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Free Books

We got our author copies in the mail and the cover is so beautiful, I can’t believe it. Just fabulous. (I’m going to blog about the hell we went through to get it next week.)
Oh, you’d like to see it, too?
Mollie’s giving away fifty copies. No lie.
Here’s the deal: If you [...]

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Covers: Agnes and the Hitman

I’ve talked on here before about how important covers are, and what makes a good cover design, but not much about our actual cover choices. Agnes was an interesting cover journey because we got all good covers, beautifully designed, but until the end, they just weren’t . . . right.
The first one [...]

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The Quest for the Perfect Website

Bob and I are getting the content together for the Agnes website, and Mollie sent us a list of things she thought should go on it, your basic website line-up:
Home Page
About the Book
Bios
Event Schedule/Book Tour
Related Sites
Purchase Links
Those are all good and necessary, of course, but they struck me as Things We Want People To Know, [...]

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Four Steps To Reading Your Reviews

One of the questions I’m often asked is “How do you deal with reviews?” And the answer is, “I try not to read them,” but that’s actually a little facile. I read the professional reviews–print and online–but the drive-by reviews on Amazon and some of the other internet sites, no. I rarely [...]

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And the Winner Is . . .

You know, Bob and I should never be put in charge of anything. We don’t work well together. You probably haven’t noticed that but . . .
The winners are, in no particular order:

Charlene Teglia on May 19th, 2007 at 10:35 am
Out of the frying pan, into the line of fire.
me on May 21st, [...]

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Early Ink

So here’s a question:
What do you think of this site?

http://www.earlyink.com/
It just went up at 6PM ET today (Sunday) so you’ll be some of the first checking it out.

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Tagging Agnes

We still don’t have a good tagline for Agnes and the Hitman, and since many of you have been reading bits and pieces of the book or reading about us writing it on various blogs and therefore have a good grasp of what it’s about, and since a tagline contest just worked beautifully for another [...]

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Note to Self . . .

It’s been a little hectic lately. Stuff has happened. But it was okay, I was coping, and then I got an e-mail from my writing partner asking me if I remembered we had a book out. Which I hadn’t. Well, it was a rough week. And a half. [...]

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Another Country Heard From

Here’s the Korean cover for Strange Bedpersons. They got it mostly right, the cat, the red hair. I don’t remember the raking leaves part, but I still like it:

But the real reason I put up another post was to give you the full size good quality jpg for Tentacion (you’ll have to click [...]

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Tentacion

Speaking of foreign bookcovers, here’s Welcome to Temptation in Spain. She’s thin, but she’s not bony. Of course, she’s not Sophie, either, except for the red dress. I wish I could find the French Canadian version of WTT. It had the red dress, too. A red chiffon [...]

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