Darby's Blog-odyssey Continues...

Holy Crow -- what a great day. My new book FACING FIRE hit the stores, and Darby continues to rampage through the internets, on the blog tour of the century! [In her case, actually of three centuries...]

For a step-by-step update on where she's been and going, you can click HERE for Darby's blog. Or, since I am supposed to be the more adult of the two of us, you can look at the elegantly organized list below....

Boris launches the blog tour here with A NOVEL WOMAN.

James McCann is off chasing zombies, and gives Darby room to say her piece HERE.

Yesterday, Kendra Kandlestar peeked out of the land of Eens to feature Darby HERE at her site. [Kendra shares the site with author Lee Edward Fodi, so Darby enjoyed her visit with both of them...]

And today, Author Tanya Lloyd Kyi sparks a fiery conversation with Darby on her site HERE.

HUGE thanks to all these authors [and characters!] who are hosting Darby during this crazy month of book launches. And there's more to come...!

Check out Ev Bishop's site tomorrow. Ev is a long-term columnist in Terrace, BC, and also writes some pretty darned amazing short fiction. And after her visit with Ev, Darby will be heading over to Victoria to hang out on Laura Bradbury's site. Laura writes fiction, and her blog is usually about the perils of raising a Bi-continental Bevy. [Check it out and see!]  After that, Darby and her web-surfing skateboard roll back into Vancouver to chat with incredible artist [and author] Kirsti Wakelin.

Remember the contest details -- if you comment on ANY of these sites, you'll be eligible to win a copy of FACING FIRE. And a further tweet or link? Puts you in line to win BOTH books in the series. Pretty easy way to win! More details about all the sites on Darby's blog odyssey can be found on HER blog HERE. So plug her into your RSS feed and enjoy the ride!

More soon...

~kc



Arrival...

My new book got here today.

Perhaps I should have brushed my hair before pressing 'click'...

Anyway -- there is nothing that compares to holding one's new book in one's hands. It NEVER gets old.  Many thanks to my most excellent and wonderful editor Amy Black for sending my copy on.

Coincidentally, I also saw the very first review of FACING FIRE on line. It's HERE at Charlotte's Library. TOTALLY made my day, Charlotte. Thank you.

[Charlotte also pointed out that FACING FIRE is also eligible for a Cybil nomination. I'm hoping it happens! You can read more about the nominations HERE.]

All in all, an auspicious arrival for Darby.

Later today...a list of upcoming stops on Darby's whirlwind celebration blog tour.

More soon!

~kc

CONTEST!!!

Well, here we are. The first day of October, and the celebration of the arrival of FACING FIRE begins!

Darby is going her own way on this, and beginning a blog tour today that will take her far and wide. Check the Upcoming Events page for her schedule. For her first foray into the Wide World of the Internets, she's off to Lake Louisa, Quebec, and hanging out on the blog couch of A NOVEL WOMAN.

In the meantime, I'm doing my own thing to celebrate the book here.

Check this out:

Okay ...so I admit it's a leetle lame. But it's my first attempt at a book trailer. So, here's where the contest comes in. Welcome to the ...

FACING FIRE Book Trailer Contest

Let's see if you can do better! Make a book trailer for FACING FIRE [or for both of Darby's adventures in FACING FIRE and A WALK THROUGH A WINDOW]. The trailer needs to be family-friendly [a bit scary is okay], between 15 and 30 seconds long, and postable on-line. Bonus points if you work in some fire or a stone window...

Then just send a link to me here at www.kcdyer.com along with your contact information, and you're IN!

EVERY SINGLE ENTRY to the contest will win a signed copy of FACING FIRE. On Hallowe'en night, we'll bring the judges together [ghosts and ghouls and a few zombies, perhaps] and hand out the prizes.

Now, we are going to add prizes as the month goes along, but for today, I'll tell you that one of the prizes is a $100 gift card to Chapters.ca or Amazon.com!

You can enter as often as you like. Spread the word -- let's send Darby out into the world in style!

More soon...

~kc

Darby's Back...

...and there's gonna be a conflagration!

The new book is here -- like the cover? And Darby and I are in celebration mode. She's back on her blog, [Darby Speaks] and about to launch more than a month's long blog tour, spreading the joy and scattering books in her wake. Each day, Darby will be doing a guest blog somewhere out in the ether ... keep your eyes peeled here for details.

AND, starting tomorrow, she'll be launching an exciting new contest, with some pretty incredible prizes. So this is your heads up for FACING FIRE excitement...and it all begins October 1!

More soon...

~kc

There has to be a law...

...that when one is in the house alone for the very first time after knee surgery, enjoying one's very first shower, a hard-wired smoke alarm in the ceiling above a stairwell has to malfunction and start buzzing like a jackhammer.

Further, the law must state that said events have to happen at 6:30 am, when one is desperately trying to keep the Very Large Dogs asleep until one's generous and entirely-mobile offspring can return from school to take them out.

Also, an essential element of the law must state the requirement for travelling down two flights of stairs -- one step at a time-- to retrieve the step ladder, then returning -- one step at a time, and markedly more slowly -- to set up and ascend the ladder, only to find ancient smoke alarm has NO off switch.

Additionally, the law must require the descent of a further four flights of stairs -- one step at a time, in this instance accompanied by a running commentary indicating a flatteringly vast vocabulary -- to locate the fuses behind a large, unweildy-but-of-sufficient-size to-normally-conceal-the-ugly-fuse-box Impressionist print [Monet? Renoir?], to to subsequently remove the print and turn off every fuse in the house before quiet descends at last like a gentle blessing from the heavens above.

And finally, the law must clearly state the proviso that the moment one risks a single, exhausted sigh of relief as peace descends, one then must swing one's recently-improved-but-now-throbbing knee INTO the framed print, where said print shall slowly tilt, harsh overhead lights of pre-dawn glinting fetchingly on the glass, and shatter against a stray bar bell left behind by exceedingly buff but occasionally forgetful offspring.

I know there's a name for this law.  I suspect it may be adverbial in nature...

Suggestions?

~kc