Blog Tour Schedule for Acquainted With the Night

The pub date is almost here! Acquainted With the Night will arrive in bookstores on November 29th.

I am happy to announce the schedule for Piper Maitland's blog tour, November - December 2011:

BLOG	Web Address	Contact Name	Booking Date	TYPE (Q&A, guest post, giveaway)	Guest Post/Q&A Due Date	Guest Post Topic
My Bookish Ways	http://www.mybookishways.com/	Kristen Centorcelli	Nov. 16, Wed.	Review, Q&A	Nov. 13	*Q&A*
Literary Escapism	LiteraryEscapism.com	Jackie Morgan	Nov. 17, Thurs.	Guest post, giveaway	Nov. 15	Guest article
A Book Obsession	http://www.abookobsession.com/	Kt Clapsadl	Nov. 18, Fri.	Review, Q&A, giveaway	Nov. 15	*Q&A
Bea's Book Nook	http://beasbooknook.blogspot.com/	Bea Connors	Nov. 19, Sat.	Review, guest post	Nov. 16
Demon Lover's Books and More	www.demonloversbooksandmore.com	Laurie Hunsaker	Nov. 20, Sun.	Review, guest post, giveaway	Nov. 17
Happily Ever After Reads	www.happilyeverafter-reads.blogspot.com	Jessie	Nov. 21, Mon.	Review, guest post	Nov. 18	(Forthcoming)
Magical Urban Fantasy Reads	http://www.magicalurbanfantasyreads.com	Mindy Herbert	Nov. 22, Tues	Q&A, giveaway	Nov. 19	*Q&A
			Nov. 23, Wed.
Lisa's World of Books	http://www.lisasworldofbooks.net/	Lisa McGeen	Nov. 24, Thurs.	Review, guest post, giveaway	Nov. 23
Urban Fantasy Investigations	http://urbanfantasyinvestigations.blogspot.com/	Stacy Maynard	Nov. 25, Fri.	Guest post, giveaway	Nov. 22	Favorite vampire myths
Braintasia Books	http://www.braintasiabooks.com/	Cade Crowley	Nov. 26, Sat.	Review, guest post	Nov. 23	(Forthcoming)
			Nov. 27, Sun.
SciFi Chick	www.scifichick.com	Angela Schuch	Nov. 28, Mon.	Guest post, giveaway	Nov. 25
The Haunting of Orchid Forsythia	http://hauntedorchid.blogspot.com/	Orchid Forsythia	***Release Date***Nov. 29, Tues	Review, guest post	Nov. 26	(Forthcoming)
I Smell Sheep	http://ismellsheep.blogspot.com/	Sharon Stogner	Nov. 30, Wed.	Review, guest post	Nov. 27
Among the Muses	www.amongthemuses.com	Tanya Hyatt	Dec. 1, Thurs.	Q&A, review, giveaway
Fresh Fiction	www.freshfiction.com		Dec. 2, Fri.	Guest Post	Nov. 28
Rabid Reads	http://www.rabidreads.com	Carmel	Dec. 3, Sat.	Review, guest post, giveaway	Nov. 30
Wicked Lil Pixie	wickedlilpixie.com	Natasha Carty	Dec. 4, Sun.	Review, guest post	Dec. 1
The Qwillery	http://qwillery.blogspot.com/	Sally 'Qwill' Janin	Dec. 5, Mon.	Review, guest post	Dec. 2
The Well Read Wife	http://www.wellreadwife.com/	Mandy Boles	Dec. 6, Tues.	Guest Post	Dec. 3
			Dec. 7, Wed.
Michelle's Book Blog	http://michellesramblins.blogspot.com	Michelle Greathouse	Dec. 8, Thurs.	Review, guest post	Dec. 5
Seeing Night Review	http://seeingnight.blogspot.com/	Kristen Thompson	Dec. 9, Fri.	Review, guest post, giveaway	Dec. 6
			Dec. 10, Sat.
			Dec. 11, Sun.
			Dec. 12, Mon.
Book Faery	http://book-faery.blogspot.com/	Tori Nicolli	Dec. 13, Tues.	Review, giveaway, Q&A
Vampire Book Club	VampireBookClub.net	Chelsea Mueller	Dec. 14, Wed.	Guest post, giveaway	Dec. 10
Nocturne Reads	http://www.nocturnereads.com	Brandi Baker	Dec. 15, Thurs.	Review, Q&A
Blogs:				In Doing:
Ca Reviews	http://ca-reviews.blogspot.com/	Deb Hern		Review, Q&A
Bookshelf Bombshells	http://bookshelfbombshells.com/	Dawn Nikithser		Review, guest post
The Eclectic Book Lover	http://www.eclecticbooklover.com	Jacqueline Cook		Review
Dear Author	http://dearauthor.com	Jane Little		Review
Dangerous Romance	www.dangerousromance.com	Laurie Blanchard		Review, guest post, giveaway
Author Sound Relations	www.authorsoundrelations.com	Leena Hyat		Review, Q&A, giveaway
Adventures in SciFi Publishing	http://www.adventuresinscifipublishing.com/	Shaun Farrell		Review
Bitten By Books	http://bittenbybooks.com	Virginia Hendricks		Review
My Shelf	http://www.myshelf.com	Brenda Weeaks		Review

Night Falls 11.29.11

 

 

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New Kindle Giveaway

Another Kindle giveaway has begun. To enter, click the "like" button here

http://www.amazon.com/Acquainted-Night-Piper-Maitland/dp/042524363X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1320601001&sr=8-1

or here

http://www.amazon.com/Piper-Maitland/e/B0050XAG2E/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0

or the Kindle page

http://www.amazon.com/Acquainted-With-the-Night-ebook/dp/B0052RDJG8/ref=ntt_at_ep_edition_2_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2

If you've already clicked the buttons for the last contest, I HEART you. But you know that already.

Contest ends November 22nd.

On the home front, I re-broke my toe while making cornbread. I'm not kidding. It's broke, broke, broke.

I'm still nursing my diabetic Yorkie, Zap. Last night, my husband, the esteemed Dr. Lordship, was watching a football game and misfired Zap's injection. An unknown amount of insulin ended up on the dog's fur as opposed to his subcutaneous tissue. We couldn't give him another dose. Insulin comas strike fear into my heart and also Lordship's. I keep Karo syrup handy in case that should happen. But still, if you miss an insulin dose or misfire it, that's it, you don't get another chance whether you are a human or a dog.

His Lordshit felt so bad and began to question his medical expertise. (So did I. But I, a former RN, can't work up my nerve to give the injections, not yet). He went straight to Youtube and watched videos on How to Administer an Insulin Injection to a dog.

I set my phone alarm and got up every hour to check on Zap. He was doing fine.But his blood glucose was over 600 this morning.

I still had a few dipsticks to test urine--specific gravity, pH, ketones, protein, blood. So I've been testing all of the dogs' urine for abnormal things. If ye seek, ye shall find.

Now Mister is spilling protein in his urine (I don't know if the urine dipsticks are reliable). So both boys will be visiting the vet.

On a positive note, I made Hungarian Goulash in my slow cooker, and it was rather good.

Monday, I'm cooking white beans and cornbread, an old Tennessee stand-by, better known as comfort food. When my dogs are sick, I stress cook and stress eat.

Anyway, I wish you luck in the contest. And thanks for taking time to visit me here in vampire land.

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Kindle Giveaway

If you pre-order a copy of Acquainted With the Night, your name will be entered into a drawing for a Kindle.

But wait, there's more! If you'd like free swag, send proof-of-purchase, and I will mail you a FREE copy of Gone With a Handsomer Man, Crazy Ladies, Mermaids in the Basement, Consuming Passions, or Mad Girls in Love. Pick the book you'd like and email me at pipermaitland@gmail.com, along with your shipping address.

Just leave a comment and tell me you've pre-ordered, and your name will go into the drawing.

                                   The deadline for the giveaway is October 27th.

Acquainted With the Night: Behind the Scenes

When I was a little girl, I'd stay up to watch vampire movies on The Late, Late Show. I'd get

so scared, I'd holler for my daddy to walk me to my bedroom. I even swiped my mother's

garlic pods and put them around my neck. Boy, did I ever get in trouble when my mother needed those pods.

No one in my family was shocked when I wrote a vampire novel. Not happy, mind you, just not surprised. I began writing in the winter of 2008. I didn't have an outline. I just started with a character named Caro Clifford. Her story began in London and quickly moved to Sofia, Bulgaria.

Why Bulgaria? Because Caro's uncle Nigel is an archeologist, and the Perperikon archeological dig site is located in the southern Rhodope Mountains of Bulgaria.

 

I've never had so much fun writing a book (and I've written quite a few). When edits and copyedits arrived, I was thrilled to be back with Caro and Jude, her biochemist-vampire slayer boyfriend.

I had a brilliant editor who made the writing a joy.

The book was scheduled to be published last year, but it was moved to Fall 2011.

In just 6 weeks, it will be published.

I'm so excited! (Can you tell? :-) )

Here's one of my favorite, 58-second book videos:

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Mockingbird Attacks! (With a Wobbly-Bad Video)

Day after day, I sit in my room, facing my laptop, trying to call down words. AWTN is coming out next month, and I'm doing copy edits for another southern mystery that's scheduled for April. Sometimes I need Peace and Quiet to pick bone fragments out of a ms. But a mockingbird has started attacking my house. It starts in the bay-bedroom window; then it moves to the side window. It wings around to the family room transoms. Sometimes it pecks my Jeep.

This morning, I stopped working on copyedits to film this weird, little bird. Is it trying to get in? Attack? Sell me something?

My mother says when a bird pecks a window, it means someone in the house will die. Yeesh, I hated that explanation, so I Googled "bird pecks window" until I found a better answer. According to old wives' tales, the pecking means news is on the way. But it also means that the mockingbird has seen its reflection, thinks its another bird, and it wants the bird to hit the road. The cure is to put up a decal. I taped a magazine cover to the bathroom window, but the bird still pecks. If I step near the window, the Mockingbird flies away. So, it's not seeing his reflection, right? Does it think I'm a big-haired bird that wants his worms and bugs? I don't know. This has been going on for two months. I'm so afraid it's going to hurt itself.

Here's today's bird attack:

I closed the draperies. But maybe I need to buy a bird feeder? Or send the wee pecker to MockingMatch.com to find a mate. ;-)

Acquainted With the Night: A New Video

Acquainted With the Night is at Comic-Con in NYC this weekend--galleys, bookmarks, and buttons will be given away. http://www.newyorkcomiccon.com/. I began writing AWTN in the winter of 2008, and now--finally--the pub date is almost here. On November 29, I will be holding the novel in my hands. Exciting!

Here's the latest book trailer (59 seconds):