Terrorbyte, killerbyte, we need a series title... oh yeah we do!

Morning y'all,

It's Wednesday morning and pouring with rain.

Oh the joy. But on a bright note, no kindy on Wednesday's so I get more writing time.

For those keeping track I'm over 27K in NaNoWriMo, and expect to finish (50K) by this time next week. Ambitious you say, not really... spent yesterday reading and to my delight (because I don't outline ever) it's all slotted together beautifully. Thought I had a handle on who was causing the mayhem in this story... but it could go one of two directions, maybe there's a third I don't know about yet. Awesome! what's more I write long-hand a lot, so the official word count doesn't include scenes I have yet to type into my word doc. :-)

Meanwhile news:

killerbyte is a finalist in the 2010 EPIC awards. That's pretty freaking exciting stuff.

Terrorbyte received it's first review at Unbound. Which led to a quick email debrief because neither Hagelrat or I can say too much about the actual storyline - for fear of spoilers! I was very impressed with how brilliantly Hagelrat reviewed the book and gave nothing away.

Hats off to you ma'am - you truly rock.

Prior to the awesome review I started my blog tour (which is one stop a week until Christmas, and includes a radio interview closer to Crimble -more details to follow, and this weeks stop/interview will be announced shortly. In the new year we will be back to tour some more!)

Now - here's the thing.

I'm writing a series. (no kidding I hear y'all mutter.) BUT ya see, there is no encompassing series title. I've come up with cool individual titles for the books but have been referring to the series as the Conway series, and quite frankly that sucks.

So here's how you can help: buy my books... hang on... no, thats a great idea, but also if you think of anything suitably geeky - something that works with a series that contains titles like, killerbyte, terrorbyte, exacabyte, satellite/pedabyte, ethernet etc. (I say etc because I can't be limiting myself to six at this stage!)

Then tweet your brilliance to me @catconnor

or leave a comment here

or leave one on Facebook

How to make a writer smile on a Sunday morning

I woke up early - the girls were already awake and charging about the house like a small herd of noisy horses.

So I made my coffee and checked my mail... and there was a goggle alert to tell me

this... Unbound!

Go read the review - does not contain spoilers... so it's quite safe! (I KNOW that wasn't easy)

Happy Sunday.

Grocery day, new release, Bon Jovi, mp3 player, Oh my!

I know I haven't been around much this November. Those of you who have been paying attention know why.

I see hands going up... that's right, it's National Novel writing month. And I'm the mug who is doing NaNoWriMo despite having an already full plate. -But I must say it's going rather well. Over 21K now, and firing on all cylinders. (always helpful)

I snagged Bon Jovi's new album, The Circle, the other day - didn't get it for the special price off Amazon, didn't even bother trying as last time I tried to buy music from Amazon it told me it wasn't available outside the US. So I went iTunes, gotta say this is a good album. And it's awesome to have new music to write too. Might have something to do with this Nano book going so well this week!!

Had to convert the files to mp3 so I could have them on my mp3 player - but its done and I love it.

Now if I could just find something that converts flv to amv, I could watch videos on my mp3 player! Would be cool to have the book trailers on my thingy whatsit!! Then I could flash them about in peoples faces!

Ah yes - still have a few openings on my blog book tour for killerbyte and terrorbyte. I'm not prepared to do more than one stop a week, due to MANY other commitments - don't need any extra stress before Christmas. I can do two more before Christmas - so if you're interested, let me know.

Big excitement late in Dec, when I'll be interviewed on the radio. Details to follow. But should be an absolute blast! (and will be streamed and archived)

Today is grocery day - I have to go and try to get the shopping done before the crypt keeper lets the fossils out... I hate Saturdays at the stupidmarket.

Was going to carry on below the next para (other news) but the cutting and pasting of the tag line has screwed my font, and I can't deal with it. There is only so much I can cope with at once-I am at my outer limit!!

Anyone who has yet to read killerbyte - pop over grab a copy and read... then you'll fully up to speed for number two!

Now other news... Terrorbyte is out. So it the sparkling new press release.

Rather liking this bit:

Ellie Conway is back: wisecracking, kicking ass and using her psycho-prophetic talents to grapple with a murderer with ulterior motives, secreted behind a series of grotesque crimes.