Going Brazilian!

I’m hearing through the Twitterverse and the blogosphere that Personal Demons is releasing later this month in Brazil. Yay! If I could read Portuguese, I’d know for sure, but I have to trust Dictionary.com’s translator.

Here’s the Brazilian cover! The artwork is the same, obviously, and the tagline is also the same, according to the translator. I like the font and I love the Amor Infernal. It’s the "Infernal Love" series in Brazil. Doesn’t get much hotter! ;p

Love it!

So, yay! We’re published in Australia/New Zealand and in Brazil now. Hopefully the others aren’t far behind. I already showed you the German cover, but because I’m all excited for the German release, here it is again. 

Squee!

What do you think?

The rest of the contest

Actually, I changed my mind. I think you guys are getting sick of these contests.

What...? You want the contest? You're sure?

Well...all right...

This contest started yesterday when I asked all of you who wrote the second blurb that appears on the back cover of Personal Demons. Several of you answered correctly in comments that it was Maria V. Snyder, earning yourself an extra point in my second blurb contest. And...it was also a clue to the contest!

That's right! Last week, I gave away a signed ARC of Claudia Gray's Afterlife. This week, I'm giving away a signed copy of Maria V. Snyder's Inside Out. Oh, yeah, and a signed copy of Personal Demons, because that's how I roll.

So, to enter to win signed copies of BOTH Inside Out and Personal Demons, you must be a follower here on the blog and comment below by midnight Wednesday, November 24th. If you commented on yesterday's post before midnight last night, you've already earned a bonus point. You get an additional entry if you follow me on Twitter (@LisaDez) as well. One entry per person, please.

Good luck!

The beginning of another contest, and yet another winner!

Thanks to everyone who entered to win a signed ARC of Claudia Gray's Afterlife and a signed copy of Personal Demons. As usual, there were a ton of you. I will announce the winner in just a second. But you know me. I can't help myself. There will be another contest, and I'm starting it right now.

But, I'm not telling you the prize yet...because I'm tricky like that. ;p

The contest will post tomorrow, but you can earn an extra entry into it by answering the following question today:

There are two author blurbs on the back cover of Personal Demons. Claudia Gray said:

"Personal Demons is as scary—and sexy—a book as I’ve read in a long time."

For one additional entry into the next contest tell me who wrote the second blurb. Post your answer in comments below by midnight PST today. Hint: If you don't have a copy of Personal Demons handy, there's a link to the answer in this page!

So, onto the winner of the Claudia Gray ARC and Personal Demons...

The winner, as chosen my the randomizer is...

Theresa @ TheCreativeWell

Congrats Theresa!

From the bottom of my heart...

I recently wrote my acknowledgements for Original Sin. It was hard.

Here’s the thing.

When I wrote Personal Demons, I didn’t have the courage to put myself out there. What that means is NO ONE read it (with the exception of my daughter). My awesome crit partner read the first three chapters, and that was it. So, because of my cowardice, the only people I really needed to thank were said daughter and crit partner, my husband for keeping us alive (even though he didn’t know why I wasn’t getting to the grocery store, or why I didn’t have time for the laundry), my agent, and my editor.

This time around is different, though. I’ve become part of a really amazing community where everyone is so willing to extend a helping hand. I still only have one reader, but my crit partner was much more central to pulling Original Sin together. My family was much more involved, now that they know I’m writing. My new writer friends have been so supportive and inspirational. And readers. What can I say? It makes my heart ache a little (in a good way) that so many of you, who I’ve never met, have read Personal Demons, then written to tell me how much you loved it.

So, Original Sin acknowledgements are longer than Personal Demons acknowledgements, but they’re not nearly long enough. I really wanted to include all of you by name…but my editor told me the acknowledgements couldn’t be longer than the book. O_O

Thank all of you for your support over the last year since I started this blog. You are truly appreciated.

I love libraries, but...

I’ve decided I’m getting ultra-extraordinarily lazy. My research stack for my latest (non-Personal Demons) book is very small. Most of my resources are on-line. It’s so much easier to let my fingers do the walking. After all, my laptop has been absorbed into my thighs, so it’s always there, at my fingertips. Easy access. Plus, as good as my local library is, the non-fiction collections aren’t as comprehensive as they would be in a larger city, so, even if I find just the right resource on, say…the air speed velocity of a laden African Swallow, it’s unlikely that my library will have it.

So, question:

Where do you do most of your writing research?

How the heck do you do this???

I'm working on a fun, new project with some fun, new characters. Thanks to all of you on Twitter who have answered my calls for help on everything from Starbucks coffee drinks to dog names.

But, I'm really only about 15K words into this thing and I've already rewritten it twice, because I get snippets of where the characters are taking me and things in the begining need to change.

So, my question for all of you:

Do you outline?

If so, how the heck do you do it?

Major plot points only? Characters? Or details? I don't even know where to start O_O

What C.S. Lewis and I have in common...

In September, after Personal Demons released, I was out to dinner with a group of my medical colleagues and they were asking me about my book. When I explained that half of Personal Demons was told from my demon, Luc's perspective, one of them asked if I'd read C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters.

I'm a huge Narnia fan, but as much as I loved those books, I'd never investigated any farther into C.S. Lewis' writing, so I'd never heard of The Screwtape Letters. I grabbed this book from my library to take on my trip last week and read it on the plane. It's a collection of letters Screwtape, an Underlord of Hell, is writing to his demon nephew, Wormwood, expounding all of his unearthy advice on how to tempt his "patient" down the fiery path. And, where I certainly didn't plagiarize C.S. Lewis, having never read his book, I was surprised by similarities in his demon's train of thought, and my demon's train of thought. I guess I shouldn't have been. After all, they're both demons. But it was interesting to read Screwtape's advice and compare it to Luc's actions.

Even though I'd never profess to put myself in the same creative universe as C.S. Lewis, it's fun to think that we had some of the same ideas :p Have any of you read The Screwtape Letters? What did you think?