Loving this ad created by Brigitte Sutherland (click to enlarge):
And for anyone that would like to catch up for a signing or just to say howdy, I’ll be at this panel in August with a bunch of great authors! See below.
Loving this ad created by Brigitte Sutherland (click to enlarge):
And for anyone that would like to catch up for a signing or just to say howdy, I’ll be at this panel in August with a bunch of great authors! See below.
The book blogging community is quite special; switched on, communicative and quite powerful. I didn’t quite realise that until I started writing YA fiction. Out there in YA-land they’re talking and loving books – and they are respectful of each others’ tastes. I suppose it’s a generational thing, and that younger readers (say 35 and under) are using the social networking platforms that they’ve grown up with, to share their passion. It makes me wish I was younger! How less isolating it would have been for me growing up. How amazing to have been part of such a wide and thriving community. Life would have been so much better.
Anyway, today is a big shout out to Lyndsey at Strangemore who has just begun a campaign to bring Burn Bright (The Night Creatures trilogy) to the US. To all those lovely readers who’ve emailed me asking where they can get the book – CHECK IT OUT!
A second shout out to Krista at Cubicle Blindness who has been single handedly campaigning for the same thing for a while. You’re not on your own anymore!
And also to ALL those wonderful bloggers who’ve run interviews with me and giveaways of Burn Bright – especially those who have taken it upon themselves to send Burn Bright on a book tour (Nomes at Inkcrush) around the world, so that others may enjoy it. You know who you are!
Lastly, to Braiden at Book Probe, who hosted a blogger kafee klatsch for myself and Alison Goodman and made my YouTube site look pretty.
Image borrowed from A Readers Record.
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Tags: book bloggers, books, Burn Bright, reading
Marcus had completed the latest newsletter which is Peacemaker special. You can download it here:
I’ve been deep in edits on Angel Arias (Night Creatures 2) and am having a quick breath before diving down to finish Tara Sharp 3. So apologies if I’ve been a little blog-boring. I have an interesting Super Creatives post for you tomorrow though, and feel free to suggest people you’d like to see interviewed.
I’m speaking at the QUT Alumni tomorrow evening which will be fun and a bit of a break from work, drive kid, sleep.
Webbery news is sparse although I have an upcoming interview at Lyndsey’s Strangemore Blog, and there’s an upcoming review of Peacemaker in Dark Matter fanzine.
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