Jan 27, 2010
I was going to put an exclamation point in the title, but noticed I’ve gone a little overboard lately in my exclaiming in the headings below. So I’ll be nice and calm, although life has been one lovely exclamation point after the next lately. I recently celebrated my wedding anniversary (as my mother in law so famously declared at our January wedding, “And they don’t even have to get married!”), arcs have been mailed out to prize winners and reviewers, and I’m almost done with the novella that’s due in April. I should have plenty of time to rip apart Mistress by Midnight and put it back together again. Thanks to the fabulous Beverley Kendall and my fabulous critique partners the Vauxhall Vixens, Mistress by Mistake is getting some great buzz and review requests. Their fabulosity and generosity make me twitch to use an exclamation point, so I will!
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There’s a new News page on the menu bar above, with room for reviewers’ comments and what I’ve decided to call The Magical Mistressy Tour—my pajama-clad Internet promotion tour. I will have to polish up my wit for interviews to try to make my bespectacled library-clerk self seem mysteriously interesting. 😉 Maybe I’ll listen to some Beatles music to inspire me.
What music do you listen to for inspiration? What’s your favorite Beatles’ song? Mine is I Saw Her Standing There.
Jan 25, 2010
Congrats to ARC winners Amber E for her comment on the Vixens post and Blodeuedd for commenting at the Bradford Bunch! Mistress by Mistake is on her way! Thanks so much for all the the advice, good wishes and newsletter sign-ups. There will be more chances for free books and prizes in the months ahead.
Jan 19, 2010
In completely unexpected, exciting and exotic news, Mistress by Mistake will be published in Thailand! Translated into Thai! Foreign rights have been sold, so eventually I’ll have a book I wrote that I can’t read. 😉
And FYI, Amazon is offering Mistress by Mistake for $11.20–in English– (cover price is $14) and Tempting Eden for $10.20 (cover price is $15) on pre-orders! What a deal. They’ve even got them grouped together. Is it embarrassing to say that I ordered some even though I get author copies? Here’s my Amazon author page , basically the same as the website biography.
I love a bargain. My dad was the shopper in our family, and he always came home with strange and wondrous things. It’s amusing to think of him, a chubby, nattily-dressed guy, pawing through the women’s clothes racks at S. Klein, the discount department store not far from where I grew up. He brought home stuff for my mother and me, guessing on sizes. Most of the time his selections were pretty good. I grew up with a ton of clothes, which dismayed my husband once we were married and I took up all the closet space.
S. Klein is closed now, but there’s always T.J. Maxx. Do you like to shop? Are you a bargain shopper or are you willing to pay full price? Do you know what the Thai alphabet looks like? (I had to Google. *g*)
I’ll post the ARC winners from the Vauxhall Vixen and Bradford Bunch posts on January 25. Everyone who signed up for the newsletter and gave me their mailing address should expect something, too. 🙂
Jan 14, 2010
Yes! Beautiful red ARCs arrived for Mistress by Mistake last week! I have big plans for some of them in the coming months, but today—January 14, 2010—and Monday—January 18, 2010—all you have to do is leave a comment / sign up for my newsletter 2 get 2 chances 2 win 1! Please drop by the Vauxhall Vixens today and see some of the promo items I am amassing for world domination (snort) and tell me what else you think I should be doing. Then on Monday, go to the Bradford Bunch, where I blog once a month with other Laura Bradford authors for a second opportunity to win an advanced reader copy of MBM. After doing the page proofs, I think there are only 7 teeny tiny mistakes in Mistake, so it’s almost perfect at least as far as typos go, LOL.
Well, what are you waiting for? (Comments here have been turned off.)
Jan 8, 2010
I’m not especially tech-savvy. I mean, it was a big deal when my dad bought me an electric typewriter to replace the old Royal upright I used to bang out my college papers on (both were purchased at the Salvation Army as I recall). My grandmother viewed phones with suspicion and used an egg beater instead of an electric mixer. We’re talking Dark Ages and Luddites here–my family was also the very last on the block to get a color TV. If black and white was good enough for Fred and Ginger dancing down the stairs, it was good enough for the Lanmans sitting on the couch.
While we’ve had a PC in the Robinson household now for 20+ years, my kids had priority. But since I started to putter around writing in 2003, I’ve taught myself a thing or two. Here, without further ado, is my Not-At-All-Ready-For-Prime-Time book trailer for Mistress by Mistake. Hollywood will not come calling any time soon, but I’ll admit I had fun fooling around. Just click on the link and be patient through the buffering. Beethoven makes everything better. 😉
MBMistake
Do you pay any attention to book trailers? What have you taught yourself to do lately?
