Kim Lenox - Blog

Hey, if you’re one of those who are headed to San Francisco for the annual Romance Writers of America convention, have fun and travel safe!

I am skipping this year, and instead spending the next 8 days in exciting (and sometimes very dangerous) 1889 London. All I need is me and my time machine ** waggles eyebrows at Dell computer**. And a stack of resource books. And lots of coffee. And me old brain!

Exciting news — Huntress Reviews had some great things to say about my upcoming release, NIGHT FALLS DARKLY. Here’s an excerpt!

*** A new and fascinating mythos is being created before our eyes in this book. This spin on Immortality has some hints of things that have been done in the past, but is also quite original. Readers are in for a mental treat, with no tricks. ***

Thank you to Huntress Book Reviews!

And for those of you just bouncing in to read the blog — I am hosting a contest that runs through August 31st, and the prize is an Advance Reading Copy of NIGHT FALLS DARKLY. Just click on my contest page — it’s super easy to enter!

I’m deep in deadline mode, and thought it was time to break for a dance.

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That is Matt, by the way. My favorite is the DMZ, N. Korea and the Papuan natives.

So this is Tango. A few weeks ago, I went to Petsmart to see if they had some copies of the July CAT FANCY in which I and Monstrous Orange Cat, Oscar, were featured. They didn’t have the magazines on the shelf yet. I made the mistake of taking my husband and kids, and in a weak moment, we brought Tango home instead! He is an animal shelter kitty.

This after my husband and I said, “No more pets!” We have four now. Goodbye furniture! Goodbye carpet!

He’s a sweetie though, and has forced his little cheerful, energetic self on the other animals until they have abandoned their hissing and growling. His energy level swings between sleepy and cuddly –to dangling off the ceiling. Or tablecloth, or curtains.

On the writing front, it’s nice to get a voice mail message from your agent that uses the words: “good news”. I’m excited to share that NIGHT FALLS DARKLY will be a featured alternate selection for the Rhapsody and Doubleday Bookclubs! I think in October. I say “I think” because I didn’t ask the date … I just went, “Wheeee!” I’ll share details later.

Okay, RINGY DINGY! That’s my internal alarm going off, saying “NO MORE INTERNET TIME!” For those of you that don’t know, I’m a news junky, and could spend all day going back and forth between CNN, MSNBC and FOXNews. But I’ve got to get this story that’s in my head, onto the computer screen!

Oh! One more thing. I received a box from my publisher the other day, containing some nice bound ARC’s (Advance Reading Copies) for NIGHT FALLS DARKLY. My website will be updated in coming days, and will feature a new contest to win one, deadline August 31st, so check back for that.

This is the coolest!

eHarlequin has launched “enriched” e-books. What are enriched e-books, you ask?

From their press release:

” … (these books are) enriched with interactive buttons that hyperlink to Web sites containing photos, historical commentaries, illustrations, sound effects, maps, articles and more, bringing the world of the novel to life without the reader having to leave the computer or the current screen page. The interactive buttons have been designed to be unobtrusive, so if one prefers not to access the bonus material, the reading experience remains uninterrupted.”

Nicola Cornick’s UNMASKED is the launch book.

Thanks again to pal Chuck for sharing that info!

At the Bookends agency blog, literary agent Jessica Faust is talking about her favorite books from her childhood/teen years.

I have so many favorites from those years. The Nancy Drew mysteries. Maud Hart Lovelace’s Betsy and Tacy stories. Madeline L’Engle (A WRINKLE IN TIME) and Wilson Rawls (WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS).

One author I remember really loving was Lois Duncan. My favorite books by Ms. Duncan were SUMMER OF FEAR and DOWN A DARK HALL. I still have the books on my shelf, here in my office. They were so spooky and different from anything else I’d ever read! On a whim, I googled Lois Duncan, and found her web page.

Last week I took my kids to see WALL-E and there was a preview for a new kids movie called HOTEL FOR DOGS. Hey, surprise! She wrote the book that movie is based on.

Hmmmm, well. It’s thundering and lightning here, so I’m going to sign off and head downstairs with my Alphasmart to write some pages! I hope everyone’s having a great summer.

Which Jane Austen heroine are you?

“You are Elinor Dashwood of Sense & Sensibility! You are practical, circumspect, and discreet. Though you are tremendously sensible and allow your head to rule, you have a deep, emotional side that few people often see.”

I swiped that off of Nicole Ellis’ blog! Thanks Nicole!