Christmas Week Guest Blog and Giveaway: Magic on a Winter's Night by Carol Berg
First a little bit of introduction, and then onto Carol Berg's awesome post! This week we're celebrating the holidays with a line-up of guest bloggers, including Carol, Michele Lang, Michelle Celmer, Twila Belk and a very special mega-blog on Friday featuring New York TImes bestselling authors Marjorie M. Liu, Rachel Caine, Christie Golden and Nalini Singh! As part of the celebration ALL of the authors are giving away signed copies of their books and TKA is hosting a special scavenger hunt! S.L. Wright at Star-Crossed Romance
In other guest-blogging and giveaway news, S.L. Wright has a free copy of her new urban fantasy CONFESSIONS OF A DEMON for one lucky commenter over at Star-Crossed Romance. Check out her killer cover!
Or here for the Ace/Roc holiday giveaway on Dear Author!
Ms. Bookish has a whole list of other giveaways on her site here.
This year we are featuring the authors of CHRISTMAS MIRACLES, Marley Gibson and Cecil Murphey, along with the book's 50 contributors on December 17th @ 9pm ET. Prizes include copies of CHRISTMAS MIRACLES (natch!), plus selections from other TKA authors and a first chapter critique by one of our agents with a ONE WEEK turnaround!* Wowza! Make sure you mark your calendars for this event!!When: Thursday, December 17th @ 9pm ET
How To Chat: (1) Click on this link: http://client1.sigmachat.com/sc.php?id=1
Shannon K. Butcher will be talking with us tomorrow at The Knight Agency chat room, talking about her excellent paranormal romance series, The Sentinel Wars, including BURNING ALIVE and FINDING THE LOST, as well as her recently released romantic suspense novel LOVE YOU TO DEATH.
We hope you'll join us on Thursday, November 19th @ 9pm ET. Of course we'll also have trivia and great prizes. For more information on Shannon, visit www.ShannonKButcher.com.
What: Online chat with Shannon K. Butcher
When: Thursday, November 19th @ 9pm ET
Where: The Knight Agency Chat Room
How To Chat: (1) Click on this link: http://client1.sigmachat.com/sc.php?id=1
If that's not cool enough for you, Louisa Edwards will be our featured guest in The Knight Agency chat room on Wednesday, September 30th @ 9pm ET. Formerly an editor at Berkley before changing hats, she describes her debut novel, CAN'T STAND THE HEAT (St. Martin's, Sept. 2009) as a "culinary romance."
Here's the 411 on CAN'T STAND THE HEAT: For sharp-tongued Miranda Wake, the chance to spend a month in Adam Temple’s kitchen to write an exposé is a journalistic dream come true. Surely Miranda can find a way to cut the hotshot chef down to size once she learns what really goes on at his trendy Manhattan restaurant. The trouble is, she never expected Adam to find out her most embarrassing secreT: this critic has no idea how to cook.
As for Adam, well, he’s not about to have his reputation burned by a critic who doesn’t even know the difference between poaching and paring. He’ll just have to give the tempting redhead a few private lessons of his own—teaching Miranda what it means to cook with passion.
To learn more about Louisa, visit www.LouisaEdwards.com.
What: CHAT with Louisa Edwards
Where: TKA's Chat Room
When: Wednesday, September 30th @ 9pm ET
How to Chat: (1) Click on this link: http://client1.sigmachat.com/sc.php?id=1
Anyway, I had a very nice coffee date with Leah Hultenschmidt from Dorchester, who I discovered blogs as Romantic Reads. I'm going to have her guest blog for me some time soon on the editor/agent relationship. It should be very interesting, especially to round out the picture we already began with the agent/author dialogues I had some time ago, which started here (if you click on the tags featuring David B. Coe, you should be able to find them all).
You can't see it in the photo below, but the detailing on Leah's shoes actually matched that on her sweater. I was incredibly impressed and a little jealous of anyone who can be that put together at 10 a.m. the fourth day of a conference. (If you're doing it right, by the third or fourth day, you're usually dehydrated, sleep deprived and almost completely without voice.)
Saturday night, The Knight Agency gang met up with Sue Grimshaw from Borders and went off to the crazy and crafty tapas restaurant Tu Tu Tango for dinner.
Let's see if I can get everyone!
First pic: the incredibly talented Faith Hunter, author of BLOODRING, SERAPHS, HOST and the forthcoming SKINWALKER and me (Note: as Gwen Hunter, Faith's alter-ego, she won the 2008 Romntic Times Award for Best Contemporary Mystery for SLEEP SOFTLY, published by Mira. Go, Gwen!)
Second pic, back left to right: Dakota Cassidy, Kristen Painter, Jennifer St. Giles, Sue Grimshaw, Deidre Knight, me; front left to right: Faith Hunter, Melissa Mayhue, Louisa Edwards
I didn't get pictures of the fan dancer, the belly dancer, Jade Lee (who arrived after my husband, who took the above shots, vanished) and all the amazing artwork and jewelry gracing Tu Tu Tango. Yes, a restaurant where you can both eat and shop...it was a little like nirvana.
Also, Monday begins vampire week here. Tell your friends, reading group, crit partners.... Awesome line-up of Rachel Caine, Chloe Neill, Cris Marie Green, Jess Anderson and Gail Carriger. My weeks often tend to extend into two, so more may be added!
The Knight Agency has instituted a Secret Agent feature today on our blog where authors and others get to chime in with questions and get answers.
Laura Anne Gilman has posted a fabulous filk to "I'm Tired" from Blazing Saddles here. Snarf warning...please step away from the coffee.
Rosemary Clement-Moore is having a contest to win a copy of her new Maggie Quinn: Girl vs. Evil novel HIGHWAY TO HELL and is being interviewed over here today.
And, sadly, the New York Post bids adieu to columnist Liz Smith (see NYT article).
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spiziks </lj>is running a contest with a giveaway over on his blog. Check it out!And I'm a day late on this, but The Knight Agency's own Jia Gayles is over at Magical Word with a blog on her specialty - promotion!
We are throwing the merriest Christmas party in cyberspace and you are invited! Our staff is spreading cheer and goodwill, and the jolly TKA Santa Claus is giving away lots of presents to those that have been nice (don’t worry, he's our "special" Santa -- so he gives presents to those that have been naughty too!). We are so grateful for the expansive growth the agency has experienced this year and are ready to P-A-R-T-Y with all of those who have supported us throughout 2008.The Knight Agency staff is thrilled to announce that the new and improved company website, KnightAgency.net, is up and running! The goal of our redesign effort was to effectively rebrand the website into a product that comprehensively promotes client work as well as encourages communication. We also sought to create a dynamic design that would easily adjust to accommodate our growing agency and the individual needs of our clients and the greater publishing community. Besides a state-of-the-art design, innovations to the website include a streamlined booklist, up-to-date client links, more info on TKA’s mission and staff and a multimedia page. We’ve also built an entirely new message board! We feel that the final result hits the right notes, and will continue to sing even more as updates are made and your voices pour into the community areas.
It is our goal to give you a website that continually displays the most current and up-to-date content. Please keep me in mind whenever you receive breaking news on your current and upcoming titles. Whether you have new information on book covers, cover copy, awards, special recognitions or magazine articles – I always look forward to receiving your emails. The more frequently you each email me, the more I can ensure that we feature your titles not only on the website, but also the blog and newsletter.
So, please take a moment to visit KnightAgency.net and take a peek around. We are sure you will be delighted by the improvements, and look forward to receiving your feedback!
Sincere Regards,
Jia Gayles & The Knight Agency Team
I'm blogging over here today: http://knightagency.blogspot.com/ in honor of their Halloween Week. I hope you'll all check it out. I'm not sure which title they'll choose to go with, "Confessions of an Unrepentant Schlock Film Junkie" or "Confessions of a Scream Queen," but either way, I hope it's fun.
I'm a little slow in reporting this because I was out yesterday for a medical thing, but The Knight Agency is doing a big book giveaway. Here's the word from the blog:
The seasons are changing, and we are doing a little "autumn cleaning" here at TKA. Our book closet happens to be overflowing with phenomenal titles by our awesome clients! So in an effort to spiffy up our digs, we are giving away an amazing 10+ TITLES EACH TO TWO WINNERS!
So this is the deal, leave your name in the comments selection below between now and Wednesday night @ 12:00am ET. The winner will be announced Thursday morning. Good Luck!
Now, they're talking the comments section on the agency blog, not this one, of course. Good luck to all who throw their names in the hat!
Also in October: bestselling paranormal romance author Nalini Singh will be doing a chat on The Knight Agency site on October 16th at 9pm EST. And on Thursday, November 20, 2008 Jonathan Friesen will be chatting.
More as it happens.
Not to steal any thunder from David B. Coe's excellent post, which you should totally scroll down to, I want to announce that Rachel Caine will be doing a chat this Thursday at 9 EST on The Knight Agency blog. Tell all your friends! Come join the fun!
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