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Archive for the ‘Revealed’ Category
Sunday, April 26th, 2009
This past week I did a little traveling, and hit up my first book club event. It went really well and I enjoyed myself immensely, which of course got me thinking about my own book club. Which I don’t have, as I’ve never been a member of a book club. I’ve always liked the idea of one, but either my friends don’t read as much as me or I move states, and any initial discussions of a book club are quashed. But maybe with the advent of social networking and Skype I can cull together a spread out group of friends and get them all to read the same book. Just once. Thoughts?
The other thing I did this week while traveling was type. I like the idea of writing on the train but I don’t manage it very well, because… I don’t type normally. Don’t get me wrong, I type fast, but I don’t use all my fingers. Just one on my left hand and about three on my right. I think this is because I quit piano lessons before I had really mastered using the left hand. But on the upside, a friend once told me I look like I’m playing Rachmaninoff when I type, so I think my old piano teacher would be pleased.
Happy Reading everyone!
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Monday, April 6th, 2009
Hi everyone – I want to thank everyone for entering my first ever contest. From Savich and Sherlock to Shaggy and Scooby Doo you guys plumbed the depths of your favorite investigative partnerships. All five winners have been notified via email – but I want to give a special shout out to April, for her deep and devoted love to the movie K-9, which was truly the most passionate and inspired entry I received. If you entered, check your email, and congratulations to all the winners!
In other news, I spent this weekend on the road. I love a good road trip – I don’t drive all that often — living in New York City, I mostly take the bus or subway to get to where I need to go. When I visit my family, planes and trains are the mode of transport, rarely automobiles. So when I get into the car, and drive all day, it’s an experience I relish.
On a road trip, I’m allowed fast food. Don’t tell me you can drive past 400 Arbys and not stop at one for a jamocha shake. And I always have an inlaid stock of twizzlers, diet coke, and cookies with some form of chip in them. Fritos, too. Love fritos. Never eat them at home. Calories consumed during a road trip don’t count.
I also allow myself book tapes. I’m a little of a book purist (It must be read to be understood!) but that’s really just an act because I can’t listen to book tapes on my ipod. I’m afraid I’ll be sitting on the subway and burst out laughing at something in the story and people will call the transpo police on the crazy blonde, laughing to herself in the third car. So this weekend, it was me, the open road, twizzlers and David Handler. I had a wonderful time. What about you guys? Do you have any road trip rules?
Happy Reading, everyone!
P.S. Occasionally I stopped the book and listened to a little radio. Who is the Florida person and why did he cover Right Round by Dead or Alive? Did he think he could top the fabulous video they did in the 80s with the flags from color guard? There is no topping the flags from color guard!
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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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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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Sunday, February 22nd, 2009
With a little over a week to go until the release of my uber-fabulous second novel Revealed (what? I’m trying to be promotional here), and as promised here are numbers 5 thru 1 of Ten Awesome Things about Revealed.
5. Hedge Mazes — I had the good fortune to spend a holiday in London once, and floated down the Thames to Hampton Court Palace. There, on a fantastic fall afternoon, I got lost in a hedge maze. For FOUR hours. The sun began to set, my friends came in and out looking for me. Needless to say, I have revisited this traumatic experience in my young life for my readers’ amusement. I hope you appreciate what I do for you people.
4. Frenemies – God bless whoever coined this term. They deserve the Nobel Prize in term-coining. It so perfectly describes that relationship between two people in the same set of friends, but are constantly in competition with each other. Just like Phillippa Benning and Lady Jane Cummings – and without that level of fierce competition, Phillippa might never have known the inside of a sarcophagus… much to her detriment.
3. Office Politics – Having had to account for every box of paper clips and stamps used in my day job, I can understand Marcus’s frustration with having to write requisitions for ink allotment (how is he meant to do that without any ink?) and make nice with the office manager, and run everything by the bosses. Is it any wonder he decides to break free from the restrictions of his position at the War Department, and do some investigating on his own?
2. Adventure and Derring Do – When Phillippa and Marcus get together sparks fly. Literally. Things just seem to explode around them. Pies. Hay bales. Middles class housing structures. Naturally this makes for some very exciting, very harrowing situations but never fear, because luckily…
1. Love Conquers All. — As well it should.
Revealed debuts on March 3rd, I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it, discovering these people and their world. Happy Reading!
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Monday, February 16th, 2009
Hi everyone! Revealed, my second release will be hitting the stores on March 3rd. That’s just about two weeks away, so until the big day, I thought I’d compose a list of why Revealed is a book worthy of one of your precious Saturday afternoons. So here is the top ten list of Awesome things about Revealed.
10. Pomeranians.
Little dogs are comedy gold. Little dogs that compromise their masculinity by wearing jeweled collars are, as the commercials say, priceless.
9. Horse Races.
Since writing this book, I got to learn how big a deal it was to win the thousand guineas on the Rowley Mile. Which, back in the day, was pretty cool.
8. Knee-high statuary.
So easily knocked over. Especially if you place them in groups of 42 or more.
7. Four and twenty black birds…
Baked in a pie. At an elite society banquet, Phillippa Benning and Marcus Worth find one heck of a clue to the whereabouts of Marcus’s enemy in pie much like the one from the nursery rhyme. And, its more difficult than you would think bake a pie crust large enough to hold 24 birds.
6. Marzipan
Who knew that almond cake would taste so yummy? Reggie Fieldstone, that’s who. And Phillippa is more than willing to buy young Reggie’s assistance with it.
That’s just the beginning of Ten Awesome things about Revealed. Check back next week for numbers 5 through 1…
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Compromised is out today in Mass Market! This means if you missed it when it came out in the larger trade size last year, you can now get it cheaper! Which, lets face it, in this economy, is important. Hope everyone is having a good week — and we are one month to the DAY of Revealed’s release!
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Sunday, February 1st, 2009
Wow – January went amazingly fast, didn’t it? I swear, my brain refuses to acknowledge its not 2008 anymore, let alone February. But, February is pretty awesome, because…
Its here! On Feb 3rd, Compromised is getting its second release, this time in mass market. (which is the smaller, totally able to throw in your bag and read on the subway/bus/treadmill size!)
This of course, begins the countdown for the March 3rd release of Revealed! I can’t wait to see it in the stores – it’s a bit surreal, to think this time last year I had just finished spilling the story from my brain onto paper, and now, it will shortly be covered and printed and have a barcode and everything. I know I’m still relatively new to this (Revealed being my second book) but I don’t think I’ll ever get used to it.
In other news, I just filled out my application for the 2009 RWA Conference, in Washington DC. I was so excited to go to San Francisco last year, but being an East Coast girl, I have to admit its nice to just hop on the train. Plus, I haven’t done DC since I was in middle school. I am looking forward to the chance to see Dorothy’s shoes and the Hope diamond almost as much as I’m looking forward to the conference.
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Friday, January 2nd, 2009
In my life, especially around the holidays, one inevitably leads to the other. Bourbon Balls are holiday cookies, except they’re not really cookie-like, they are balls of chocolate held together by sugar and bourbon. So is it any wonder I have spent an inordinate amount of time today arranging a playlist for the gym? I have a surprising number of White Stripes songs… maybe I should throw in some Led Zeppelin, just for good measure.
I adore the holidays, the presents and family and totally allowable excess of sugary treats, but I’m very glad they are almost over. Why? Because it means we are that much closer to the release dates for Compromised’s second run and Revealed’s first. It also means that I am making headway on the next, which will be a 2010 release. And 2010 is now a mere year away….
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