Angela Fiddler

Things about me, March edition

elisabethreads — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:31:32 +0000

First off, I got my sock monkey! (That being something not necessarily related to writing that you need to, well, start writing.) Laptop depot was having an opening party and I picked up an ibook for what a good netbook would cost. It’s not going to win any speed contests, but it runs scrivener like a hot thing that’s really too hot to touch but the oven mitt is just a little too far away so you end up blowing on your fingers and jumping around once you pick it up and move it. Yeah, just like that. I’m still typing this entry on my tablet. Caffrey is a word processor.

Secondly, Wrecked sold to Loose Id! Hurray! I don’t know when it’s coming out, but Judi says soon!

Go Cy!

elisabethreads — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:54:14 +0000

In any given novel, I may use 4-5 exclamation points in the whole thing — in dialogue only, of course — but for some strange reason 83% of all my posts have an exclamation point in it. (I use that made up statistic out of my new-found love of How I Met Your Mother, and not from any statistical data that may or may not have been gathered, in true Barney Stinson style)

But Cy’s gotten a fab review, see here and has made it onto Amber Quill’s top ten best seller list for December, which is awesome because it was released in November so the first wave of must-buy-on-week-of-release didn’t count for it.

So thank you if you’ve bought a copy. If not, there’s still time! It will only be available for the next two years!

(see? That’s three exclamation posts in the same post! GAH! FIVE! SIX!…I’d better stop now)

Yay! Cheap Cy Gets a Sex Demon!

elisabethreads — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:24:10 +0000

From Amazon.com. It’s not available on amazon.ca, so, booo, but still.

Cheap Cy

Well, actually no, he’s very expensive even on retainer, but he’s worth every ounce of the soul.

Just in time to completely miss the holidays!

elisabethreads — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:47:25 +0000

Cy Gets a Sex Demon is available in paperback at Amazon!

Smut is so hard to one-size-fits-all anyway.

It’s that time!

elisabethreads — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:09:03 +0000

Cy Gets a Sex Demon has burst forth like a Klingon software release!

Or…not. But it could if it wanted to!!!

Cy Gets a Sex Demon is available at Amber Allure. All the sex and snark expected plus added wax play!

*bounce*

The paperback version is going to take a while to wing its way up to the frozen north, but soon I shall clutch it in my hot little hands!

Free Castoffs!

elisabethreads — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 03:40:24 +0000

Castoffs’s contract has expired and I thought I would put it up on my website here:

Castoffs

If you like it, please consider purchasing the remaining books in the series (featuring my OTP, Vision/Hanz) available here:

At Loose Id

Rules

elisabethreads — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 05:45:41 +0000

I hate them.

Who doesn’t, right?

And writing rules are the worst.

But man, are they important. This past week I went through Wrecked and have been deleting the verb to be. Which is such a fussy, little, tiny, almost invisible change, but making 10-20 little tiny changes per page makes the page stronger and more accessible.

At the Calgary con, one of the editors was talking about being in the 95 percentile for just being able to format and spell on a page. but getting from the 95 to the 99 percentile is such a huge, gaping chasm.

It’s tiring. But I think this story is worth it.

Names

elisabethreads — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:42:55 +0000

I suck at them. Really, really suck at them.

A good friend named all the vampire books and the series itself. She should have had to, the books were written for her as a birthday present. Well, the first one. The rest followed a young henchman named Vision who was a minor character, at best, in her birthday present. She’s a total Janus-freak. Me, give me the push/pull relationship between Vision and Hanz any, any, any day.

So, yeah. She’s always been my namer. If it were up to me, Pulse would have gone to the press as ZOMG ZOMBIES!!! and the Vampire Regency Rent Boys would be in a fairly fancy font. I’m not entirely sold on the name ‘Wrecked’ as a full novel. It was about the only thing that remained from the original 18,000 word short story that didn’t start, go anywhere or end well.

Cy Gets a Sex Demon was the only working title I think I’ve ever kept from start to finish.

Cy Gets a Sex Demon

elisabethreads — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:01:16 +0000

Cy Gets a Sex Demon coming out November 29th, and the print version will come out 2-3 weeks after that. Yay! I have so much love for Cy. It’s set in Calgary, but in a Calgary where the water building across from the Stampede grounds is the evil world empire headquarters (a fact we squee about everytime we drive past it to the girl’s mom and dad) and put a demon brothel under the Korean restaurant on 11th. Really, though, it’s the fact that Chicken on the Way’s french fries taste good even when they are cold that puts this into the urban fantasy genre, and not the sidhe, Pan or the fact that you just can’t lie to Cy.

I’ve been mad at work on Wrecked, and I’m so thrilled to say everything is tied up in it but for the boys just one last time. With Cy finding a home and Wrecked moving from the WIP pile to WIR, I can start on my Vampire Regency Rent Boys. Because, really, the world needs more of those.

Conventions, yay!

elisabethreads — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 06:14:28 +0000

Con-Version was great! It started out rough, what with the car breaking down and the diesel leak across all of Deerfoot, shutting it down to not even a crawl, I ended up being 7 minutes late for my panel with Tanya Huff on GLBT characters in spec fic. It rocked.

The erotica panel afterward was fun, too.

Saturday and Sunday were a blur of bestest friends ever and con buddies of yore. And there were some panels.

I am one scene away from finishing Wrecked and on the way back from Con, I went from OMG, brain empty, no more stories! to a fantastic plot and characters OMG, can’t wait to finish Wrecked to start. Then, after I pitched it to my editor, I got an email back from the editor who had Cy Gets a Sex Demon and it sold!

I’ll have to finish Regency Vampire Rent-Boys (actually for once, just a working title) before working on The Care and Feeding of Sex Demons and Only Sex Demons Can Prevent Forest Fires.