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    Gin goes international …

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    Gin Blanco is headed overseas.

    I’m happy to report that the first three Elemental Assassin books — Spider’s Bite, Web of Lies, and Venom — will be published in Russia. Spider’s Bite and Web of Lies will be published in France, and Spider’s Bite will be published in Serbia.

    Pretty cool, huh? 😉

    These are the foreign rights that my publisher has sold so far for the series. Now, I have no idea when the books will be released overseas. I’m assuming it will be the usual 12-18 months after the deal is done before the books are released (like it is in the U.S.). The Russian and French deals were done last year; the Serbian deal just happened this February.

    Someone sent me an e-mail saying that Spider’s Bite would be out in France in April, but I don’t really have any way of confirming that. So if you’re an overseas reader and see my books somewhere, please let me know. I’d love to see what the cover art looks like.

    It always amazes me that people here in the U.S. can read my books. But in the next year or so, folks in other countries can read them too, in addition to the ones who already read the English versions. Can world domination be too far behind? LOL.

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    Best urban fantasy …

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    Elemental Assassins Book #3 - VenomI got a cool e-mail over the weekend. The folks over at The Romance Reviews have nominated Venom as one of the Best Urban Fantasy books of 2010. Huzzah!

    They’re holding a big online voting contest to determine the best books of 2010, so go here to vote for your favorite books in a variety of categories.

    I have absolutely no illusions about winning, especially given all the great books and popular authors in my category (like Nalini Singh), but it’s really cool to be nominated.

    Happy voting, everyone! 😉

  • That sound you hear …

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    A few folks have e-mailed and asked me if Tangled Threads is going to be available as an audio book though Audible, like the first three books in the Elemental Assassin series are.

    I’m happy to say that the answer is yes. 😉

    Audible will be releasing both Tangled Threads and Spider’s Revenge as audio books, and Lauren Fortgang, the narrator for the first three books, will also be reading Tangled Threads as well. I’ve gotten a lot of nice comments about her narration, and I’m glad she’s reading the next book in the series. (No word yet on if she’ll also be narrating Spider’s Revenge.)

    I assume the release date for Tangled Threads will be the same as the on-sale date for the paperback and e-book — April 26. It’s not up for pre-order at Audible yet, so I don’t know sure. If I find out differently, I’ll let you know.

    Until then, happy listening! 😉

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    Touch of Frost cover …

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    Some of you may have seen this on Amazon already, but here’s the cover for Touch of Frost, the first book in my Mythos Academy young adult urban fantasy series that’s coming out on July 26. Pretty cool, huh?

    Of course, I’ll be doing all the usual things now that I have the cover art, including making flyers and bookmarks. It will probably be several weeks before I get around to doing those things, since I’m buried with work right now, but when I get the bookmarks made, I’ll post about them here on the blog.

    In the meantime, Touch of Frost is up for pre-order at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Also, Kiss of Frost, the second book in the series that’s coming out Nov. 29, is also up on Amazon already. So go forth and pre-order, if you are so inclined.

    Here’s the back cover copy for Touch of Frost:

    My name is Gwen Frost, and I go to Mythos Acad­emy — a school of myths, magic and war­rior whiz kids, where even the lowli­est geek knows how to chop off somebody’s head with a sword and Logan Quinn, the hottest Spar­tan guy in school, also hap­pens to be the deadliest.

    But lately, things have been weird, even for Mythos. First, mean girl Jas­mine Ash­ton was mur­dered in the Library of Antiq­ui­ties. Then, some­one stole the Bowl of Tears, a mag­i­cal arti­fact that can be used to bring about the sec­ond Chaos War. You know, death, destruc­tion and lots of other bad, bad things. Freaky stuff like this goes on all the time at Mythos, but I’m deter­mined to find out who killed Jas­mine and why – espe­cially since I should have been the one who died …

    Are you ready for July yet? I am. 😉