Monday, May 12, 2014

A to Z Challenge Interview, Cover Reveals, WHIE and Storymakers, and Look! A Near Earth-Sized Exoplanet!


I'd like to start the week by thanking everyone who commented on my Alternate Perceptions post. A cool $60 donation has been made. And Kevin Hiatt owes me lunch. Way to work the system, bud! :)

Turns out my A to Z Challenge theme made some waves last month. Click out the A to Z Challenge site to see my interview with them!

And now, for your viewing pleasure, I present to you these most- excellent cover reveals! Jay Noel's followup to Dragonfly Warrior is coming soon. Tara Tyler's looks to be a monster of a good read.


Margo Kelly also released her new cover for a novel that "covers" a very important topic for internet-using youth. I'm creeped out!

 

Congratulations on your covers, everyone! May plenty of of readers and many sales come your way (... where's the pre-order link?).

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WHIE and Storymakers ... What a rush! I had more fun than I'm allowed to have at both of those conferences. Sadly I was only able to make it to the Saturday portion of Storymakers, but at least I got to stop and chat with old friends and meet new faces before sneaking into Chad Morris's and Tyler Whitesides's school visit presentation. WHIE was more of a challenge, teaching three classes. My Mental Health in Fiction had the largest turnout. I'm keeping that one!

And as always, I look forward to both conferences next year.

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Have you heard the news about Kepler-186f? Apparently we've just discovered an exoplanet that's very close to Earth size AND orbiting its star's habitable zone. Does it have an atmosphere? Does it have water? Only time will tell. Sign me up for the colonizing mission!

Update: More writing. More reading. Woven 2 is officially at 10K, and, unfortunately for time's sake, all other projects are on hold again. There's more to do when the snow melts, meaning less time on the computer and more time taming the jungle surrounding my house. Among other priorities. But I'm still writing. My bases are covered!

Got to wrap this up. Big week ahead and a killer monster movie to see this weekend. More on that later. Thanks for clicking by!

Like the interview? Who's stoked for Jay, Tara, and Margo's covers? Like writing conferences? Will we ever find an Earth-like planet?

I'm David, and Rick's Facebook movie is ever so cheerful ...

15 comments:

  1. All the covers are awesome!
    Glad you had a good time at the conferences.
    And got my IMAX tickets for Godzilla. Going to be epic.

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  2. I'll have to buy Jay's book when it comes out; the first one was good. We really do need to find a new planet at the rate we're screwing this one up.

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  3. I'm going to IMAX Godzilla on Thursday eve at the District. Gonna be fun. I love Jay's book. Not sure the internet one is a book that I'd read though. Probably not my genre but looks very intriguing.

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  4. I just wish they'd picked a more palatable name for Kepler-186f.

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  5. Great, great covers! Way to go Margo, Jay, and Tara! And as for Godzilla...stoked. Enough said.

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  6. HI, David....

    CONGRATS on the fantastic covers... All the best to Jay, Tara, and Margo!

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  7. I've said it before and I'll say it again. Your theme rocked! Off to read your interview.
    And excellent covers!

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  8. Impressive covers! Whoever designed them did a good job.

    Considering all the billions of stars in the universe, one of them is bound to have an Earth-like planet orbiting it.

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  9. Wow, so many fantastic covers!

    And congrats on reaching 10K! Not surprised you need to put other projects on hold as a result--there are only so many hours in the day, after all! Wishing you the best of luck with this WIP...

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  10. Thanks so much for spreading the word. Any I think my book looks great next to Tara's!

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  11. Glad you enjoyed the conferences. And yes, I have to get out too and tame my jungle this weekend.

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  12. Congrats to all the book releases!

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  13. Love the covers! I like watching Ancient Aliens, so I really hope the planet holds the beings that built the pyramids just for irony's sake. ;) But. . . probably not.

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  14. I'm so stoked for Jay, Tara and Margo! Exciting times. I've been wishing I could make it out to Story Makers for a while now. Alas, 2400 miles is a little prohibitive. One day...

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  15. I did hear about Kepler-186f...and then got giddy excited for all sorts of sci-fi and space opera. Which works, since that's my current WIP. ;)

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