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Today was the day, my peeps.  I finally finished writing Curse.  Woo-hoo!  And I did it while my husband was out of town and while I was sick with bronchitis.  It was only one day late!  There's so much to write about in this post, I don't know quite where to start.  Wait, I know!

GIVEAWAY!

I am giving away a two-pack.  One paperback copy of The Vampire's Warden (signed) and one paperback copy of The Vampire's Curse (signed).  Enter via the form below.  And please share this blog with your friends via twitter and Facebook!

Here's the other giveaway.  I told you all awhile back that I have three copies of "Sing Me Home" by Jodi Picoult.  I'm going to extend the giveaway until the end of July.  On the last day of July, I will pick winners for the Undead in Brown County 2-Pack and three hardback copies of Sing Me Home.

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Update

06/30/2011

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I've been refreshing my links on B&N, hoping that they finish processing Curse sometime tonight.  I'm not expecting anything from Amazon until Friday night or Saturday.   As soon as B&N posts it for sale, I'll put the links up here.  The price on B&N will be $2.99 for The Vampire's Curse.  Stay tuned for more.   I'll also be doing that contest I mentioned earlier.
 
 
Well, at least it wasn't too far off from the official release date.  It's been uploaded to B&N and Amazon.  It will probably be available on B&N in a few hours.  I'm going to start working on the PDF file for the paperback tonight as well.  Hopefully the paperback will be available in a week or two.  Formatting for that is pretty complicated for somebody like me.  Anyway, I hope you all really love The Vampire's Curse!
 
 
Getting ready to upload to the ebook servers.
 
 
A few more pages and it will be DONE!!!
 
 
Working on the climactic ending scene right now.  I should have everything wrapped up in a few hours.  The ebook versions have already been set up in B&N's system and Amazon (except for the final ebook file).  Cover is ready, price is set, etc.  I'll be rewriting the book description, but that won't take long.
 

Update

06/30/2011

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I'm up early, before both of the kids and starting my second cup of coffee.  Getting to work on Curse right now.  I want to get this finished and up for sale by this afternoon.  There will be a special edition of Follow-Me Friday this week on this blog.  I'm going to begin a giveaway.  One signed copy of Warden and one signed copy of Curse will be the prize.  Check back for more details.
 
 
I'm sorry, my peeps.  I'm sick and exhausted.  My muse has fallen asleep on me and refuses to rise to the occasion.  So I'm heading to bed.  With any luck at all, I'll feel better tomorrow and will be able to finish this up and polish it off.  I'm looking forward so much to having you all read Curse.  Thanks for hanging in there and being patient with me.  I'll be blogging again tomorrow with more updates on the progress.
 
 
I've made a decent amount of progress so far today, folks.  The word count is now 32,303.  I've got another thousand or so words to go.  Hubby is out of town for work.  I've been trying to keep my little guy busy and nursing this bronchitis between the spurts of writing.  If everything goes as planned, I will have the final draft uploaded to B&N and Amazon in a few hours.  If you're buying it from B&N, you should be able to get your copy tonight.  With Amazon, it takes longer for the book to become available.  I'll continue to post updates as I go.