How Was Your Thanksgiving and Witchling Contest!

We always have people over for Thanksgiving and I decorate for the holidays (that post will be up mid-December) that weekend. And it's always a lovely time.

So, how was your Thanksgiving, peeps? What did you do? Are you in the mood for the holidays or do you feel like playing the Grinch? Either way, tell me your thoughts and you'll be entered to win a copy (unsigned) of Witchling, sent out from Berkley. You must enter by midnight, November 30th to be eligible. Winners announced December 2nd.

You must be 18 or over, include an email address where we can contact you in your entry, be willing to give us your address and have it sent on to Berkley, and you must be in the United States. Odds of winning depend on number of entries. Void where prohibited.

Yasmine

Winners of Twitter Contest

Silverdragon71
Aleighwilliams
Kenzienoelle

Congrats. I've DM'd you on Twitter with instructions!

Yasmine

Happy Thanksgiving!

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving to my fellow American readers--be safe if you're traveling, be kind, and count your blessings. There are many people in our country who are flailing right now...

And don't forget places like Northwest Harvest, your local food banks, your local animal shelters: If you can give help, give willingly and if you need help, ask without shame. What goes around comes around--when we can help, we help, when we need assistance, we ask it. That's the whole meaning of community.

Bright Blessings,

Yasmine and family

Twitter Contest: Demon Mistress

OK, time for a Twitter contest. I'll give away 3 copies-(signed) of Demon Mistress. Rules follow:

You have until midnight tomorrow night to enter. (midnight 11.26.2009)

You must agree to the rules here: http://bit.ly/8J4Cet READ THEM--they will answer questions.

To enter: ON TWITTER (not here) send me an @ reply with the hashtag #DemonMistress in it, and tell me something you're thankful for this season. One entry per person. (A hashtag is the #sign immediately followed by the words in question).

On the Twitter contest, you don't have to include your email, peeps...I can reach you easily through your twitter ID.

Three people will win--1 copy of the book to each person. http://twitter.com/yasminegalenorn is my Twitter URL. Follow me to keep track of other contests, etc., too.

Yasmine

Contest Rules Post

Must be 18 or over to win unless specified in the specific contest.
Must be US Citizen. (PLEASE stop bitching at me about this--I am doing my best to stay within state laws and figuring out all the different COUNTRIES' contest laws would be insanely time consuming...)
Must agree not to copy/pirate books to any format.
Must supply email address in contest entry (to prevent spammers, I suggest writing it in this manner: name AT netcompany DOT com)
Must supply address and real name within one week of being contacted about winning prize or another name may be drawn.

Taxes are your concern.
No purchase necessary to win.
Odds of winning depend on the amount of entries.
Void where prohibited.

November Newsletter and Prelim. Blood Wyne Playlist

First: The November issue of the Moon Stalker Gazette--my online newsletter--is up on the site! And you'll notice the ENTIRE site has been revamped (well, we're working on two parts right now, but you can still see what's there of them). Go through carefully--a lot has changed and there are some fun things in the Otherworld Section.

Second: I put up a new blog yesterday on my Gluten Free Kitchen Witch blog.

Third:
I'm starting work on Blood Wyne, Menolly's third book, and just finished making my preliminary playlist. It will cull down, probably--most do, and I usually add a song or two during the writing but here's the starting list:

AC/DC: Back in Black
Bravery: Believe
Alice Cooper: Welcome to My Nightmare
Alice in Chains: Man in the Box
Audioslave: Set it Off
Beastie Boys: Rhymin and Stealin

Beck:
Nausea
Que Onda Guero
Mixed Bizness
Soul of a Man
Where It's At

Blue Oyster Cult: Godzilla
Bob Seger: Turn the Page

Bowie:
I'm Afraid of Americans
Let's Dance

Cat Power: I Don't Blame You
Cher: The Beat Goes On
Chester Bennington: System
Chris Isaak: Wicked Game
Corvus Corax: Ballade de Mercy

Depeche Mode:
Personal Jesus
Blasphemous Rumours
If You Want
Stripped
Dream On

Don Henley: In the Garden of Allah
Everlast: I Can't Move
Faith No More: Epic

Gary Numan:
Are Friends Electic
Prophecy
Tread Careful
Down in the Park
Soul Protection
My Breathing
Hybrid

Godsmack: Voodoo
Gorillaz: Hongkongaton

Harvey Danger: Sad Sweetheart of the Rodeo
Hives, The: Tick Tick Boom
Jay Gordon: Slept So Long
Kanno, Yoko: Lithium Flower
Kraftwerk: Pocket Calculator
Lady Gaga: Paparazzi
Little Big Town: Bones

Ladytron:
Ghosts
Burning Up
Black Cat

Lenny Kravitz:
American Woman
Fly Away

Low: Half Light
Madonna: Vogue
Metallica: Enter Sandman

NIN:
Closer
Sin
Get Down, Make Love

Nirvana:
All Apologies
Come As You Are
Nirvana
You Know You're Right

No Doubt:
Hella Good
Hey Baby

Oingo Boingo:
Deadman's Party
Elevator Man

Orgy:
Blue Monday
Social Enemies

Pussy Cat Dolls:
I Don't Need a Man
Buttons

PJHarvey: Good Fortune

Rob Zombie:
Living Dead Girl
Never Gonna Stop

Saliva: Ladies and Gentlemen
Seether: Remedy

Shriekback:
Over the Wire
New Man

Talking Heads:
Life During Wartime
I Zimbra

Tears for Fears: Mad World
Toadies: Possum Kingdom
Tool: Schism

Tori Amos:
Talula
Blood Roses
In the Springtime of His Voodoo

Thompson Twins:
The Gap
Sister of Mercy

U2: Vertigo
Zero 7: In the Waiting Line

Here's hoping I'll be able to get back into blogging regularly--but in December, the blog will be CRAMMED with fun things! So keep your eyes open. ;)

Yasmine

Bone Magic Review

Book Review of Bone Magic (and you can pre-order signed copies from their shop):

Camille D’Artigo is the voice of Bone Magic (Berkley pbo, $7.99, signed copies available Jan. 2, 2010 weather permitting, certainly no later than Jan. 9th), Yasmine Galenorn’s latest novel, and in this, the 7th in the Otherworld series, we learn a lot about what’s going on in the war between demonkind and everyone else.

This book is packed with plot twists and changes, and I don’t want to tell you too much. I can tell you that Delilah’s reaction to Rodney was completely natural and I kinda suspect it wasn’t as spontaneous as she made it out to be. I can tell you that Smoky’s family is going to be playing a bigger role in the stories to come. I can say that we find out more about Iris (and I was SO pleased to see that she has a larger role in this book!). And Trillian’s back!

Beyond that, though, I hesitate to say much more. This is one of the darker books Ms. Galenorn has written and it takes Camille through some definite changes, placing her in delicate balance between opposing forces, and I can’t wait to see how things play out in the books yet to come.

If you haven’t read this series and you enjoy urban fantasy, I strongly encourage you to begin with Witchling (Berkley, $7.99) and follow the entire series. Ms. Galenorn has so skillfully woven these many multiple threads that to begin with Bone Magic will leave you puzzled. If you’ve been following this series, though, may I just say you’re in for quite a ride!

Fran Fuller
Seattle Mystery Bookshop (where you can order signed copies of the book)

Never After #28 on the NYT List...

Well, for an anthology, that is pretty good! :) And thank you all who bought the book and helped us get there. Hope that you love the stories!

Yasmine

Nalini Singh: New Release Day!

Blaze of Memory was such an interesting book to write. I got to go behind the veil of Psy history, and explore what it was that made this psychically gifted race cut themselves off from emotion, turn so utterly cold. It was a fascinating journey, because it added an extra depth and nuance to a people who have, in previous books, come across as being born in ice.

That is part of why I adore writing this series—there are so many layers to the world, so many things left to discover. Each time I turn around, I see another facet I want to explore, another character I can’t wait to learn more about. Blaze of Memory is Dev and Katya’s book, and I tell you, these two ripped my heart out—I can’t wait to see what you, as readers, think of their story.

BLAZE OF MEMORY
BERKLEY BOOKS
Out 3 November 2009

Nalini Singh returns to the Psy/Changeling world and its “breathtaking blend of passion, adventure, and the paranormal” as a woman without a past becomes the pawn of a man who controls her future…

Dev Santos discovers her unconscious and battered, with no memory of who she is. All she knows is that she’s dangerous. Charged with protecting his people’s most vulnerable secrets, Dev is duty-bound to eliminate all threats. It’s a task he’s never hesitated to complete…until he finds himself drawn to a woman who might yet prove the enemy’s most insidious weapon.

Stripped of her memories by a shadowy oppressor, and programmed to carry out cold-blooded murder, Katya Haas is fighting desperately for her sanity itself. Her only hope is Dev. But how can she expect to gain the trust of a man who could very well be her next target? For in this game, one must die…

Excerpt: http://www.nalinisingh.com/blaze.html

Reviews

“...When it comes to delivering stories that grab you by the throat and don't let go, Singh is in a class by herself!” - Romantic Times

“...An outstanding November read!” ~ Fresh Fiction

“...BLAZE OF MEMORY had me in tears with the tenderness that Dev and Katya exposed in each other. This story adds immensely to the series…You will want to revisit this love story again and again.” - Romance Junkies

Samhain Thoughts & Anxiety Dreams

Writers’ anxiety dreams. A number of writers I know have them. Including me. Mine don’t usually center around not getting the book done (like some writers), but about people reacting badly to them book. Or in the case of last night, my novella The Shadow of Mist, in Never After.

In my dream I was getting panned left and right for it, people who follow Marjorie’s work were dissing everybody else’s novella. People who follow Laurell’s work were dissing Marjorie, Sharon and my pieces. And people who like Sharon’s work were complaining about Laurell, Marjorie’s, and my stories. Only NOBODY was liking mine—not a reader of mine in the crowd of voices in my head to say “I liked the story!”

ROFL…this is not necessarily a plea to find out how you liked it, but an example of how anxiety eats at me. All three of them had their readers loving and defending their work (though I was dismayed to see the “I only loved so-and-so’s” routine). And I was standing there thinking, nobody likes my story.

I think this stems back to yes, my basic worry each time a release comes out as to how people will like it, and this is the first time I’ve had an anthology come out, and then it’s a secondary character, not one of the main ones, so I’m hoping people enjoy her story even though she’s not one of the sisters. Plus it seems that an extremely high percentage of people who don’t like my books are the ones that DO write reviews for online bookstores. Eh…

These dreams suck, but I routinely have them right before and during the release of a new book. They take different forms and shapes, but essentially come down to: Yasmine sucks. Bleh.

In other stuff…FB began doing nasty things to my Twitter app and a WHOLE bunch of tweets from May got burped onto my page there—bombarding it—and so I disabled it. Until I have time to reinstall it, don’t expect much to go on over at my FB page. I put a few pics up but that’s about it.

Running crazy on the deadline. Trying to get the book in and done on time. Had a wonderful Samhain ritual last night. Have pics but they’re too big to fit here so take a look over at Twitter. Was nice to get back to our tradition—last year losing Keeter and Luna made it so raw, I didn’t want to celebrate. This year, it felt good.

Bright Blessings,
Yasmine