Year: 2007

  • The Hot Mama contest info to post …

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    To enter the Twelve Days of Bigtime contest, you can either post this info (including the cover) OR Fiona Fine’s letter to the media. The choice is yours. 😉

    hot_mama.jpgShe can melt steel – and men’s hearts …

    By day, Fiona Fine is a successful couture designer, catering to the high society players of Bigtime, New York. By night, she’s Fiera, a superstrong superhero who can create and manipulate fire with her bare hands. Fiera, along with the other members of the heroic Fearless Five, make life miserable for the ubervillains who want to take over the city.

    But Fiona’s personal life isn’t so fine. She still misses her fiancé, who was killed by ubervillains a year ago. But men admire Fiona’s smoking assets, and she decides to get back in the dating game – especially after she meets Johnny Bulluci. But this notorious playboy has plenty of secrets to go along with his sexy smile. And, with two new ubervillains in town who are intent on raising hell, Fiona’s love life might just crash and burn …

    Hot Mama Details

    n Release date: Nov. 6, 2007

    n Pages: 356

    n Price: $14

    n Format: Trade paperback

    n Publisher: Berkley Books

    n ISBN-10: 0425217345

    n ISBN-13: 978-0425217344

  • The Twelve Days of Bigtime prizes …

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    Speaking of prizes, here they are (these may change slightly as we get closer to the contest):

    Day 1: Autographed copy of Hot Mama

    Day 2: A $10 Amazon gift card

    Day 3: Autopgrahed copy of Hot Mama

    Day 4: A $10 Amazon gift card

    Day 5: Autographed copies of Hot Mama and Karma Girl

    Day 6: A $10 Amazon gift card

    Day 7: A Karma Girl T-shirt

    Day 8: Autographed copy of Hot Mama and a Rubik’s Cube item

    Day 9: Autographed copy of Hot Mama and a Wonder Woman and Batman Pez dispenser with candy

    Day 10: A $20 Amazon gift card

    Day 11: Autographed copies of Hot Mama and Karma Girl, and a Karma Girl T-shirt

    Day 12: The grand prize. Autographed copies of Karma Girl and Hot Mama; a Karma Girl T-shirt; a Wonder Woman Pez dispenser with candy; a Batman Pez dispenser with candy; a $50 Amazon gift card; a Rubik’s Cube item; and a partridge in a pear tree (okay, not really).

    All prizes also come with Karma Girl and Hot Mama bookmarks. Not too shabby, huh? 😉

  • The Twelve Days of Bigtime …

    My new book, Hot Mama, is coming out Nov. 6 and to celebrate I’m going to do a contest. But not just any contest. Oh no. In honor of the upcoming holiday season, I’m kicking off the Twelve Days of Bigtime! Excited yet?

    It’s pretty simple. The contest is like the Twelve Days of Christmas, but with prizes instead of partridges in pear trees. Seriously, what would you do with a partridge in a pear tree anyway? Bigtime books are so much more practical.

    The contest starts Nov. 5 and runs through Nov. 16. All you have to do to enter the contest is post the following on your Web site, blog, or MySpace page (once the contest actually starts):

    1) Either Fiona Fine’s letter to the media or the Hot Mama summary

    2) The Hot Mama cover

    Basically, all you have to do is copy one of the posts I’ll put up. Post the info once, and you’re entered to win all twelve days. Of course, if you want to talk more about the book on your site, that would be great too. 😉

    If you don’t want to post, you can leave a comment on my blog about your favorite superhero or villain. You’ll be eligible to win the autographed books, etc., but not the Amazon gift cards or grand prize.

    More to come shortly …

    PS I’ll post about the contest a couple of times, so don’t worry if you don’t catch all the info at once. Also, you can click on the Contests category on the blogroll to see all the posts.

    Happy reading! :ww:

  • Some good news out of Buffalo …

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    Many of you know of my love for the Buffalo Bills football team. Yes, I know they lost four straight Super Bowls, and they are no longer among the elite teams of the NFL. But I still like ’em. (In general, I root for AFC teams over the NFC).

    On Sunday, a Bills player, Kevin Everett, was severly injured — and doctors were saying he would be paralyzed for the rest of his life. But Everett voluntarily moved his arms and legs, according to this story from Yahoo. It’s a very positive sign, according to his doctors.

    Here’s hoping Everett makes a full recovery.

  • 824 and counting …

    Finished Lover Eternal by J.R. Ward. It’s the second book in her popular Black Dagger Brotherhood series.

    This one is about Rhage, a vampire cursed to carry a dragon-like beast inside his body for 200 hundred years. The dragon-beast comes out whenever Rhage’s emotions get out of control, so he uses anonymous sex and violence against lessers (the bad guys) as outlets to keep himself under control. But all that changes when Rhage meets Mary, a human woman who’s dying from leukemia. One look at her, and he’s in lurv, as my significant other says.

    I enjoyed Dark Lover, the first book in the series, and I was looking forward to another great read. But Lover Eternal really disappointed me. The main reason? I just didn’t like Rhage. I thought he was arrogant and cocky and bordered on being a psycho stalker, the relentless way he kept pursuing Mary.

    For example, Rhage calls Bella and basically tells her to set her friend Mary up with him. That he’s coming to get Mary one way or another, and Bella can either make it a nice date … or not. Yuck. Plus, there was an implied fact that this behavior was okay, that the BDB vampires can do whatever the hell they want to women as long as they kill lessers. This moral code did not sit well with me. I wanted to take that whip thing the brothers use on Rhage and give him some lashes with it myself.

    I liked Mary okay, but I thought she deserved someone a lot better than Rhage. Someone who didn’t try to control and bulldoze her into falling for him at every turn.

    Plus, I found myself much more interested in the other characters than I did in the romance between Rhage and Mary. For example, I loved the scenes between Bella and Zsadist, and John’s story was pretty interesting too. As for the bad guys, I didn’t get the sense they were up to anything in this book – they didn’t really seem to have a nefarious plan to kill all the vampires. The bad guys and their actions seemed like more of a stop-gap to set up Book 3 (Bella and Zsadist).

    I’m going split decision on this one. Thumbs down to the Rhage-Mary romance; thumbs up for the world building, advancement of the series, and other characters (especially Bella and Zsadist).

    Up next: Not sure yet. Something from my ever-growing to-be-read pile.

    Now, I’m bracing myself for the onslaught of comments from people who absolutely loved this book …