{"id":1373,"date":"2012-03-21T11:00:32","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T17:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/?p=1373"},"modified":"2012-03-21T10:52:27","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T16:52:27","slug":"beguiling-the-beauty-arc-giveaway-other-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/21\/beguiling-the-beauty-arc-giveaway-other-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Beguiling the Beauty ARC Giveaway & Other Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I’ve just had a ARC giveaway over at Smart Bitches. \u00a0The good news is, it was really fun. The bad news is, the giveaway is now closed. \u00a0BUT, because I’m such a big softy, I’m having a consolation giveaway on my Facebook author page. Ha, you didn’t even know I had one of those, did you? \u00a0Most days I don’t either. \u00a0All this multiplicity of social media makes my head spin. \u00a0But since it is there, we might as well climb that mountain. \u00a0So\u00a0head on over<\/a>\u00a0right now and post a comment in the giveaway announcement. \u00a0No need to say anything witty, you just can write, “Ima Reader wuz here” or “Want book” and that will count. \u00a0We’ll hold that open for 72 hours.<\/p>\n

And if you don’t get lucky there, I’m giving away another copy on March 29 on author Ashley March’s blog.<\/p>\n

Now onto Other Stuff.<\/p>\n

1) AT YOUR PLEASURE is out next week. \u00a0Have you pre-ordered your copy yet? \u00a0If not, why not?<\/p>\n

2) TEMPTING THE BRIDE has a cover and it’s a good one.<\/p>\n

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I love her face. \u00a0That is the perfect face for Helena, the heroine of the book, who will most definitely be glancing toward the hero with that look of challenge in her eyes.<\/p>\n

I am on my knees in prayer that the book will be as good as the cover. \u00a0It is still being worked on and will prolly be worked on until Berkley comes to take the pages out of my cold, cramped hands to hand them to production. \u00a0That’s the thing about secondary characters in other books–they always seem so interesting. \u00a0And holy @#$%, the hero of TEMPTING THE BRIDE submits an illustrated erotic manuscript to Helena, a publisher, in book 2 of the trilogy–I’d call that interesting. \u00a0How to do it so that they don’t suddenly become boring in their own book? \u00a0The stress has very nearly wrecked my wrists.<\/p>\n

(When I get stressed I play casual games, esp. the time management variety–the irony. \u00a0Those are hard on the wrists, even more so if you play them on a laptop. \u00a0There were a couple of weeks when I had radiating pain shooting up and down my wrists and forearms. \u00a0I even purchased some braces on Meredith’s advice. \u00a0But since then I’d come to my senses and uninstalled some of my favorite games and my wrists are back to being okay. Phew.)<\/p>\n

(Isn’t that awful? \u00a0There are writers whose wrists are damaged by actual work. \u00a0And here I am, damaged by fun.) \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

3) And you thought 3 books out in a year is a lot. \u00a0Well, as it turns out, I am also part of an anthology featuring Courtney Milan and Carolyn Jewel titled MIDNIGHT SCANDALS. \u00a0We are self-pubbing it August of this year and the price point will prolly be something like $2.99. \u00a0Cheap thrills, folks, cheap thrills. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

4) This does not really affect readers in North America much, but my books are not available for legitimate downloads in UK, ANZ, or other markets because Random House, which publishes my backlist, does not have world English rights and cannot offer them for sale outside of the U.S. \u00a0(They can export physical copies, but cannot directly sell digital copies on such platforms as Amazon.)<\/p>\n

But I can. \u00a0And I will, very soon. \u00a0Working with my agency, we are in the process of making my books available on Kindle overseas (Amazon is the only one that lets me select the territories, so I don’t step on RH’s toes here in N.A.). \u00a0We’ve the covers. \u00a0I’ve already proofed PRIVATE ARRANGEMENTS and DELICIOUS and will be proofing the other two shortly.<\/p>\n

The overseas editions will actually be slightly improved over their domestic counterparts, as the RH ebooks didn’t have the proper accent marks for either books when foreign phrases were involved. \u00a0Also, all the occurrences of the word “madam” in DELICIOUS, used to address the character of the Dowager Duchess were changed to “madame”s–in both paper & e editions–after I had done my final proofing, without my knowledge, which quite frustrated me, as one simply do not go around calling an Englishwoman “madame” for no reason. \u00a0So now only the French cook will be addressed as madame. \u00a0Which probably matters to no one else, but really matters to me.<\/p>\n

(And oeufs\u00a0\u00e0\u00a0la neige<\/em> had been turned into something that made no sense at all in the e-edition, at least. \u00a0So that is also now correct.)<\/p>\n

It was interesting to read PA, which I hadn’t read since I proofed it for publication. \u00a0I think my taste in prose has become more spare, at least in the simile\/metaphor department. \u00a0There were times when I thought to myself, this is verging on florid, but I usually left the prose as written. \u00a0However there was one particular simile, something like “thoughts in his head streaked wildly like chickens at a weasel invasion” that stopped me cold. \u00a0As it was in the middle of a dead serious scene, I was like, yeah, time to wield the mighty delete button here.<\/p>\n

I also corrected for a few Americanisms that I hadn’t known about then, a couple of minor research errors, some conversion-related punctuation errors and word breaks and that’s pretty much it. \u00a0Not sure about the exact dates they will be released into the wild, but I think definitely before the release of BEGUILING THE BEAUTY in May.<\/p>\n

5) I will be speaking at quite a few RWA chapters this year, starting with a keynote gig at the Connecticut Fiction Fest in May, then on the the San Francisco Chapter in June, the National Conference in Anaheim in July, to which I’ll bring my new subtext workshop, the Orange County Chapter in August, North Texas Chapter in Forth Worth, TX and the Buns & Roses event in Richardson, TX both in October, and to round it out, a daylong gig at the West Houston Chapter in November. \u00a0Dates and whatnot are on the front page of my website.<\/p>\n

6) Foreign Covers<\/p>\n

There is no escaping them! \u00a0\ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

First up, German re-release of Delicious.<\/p>\n

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Now, Indonesian Delicious.<\/p>\n

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I am happy any time there is food on a Delicious cover and here is food aplenty.<\/p>\n

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So I’ve just had a ARC giveaway over at Smart Bitches. \u00a0The good news is, it was really fun. The bad news is, the giveaway is now closed. \u00a0BUT, because I’m such a big softy, I’m having a consolation giveaway on my Facebook author page. Ha, you didn’t even know I had one of those, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1373"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1392,"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions\/1392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}