June Jubilee ~ All Day Today at the Coffee Time Romance Forum

I'll be in and out of the Coffee Time Romance forums chatting about hobbies, books and goodies. Come join us on the main party/chat thread here. I've also set up a game thread for word association, book style, in case you want to take a load off and hop on the train.

Hope to see ya there!

Bloodgate Guardian by Joely Sue Burkhart ~ A Recommended Read!

5/5 - Deep in the caves of Guatemala, a secret ancient ritual takes place opening up a gateway to the Mayan underworld. Months later, Dr. Jaid Merritt receives the video feed only to find out her father was the man leading the ritual. Despite her fear of going on dig sites, Jaid must decide whether to face her fears and find her father at the Mayan temple, or risk losing him forever. 


Full review after the jump!

Reason No. 2,065 For Why I Love Teleread

Teleread, one of the best blogs on digital books and publishing, had a post today as an open letter to Scott Turow, the incoming president of the Author's Guild. Many industry watchers are still talking about the BEA CEO panel where Turow talked with other industry professionals (check out the previous links at this post including a url to C-Span's coverage of the panel).

Considering the continuing rise of ebooks, worry is still in the air over the rush to claim piracy as a reason as to why ebooks are doomed. The open letter addresses and debunks this among many other issues and raises some great points. It'd be great if Turow responds or at least takes the suggestions to serious consideration.

You can check out the full letter with links here.

Freebie Book Links

Suvudu has updated their free library with His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik, the first book in her Temeraire series. The sixth book in the series, Tongues of Serpents, is due for release July 13!

Harlequin is offering some free ebooks, one of which I'm beyond excited about.

Julie Kagawa's novella Winter Passage is now available for free download. This takes place between The Iron King & The Iron Daughter in her Iron Fey series, both of which have been reviewed (and very much enjoyed) here. Be sure to grab yourself a copy before July 31st!

Harlequin is also offering Robyn Carr's Sheltering Hearts as apart of their Special Release Program.

Kindle's new separation of Paid and Freebie best sellers is now in effect so you can check out the list of Kindle freebies and the paid releases now at this page.

Tomorrow is release day for Carina Press, Harlequin's ebook division. They have a great lineup of book. A few of which I'll be reviewing courtesy of NetGalley. Check out the available excerpts here at the CP website!

Have a great rest of the weekend!

My Off the Shelf Appearance is live! (And some SL bookie links)

My Off the Shelf interview is now live on the web for direct download or live feed from the Radio Riel website. Thanks so much to everyone who tuned in for the live feed! I had such a great time chatting with Kghia and Simeon!

During the interview, I mentioned a lot about the writing community in SL. Here are some great links to the communities and book related places in the virtual world.

~ Writer and Reader Communities ~

Bookstacks - A place for bookish people to meet other bookish people and get together and do bookish things. Sends out a weekly events notices showcasing book happenings and readings all around the SL grid.


The Written Word - An area in SL dedicated to writers. Home of the Writer's Circle, the Meet An Author interview show and my weekend novel writing group. Also in connection with the London School of Journalism which now has it's own sim!.

Virtual Writers - The essential web resource for the virtual writer, both professionals and beginning. Hosts morning writer's meets/dashes, readings, and book discussions. Also has a spotlight link on various online literary mags.


Story Mountain Center for Writers - A place for writers! Serious fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction classes taught by professionals; critique & support groups; writers' hangout & coffee shop (Hemingway Cafe)

~ SL Blogs ~

Writers in the (Virtual) Sky - Reporting on opportunities & resources for writers in Second Life & other virtual worlds

Two Three Six Five - Three hundred and sixty-five glimpses into two worlds.

I'm appearing on Off the Shelf Podcast Today! 1p.m. PST

Bookstacks has invited me to chat on their show Off the Shelf which will be shot in Second Life and broadcasted at Radio Riel at 1 p.m. Pac time. I'm so excited because they've had some wonderful authors on their show including Adele Ward, Vicki Petterson, Steve Miller and Sharon Lee, Melissa Mayhue, Tobias Buckell and tons of other great folks.

Come on down and check out the show where I'll be sharing some info on my works, writing process and a little addiction I had to role playing in sci-fi realms. ;-)

The show will take place on Bookstack's Awen sim located here.

If you can't make it in-world, don't forget to drop by Radio Riel for the feed there.

Hope you enjoy the show!!

Linkie June Fun ~ Bring on the Summer!

I have no idea where May just went but here we are in June and, boy, are there some goodies floating out online.

First off, the newsletter will be going out this week. This month I'm having another book contest so be sure to join the newsletter (if you haven't already) to get in on the entry fun.

This month, I'll be over at the Coffee Time Romance forums for June Jubilee! Woo hoo!
Join me and tons of other authors as we chat about our fave hobbies in the special interests forum.

Now for some very informative links found around the web after the jump: