Omnific Anniversary and way to go Alice!!!

Hello all,
Send a Valentine's gift that you can curl up with all year long. yourself.
I'm a huge fan of my fellow Omnific authors so when I heard about this giveaway I knew I had to pass on the information.

Omnific is giving away THREE KINDLES for THREE GREAT YEARS.


 


Kindle #1 will feature all of Omnific's 2010 titles!
Passion Fish
Three Daves
Seers of Light
Boycotts & Barflies
A Valentine Anthology
The Unidentified Redhead
Stitches and Scars
Eve of Samhain
Life, Liberty, and Pursuit
With Good Behavior
Trust in Advertising
Take the Cake
Immortal Awakening
The Redhead Revealed
Whisper of Light
Shades of Atlantis
Breaking Point
Whirlwind






Kindle #2 will feature all of Omnific's 2011 titles!Indivisible

Pleasures Untold

Bad Behavior

Pieces of Us

Becoming sage

Crushed Seraphim

The Way That You Play It

Big Guns

Concessions

It's Only Kinky the First Time

Starstruck

New Flame

Shackled

Swim Recruit

Sway

Full Speed Ahead

The Second Sunrise

The Summer Prince

Whatever it Takes

Ember

Cat O' Nine Tails

The Guardian's Wildchild

Small Town Girl

Poughkeepsie

Embrace

Kindle #3 will feature all of Omnific's 2012/2013 titles!
Destiny's Fire
Grave Refrain
Streamline
Burning Embers
Saving sunni
Cocktails and Dreams
The Winemaker's Dinner: No Reservations
The Winemaker's Dinner: RSVP
The Winemaker's Dinner: Appetizers
Recaptured Dreams
Clarity
Divinity
Glimpse of Light
Circle of Light
Iridescent
Between the Lies
Reaping Me Softly
Once Upon a Second Chance
Bittersweet Seraphim
Wallbanger
The Winemaker's Dinner: Entree
A Christmas Wish
Blood Vine



You can enter to win via Rafflecopter on the Omnific Publishing Blog!  

Also huge congratulations to Alice Clayton whose books (Wallbanger and The Redhead Series) were purchased by Simon and Schuster in a major deal.  Look for the movie/television series to come.  You go girl!

Finding Richard III. His kingdom for a Mini...

Am I the only one who thinks this would make a fabulous novel and/or movie?  Here's two great listens about finding poor Richard in a car park.  And if only Richard looked this good...

Forum -- KQED -- Finding Richard's remains

The Reduced Shakespeare Company refashions Richard III

24 Days of Christmas Blog Hop

Day 24 -- Grave Refrain

Please stop on over to the wonderful Kat Evangelista's blog and win a free e-book of Grave Refrain.  You can also check out the other great books featured as part of the "24 Days of Guest Posts and Giveways." 

Dymphna 2012: Belgium, it must be Tuesday

Come see a great, funny and heartfelt show and help raise money for the Food Pantry and other great outreach programs!

When:  Friday, Saturday, November 9th and 10th.  Hors d'oeurves and wine at 6:30 and curtain at 7:30.  Sunday, November 11th at 2.

Where:  St. Aidan's Church, 500 Goldmine, San Francisco.

How much:  Dirt cheap.  Sliding scale for adults ($20-30) and $10 for kids.  And yes, it's very kid friendly.

So I'm the sexually frustrated nun below -- although the Lady in Red steals the show!  Hope to see you there. 

Much love,

S.

Lovely words for Grave Refrain and chatting with Amber

Jenn at Home of Crimson Flower Reviews and Randomness gave Grave Refrain a wonderful review and I wanted to share it with you. 

http://crimsonflowerreviewteam.blogspot.com/2012/10/grave-refrain-love-ghost-story-by-sarah_26.html

I also had a lovely chat with my friend and fellow writer, Amber Belldene, about things scary and sexy.  Look for her equally scary and sexy book, Blood Vine, coming out in December.

http://amberbelldene.com/sarah-glover/

Jennifer DeLucy, Circle of Light

Circle of Light

by Jennifer DeLucy

Omnific Publishing - October 2012

A wonderfully talented writer and friend, Jennifer DeLucy, is stopping by today to chat with us about her latest book, Circle of Light.  This is the final book in The Light Series triology.   I'm so glad to be able to support her as I've been a fan of her work for years.

But first, here's a summary of the story.  

Circle of Light:

Empath and Pathcrosser to the dead, Lillian Hunt has finally come into her own as a Sentient being. All seems well in her brave new world...that is, until a tragic turn sends her tight knit Sentient group on a rescue mission through lore-infested Europe. Their goal is to save the love of Lily's life—vampire Sentient, William Maddox — from both the prejudice of their own society and the dark intentions of ancient vampires. But how will they keep hope alive, even as time runs out?

Jen, a lovely musician in her own right, weaves music into her work.  I've asked her to talk about the importance of music in her writing.  I've also asked her (since I'm always curious about how authors face their laptop or pad of paper or what have you each day) about how she goes about the writing process.

Sarah asked me to describe the importance of music to my writing process, and this is a pretty personal thing, because I'm also a musician, so I don't just make up playlists for each novel I write (though I definitely do that, as well). For some reason, from the beginning of the Light Series, I felt compelled to write a song for each book. It started with "Lily's Song" for Seers of Light, then "Free Me" for Whisper of Light, and then "Circe of Light" (for the book with the same name.) It just kind of became a thing where I had to write music for each book trailer that corresponded with the feeling of the novel. I couldn't even help it. It was a compulsion after a while, which doesn't surprise me, because ever since I was a little girl I've loved music and story writing equally and always insisted I wanted to somehow do both. So...how convenient for me! *wink*

You can actually listen to (and download) the Light Series music from my reverbnation musician page here. At the moment, it's free. :)

http://www.reverbnation.com/#!/jenniferdelucy

You can also check out the complete playlists for all three books on the Light Series page of my website:

http://www.jenniferdelucy.com/Page_2.html

As for the second part of this post--whether my writing process is more organic or more organized--the answer is definitely organic.

My first novel was written completely unplanned but for a few key points that jumped out at me, like little inspirations to remember for later. Once Seers of Light was finished, I utilized a really generalized outline for Whisper, but everything was always in flux, flexible, changing according to what the books taught me and how they guided me along. I can absolutely go into something believing things are going to happen one way and then learn that, in fact, they are not. And I'm always pleasantly surprised by this. I love it.

Stephen King describes novel writing as something akin to digging up the bones of a dinosaur. He says that you can't dig up the entire thing at once...you have to uncover one bone at a time and the whole thing will reveal itself eventually. It's more exciting for the author, and the reader can sense that, as well.  

I hope that gives you an idea of how I write and the ways I use music to express a novel more fully. Thanks to Sarah for hosting!

xo

Jen

Jen's Website: http://www.jenniferdelucy.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Jen_DeLucy

Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3378915.Jennifer_DeLucy

Jen, thank you for being so generous with your time and talent.  Good luck on your continued success.  Now all of you go out and buy the series!! 

Sarah

Other Sherlocks who thrill

Yes, while I love the BBC rendition of the man, Brett was a scrumptious Holmes.  Exactly as I believe ACD envisioned him.  Just the perfect level of "not good."  As if you aren't dealing with a human being at all --- just a controlled madman genius.   Click the caption to view his best quotes.

His best moments