Good News Post

Welcome to this week's Good News!

COVERS & BLURBS

Jess Anastasi

Heart of the Warlord gets a cover....castles and spaceships, oh my! Scheduled for release 16th April.

Blurb:


On the planet Kanaan, Jiovahnie Dorrian, the Marques of Gryffin, walks a fine line between keeping his place in society amongst the Ruling Families, and his ancestral legacy of being a warlord. Though he'd rather stay camped in the Borderlands with his men, when his cousin, the Duque of Harkin is to be married, it’s the event of the season. One he can't miss. After all, the duque expects him to be the best man. But Vahn doesn't anticipate his best man duties to include fetching his cousin's bride when an enemy attempts to abduct her.


Lady Gwynevive Tyne isn't the wilting Miss society expects her to be. And when mercenaries attack her traveling party on the way to her intended husband's home, she does what any self-respecting girl should — tries to steal the enemy's ship to escape. But before she can get away with the reckless plan, a warrior turns up claiming to be sent by her fiancé. He dresses like a mercenary and his silvery, metal-gray eyes make her heart beat a little too fast.

For both Vahn and Gwyn, a forbidden attraction flames to life between them almost instantly. Both know there's no way they can be together. Yet neither of them can stay away from one another. An enemy is intent on preventing Gwyn's marriage, and at every turn, Vahn finds himself protecting Gwyn from danger. He needs to keep her safe and then hand her over to his cousin to wed. And when the time comes, they have to find some way to let each other go… Or risk starting a war that could tear apart the Ruling Families.

COMPETITIONS

New member, Carolyn is a finalist in the Emerald's Category session (Romance Writers of Australia). Woohoo!

REVIEWS

Kylie Griffin

Vengeance Born gets a 4 heart review from Riverina Romantics. Here's a snippet:

"Annika and Kalan were a match made in fantasy heaven. A sweet yet tortured heroine and Kalan was the hero that conquered her demons and showed her what love truly meant. The connection between the two is felt early on but you are left simmering for a while until they finally get their act together. "

RELEASES

Lilliana Rose

The Run Away (poem) as been published in The Mozzie, Jan/Feb edition 2012. Well done to our resident poet.

OTHER

Keri Arthur

Good news for Keri's fans in Melbourne. Keri will be appearing at SupaNova Melbourne (13th-15th April).  She'll be signing at the Dymocks stand from about 10am to close.  Check out the website for details. 

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Keep up with our great news next week....

Supanova reminder

Seeing as I missed putting this in the Weekly Overview post on Sunday, I'd like to remind you that some of our authors will be at Supanova, which is in Brisbane from today to Sunday!

Our Dark Siders include Keri Arthur, Tracey O'Hara and Rowena Cory Daniells.

Tracey

On Saturday, they will be at the following panels:

Rowena

2.30pm – Marianne de Pierres and Rowena in the Supanvnova Seminar Room – Steps to Publication

3.30pm – Tracey and Keri in the Supanova Seminar room – Introduction to Paranormal


You will also see them at the Dymocks booth over the weekend as well. So don't miss out on getting your books signed!

You can find the program here (opens pdf file).

Keri

Other Dark Siders who are going to support and enjoy the event are Mel, Denise, Nicky, and Leanne. Give them a big DS cheer from all of us, ladies.

Have fun!!

Supanova Sydney 2011

Ever had one of those weeks where everything hits at once. That is my week. So mega apologies up front for being so late with my Magic Thursday post.

Nicole, Erica and me (thanks Kathy for the pic)

This year I was able to get an artist’s table at Supanova pop culture expo. I had a friend at me for years to go and check it out. I invited fellow darksiders Nicole Murphy and Erica Hayes  to join me as the table had 3 expo passes included. Supanova is similar to the Comic Cons held in the States.

View from our room

So Friday afternoon, Nicole and I set of from our home town to make the 3 hour trek to Sydney with the added bonus of driving my first ever brand new car. The drive went quickly and was fun. We talked lots about books, authors, publishing and just... you know... normal stuff writers talk about when they get together with someone who understands them. We met Erica in Sydney out the place we were staying. We were on the 24th floor and, boy, what a view we had.

And this was not even at a busy time

Saturday morning we drove to the Supanova venue – eventually getting there after my stupid phone GPS took us the wrong way. The Dome at Sydney Olympic park was massive. That should have been a clue. Vendor and stalls were set up all around and we dropped off our things and went to park the car. As we walked back around the front way, this time we saw the line. It was massive.

Bat Man and Cat Woman - me-ow

The atmosphere was awesome. The costumes amazing. And the displays spectacular. I didn’t get to see any of the special guests. I wanted to see James Masters – only if a glimpse – but missed my chance. I should have gone to his chat with the Supanova patrons, but I didn’t. Also there were the cast from the sixties show I DREAM OF JEANNIE, Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy from the Harry Potter movies), and a couple more Joss Whedon stars, Amy Acker - Fred from Angel - and Sean Mayer from the Dr. Tan from FIREFLY.

I also saw some great writers there, Kevin J Anderson, Rebecca Moesta, Marianne De Pierres, Jennifer Fallon, Kate Forsythe, Alison Goodman and fellow darksider, Rowena Cory Daniels. It was great catching up with many of them again, and some for the first time.

Is there a Doctor in the house?

Eek - I'm in trouble.

even Daleks need hugs

anyone for a little 300 or Spartacus

The original Darksider - Lord Vader and friend

My facebook friend Kathy who is the best fan :)

And of course - Indie - for a bit of adventure

Where's Wally?

A little chill from Freeze

But the thing that really blew me away were the costumes, the detail is some of them was amazing. All in all, I had a total ball and have some ideas on what I would do differently next time, but I would definitely go again even just as a patron rather than a guest.