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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
I THINK I WAS BITTEN BY A TIME VAMPIRE!
For the past few weeks I wake up sure that I'm going to finish everything on my "to do" list. So why do I have most of the same things on my list the following day?
It seems like the internet just sucks the life out of you. You sit down to do a few things and the next thing you know, hours have passed. It's not like they're frivolous things, either. Maybe it's that I just have too much on my plate these days. I guess I'll have to learn to say a simple "no" or "I'm sorry, I can't" once in a while.
That's hard for me because I'm one of those people who think I can do everything. I've been like that my whole life.
Anyway, enough bitching. This week DEVIL'S DANCE and THE DEVIL'S DUE took another step toward the time when they will be published. The paperback/e-book/Kindle editions are at the point where the publisher is ready to set up the galleys. Of course, those must be reviewed and the cover designed, but it's one more step. The audio publisher is getting ready to record.
The moment I love is holding the newly published book in my hand and then listening to the audio book and seeing how the narrator brought the characters that were once only in my imagination to life. Hmmm. Time to start the PR and to book some advance launch signings.
Preparatory to that, here are the back-cover type blurbs for both books:
DEVIL'S DANCE
By Arliss Adams
How much physical and mental pain can a sixteen-year-old girl stand? Jeanette Connor is about to find out.
It's Chicago, 1955, and she is on the brink of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: a contract with the New York City Ballet. However, since she’s a minor, her mother must co-sign and she has different ideas. Jeanette's dream is smashed and instead she soon finds herself in a high-class brothel, being offered up as a little-girl-virgin type. Then a client beats her to within an inch of her life, and she's left for dead in the snowy night.
She vows revenge, but first has to put her broken body and shattered emotions back together. That's easier said than done, though. Her struggle to regain her life carries her to California, the land of dreams, which for Jeanette Connor will become the land of nightmares.
THE DEVIL'S DUE
By Arliss Adams
As a teenager and young adult, Jen Connor has withstood violent rape, a near-fatal illness, the loss of a husband, and the smashing of all her dreams. But that was only the beginning.
Now, at thirty, she faces a new set of challenges. As she returns to Los Angeles, the site of many of her nightmarish experiences, from her new home in Seattle, she knows what awaits her: powerful, vindictive former in-laws who are determined to reclaim Jen's son at all costs. But what she doesn't know is an evil figure from her past now calls LA home.
Her only allies are a Russian ballet instructor with shadowy contacts, an acid-tongued critic, the new man in her life, and her long-lost sister. Together they stand against Jen's adversaries, but will they be enough?
It seems like the internet just sucks the life out of you. You sit down to do a few things and the next thing you know, hours have passed. It's not like they're frivolous things, either. Maybe it's that I just have too much on my plate these days. I guess I'll have to learn to say a simple "no" or "I'm sorry, I can't" once in a while.
That's hard for me because I'm one of those people who think I can do everything. I've been like that my whole life.
Anyway, enough bitching. This week DEVIL'S DANCE and THE DEVIL'S DUE took another step toward the time when they will be published. The paperback/e-book/Kindle editions are at the point where the publisher is ready to set up the galleys. Of course, those must be reviewed and the cover designed, but it's one more step. The audio publisher is getting ready to record.
The moment I love is holding the newly published book in my hand and then listening to the audio book and seeing how the narrator brought the characters that were once only in my imagination to life. Hmmm. Time to start the PR and to book some advance launch signings.
Preparatory to that, here are the back-cover type blurbs for both books:
DEVIL'S DANCE
By Arliss Adams
How much physical and mental pain can a sixteen-year-old girl stand? Jeanette Connor is about to find out.
It's Chicago, 1955, and she is on the brink of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: a contract with the New York City Ballet. However, since she’s a minor, her mother must co-sign and she has different ideas. Jeanette's dream is smashed and instead she soon finds herself in a high-class brothel, being offered up as a little-girl-virgin type. Then a client beats her to within an inch of her life, and she's left for dead in the snowy night.
She vows revenge, but first has to put her broken body and shattered emotions back together. That's easier said than done, though. Her struggle to regain her life carries her to California, the land of dreams, which for Jeanette Connor will become the land of nightmares.
THE DEVIL'S DUE
By Arliss Adams
As a teenager and young adult, Jen Connor has withstood violent rape, a near-fatal illness, the loss of a husband, and the smashing of all her dreams. But that was only the beginning.
Now, at thirty, she faces a new set of challenges. As she returns to Los Angeles, the site of many of her nightmarish experiences, from her new home in Seattle, she knows what awaits her: powerful, vindictive former in-laws who are determined to reclaim Jen's son at all costs. But what she doesn't know is an evil figure from her past now calls LA home.
Her only allies are a Russian ballet instructor with shadowy contacts, an acid-tongued critic, the new man in her life, and her long-lost sister. Together they stand against Jen's adversaries, but will they be enough?
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