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First Signing, Giveaway Drawings & Kung Fu Action

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Launch Celebration: The October 1 drawing was delayed because I was traveling to Seattle! I sincerely apologize. I will randomly draw the winners tonight and post them tomorrow. Thank you everyone for your support!

Review Round Up: Amber of Buried By Books reviewed Butterfly Swords with a C+/B- grade. Another review by Goodreads reviewer Jean Marie Ward, who I believe won the Goodreads giveaway, and one more from book blogger Mala on Bad Necklace. Hope I didn’t miss anybody.

The Pink Heart Society has selected Butterfly Swords for their October Book Club . Come back there October 26 to discuss the book. Speaking of book chats, I’m gearing up for the book chat on Dear Author next Saturday from 7pm to 9pm EST. I’ll definitely be there and will post details about joining the chat as I get them.

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Some people are surprised and probably wonder why I re-tweet and post less than stellar reviews. Two authors I respect, Stacia Kane and Joanna Bourne, link and acknowledge every review good or bad. And, frankly, I don’t think they’re awful reviews and I just like that people are reading and talking.

I’m still at the ECWC conference. I’m having a fabulous time. I got to attend Kristina McMorris’ “Selling the Hard Sell” workshop and scribbled notes furiously. Wonderful info on marketing. I hope we get a chance to merge our two talks together at RWA 2011.

My first book signing was AWESOME! I got to chat with many new faces and I was overwhelmed that so many people wanted to buy multiple copies to do giveaways on their blogs. Butterfly Swords sold out early, but that meant I could get up and speak with some authors. 🙂

I got a chance to pick up The Iron Duke by Meljean Brook as well as Kris Kennedy’s The Conqueror and The Irish Warrior. I’ve been waiting to get my hands on hers for a while now.  I also grabbed Rose Lerner’s In for a Penny which looks fabulous.

And here’s a bit of fun. Kung-fu Action Theatre posted a audio reading of the opening of Butterfly Swords. I believe there’s a podcast as well. I had to do a lot of takes and I’ve decided I don’t have a great voice for radio. Next time, I must find a narrator with a sexy voice…preferably with an English accent.

Dear Author/Kobo Books Promotion

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Huge thanks to Jane from Dear Author and to Kobo Books for setting up this special promotion for Butterfly Swords. In an effort to support the book, she contacted Kobo and the organization has offered to give away one free Kobo reader to a random customer who purchases Butterfly Swords any time between October 1 and October 31.

According to Jane:

“I wanted to promote Butterfly Swords, not only because it is a good book, but because it is a book that is set in a non European locale with non European characters. Not that I don’t love a good UK set romance. I do, but there is a plethora of them. And given all the struggles that authors have had trying to bring multiculturalism to fiction (think of the passing by big chains of Cindy Pon’s Phoenix Rising), I think it’s quite brave of Harlequin to buy this book, put some marketing muscle behind it (it was the only Harlequin Historical offered at NetGalley), and place an in-your-face Asian chick on the cover.” Entire blog post here

In addition to the giveaway, Dear Author is also hosting a book chat on Saturday October 9th from 7pm to 9pm EST. I’m very excited to attend. I apologize that the time doesn’t work for many overseas readers, but I believe the transcripts from the chats are usually released afterward.

The Kobo Books Butterfly Swords link will go live October 1. I am tempted to buy a copy myself….but that wouldn’t quite be fair. 🙂

I’m going to go and let this all sink in for a moment. Looking forward to meeting some readers at the book chat on October 9th!