Playing with the website design

I'm just playing around with the website design here, thanks to Blogger and its handy dandy do-it-for-you template features.  I've added a few webpages here for the books.  I do have my own site, but I find it really hard to update.  It's a multi-step process that takes me forever to do, which is probably why it doesn't get updated much (or at all).  Maybe I'll just set the URL to have a redirect to send it here to this blog and just have that as my site. 

A Midwinter Fantasy available for the Kindle

The anthology I'm in, A MIDWINTER FANTASY, is now available as an e-book for the kindle.  You can get it on amazon.com, so yay for that at last.

I heard today that the hoped-for release date for QUEEN OF THE SYLPHS is September, 2011.  That's all I know about that one at this point.

Review

Today THE BATTLE SYLPH was listed by the Library Journal as one of the five best romance novels for all of 2010.  Woohoo!  I'm pretty happy about that.

The Library Journal

A Midwinter Fantasy release date

I've been told the new release date for "A Midwinter Fantasy" in Ebook format is 23 Nov 10.   So fingers crossed that this is the right date! 

Rerelease

More news. My books with Dorchester are going to cone out as ebooks first and then as trade. Still don't know when. That's old news. However, I have learned that the first two will be reissued as trade. No idea when or how much they'll cost.

I'm in the top five

Today I received word from Library Journal that THE BATTLE SYLPH (which Library gave a starred review to in their February 15, 2010 issue) has been chosen a one of the FIVE best romances of the year; the full list will be published in their December 2010 issue.

Yay!! I'm really happy about it.

Oh wow

I just found out today that my first three books are apparently going to be translated into German and sold in Germany.   I so want an author's copy.  :D

Hi

I don't post to this page nearly often enough. I know I'm an author, but that doesn't mean I can ever think of what to say.

I do have some news, which I've been putting off saying much about because I honestly don't know all that much yet. I guess I can't really keep doing that though.

As some of you may know, Dorchester has changed their publishing format to one where they're going to release all their books as E-books and then, after about six months, release them as trade on a print-on-demand basis. This includes THE QUEEN OF THE SYLPHS and A MIDWINTER FANTASY. Right now, I don't know how this will affect the release dates for both books, but I do know I haven't receive the edit proofs for QUEEN yet (we fire them back and forth doing editing and scene rewrites about five times). So I don't know what will happen or when anything will actually appear for people to read.

I'm not going to get into how I feel about all of this because at the moment, I honestly don't know and likely no one would be interested anyway. I think I'm just in a holding pattern waiting to see, like a lot of Dorchester's other authors.

New Interview Up

My guest interview at the Borders site is now up.  You can read it here.  http://bordersblog.com/trueromance/2010/06/14/guest-author-lj-mcdonald/  It's an interview about THE SHATTERED SYLPH, though they don't say that and they have pictures of both books up.  Still, I like some of the answers I was able to give.

Queen of the Sylphs update

For those are interested, the third book in the Sylph series has been moved so its release date is now in March 2011, instead of November 2010.  I'm not sure why the change was made, but I'm sure it's all for the good in the long run.

Also, I'm going to be doing some guest blogging in July for http://www.tor.com/.  Go give them a look.  They've got some very nice content there.  Hopefully I'll get one of my short stories up there as well.