DABWAHA Round 4: The End Approaches
Mar. 25th, 2011 10:29 pmSome of you are, I hope, enjoying this March Madness book tournament sponsored by book review/discussion blogs Dear Author and Smart Bitches, Trashy Books. I like the trash talking and bribery, myself, which you can get the most taste of on Twitter at #dabwaha.
For those who wish I would go back to posting about, you know, Things, I will be doing that soon. In fact, next week I hope to finally post a multi-part series on The Revision Process (at the long ago request of
joncwriter).
BUT. BACK TO DABWAHA.
COLD MAGIC is in one of the two opening matches of the Elite Eight (whoo-hoo!).
These particular matches begin (PAY ATTENTION!) at 10 am CST March 26 (Saturday) and extend until 10 pm March 26 CST (12 hours total)(that's Central Standard Time, USA).
I will of course be asleep when the match opens. I'm also up against another very tough opponent this round, Courtney Milan's historical romance TRIAL BY DESIRE (a book I enjoyed muchly when I read it some months ago, not dreaming at that time I would months later be facing down the novel in a brutal cage match).
My earlier rounds were against books in what was termed the Crossover Division, that is, books not specifically marketed in the Romance Genre. (You'll recall these fine novels, which I recommend all: Susanna Kearsley's contemporary w/ an historical spin THE WINTER SEA, Sara Creasy's sf biopunk SONG OF SCARABAEUS, and Deanne Raybourn's romantic mystery DARK ROAD TO DARJEELING. I mention them here because the stated purpose of the tournament is to bring books to the notice of readers, and it certainly worked in my case as I've now read and loved the first two and will be reading the last soon.)
In any case, having won the Crossover Division, I've now moved into the Regional Final against the winner of the Historical Romance Division.
So, once again, starting Saturday 26 March at 10 am CST you can vote for COLD MAGIC (or TRIAL BY DESIRE) as well as vote in another match between Karina Bliss and Jaci Burton:
ALL RIGHT HERE
ALSO, and most importantly, in Round 3 I said if I won (Round 3) I would write a short story featuring the character Rory from COLD MAGIC.
I won, so I'm writing it.
I have about 1250 words so far of a projected, um, 4-5000. It will be, as I said on Twitter/Facebook, a story with no redeeming social value whatsoever.
Tomorrow (Saturday) I will post the first page in a separate post.
By the way, Courtney Milan offered her own Round 3 bribe--that she would post the early drafts of her various attempts to write the opening chapter of TRIAL BY DESIRE--which she has paid off handsomely in this post which is of great interest both for writers and readers.
For those who wish I would go back to posting about, you know, Things, I will be doing that soon. In fact, next week I hope to finally post a multi-part series on The Revision Process (at the long ago request of
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BUT. BACK TO DABWAHA.
COLD MAGIC is in one of the two opening matches of the Elite Eight (whoo-hoo!).
These particular matches begin (PAY ATTENTION!) at 10 am CST March 26 (Saturday) and extend until 10 pm March 26 CST (12 hours total)(that's Central Standard Time, USA).
I will of course be asleep when the match opens. I'm also up against another very tough opponent this round, Courtney Milan's historical romance TRIAL BY DESIRE (a book I enjoyed muchly when I read it some months ago, not dreaming at that time I would months later be facing down the novel in a brutal cage match).
My earlier rounds were against books in what was termed the Crossover Division, that is, books not specifically marketed in the Romance Genre. (You'll recall these fine novels, which I recommend all: Susanna Kearsley's contemporary w/ an historical spin THE WINTER SEA, Sara Creasy's sf biopunk SONG OF SCARABAEUS, and Deanne Raybourn's romantic mystery DARK ROAD TO DARJEELING. I mention them here because the stated purpose of the tournament is to bring books to the notice of readers, and it certainly worked in my case as I've now read and loved the first two and will be reading the last soon.)
In any case, having won the Crossover Division, I've now moved into the Regional Final against the winner of the Historical Romance Division.
So, once again, starting Saturday 26 March at 10 am CST you can vote for COLD MAGIC (or TRIAL BY DESIRE) as well as vote in another match between Karina Bliss and Jaci Burton:
ALL RIGHT HERE
ALSO, and most importantly, in Round 3 I said if I won (Round 3) I would write a short story featuring the character Rory from COLD MAGIC.
I won, so I'm writing it.
I have about 1250 words so far of a projected, um, 4-5000. It will be, as I said on Twitter/Facebook, a story with no redeeming social value whatsoever.
Tomorrow (Saturday) I will post the first page in a separate post.
By the way, Courtney Milan offered her own Round 3 bribe--that she would post the early drafts of her various attempts to write the opening chapter of TRIAL BY DESIRE--which she has paid off handsomely in this post which is of great interest both for writers and readers.