Check it out, and enter for a chance to win an advance copy of When Blood Calls, a Kindle and/or an iTunes gift card!

http://jkbeck.com/contest-update/

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So, we’re moving, and I’m swimming in old promo and author copies of some of my books. And, hey, rather than schlep all that stuff to a storage shed, I figure I’ll give it away.

So…..if you’re interested in a grab bag of Julie Kenner (and some J.K. Beck) stuff, send a SASE to the address at the end of this post. If you just pop on first class postage, you’ll mostly get bookmarks, maybe a cover flat. But if you send a flat rate envelope with flatrate postage, you’ll get lots more, including excerpt booklets, and possibly (while supplies last!) a book (novel or anthology) from my backlist.

***Just realized that if you want to do the Flat Rate thing, just send the postage ($4.90, I believe at the moment). I’ve got the flat rate envelopes or can get them at the post office! (A mailing label addressed to you would be nice, too! My handwriting is horrible!)

If you’re interested, send the SASE to:

JULIE KENNER
105 Wildwood Dr.
Suite 103 — PMB 120
Georgetown, TX 78633

And, yes, Paypal is an option: julie@juliekenner.com

Yay!!!

I’m so excited about 1492’s press release today!

1492 Pictures and South Korea-based CJ Entertainment unveiled their first slate this morning since signing a three-year development deal late last year to create family-friendly films with global appeal. 1492 partners Chris Columbus, Michael Barnathan and Mark Radcliffe pick the projects, and CJ funds development and will co-finance production with studio partners.

They start out with three thrillers.

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* Carpe Demon is an adaptation of the Julie Kenner novel Carpe Demon: Adventures of a Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom. Columbus will rewrite the story of a stay-at-home mother charged with cleaning up her demon-plagued small town.

via 1492 Pictures And CJ Entertainment Scare Up Thriller Trio – Deadline.com.

The other two books are Killer Pizza by Greg Taylor that sounds like an absolute hoot! And Neil Gaiman’s, The Graveyard Book, which I absolutely love.

Yay!!!!

Okay, I’ve been bad, bad, bad about blogging (my theory is folks would rather have books than blog posts…hope I’m right about that one!), but I have a new book on the shelf this month, and since it’s an April Fool’s book, I wanted to be sure and let folks know about it today!

Actually, “I” don’t have a book. Instead, I have two stories in a book with the lovely and talented Kathleen O’Reilly, critique partner and Blaze author extraordinaire. We each wrote two stories, which are about the siblings in a family suffering under a generations-old April Fool’s curse. And, of course, sexy, fun chaos ensues! Click the pic to read a bit about each of the stories.

Kathleen and I had a great time writing the book, which RT Bookclub Magazine gave 4 1/2 stars, saying, “These very funny and very romantic stories are perfect examples of the heights that can be achieved with linked stories—without readers feeling cheated by the short length of each.” (Yay! Thanks, RT!)

Amazon
Barnes & Noble

Thanks to Affaire de Coeur for making me the January/February author of the month, and for putting together such an awesome issue. (And you can subscribe online and download the issue!)

The article talks about the Blood Lily Chronicles (TAINTED, TORN & TURNED) and me in general. Check it out!

I’m lazing here on the couch watching the kids play Battleship with their dad, and I thought-”hey, great opp for a review–on the run blogging!”

I like this app. It’s handy and easy. You’re not going to be doing an HTML heavy entry from it, but would you really want to?

Upsides- ease of use-you just start typing, and photos embed where you tell them to. It lets you set up lots and lots of blogs, which is cool, and you can post simultaneously to multiple blogs. I’m doing that now with juliekenner.com and jkbeck.com

Downsides: I’ve lost work I thought I’d saved. Lesson learned-compose in another program and paste. Also, it tends to give me an error if I try to include more than 1 photo. (Catherine, my kiddo, tells me she doesn’t have that problem, so it may be a total size issue rather than the number of pics). I have 3 photos in this entry. We’ll see if it posts thru.

Also, the image inserted has to be in your library or camera roll- you can’t snap and go (though I typed, closed, snapped, and opened right up to my draft)

Also on the downside, there doesn’t appear to be anyway to include tags or categories or hyperlinks. If that capability exists, it’s not intuitive.

The app is 2.99, and since I can’t include a link, just search for Blogpress in the app store. There’s a lite version, but I can’t speak to it. All in all, I’m giving 4 out of 5 iPhones to this app, which may be a little generous considering the lack of certain features and the occasional lost data, but on the whole I like the app, it’s simicitu and it’s ease of use.

Later, I’ll review the WordPress app.

{{Please post comments over at J.K. Beck! App reviews are a regular feature over there!!}}

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So this is what’s keeping me up tonight (not really–that would be revisions). I recently saw the new Star Trek film for the second time (and, yes, I think it is absolutely awesome). But here’s the thing……

!!! Do not read below the image unless you’re willing to read spoilers!!!!!!!

Spock and Nero come backwards in time through a black hole. Clearly they survive or else, hey, we wouldn’t have a movie.

But then the entire climax of the movie is that the Enterprise is about to get sucked into a black hole–and the hull is cracking, things are bad, and clearly if they don’t get free (Scotty–”I’m giving you all she’s got!”), then that’s the end of our new heroes. No suggestion that, oh, they’d just travel back to 2010, or forward to stardate whatever-and-such

Um…anyone else see a problem there?

Not that said problem mucked up my enjoyment of the movie, but I’d really like to know!

I’ve mentioned my Evernote lust in my blog before…and this awesome article shows why Evernote really is uber-cool!

As I’ve been alluding to pretty heavily over the last couple of days, I’m taking my Evernote-fu up a notch. After pretty careful deliberation, I’ve decided to take a pretty major leap and put all of my tasks, action lists, etc. into Evernote. This post will detail how I exactly I make this work (and it’s pretty damn simple). If you want to follow along, you’ll need to have an Evernote account and it would be helpful to have a Twitter account, though it’s not required. Let’s do this.

via Dead Simple Task Management with Evernote — Brett Kelly Dot Org.

Great article on entertaining (or not entertaining!) your kids, and a perspective I’m behind one hundred billion percent.

I have found that as long as our children expect us to entertain them –if we put them off with the prospect of “maybe,” — they will never quit pestering. “Are we going?” “When are we going?” “Can we go now?” “When will you know?”

But if, on the other hand, we are very clear that the desired activity is not going to happen, that we really are too busy, they will go off and entertain themselves beautifully.

via The Boredom Problem.

Found market days in Belton. Girls loving the antiques, the ice cream….and the alpaquas (hmmm. Is that how you spell that?)

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