I Have a Contest and Go To Deadwood

My intrepid assistant, Tracy, suggested I get off my lazy ass and have a contest. Since I regard her with a mixture of awe and terror--kind of like a pair of Ferragamos marked 30% off--I agreed.

So! We're having a "what is your favorite MJD character?" contest. There will be three winners and each will receive a $25 B&N gift card (not, I repeat, NOT a Borders card...see my previous Borders rant from last fall), an autographed book, and a t-shirt (they came out great, especially the ones where the entire front of the shirt is the cover from SLEEPING WITH THE FISHES).

The contest starts now, and ends two weeks from today, on October 14, midnight CT. We'll draw winners shortly after.

E-mail ONE entry per person to contactmjd@comcast.net. I look forward to being regaled. ;-)

Also: I'm off tomorrow a.m. to Deadwood, South Dakota, for the WOMEN BEHAVING BADLY fund raiser for the Readiatrics book drive.

Details can be found here:

http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2009/09/22/news/local/doc4ab97b54329bd667847917.txt

While in town, I'll be speaking at the South Dakota Festival of Books. Details can be found here:

http://www.sdhumanities.org/event_detail.php?sel_id=43

Women behaving badly raising money so kids can get books...doncha love it?

I Get A Date

To answer questions posed over the last couple of weeks, I did get a publication date for ME, MYSELF, AND WHY. The good news is, I'll have lots of time to gear up the PR machine. The bad news is, it won't be out for a year. Yup. September 2010. Hey, I just work here.

Truthfully, I'm pretty pleased. It was going to be February 2010 or September, and five months is NO time, in book publishing, to set up reviews, ads, tours, etc. Sorry, my doves, but that's the way the ball bounces. Or something.

But seriously...you know what they say about anticipation? No, really. I'm asking. It's not rhetorical. I have absolutely no idea, since my motto has always been "instant gratification takes too long".

I'm Travelin', Pretty Soon

So, I've got a few events coming up in the next six weeks. I'll be at the reader's conference in Deadwood, South Dakota, in early October, gabbing about romance and vamps and, oh, possibly psychotic FBI agents. And on Halloween, I'm having an event at a local bookstore...come for signed books and angst! And possibly cookies. UNDEAD AND UNFINISHED is coming along nicely, and I'm outlining the second book in my FBI agent with multiple personality trilogy, called ENEMY MINE.

Check my website for all sorts of info on upcoming events and books...the site will be getting a major update and overhaul in the next week or so.

Later, gators. :-)

I Get (more) Copy

I think I've confessed...I suck at flap copy. Fortunately, my publishers do not. Behold, the flap copy for my upcoming hardcover release, the first in my new series, ME MYSELF AND WHY.

"Sweet and innocent with a twist of girl-next-door, Cadence Jones is not your typical girl and certainly not your typical FBI agent. Just ask her sisters, Shiro and Adrienne. (Wait. . .best if you don’t ask Adrienne anything.) But it’s her special “talent” which makes Cadence so valuable to the FBI and it never comes in more handy than when she and her partner, George, get tagged to bring down the Threefer Killer. A serial who inexplicably likes to kill in threes, leave behind inexplicable newspaper clippings, and not one shred of decent forensic evidence, soon starts leaving messages that seem to be just for Cadence and her sisters. Could it be that this killer knows all about her special “talent”? That she, Shiro and Adrienne are in fact three separate personalities in one body? And if he does know, what does the killer who likes to kill in threes want with her and her sisters? In the meantime, love blooms in the most unexpected place with Cadence meets her best friend’s gorgeous brother who is in town visiting—and discovers that he knows her secret too! And when attraction burns hot between them she is shocked to learn that he wants to date her—all three of her. Her best friend isn’t thrilled with the romantic development and this time Cadence just might agree!

Suddenly Cadence finds her unbalanced life turned even more upside down as she tries to date a baker who wants to get in her heart and in her bed, dodge a psychiatrist who wants to integrate her and her sisters, keep a leash on her sociopath partner, while trying to catch a serial killer who’s now fixated on her.

Some days it’s not even worth getting up in the morning. . ."

Me again. And I must say, even though I wrote the book, I would buy that book (and never mind that I know the ending). The lesson for today: people who come up with flap copy? Just super cool. :-)