Tainted Blood is out, tour time begins!

Today is the official release day for Tainted Blood, book 2 in the Hell's Belle series! I've opted for 90 days exclusive with Amazon, and will release on Nook in a few months (more on this for another post).

The Tainted Blood blog tour begins today. Here's a list of my stops. Hope you can swing by these awesome blogs over the next several weeks!

October 20 Interview 

Urban Fantasy Investigations

http://urbanfantasyinvestigations.blogspot.com/

October 21 Guest blog

Jill Archer

www.jillarcher.com

October 22 Interview

Valerie Twombly

http://www.valerietwombly.com/blog/

October 22 Spotlight

Fantasy Book Lane

http://www.fantasybooklane.com/

October 23 Spotlight and review

Gizmo’s Reviews

http://gizmosreviews.blogspot.com/

October 24 Interview

Melissa's Eclectic Bookshelf

http://melissaseclecticbookshelf.com/

October 27 Spotlight

Books Direct

http://booksdirectonline.blogspot.com.au/

October 28 Guest blog

Fang-tastic Books

www.fang-tasticbooks.blogspot.com

topic: anything Halloween related

October 29 Interview

Angel’s Guilty Pleasures

http://angelsguiltypleasures.com

October 30 Spotlight

Soaring Eagle Publicity

www.soaringeaglepublicity.com

October 31 Guest Blog

Roxanne’s Realm

www.roxannerhoads.com

November 3 Spotlight

Sizzling Book Blog   

http://chelssizzle.blogspot.com/

November 4 Spotlight 

Jodie Pierce's Ink Slinger's Blog

www.jodiepierceauthor.blogspot.com

November 5 Spotlight 

Cover Reveals 

http://CoverReveals.blogspot.com

November 6 Spotlight and review

Penny For Them...

http://pennyforthemuk.com/Tour

November 7 Guest blog and review

happy tails and tales 

http://happytailsandtales.blogspot.com/

November 10 Spotlight

Madison Sevier, Romance Author

http://madisonsevier.blogspot.com/

November 11 Top Ten

Darkest Cravings

www.darkestcravings.blogspot.com

November 12 Character Interview

Eclipse Reviews

www.eclipsereviews.blogspot.com

November 13 Interview

Author Karen Swart

www.authorkarenswart.blogspot.com 

November 14 Spotlight

Lisa’s World of Books

www.lisasworldofbooks.net

November 17 Interview

The Creatively Green Write at Home Mom

www.creativelygreen.blogspot.com 

Want to listen to my dulcet tones?

I’ll be yammering about stuff on Bewitching Book Tours’ radio show on Blog Talk Radio tomorrow. Kriss and I will ring in the Witching Hour talking about vampires, ghosts, Rhode Island, Coffee, Coffee Milk. We'll probably talk about Tainted Blood, too.

And guess what? 

YOU CAN CALL IN AND ASK ME THINGS I CAN’T ANSWER! 

11PM live! Since I can’t keep my eyes open past 10 PM, there is a very good chance that I will be completely incomprehensible. 

taking care of business

I just submitted the mms of the novel to the US copyright office. For 35 bucks, it's peace of mind that my work is protected. Extra thanks to my dad for bringing it up. I would have never remembered.

This is my second (!) work submitted to the copyright office. The first was submitted in 1990, by an attorney who knew someone at the RI Council on the Arts, and he did the work pro-bono.

Here's some fun facts that not too many people know. I had written a play that won a major national award, it was produced for a few performances at the Kennedy Center, and was directed by Jack Hofsiss. It was a two-hander, and one of the actors was Sabrina Le Beauf. She chewed me out for watching a bit of the "closed" rehearsal from the doorway until I explained that I was the playwright. Then she was absolutely lovely, and they invited me in to have a seat and watch rehearsal for a bit.

Anyway, the RI Council on the Arts was involved in the whole shebang, since it was a Very Big Deal (cover of the ProJo arts section, wearing horrid watermelon colored pants). The attorney did loads of pro bono for them, and was in DC for the play, and offered to do the copyright for free. They even paid the filing fee.

Of course, that was before The Interwebs were discovered, so copyright was this Big Scary Secret Process. Now you just go to a web site, fill out a bunch of pages, submit the credit card info and boom! Copyright filing done.

Of course, the DIY method was not half as glamorous. Back then, I visited a lawyer in a fancy office in a high rise building in Providence, and they had a soda machine that dispensed soda for NO MONEY WHATSOEVER! Twenty years later, surrounded by dirty dinner dishes in the kitchen, I protected my copyright without an ice cold free Diet Coke. But it's protected.

Next it's onto finishing the book cover, getting the ISBN number, formatting into the various ebook formats, and then I can send it out to bloggers. And I keep going back and forth about doing a website. Part of me is just UGH about spending the time and money developing another website that I am not so sure is necessary. But in for a penny...

And so much of this admin work is keeping me from working on Book Two, but it's work that needs to be done. Of course, now that we are getting down to it, I am getting super nervous about shoving it out into the world, so procrastination is kicking in. But I committed to doing this, and I can't chicken out.