I've updated my web page to include the art for DEAD sexy, the back cover blurb, and most importantly a link to an excerpt of the first chapter of the newest Garnet Lacey book!
Enjoy!
author of Garnet Lacey (paranomal romance) and the Vampire Princess of Saint Paul (young adult)
I've updated my web page to include the art for DEAD sexy, the back cover blurb, and most importantly a link to an excerpt of the first chapter of the newest Garnet Lacey book!
Enjoy!
My trip to Oshkosh was, as I predicted, not terribly profitable. However, it was _very_ entertaining. First of all, I got to meet my host family’s friends and I had that instant feeling of being among "my people." These are gaming, science fiction, fantasy, TV and movie fans – geeks, even. Ah....
Even though I sold exact zero copies of _Tall, Dark & Dead_ at Apple Blossom Books, despite all the promotion that Candy, the owner, did for me, I ended up buying several books about subjects that I think will make their way into the novel I’m currently working on (tentatively called) _Bloody Smashing_, book three of the Garnet Lacey series.
For instance, did you know that Wisconsin has its very own werewolf?? Well, according to Linda S. Godfrey who wrote _The Beast of Bray Road: Tailing Wisconsin’s Werewolf_, it might. The cool thing is that this is non-fiction. These are unexplainable sightings that actually happened to people in an area not terribly far from Madison -- the town where the Garnet Lacey books are set.
Plus, Candy pointed me to several other cool books, including _Weird Wisconsin_ which I plan on ordering from her soon.
What I love about this is that when I sat down to decide where I was going to set the Garnet Lacey books, I picked Madison both on purpose and somewhat randomly. Let me explain. I love Madison and I make a yearly pilgrimage to State Street and surrounding environs. It’s a very funky, cool place where I could quite easily imagine vampire and other paranormal things hanging out (and not being bothered much, since it’s such a eclectic, accepting town in many ways.) Plus, there really is an occult bookstore on State Street (Shakti Bookshop).
But, even though I grew up in Wisconsin, I’m not from Madison, so the decision was a tad random… so it’s wonderful when I discover that my home-state is, in fact, EXACTLY the kind of place where werewolves and such could live.
Anyway, if you’re interested I found out that Weird Wisconsin has a web site. And, I found Haunted Wisconsin too!
It's been a crazy year for Other Me. I just heard from Yoon Ha Lee at the The Internet Review of Science Fiction that my interview with Karin Lowachee will run in their forthcoming issue.
It's a good interview, in my HUMBLE opinion. It was an interview I did because her book CageBird, which I read as part of the Philip K. Dick award committee work, got under my skin. I thought it was an excellent, but difficult book, and I really wanted to know authorial intent. Karin's answers surprised me, and hopefully, they will you too.
Horray!