For all my reviewer friends out there, PEACEMAKER is live on NETGALLEY. If you don’t normally use NetGalley but would like a review copy then contact me and let me know. I’ll organise an invitation for you.

I’ll also, for the first time, be doing a blog tour. Either let me know if you’d like to be part of it, or contact Carolin Lambe at Angry Robot. Below are the details:

Marianne’s Blog Tour:

If you’d like to interview Marianne or have a guest blog post from her, please get in touch with me (ca************@*************ks.com) for more info. Any podcasters out there, get in touch – you should definitely have Marianne’s lovely Brisbane accent on your show! For any blog posts, do send through your topic suggestions or indeed, your i/v questions.

While it’s more than a little gratifying to see Peacemaker on so many Most Anticipated SFF Books of 2014 lists, it’s also a little daunting. Not sure what kind of story people are expecting, but it was fun writing it, so hopefully it will be fun reading it.

I grew up on Zane Grey westerns and have tried to capture the same passion he had for the landscape, while writing a thoroughly MDP genre mashup. The SF is understated (in the first book at least), the romance is understated, the western tropes are overstated and the crime and fantasy aspects dominate.

If you’re looking for reference points for the story then you might find echoes of Mythago Wood, Light of the Western Stars, Gun with Occasional Music and some good paranormal fantasy (thinking Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs), but conceived and written original MDP style. 

Anyway, not that I’m collecting links or anything (???), but you’ll find PEACEMAKER mentioned on some of these great blogs:

• Publishers Weekly
• BuzzFeed
• SparkNotes Kirkus
• The Book Plank
• Fantasy Faction
• Shadow Hawk
• Tor.com
• A Fantastical Librarian
• Draumr Kopa
• Australian Women Writers Challenge

Thanks to everyone who featured my book. I’m excited for its release from Angry Robot in April/May and for some other great news that will accompany it.

Popping in to shares some links and news with y’all.

Firstly, PEACEMAKER is now with Angry Robot while they consider what editing needs to be done on it, which gives me time to start thinking about, and moving on to, book 2, DEALBREAKER. Muwahahaha! Boy, will that have some fun stuff in it. I got excited just writing the synopsis!

Meanwhile, I’ve been writing the first chapters of a crime novel that I’m DYING to get into full time. It’s all about Antiquities theft. Gorgeous yummy stuff.

Over at sonsofcorax, I blog about how I get inspiration for names in my fiction. Anyone who’s read the Sentients of Orion and Parrish Plessis will find this interesting.

Some people have been asking me where they can get copies of my new picture book Serious Sas and Messy Magda so I’ve just dropped in the BOOK DEPOSITORY link for you all.

And a little interesting titbit … Terri Sellen shared the link to this extraordinary phenomenon. It is so reminiscent of the stories in my Glitter Rose collection by Twelfth Planet Press, that I got goosebumps when I saw it. Which brings me to the fact that Glitter Rose will finally be available in e-book soon. Will let you know!