Or various sightings of various things. So - what do I have to tell you this week? First a teensy bit of sad news - no Rainbow Con. I'm sorry about not being able to see some of you in July. Hoping to get some different cons organized for next year. I will still be at Yaoi Con in October, though. Offbeat Crimes News! Skim Blood and Savage Verse has its general release on Tuesday, April 4! Anyone waiting for Amazon, Kobo, etc. etc. to go live, we're almost there! Links if you need them! https://www.pride-publishing.com/book/skim-blood-and-savage-verse https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Savage-Verse-Offbeat-Crimes-ebook/dp/B06X9B8GQH https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/skim-blood-and-savage-verse http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/skim-blood-and-savage-verse-angel-martinez/1125829811?ean=9781786515520 Also - a free prequel to Skim Blood here on the blog, Hunter Green Pea Coat. You'll understand when you read it. Working feverishly on Offbeat Crimes 4 now. Feral Dust Bunnies will make it by deadline or very shortly thereafter. Closing in on the end here. ESTO News! Vassily the Beautiful, I'm very excited to say, will be coming to audio late spring/ early summer. And who picked up the audio contract? The marvelous Greg Tremblay! Very excited about this project. :) Vassily is a science fiction fairytale retelling of the old Russian story, Vasilisa the Beautiful, available from Mischief Corner Books and all the usual distributors. :)
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An Offbeat Crimes Short (Some time ago, a reader requested a love story for LJ, the animated leather jacket we first meet in Lime Gelatin & Other Monsters. This was my response. Which only got me in hot water and had readers demanding more for LJ. Look for more in Skim Blood & Savage Verse. ;) ) The rain covered everything like a dirty gray blanket. A see-through dirty gray blanket. It was a stupid metaphor, but he was in a noir kind of mood. He wished he could smoke. Noir detectives always lit up when they were pensive and melancholy. She stood beside him as the train pulled in, motionless, maybe thinking noir thoughts as he was. With a gesture at the slowing train and back to her, he indicated, Do you have to go? A little shrug as she stuffed her sleeves in her pockets. We've been through this. He pointed to her, to him, back to her. What about us? Her shrug was slower this time, sadder. Beyond that, she didn't answer. She'd blown into his life just two weeks before. Had it only been two weeks? Gorgeous hunter green pea coat with big dark buttons and a mountain of attitude. Their sleeves had met over a bin of shiny glass beads, though he'd just been looking. She'd been stuffing them in her pocket. Petty stuff as thefts went. Still, he warned her off lifting things in that part of town. He wasn't just some punk anymore; he knew police officers. Even liked some of them. Instead of taking offense, she touched his zipper, seemed fascinated by it like it was the first one she'd seen up close. Maybe it was. She was like that, this strange recipe of jaded and innocent all wrapped up in a beautiful package of trouble. They spent hours together just drifting through parks, making smartass observations about people they saw, feeding the birds, playing hide-and-seek around the statues like they were kids. They haunted chocolatiers and ogled the selections. They snuck into a film festival to watch anime, tossing popcorn at each other and laughing silently. He'd never had such an intense connection to anyone and she felt it too. At least, he'd thought she had. But something had changed in the last couple of days. She said she never planned on staying so long. Just passing through. The harder he tried to convince her to stay, the more stubborn she was about having to go. He tugged on her sleeve as the train doors opened. Don't go. Gently, she patted his lapel, took out pen and paper and wrote something. When she boarded, she turned and pressed the paper up to the window for him to see. See you, Space Cowboy. Leather Jacket turned his collar up against the rain and watching the train until it disappeared in the gray pall of rain. Skim Blood and Savage Verse Offbeat Crimes 3 General release coming 4/4/17! Pride Publishing Amazon Kobo B&N When a ferocious book attacks Carrington at his own birthday party, he believes it’s an isolated incident. But similar books soon pop up all over town, menacing innocent people with harsh bits of poetry and blank verse that deliver damaging physical blows. It’s a frustrating case with too many variables and not enough answers, and the stakes go up with each attack. With the help of his misfit squad mates at the 77th and the public library’s Rare Books Department, the missing pieces decrease but not Carrington’s vexations. His commanding officer rakes him over the coals at the beginning of every shift. His police partner has lost patience with what she sees as his delusional relationship choices and his inability to pick the right man in a vast field of two. City Hall demands that the books be stopped immediately. It’s enough to put a nutritionally challenged vampire off his skim blood. Just for a wee bit so I can catch my breath. It can't possibly be the end of March already. :o
My time management issues aside, just a couple of quick things this week:
Hi all! Time for the news portion of the week. In personal news, my spring garden has been pretty much smooshed by our late season ice storm. It started out as just heavy, wet snow, but turned into clingy ice by sunrise. We've lost half of our tallest pine and the pine branches have done a lot of damage to other plants in their falling. I'm hoping that's the last gasp so the snow will clear and we can see how bad it really is. You can sort of see the mess in this pic: My stint as Author of the Month continues over at My Fiction Nook today with the focus on Offbeat Crimes - yaaaay! Plus a personal story from me - one I've told before but I feel it's relevant now. Skim Blood and Savage Verse is included in the rundown - though for an excerpt, go to the Pride Publishing page. We didn't have the official excerpt when I sent all the stuff to Sandra at MFN. (Skim Blood is available at Pride - general release is coming April 4!) Not Offbeat Crimes related - Uncommonly Tidy Poltergeists is up for Book of the Week over at Love Bytes. So, you know, if you have a chance and you'd care to vote... Love Bytes Book of the Week Poll Last but not least - I'm working. Promise. Feral Dust Bunnies is moving along, finally. Anyone who's been with me a bit knows I struggle badly at the beginning of writing a story and it gathers momentum like an avalanche of doom as I progress. Should hit about the halfway point before the end of the week. :)
Thought I read a bit from the WIP - Feral Dust Bunnies. This will be Offbeat Crimes 4 - slated to release in the summer if all goes well and I can get my butt in gear: In case you're interested -the first three Offbeat Crimes books are available at Pride Publishing and all the nice distributors on the web. :) (Don't they look pretty together.)
The lovely folks at My Fiction Nook invited me over to be their Author of the Month for March. Pretty darn chuffed about that. :D Last week featured Uncommonly Tidy Poltergeists and Brandywine Investigations with a bit about my 5 Favorite Biology Things. Author of the Month - Angel Martinez - Week One This week features the demon owned and operated ship, Brimstone, and 5 Little Known Facts About Angel. (Yeah, some of you have heard some of these before. Maybe. Possibly. ;) ) Author of the Month - Angel Martinez - Week Two Writing nearly came to a standstill for Bishounen Con. I'm back on the word count horse this week, though. Feral Dust Bunnies (Offbeat Crimes 4) is coming along slowly - on chapter 2. Should look better in the next couple of days.
Pack Up the Moon (Brandywine 5) is waiting for me to finish the Dust Bunnies. I did get to read from it at Bishounen to a wonderfully appreciative audience, though. Always fun. We're also coming to the end of the Marionettes in the Mist story arc. (The weekly blog serial written with Freddy MacKay, J. Scott Coatsworth and Toni Griffin.) Everyone's on their last two to four chapters. We'll wrap up the postings on the blog and then work on getting the story out in novel(s) format. Yay! Some of the lovely character art from Mila May below so far! Happy Friday, everyone! I picked The Pill Bugs of Time for this week since Vikash managed to win the Steampunk/Fantasy category in the LR Cafe's Best of 2016 last week. He and I were both blindsided by this - though immensely pleased that readers have enjoyed the story. :D The Pill Bugs of Time Offbeat Crimes 2 Pride Publishing Amazon Kobo Barnes and Noble Vikash Soren, the perfect police officer except for his odd paranormal ability, never seems to lose his temper. Always serene and competent, he’s taken on the role of mediator in a squad room full of misfits. But on the inside, he’s a mess. Unable to tell his police partner that he loves him, Vikash struggles silently, terrified of losing Kyle as a lover, partner and friend. But life in the 77th Precinct doesn’t leave much room for internal reflection. A confrontation with a stick-throwing tumbleweed in Fairmount Park leads to bizarre consequences involving pill bugs, statues and…time travel? If Vikash manages to survive the week and stay in one point in time, he might be able to address normal things like relationship problems. He just needs Kyle to have a little more patience. Maybe a few centuries’ worth. Well, hey! It's Thursday again! Somebody tell the weeks to slow down, please. Next week at this time I'm going to be packing up the car and heading for Rhode Island and Massachusetts! - First stop will be Annie's Book Stop where I'll be for an appearance starting at 7pm on Thursday, March 2. Hopefully I won't be too punchy from the drive. This should be interesting. ;) I'll be reading and chatting and signing if you so desire. -Next stop - Bishounen Con! Where we'll get to hang out with the lovely Jordan Hawk and hubby, the talented Jill Marie Hackett and all of our friends from the Yaoi North tribe! Bishounen is from 3/3-3/5 and you can find me and Freddy in the Dealers Room most of the time, though we will have panels and readings. OK. So that's the upcoming trip that I'm all excited about and losing sleep over. Cause that's what I do.
The other thing I wanted to mention this week is the WIP's. Those of you who've known me long enough have heard plenty of times that I'm only comfortable working on one thing. I may have other works started that I've set aside, but active works in progress? I want to be working on One Thing At A Time. (Possibly two if I'm co-authoring, since that's a different process.) I'm currently working on four (FOUR!!!) active (ACTIVE!!!) WIP's. And trying not to hyperventilate with competing and overlapping deadlines coming up. There's the ongoing Marionettes in the Mist project that we're getting close to wrapping up. There's the next book in the Offbeat Crimes series, Feral Dust Bunnies, that's due scarily soon. There's the next Brandywine book, Pack Up the Moon, that Isn't on deadline but is still active. And finally there's a secret thing I'm working on that I need to hand in the first couple of chapters this week to see if the publisher wants me to go forward. *pant* *wheeze* *gasp* I'm okay...I'm okay. Couple of VIT's this week (Very Important Things):
Hi! It appears to be Thursday. That manic grin on my face stems from the realization that another week is sliding past me. I'm doomed. Anyway - News! Gravitational Attraction has been translated into Italian! *muppet arm flail* Up for pre-order now at Dreamspinner, releasing March 7, 2017! (For anyone curious, this title is also available in French.) Attrazione gravitazionale Attirato da una misteriosa richiesta di soccorso, l’equipaggio della nave mercantile Hermes trova alla deriva nello spazio un vascello militare in apparenza vuoto. Al suo interno, sangue e resti umani imbrattano i corridoi e vi è un unico sopravvissuto, rinchiuso in una cella di custodia. L’uomo, bellissimo ma traumatizzato, attira l’attenzione dell’addetto alle comunicazioni della nave, Isaac Ozawa, che decide di prendersene cura, offrendogli la gentilezza e il calore di cui l’altro ha bisogno dopo gli orrori vissuti. Isaac ha imparato sulla propria pelle cosa significhi essere diverso, essere un emarginato, e questo rafforza il loro legame. Un tempo pilota promettente, ha subito dei danni fisici dopo che il suo cervello non è riuscito a fondersi con l’impianto necessario a pilotare i potenti caccia della Flotta. Il cervello di Turk non è da meno. Come risultato di un esperimento militare fallito, le sue naturali capacità sono state aumentate a livelli pericolosi. Quando un ammiraglio senza morale e assetato di potere rapisce Isaac, usandolo per convincere Turk a diventare l’arma catastrofica che ha sempre sognato, saranno necessari tutta la forza di Turk, l’ingegnosità dell’equipaggio della *Hermes*, l’aiuto degli enigmatici Drak’tar e la testardaggine dello stesso Isaac per riuscire a salvare l’intero universo. Cover Artist: Anne Cain Translator: Victor Millais In other news, Quinn's Gambit is up for Best M/M Paranormal Urban Fantasy and best M/M Paranormal Urban Fantasy Series over at the Paranormal Romance Guild. Voting is open until 2/12 - so if you have a chance, tons of good stuff to vote on!
Reviewer's Choice Awards for 2016 (The M/M items are toward the bottom and you do have to be signed into Google to vote.) Somehow I've managed to overbook this year already, just so you know. It's only February. Last but not least, I've been a good little author and have sent back final edits on Skim Blood & Savage Verse. Onward! |
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Angel writes (mostly) Science Fiction and Fantasy centered around queer heroes. Currently living part time in the hectic sprawl of northern Delaware and full time inside her head, she has one husband, one son, two cats, a love of all things beautiful and a terrible addiction to the consumption of both knowledge and chocolate. |
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