More books!

Picked up in electronic form:

• Fires of Nuala, by alfreda89 (Katharine Eliska Kimbriel), released at Book View Cafe. This is one of her old SF novels.
• Naked Heat, by Richard Castle (hee hee hee). This is the second of the in-universe mystery novels tying in with the Castle TV show.
• Hidden Steel, by Doranna Durgin. This is yet another of Doranna Durgin’s backlist, which she’s been releasing on her own recognizance in ebook form, and it’s a standalone suspense novel.

I don’t often pre-order things, but I’ve preordered The Aether Age: Helios because 1) it sounds awesome, 2) it’s edited by Brandon Bell, a fellow member of the Outer Alliance, and 3) its publisher, Hadley Rille, is aiming for the 5K mark on books sold. They’ll be handing out a Kindle 3G in a random drawing in January, so I figured what the hell, I’d sign up for the contest. :) So to note:

And last but oh my so very much not least, picked up in print because AWESOME:

Dreadnought, by cmpriest (Cherie Priest), the second sequel of sorts to the almighty Boneshaker. (The first was Clementine, in limited release by Subterranean Press; Dreadnought is released by Tor.)

314 for the year!

Mirrored from annathepiper.org.

Aether Age anthology and Hadley Rille 5K contest!

I just mentioned this on my personal blog, but it’s worth mentioning here: my fellow Outer Alliance member Brandon Bell is the editor of what promises to be a fun anthology, The Aether Age: Helios. You should go over and pre-order it, not only because it sounds fun, but also because its publisher, Hadley Rille Books, is having a contest to try to reach their goal of selling 5,000 books!

They’ll be giving away a Kindle 3G in January to a randomly selected entrant. You can sign up according to the instructions here, and you can get additional entries in the contest if you pre-order the aforementioned anthology or order anything else in their catalog. I just got emailed by one of their staff as well who says he’ll give me another entry for spreading the word, so I encourage interested parties to consider doing the same.

Because hey, books are shiny, and so are Kindles. Go to, folks!

Mirrored from angelakorrati.com.

Housekeeping, and a Bone Walker blurb

I got tired of looking at the same theme over and over again, and after a lot of failed attempts to find a new one I liked, I finally settled today on “2010 Weaver”, a child theme of the Twenty Ten default theme that came with WordPress 3.0. The big reason I chose this theme was to take advantage of the ability of WP 3 to do menus–and as you can see if you look at the site (or if you click through off of the LJ or DW versions of this post), I’ve got a fully functioning menu now.

Spent much of this afternoon setting that up and tweaking a bunch of the settings to get it the way I wanted it. Along with twiddling the theme, I also took the time to sweep through all the pages on the site and update them as best I could, so at this point everything should be current. Most notably, I’ve spun off separate sub-pages for both Faerie Blood and Defiance, on the assumption that if I keep selling material, more of my books will want their own sub-pages. I fleshed out each of these new pages with a bit of an excerpt as well.

And, I updated the In Progress page with a current working version of the blurb for Bone Walker! Here it is:

Two months after the rising of her faerie blood and magic, Kendis Thompson thinks she’s starting to get the hang of her altered life. Along with her boyfriend Christopher MacSimidh, she’s learning magic from Millicent, the senior Warder of Seattle. Christopher’s taking to his long-denied Warder power, and all in all, the two are happily pursuing their relationship.

But nogitsune are prowling the city, on the hunt for a fugitive child with powers of her own–and the Unseelie bard Elessir has escaped from his vengeful queen, bringing with him a curse that lashes out to endanger Kendis’ closest friend. Now she must confront these dual threats to her city and her loved ones, along with the uncomfortable truth that there’s much more to her Seelie heritage than she knows.

It’s only a working draft of a blurb, but hey, it’s an incomplete working draft of a novel, so that’s all good. Hope it piques your interest, folks!

Mirrored from angelahighland.com.