Category Archives: Authors & Their Books

Here, I’ll be posting about – and with luck receiving posts about and from – authors who have sold a book, or books, to publishers and know how that works and who are only too happy to share. I don’t really know the self-publishing realm, but would be interested to hear from any of you with experience, good or ill, in that arena.

End o’ Summer Giveaway: Win Your Moment of “Zenn!”

The fabulous book blogging mavens over at ItWasLovelyReadingYou are celebrating summer’s emergence in an entirely appropriate manner by giving away a free copy of what should probably be your next on-the-beach-with-feet-thrust-into-Martian-like-hot-sand read: Zenn Scarlett. And what’s more, the book may have brought a … Continue reading

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Win Zenn Scarlett PLUS “Name Your Own Star” Gift Package! $80+ Value!

Hey, how’d you like to be able to name your very own, actual, up-in-the-sky star? Plus: have your star’s totally cool new name launched into space? Plus-extra-plus: win a print or eBook copy of Zenn Scarlett?  (That would be the new … Continue reading

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Buckle up, SF and adventure-lovers… Zenn Scarlett On Sale Galaxy-Wide Now!

The blogs have been blogged, the reviews posted (see some below), the finished books shipped, the warehouses alerted, and racks of ‘puter servers and legions of postal workers everywhere are trembling in terror at the coming tsunami of bookish downloading-and-snail-mailing … Continue reading

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Let the Wild Exo-Rumpus Begin: Zenn Scarlett Blog Tour!

Thanks to a roster of extranormously awesome bloggers and my editor at Strange Chemistry Books, the curtain goes up today on the Zenn Scarlett Blog Tour.  The novel hits stores and download-buttons in about a month (May 7 in the … Continue reading

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Zenn makes some new friends…

“Utterly imaginative, Zenn Scarlett is sci-fi at its best. Fantastic world-building. Deep characters. And a story that will have you desperate for answers until the very end. I couldn’t put it down!”                 … Continue reading

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Most revealing post… ever: Zenn Scarlett Cover Art

The image for the cover of Zenn Scarlett materialized in my inbox recently. I’m seriously stoked about it. Simply… breathtaking, as in breath… taken.  A number of blogs were in on the reveal & have been dishing up some tasty … Continue reading

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Very good-to-simply-fab news for my fellow Strange Chemistry author, Gwenda Bond. Her recently published YA para-thriller Blackwood just got picked up for development by MTV via Kelsey Grammer’s production company. Couldn’ta happened to a cooler scribe. Check out the deal: MTV … Continue reading

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Cover art whiz-bang-ery uncovered here.

I know I’ve highlighted some of this in earlier posts, but now there’s more graphic goodness to tout, so I’m re-touting….  Pubbery Strange Chemistry,  carving out their niche as a leading new source of great Young Adult Science Fiction and … Continue reading

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Strange Chemistry brews up star-studded reviews for its debut books

Strange Chemistry Books, the new Young Adult imprint cloven from the titanium husk of parent Angry Robot, has a slew of recently reviewed, upcoming SF&F titles. What’s even shinier, the books have garnered a smorgasbord of fresh-off-the-skillet five star reviews from … Continue reading

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Strange Chemistry Books adds Zenn Scarlett to their seething spec fiction mix…

Was able to start my day today with the news that editor Amanda Rutter has announced the acquisition of my Zenn Scarlett young adult science fiction series by Strange Chemistry Books.  I alluded to this in an earlier post and … Continue reading

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