Women of Power is available for the nook.
The life of a superhero is tough. All American Girl fights supervillains, alien invaders, and terrorists as she tries to get product endorsements and a magazine deal. That’s nothing compared to her private life though. She’s only just broken up with her super boyfriend Perihelion when he’s scooped up by Omega Woman, and now rival Skygirl has moved into her territory.
Blood Trade is available for the nook.
Vegas is going to hell– literally. Werewolves run through the streets and the vampires are taking over. Former army ranger/Goth tattoo model/private eye Xochitl McKenna doesn’t like it either, especially when it comes between her and her clients. But are the vampires and werewolves the greatest threat, or is it something or someone much closer to her? Warning: Adult Content.
This week, The Many Adventures of Eaglethorpe Buxton is on sale as part of Smashwords’ Read an Ebook Week promotion. Through 3-9-13, it is on sale for $1.50. Be sure to use the coupon code REW50. You can find the link to the book right here.
Eaglethorpe Buxton, famed adventurer and story-teller, friend to those in need of a friend and guardian to those in need of a guardian. He is a liar and braggart, not to be trusted, especially around pies. Who are we to believe? Buxton himself leads us through The Many Adventures of Eaglethorpe Buxton. This volume includes the previously published Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Elven Princess in which our hero comes to the aid of… a poor orphan? An elven princess? And Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Sorceress. When the sorceress, subject of Eaglethorpe’s play arrives with fire in her eyes, the hapless story-teller must pretend to be his good friend Ellwood. Will he pull off this charade and survive? And what happens when the real Ellwood shows up? One can never tell, especially when Eaglethorpe tells the story. Plus thrill to three all new Eaglethorpe stories. In Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Queen of Aerithraine, our hero is back in his homeland, just in time to stop a mysterious murder, meet the Queen, solve the mystery of his best friend, and face off against a zombie apocalypse! In Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Amazons, our hero and his new friend Percival Thorndyke tramp through the horrible, stinking, insect-infested land of Ennedi in search of treasure. Eaglethorpe must deal with man-hating Amazons, jungle-dwelling goblins, vicious centaurs, the dreaded and feared frog-bear, and a companion who seems determined to get himself killed. In Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Day of the Night of the Werewolf, the famed story-teller is sent to hunt down an unusual werewolf and manages to run into practically everyone he has ever met along the way. The Many Adventures of Eaglethorpe Buxton is a farcical fantasy of heroic proportions, sure to elicit more giggles than gasps.
Senta and the Steel Dragon Book 1: The Voyage of the Minotaur is now available free as part of Smashwords’ Read an Ebook Week. This sale runs through March 9th. You can find the link to the book here. Be sure to use the coupon code REW75 at checkout.
If you’ve read The Voyage of the Minotaur but would like to pick up the rest of the series, they are on sale too.
The Dark and Forbidding Land and The Drache Girl are both on sale for $1.50 each. The Young Sorceress and The Two Dragons are on sale for $2.24 each.
Today marks the first day of Read an Ebook Week and there are literally thousands of ebook deals over at Smashwords.
Among the deals, you can pick up your own ebook version of Astrid Maxxim and her Amazing Hoverbike for Free. Be sure to use the coupon code RW100.
It’s worth noting that at Smashwords, you can download books in a variety of ebook formats, including epub, pdf, and mobi which will work on any Kindle.
Be sure and browse through the whole selection.
Yesterday was the first day I met my writing quota in a week, and I’ve written a few pages today too, so I’m feeling really good.
I’m also really glad that March is here. For some reason, I just feel like February is an evil month. I’m glad its over. I’m going to write a lot now that March is here.
Coming up right after March is… April. I bet you guessed that one already. In April, the Clark County Library District is holding its Spring Fling Book Fair. I am set to be one of 100 local authors there. I’ll have a little table with some info and a stack of Astrid Maxxim books for sale. More information will be forthcoming.
I haven’t had too much time to write, but I did manage a few pages this week. I’ve been splitting my time between Patience is a Virtue and 82 Eridani.
I’ve gotten a lot of emails this month about His Robot Girlfriend and His Robot Wife. People seem to be enjoying them and that’s great. I wish I could tell everyone exactly when I will have the new book done, but I can’t. I’m really planning to finish this summer.
I walked into school the other day and the first thing anyone said to me was “Four weeks till spring break, and ten more after that.” So, I’m not the only one counting down. I’d really like to get caught up during Spring Break, but I don’t know. At least I’ll keep plunking away. Whenever I get a page written I’ll have to give myself a little celebration.
Things really seem to be conspiring to keep me from writing. I’m spending more and more time away from school working on lessons. I definitely have more homework than the kids do. In addition, we’re working on a reenactment battle of Gettysburg, which has its 150 anniversary this year. I was out in the wind all day maneuvering the troops around– you have to give it to those Civil War soldiers. You should see my kids trying to perform a “right wheel march!” If that wasn’t enough, I’ve only got three weeks until the deadline for your yearbook. I’ve got twenty kids working on it with me, but I seem to be the only one stressing out about it. I don’t know if that’s because they’re confident or just don’t give a crap. When I got home this evening, I just passed out in my comfy chair. Anyway, I’ve got about two hours till bedtime, so I’m going to try and get a few pages done.
Speaking of casting movies from my books, I’ve always thought that if they made a Tesla’s Stepdaughters movie, they should cast some real rock stars as The Ladybugs.
I think that Lykke Li would probably make a good Ep!phanee. First, she has a slightly pixy-ish quality that works with that character. Second, she is Swedish, and Ep!phanee is a Swedish-American and retains a not-quite-American accent. Finally, Ep!phanee is described as having an unusual slightly annoying speaking voice (although she has a huge vocal range when singing). I always thought of Bjork’s voice when I was writing Ep!phanee. If you listen to Lykke Li’s song “Let if Fall” (which I really like) you can get a sense of an unusual voice. Also that song is a little unusual– not quite mainstream– which is just the kind of thing that Ep!phanee did in her solo albums.
We’ve talked about casting actors to play the characters in my books before. I’ve had all kinds of suggestions for who could play Patience, but I saw Emmy Rossum in the preview for Beautiful Creatures and knew immediately that she would be my new choice. She looks like how I imagine Patience, and that is because she looks quite a bit like the young lady that I used as a model when I was writing His Robot Girlfriend. When I think about Patience, I see the tall forehead, the big eyes, and the wide mouth. That doesn’t sound all that attractive when I say it like that, but you can see that they all go together to make an altogether beautiful woman. Imagine my surprise when after looking up her name on IMDB, I found out that she is also a singer and I had a couple of her songs in my “Current Faves” playlist the whole time.
City of Amathar 