Last of the 3 a.m. hour and good news for book bloggers
The weekend was action packed, as weekends often manage to be. If my weekend were a film, it would star Steven Segal and feature an improbable scene wherein Segal is roundhouse kicked by a midget Russian gangster named Oleg.
Friday evening was a kitchen warming party to christen my new space. Team Seattle were in attendance, along with Psynde, Ellen and various spousal units. I got everyone good and liquored up, and then challeneged them to eat slippery finger foods. Mark also insisted on looking at the dead people in my forensics reference books. It is not a party until someone brings out the crime scene photos.
Saturday, I helped Cherie and Aric move into their new apartment, which is elegant and lovely, and almost worth hauling a forty-pound box of frozen food up three flights of stairs to see. I was bribed with pizza and diet coke (so much diet coke!), and really, once there’s diet soda in me, Cherie could have harnessed me to a small cart and I would have trotted back and forth between new apartment and old happily, for hours.
Sunday, I worked on line edits for my novella Down in the Ground Where the Dead Men Go, including a brand-new rewrite of the sex scene within. I don’t have a lot of sex scenes in my longer work…in fact, the only explicit scene is in Night Life, my first novel. Getting all out up front, I guess. Sex and violence don’t usuallycrop up in great amounts in my novels unless they’re plot-necessary (though violence happens a lot more often than sex, proof that my heroines have stressful and problematic fictional lives and are most likely plotting to take over and write themselves into Jamaican vacations.) At any rate, my CP helped me out with The Dread Scene, and now it is, dare I say, quite good.
Sunday evening, I accompanied Mark and Caroline to a showing of My Bloody Valentine 3D. What can you say to a film about Dean Winchester fighting a cannibalistic coal miner bent on revenge? In 3D? Quite honestly, words failed me. (Except when I hollered “He’s gonna get you, Ackles!” during one of the “scary” moments.)(Yes, I’m one of THOSE people. But only at horror movies.)(I would not, for example, walk into Revolutionary Road and screech “Ennui is overtaking you, Kate!” It’s just not the same.)
Most importantly, Sunday marked the last of my long 3 a.m. sojurns to have this project or that finished in time. The line edits are my last urgent and immediate project…Shades of Gray has 14 more chapters owed, but I have time enough that 10-hour days ending in the wee hours won’t be visiting me until the next deadline crunch. 10 hour days have their place, and I can maintain them for a certain period, until the telltale signs of insanity start to set in–forgetting to feed cats, forgetting to feed self, a flexible definition of “pants”, downloading Fall Out Boy from iTunes… (Okay, it wasn’t FOB. It was Modest Mouse. But STILL, people. STILL.)
But today, I have bid farewell to 3 a.m. It is for sleeping, or for drinking and walking up and down steep Seattle streets in heels looking for a restaurant that will make me an omelette, but it is not for writing. Not until next time.
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Here’s some excellent news for book bloggers and authors who blog:
St. Martin’s Press, who publishes both of my adult series at the moment, is offering a sneak peek of Street Magic, Book 1 of the Black London series, to the blogging community as a way to say thank you for their continued support of my work.
All I ask in return is a little bit of blogging action about the novel.
Here’s the flap copy:
Her name is Pete Caldecott. She was just sixteen when she met Jack Winter, a gorgeous, larger-than-life mage who thrilled her with his witchcraft. Then a spirit Jack summoned killed him before Pete’s eyes–or so she thought. Now a detective, Pete is investigating the kidnapping of a young girl from the streets of London…a case that brings her face to face with Jack.
Strung out on heroin, Jack is a shadow of his former self. But he’s able to tell Pete exactly where Bridget’s kidnappers are hiding: in the supernatural shadow-world of the fae. Pete follows Jack into the fae underworld, where she hopes to discover the truth about what happened to Bridget..and what happened to Jack on that dark day so long ago…
If you’re a book blogger or a commercially published author who blogs, and you’re interested in reading an electronic, advance galley of Street Magic (ARC’s won’t be printed for another couple of months), please leave a comment with a link to your blog and an email address where the galley can be sent. I’m very happy that St. Martin’s gave me this opportunity and this book is one I’m thrilled about, so help spreading the word will be regarded kindly.
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Lastly, since I was too slackery to put this picture in email in time for Warren’s Blue Monday Message thread, here it is:
Please ignore the slightly deranged expression on my face and focus instead on the cheerful message!
OBEY.
Or, you know, don’t.
Time for me to go poke the angsty superheroes.
Hi Caitlin, I’d love to read STREET MAGIC and blog about it.
my email: toni.lotempio@itt.com
my blog: http://tonisplace.blogspot.com/
YAY on the finished Dread Scene. Truthfully the fact you don’t do gratuitous sex and violence is one of the reasons I has the lurve for your books.
Speaking of the love I blog at http://realitybypass.blog.com and we do feature book Wednesdays and would be thrilled to get a galley of Street Magic. realitybypass(at) gmail (dot) com
Much thanks.
Jana
Hi Caitlin, I would love to review Street Magic over on my http://www.scifiguy.ca review blog. Lots of urban fantasy and paranormal goodness going on.
Email – scifiguy(at)scifiguy.ca
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Allo, Ms. Kittredge!
I blog, read, and blog about what I read —
Might that count? ^_^
Hi!
Here via Cherie Priest’s blog. I am a blogger and am known amongst my readers for books recs. I think I only have one review unprotected at the moment, but can share more if required (there must be 20 or so in there somewhere). If I’m so lucky as to review yours I will certainly post it publicly!
I’d love to review Street Magic. Here is my blog and email
blog- http://annavivian.blogspot.com/
email- annasbookblog@gmail.com
Hi! I’m interested in checking out your new book. Sounds spiffy!
Looking for a review or a blurb – I’m happy to give one.
Hi Caitlin!
I would love to read Street Magic! I would also love to invite you back to my blog to give it some hype!
http://www.amberkatze-amberkatze.blogspot.com
Here via Cherie Priest’s LJ. My sister and I both post reviews at Imperfect Letter, as well as in our LibraryThing libraries. I’d like to review your book, and I can send it to my sister if she’s interested, too.
Hi, i’d love to review the new book for Un:Bound.
http://www.unboundblogzine.com or http://hagelrat.blogspot.com/
and my email is hagelrat@googlemail.com
Loved the first two Luna Wilder books and can’t wait to see what comes next.
Thanks
Adele
Hello, I would love to review Street Magic on my blog!
My email: awamiba@gmail.com
My blog: http://www.tigersquirrels.net
Thanks!
I’d love a copy of street magic. I’ve been eyeing it for a while.
astres.livejournal.com
larkingk at shaw dot ca
Hi Caitlin. I’d be happy to review Street Magic, either on my blog (which posts to my site and to http://alanajoli.livejournal.com, as well as a bunch of other syndicated spots) or on FlamesRising.com, where I am a reviewer. Thanks for the opportunity! alanajoli at virgilandbeatrice dot com.
I came over here from Kat Richardson’s blog.
I’d be interested in reviewing an eARC of Street Magic.
http://reneesbookaddiction.wordpress.com
Hey Caitlin, would love an eARC of STREET MAGIC and will pimp da book in all possible venues.
http://blog.michelebardsley.net
I arrived here from Cherie Priest’s blog. I’d like to read Street Magic, and I’ll trade you a review
secret-hideout[dot]blogspot[dot]com
dknippling[at]gmail[dot]com
Sounds interesting. I have a book blog called Booklorn. I’ve read all of Karen Marie Moning and one of Marjorie M. Liu (which I noticed in your widget), but I haven’t come across yours before. I’m interested in checking out your book and reviewing it.
Caitlin,
I see I should have responded here. I do reviews for the Bitten by Books site and would love an e-galley of Street Magic.
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I would love an ARC please. I haven’t gotten an ARC and it would be interesting to see what else you have come up with.
Fondly,
ToRi
i’d LOVE to read Street Magic and blog about it @ ohkamikaze. i’ve been excited about it for ages, it seems <3
I just found out about this offer. If it is still available I would love to read and blog about Street Magic.
blog site is Patricia’s Vampire Notes
email: paltner@verizon.net
Thanks
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