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    The next few weeks …

    With Spider’s Bite coming out on Jan. 26 (9 days to go!), I’ll be doing a ton of guest blogs and interviews over the next few weeks. So instead of try to blog here and other places, I’m just going to link to my blog of the day here.

    I’ve got several interviews lined up, and I’m blogging about everything from how we came up with the titles for the Elemental Assassin books to what it was like to switch genres to how I made Gin Blanco an assassin and still a likable character at the same time. There’s some good stuff that will be out there, so I hope everyone clicks on the links and checks out the guest blogs.

    And yes, several of the blogs will have book giveaways with them. 😉

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    The slow sands of time …

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    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 …

  • Book signing update …

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    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!

  • 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:

    Web of Lies 1-6-10 smallCuriosity 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! 😉