. I think I even fell down at one point. Yeah, that happened.

Finally, with book in hand, I think I was the last person to get my book signed. I knelt down beside her and told her that, while I was a publisher now, I’d started out as an author, and her Vampire Chronicles had shaped my idea of vampires along with Christopher Pike’s books. She murmured something about not having read his and I found myself wandering numbly back to my booth, my precious book clutched to my chest.

I collect signed books. I probably have more than 30 now and that one is one of my most prized possessions, along with my signed copy of Diana Gabaldon’s “Written in my Own Heart’s Blood”, Kathy Reichs’ “Bones Never Lie” and George Takei’s “OH MY!”

Maybe next time, I’ll tell you how I met Kathy Reichs at the same conference and we had a short discussion about David Boreanaz (Oh my indeed!)

Have you ever had the chance to meet one of your favourite authors? Who would you meet if you could?

From The Book Designer:

e-Book Cover Design Awards, December 2015

Welcome to the e-Book Cover Design Awards. This edition is for submissions during December, 2015.

This month we received:

85 covers in the Fiction category 21 covers in the Nonfiction category

 

Normally I put more in here, but go read through his article!

 

 

Christine shook her head and took a deep breath of the cool night air as they passed through the central area of the town. It wasn’t exactly in the center, but all of the important services and trades people had located their shops here, within easy distance to the castle. She and Hillard passed right through, without a thought, because their destination tonight was the only building that had enough capacity to contain a meeting of the size they hoped to have tonight – the schoolhouse.

Why do you think they’re having a town meeting? 

 

 

 

 

Most of the German I learned while living in Germany consisted of medical terminology.
My kids are 13 years apart, which is good for babysitting, but VERY bad when your daughter is sixteen at the same time your son is three. (That’s a very special kind of hell.)
I had the same birthday as my father and my husband’s birthday is the day before mine.
When I first met my husband I thought he was a girl. (We met online. He looks nothing like a girl.)
I wrote Thunder and Blood during my very first Nanowrimo and I haven’t been able to finish one since (Nanowrimo, not book).

COMPLETE!

At least the first draft is. I’m leaving it alone now for a week and then starting on the crazy editing trail. I’m going to spend a week on it going strong, and then I’m sending it off to my editor. There’s a bit of a rush here because I’ve taken so long to write it (I need me a time machine!), but I have faith it will be done. Whether my readers will like the outcome–well that’s another matter. I hope so though.

It’s longer than Thunder and Blood, and I think I’ve done a better job of pacing, but we’ll see. It’ll be off to the editor at the end of next week. **Deep Breaths**

In other news, I know that Thunder and Blood isn’t fresh in anyone’s mind right now and lots of people haven’t read it yet. To rectify that, I’ll be having two periods of free days on Amazon before the launch of Madness and Blood and it will also be available on Wattpad, with two chapters posted every week.

If you read and reviewed Thunder and Blood when it first came out, I may have a free ARC of Madness and Blood for you in a few months. Interested?  Comment below.

If you want to grab a kindle version right now, the link is http://www.amazon.com/Thunder-Blood-S....

Till next week!