*Glee!*

[lagilman]

Staying Dead is now available for pre-order at Amazon.com (and therefore, one presumes, also at your friendly local neighborhood bookstore, which you should also patronize muchly).


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0373802099/qid=1079539556/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-6045560-9500744?v=glance&s=books


*happy but nervous dance of the pre-orders*

Comments

[nick-kaufmann.livejournal.com]

Congratulations, Laura Anne! The novel comes as news to me. What's it about? (The Amazon page was shockingly uninformative in that regard!)

[lagilman]

Amazon's always bare at first -- just means they haven't gotten around to entering the cover info yet.

First of a series, contemporary fantasy with caper elements. You can get more details at http://www.sff.net/people/lauraanne.gilman and follow the "Retrievers" link. The second one is currently scheduled for July 2005.

[nick-kaufmann.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link. STAYING DEAD looks great, and I wish you the best of luck with it! How was it working with Luna Books? They are one of the few mass market publishers I'm not familiar with from my own time in publishing, back in the early 90s.

[lagilman]

Nick,

Luna is a brand new imprint of Harlequin, set up to take advantage of the crossover between fantasy and romance readers. It's a stright fantasy list, the only requirement being that there be a relationship as part (not the plot) of the story.

So far, I've been treated extremely well. Great covers, attentive editorial feedback, and a really lively reader's board at http://community.eharlequin.com/WebX?14@97.dfC0ahB2nKU.17@.3b9be78e

[nick-kaufmann.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the info. I found their guidelines on the website and passed them along to some folks.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

You're going to do fine! (Off to do my bit to advertise and preorder)

[karenetaylor.livejournal.com]

Very cool, Laura Anne.

I'm looking forward to reading it.

[dgkgoldberg.livejournal.com]

Mazeltov.
Go You!

[kefiraahava.livejournal.com]

Yay! (making note to go off to the Borders near work when it actually hits the streets and do the Shameless Dance of Facing Out One's Friend's Book...)