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received a rejection letter, read this.
Oh, and I forgot to mention yesterday that I have added links to all the Nocturne books currently available for preorder. Check out the “Wish List” in my sidebar, even if it is just to see the covers. :)
Lori
I was lucky enough to get some gift money and took myself to the book store. Here’s what I bought:
So, that was it. I looked for The Sea King by Jolie Mathis who I’m going to be interviewing here in the next few days, but the store didn’t have that either. So annoying when you go all ready to buy something and it isn’t available.
Anyway, that’s it for me. What have you bought new lately?
Lori
Susan Gable has written an article about the danger of not buying new books–as in the loss of lines like Bombshell, and not being able to find the next book by that author you love because, well, she’s been dropped due to less than stellar sales. Here is the link.
This topic can cause pretty strong emotions among both readers and writers. What do you think? I have to admit to hitting both the used book store and the library, but I buy new too. I always buy my favorite authors new–others it’s hit and miss. I read a lot. If I limited myself just to books I bought, I don’t think I would buy that many more, but my reading would suffer.
So, what’s your take? I think Susan makes some really excellent points–and probably we should all take a few more risks at the new book store to insure our favorites keep writing.
Lori
Edie’s message reminded me I needed to post my other news here! I have sold to Nocturne. I am so excited. It is a dark, sexy pararnomal tenatively titled Hell Hound. It’s about…wait for it…a hell hound. (G)
Anyway, more details to come–but it is WAY different from my romantic comedies, but if you read this blog you know I love dark paranormals.
This is just so cool!
Lori
I just got back from four days at Yogi Bear’s Jellystone Campground in St. Louis–and came home to all kinds of great news. I’m waiting a bit to share some of it–but one thing I’m thrilled to pass along is that Love is All You Need was nominated for a Reviewer’s Choice Award by Cataromance. Check out the list of nominees, two of my Unleashed friends, Kristina Cook (Undressed) and Irene Peterson (Glory Days) are nominated too.
And they even did this cool graphic for the nominees. :) 
Such fun!!
Lori
Bombshell officially closed their doors. There were some great books in the line. :(
With that in mind, I have a doozy for you. I like writing synopses. There I said it.
Okay, here’s the deal. In the beginning I HATED writing them–just like many of you do. But, that’s because I did them at the wrong time. I wrote them after I finished the book. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
To have fun writing a synopsis, you have to do it first–or after only writing the first three chapters. If you do it then, it’s just like playing make-believe as a kid. You are just making up a story and telling it to someone. It’s fun–I swear. Okay, there are rough moments, but trust me these are a lot easier to get through when you just have a few pages to look back over and cut and rearrange and momentarily curse—rather than a few hundred of pure crapola that just isn’t working.
Right now I am working on a synopsis for my “mom lit meets urban fantasy.” And it is just fab–really. It started out rough and I have gone back and forth on who the killer should be at least three times. Right now I have settled on choice number two and am making the necessary adjustments to make that work. Then I will go back and revise the pages to fit all the stuff I discovered about the characters and the story while writing the synopsis.
So, don’t be afraid–relax, enjoy yourself and just let the story roll. You will be glad you did. :)
Lori
When I was in high school, I got a hold of some list “100 books every college student should read” or something like that, and I went about trying to read them all. Many of them were dull, dull, dull–And I did not succeed in reading them all. However, I do think of myself as a reader, and because of that little venture even somewhat well read.
Until today.
Today, I found this list. It is a little different in that these are books people actually ENJOYED–novel thought, eh? (excuse the pun) But here is my sad standing–off the “board’s list” I have read 7 of the books, and put question marks by another six or so, meaning I read some or all of them and can’t really remember–or maybe I didn’t and I can’t remember that either. On the “reader’s list” I fared somewhat better with 12 read and about 5 question marks.
My husband was just slightly behind me, and almost all of our books matched–with the exception of Catch-22 (his, and according to him great), The Catcher in the Rye (mine, and absolutely fabulous), Gone with the Wind (mine), and Lord of the Flies (how did he escape? I think I had to read it at least twice–pig head on a stick, who enjoyed that?). We have decided to try and read more on the list.
Here are my loves, by the way (in the list’s order not mine)…
So, how is your ranking? And what on the list did you love?
Lori
Authors, editors and agents were out in force at the conference this year…
Random books from my shelf...
