Here’s the all-new cover for the paperback edition of The Sword-Edged Blonde, due out in June 2009 from Tor prior to the hardcover release of the second Eddie LaCrosse novel, Burn Me Deadly. (Click on the image for a bigger view.) The artist is JS Rossbach. So what do you all think?
Guest blogging on vampires at Lori Devoti’s "Life on the Bubble"
Today I’m guest blogger at Lori Devoti’s Life on the Bubble, in honor of the release of her latest, Holiday with a Vampire II. Learn a bit about my take on the natures of vampires in my novel Blood Groove.
And another good cause…
Press release from the Kinkaid Foundation, San Francisco: “On November 14th, beloved member of the Bay Area music community Michelle McFee underwent radical cancer surgery in San Francisco. From her early days as a Pegasus poet through her years working with the New Riders of the Purple Sage and into today, Michelle has been a constant in Bay Area music … Read More
For a good cause…
Patrick Rothfuss, author of The Name of the Wind, is doing a fundraiser for the Heifer Project, an effort to provide people in third-world countries with both livestock and the training to care for them as a renewable resource. Lots of authors have contributed various things for auction, including me: I donated this premiere issue of Spectra Pulse magazine signed … Read More
Reunions, part 1
This past weekend I took the Mater Familias and the C-in-C back to Tennessee to visit his grandmother, and a bunch of my old friends. We tried a visit when the baby was six weeks old, but in the time (10 hours) it took us to drive there, Mom got sick with something contagious, so we essentially had time to … Read More
The Future Comes to Gibson, TN
Thanks to my brother-in-law Jim, who was able to find a stray wireless connection somewhere in my tiny (or as they say there, “tee-niny”) home town, my elderly computer-averse mom was finally able to see my website. Props to my sister Jo Carol for forwarding me the picture!
I’m interviewed by the author of Vampire Cabbie
Fred Schepartz, author of Vampire Cabbie, interviewed me at his blog. I’ll return the favor and post an interview with Fred next week. And don’t forget, Fred and I will be reading from our vampire books at Barnes and Noble East in Madison, WI on October 27th at 7 p.m. I’ll be giving away an advance copy of my novel … Read More
Reading Saturday, October 11 in Oregon, WI
I’ll be appearing on Saturday, October 11 at the Lemery House in Oregon, WI, as part of the Oregon Arts Festival. My reading is at 1 p.m., and I’ll be doing selections from The Sword-Edged Blonde as well as previewing my vampire novel Blood Groove in honor of Halloween. It’s a homecoming for me as well, since I did my … Read More