The Fall books are here and we’re ready to celebrate! Please join us tomorrow evening, November 4, 2010, at a book launch to celebrate our authors’ achievements.
In attendance will be local authors Robin Stevenson, Kristin Butcher, Sara Cassidy, Rachel Dunstan Muller, Alex Van Tol, Sarah N. Harvey, John Wilson and Lou Allin. (Learn more about these authors by visiting our website: www.orcabook.com.)
We’ll have books there so you can get yours hot off the presses! All ages welcome for music, refreshments and book signings. See you there!
Event Details:
Date/Time: Thursday, November 4, 2010, 7:00pm
Location: Victoria Event Centre, 1415 Broad Street, Victoria. See a Map.
Free!
For complete event details, pictures, or to drop us a line, check out the Facebook page for this event.
A Love Story, by Kate in Publicity
This is a picture of my bookshelf, taken last night. I don't really have an organizational system and promise I didn't re-organize it to look more impressive (or I definitely would have replaced that Adriana Trigiani book with David Foster Wallace or something equally highbrow).
Those of you familiar with Overlook's highest-selling titles might realize the books in the middle--the Penny Vincenzi "Spoils of Time" trilogy. I actually applied for this job having read most of Penny's books, and am ridiculously excited to be working on her new one, Forbidden Places, that comes out in October.
But as I pitch these books, I find myself trying to prove that I'm not just being a publicist--these are historical romances that I actually think are fantastic. Sure, they're not the most literary thing we publish here, but they're pretty high-end commercial romance and I love the historical aspects as well.
I kind of want to attach this picture of my much-loved copy of No Angel to the pitches I'm sending out to reviewers, producers, and bloggers. "I'm one of you!" it seems to say. "Once upon a time, I wasn't a publicist. I was just a reader. And look how many times I read this book!"
In my cover letter that I submitted when applying for this job, I mentioned how I recommended these books to all of my girlfriends (after my grandmother recommended them to me. Generations coming together!). The upside? They loved the books too, and are badgering me for advance copies of Forbidden Places. The downside? I have to explain to them that my job is just slightly less glamorous than that of Lady Celia Lytton.
Anyways, I just wanted to share that it's incredibly fun to be a fan of an author and also get to work with her titles--and that this isn't me fluffing Forbidden Places, I actually AM that big of a fan of Penny Vincenzi.
Do you love her, too? Leave a comment, and be sure to pre-order Forbidden Places (or the paperback of Windfall, out this month!)--I think it's the best non-Celia Lytton book yet. And Penny fans know that that is high praise, indeed.
Happy reading!
