Monday, April 6, 2009

April news and the EMILY Best of the Best Award

Hi All,

Happy “theoretical” spring! Here in upstate New York, we are still doing the moody swing between sunny and 60 and raining/snowing/30 blech.

But I have news to brighten the darkest day, so I don’t care!

I was notified that I won the EMILY contest “Best of the Best” award. They take the winners of all the various categories (I won “Romantic Suspense,” although my novel is really a paranormal with romantic suspense) and pick, well, the best of the best. And that was ME! I’m still over the moon about it.
Better yet, my prize was that I got to send the 1st 3 chapters of WITCH EVER WAY YOU CAN to Leis Pederson, at Berkley. Let’s hope she likes it!

I am hard at work editing my second novel, KING ME! – a humorous paranormal romance about a modern witch who accidentally brings back King Arthur to save the world. Oops. Many thanks to my “First Readers”: Judith Levine, Caere Dunn, and my two writing partners, Robin Wright and Saoirse Redgrave. You guys rock! As soon as I get through the first round of edits, I’ll be sending the first 65 pages or so to fabbo author and professional editor, Mindy Klasky.

Speaking of my pal Saoirse, she got great news, too. (Way better than mine, really.) Her YA werewolf tale, 13 TO LIFE, which won the Textnovel.com contest, has been “snapped up” by a great publisher! More details later when everything is official, but in the meanwhile, big cheers for Saoirse!

I’m more than midway through writing my fourth book for Llewellyn, THE EVERYDAY WITCH A TO Z SPELLBOOK. Today I started working on the “Q” spells, so it’s moving along nicely. And of course, book 3, THE GODDESS IS IN THE DETAILS: WISDOM FOR THE EVERYDAY WITCH comes out in May!

Booksigning news next time J

Many bright blessings, and may spring bring you good news, too!
Deborah
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5 comments:

  1. Suzette SaxtonApril 6, 2009 at 9:46 PM

    Your books sound great! And I love the title of you blog.

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  2. Deborah BlakeApril 6, 2009 at 9:57 PM

    Thanks, Suzette! You can find the books at B&N or Borders (or Amazon or Llewellyn's website). If you get one, be sure to let me know what you think :-)

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  3. Mary Lindsey / Marissa ClarkeApril 8, 2009 at 12:57 PM

    Congrats on the Emily. I;m a member of the WH-RWA, the chapter that sponsors that contest. Delighted for you.

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  4. Deborah BlakeApril 8, 2009 at 2:21 PM

    Thanks, Mary. Your chapter ran a great contest. It was extremely well run and the contest itself was great (and I'm not just saying that because I won!). The feedback I got from the 1st round judges was detailed and extremely helpful. I would recommend it to anyone. (And you can quote me!)

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  5. AnonymousMay 29, 2009 at 2:51 PM

    Thanks for mentioning my contract, Deb. :-) You totally deserve "Best of the Best" (for bunches of reasons ;-).

    ~Saoirse

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