Monday Morning Alert (for those of us not quite alert yet)

I am informed that Amazon.com and BN.com are both shipping Flesh and Fire a smidge earlier than street date. That means it's time for me to hide under the bed start asking folk for sightings in the wild...

So help me out, guys! Send me a photo* of Flesh and Fire (in its Amazon shipping box, on the shelf at your local bookstore, sitting comfy-and-loved on your desk)!

First ten do do so will get a Limited Edition Vineart War traveling corkscrew, perfect for tailgates, conventions, and using as a makeshift tool to get cat hair out of the keyboard (not recommended by manufacturer of either corkscrew or keyboard).


Meanwhile, Vinart 2 revisions are on p. 175 of (at the moment) 359, with a running wordcount of 98,000. Book 1 came in at about 120,000 words, and I'm probably looking at the same, here. Dear Universe: a nice, simple, 75,000 word book next, please?






*to lag at lauraannegilman dot net

5 things, Bookish Version

1. I'm now officially up at GoodReads, for those of you who play in that sandbox. So you can see what I'm reading, if that's what floats your bookshelves. http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/168090.Laura_Anne_Gilman

2. Di Francis' new book is coming out this month. I love Di's work -- like Lynn Flewlling's books, it's to the point where I just accept that nothing will get done between the time I pick up one of her novels until I finish it. I'd be annoyed if I didn't enjoy it so much (and when's the next Crosspointe book, Di? Huh? Huh?) ETA: and, duh, a nice linky

3. Jim Hines' Mermaid's Madness is also out this month. For feminists, non-trad fantasy fans, and those who aren't sure they're either but are willing to try, Jim's your man and this is the book. ETA: here, linky linky...

4. Cherie Priest has officially Made It. From Twitter: @jonrog1 First up on the hiatus reading list -- Cherie Priest's #Boneshaker (@jonrog is John Rogers, of Leverage).

5. and not bookish at all but I just had to share: http://bit.ly/17aqIG (work-safe but best watched with sound on) (via @T47)