Yay, I’m not dead…and I have a new book out!
Blame it on NaNoWriMo - which sort of made me drop out of the world for awhile. But what a great excuse! And since I now have a shiny new graphic in my sidebar that announces to the world that I did lose my mind even more so than usual in November, it’s time to get back to business.
Yay - it’s now officially available on the Pink Petal Books site, in all ebook formats. Also, for the first month it’s out, it’s on sale for only $5.09, which is such a deal for 105,000 words of fun! Okay, maybe not every single word is fun (there’s only so much you can do with “the,” “and,” or “but”); however, it’s still a great price, especially these days when some publishers think it’s all right to charge ten bucks and up for an ebook.
Occasionally (although maybe not as often as you might think), I have people ask me where I get my ideas. Now, half the time I don’t have a good answer, because they come from everywhere - stray comments, snippets from the news, me just staring off into space and thinking “what if” while I’m washing my hair. However, I remember very clearly when I got the idea for Sympathy for the Devil. I was at a panel at the 2004 World Science Fiction Convention in Anaheim, and they were discussing the coming trends in paranormal romance. Talk turned to angels, and then demons, but no one really discussed the Big Kahuna…the Devil himself. And I thought, Hey, that would be a kick - writing a romance that involved the Devil. So I thought about it for awhile, and when the 2006 NaNoWriMo season rolled around, I decided that would be the book I’d write (sometimes it takes me awhile to get going on this stuff). Because I was insane and also working at a job that gave me a lot of free time, I wrote the whole 101K first draft in 30 days (actually, I think it was more like 28 what with taking time off for Thanksgiving and another convention held that weekend).
Now, it’s 2010, and obviously there’s been some water under the bridge since then. I revised the novel, then revised it again and noodled with it a bit more. I always like that part of the process, as I discover things for which I’ve laid the groundwork but not fully developed, as was certainly the case with the meddling demons who are the antagonists in the story. A lot of the frame was already there, even though when I blazed through that first draft I didn’t always know exactly why (thank you, subconscious!). And now it’s a book I’m really proud of, even though the subject matter is something that may raise people’s hackles. The funny thing is, it’s probably one of the most optimistic books I’ve written, the most consciously uplifting, and…dare I say it?…spiritual.
But don’t worry, there’s still hot sex.
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