The blog tour continues!
(Just a reminder, the rules of the contest are here on Gretchen McNeil’s blog)
Today’s stop is over at Dorothy Winsor’s journal, where we discuss the long wait between offer and the book landing on the shelf. 
Winners & Blog Tour Continues
Hi all,
Sorry I’m late to posting! Yesterday was, in short, not fun. Thank you, Day Job!
Here are the winners of the signed copies. I did not count anyone that commented after 12 noon yesterday (luckily everyone commented before!). Everyone that commented on my Jill Myles journal was assigned 1-69, and the LJ comments were 70-87.
#1 — True Random Number Generator Min: 1 Max: 87 Result: 39 =
Calila says:
December 22, 2009 at 1:29 am (Edit)
Congrats! I can’t wait to read it!
#2 — True Random Number Generator Min: 1 Max: 87 Result: 65 =
Rebecca says:
December 25, 2009 at 11:54 pm (Edit)
Fantastic cover! I’d love to read it. Please enter me.
So! Rebecca and Calila, please send me an email with your address information, and I’ll send out the books this weekend. Email me at jillmyles AT gmail dot com.
Also, check out the Blog Tour as it continues here at Shelli’s blog. She’s got a great overview of what’s scheduled.
Release Day Blog Tour!
Hi Everyone! It’s here! It’s finally here! The book AND the blog tour!
What is the blog tour all about, you ask? Well, hop on over to Gretchen McNeil’s blog and hear all about it. Twenty brief interviews! Twenty days of madness! Twenty chances to enter!
What you need to know: It’s all about me. And my books! And writing in general. Actually, mostly about writing.
What you want to know: You can win a query letter critique from my agent, Holly Root.
Check Gretchen’s post for all the details first!
Then, the Official Blog Tour starts over here at Amy Bai’s journal…
Tomorrow…
Is the big day (at least, it’s exciting for me).
I’m…so tired I could fall over. 
Seriously. Next time I have a book release, remind me not to have it in December or January. Or BOTH.
Just a quick reminder that you have a few hours left to enter both my Goodreads contest and my blog contest to win a free copy!
I was also over at Dear Author today for the First Sale letter, and Mandi at Smexy Books reviewed Gentlemen Prefer Succubi.
There’s a little something cool launching tomorrow, brought to you by a group of the most supportive people ever…so stay tuned.
ETA – AAAAH! My counter says 2 hours until my book releases.
No writing tonight. My eyes are crossing. Hopefully tomorrow.
Goodreads Giveaway
Just to update, the Goodreads giveaway is here: http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/2280-gentlemen-prefer-succubi
If you signed up for my giveaway, you can sign up for the Goodreads one as well (I’m not cross referencing!) so you have two chances, more or less, to win one of four copies.
Author copies! Win a free signed copy!
SO PRETTY! I’m so excited – it’s beginning to feel real!
And before anyone asks – they’re all pretty much spoken for (that didn’t take long, eh?).
To celebrate getting in author copies, I’ll give away two signed copies right here. I’ll even throw in some matching bookmarks. Just comment either here on my website journal or on my LJ and you’ll be entered to win a signed copy (continental US only please). You have between now and 12:00 noon on December 29th (release day!) to comment.
ETA — I’m also going to give away two copies on Goodreads (what the hell, right?) so if you have a Goodreads account, sign up to enter over there too! The URL isn’t up yet, but I’ll post it when it is. Good luck!
Snuggiewatch: T-minus 8 days
There is a somewhat large, somewhat light box under the tree. I am optimistic that I have worn the husband down and he has relented to his “No Snuggie” rule. We shall see! *rubs hands gleefully*
In other news, I was having quite possibly one of the worst weeks I have had all year, but a few things made it better.
1) A tower of chocolate from Ilona Andrews. She is a freaking godsend. I definitely needed chocolate today.
2) My editor sent me a real, live, advanced copy of my book! I have to admit, I’m not the most sentimental person but I totally teared up at the sight of it. There were times that I thought this book would never make it onto the shelf, so to hold it in my hands, all pretty and with foil on the title…I choked up. Just a little.
3) Two amazing reviews on the Bitten by Books website. The whole thing is still new to me, y’all, so each review posted makes me giddy. Both books got a great rating, and even better than that, a really great review. Did I mention I’ll be over there tomorrow, answering questions and chatting? There’s still time to enter and win a free copy of Gentlemen Prefer Succubi!
(I know, I know, so much promo. Bear with me, though!)
After all that, my mood perked a little. And it perked even more when my husband framed my book covers and hung them on the wall for me. He’s a good man.
SO. YOU GUYS. I know I have a lot of aspiring authors reading (still? i hope?) Starting at my book release, I’ll be doing a blog tour. More deets as I go, but there will be a contest. The prize? My terribly wonderful and far-too-nice-for-her-own-good agent has offered to be a prize! That’s right. If you follow the book tour, you can win a chance at feedback on your query letter from Holly Root.
Kind of nifty, right?
Wanna win a free book?
Heads up! My publisher is giving away TEN copies of Gentlemen Prefer Succubi — and will ship to anywhere in the world! That means if you are in Europe or Australia or Canada or wherever, you can play too.
Head over to Bitten By Books to RSVP & enter. I’ll be doing an afternoon-long chat on Friday that gives you more chances to win. And you can ask me anything. ANYTHING. Well, almost anything.
Woohoo for free books!
Klausnerfication
My friends, I have passed the rite of passage known as ‘being Klausnered’. And I am appropriately charmed.
I also got a ‘Recommended Read’ from Fallen Angel Reviews — they loved GENTLEMEN PREFER SUCCUBI: Fallen Angel Reviews — Recommended Read
(Isn’t that cool? Okay, enough promo on this side.)
Anyhoo, that was a cool thing to find in my inbox! You know what else is in my inbox? A BILLION EMAILS. Emails for promo, emails for advertising, emails from the publicist — and it all has to be done, like, yesterday. The obsessive micromanager in me is dying a slow and painful death over all the small things I have to get done over the next six weeks. To appease it a little, I’m making a calendar for myself. So not joking. I wish I was.
It’s also heading into the busy period at the payroll dayjob (also known as ‘fun’ in a very sarcastic voice). So if you see me randomly sobbing on Twitter or wailing about my lot in life, it’s not a permanent sort of thing. It’s a December/January sort of thing and it happens to me every year for the 9 years that I’ve been doing payroll and accounting. Please do not be alarmed – I assure you it’s quite normal.
I should have some cool stuff coming up a bit later in this month, so I’m going to try and blog more often (hahahaha) because you know we are only TWENTY FIVE DAYS OUT. Holy cow. I think I need to go lay down.
Woot woot
So I think my website is *mostly* updated. For now. I’m a little cross-eyed from looking at it, and really there’s no ZOMG AMAZING parts that show my 8+ hours of work on it today.
(For those of you that are wondering, most of my work on said webpage involves changing a font, refreshing to see the changes, and then changing it back again.)
I updated my FAQ and added a Succubus Diaries FAQ, and a little wee bit of a FAQ for Midnight Liaisons. Because FAQs are so fascinating, right?
I’ll probably add links or a blogroll at some point, but I’m feeling lazy at the moment, so too bad about that. I will say that Meljean Brook and Ilona Andrews are awesome for helping me with all my whiny WordPress questions. How brutal was it to help me out? Here’s a recap of a conversation I had with Ilona last night.
Me: My tab has no title at the top!
Ilona: Go to this page and look at this thing here.
Me: HELP ME I DON’T KNOW WHAT I’M DOING SWEET JESUS
Ilona: Did you go look at that page?
Me: Yes. It looks okay.
Ilona: Hm. And there’s no title?
Me: No title! I just refreshed. OMG I HATE WORDPRESS.
Ilona: Weird. What’s the name of the tab? In the title bar?
Me: Oh, I deleted that earlier.
Ilona: …
Me: …oh…wait!
You see? They masquerade as authors, but we know what they really are: WORDPRESS SAINTS.
PS – You guys know that this blog is mirrored to my Livejournal website, right? So if you’d rather comment there, here’s the linky.
