M J Scott--who is not only a fabulous author, but a good friend and a critique buddy--has a brand new book coming out in June. Blood Kin is the sequel to Shadow Kin--which I know many of you have read--and I have a signed ARC sitting here in my hot little hands to give away. As usual, all you have to do is email me at kez @ keriarthur . com (no spaces) and put Blood Kin in the subject line. The contest will run until the 20th May and the winner randomly selected. To check out the blurb for Blood Kin and read the first chapter, head here.

As i mentioned on my Facebook page last week, I'm now appearing at Supanova in Melbourne as well as Brisbane. Given that Melbourne is actually happening this coming weekend, I thought I'd better get some details up!

date: 13--15th April
where: Melbourne Showgrounds.
I'll be signing books at the Dymocks stand (stand N9) from 10ish to close (breaks excepted)

for more information and pricing, see the Supanova website

The Deadline Dames, that is. I'm yakking about editing, so as a post, it's aimed more at writers than readers. Check it out here if you're interested :)

Oh, and the Cover Flat giveaway mentioned below is over and has been won! No more entries, please :)

Here's the cover for Beneath a Darkening Moon (being re-released by Bantam later this year). Pretty, isn't it?



In other news, I just added the blurb for Darkness Hunts--the 4th Dark Angels book--to the Dark Angels page if you'd like to check that out. I'm currently half way through my final lot of edits for Darkness Hunts, so I'll be shipping that off to my editor in the next day or so.

The edits for Beneath a Darkening Moon have already arrived, so I'll be swinging onto that next. After all that, I have to get moving on the 5th Dark Angels book. The good news is that I know what the bad guy is in this book (hint - it involves spiders) and I also know how it's going to end. What I don't yet know is how it's going to start. lol

smashing, isn't it? :)

As most of you are probably aware by now, Bantam will be re-releasing all my ImaJinn Books over the next couple of years. The first book in line for re-release is Beneath a Rising Moon, which comes out May 2012. I just received the cover art and thought I'd share:



Pretty, isn't it?

but it's not because I've lost interest in blogging. I simply haven't had anything interesting to say. Well, okay, Darkness Rising--the second of the Dark Angels books--is out, but I've been tweeting and facebooking (is that even a word?) about that constantly, so it just seems like overkill to go on about it here too much as well. But here's the cover pics, just to remind you what to look for if you're browsing a bookstore, whether online or on the street:



I did go to Supanova in Brisbane on the weekend, and that was great fun. I was their signing books at the Dymocks stand (Dymocks is a major bookchain here in Australia), and it was great fun not only chatting to everyone, but watching all the weird and wonderful costumes. It made me more determined to try to get to Comic Con next year. But again, I tweeted and facebooked about it (and loaded pics).

Are you sensing a theme here? Yep, if you want to know what I'm doing, follow me on twitter or facebook! lol

Anyway, the main reason I'm actually posting today is that one of the Deadline Dames posted a link to an article about Amazon's pricing and the 99 cent myth for authors who self publish with them, and I thought it was too good not to share.

and the winner of the signed copy of Darkness Unbound was Mary Hensley from the US! Congrats Mary. I've sent a confirming email, and will pop your book in the mail today.

Love it!