Exciting TEMPEST release and YOU could be a winner!

Woo hoo, the new Jane True is out! Tracking the Tempest by my pal Nicole Peeler was officially released today, even though it's been shipping and appearing in bookstores all week. Yeah!

As I noted in a previous write-up, this series has taken its place in my pantheon of shiny, sexy, go-to series, right next to Kresley Cole's and Charlaine Harris's. I have a book buy planned this weekend and Tracking is at the top of my list!

In fact, in total OCD fashion, I plan to get Tracking at the same bookstore I got Tempest Rising from. It's a bookstore I rarely go to, but I feel compelled. This is a new form of book OCD. Look at me, biotches! I'm pioneering new forms of OCD! But enough about me. Back to Nicole.

The word on the street: TTT kicks ass:
From Publisher's Weekly: “Peeler’s chick lit tone adds sparkle to the most spine-tingling scenes with a style that never strikes a false note, and the seamless plot weaves together Jane’s paranormal and personal growth while linking both to the swelling suspense.”

From Bibliopunkk: "I just finished a treat - Tracking the Tempest by Nicole Peeler. It's an excellent and fun read from Peeler for the second time in a row, I'm happy to broadcast."

Melissa of My World...in Words and Pages calls it "a fantastic fast paced fun ride with terrific action and love."

I knew it would be good. And here, for your perusal, in case you haven't started the series, from my write-up of yore:

Three things I loved about Tempest Rising, Book #1:

1. Jane True is a vulnerable, fascinating and totally compelling heroine. I enjoyed her careful intelligence, as well as her unabashed love of eating and other sensual pleasures.

2. This book featured my favorite kind of love triangle, where both options are hugely attractive, but you definitely know who the hero is. A very low-angst triangle that lets you stop and smell the roses.

3. Yummy imaginative world building with dashes of smutty goodness all along the way.

The contest! Enter to win A copy of Tracking the Tempest!
Okay, instead of buying ONE copy this weekend at the store where I must buy Jane Trues, I will buy TWO copies, therefore thwarting the OCD mojo and spreading the Tempest goodness all that the same time! How do you enter? Just leave a comment, my friends. But the contest closes Friday morning whenever I get up and turn on my computer. And, this is a US or Canada one.

Weekend Entertainment Roundup

Broken by Megan Hart I just finished this last night, further establishing Hart as one of my all-time favorite writers. I kept saying over and over how this book is so compelling. That is the ultimate word for it. I mean, I thought about it all the time when I wasn't reading it. I just wanted to be reading it. It's one of those stories that flips around a bit, and every facet was gripping. I loved reading this book.

Tempest Rising by Nicole Peeler I always sort of tremble a bit when I pick up a book of somebody I know and like in real life, or in Peeler's case, virtually, because, what if I don't like it? Wow, never fear on the Tempest.

This series has taken its place in my pantheon of bright, shiny, sexy, go-to series, right next to Kresley Cole's and Charlaine Harris's. First, I loved this heroine: vulnerable, fascinating, careful. Also, there's my favorite kind of love triangle brewing here where both options are hugely attractive, but you definitely know who the hero is. Yummy imaginative world building with dashes of smutty goodness all along the way. The next can't come soon enough.

Lost: So is it over? I stopped watching in the second season, convinced the writers didn't have a master plan. Was I wrong? What's the deal with the island? Is it like that Star Trek where it's just the projections of people's thoughts?

Life: This is a new cop series DH and I are trying off Netflix. It's like, this cop who was sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit, and gets into Zen, then he is exonerated, and he uses his half-baked Zen abilities and newfound angle on life to be a better cop, and solve the plotty conspiracy that sent him to prison in the first place. So far so good, though a bit klunky (think the annoyingness of Data in the first season of Star Trek Next Gen). And, it's no Wire or Shield, but we'll see. Anybody else have a report on if this show gets good?

A Serious Man (Coen Brothers): DH and I rented this movie as a pick-me-up comedy, which ought to greatly amuse anybody who has watched it. I take it as the Coen brothers' meditation on mortality and the meaninglessness of life, and I didn't much like it while I was watching it, but I came to like it in a highly oblique way later. I read a review where the last scenes were mysterious to the reviewer, but to me, the last scenes put the whole movie into focus. I think I feel fondest of the movie when I look back on it as an art object rather than a movie, and think about its images and the odd repeating messages that seem very Rohrschach-like. In certain moods, I look back on the ending and appreciate it on a kind of dark way.

Mario Acevedo's insane new book trailer:

I love all the little WTF moments in this.

Latebreaking link: Romance Fiction X Geekery OTP: Hey, I love this post (by Bonnie Walling), about how romance is now the geekiest genre ever, in a newly hip way, due to all the mashups. Yeah! Check it out. I found it via Lynn Viehl's wonderful author blog, Paperback Writer.

Nicole Peeler: the next Katie Couric?

Nicole Peeler, author of the fabulous Tempest Rising, is interviewing me today over at the League of Reluctant Adults! For the love of all things holy, stay away from this woman! Please come say hi!

We had a great time, and she went out of her way to make me feel comfortable. Wow! What a disturbed and utterly horrifying creative, thoughtful person she is! And full of surprises.

I've been a lurker at the League for a long time and I can't say what she did to me what an honor it is to be included over there!

Seriously, I'm very thrilled and excited, and Nicole was so much fun. Come visit!