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The slow sands of time …
January 2010 has quite possibly been the slowest month of my life. Seriously, it seems like the days are oozing by slower than molasses dripping down a snowbank. Of course, this is all because I’m dying for Jan. 26 to get here and for Spider’s Bite to finally be released.
Not that I don’t have plenty of work to keep me busy in the meantime. I printed a bunch of flyers for Web of Lies last night, and I’ve been slowly chugging along on the second draft of Elemental Assassin 5. Still, I feel like a kid waiting for Christmas. Thirteen more days until the torture ends. Sigh …
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Book signing update …
Quick update: I’ll be signing books from 1-3 p.m. Jan. 23 at Mountain Empire Comics in Bristol, Tenn. Spider’s Bite doesn’t officially release until Jan. 26, but if you come to the comic book store that day, you can get the book early. And you know you want to … 😉
Some other writers/artists will be signing their books throughout the day, including Charles Vess, who’s known for his work/illustrations with Neil Gaiman, among other folks. So it should be a good time. I’ve just got my fingers crossed there’s no snow that day!
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A deadly web …
So in unveiling the cover for Web of Lies last week, I neglected to, you know, post what the book is actually about. Duh, Jen! Anyway, here’s the back cover copy (which will probably get tweaked a little bit:
Curiosity is definitely going to get me dead one of these days. Probably real soon.I’m Gin Blanco. You might know me as the Spider, the most feared assassin in the South. I’m retired now, but trouble still has a way of finding me. Like the other day when two punks tried to rob my popular barbecue joint, the Pork Pit. Then there was the barrage of gunfire on the restaurant. Only, for once, those kill shots weren’t aimed at me. They were meant for Violet Fox. Ever since I agreed to help Violet and her grandfather protect their property from an evil coal-mining tycoon. I’m beginning to wonder if I’m really retired.
So is Detective Donovan Caine. The only honest cop in Ashland is having a hard time reconciling his attraction to me with his Boy Scount mentality. And I can barely keep my hands of fhis sexy body. What can I say? I’m a Stone elemental — with a little Ice magic thrown in — but my heart isn’t made of solid rock. Luckily, Gin Blanco always gets her man … dead or alive.
Yep, in Web of Lies, Gin takes on an evil coal-mining dwarf (who also happens to be a Stone elemental just like she is). I’m really happy with how this book turned out. In some ways, I think that it’s even better than Spider’s Bite. But anyway, now you all know what it’s about! 😉
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I love it when a trailer comes together …
I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned this before on the blog or not, so here goes.
I am a HUGE A-Team fan. Seriously. It’s my favorite show ever. I love it more than Alias, more than Chuck, more than just about anything else (with the possible exception of the James Bond movies). I have all the DVDs, and I even made Wheezley buy me an A-Team T-shirt for my birthday one year.
So my inner fangirl squealed with delight over the weekend when I found the trailer for the movie over at Entertainment Weekly.
Yeah, there’s a lot of cheesy dialogue in the trailer and what looks like some really implausible action/CGI. But you know what? That’s what made the TV show so great — it was just cheesy fun. And it looks like the movie is in that same vein. (One day, I’m totally going to do a blog post about how everything I know about writing books I learned from The A-Team.)
Plus, it’s got a pretty cool cast — Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Sharlto Copley, and Quinton “Rampage” Jackson all look the part. (Although I do not remember Bradley Cooper having abs like that on Alias, but hey, I’m not complaining.) And the van! The van’s in the movie!
I know what I’ll be doing on June 11. 😉
How about you guys?Am I alone in my A-Team love? Which cheesy ’80s shows do you love? Share in the comments.