cover copy for BRING IT ON...

[lagilman]

pretty much but not totally final, to tease, tantalize, and taunt the reader-beast....



Nobody said juggling a career and a relationship would be easy...

Wren Valere used to have a simple life. Her partner Sergei would negotiate the terms of the Retrieval -- all right,
the theft -- and she would use her magical Talent to carry it out. Paycheck deposited, on to the next job.

Now? Her relationship with Sergei's even more complicated (sex will do that). Her fellow lonejacks are trying to
organize against the Mage's Council. The non-human population of Manhattan is getting fed up with being ignored and
abused. And the Council? Well, they have an agenda of their own, and it's not one the lonejacks are going to like.

And Sergei is far too involved with the Silence, his former employers, for Wren's liking.

When it comes down to choosing sides, the first rule of the lonejack creedo is "don't get involved." But when friends
are in danger, and the city you love is at risk, sometimes getting into the thick of things is all you can do...

BRING IT ON
A Retrievers Novel

available July 2006

Comments

[karenmiller.livejournal.com]

Excellent! Is that yours, or from the marketing dep?

BTW, do you have a timeline on the Luna books going to mass market? They've been so hidjus expensive out here due to being TPB I've had to refrain so far, except for surreptitious snatches in book shops whenever possible ...

[aapreciate.livejournal.com]

Dang, we have to wait all the way until NEXT July?

Can you get Luna to move the heck faster on these things??? I am really excited about this book and think that, say, NOVEMBER is just about too long to wait...

But at least it gives me more time to reread the first two. ;)

Kathy

[kateelliott.livejournal.com]

I often find cover blurbs clunky, but I think that one is quite effective.

[rantmaster.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm. Yummy.

'Bring It On', indeed.

[lagilman]

Excellent! Is that yours, or from the marketing dep?

Let's just say that I had a hand in reworking their words...


BTW, do you have a timeline on the Luna books going to mass market?

They're doing it on a case by case basis, as far as I can tell. SD and CtD are scheduled to go to mass market just before BRING IT ON comes out (I've just been asked for an errata sheet for SD, so maybe it will actually happen this time).

I hear ya about the expense -- back in the Day at Roc, I was a noisy proponent of the mass market edition, for exactly that reason. But I is but lowly author, here....

[lagilman]

Can you get Luna to move the heck faster on these things???

That would require me to write a heck of a lot faster, too!

*looks at schedule, sighs heavily* I'll see what I can do about my side of things, 'k? But no promises...

[lagilman]

Yep, me too. :-D


Oh, small nitpick, just because it makes me twitch? It's "copy," not a blurb. A blurb in this isntance referes specifically to a comment or review added to the copy -- "'Best book of the decade! Much better than mine!' -- joe bigshot" or "World Fantasy award-winner!"

Easy way to remember it: copy writers write copy. authors give blurbs.

[merlinpole.livejournal.com]

Ten months' worth of delayed gratification you're taunting the public with....

[kateelliott.livejournal.com]

thanks. I have long wondered about the usage of 'cover quote' ' cover blurb' and 'cover copy'. I long thought that a blurb referred to a quote from an author, but then I had some encounter in which it seemed that a blurb was not a quote, but now after all, it is. That'll teach me to listen to people who don't know what they're talking about!

it works.

[kokyu.livejournal.com]

I'm tantalized.

[evening-shadow.livejournal.com]

Will they be sending out ARCs at all or will you possibly be doing a raffle? I'd love to have one sent to my store! Then again, I'm an optimist. :)

[lagilman]

I suspect there will be ARCs. Drop me a line at wrensergei at lycos dot com to remind me....

[lagilman]

I love to live dangerously...

[merlinpole.livejournal.com]

I love to live dangerously...

It's not really dangerous danger, if an irate teasee goes too far to something that prevents the Meerkat from continuing the series, while Book 3 is scheduled etc., that imperils Book 4. But the decision of the reader regarding "do I want to go on to Book 4" tends to be based on first reading Book 3, and deciding "yes, I want the next one!" or dayenunext tens months of it....