My friend Debra at Two Ends of the Pen reviews a lot of books, for both independent authors and NY publishers who send her ARCs. I see that she’s reviewed Convergence by TM Roy – and it’s a great review. I’ve shown Roy’s covers here before. Now, here’s this 5-star review about the story!

Today Bleeder goes to All Things Books on the Bookish Snob Blog Tour. There’s an excerpt and a lovely review from Tanya.

The code to today’s trivia quiz question seems a bit wonky, so click here for an alternative path to the goodies.

And Happy Bastille Day! 

Today the Bookish Snob Bleeder Blog Tour stop (say that fast five times!) is at Ex Libris!

Come over to Stella’s site for a post about ghosts and exotics, a chance to win a copy of Bleeder, and today’s trivia quiz question for the $100 Amazon/B&N gift certificate drawing.

It’s all good!

Consternated is one of my favorite words. I think it’s one of the words I learned from comic books, like determined and ultimatum and metropolis. 

We interrupt our regularly scheduled blog tour for a nugget of a review of Space Junque at Reading the Paranormal. This is one of my favorite kinds of reviews. The reviewer isn’t sure if she likes the book – but she’s engaged in thinking about it.

Here’s the thing: As soon as I finished this novella I jumped online and downloaded the second, which says to me that there was something here that captured my fancy in a big way.  I didn’t necessarily like this book but I can see the bones of something intriguing in it.  Does that make sense?  

I think she was consternated.

And I get it. The one complaint I hear over and over about Space Junque is some variation of: it’s too short. It was meant to be an introduction to the world of Apocalypto, and it was meant to be short. I think it’s just right, just the way it is, but maybe not.

Space Junque demonstrates one of my biggest challenges as a writer: how much or how little to tell? If I were writing it today, I’d go a little slower – but not much. I hope the reviewer does read Spiderwork and then ventures into the deep end of the pool with Bleeder. 

Today’s stop on the blog tour is with Book Lover & Procrastinator. There are all sorts of goodies on this stop – the least of which is a guest post by moi about totems and tattoos in the world of Apocalypto.

Don’t forget to leave a comment or question for a chance to win a free copy of Bleeder.

And of course there is today’s trivia question for a chance to win the tour’s final stop prize of a $100 Amazon/B&N gift certificate.

I’ve just finished uploading all the quiz questions for the $100 gift certificate giveaway – but there is still so much left to do!

Select excerpts.

Answer interview questions.

Write guest posts! (What do people want to know about?)

This is my first book blog tour, and it turns out they don’t magically appear from the Book Blog Tour Magic Box! The bloggers (you can see the roster here) juggle and coordinate their calendars and post and manage their days. I write the guest posts and select the excerpts. Plus I wanted to do a gift certificate giveaway, so I wrote the questions and designed the multiple choice forms for that. (All the questions are up now under Bleeder Blog Tour Quiz at the top of this page.)

And all is coordinated by the (truly magical) Belinda Boring of Bookish Snob Promotions.

It’s all good!

I always liked Peter Falk, and I loved him in two roles that at first seem quite different to each other.

I rediscovered Peter Falk in Wings of Desire. Falk played himself making a movie in Berlin and waxing philosophic on life’s paradoxes. If you haven’t seen this movie — what are you waiting for?

But I fell in love with Falk when I was a little kid, watching A Pocketful of Miracles on television with my family. My stepdad kept saying He’s got that funny eye! and laughing out loud. Cracked all the kids up. He was a real goofball in that movie, a minor goon that Falk played with gleeful enthusiasm.

For most of us, life is hard and then we die; but along the way are consolations – truly good things. The sound of a baby’s cackling laughter, the smell of lilacs in spring, a kiss from someone you love, a movie that makes you remember life is sweet.

As Peter Falk (playing Peter Falk) said in Wings of Desire, “There’s so many good things.”

Peter Falk gave us performances that added to the good things. And his character’s name in Pocketful of Miracles? Joy Boy.

It’s so much fun having a contest. There are already quite a few people getting the jump on the $100 Amazon/B&N gift certificate drawing by answering the pre-tour bonus question correctly.

I love it!

It’s Apocalypto day at Book Lovers, Inc.!

Stella of Ex Libris fame has reviewed Spiderwork.

And here is an interview of moi with a chance to win a copy of Bleeder.

By the way, at the moment Spidey is available free at:

iBooks
Smashwords
Nook