Monthly Archives: May 2009
A few recent frequently asked questions
| May 29, 2009 | Posted by annathepiper under Faerie Blood |
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I flung a few questions at my editor, and she got back to me. So FYI, y’all:
Q: When will Faerie Blood be on Amazon?
A: “Amazon is VERY slow at getting books up, expect it to take about 2 weeks.”
To which I will add that since FB came out just this past Monday, I’ll expect it to be at least another week if not longer. So in the meantime if you’re a Kindle owner and you want the book, your options are a) buy off of mobipocket.com, or b) buy the Mobi edition off of drolleriepress.com.
Note also that my editor says: “The mobipocket on the bookshop is manageable by the Kindle. The one on the mobipocket store is harder because it has DRM.”
Q: The Drollerie store’s asking for personal data from me! How else can I buy the book?
A: Again from my editor: “If anyone wants to buy the book but doesn’t want to open an account, they can send the payment to accounts@drollerie.com through PayPal and note what it’s for and the format they want and I’ll send it to them.”
Formats currently available are PDF, Mobi, and Microsoft Reader.
Thanks to for providing this data!
If you're waiting for the Kindle version of FB
| May 28, 2009 | Posted by annathepiper under Faerie Blood |
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… I beg your patience! I’ve already asked when it’s due on Amazon, but I don’t have an answer on that yet. In the meantime, I know of at least two people who have already purchased the book off of mobipocket.com and converted it to Kindle format. So that’s doable if you have the time and the know-how!
Could anyone who’s done a mobi->Kindle conversion drop a comment on this post and let others know how it’s done? Many thanks!
Whoa! I'm on Goodreads!
| May 27, 2009 | Posted by annathepiper under Faerie Blood |
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Faerie Blood has now made it into the database up on Goodreads, and it wasn’t even entered in by me! There it is right there with cover art and everything! I’ve jumped on it to see about getting myself associated with the book entry as its author, which should be neat and stuff. You’ll see me with a star by my name as soon as they set that up for me. In the meantime, I stuck the feed for angelakorrati.com in on the author profile data associated with the book, since I have librarian access on the site.
Y’all will have to pardon me while I have me another whomperjaw moment, and sternly remind myself not to be checking Amazon every five minutes to see whether I’ve shown up there too!
This just in: Faerie Blood is now FOR SALE
| May 25, 2009 | Posted by annathepiper under Faerie Blood |
Folks, I am positively whomperjawed to announce that Faerie Blood is NOW ONLINE and available for purchase from Drollerie Press!
Check out the release announcement by my editor, and Chapters 1 and 2 and a bit of 3 on the Drollerie site as well!
And, um, buy my book and stuff. Y’know, if you wanna. *^_^*;;
Introducing: Kendis Thompson!
| May 23, 2009 | Posted by annathepiper under Faerie Blood |
Ladies and gentlemen, I have COVER ART!
Wait, WHAT, Faerie Blood is nigh?!
| May 21, 2009 | Posted by annathepiper under Faerie Blood |
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So we had our monthly chat on drolleriepress.com tonight, and some of the first words my editor greeted me with were “Faerie Blood is coming out this weekend!”
My jaw dropped. I boggled. I pointed out I haven’t even seen cover art yet, but Deena swears up and down the book is imminent. I don’t know if we’ll pull this off yet, given that this is a holiday weekend, but keep your fingers crossed, folks! The book may in fact be about to drop.
And speaking of this month's blog tour
| May 21, 2009 | Posted by annathepiper under Drollerie Press, Faerie Blood |
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I’ve written another character vignette for the Faerie Blood universe, which Cindy Speer is kindly hosting for me!
You can meet my hero Christopher’s mother, and see her forced to make a very difficult decision over here. Also, there is a bouzouki!
Go check it out, folks, and while you’re there, say hi to Cindy and check out her site and her work, too. Tell her I sent ya.
Drollerie Blog Tour: Meredith Holmes on impending motherhood
| May 21, 2009 | Posted by annathepiper under Drollerie Press |
This month’s Drollerie Blog Tour theme is “mothers”, and this time around, I’m hosting Drollerie Press author Meredith Holmes. Meredith is the author of Unseelie, and if you know me well at all, you can bet that this is a book I can support.
Y’all check out Meredith’s essay on her own impending motherhood, and how she feels this may affect her writing! Enjoy.
My muse demands bronzeriders, who knew?
| May 14, 2009 | Posted by annathepiper under Lament of the Dove |
I just finished writing 500 words or so about a bronzerider character I used to write for Telgar Weyr, the offline Pern fan club group I used to be in, and which is making noises about resurrecting itself lately. This is pertinent to my writing efforts because, for the first time in many months, I felt my brain leap at the idea of revisiting a lot of stories that I never did get to finish when the club fell over before.
So for the last couple of weeks, I’ve been distracted with that. Which is, I know I know, not exactly conducive to me getting Lament of the Dove done. But I can say this: after writing that snippet about J’marr, I felt a lot more sanguine about poking at Lament, and I fired up Chapter 20 and went through a couple of (fairly light) pages of editing until realizing I needed to bugger off to bed.
Apparently my muse has just been jonesing to write about a hot young bronzerider. If that’s what it takes to get my ass back in gear, I am happy to oblige it!
I’m still in Chapter 20, although my mental page pointer has moved ahead from page 4 to page 7. And now I’m in the good bit of this chapter–the scene with Faanshi trying to deal with what she’s discovered about Alarrah. Let’s see what happens next.
Edited tonight: Net loss of zero, actually, although I did take out a few words and put a few others in
Chapter 20 revised total: 4,509
Lament of the Dove revised total: 121,904
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