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Archive for March, 2009
Sunday, March 29th, 2009
First of all I have to say, there is an awesome review of Revealed up over at The Book Smugglers blog. If you haven’t read it, check it out: http://thebooksmugglers.com/2009/03/book-review-revealed-by-kate-noble.html
Now, I have to make a confession: I’m a contest virgin. I have never had one in the past, and I rarely enter them. The one time I did, I won a coffee table. And honestly, what can top that? (Besides coffee table books, I mean. Word play!)
So it is with an intrepid heart and crossed fingers (hard to type with crossed fingers, by the way) that I present to you, my first ever Contest!
So here are the rules:
The hero and heroine in Revealed, Marcus and Phillippa, become partners in an investigation. Uneasy partners at first, but then they start to get along very well. So all you have to do is tell me who your favorite fictional investigative partners are and why.
They can be male-female (like Goren and Eames), male-male (Holmes and Watson), female-female (Cagney and Lacey), human-animal (Turner and Hooch), animal-animal (Pinky and the Brain pretending to be Watson-Holmes) or heck, just about any combination investigational partnership you can think of, from books, movies, tv, comics, etc.
How to contact me:
Just email me at kate@katenoble.com (put “April Contest” in the header) or send me a message via my contact form on my website, www.katenoble.com/contact.html
Time Span:
Over the next week (March 30th to April 5th)
Prize:
My top five favorite entries will receive their choice of a signed copy of Revealed or a signed copy of Compromised. Winners will be announced on Monday April 6th!
Good luck everyone, and happy reading!
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Saturday, March 21st, 2009
Having buried my head and been working for the past couple weeks, I looked up this morning and realized, “Oh, its Mar. 21st.” “Oh, its spring.” These thoughts were shortly followed by, “Ohmigod – its Twilight.”
This snuck up on me. Most movies don’t release on DVD on Saturdays. One of the many things I learned working at a movie store in high school (among them the fact that there is a massive difference between the 1954 and 1995 versions of Sabrina) is that in general movies are released on DVD on Tuesdays – it doesn’t interfere with the weekend box office of the studios’ newer pictures in theaters. But apparently, Twilight is throwing caution to the wind and coming out today. Which means they are expecting it to do really well. Which it will. I must go to the store!
I loved the books. I read the first three altogether and then waited impatiently for the fourth this past summer. (However – Renesmee? Really?) And I was fascinated by the movie – lets be honest, there were some things wrong with it (*cough*bodyglitter*cough*) but the chemistry between the leads and Bella’s relationship with her father were dead on. Being not far beyond the mental age of twelve, my inner Squeee! goes off just hearing the soundtrack. I guess I’m fated to having a long weekend of trying to work, but alas, watching Robert Pattison make googly eyes at Kristen Stewart. Life is so hard.
Next weekend will be more productive, I swear – I’ll be announcing my April contest, wherein prizes will include signed copies of both Revealed and Compromised.
Happy Reading!
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Monday, March 9th, 2009
Authors – I don’t care your age, your experience or your dignity – we all have one universal quirk: We will look for our book in every bookstore or library we ever enter. You could have been published 50 years ago, and been out of print for 49 of them, you will still look for your book on the book shelves. So, since Revealed came out just under a week ago, I have spent an inordinate amount of time skulking around bookstores this week, scouring for my book… and yes, if I thought it could be placed a little more prominently, well, it’s only right to assist the shopkeepers in their duties and moving it to a more featured spot. (I’m not ashamed. Everybody does it, whether they admit it or not.)
So, I was in a Borders this past week, and oddly, couldn’t find Revealed on the romance shelf. There was Compromised, but no Revealed. I check under the trade sized shelves, I checked under the Mass Market sized shelves. I went to the computer kiosk, typed in my name… and it said there were multiple copies in store. Huh.
So I do only what is next logical, I go up to the assistance desk. The 19 year old employee, who considering it was 10:30 in the morning and I was scouring for a romance novel, only gave me a half strange look as she dutifully looked up the book in her computer, and then says ‘Ah!’. We go to the romance section, and she points them right out to me – but not on the shelves – on the display wall. I had a display. Of my books. Multiple copies, just like the computer said. I hadn’t even thought to look there.
No need for me to turn the books out or display them more prominently… however, I did move one copy of Revealed back to the shelf by Compromised. Well, I couldn’t find it in the first place I looked, so who knows if anyone else could? Besides, Compromised and Revealed just seemed so happy to be next to each other…
Alright, that’s my little anecdote for the week… happy reading everybody!
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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
Pub Day!
No, it’s not a day to be spent in a pub… although there are worse ideas on this very snowy day in New York. (It’s March, people! I thought we were done with this.) But I say thee nay! Pub Day is the release date of my second novel Revealed! And it’s here. Oh alright, technically it’s tomorrow, March 3rd — but my brother, intrepid investigator that he is, already spotted copies out at his local bookstore. And I have to say I’m terribly pleased with the copy I have, for the following reasons (yes, I like lists, sue me):
1. It’s very blue. I saw pictures of the cover before, of course, and had it posted here for a number of months, but I didn’t expect the colors to be so deep and rich. Somehow, it makes it all the more real.
2. It smells like a book. The content might not alter, but the smell of a printout of 400 pages of 8.5×11 paper is vastly different than the smell of a bound book, all glue and typeset and cardstock. (all due respect to the Kindle and other ereaders, of course – they try very hard to bring the experience of reading a book to virtual reality… but they haven’t replicated the smell)
3. “True Love is a Mystery…” The tag on the cover explains it all. True love is a mystery – entire industries have sprung up in attempting to decipher the conundrum of who we fall in love with and why. And with just the right amount of wit, for those in the know, it also perfectly sums up Revealed.
4. Bonus Reason: Bonus Chapter! A sneak peek of my next endeavor is in the back! And that’s something you can’t find anywhere else yet — not even on this website.
Speaking of my next endeavor, I should probably get back to it. But if you aren’t snowed in, go see if you can find Revealed at your local bookstore. And if you can’t get out of the house…hey, that’s why they invented Amazon…
Happy Reading!
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