Ok so yes, more chapters of Stephenie Meyer books have been leaked on to the net (again). Man this woman must be a publisher’s worst nightmare. The purpose of having a book deal with a publisher is so that they can make money from publishing the books, and likewise the author, I would have thought, but Ms Meyer seems to lose control of her content a trifle easily IMHO and surely must by now be being severely reprimanded by her publisher. This is an even worse disaster than the “early sale” and consequent scanning/distributing of that book she wrote to wind up the Twilight story. Yes I know the name of the book but I really can’t bear to type its name again *shudder*
Frankly when I saw the first few lines on the internet (who didnt let’s face it?) that was enough to put me off reading the blasted thing right then. At least she owns up to bad writing in this blog post:
I’d rather my fans not read this version of Midnight Sun. It was only an incomplete draft; the writing is messy and flawed and full of mistakes
Erm… ok, yes incomplete draft, that must be it. Well enjoy Twilighters, as she has made the draft available on her site (as of August 28) for all and sundry. Perhaps it will inspired would-be authors when they see what a first draft looks like from such a well known author as Stephenie Meyer. Personally I can’t be bothered reading any more of this tosh at the moment.
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Katie is giving away a free ARC (advanced reader’s copy) of forthcoming release Up In Smoke (the second silver dragon book). Contest runs from 2nd July – 2nd August 2008. How to enter: E-mail to katie@katiemacalister.com with “contest” in the subject line and include the following information:
1. Your name and e-mail address
2. A statement of which hero (mortal or immortal) from one of my books is your favorite, and why you should have exclusive dibs on him over all the other readers who probably wouldn’t kick him out of their respective beds. Your statement can be as short or long as you desire, will not be judged on either grammar or spelling, but the more inventive your reasoning is, the more likely you’ll make Katie giggle. And giggling is good.
You have until midnight 2nd August 2008. There are ten ARCs to be won and winners will be drawn by 5th August. You gotta be in it to win it as my mum says!
PS if you are not lucky enough to win a free ARC, why not order a copy for yourself using the above link. Go on, you know you want to!
Katie MacAlister, author of the Dark Ones vampire series, has a great range of free stuff available to all you fans.
Click on the link to visit her freebies page where you can find a selection of goodies including bookmarks, postcards, temporary tattoos, door hangers, fridge magnets, myspace banners and more!
If you are not familiar with her vampire books, here’s a selection below.
Interview details : Laurell K. Hamilton talks about Blood Noir, the 16th book in the best-selling Anita Blake series, and her 27th book overall.
This episode is all interview, and covers almost everything! LKH talks about books, characters, writing, getting published and a whole lot more – as well as about the latest book.
I listened to this and it was a pretty good interview. I’ve heard her say a lot worse, Interview lasts for about 33 mins. Enjoy!
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The Interview: Charlaine Harris discusses the newest in her Sookie Stackhouse series, From Dead to Worse. Charlaine tells us about creating a world that melds real people with supernatural beings and abilities so smoothly.
We also hear a little about the upcoming HBO series based on the books, “True Blood”, and the excitement about the cast and filming is high. The series will start on Sunday, September 7, starring Anna Paquin as Sookie, and in the hands of Alan Ball, we’re in for a great show.
Well we did have this available at this site – along with the world and its dog – but we were asked to remove it due to copyright reasons. I guess they were very busy policing the entire internet for that one!
We complied. Many people haven’t yet (know what I mean?)
I guess the author has enough publicity and rabid fans so we don’t really need to aid that effort now do we. Suffice it to say though that 1. The hype over “chapter one” is exactly that HYPE, you don’t learn anything apart from Bella is driving around in a bullet proof car – a little overdone I would say until people are really trying to shoot her! and 2. Well a quick search on your favourite search engine will find you another source of the preface and chapter one quick enough. My money’s on livejournal. Enjoy!
My predictions are Bella and Edward are MFEO and Jake is just getting in the way – but isn’t that the case with all romances? Something has to seem to get in the way of the happy couple getting their HEA. Bella is a selfish cow who deserves to end up alone (stop whining already). Edward isn’t really a virgin (come on! One hundred years of solitude this is not!) I’m so tired of the preachy preachy attitude/ go to hell if you have sex before marriage etc. Jacob has to (for the love of God) imprint on a nice sweet, non-whiney girl.
I’m still on Team Jacob, but Robert Pattinson is looking hotter each day! And no I don’t hate the books, I love them really, but I also get to form my own opinions.
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Chapter One of the forthcoming Anita Blake novel Blood Noir is now available for reading on the author’s website. Click here to go read it.
Unless someone pays me, I doubt I will be reading it but we like to let other people make their minds up, and who knows, someone might pay me!
A quick glance at the first page, and this caught my attention and made me laugh my ass off:
“Most of the wereanimals would go around nude if you let them. I wasn’t quite comfy with that, so he wore the shorts to save my delicate sensibilities. There were some who thought I didn’t have any of those left, but they would be wrong, and they would be jealous.”
OMG! I’m not sure what to say about this except watch at your own risk. I watched most of part one before I was sure my ears were starting to bleed.
This is Laurell K Hamilton reading the opening of Blood Noir at the October 17th Wolf Howl 2007 added to YouTube officially. The reading is in four parts so follow the links from the first video below.
Two things that struck me about this – one good, one bad.
1. When you hear her reading the book herself, you can actually hear the humour in it which I don’t think comes across in the books at all. I think they are devoid of humour or tongue-in-cheekness that seems to be present when she is reading it aloud.
2. Listening to her little girly voice reading the opening of this book which seems to be a giant sex scene, in great detail, just sounds really really wrong. Just very wrong.
Another interview brought to you from the good people at The Dragon Page podcasts. Justin Gustainis joins us to chat about his new dark fantasy novel Black Magic Woman. He tells us about Quincey Morris and Libby Chastain, and the investigation of an ancient curse on a family, and the larger scope that the story takes on as it progresses.
We talk about crafting a story of this type, and writing the types of stories he enjoys reading, some of his other story influences and more.
