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Interview on Entertainment Weekly dot com
How cool is this? here: http://shelf-life.ew.com/2014/03/04/the-blood-guard-qa-excerpt/ )
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It's pub day!
THE BLOOD GUARD is officially out in stores! And available online! I am amazingly happy about this and hope that I'll hear soon from readers. (There have already been tons of reviews published on Goodreads and DogoBooks and Amazon, and I thank all of you very much for the kind words!)
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Fewer than 24 Hours Until The Blood Guard publishes
And I, for one, am terrifically excited about it!
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Two brilliant kids talk about The Blood Guard, along with a few clips of yours truly. [I am told that my lips look especially red thanks to the bit of lipstick the makeup artist obviously smeared onto my mouth. Glamour!]
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An all-time favorite bookstore, always great, but reorganized in recent years and better than ever.
When going to the Strand, don’t go looking for books… let the books find you.
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10 Days and Counting!
A mere ten days until The Blood Guard arrives in stores. Crazy to think that what began five—no, six—years ago is at last a book that will sit on bookshelves and, I hope, find its way into reader's hands.
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[Image copyright (c) Cindy Taylor, from her blog The only Cin.]
"We'd best find something with which to defend ourselves," Dawkins said. He opened the duffel and peered inside. "These will do." He took out two sheathed swords that curved slightly at the tips, then drew them from their scabbards. "Briquet sabers, Napoleonic era. A bit unwieldy, and fancier than I generally go for, but we don't really have a choice."
"Why don't we just use the guns?" I asked.
Dawkins crossed and uncrossed the sabers a few times, and a whisper of metal filled the room. "Guns are dishonorable."
"Hard to be honorable when the other guy brings a gun to a knife fight," Greta said.
"Not when the person wielding the knife is one of the Blood Guard."
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Cutting boards of beauty!
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[Photograph by Buck Cash of the scuplture "The Awakening" at Hains Point near Washington, DC.]
Ogabe bellied headfirst into the giant's mouth. After a moment of kiking his legs in the air and Dawkins pushing his feet, he slid into the dark and disappeared.
Dawkins leaned forward into the mouth, then backed out in a hurry.
The giant seemed to cough up a round metal disc. It flew out of the mouth and rolled in the dirt like some sort of enormous button.
"It appears Ogabe got the cover off the manhole," Dawkins said.
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If you wish to become weak-headed, nervous and good for nothing, read novels… Novel-reading strengthens the passions, weakens the virtues and diminishes the power of self control.
A health warning from 1849, warning against young women reading novels. (via cleispress)
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Advice that every writer should have on a sampler over his or her desk.
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Reading & Signing at Book Court in Brooklyn!
Come one, come all, just come by for the first store event for The Blood Guard! It will be held at Book Court in Brooklyn on March 8th, 2014. You can find details here: http://bookcourt.com/events/carter-roy
I'll read a passage or three from the book. I'll talk about where the series is headed. And I'll sign and answer questions. Should be a heckuva lot of fun.
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I might enjoy this more were the two women pictured not movie stars. (Why not Doris Lessing or Judy Blume or Maggie Thatcher or anyone who, we'd know, are not likely reading a script or a source for a movie?)
But the sentiment is right on.
Via +David Fuchs at G+.
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Interview forthcoming in PW Children's Bookshelf!
Yesterday prattled on at length to the very kind Matia Burnett at Publishers Weekly for a piece that should appear on Tuesday, 25 February 2014.
Am hoping I come off well. As a long time sufferer of foot-in-mouth disease, I have a dread of seeing what sort of nonsense I spouted set into type. I don't think I said anything idiotic, but then, one never does until it is Too Late.
Still and all: Lovely attention for the book!
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12 Days and Counting!
My grasp of math is a chancy thing at best—proven by how, this morning, I awoke thinking, "Only ten days until The Blood Guard publishes!"
Alas, I was off by a few days. Still and all: 12 days! That's a sneeze in the span of a lifetime. Soon soon soon!
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The ALA signing did not take place
This was more than a week ago now, but I am only just now getting over my enormous frustration and anger at Amtrak.
They cancelled my train to Philadelphia, then fluffed about forever getting me on another train, which they ALSO cancelled, and then finally had me on a train that would get me into Philadelphia with a half-hour or so to spare before the signing.
But that train was then 45 minutes late, changed from an Acela to a local, and, the conductor informed me, "Could have some trouble getting out of the station." He didn't want to tell me when we'd arrive, but guessed it might be 6:15 or 6:30—which was when my signing ended.
My apologies to everyone I missed. I was so looking forward to it, and it was embittering not to be able to go.
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Childish Things
Just answered a question in a blog interview about why I wrote for kids instead of grown ups. And thought of the much-quoted C.S. Lewis bit from "On Story"
"When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."
That will explain it very nicely, thank you.
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