A Spring Windfall of Good News...
A most gratifying spate of good news. First The Soul Mirror is a finalist for the Colorado Book Award in the popular fiction category. The winner will be announced in June at the Aspen Summer Words Literary Festival.
Next, I've been named a finalist for the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers' Writer of the Year award. Always very nice, though with the other finalists being hot urban fantasy writer, Jeanne C. Stein, and legendary, best selling Kay Bergstrom (known to romance readers as Cassie Miles), it's a longshot. It doesn't help that both are my good friends.
And last, but by no means least: Roc has picked up my new project, The Sanctuary Duet. This is a new series, first volume tentatively titled Dust and Light to be released in 2014. More about this coming soon. Suffice it to say, I am excited to return to one of my favorite worlds, with an entirely new story (not a sequel).
Revival
The new edition of Song of the Beast is on the loose. I am so pleased that Roc has re-released Song with this gorgeous new cover in a trade paper (large format) edition. If you don't see it on your bookstore shelves, ask. One of my readers found it boxed in the back of the store. On it's initial release, Song sort of got squeezed in between the massive Books of the Rai-kirah and the even more massive Bridge of D'Arnath series. It is a simpler story than either, but shines, I believe, in its own right. It was also my first Colorado Book Award finalist - and winner. And no, I haven't forgotten my promise to publish The Heart's Coda, the follow-up novelette. Stay tuned...
Giveaways:
I gave away three copies of the new Song of the Beast and an Advance Reader Copy (ARC) of The Daemon Prism on Goodreads. More than 2000 entries for the contests. Very nice! There will be more Goodreads giveaways coming soon!
The winner of the Daemon PRism ArC giveaway was Joy from Mesa, Arizona. Joy says: I live in the desert of the Southwest and enjoy reading all kinds of books. I taught school and love to cook. I have an active Jack Russell terrier named Willie. My family keeps asking me "Aren't you going to do something other than reading?" to which I say "No!" Which makes authors like me very happy. Thanks, Joy!
Win a book of your choice! Send me your email entries with "Drawing" in the subject line. Anf if you're on Goodreads, watch for another giveaway!
Twenty-five First Chapters from Twenty-five Writers
I'm on a number of professional fantasy/science fiction author discussion forums, but one of the coolest is sfnovelists. We now have an e-sampler of our work. Presenting:
SF Novelists proudly offers you OPENING ACTS, a free ebook presenting twenty-five first chapters across the spectrum of science fiction and fantasy. Twenty-five tastes, to tempt your appetite for adventure...to lure you into unknown worlds...and give you something new to read.
To see a list of authors and sampled works, see my blog post.
Kindle Readers Alert - fixed! Several readers have reported that three letter excerpts in The Soul Mirror could not be resized on the Kindle. Thanks to their heads-up, my publisher has fixed the problem. If you have one of the broken versions, you should be able to get a new one from your e-tailer. DO let me know if you see the fix! Until then I've still got the actual text of the three letters linked to the Collegia Magica page.
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