Monthly Archives: October 2009
General greetings to new readers, and also, Nanowrimo!
| October 31, 2009 | Posted by annathepiper under About Me |
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I’d like to issue a general shoutout to a bunch of the folks from the Outer Alliance. We’ve all been going on a Friending spree lately and checking out each other’s journals, and several of y’all are now listening in here via Livejournal. LJ people already reading, please feel free to drop a comment and say hi to the new folks. And if you’re actually reading this from angelakorrati.com, hi as well and don’t feel shy; grab a chair, raise a jar, and drop a comment to introduce yourself.
Anyway, for those of you just tuning in, I’m Angela Korra’ti, a.k.a. Anna the Piper, and wherever you’re reading me from, I’m the author of Faerie Blood from Drollerie Press. When I’m not posting on angelakorrati.com about my writing, I am posting from annathepiper.org about everything else. By “everything else”, I generally mean “Great Big Sea, periodic jam sessions at my house, and books”. Lots and lots of books. You’ll see me post a lot of book reviews as I endeavor to top my annual goal of 100 books per year.
Right now though I’m probably about to enter extensive radio silence, given that Nanowrimo is upon us, and I need to start work on Faerie Blood‘s sequel. I will endeavor to post regular updates on my progress, and I’m also officially signed up on the Nanowrimo site as annathepiper. Feel free to keep tabs on my progress in either place! And for those of you who are also tackling Nanowrimo this year, good luck!
Oh and by the way, y'all, about the Penguin…
| October 21, 2009 | Posted by annathepiper under Faerie Blood |
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I call this out on my Credits page, but I’ll call it out a little louder, because I’ve been asked a couple of times if the Electric Penguin, the geek bar/haven Kendis describes in Faerie Blood, exists. It does not. It is mostly a heavily geeked-up version of Jillian’s in my brain. But if it existed, I would totally frequent the place.
Mama’s Mexican Restaurant on the other hand is entirely real, including the Elvis decorations, and anybody who visits Seattle should totally go there and have a margarita. And think of Elessir when you do.
Reminder: the Review Contest is still on!
| October 21, 2009 | Posted by annathepiper under Drollerie Press, Faerie Blood |
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I’ve had a bit of response come in on this (thanks much to Nancy, , Marian, and Lexie, who will all be in the drawing!), but wanted to issue a general reminder to everybody else:
My Drollerie Review contest is still on until October 31st! You still have time to get in on the $20 gift certificate goodness. So if you’ve read a Drollerie book this month–maybe you got in on our sale?–and you’d like to participate, just drop a comment on this post with a pointer to where you’ve publically reviewed or rated what you’ve read. I’ll do the drawing for who gets the gift certificate on November 1st!
And now, the October 2009 Drollerie Blog Tour
| October 21, 2009 | Posted by annathepiper under Drollerie Press |
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We had a bit of server trouble on drolleriepress.com this evening, so this is a mirror copy of this month’s blog tour post! Enjoy, all!
Hey all, and welcome to the October 2009 edition of the Drollerie Blog Tour! This month’s theme is the lesser-known holiday of Sweetest Day, and we’re taking the opportunity to touch upon the general theme of what the day stands for: those who are encouraging to us. Some of us will be addressing this in terms of our writing, and others? It’ll be our characters.
And without further ado…
Sarah Avery is hosting Heather Ingemar’s post about how her first writing mentor helped her get serious
Nora Fleischer has my own little character vignette about a moment of encouragement in the early life of my heroine from Faerie Blood
On Meredith Holmes’ blog, Heather Parker talks about how a pair of cats and one well-timed remark from her husband gave rise to Middlewitch
Jessica Howe has a guest post from John Rosenman, who wants to give credit to several people who have helped his writing career
Imogen Howson is hosting Catherine Schaff-Stump, who describes her reaction to Sweetest Day
Heather Ingemar has a visit from Fraser Sherman, who sings the praises of people who may surprise you–or not, if you’re a writer yourself
I’ve got Sarah Avery, who tells us about one of the nicest things her husband ever did to assist her writing
At Heather Parker’s blog, Nora Fleischer gives thanks to the first author who ever gave real praise to her work
John Rosenman hosts Meredith Holmes, who thanks several people important to her and her writing efforts
Catherine Schaff-Stump has a post from Jessica Howe, who wants to tell us about the land where her muse has gone to play
And last but not least, Fraser Sherman hosts hosts Heather Ingemar, who finds that Sweetest Day has something in common with her own writing efforts
Thanks again all for reading all our posts. Which, we daresay, is all part of the theme this month!
Drollerie Blog Tour: Sarah Avery on the Sweetest Day
| October 21, 2009 | Posted by annathepiper under Drollerie Press |
Hey there all, it’s Drollerie Blog Tour day again, and this time around we’ve chosen as our theme an October holiday. No no, not the one you’re thinking of; we’re writing about Sweetest Day, and by extension, people who have been helpful, kind, or encouraging to us about our writing, or as the case may be, to our various characters.
I’m hosting the inimitable this time around, and without further ado, I shall turn the floor over to her!
The living room looked as if a Babies-R-Us had exploded in it. On the dining table, three baskets of clean laundry waited for someone to fold them. The kitchen floor was still smeared with finger paint, how many days after the painting incident? We weren’t really sure anymore. And our son wanted to experiment with the potty, which meant somebody would have to spend the next hour reading him those same damn potty training picture books. Between my students’ return from vacation, Dan’s work deadlines, and Gareth’s obsession with wearing big-boy underpants, we had completely lost our grip on the chores.
It was the fourth night in a row that I’d planned to get out of the house and write, only to conclude I had no right to the time. Yet again, I rolled up my sleeves and headed for the sink. The pile of dishes threatened to topple down onto the counter at any moment.
“Go write,” said Dan. “I’ve got it under control.”
I couldn’t help laughing. “Under control?”
“All right, nothing is under control. Go write anyway.” He picked up the picture books I could not stand to look at one more time that day. “Gareth, give Mommy a good-night hug. She needs to go to work now. Sarah, I don’t want to see you back here until they close up at Barnes & Noble.”
Nothing was under control, of course. Three hours later, I came home to a house Dan had been working on ceaselessly since the moment he tucked our son into his crib, and the place still looked like it merited a visit from a reality television crew from the Home and Garden network. It’s amazing how effort disappears into the vortex of parenthood.
I’d written my five hundred words, like a person or something, like a writer, like the self I remembered being. It was the sweetest day.
Many thanks to Sarah for sharing this lovely moment with us! And if you’d like to continue checking out the blog tour posts, go visit Heather Parker and check out Nora Fleischer’s post there!
Nanowrimo ahoy, and an interview!
| October 19, 2009 | Posted by annathepiper under About Me |
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I just Tweeted about this, but for those of you following me in longer form, check it out: I’ve had my very first online interview over here with the folks at Editorial Department, who approached me for my thoughts on Nanowrimo. Also featured in the article are Australian SF author Simon Haynes and craft diva Kathy Cano-Murillo, who’s coming out with her first novel in 2010.
Since Nanowrimo’s closing in, I thought this’d be timely to post about. Hope y’all enjoy the read.
On a related note, I do actually plan to take on Nanowrimo this year. The goal: to write Bone Walker, the now-retitled Book 2 that will follow up on Faerie Blood. I need to finish my outline planning by the end of this month, and then we’ll see if I can dive in on November 1!
Screenshot help for the Faerie Blood/Drollerie review contest
| October 12, 2009 | Posted by annathepiper under Drollerie Press, Faerie Blood |
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Hi folks! If you want to send me a screenshot of evidence that you’ve rated/reviewed Faerie Blood or any other Drollerie work, this is a post to walk you through how to do that. Those of you who know how to do this already, no worries, you can go about your business.
A few nice Faerie Blood reviews
| October 11, 2009 | Posted by annathepiper under Faerie Blood |
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Although they’re really still thin on the ground, I’ve had a few Faerie Blood reviews show up in the wild lately–hopefully, thanks to the little drawing contest!
calls it an excellent mix of the supernatural and the geeky.
Fellow Drollerie author Elisa Diehl (who y’all may remember was a guest blogger here for the last round of the Blog Tour) sees herself in its pages, which is really rather nifty to hear. *^_^*;;
And over on Faerie Blood‘s Goodreads page, fellow Drollerie author Heather Parker dropped a short but lovely review, and Rae L, who’s on the same Paranormal Mystery list I’m on, has good things to say too.
Thanks to you all for your reading time and your support!
Ebook drawing contest update!
| October 4, 2009 | Posted by annathepiper under Drollerie Press, Faerie Blood |
Folks, I’m seeing a distinct lack of reaction so far to my proposed drawing for a $20 gift certificate! So in order to give y’all more time to maybe get a hold of a Drollerie book and get it properly reviewed, I am hereby extending the contest to the end of this month. That’ll mean you have until October 31st to read and review any Drollerie book–it doesn’t have to be mine!–and get me evidence of your review to get into the drawing.
Spread the word! And don’t forget, all our ebooks are on sale right now over at drolleriepress.com, so you can pick up a lot of ebooks cheap!
And oh yes, since I was asked this on my original contest post: I’ll accept previously posted reviews, I think, if you show me evidence of newly pointing people at said reviews. (Such as on your blog/journal, a forum post, something on Twitter or Facebook, etc.) My goal here is to encourage spreading the word about Drollerie, and previously written reviews, while fabulous, are already out there working to spread the word. I’d like to see new word being spread! And, of course, if you’ve already written reviews of Drollerie work, don’t let this stop you from writing brand new ones of different books. 
The Drollerie Press sale has begun!
| October 3, 2009 | Posted by annathepiper under Drollerie Press |
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Folks, the promised gigantic sale has now launched at Drollerie Press! If any of you were waffling about when a good time to buy Faerie Blood would be, now would be fabulous. You can get the book for a mere $1.99!
All novel-length works are that same price (and I encourage you all to think very strongly about Cindy Lynn Speer’s The Chocolatier’s Wife or ‘s Beautiful Death), and shorter works range lower! As always, we sell in a variety of shiny DRM-free formats. Older works will be available in PDF, Microsoft Reader, and Mobi format, but our newer releases will also have Sony Reader and ePub.
For the interested, the sale prices should also be propagating out to some of the other vendors who carry us. Mobipocket is also carrying our sale prices, and although it may take until next week, Amazon will as well.
Go enjoy the reduced-price goodness, people! And don’t forget–if you review a Drollerie work and send me evidence of doing so, I’ll put you into the contest!
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