Launch pad!
At last!
A Thousand Glass Flowers is published!
And what a celebration!
It can be purchased from Amazon.com:
and at
Amazon.co.uk:
And don’t forget that it will be available in print later in the year from all the online sellers and from bricks and mortar stores. More exciting news on that later.
In the meantime :
Rajeeb the Djinn has been invited to vvb 32 in California on September 7th
I’ll also be talking with vvb32 on October 14th.
Lalita Khatoun has been invited to Werevampsromance.org in the USA on Sept 7th.
Finnian, glorious and secretive Finnian, is talking with Flyhigh in Italy on September 7th The book itself is being reviewed by Flyhigh on Sept 1st, Italian time!
I’m speaking with Shéa Mcleod in London on September 7th.
Most recently I’ve been with India Drummond and Stuart Akin and with Amanda Leigh Cowley in the UK and CDoart in Germany. I’m about to go to Florida to speak with Barbara Silkstone on September 30th. I’m also due to speak with Wise Words in the UK this month.
I may go to West Africa to speak with Mark Williams if he’ll have me and I believe I’m due in Sydney at some point with Greg Johnston.
All those air-miles! Goodness… if only… then again maybe not, being the homebody that I am. As I chase around the world waving my novel on its way, I can’t helping thinking the title of that infamous blog Pimp my novel! describes my actions perfectly. Let’s not be coy.
So!
To mark the occasion, I’m having a competition. On one of those ‘linked’ blogs mentioned above there will be a poem on 7th of September. If you can find the poem, and then tell me the correct author of that poem, you can win a beautiful millefiori paperweight from Murano in Venice.
Place your answers in the comments section of this post and goodluck!
And today, one copy will be gifted to a lucky reader by the Random Selector. Place your email address in the comments section of the blog!
And because I’m pretty busy helping the book on its way, this will be the final post until 8th September.
Thanks everyone!
I’m so glad for you Prue!
Author: antiaphrodite
And btw, I love learning about new blogs, so off to read the rest of them. 🙂
Hello Frenz! Hope you enjoy the book when you manage to pin it down! And the other blogs are all different and exciting for many different and exciting reasons.
Tonight’s the night! I’m so excited. I’m cuddling up with A Thousand Glass Flowers. It’s raining outside… perfect night for a really good read.
Hallo Barbara, yes, it’s an inside kind of book.
Then again it could be an outside kind of book for the coming southern hemisphere summer as well. Now I have a Kindle, I find I can read it readily at the beach in the blazing sunshine. And there are parts of A Thousand Glass Flowers that should be read when you are surrounded by sand and heat… just to give the right ambience for the exotic sequences.
Congrats! You’re a kindle reader! I remember the day …. 😉
exciting! and so it begins…
Hi vvb… yes it begins. The book already has two five star reviews on Amazon, bless its heart!
“And there are parts of A Thousand Glass Flowers that should be read when you are surrounded by sand and heat… just to give the right ambience for the exotic sequences.”
Sounds perfect for me!
Just sorting out the flights for your West African tour. At this time of year you have no choice but to share your mosquito net with maurauding creepy crawlies and spiders that can swallow you whole, but you’re probably used to that.
Mark, I shall bring lots of insect repellent, my husband’s malaria tabs, and my pith helmet and camera and I’ll be fine. Creepy crawlies go with the territory here, but just tell me there will be no snakes. Like Indiana Jones doesn’t do rats, I don’t do snakes!
You’ll need all that for Florida, too.
Congratulations, Prue! Fingers crossed for the launch. Personally I just loved reading it. My review is on Fly High! http://bit.ly/pX9mbH
Thank you, MG. I am so appreciative.
Congrats Prue. Keep up the great work. Now if I sit in the back row will I get away reading at Hutchin’s house drama tonight? Cheers Cathy
Cathy, hi. Thank you and yes, go for it… who’d know!
Congratulations, Prue! I’m loving the book, I’m immersed in the story, the characters and their magical world.
Wishing you a big success!
Thank you Summer and thank you for the ‘tweeting’ as well.
Not sure if I’ve said this before, but I adore the book cover..that blue and white border at the bottom gives it a bit of the “old book” feel that you posted about the other day! Just gorgeous!!! (I also see a beautiful cake lurking in that cover! 😉
You mean you are actually going to Africa?!! I thought you meant via Skype. Now THAT is exciting! Be safe and take that mosquito net thing seriously woman. From what I hear from them that know, it’s nothing to mess with! Can’t wait to read A1000GF!! So happy for you!!!!!!
Hallo NB, the bottom border is actually a repeat image of antique Turkish tiles, which fit the idea of that fated seraglio. That was my designer’s idea as was everything else on the cover. If yoy can come up with a cake design, I can order it all the way from you to me for the BIG BIrthday later this year.
As to Africa, Mark is a brilliant writer, currently one of the highest selling Kindle titles on Amazon… he’s good at creating excellent fiction. I’m ‘virtually’ going to Africa… just as I am ‘virtually’ the new Stephanie Meyer!
Congratulations Prue! I too thought you meant travel by Skype. Had no idea you’re actually traveling. Enjoy yourself!
Thank you, Judiang… I hope you enjoy the book and especially glorious Finnian. As to Africa… my intrepid travelling days are over. Too old and… just too old.
BTW, I just put Kindle on my iPhone (Nook person here) so I can read your book. I appreciate the reasonable cost; IMHO, many eBooks are priced too high. Will have to buy your other books now. 😀
The price factor is an all-consuming subject for many indie writers, Judiang. For me though, titles will always be somewhere between $0.99 and $2.99. Mostly the marketplace sits between those two figures and if it enables readers to afford more and read more, then it’s a win on both sides.
Many, many congratulations, Prue! Off to read all the lovely reviews now. Can’t wait to read the book itself, too; the excerpts were magical indeed.
Darn these logistical problems I still have 🙁
Giselle, I can’t wait for your comment. You are my beta reader for Gisborne after all … hope the logistics get sorted soon.
Wow! A virtual world book tour!! But you won’t have the joy of sitting all day in a bookstore telling people where the bathrooms are and that no, you’re not giving out free samples.
Tell your virtual agent to schedule some Southern California dates. And also tell your readers that after they finish your new book, they’ll throw rocks at Stephanie Meyer.
Happy to ‘visit’ in Southern California when any blogger wants to have me or my characters.
I do confess that in my virtual book tour world, the seat is good, the world my oyster and that all visitors till now have made themselves ‘comfortable’, shall we say.
The more the merrier!
LET’S HAVE A VIRTUAL PARTY!!!!
Congratulations! I’m late to the party! My week at the beach almost at an end. It’s tempting to start it with my feet in the sand if I wasn’t committed to an Elisabeth Gaskell bookclub read (Ruth) did I mention I LOVE the cover! A big fan of any glass art!
iz4blue: I remember the day I bucked at every reading an e-book too! But it’s swimming against the tide and I’ve had my Kindle for 8 months now and absolutely love it. What a little treasure and what fabulous, unique titles I’m reading, so different and pushing the boundaries of everything that’s been available in bookshops till now. In terms of technology, apart from the printing press it’s probably done more for the democratisation of reading than anything I can think of.
But then again, I may be accused of making a ridiculous sweeping statement there!
PS: being the RA fan that you are, I shall be keen to hear if you like Finnian.
Must have the paperback…
Print publication before Christmas, SJAT and only because I realise there are as many readers without e-readers as with them.