Seeing the Me...and a Whole Lot More!

Happy Tuesday!

Hope everyone had a sweet Easter, a wonderful Passover, and are enjoying a lovely spring!

Speaking of spring, Alien Education's not all that far away. In fact, just about, um, a week away! And you know what that means? Yep, it means I'm about to be out and about, and hopefully seeing many of you while doing so! So, be sure to take a look at where I'll be when, so that I can see all y'all there!

April 27-30
StokerCon
The Queen Mary
Long Beach, CA


Tuesday, May 2, 7pm-8pm
Alien Education Release Day Signing
The Poisoned Pen
Scottsdale, AZ
(Yes, there will be cake!)

Simultaneous LiveStream event for those who can't attend in person! (Complete with virtual cake!)

NOTE: Food With Fans event at 5pm PRIOR to the signing; RSVP to moi directly ASAP if you plan to attend - reservations will be needed!

Saturday, May 6, 2pm-6pm
Signing Alien Education with the Amazing Wyked Writers
Barnes & Noble Henderson
Henderson, NV

NOTE: Food With Fans event immediately after the signing

Saturday, May 13, 10am-7pm
Mysterious Galaxy Birthday Bash
SciFi Spotlight: 2pm
Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore
San Diego, CA
(Yes, there will be cake!)

NOTE: Food With Fans event immediately after the signing

May 25-28
Phoenix Comicon
Phoenix Convention Center
Phoenix, AZ

Booth 1167/1169 - right at the Hall 5 entrance!
Panel Schedule To Come
Evening Erotica Event - Day/Time To Come (see what I did there?), but make your plans to attend NOW! We'll have tons of cool prizes and some cool surprise guests!

July 1-4
I'm the Local Author Guest of Honor at
Westercon70
Tempe Mission Palms Hotel
Tempe, AZ
If you can only make it to one con this year, make this the one!

Booth # To Come
Panel Schedule To Come
Evening Erotica Event - Day/Time To Come (see what I did there?), but make your plans to attend NOW! We'll have tons of cool prizes and some cool surprise guests!

July 19-23
San Diego Comic-Con
San Diego Convention Center
San Diego, CA

Full Schedule to Come

Next up, see what Larissa's Life had to say about Alien Education! Then check out Alien Nation's Page 69 Test over at The Campaign for the American Reader.

Then, awesome author David Lee Summers interviews moi over at Lachesis Publishing. And the Mesa Independent has a cool article about one of my favorite local online booksellers, Bonny Books, and they interviewed moi for the article as well!

Question: Have you signed up for the DAW Books Newsletter yet? If not, why not? Cool info, contests, and more! Don't delay, JOIN TODAY!


We have some Members of the Alien Collective in Very Good Standing who are in need. If you're able to help out, please do so. Joanne Marie de Biasi is in need of a great deal of medical and other assistance. Check out her Go Fund Me page to see if you can help. And Duncan's Books and More (another of my favorite local online booksellers) is looking for help in successfully expanding their online bookstore business. Check out their Go Fund Me page to see if you can help.



Guess what's coming in June? That's right, it's the Mass Market re-release of Alexander Outland: Space Pirate! Pre-order your copies today from your favorite bookstore or online retailer and help ensure we get more of Nap and the Crew of the Sixty-Nine!

Are you in Phoenix, Las Vegas, or Albuquerque? Do you want to win stuff? If you said "yes" to both questions, head right over to Slice of SciFi where you can enter to win the King Arthur: Legend of the Sword prize pack and get to see the screening THIS Thursday, April 27th! So, don't delay, head over to Slice RIGHT NOW!

Phoenix Metro Area Peeps - wanna see a Mercury game with moi? Then get your tickets via the Joshua Tree Feeding Program for Friday, June 16. Click THIS link to get your tickets, hang out with me, and support Joshua Tree at the same time!

Speaking of fun times, if you're heading to the movies, check out what I thought of The Fate of the Furious over at Pop Culture Geeks!

And now for some Science! NASA says (via reporting from the Huffington Post) that one of Saturn's moons could be harboring life! Well, that doesn't surprise any of us, does it? It's a really cool article, so check it out!

That's it for today but, as always, more's on the way. Enjoy the rest of your weeks, looking forward to seeing many of you over the next several weeks, and let's be readers out there! Peace out, my li'l gangstas, and I'll catch you on the flip side!

Love, Gini

Thursday's Lovers

Made you look. (See? I don't pull the double entendres out JUST on Hump Days. You've been warned.)

Well, the downward slide towards the weekend has really begun. But before we get there, there's still lots going on. So, let's get to it!

First off, head over to the next stop on the Necropolis Blog Tour. Check out the latest excerpt at Book Lovers Inc. and while you're there, be sure to enter to win a copy of The Night Beat.

Speaking of winning, the first blog to announce a winner is Bibliognome. Check it out to see if you're the lucky winner!

Then see what The Peasants Revolt thought of The Night Beat. 

Be sure to hit all the other stops on the Tour -- you can enter to win a copy at each stop, and increase the ol' odds of winning exponentially. If you've missed a stop, get caught up at Invasion of the Blog Tour, including: Stop 5/Ex Libris, contest ends Sept. 21; Stop 6/Pearls Cast Before a McPig, contest ends Sept. 29; Stop 8/A Buckeye Girl Reads, contest ends Sept. 28; Stop 9/Hanging with Bells, contest ends Sept. 25; Stop 10/The Peasants Revolt, contest ends Sept. 27; and Stop 11/Sara's Urban Fantasy Blog, contest ends Sept. 29.

Now it's time for my belated CopperCon recap. CopperCon happened over Labor Day weekend, and while goes for four days, it's a smaller, relaxed con, so it's very vacation-like. For a smaller con it was loaded with panels, meaning I didn't get to panel with everyone I'd have liked to. BUT, I did get to panel with Marsheila Rockwell, Jordan Summers, Saul Garnell, and Thomas Watson, along with non-authors Brian Duncan aka the Movie Whiz, and Geologist and bio-hazard waste specialist Kay Pannell who you want with you when the zombie apocalypse hits -- all of which were tons of fun. I also got to hang out with a variety of cool authors including David Lee Summers, T.L. Smith, and Janeen O'Kerry, and some wonderful Members of the Alien Collective in Very Good Standing.

I also got to get to know awesome author James A. Owen better. Yes, it's true -- he really IS the nicest man in the world, and that's saying something, because I know a lot of nice men. (Insert whatever joke you want here.) If you get a chance to see him, don't miss it. Though I don't recommend seeing him right before you have to do a panel (especially not a Writing Erotica panel) because your audience looks at you funny when it appears you've been crying over someone's awesome life story. Hey, it's a really moving, follow your heart and your gut story. *sniffle*

Because of scheduling, I missed the opening ceremonies, which was disappointing because my friend Colette Vernon won CopperCon's short story contest and I'd wanted to cheer when she got her prize. (I had her sign my program and she forgave me.) I also missed the masquerade, meaning that I've seen a total of 1 masquerade -- at the first con I ever attended -- in all the time I've been going to cons (um, about 3 years). I liked the one I saw. One day, perhaps I'll get to see another one, but CopperCon was not that day.

Bottom line: a lovely time was had by all and I left the con feeling refreshed and ready to get back to writing, and really, you can't ask for more than that.

Well, that's it for today, but more's on the way. So keep your eye on the weekend prize and let's be readers out there!

Love,
Gini

CopperCon Recap

I'm back! Yeah, I know, I was back Monday night. But, um, well...I was busy. Unpacking, checking the new swag that'll be part of the next Hook Me Up! exclusive contest, and generally collapsing, in between writing and editing like a fiend.

But, couldn't leave you without the CopperCon recap, now, could I? Okay, yes it's me. I could. But I won't. See how good I am to you?

This is a smaller but quite engaged and engaging con, with a lot of fun panelists and attendees. After Comic-Con, which is so huge and frenetic, it's nice to hit CopperCon and get to hang out, relax, and just do it. (No, I couldn't resist the Frankie Goes to Hollywood tie-in. Sue me.)

The word of the con (per my posse, at any rate) was: Mollusks. This was especially fun on the Writing Erotic Fiction panel.

I got to run the yap quite a lot, which we all know I live to do. I also got to panel with some awesome authors and one musician. In no order of their awesomeness, I rocked and rolled with: Marsheila Rockwell, Jeff Mariotte, Jacqueline Lichtenberg, Carrie Vaughn, Janni Lee Simner, Emily Devenport, Janeen O'Kerry, David Lee Summers, Chris Swanson, Jack Mangan, and Darren Reale.

Also got to see and hang with some awesome Alien Collective Members in Very Good Standing (waves madly to Anna, Penni, Raul, Terry, and Vaughn) and got to meet new friends and teach them the Alien Way. All in all, a lovely con, even if I didn't get enough sleep by far.

In other news, check out the latest releases and sales in SFR over at The Galaxy Express. Then check out Liz Writes who's giving away a ton of Comic-Con swag, including something from moi.

More coming before the week's out. But until then (um, you know, tomorrow), have fun and let's remember to be readers out there!

Love,
Gini