Online chats and cover art is ready.

Hello everyone!
 I have a few things to share today. First, please look at my website (http://www.thevampirequeen.webs.com/) for my new cover art. Yes, it's finally here! After all these months, it's here! Please check it out and let me know what you think of it.
Secondly, I have the official release date of The Vampire Queen as April 7th, 2011.
Lastly, I have a few yahoo.groups that I belong to that have graciously agreed to let me have an author's day to promote myself. They are as follows:

April 13-Wed. You can find me on Love Romance Book Club:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LoveRomancesBookClub/?yguid=465602434

April 14-Thurs. You can find me on Publishingtrove:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/publishingtrove/?yguid=465602434

April 15-Fri. You can find me on The_Story_Board:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/The_Story_Board_/?yguid=465602434

Please join me for a chat on 4/27 for my book release party. All you have to do is follow this link:
http://www.chatzy.com/goto.cgi?657585497928,thevampirequeen1@gmail.com,x1p7j

This all should be fun and I can wait. Please join me for some fun!
Sincerely,
Jodie Pierce

Cover Art 2!

I was just contacted by the cover artist who had a preliminary cover ready for me to see. So far, it looks awesome! I had a few minor things I'd like to change and emailed her back about those. I'm waiting to hear back from her. I'm so excited! It's one step closer to the book being here. The editor also contacted me and said she was starting on my story and would be in touch if she needed to change anything. Hopefully they won't butcher it much! LOL! Anyways, Happy Holidays to you and yours! Talk to you all soon!

Bonus!

Free super short story of your choice sent directly to your email with the purchase of The Vampire Queen!

Choose from:

Brenda-vampire

Callie-vampire metaphysical

Isabella-vampire romance

Lilith-vampire erotic

Mira-vampire erotic

Olivia-vampire

Samantha-vampire clean & erotic versions

Sapphire - vampire horror

Trinity- a Halloween superstitious vampire romance

Cover Art!

I just got word from the Eternal Press cover art supervisor. She said that I should hear from a cover artist  about 60-90 days before my book is released. Finally! Some kind of timeframe! I'm still trying to get ideas together for what I should have on the table at my book signings (personalized pens, personalized fortune cookies, etc). Let me know what you think I should have on there. I've been working my butt off doing reviews. I now have 2 companies I'm reviewing for and it's really helped me learn what kind of stories each publisher is looking for. Besides, I love to read and when hubby's at work it makes good use of my time since I'd just spend it sitting in a corner missing him otherwise :). Well, off to read some more!

The Reluctant Vampire...new website!

Hi all!
I just wanted to let you all know I've been working very hard at doing reviews and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. I love to read and I love to write so putting them together is the perfect job for me! Also, I took my self-published book, The Reluctant Vampire and added to the website called Smashwords. There, they pass your book around to all the big seller companies and do their own reviews so hopefully I'll get more buyers than on lulu but you'll still be able to purchase it on either site. The new site to purchase it is www.smashwords.com/books/view/28092 and I made it $2 cheaper on there! I'm still working on The Vampire Queen with the publishing house it's just that they are taking their good old sweet time and I'm getting antsy so I'm trying to find things to keep me busy. Been on kind of a writing dry spell for a couple weeks too. DON'T FORGET! Tomorrow is my author day at http://www.tonyasramblings.com/ so you will get to see my work there all day long so check back frequently. TTFN!

First Review

So, I signed up to do book reviews with You Gotta Read and last night I got my first assignment. The book was so good I read the entire thing in one night and wrote the review. It was really great! I felt a great sense of accomplishment, got to actually sit down and read something (compared to just mindlessly browsing the internet) and help out a fellow author. Unfortunately, the book has already been printed and is available online so I'm not sure how they're going to use my review but I had fun doing it. Of course, the subject matter was vampires and paranormal activity with a strong female heroine. That's totally me! I'm so excited and can't wait to do my next one!

Self published book!

Hey all!
 I tried to do one of those self publishing places, http://www.lulu.com/ and did a self publishing of my The Reluctant Vampire appropriate for teens and up. This was my first non adult exclusive vampire book so sometimes it was hard to not revert back to adult material but the finished product turned out awesome! I hope you all check it out and let me know what you think about it. Keep in mind that I had no editor or cover artist, I had to do it all myself. I think I did a pretty good job! Please read it and comment back to let me know your thoughts or reviews! It is already available for $5.99 at http://www.lulu.com/!