Monday Ticker:
Mar152010
Not nearly fast enough. Argh.
In other news, Wild Ride is in stores Tuesday, May March 16th. I know, who knew? For background on the book, see the Crusie-Mayer site. I just sent Mollie the page on the mythology (we made most of it up) so that may not be posted yet, but information on the Story, People, and Places (including a map) is all there, plus a Reader’s Guide which we’ll be using in the book discussion on the Cherry Forums which I think is April 1. Yes, I know I have to proofread the pages. I thought I did but I was mistaken. Wait until Wednesday to point out the errors, please.
And now, back to the book in progress. Liz has just been sort-of-arrested for murder. She is not happy.
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63 Comments to 'Monday Ticker:'
On March 16, 2010 at 12:16 am Karen Templeton said...
Um…did you mean MARCH 16th? As in, tomorrow?
Just checking.
On March 16, 2010 at 12:22 am Jenny said...
Did I mention my bad week?
Fixed now.
On March 16, 2010 at 12:46 am Micki said...
Amazon just sent me word that they shipped it! Just a few more days . . . .
BTW, that snail looks almost half-way. That’s good, right? And arrest sounds like a good thing (in a fictional character).
On March 16, 2010 at 1:02 am Jenny said...
She’s sleeping with the arresting officer and he has handcuffs. There should be comic gold in there somewhere, but right now it’s just pathetic. It would have to work up to blowing-dead-bears status. Such is the life of first drafts. “Officer, arrest that woman!” [Something funny with handcuffs here. Do not be pathetic.]
On March 16, 2010 at 9:10 am JulieB said...
Is se so perturbed that she vows he’ll never put them on her again?
On March 16, 2010 at 10:24 am Jenny said...
He never puts them on her. At least not so far. But it’s a short book. How many handcuff scenes could there be?
Don’t answer that. I know you guys.
On March 16, 2010 at 12:33 pm Sure thing said...
Good save, you DO know us!
On March 17, 2010 at 12:10 am Micki said...
Before I read Bet Me, I would have said one bratwurst scene in a book is one bratwurst scene too many. Now . . . if *you* see handcuff scenes being a running joke, well, go for it. I trust you implicitly. (wry grin) how much does Liz trust Mr. Police Officer, though? Is it a little early in the relationship to be introducing handcuffs? No . . . don’t answer that. Surprise me!
LOLOLOL! Thinking about how I wouldn’t want my husband to find out I was discussing handcuffs and sexuality in a public forum.
On March 16, 2010 at 1:59 am CrankyOtter said...
You’ll fix it. You do your best work in revision, not in first draft. Sending relentless perkiness and cheer your way. And wishes for many book sales, including mine.
On March 16, 2010 at 4:54 am Irina said...
My first book of yours was “Welcome to Temptation”. Great pleasure and fun. Besides, I was amazed how you use English, so sharp, short and juicy. I learned more then any dictionary can give of modern English language of modern clever and humorous woman. Plus so much in common with your books’ characters.
Now I found your blog. What a great find! All the best to you in your creativity and thank you so much.
On March 16, 2010 at 10:23 am Jenny said...
Welcome, Irina!
Although I’m not sure Crusie English is the way to go. It’s not, uh, standard usage. Lots of southern Ohio-isms. Plus obscenity. It could get you thrown out of some very nice places.
On March 16, 2010 at 11:48 am Merry the CB said...
“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.” – James D. Nicoll
On March 16, 2010 at 12:01 pm Diane (TT) said...
Merry, that is an awesome quotation!
On March 16, 2010 at 12:34 pm Sure thing said...
Oh, how great. I’m putting this on my Facebook page.
On March 16, 2010 at 1:06 pm Jenny said...
Love it. And it’s so true. We rip off everybody.
On March 16, 2010 at 7:21 am romsfuulynn said...
And also became available at fictionwise at midnight ET.
Downloaded, and studiously set aside, since I must go to work now.
On March 16, 2010 at 7:50 am Allie said...
Best week ever: I’m in the middle of Maybe This Time, and I took some online surveys and received enough Borders Bucks to cover a chunk of Wild Ride. WOOOOOOO!
On March 16, 2010 at 8:21 am Cindy said...
Yay! Just got my Amazon email saying they shipped the book! Woo hoo! And, re: the handcuffs – there was that excellent handcuff scene with Sophie & Phin so I know you will solve this one too-
On March 16, 2010 at 10:03 am Logical Judy Long said...
I read Wild Ride last night. I don’t have good enough words to express how wonderful it was. Is it still possible to become a cherry? I would love to discuss the book with people who have read it.
On March 16, 2010 at 10:28 am Jenny said...
Congratulations, you’re a Cherry.
The Cherry Forums are open to everyone. You have to register to get into the writer’s section because people talk about their work there, but I’m pretty sure for the Book Clubs you just show up and chime in. I’ll put up a reminder when it gets closer to the date: Apr 1 to 6 in the Book Club section (Alyssa Day is in there now with the newest in her Atlantis series).
And thank you for the kind words.
On March 16, 2010 at 10:42 am robena grant said...
Just got an email that my copy of Wild Ride is ready for pick up. Yay!
I’m sure you’ll figure out the handcuff scene. There’s nothing like playing cops and robbers with a real live, I mean ficitional, cop. ; )
On March 16, 2010 at 11:07 am June said...
I got it!! Hooray for Kindle! I leave tonight for a two week trip out of the country. I’m almost looking forward to the redeye tonight because I get to start a new book that I am sure to love. Thanks, Jenny! (and Bob!)
On March 16, 2010 at 11:41 am Bonnie C said...
Just popped over to the CM site – the map is awesome! Who is the artist?
On March 16, 2010 at 11:42 am Jenny said...
Damn, I forgot to ask. Good point. Stay tuned.
On March 16, 2010 at 12:28 pm Bethany said...
I loved the map, too. My local store was out so I have arranged to steal, er borrow my boyfriend’s car to drive to the next suburb over to buy one there I reserved over lunch. Planning more than a day ahead is not good for me. They should order more copies! They only have 8 more coming into my local Borders at the end of the week since they’ve sold out of their original stock
On March 16, 2010 at 12:04 pm Diane (TT) said...
Wild Ride is out for delivery today, I’m so excited. Sadly, I have a meeting this evening, but I should be home by 8 p.m.
There may not be much sleep tonight. Oops.
On March 16, 2010 at 12:17 pm Diane (TT) said...
My meeting was just canceled. There is a Bob.
On March 16, 2010 at 12:36 pm Sure thing said...
HAHAHAHA.
On March 16, 2010 at 2:10 pm Terrio said...
I’ve been losing sleep reading MAYBE THIS TIME (it’s AWESOME!!!!) and now that I’ve checked out the people in WILD RIDE, I can see more late nights in my future.
Does Tura hire out? Just wondering.
On March 16, 2010 at 5:02 pm Bonnie C said...
Hey, no gloating!
Jenny, may I humbly suggest that for the next gieaway (please please please) maybe try something more in the nature of a lottery rather than a stampede? mkthx!
On March 16, 2010 at 6:07 pm Jenny said...
Yeah, that wasn’t one of our giveaways, that was an SMP thing. But we learned from it, really.
On March 16, 2010 at 9:04 pm Terrio said...
To be fair, I’ve had this thing for over a week and purposely NOT said a word about it. Just so as not to gloat. But it’s HARD to keep quiet about this story.
I’ll just say, I *heart* North. And Jenny. And SMP!
On March 16, 2010 at 9:23 pm Bonnie C said...
That’s it! Next giveawy – lottery AND a no gloating clause! Hmpf!
(Terrio, you know I whine because I am sooooo jealous, yes?
)
On March 16, 2010 at 3:49 pm McB said...
According to the copyright page, Rhys Davies drew the map
Lots of fun stuff in Wild Ride! Some very fun, quotable lines. And the acknowledgment page is Pulitzer material
On March 16, 2010 at 5:07 pm Bonnie C said...
Awesome! Thank you.
I’m a sucker for maps, a holdover from my fantasy days when the map in the front was the only way I could tell where any of Eddings’ books were going.
On March 16, 2010 at 3:50 pm Merry the CB said...
Sigh… there’s going to be no living with her now…
On March 16, 2010 at 4:28 pm GatorPerson said...
Ran over to Borders to get my copy. They still had them in the back. AND will put them in the Romance Section after they’re done with the Current Release section. Grouse. Ah, well, it’s impossible to go against type.
McB may never descend to earth. I think I can feel her glow from here, a few hundred miles away. But I guess she earned it, GP said grudgingly, reaching for the bag of fortune cookies. Maybe McB needs to give us Virgos a fortune. Jenny’s sources give sucky fortunes. True. But sucky.
On March 16, 2010 at 4:56 pm Jenny said...
Hey, I steal lines from people, I give credit. It was the least I could do.
On March 16, 2010 at 4:56 pm rivki said...
I was randomly on Amazon checking to see when your next book came out and I saw that today was the day! I just picked up a copy and enabled at least one other friend to do the same. Can’t wait to read it.
Heh, got another one before I managed to hit submit. Hope your month gets better.
On March 16, 2010 at 6:06 pm Jenny said...
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
On March 16, 2010 at 5:04 pm robena grant said...
Wow! Got my copy of Wild Ride, and ducked into Marie Callendar’s for lunch and started to read while waiting for my food. This is so much fun. Thank you, Jenny and Bob.
You’re the goddess of the cumulative sentence, Jenny; you create an amazing picture and there is a fabulous rythm underlying your words. I so want to be you when I grow up.
On March 16, 2010 at 6:10 pm Jenny said...
Did some run-ons again, did I? Well, Mab is not a clear thinker.
On March 17, 2010 at 12:18 am Micki said...
(-: You know, if we wanted Hemingway, we’d read Hemingway.
I think the earliest book I’ve read of yours is The Cinderella Deal, and you already have a lovely voice in it. And you’ve managed to keep it, although on the blog we watch you struggle at starving that voice, and beating it into some sort of fantasy Thin Voice. And you never quite succeed, thank all the gods and muses, and deliver prose that is rich and beautiful and fulsome.
I dunno, you work hard at fighting flab, and good job. But don’t attack the curves and valleys of your prose.
On March 17, 2010 at 2:02 am Carol Anne said...
I agree, a lovely voice The Cinderella Deal. It was like an appetizer for Bet Me.
On March 16, 2010 at 5:37 pm Deb said...
So Jenny, how’s your sense of humor these days? I ask as I just bought Wild Ride through Amazon, Kindle version. While the book itself seems to be fine, the author listing in the meta data is uhm, off. The authors are listed as “Jennifer Mayer, Bob Crusie”. That’s quite a “ride”.
On March 16, 2010 at 6:11 pm Jenny said...
And they’re such nice people, too.
On March 16, 2010 at 7:57 pm McB said...
Hey, ready made pen names.
But seriously, my day started badly when I discovered where my tax refund was going to have to go (why did I think home ownership was a good idea?) and the bright spot was knowing that, since I was off to meet with repairpersons anyway, I could get to B&N that much sooner. The acknowledgments were a really nice surprise on a day when I can use one.
The book really is a lot of fun. I keeping coming across new favorite lines. A really fun read, lots of great dialog, even the demons are entertaining.
FYI to everyone, the crusiemayer.com website also has a pdf for the prequel, if you haven’t read that yet.
On March 16, 2010 at 9:05 pm Deborah Blake said...
On pg 262 of WILD RIDE and I can tell you, it has improved my lousy week no end. Clearly, you need a Jenny Crusie of your own. Do you need me to stalk you with more chocolate? ‘Cause I’m just the girl to do it.
My favorite lines so far:
“I’m drowning my sorrows,” Mab said, enunciating clearly.
“How’s that going?”
“Not too well.” She gazed at the empty cups sadly. “The little suckers are buoyant as all hell.”"
Ain’t that the truth!!!
Don’t know if it will do anything to improve your lousy week, but I am about to go blog about the book to my many thousands (well, demi-hundreds) of avid followers. All of whom read. And I’m going to mention it to the 40+ people taking my current online writing class as well (since the topic is writing new and interesting paranormal characters).
And then I’m going to go back to reading it, which is best of all.
On March 16, 2010 at 9:30 pm Deborah Blake said...
Jenny, in case you are curious (or worried) about my blog post about WILD RIDE–here’s the link http://tinyurl.com/ykjjg6q
Hope the rest of your week is looking up!
On March 16, 2010 at 9:33 pm KellyJ said...
I had to work late tonight (GRRR) – my treat for myself is to run in to the bookstore on the way home and pick up Wild Ride. I will always be eternally grateful to Bob Mayer because I met him at a writer’s workshop years ago and he introduced me to your books. We need more Crusie books to be stocked in stored down here in middle GA. But thanks to Amazon, I now have them all… can’t wait to read the latest. Can’t wait to meet Liz. either.
On March 17, 2010 at 1:53 am Lou said...
Humpf, humpf I say. Here on the left coast my local Borders did NOT have WR out. Don’t know if they had it in back because they refused to go look (“we have 10 pallets of books back there and everything that was supposed to be “laid down” today is out) – HA!!
Sooo, I drove many, many, many miles through rain, sleet, snow, and hail uphill both going and coming back to get to the Barnes and Noble in the next city, and got my copy – after the very helpful clerk went in the back and searched. I’m beginning to wonder about distribution from the right coast to the left coast. I think I will use Amazon more often…
Oh – and there is no living with McB now, but she deserves her 15 minutes. . .
On March 17, 2010 at 3:35 am CrankyOtter said...
Lou, I had a similar experience here in SoCal. Normally the Borders is way better than the B&N but I shopped at B&N after getting a great gift cert, which is how I know. But it was a good thing I called ahead. Either I bought the last copy or they didn’t have Wild Ride out. I checked EVERY new-book display, the mystery section, the romance section, the paranormal romance display, the new releases – no Wild Ride, no holes in the display. So I’m kinda wondering how they expect it to sell. Plus, it was full price. I’d printed out a backup coupon to use on an auxilliary paperback, but had to use it on Wild Ride, which for the record, was $14 if purchased from Border’s online but $25 in the store. I’m thinking of a sternly worded letter… But I do, through some help over the phone that took about ten minutes on hold, have my copy. Whew!
On March 17, 2010 at 8:39 am Deb said...
@ Lou, Your problem was my problem, even here in the Midwest. This is exactly why I bought a Kindle. This seems to be a growing problem. If the bookstores want to succeed, they need to get the stock out.
Loving the book Jenny.
On March 25, 2010 at 3:24 pm Lisa, cherry gelato said...
Lou–for your future Crusie book planning–Amazon delivered my copy on the laydown date–I was able to avoid all that left coast rain, sleet, snow, and hail.
On March 17, 2010 at 7:02 am McB said...
I went to B&N cuz I had $$ left on a gift card. From the sound of it, it was a good choice anyway. Plus B&N has the better coffee shop.
On March 17, 2010 at 10:03 am me said...
Got mine last night at B&N, but they only had ONE copy (I’m guessing/hoping it was because all the others had already sold out by 5:45 p.m.) in the fiction section.
Great read so far. Many laugh-out-loud lines.
On March 17, 2010 at 10:14 am Diane (TT) said...
My copy was $14.06 from Amazon and it WAS there when I got home last night! But Amazon did not send hot coffee or a scone, so McB may have the better of me (although there was still pie left from Pi Day).
I read half of it before bed and experimented with going to sleep before it was done (having stayed up late reading the PREVIOUS night, due to poor planning) and it was still there when I got up! I wish I could say that I will hitherto observe bedtime, but it was probably the result of Lenten discipline and won’t last. So I finished it before breakfast, and it was terrific! Lots of great dialogue, some unexpected twists, and really interesting demons.
Very satisfying. I didn’t have time to read it again, yet (I have to work as well as sleep – life is SO unreasonable!), but I’m sure I’ll love it at least as much the second time through.
I’m glad I read the prequel yesterday, while waiting for the insurance agent to call. Much better than doing it as a prologue, but I think it was good background to the story.
On March 17, 2010 at 10:52 am Deborah Blake said...
Page 305. Sobbing. Page 305.
On March 17, 2010 at 11:14 am Bethany said...
Bought my copy yesterday (after my boyfriend used his lunchbreak to run over to Borders to make sure the store clerk hadn’t been lying to me). I used it to bribe myself to get to the bus early today as I had (for me) an arse-early meeting this morning and a ton of work to do last night.
Bus came just as I got to the stop and reading on the bus makes me queasy so it’s going to be my St. patrick’s day celebration read. Mab sounds almost Irish, right?
On March 17, 2010 at 11:31 am Jennifer said...
Finished Wild Ride last night around 11. Got the happy, warm glow I get from all of your books hovering around me, and I’m hoping it will hang around for a few days. Through the weekend, when I’m taking a troop of girls camping in what is forecast to be snow would be good.
LOTS I’d love to say about the book, but don’t want to spoil anything for others, so I can wait.
On March 17, 2010 at 12:31 pm Lou said...
Jenny (she asks gently) – One of the Cherrybombs provided a link to her library audio book of WR. The dedication in the audio book is different than the printed one (audio has two people, printed version has one). Is the printed version a mistake??
On March 17, 2010 at 4:25 pm Jenny said...
Oh, dear.
The audio people didn’t get the revised book.
Which means that they didn’t get the WHOLE revised book.
Did I mention my sucky MONTH?
Thanks, Lou.
On March 17, 2010 at 4:33 pm Lou said...
You are welcome, although I must say that I was quite touched by the audio dedication…