Category: livejournal entry

The Evernight launch is getting closer — seriously, it seems like, overnight, the situation changed from “someday, eventually, the book comes out” to “OMG TOMORROW TOMORROW TOMORROW.” May 27 is not tomorrow, but it feels like it, particularly when I have so much left to do. At least I’ve finalized my web copy, and with my talented designer’s help, I think we’ll be able to go live shortly.

(Of course, web copy work kept me from doing more than one chapter of Hourglass this week, but I’ll just have to go double-time next week –)

And we got REALLY great news from Barnes & Noble, which has decided to give Evernight a display in bookstores. I am strongly tempted to claim one of them for myself and keep it around the house. To store knick-knacks or something. I’m definitely going to take lots of camera-phone photos of them.

Top all that off with last night’s win for the Giants, and I’m in a fabulous mood. (What can I say? Born in Mississippi, living in New York, I’ve got twice the reasons to root for Eli Manning.)

This is not for the Evernight series — it’s just an idea I have, right now, but I’m interested to see what you guys think!

She is 17 years old, a witch by birth and by training, very spirited and funny. She goes after what she wants and can be fierce about it (if bordering on unfair, at times). Her hair and eyes are both dark brown, and she’s so short that she’s often taken for being younger than she is, to her displeasure.

I can’t do polls unless I pay for this LJ (not there yet), but in comments, let me know if you prefer:

* Cecily
* Genevieve
* Gwen
* May
* Roxie
* Ruby

Got other ideas? Let me know?

UP: Lots of snow predicted!

DOWN: Predicted for yesterday, which was bone-dry. It’s finally started snowing a teeny bit here in Manhattan, but it is not the fluffy winter wonderland we were promised.

UP: FedEx is sending my very, very final edits to Evernight back to HarperCollins!

DOWN: But first, they mistakenly sent them to Utah. UTAH.

(Note: I live in New York. I mailed the edits from a location approximately 20 blocks from HarperCollins. And they sent them to UTAH.)

UP: FedEx finally found the package in Utah and got it back where it needed to go.

DOWN: I had to rename the male lead of the entire Evernight series, and on such short notice that I only had two days to choose!

UP: His new name is Lucas, which already I like so much better than the name that came before.

ALSO UP: My new sofa arrives Saturday, which means my apartment will actually be completely finished by Feb. 1.

With more ups than downs, I think this week’s roller-coaster ride gets a Wheee! instead of an Aaaaaaghh! Although I was thinking a lot of variations on Aaaaaagh! when my edits were lost in Utah.

Because the main character in Evernight loves classic black-and-white movies, I thought I’d like to this great article about Cary Grant.

Grant was, of course, a beautiful, beautiful man. He was also a fantastic actor. But there’s another reason why Bianca idealizes him in Evernight, though she isn’t entirely conscious of it —

It’s been far too long since I posted, but it’s been a tough few months. My gallbladder decided to stop functioning — so there was surgery — and I had to move — so there was packing, and moving, and unpacking — and then there was a sidewalk slip that left my right arm a sling for a while. Yeesh. My main new year’s resolution is to have a less eventful (and more fun!) 2008.

Certainly, on the book front, things are very exciting. I just got the ARCS of Evernight, and that surreal moment is finally here: It’s a book. It didn’t seem real to me at first, to be honest; when it finally hit me was when I took one ARC home and shelved it on my own bookshelf. A small moment — but that was the single second, aside from the actual news that we’d sold the books, that felt like a turning point to me.

Evernight‘s release date has been moved up, too — to May 27. It will be here before I know it!

Next up for me — getting final revisions done on Stargazer, the sequel to Evernight, and completing my Website copy, so the designer and I can meet our goal of getting the site online in February. After that, it’s time to jump into Hourglass, the third book in the series.

Yeah, I’d better hope 2008 is a little less adventurous than 2007! I’ve got a lot to do.

Including catching up with fangs_fur_fey, and all of you —

No, really, it’s the BIGGEST HOLE IN THE WORLD. They’ve banned flying over it because, apparently, it’s so large it creates suction and has taken out a couple of helicopters. That’s a mean, mean hole. (It’s actually a diamond mine.)

Apparently there’s a copper mine that argues it is even larger, but based on my in-depth analysis (i.e., looking at pictures online), my money’s on the Russian one.

Ursula K. LeGuin writes a very brief, very awesome suspense story about the horror that is — genre writing! Aaaahhghghh!

Monday night, I finished the first draft of Stargazer. I’m partway through reading it now, on paper for the first time; it’s amazing how much that alters my perception of some parts of the book. I have a long weekend of redrafting ahead, but my hope is for my betas to get a look at it around the middle of next week. Very, very excited about this — I’m almost halfway done with the series. It seems unbelievable!

Well, let me get that next draft done. I shouldn’t get too excited before all the rewrites.

Misunderstanding of the concept of communion?

Exorcism gone horribly wrong?

Mistaken for Easter cookie?

“Crucifix In Throat Removed Without Knife.”

Apparently the writer considered the knife-free aspect to be the oddest part of this story.

The strangeness of life is delightful, sometimes.

Believe it or not, there’s a lot of jurisprudence on this, including the famous Stambovsky v. Ackley case in New York that requires sellers to disclose the existence of a ghost. (Haunting, they find, is a defect that even a reasonably prudent buyer probably could not discover on his own during inspections.) Because the seller in question had given interviews in the local media about the ghost in the house, that seller was estopped from denying in court that the haunting was real, which meant that the house was haunted AS A MATTER OF LAW.

If all law were like this, I’d still be a lawyer. But I digress.

Anyway, to my delight, I’ve found a Web site that deals with the hard issues facing sellers who want to unload 3 br./2 bth./1 ghst. residences: Haunted Real Estate.

There are even tips for how to frame the existence of a ghost as a plus. Turns out plenty of people would like to live in a haunted house.

(Sometime I’ll talk about Aunt Kitty’s poltergeist. She loved him dearly.)

Scroll on down to the bottom of the page to get an eerily sexist slice of life from the 1950s:

Your Kitchen Can Fit Your Wife (or vice versa).